Christmas program to close borough schools tomorrow
More than 325 pupils in Le Moyne borough schools will perform in a Christmas program marking the end of the Christmas vacation. The program features carols, recitations, readings, and a high school playlet with a narrative and musical numbers by students from first to eighth grade.
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Lemoyne
Ruth Hawn
Little Jack Horner
Eugene Novinger
Hoyt Mickey
Reading
Elmire Bricker
Bethlem
Carol
E. R. Mumma
Chris Evening
New Cumberland
Mary Buttorff
West Fairview notes and Fraternal Union officers
West Fairview notes from Harrisburg to York and Encounters with local figures. Mrs. C Baker and Mrs. Daniel Stiles are mentioned along with a new Panama Heights bungalow. The Fraternal Aid Union elects officers led by Adam Boyer and Sylvan Neidig. Also reported are the death of Bertha Hetrick at 27 and a library book order for Lemoyne High School.
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IF. D. Luse
West Fairview
Harrisburg
C. Baker
Ilness
E. R. Lower
Camp Hancock
Augusta
West Fairview High School
Daniel Stiles
C. Learné and Son
York
Cora Brinton
Panama Heights
Fraternal Union
Fraternal Aid Union
Adam Boyer
Worthy
Sylvan Neidig
Samuel Stuckey
H. W. Neidig
H. W. Morgan
W. L. Lantz
J. H. Lantz
F. D. Luse
E. L. Marsh
H. B. Shoop
Bertha Hetrick
West Fairview Pa
Bertha Enleys Hetrick
Thelma
Grace United Brethren Church
J. A. Shettel
York, Pa
Enola Cemetery
Lemoyne
Lemoyne High School
Retired Railroader Now Burgess of West Fairview
Benjamin Hoon, a retired railroad foreman, has been installed as burgess of West Fairview Pa following the November election. He vows to enforce ordinances and work with council to improve the town after nearly fifty years with the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Burgess
West Fairview
O. H. Disney
Burgess Hoon
Pennsylvania Railroad
Wormleysburg
Hodgepodge of Central Pennsylvania Local News
Bellefonte funeral for Mrs. William P. Wilson recalls her warping ties to the Bald Eagle Valley Rail road. Kulp Lumber head returns from Larry's Creek with a bear. Martinsburg man killed at coal depot. Lancaster youth dies cleaning a revolver. Government shelves Conewago munitions depot plan. Coal shortages hit Mount Gretna and Hazleton cancels Christmas tree. Hog shipment boom signals rising pig crop. Camp 7078 honors soldiers with Christmas cheer. Nativity pictures shown in Mechanicsburg Red Cross drive. New Cumberland schools prep Christmas entertainments. Liverpool offers free milk Christmas Day. Middleburg woman recovers after appendicitis operation.
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Bellefonte
William P. Wilson
Bald Eagle Valley Railroad
Bellefonte Y. M. C. A
Shamokin
G. Gilbert Kulp
Kulp Lumber Company
Larry's Creek
Mount Gretna
United States
Conewago Valley
Overtown
Newton B. Erb
Bess-elect
Boyertown
Hazleton
Jacob Martin
Department of Parks and Public Buildings
William Howland
Beaver Meadow
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Mahanoy City
Edward Beddow
John Nuzel
Springdale
Alcoholic Content of Beer Now and After January 1
A 1917 notice explains beer alcohol content changing from about 3 to 7-10 percent to a fixed 2 percent after January 1. It notes drinkers may need more beer to achieve the same effect and cites a Wilson proclamation under the food act.
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Wilson
Immigrant Hoagland Volunteers for U S Navy Aero Corps
Louis K. Hoagland of Sayre Pennsylvania a Lehigh shops employee joins the U S navy aero corps and expresses readiness to face his own family in conflict. Born to German and Austro Hungarian parents he sought citizenship after traveling and hitchhiking across the country. Fostered by Justice Charles A Hoagland and his wife he gained local support and a favorable naturalization recommendation. Hoagland’s father serves in the Austrian army and two brothers are in Austrian service.
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Sayre
Louis K. Hoagland
Lehigh
United States Navy
Aero Corps
Hoagland
Waverly
Justice of the
Charles A. Hoagland
Justice Hoagland
United States
Justice
Superstitions Plentiful on Sailing Vessels
Sailors hold many beliefs about ships and fate. Talismanic signs include will-o'-the-wisps seen at spars signaling doom, cross eyes as luck or death, Sunday voyages favored while Friday invites bad luck, tolling bells foretelling loss, and dragging a rope for safe return.
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Jack
Barber Superstitions From A Historic Shaving Ritual
The passage lists barber lore linking a single stroke of the brush to bad luck for the patron and warns against seeing a hunchback in mirrors as a death omen. It notes effects of sitting with less crossed in a barber shop, early hair loss, and beliefs about red headed barbers curing rheumatism. Shoes polished during shaving supposedly bring luck.
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West Shore News
Victrola Club
Enola
West Shore
P. M. Oyler
South Fourth St
West Fairview, Pa
Ben
Jamin Hoon
Bixler Ships Supplies
Marysville
Bixler Red Cross Society
Red Cross
T. W. Cromleigh
Progress
Wrightsville
Marietta
J. K. Blank
Irene Blank
Paul Sultzbach
Peter Sultzbach
Lutheran Church of
Wrightville
Charles Sultzbach
Charles Hollenbaugh
Florence Blank
Augusta Sultzbach
Columbia Hospital
Williamson Trade School
Claymont
Del
Benjamin Hoon
Mpociah
Central
Pennsylvania
United States Department of Agriculture
State Colleges
Elizabethville
Woodmen of America
H. L. Romberger
D. A. Andre
O. E. Enders
C. &. Forney
J. K. Butsfield
H. H. Hoffner
E. G. Baker
J. W. Shaffer
George H. Swab
Army
Mechanicsburg
Church of God
Liverpool
George Charles
Middleburg
James G. Thompson
Wilkes- Barre
U.S
Gorgas Rexall Stores
N. Third St. and
Penna. Station
WM Strouse
Market St
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