Fares in Pittsburgh Raised and Fare Increase Feared
Pittsburgh Railways Company granted a 20 cent per hour wage increase to about 3000 workers effective immediately amid threats of strike. Company will seek public commission approval to raise fares from 5 cents to 4.55 cents with a $1 book of 18 tickets. If PSC acts before Feb 1, wages rise again by 2 1/4 cents an hour. City council votes unanimously to protest the fare hike. Accidents at Lewistown report injuries from icy pavement and a near rifle shot incident on Depot street.
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Pittsburgh
Tw Wat
Pittsburgh Railways Company
Pennsylvania Publicervice Commission
Public Service Commission
Music During the Russian Revolution Concerts
A report on how Russian musicians formed federations after the revolution to promote democracy. Petrograd hosted a "Concert of the Revolution in Words and Music" with 50 players, opening with the Marseillaise. Glazunoff conducted pieces like the Song of the Volga Boatmen and the Robesierre overture, echoing revolutionary hopes.
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Russia
Federation of Musicians of the
Orchestra
Petrograd
Ormers
Revoluion
Clazinoff
Volga
Pirit
Glazunoff
Baughman Memorial Methodist Church Christmas Schedule
Services in Baughman Memorial Methodist Church include Rev. Dr. T. S. Wilcox preaching at 1.080 and a cantata The Nativity of Christ at 7 30 p m on Sunday. Christmas Eve features Sunday school exercises. Thursday evening offers an illustrated Yellowstone Park lecture.
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New Cumberland
Baughman Memorial Methodist Church
T. S. Wilcox
Yellowstone Park
Surprise For Miss Osler on Fifteenth Birthday
In New Cumberland Pennsylvania on December 22 a group of young people surprised Miss Anna Osler for her fifteenth birthday. They gathered at her Market Square home for games music and a time of merriment. Gifts were exchanged and refreshments served to a lengthy list of attendees including Blanche Sweeney Lauretta Sweigert Dorothy Heffleman Mae Weigle Irene Hoyer Dorothy Kauffman Martha Osler Della James Bessie Dull Annie Osler Gilbert Parthemore Ralph Cook Robert Parthemore Clarence Guhl Sylvan Primrose Clark Bair Augustus Wright Ross Snell Malcolm Reiff Frank Kester Harry Misey Lechthaler Raymond Osler and Mrs. G B Osler.
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New Cumberland
Anna Osler
Market Square
Miss Osler
Missen Blanche Sweeney
Lauretta Sweigert
Dorothy Heffleman
Mae Weigle
Irene Hoyer
Dorothy Kauffman
Martha Osler
Della James
Bessie Dull
Special Sunday Services at Marysville Churches
Marysville Pa December 22 special Sunday services are announced across churches. Rev S B Bidlack preaches The Worlds Gift at morning service while Trinity Reformed plans a Christmas cantata at 2 pm with Rev Ralph F Hartman leading. Zion Lutheran hosts The Night Is Far Spent by Rev S L Rice. Church of God a Christmas cantata with director J Garfield Eppley.
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Marysville
Methodist Episcopal Church
S. B. Bidlack
Trinity Reformed Church
Jerusalem
Ralph F. Hartman
Mr. Hartman
Zion Lutheran Church
L. Rice
Church of God
J. Garfield Eppley
S. l. Rice
Trinity Reformed
Zion Lutheran
Glenvale
Social and Personal Items of Towns Along West Shore
Social and personal notes from West Shore towns list visits and vacations of residents and relatives. People from Renovo Marysville Liverpool Harrisburg and nearby areas are mentioned with travels to Elmira Carlisle Pittsburgh Sec ond street Harrisburg and Garret Indication of a service flag with thirty eight stars unfurled at West Fairview post office.
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West Shore
Annie Bender
Harrisburg
Lizzie Yoger
Aaronsburg
Center County
T. D. Luse
Mable Eslinger
W. Deats
John Carr
John Blair
Annie Wender
J. H. Lantz
West Fairview
United States Army
Navy
C. W. Luse
Dr Krebs to Speak at Y M C A Meeting
Dr Stanley Lefevre Krebs, a noted lecturer, will speak at the third men s mass meeting in Fahnestock Hall tomorrow at 3 30 in the afternoon on Three Gods or One an exposition of the Triune God. The Central High School Glee Club will sing at the meeting. Camp Hill cantata titled Christ the Hope of the World to be presented by the First Presbyterian Sunday school tomorrow features several choral and recitation items and an offering for foreign missions. Dr M E Swartz district superintendent to hold quarterly conference at the Methodist Church Friday at 7 45 followed by church membership meeting for trustees election.
