Lemoyne Erects Big Pine Tree For Christmas Program
Lemoyne Borough launches its third annual community Christmas tree on Hummel Avenue near Lemoyne Square. A 30 foot pine will be wired with 300 colored bulbs and topped by a 20 light star. The lighting ceremony Saturday at 7 30 features student choirs, two pastors, and three addresses with Rev E L s Rev FE B Munson and Rev P R Koontz. Committees led by John Myers and George Leach oversee light and program details.
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Lemoyne
Erma J. Snyder
Trinity Lutheran
Hark
Angels Sing
FE. B. Munson
Church of Christ
P. R. Koontz
United Brethren Church
John Myers
Whitney
Mumma
George Leach
Edgar
Everhart
Walter Dietz
W. K
Joseph S Strickler 82 Dies at Clifton Farm Near Hummelstown
Joseph S Strickler an 82 year old Derry township farmer died at his Clifton area home from pneumonia. He owned lime kilns and stone quarries and helped form a stock market place in Middletown. He shipped stone to Middletown and Halifax, helped found Hummelstown Water Company and led the Hummelstown Shoe Company. Survived by wife two sons Charles and Edward and daughter Mrs M R Fisher of Palmyra.
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Hummelstown
Joseph S. Strickler
Derry Township
Clifton
Middletown
Relief Fund Collections At Local Methodist Church
Sunday collections at the West Shore Methodist Church in Camp Hill will go to the Armenian and Syrian Relief fund with Rev. W. H. Hartsock overseeing and forwarding proceeds to New York. Burial notice for Fred A. Givler, formerly of West Fairview, who died after a lingering illness, with burial in Zion Lutheran cemetery at Enola. Luther League to meet in Shiremanstown on the safest prayer. Woman's Missionary Society to meet in Shiremanstown at 2.20 pm on The King's Highway Waiting. Mrs. J. A. Rhea, 59, dies in Shiremanstown. survived by husband and stepdaughter. body to be prepared in Mechanicsburg for burial at New Germantown.
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Relief Fund
Camp Hill
W. H. Hartsock
New York
Fred A. Givler
Enola
Zion _Lutheran cemetery
Red
A. Givler
MeChanicsburg
Givler
West Fairview
Luther League
Shiremanstown
Charles McGuire
Missionary Meeting
Woman's Missionary Society of
St. John's Lutheran Church
William W. Braught
King’s Highway
J. A. Rhea
New Germanstown
Blaine A. Bower
Harper 5
Myers
New Germantown
Newlyweds Honored at Reno Street Dinner
Mrs W A Cockerly of Reno street hosted a dinner Monday night in compliment to her sister Edyth Zimmerman and William Gohn who wed Tuesday morning at Harrisburg. The couple returned to Geary street and guests gave house keeping gifts.
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Jennie Nailor
Grace Keller
New Cumberland
Nebraska
Harry Bixler
Seventh Street
Philadelphia
W. A. Cockerly
Reno Street
Edyth Zimmerman
William Gohn
Harrisburg
Geary Street
Ohio congressmen call probe into Round Robin protest
Ohio lawmakers promised a congressional inquiry into charges surrounding Eighth Ohio Infantry guardsmen facing punishment for signing a Round Robin protest over alleged neglect by medical and quartermaster authorities. Emerson of Cleveland urged investigation to determine if protest had merit and whether punishments were justified. Others favored waiting for developments before acting.
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Washington, D. C
Ohio
Eighth Ohio Infantry
el Paso
Emerson
Cleveland
Ohio Guardsmen
Gordon, Fess
Cresser
U S Orders 4000 Vickers Machine Guns and Gear
Washington dispatch reports the War Department has awarded contracts for 4000 Vickers machine guns and accessories at 5.5 million dollars. Additional contracts are expected to raise total spending on such weapons for the regular army and National Guard to about 9.5 million dollars.
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Washington, D. C
Special Machine Gun Board
War Department
Regular Army
National Guard
Dancer Sues for 50000 Over Wife Affection Loss
Ross O Blackburn burn, a Pittsburgh dancing master, sues Herbert R Walter for 50000 damages claiming Walter alienated Mrs Blackburn's affections. Blackburn says Walter met her January 1 1915 and systematically wooed her through July 16, damaging their marriage.
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Pittsburgh
Ross O. Blackburn
Herbert R. Walter
Walter
Incendiaries Burn Stables in Reading Fire
Reading, Pa. two fires blamed on incendiaries last night. At Apple street the Haas stable home to ex pressman C W Haas burned, fourteen horses saved, losses about $2000. Later the McKnight and Buttonwood streets market stables burned, farmers saving fifteen or more horses and wagons. Firemen saved nearby dwellings as residents removed furniture.
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Reading
Apple Street
C. W. Haas
Haas
McKnight
Buttonwood Streets
Burgess Seeks Public Playground Need In Wormleysburg
Burgess Ired Hummel of Wormleysburg announces plan to ask borough council for a $200 yearly appropriation to maintain a public playground behind the town hall. Swings and sandboxes would occupy the vacant rear ground, making a recreation space for local children. Real estate transfers noted in Enola and East Pennsboro townships accompany post office hours extension and church social events in Lemoyne.
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Wormsleysburg
Inola
Dee
Enola
East Pennsboro
Mary Morgan
W. H. Morgan
P. W. Boyer
M.A. Brinton
J. Huntsberger
W. H
Ida Dukes
Ray E. Wolf
Ida M. Bowers
Hust Pennsboro
Fire Bell Test Triggers Neighbor Calls
Residents near the Reily Hose Company enginehouse phoned in alarm after members tolled the bell seventy one times. The firehouse explained a new bell weighing nine hundred pounds had just been installed and tested seventy one times.
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Reily Hose Company
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New Municipal League
Derry
West Shore
Wrightsville
John Ellwein
Denver, Pa
William Martin
Denver Telephone Company
Sara Strong
Walter's Park
Margaret Brenneman
Gettysburg
Elizabeth Comfort
Walters
Charles P. Nebinger
Penbrook
Dorcas Miller
Lewis Spath
Lewisberry
Charles B. Ising
Agnes Ising
John Whistler
Robert N. Atticks
John H. Sheely
Smith Crowl
Lower Allen School Board
H. A. Bixler
Calvin Stoner
C. F. Prowell
Jacob Sheeley
Farmers’ Institute
Marietta
Paradise
Burkhart
W. Grove
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Rules Committee
House
Wilson
Congress
William G. McAdoo
the Treasury
Hor Iine
Tates
Spangler Music Llouse
Sehning
Decker & Son
Spangler Music
North Sixth Street
Franklin
Corina
Chiladelphia
Franklin Confectioners
Trafine
West Shore News
Ohio Guard
Vicker
U. S
Granddad
Market Street
Burgess
Wormleysburg
Lemoyne Church
Wolfensberger
Edgar Lower
Whitney Mumma
John Kimmel
Mr. Kilmer
James Tritt
Raymond Shoeman
H. B. Witman
Chauncey Cox
Monroe May
D. C. Hamilton
Bellans
J. C. Oyler
S. Fourth St
Kinney
Juliettes
Great Stores
G. R. Kinney & CO
North Fourth Street
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