Rev L M Conrow Installed as Greencastle Pastor
Central Pennsylvania notes report Rev L M Conrow installed as pastor of the Greencastle Presbyterian Church with Dr James Gillan presiding and a congregation reception. The Nature Study Club raised 21 dollars for feeding birds during winter. fifty new members joined the Greencastle Woman's Christian Union. Miss Kathryn Miller visited Falling Waters and many locals attended events and visits across Greencastle and Fishing Creek Valley communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greencastle
Nature Study Club
Presbyterian
L. M. Con
Row
Presbyterian Church
James Gillan
Shamokin
General Assembly
Conrow
Mary
Estelle Rhodes
Philadelphia
John , Porter
John Kauffman
South Carlisle Street
Kathryn Miller
Falling Waters
W. Va
Presbyterian Sunday School
Chalmers Richardson
Seattle
Washington
Howard Mitten
Hagerstown
A. L. Grove
First National Bank
Social Events Lively in Waynesboro Pa
Waynesboro social notes list Blanche Decker's eighteenth birthday party with twenty five guests. Cards hosted by Mrs D L Miller and Mrs W C Schultz. Euterpe Club gathering hosted by Mrs Mark H Landis. Working Guild of St Mary's Church met at Mrs Richard Shively with twenty members present. Mrs Jacob F Newman returned from Nyack New York after five weeks with her daughter. Mrs Morris Kirsch of Baltimore to spend holidays with relatives. Miss Helen Ott of Mercersburg visited Mrs H S Lesher. Mrs Claire McMichael of Winchester Va visiting her parents Mr and Mrs W J Mentzer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waynesboro
Blanche Decker
D. L. Miller
W. C. Schultz
Miller
Mark H. Landis
Euterpe Club
Richard Shively
St. Mary's Church
Jacob F. Newman
Nyack
N. Y
Hudson River
Margaret Newman
Morris Kirsch
Baltimore
Helen Ott
Mercersburg
H. 8. Lesher
Claire McMichael
Winchester
Lewisberry Boy Letters Home From Arizona Border Camp
A Lewisberry, Pennsylvania letter from sergeant Bennett Hammond in the District of Columbia Signal Company describes travel from Washington to Bisbee and Nogales, Arizona, with a Tucson stop and notes on camp life, costs, irrigation ditches, a Y M C A bath, and hopes of not returning home for Christmas. He describes dusty marches, a long column with California artillery, and local scenery including adobe houses, coyotes, and early morning mountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennett Hammond
Signal Company
District of Columbia National Guard
Lewisberry
District of Columbia Signal Company
Washington
D. C
Bisbee
Ariz
Nogales
Tucson
Chamber of Commerce
Pension Building
California Artillery
Tobac
Mexico
Dedication of Church Window in Lykens
Lykens Pa December 16 The dedication of the new Methodist Episcopal Church windows moved from the last Sunday in January to December 24 with Bishop Berry presiding. Local social notes mention visits and family events from Sunbury Northumberland and Harrisburg areas. Roy Barrett of Lykens reports trapping about thirty muskrat and several opossums in recent weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lykens
Methodist Episcopal Church
Berry
Harry Hoffman
Sunbury
Carrie Walker
Northumberland
John Hoffman
Samuel Cox
Roy Barrett
Gratz
Gordon Matter
Ada Coleman
Philadelphia
Jed Coleman
A. H. Soulliard
The
Baptist Church
Reading
Harry Boyer
Schuylkill Haven
Fred Coleman
Charles Cook
Penbrook
Frank Grow
Harrisburg
Asley Cook
von Goodatt
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Clarence Fearrs
John Welsh
Shamokin Hospital
Camp at Mechanicsburg Named For Endless Hills