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Fahnestock Hall
Stanley Lefevre Krebs
Krebs
Central High School Glee Club
Camp Hill
First Presbyterian Sunday School
M. E. Swartz
Methodist Church
Accursey
Missionary Meeting Held by St. John's Lutheran Society
The Woman's Missionary Society of St. John's Lutheran Church met at the home of Mrs. James Senseman on East Main Street in Shiremanstown on Thursday afternoon as part of its monthly program.
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Shiremanstown
Woman's Missionary Society of
St. John’s Lutheran Church
James
Aviators Fatal Crash in Fort Worth Kills Three British Airmen
Three British aviators in training died when two aircraft collided at low altitude near the landing field in Fort Worth Texas. The dead are Arthur Eden Webster 19 of Kingston North Carolina Lieutenant Russell Lennner 19 of Kingsville Ontario and Cyril Albert Baker 20 of Kent England. Funeral notices follow for Clinton Black and Mrs Michael Shipp with details on services and survivors. Shiremanstown prepares to receive new church members in United Brethren Church services tomorrow.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Arthur Eden Webster
Kingston
N. C
Russell Lenner
Kingsville
Ontario
Cyril Albert Baker
Kent
England
Special Music at Lemoyne Church of Christ Service
Lemoyne Pa Dec 22 The Church of Christ prepares special music for tomorrow service led by Rev L F Crash with a morning sermon Christmas Sentiments. The choir will perform Hark the Notes of Joy with soloist Miss Margaret Armstrong and the evening program includes Christmas carols hymns and arrangements by Ira B Wilson and G Lang. The Valley Railways Company seeks passenger cooperation through confidential talks in monthly car cards.
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Lemoyne
Church of Christ
Carrie D. Adams
Margaret Armstrong
George Cooper
Verna Brinton
Edith Sackman
Bessie Bricker
Heavenly
G. Lang
Ira B. Wilson
Dvorak
Afton
Ira B.wilson
Schumann
Valley Railways Company
Margaret Wilson on Community Music Uniting a Nation
Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter of the President, praises community chorus movement as vital to mobilizing resources for war. She says mass singing unifies people, strengthens civilian effort, and promotes swift collective action to support America and its fighting forces. Each citizen has a part to play.
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America
Margaret Woodrow Wilson
Miss Wilson
Good Music in Churches Highlight Holiday Services
Christmas music fills city churches with cantatas and special numbers. Choirs have rehearsed for weeks and many churches will include festive performances tomorrow and on Christmas Day. Some midnight services Monday night feature renewed musical offerings as coal conservation trims services. The lone Christmas Day service is the early morning gathering Tuesday.
Christmas Tide Observance at St John’s Shiremanstown
In Shiremanstown Pa on December 22 the Christmas tide celebration at St John’s begins Sunday evening with the organist and vested choir joined by Mrs Herbert Price Hunt in festival music. The pastor preaches The First Gifts. Christmas matins are at 6 15 Christmas morning, with Bible school and congregation closing Christmas evening at 6 30 with Christmas in Scripture and Song.
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Shiremanstown
St. John's
Herbert Price Hunt
Bible School
Music on the Line of Battle
Capt A Radclyffe Dugmore recalls frontline life and the army’s use of music in the trenches. He describes regimental bands, improvised orchestration, phonographs, and bagpipes aiding charges while cautioning that first line trenches remain quiet musicwise.
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A. Radclyffe Dugmore
King’s
Yorkshire Light Infantry
France
Dugmore
Somme
Boston Symphony Benefit Concert for Halifax Flood Victims
A Sunday concert in Boston by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Fritz Kreisler raised funds for Halifax flood victims with no charges for services. The piece includes local musical jests and notes on American programs, applauding enthusiasm and commenting on German songs amid anti-German sentiment. Lewistown singer Arla Smith praised after a Haydn recital in Philadelphia. she studies under Nelson A. Chestnutt while Mildred Wentz accompanies.
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Mack
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Kreisler
Boston
Halifax
Miss Smith
Contest in Military Music Chooses Official 89th Division March
General Wood of the Eighty-Ninth Division invites musicians from Kansas Missouri Colorado Nebraska South Dakota New Mexico and Arizona to submit original marches for the divisional work. C H Guthrie at Camp Funston will collect and judge entries with composers retaining ownership if selected. The winning piece may become the official march and regiments may adopt their own distinguishing tunes.
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Tional Army
Camp Funston
Kansas
Wood
Eighty-Ninth Division
Missouri
Colorado
Nebraska
South Dakota
New Mexico
Arizona
C. H. Guthrie
Care Y. M. C. A
National Army
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