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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1918
Page
3
The article promotes trapshooting as a unifying wartime era sport. It urges national relaxation through outdoors athletics, highlights women’s rising participation, and calls for parks and country clubs to install traps, reenergizing gun clubs and major sports like baseball and golf. It envisions trapshooting as America’s major sport.
In Parkesburg Dec 28 Lancaster High defeated Parkesburg 67 to 9 as Deen and Manby led scoring with 12 and 5 field goals respectively. Parkesburg fouls totaled 19 to Lancaster's 17, with Shoemaker and Field goals noted for Lancaster. Ephrata beat Marietta 45 to 30 in a closely contested cage contest at the auditorium. Royal Fire Company beat Keystone 26 to 18 with Shickley, Shafer, and Dunkle starring for Royal. Elkins led Keystone with solid scoring.
Cape May New Jersey December 27 1918 Dear Sir you will herein enclosed please find one of our Christmas menus which kindly accept with my compliments I was located in Harrisburg for three years living at the Elks Club and representing the Foulds Milling Co Chicago manufacturers of macaroni and noodles prior to entering the service and have been stationed at this base for twenty months in charge of the Commissary Department and we feed about 1000 men here and in addition we supply about forty warships daily with supplies and fresh provisions Weidener Chief Com Ltd USNR Will we print it Sure Mike why not for a commissary captain so discriminating as to read the Telegraph every day Furth ermore if there is any of that roast young Vermont turkey left over Commish you know the address And touching upon that here is the menu and its hoping for an encore on New Years Consomme a la Royal Hearts of Celery Gerkins Roast Young Vermont Turkey Stuffing Giblet Gravy Cranberry Jelly Mashed Potatoes June Peas Creamed Asparagus Tips Fruit Salad Mince Pie Neapolitan Ice Cream American Cheese and Crackers Oranges Mixed Nuts Candy Coffee Cigars Cigarettes
agitation grows to open the Susquehanna Trail and William Penn Highway segment from Amity Hall to Newport. Petitions circulate to Governor-elect Sproul, urging funding to develop the Juniata Valley corridor between Newport and Amity Hall.
In Washington Heights Pa at Calvary United Brethren Sunday school annual Christmas program the theme It Is More Blessed to Give Than to Receive was acted out and students donated to Quincy Orphanage and Home. Classes displayed flour sugar clothing and groceries while Holy Communion is set with Rev P R Koontz preaching both morning and evening.
Personal and social notes from West Shore towns list Captain George E. Landis on a fifteen day home leave and multiple arrivals visits. Residents include Mrs D S Martin and son Richard visiting Littlestown. David Finkenbinder returning from France. Gilbert Yetter visiting Carlisle relatives. Rugier John Oren from Camp Lee. several families and friends attending weddings and anniversaries. and holiday greetings among Rishel, Tritt, Peffer, Koontz, and Moran households. Corroborating soldiers Harry Deckard and Lester Kennedy share furloughs.
Napoleon Lajoie, hailed as one of the game's greatest infielders, announces his retirement after a 23 year major league career. He led four AL batting titles, played for Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Toronto, and managed several teams before stepping away to run an automotive tire manufacturing business.
William Givler, after an army discharge at Camp Lee, Va, visits friends in Shiremanstown and Slate Hill. Numerous family visits and Christmas gatherings are reported in Shiremanstown and Mechanicsburg, with church schedule notes for Marysville and New Cumberland areas.
Tech High School toppled the Alumni by 80 to 26 in a nip and tuck game. Captain Buddle Lingle led Tech as eight players saw action while six alumni played. Final score favored Tech after a tight second half.
Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania December 28 189? Dr Thomas J Stevens aged 95 died after three days illness of pneumonia He was born September 10 1823 in Huntsdale Cumberland County Worked in woolen goods and carpets later studied herbs and salves Moved to Mechanicsburg in 1879 and remained bedfast since 1907 when a trolley accident dislocated his hip He was a Mennonite and survived by one brother Funeral Tuesday at 2 PM at his home burial in Mechanicsburg Cemetery
Miss Martha Morrett hosted the St. Pauls Reformed Church girls class at her South Market Street home in Mechanicsburg on Thursday afternoon. Games and contests were featured and refreshments served to Lulu Coover Dorothy Warner Frances Romack Sara Wrightstone Alice Eckerd Violet Fortney Louise Minnich Marie Winand Frances Winand and Violet Bricker.
Carlisle reports charges under the State Camp Code against John Coover of Mount Joy and Elmer Black with Arthur Lindsey of Leesburg for venison transportation and possession of a doe. Hearing set before Game Warden J. B. Lightner. Also notes hospital identity as Sergeant Charles Pemburn nearing recovery. Traverse jurors for Cumberland county court February selected, listing many Mechanicsburg and surrounding residents. Mrs William Hull dies at 54 after a stroke, and Wedd ings at Hagerstown noted with Lester and others.
National Collegiate Athletic Association delegates pass resolutions favoring the abolition of training tables and scouting except at open intercollegiate contests and summer programs deeming such activities against amateur spirit. They urge physical training as a college department and demand adequate scheduling across campuses.
Lehman of Reid Md married Esther Heern er of Waynesboro Pa at Trinity Lutheran Hagerstown on Thursday. Couple to ten day wedding trip to eastern cities. Bride a 1918 Waynesboro High graduate. Groom works in Reid flour milling with his father. Berger of near Waynesboro and Myrtle Sprankle near Hagerstown wed December 24 at Christenformed parsonage. Ina Stoops dies in Wyn cote Pa heart disease. funeral in Waynesboro. Survived by Jacobs of Harrisburg Corbett of Waynesboro and Stoops children. Union Week of Prayer planned at local churches with watch night services in multiple churches starting Monday night.
The Rookwood five led by Lew Haggerty, tallest center, clashes with Gordon Ford's Independents at Chestnut Street Auditorium tonight in a highly anticipated matchup. The field features notable players like Kid Dark and Carl Beck, with Tech facing amateur status questions and overlapping team play. Referee Clint White will officiate.
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