Mechanicsburg Pa December 16 Members of the Kittatinny Camp Fire form the first local organization of the kind with Miss Margaret Blackburn guardian. The group is named after the Kittatinny mountains meaning endless hills. Slogan To the Everlasting Hills. Council fire monthly and ceremonial gowns worn. Eight members have earned Wood Gatherer degree. Names listed: Miriam Zufall Rachael Shelly Mary Keller Marjorie Baum Florence Orris Elizabeth Hurst Miriam Orris Elizabeth Crawford Ruth Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechanicsburg
Kittatinny
Margaret Black
Chain of Mountains
Margaret Blackburn
Miriam Zufall
Rachael Shelly
Mary Keller
Marjorie Baum
Florence Orris
Elizabeth Hurst
Miriam Orris
Elizabeth Crawford
Ruth Miller
Miss Catharine Kiehl Weds Edward W Jones in Marietta
Miss Catharine Kiehl daughter of Mrs Conrad Smith of Marietta married Edward W Jones of the St Marys Church rectory in Marietta The couple were attended by Colonel and Mrs James Duffy The groom an executive in the Marietta Hollow ware and Enameling Company is a son of Mr and Mrs Abram Jones
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marietta
Catharine Kiehl
Conrad Smith
Edward W. Jones
St. Mary's Church
James Duffy
Teachers of York County Boroughs to Hold Institute
Lewisberry and surrounding townships will host an institute at Goldsboro on Saturday January 27 with morning afternoon and evening sessions. Also sermons by Russell R Kohr in New Cumberland and a Daughters of Liberty sermon by Rev F B Fry in Shippensburg plus Christmas event at United Brethren Sunday school and local social notes across Chambersburg Annville and Toledo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewisberry
York Haven
Goldsboro
Fairview
Newberry
Helen Ruff
New Cumberland
Blanche Laird
Russell R. Kohr
Methodist Episcopal Church
Charles Bailets and Son
Harvey Erney
Shippensburg
Fry
Daughters of Liberty
J. L. Barner
Joseph Miller
Toledo
United Brethren Sunday School
D. W. Allison
Chambersburg
John Beidel
Samuel Fruitt
Ruth Dyer
Annville
Personal News Items From Nearby Towns in Central Pennsylvania
Central Pennsylvania brief notes list visits and guest stays among residents of towns including Derry Church New Cumberland Lykens Harrisburg Middletown Shamokin Mifflintown Union Furnace and Lewistown. The items mention family visits hospital stays funerals travel and local social visits among many named individuals and households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Woman Breaks Bones by Fall Down Stable Steps
Union Deposit, Pa. Dec. 16 Mrs Lizzie Rambler fell when a stable step gave way injuring her collarbone shoulder blade and a rib on her left side the right arm badly cracked. Other items note social visits by Mrs Seibert and son Merritt Palmyra Harrisburg visits and a Reading family gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Deposit
Lizzie Rambler
George Seibert
Merritt
Palmyra
Daniel Hetrick
Mary Rambler
Hdna Whitmeyer
Harrisburg
Successful Young Hunter of Mexico Gets Much Game
Mexico Pa Dec 16 A photograph shows Earl Fr Hack and his sister Miss Hack with a wild turkey Earl shot on a Tuscarora mountain During the hunting season he bagged 49 rabbits 14 gray squirrels 2 wild turkeys and 1 pheasant
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Earl Fr. Hack
Miss Hack
Earl
Tuscarora
Pound Party Surprise For Hummelstown Pastor
Pound party held at the Lutheran Irish House in Hummelstown Pa as a surprise for Rev Herbert Garnes. Local residents including Mr and Mrs Edgar Neibert of Palmyra and many area visitors shared an evening gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hummelstown
Herbert Garnes
Edgar Neibert
Palmyra
Neibert
Harry Whersole
Jean McHolland
Harrisburg
Edith McCall
