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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1917
Page
6
At Camp Sherman Ohio Roosevelt addresses 2000 officers urging universal military training and loyalty to the United States. He attacks pacifists and conscientious objectors and jokes about sending La Follette to the Reichstag and sending home those loyal to old country.
Shippensburg Pa December 17 A new eight hundred foot link between the Cumberland Valley Railroad and the Western Maryland enters service in ten days. The line speeds freight movement for war shipments coal and other tonnage, aided by Cumberland Valley’s lower grade north of Hagerstown and its double track to Shippensburg. Construction began December 5 with about 100 workers under Harry Carmichael and Mason and Hanger contractors.
Miss Helen Fisher runs the Postal Telegraph office at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station. Sammy Smith leaves Union News Company to become a train agent between Harrisburg and Reading. Doehne of the ticket office is off duty due to illness. Pennsy trains run late, main line in good shape, westbound through trains two hours late. George H. Brown returns to Altoona after a weekend in the city. Discarded tracing cloth will be sent to the Red Cross for sterilized hospital material. Brakeman Harry Leber is sick. Ryder, F. W. Durgan, and others return after illness. Flagman William F. Smith sustains leg injuries from a fall. patrolman William H. Bender dislocates shoulder. Altoona shops to a fifty-nine hour week to sustain motive power amid heavy traffic with workers sent to Pittsburgh division for temporary duty.
Detailed roster of train crews with divisions and yards in Harrisburg Philadelphia Enola and Reading. Lists include engine fireman brakemen conductors flagmen and yard positions with numbers and names for multiple depots.
The House Naval Affairs Committee is set to back Secretary Daniels proposal to let the Navy Department build and run a railroad from the Indian Head proving ground to Washington DC The project would create the first government owned railroad in the United States Daniels spoke for the bill as a private firm offered to fund part of the cost and recover the advance through freight charges
Pastors from five churches led a Sunday service urging town residents to join the Red Cross drive aiming for 2,000 members. Campaign manager A. H. Luckenbill and treasurer Walter R. Fisher head a long list of ward captains and lieutenants across M iddletown with assignments for First and Second wards, Royalton, Car Works, Shoe Factory, Hosiery Mill, Stove Works, Railroads, and more as the town mobilizes for fundraising and organization.
Steelton and nearby towns report 1,337 Christmas members secured during three days of canvassing last week as the Red Cross drive for 10,000 members gains new life. With favorable weather and cleared sidewalks, many canvassers return to work. factory rail shop reports 100 percent participation as an early example.
A reader seeks guidance on love and waiting for a sailor boyfriend. Fairfax advises patience, dignity, and focusing on friendship as the relationship faces long separation, suggesting he may be generous not to press for commitment.
The B G Club plans a meeting at Miss Mildred Water s home 219 Pine street. The Junior Emergency Aid will ship a barrel of clothing to Halifax sufferers. Dr George Mish is seriously ill at his North Union street home. Mothers Congress Circle officers elected include President Mrs D P Deatrick and other officers.
A foreign man entered the local coal office this morning in tears and pleaded for fuel for his three children. He said he had no coal and cared little for himself, but his children were cold. The dealer could not help him, and he left disappointed.
Postmaster M. M Cusack hired four extra men and two auto trucks to manage unprecedented Christmas mail. He noted this year’s volume greatly exceeds last year’s. Fifteen sacks of parcel post mail for boys in camps, mainly in Georgia, left the local office as western shipments grow heaviest. Overtime for regular staff will be needed during the rush.
The Baldwin Hose Company sold their veteran fire horse Dick for 35 dollars at a public sale and will place him on a farm for life. The borough netted 954.35 dollars from the sale of fire horses and gear. A club elected officers with Dorothy Vickery as president and Jennie Tuptanoski as vice president. Snow removal crews under Street Commissioner Jacob Meshey clear Front Street toward Chestnut to Conestoga.
Hummelstown Pennsylvania December 17. Public school Christmas programs will be presented Friday afternoon December 21 across all grades. Each grade features songs recitations plays and choruses with named students and class themes from first through eighth grade.
A shipment of coal arrived at the Steelton Store Company easing the shortage for some families with sickness. Deliveries will take a week to fill remaining orders due to limited teams and labor, with more shipments expected within twelve hours for other dealers. Detweiler Brothers report 1000 orders on file.
The Musical Art Society of Grace Methodist Church will present Handel's Messiah at St. John's Lutheran Church in Harrisburg under John W. Phillips. Soloists include Mary Buttorff soprano Frank Fager contralto and Stanley G. Backenstoss bass.
Mrs Elizabeth Hocker wife of Walter C Hocker of Brookside Farm died at Harrisburg Hospital after an operation The former Miss Elizabeth Lusk of Philadelphia she and her husband married a year and a half ago She leaves a husband and a three week old baby girl Funeral will be Wednesday at 1 30 from her home Rev Daniel E Rupley will conduct the service Interment in Oberlin Cemetery
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