Marjorie Nissley
Lancaster
Minnie Haehnsen
Carlisle
Alle Earnest
Oscar Bobbs
Grover Buser
Sara Jane
Albert Hummel
Vernon Walters
Moyer Hummel
David Boyer
Priscilla Walter
Elizabeth Walter
Annville
Yeager Shoemaker
Bloomsburg
William Shoemaker
David Burns
Philadelphia
Kate Ulrich
John Carmany
Campbellstown
Clare Stecher
Philadelphi
Harry Wolf
Hattie Landis
Hagerstown
John W. Landis
George Larsen
Alberta Grove
William C. Dagg
New Sunday School Reorganized at Linglestown
Linglestown Pa December 16 A Sunday School will be reorganized in Union Chapel tomorrow at 2 oclock All are invited. Church services tomorrow by Reverends Clyde Lynch El Whitaker and Lewis Reiter. Local social notes follow including visits and guests from Harrisburg Enola Middletown and Lebabon. Midland excursion to Millersburg reported with over 100 participants. Christmas program at Methodist Episcopal Church scheduled for December 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linglestown
Union Chapel
United Brethren Church
Clyde Lynch
Church of God
el. Whitaker
Wenrich's
Lewis Reiter
Matilda Shuey
Enola
Eliza Buck
Harrisburg
Elizabeth Balthaser
Palmyra
C. B. Care
Ellen Levan
Carrie Feeser
John Geyer
Ruth Geyer
Middletown
Rebecca Baker
W. 8. Stroh
Morrisburg
William Look
Mary Shriner
Lititz
Mary Hench
Morris Tobias
Oberlin
Mary Noecker
Harry Schoals
Midland
Berrysburg
Midland Railroad
Millersburg
Daniel
Elizabeth Snyder
Dora Hartman
Ross Garber
Hagerstown
Kennard McFarland
Grant Hartman
Methodist Episcopal Church
Millersburg Prepares Christmas Tree and Mummers Parade
Millersburg Pennsylvania preparations are under way for the municipal Christmas tree to be donated by Mr Urich of Halifax for the third year. Arrangements are planned for a larger Mummers parade, the Methodist choir rehearses carols, and a performance of The Messiah's Advent is set for December 24. Also reported are Jennette Bowman recovering after an appendicitis operation and John Snake seriously ill with pneumonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millersburg
Fountain Plot
Market Street
Urich
Halifax
Jennette Bowman
George M. Bowman
West Union Street
Harrisburg
John Snake
Duncannon Council Plans to Have Community Tree
Duncannon borough council has arranged a meeting in the borough school next Monday at 7 30 pm to plan a community Christmas tree. All citizens are invited. Other notes: local residents visited, school monthly published, and staff changes at a railroad agency move to Granville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duncannon Council
P. O. S. of A. Camp Will Erect Flagpole at School
Camp 110 P O S of A placed a concrete base for a large iron flagpole on the public school grounds in Elizabethville Pa on December 16. Other items note Harrisburg visitors, local visits, reunions, and community updates including illnesses and nearby travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Camp
Firemen to Give Christmas Treat in Mechanicsburg
Christmas morning the Washington Fire Company will give a treat to town children at the enginehouse. Last year hundreds ages 6 to 12 received candy and oranges. The Woman's Club is collecting warm clothing for Mt Alto sanatorium patients. Mrs A C Rich, confined to her East Keller street home, celebrated her fortieth wedding anniversary with gifts and flowers. Mr Reilly Shope hosted Sunday School at her South Walnut home. Mr and Mrs H B Markley left for Philadelphia for the State Grange meeting. Mrs John S Lamb spent the week in York. Jacob Longsdor is slowly improving from illness. Miss Sue Swartz and Mrs Eugene A Burnett visited Harrisburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechanicsburg
Washington Fire Company
Woman's Club
Mt Alto Sanatorium
A. C. Rich
East Keller Street
Rich
Reilly
Church of Go
South Walnut Street
H. B Markley
Philadelphia
State Grange
John S’. Lamb
York
Jacob Longsdor
Sue Swartz
Eugene A. Burnett
Harrisbur
Tower City Church Big Donation to Mission Appeal
Tower City Pa December 16 The United Evangelical Church Woman's Missionary Society held a bank offering service. Morning offerings sent nearly a wagon load of parcels to China. Evening offering went to the society. Alumni of Tower City High School plan annual meeting and banquet at Palace Hall December 7. Blanche Klinger and family and Elda Hoffman visited Pottsville. Grace Ranine and Ida Henry hosted Lebanon weekend. Charles Baler entertained his Lebanon sister. Mrs John Dand visited Wiconaco for a day. A 1917 Christmas savings fund started at the knitting mill with most girls taking shares. Warren Bechtel recovering from eight weeks of typhoid fever. Elmira Matter visited Elizabethville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tower City
Woman's Missionary Society of the United Evangelica Church
Barr
Sen
China
Woman's Missionary Society
Tower City High School
Palace Hall
Blanche Klinger
Elda Hoffman
Pottsville
Grace Ranine
Ida Henry
Lebanon
Charles Baler
John Dand
Wiconaco
Warren Bechtel
Elmira Matter
Elizabethville
Petitions For Postmastership Circulating at Mt Union
Mt Union Pa Dec 16 Fran Longacre Carson Jones T Wiley Clark Fields and Charles Klinger circulate petitions to influence the postmastership vacancy caused by the death of Postmaster Jones. The Lutheran Church ladies at their annual bazar cleared 125 dollars for the parsonage fund. Plans rise to open Mt Union’s new theater costing 50000 before Christmas. Frederica Hackman visited Rachel Fuller in Altoona Sunday. Charles Isenberg deputy county superintendent of schools visited local schools Wednesday. A Masonic lodge is expected to be organized soon. C B Crum sold his dry goods store to Workman and will close for Kissimmee Florida this winter. The high school chorus plans to sing on Christmas morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Isenberg
Union
C. B. Crum
Invitations Issued For Jones-Dimm Wedding
Thompsontown Pennsylvania reports invitations issued for the wedding of Miss Florence Edythe Dim to Merrill Edgar Jones on December 21 at the bride’s parents home Grand View-Farm Delaware township. Also notes social updates including Maggs Hibbs’s return from Philadelphia West Chester and Lancaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompsontown
Florence Edythe Dim
Merrill Edgar Jones
Davi Harvey Dimm
Grand View — Farm
Delaware Township
Maggs Hibbs
Philadelphi
Pot Royal Gun Club
Seven Mountains
B F. Dennis
Philadelphia
W. Keplar
Athona
Mary Gross
Cashier of Annville Bank Celebrates 76th Birthday
Annville Pa Dec 16 George W Stein cashier of the Annville National Bank celebrated his seventy six birthday Several local residents are noted with visits and social events Telegraph style notes from Lebanon Valley area include Mrs Saylor returning from Philadelphia Miss Ruth Croft Ursinus College guest at Y W C A and spoke at a meeting Pau Smith of New York City visited with his parents George Zeiders visits Shelby Ohio Foster Gutshall returns from Seward Ill and other small items The W C T U held a meeting and sermon at the Methodist church Mention also Mini Stine succeeds F S Stoke as teacher at Ne Germantown school
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annville
George W. Stein
Annville National Bank
Daniel Walters
Douglas Beidle
Severa
Dale Garber
Florin
Garber
Lebanon Valley College
Jaco Sargent
Manheim
Harry Flinchbach
George Blauch
Bethlehem Steel Company
Daniel Blauch
South O Town
8. C. Saylor
Philadelphia
Ruth Croft
Ursinus College
Pau Smith
New York City
Thomas E. Smith
Railto: Street
The
Mite Society of the Unite
W. C.T. Vu. Blain
C. R Hench
G. H. Knox
Methodist Church
Charles Ludwich
Steelton
D M. Ferro
Margaret Hall
Elizabeth Hall
Selinsgrove
David Gutshall
George Zeiders
Shelby
Ohio
Foster Gutshall
Seward, Il
Th Reformed Church
D. H. Snyder
Minnie Stine
F. 8. Stoke
Germantown School
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Margaret Bert
Fishing Creek Valley
Dauphin
N. J. Lutz
United Evangelical Church
Fishing Creek Valley Evangelical Church
Helen Hargest Hoffman
Sabra Clark
Ring
William F. Steed
Ada Richardson
Maud Duffy
W. T. Crimmel
Denn
Holland
Crimmel
Gerge Taylor
Harry Bowman
Chester Bowman
Harry
Renovo
Samuel Maurey
Clara Campbell
Querrey Patton
Lee William Ehar
Jeorge
Charles Bailetts
Martin
Henry Bowman
Speeceville
Frances Hawthorne
Mary Blessing
J. W. Hawthorne
Harry Newbaum
Roy Danner
Lewisberry Boy
Arizona Border Camp
Lykens Methodist Episcopal Edifice
York County
East End Bank
Howard Sts
Our
Savings Society
E. A. Heffelfinger
John K. May
AL. K. Thomas
Middleburg
Lee Dentler and Son
Williamsport
A. D. Gougler
James Runkle
Center Hall
J. W. Runkle
Henry Stetler
Lewisburg
George Shindel
William
Roscoe Steininger
Geininger Hospital
Atanville
Anna Steele
Altoona
Joseph Dreese
T. A. Stetler
Shamokin Dam
Winey Custer
Milton
John Steininger
Wilson Warner
Fenure
Jerome T. Sleber
Carl Rasmussen
Guy Todd
Scranton
SL. Odd
Mifflin
Joe Pontius
Harris-urs
George Fry
James Rounsley, Jr
Margaret
Charles Snyder
Frances
G. Beaver Rickabaugh
William Trump
Mt. Holly Springs
Grant Eppley
D. M. Rickabaugh
Hulda Knight
Duncannon
Banks Page
Frank Wagner
Blanche Shover
Jefferson Hospital
J. C. Kipp
Kathryn Rickabaugh
John Brinton
Camp Hill
Samuel and
Gordon van Tries
Union Furnace
Vernon Zeb
Robert Lukens
Locust Run
C. R. Sweigard and
Warsaw
Sarah Swelgard
Charles E. Vanatta
Halifax Township
Cherry Run
Centercounty
D. VF. Fisher
Charline
C. M. Richter
Keystone
Fred Byrod
Frank Freeburn
Hawbecker
Hershey
G.J. Leebrick
J. W. Brubaker
B. B. Brubaker
Christine Neidig
Royalton
A. H. Neidig
John Beitzel
S. C. Beitzel
Homer Troutman
Eleanor
Ansonia
J. 5. Gemberling
Samuel Stoneroad
Easton
Lewis Stoneroad
Uriah Radile
Lykens Valley
Amos Zimmerman
Yeagertown
Esther Stuart
Mill Creek
Samuel Weirman
New York
Kathrine Harman
Eva Close
Lewistown
Shirley Austin
Newtown
Harry Albright
Charles Woods
Joseph Shauer
David Bay
Ella Johnson
Edward Mertz
Newton
George Musser
Center County
Roy Harshbarger
William Smith
Camp Fire Girls
Earl Hack
Duncannon Borough
Margaret Corrys
James Sinker
Charles
Ralph
Ruth Priscilla
Casey
Wilbur Gibney
Charles Hiltner
Borough High School
Duncannon High School Monthly
John T. Glass
George R. Hollwood
Mary Garman
Elizabethyville
Estella Lubold
Catherine Alleman
Lester Warner
East Main Street
H. A. Lehman
Harrisburg Hospital
Beam
Harry C. Swab
Samuel Hosterman
Spring Mills
William Gallagher
Highspire
Walter Whiteman
Hannah Swab
H. H. Hassinger
Lloyd Enders
Elliott-Fisher Manufacturing Company
Elmer Culp
Wiconisco
Edward Allan
Lafayette Davis
Lucy Krauthoff
J. C. Kailey
J. Shambach
J. C. Smith
Jennie Seip
Emma M. Bailey
William Powick
Dorothy Acaley
Roy Bressler
John Acaley
Isaac Mossop
Harvey Batdorf
Loyalton
Olwyn Phillips
Agnes Matter
Earl Dietrich
D. D. Phillips
Louise Stephens
A. M. Botdorf
Williamstown
John Kailey
J. H. Mark
Washington Co
Mrs. A. C. Rich
Tower City Church
Missiong
Mt. Unio
Annville Bank
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