Club Members Trade Places With Employes at Their Dinner Party
Chicago workers from the Chicago Automobile Club were surprised as they were treated as guests of honor at a year end party. Waiters porters and bell boys found doors man elevator operator and coat check all performed by club employers. The employer led light practical jokes including five cent tips and bell boys carrying brick filled suitcases to the top floor.
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Chicago
Chicago Automobile Club
Free Motion Pictures For Poor Children
Harrisburg plans a New Year’s morning free movie show at 10 o clock. Regent owner Peter Magaro opens doors for youngsters with comedy films. Boy Scouts and Salvador Army distribute tickets. Arrangements assist Children’s Industrial Home, Sylvan Heights Orphanage, and Nursery Home. A parade precedes the show.
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Harrisburg
Peter Magaro
Regent
Boy Scouts
Salvador Army
Sylvan Heights
Thirty Cases Listed For Common Pleas Trial
Thirty cases listed for trial at the Prothonotary's office for the Common Pleas session the week of January 19. Case names include Hamaker vs Scholl trespass. Mumma vs Philadelphia and Reading Railway trespass. Swails vs Valley Railways trespass. Quigley vs Heckert trespass. plus assumpsit, replevin and foreign attachment actions involving Harrisburg Railways Company and other firms.
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Charles E. Pass
Common Pleas
Sarah J. Hamaker
Walter 8. Scholl
Sadie Mumma
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
Lillian M. Swails
Valley Railways
Thomas FE. Cleckner
the Valley Railways Company
Arthur J. Quigley
Norman C. Heckert
Pierce Rettew
Morris Hursh
Lawrence Ferrow
Morris Schondorf
Ruth Willoughby
Central Trust Company
Morris Schondorff
Eleanor Herr Boyd
Assumpsit
Fuller and Warren Company
George B. Weast
Byron F. Sheesley
Joseph Ulrich
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Abe Gross
Sarah R. Sheets
H. Zimmermerman
Mitchy Jordanoff
Atze Christy Abrashoff
Louis C. Goldman
Max Williams
Haywood Brothers and Wakefield Company
Charles F. Hoover
Assumps
J. H. Butterworth
Harrisburg Railways Company
George W. Watson
Alice ¢. Watson
Edwin F
Harrisburg Republicans Elect Officers for Coming Year
The Harrisburg Republican Club at 26 North Second Street elected William H. Hoffman as president for the next year. Otto M. Baker was named vice president, LeRue Metzger secretary, DeWitt A. Fry treasurer, withWilliam D. Block, Herman Geiger and George B. Nebinger as trustees and a membership committee chosen. Hoffman has served as Dauphin County deputy sheriff since 1900 and was recently retained by Sheriff-elect George W. Karmany. Tonight the West End Republican Club meets to elect officers with Alderman C. J. Householder nominated for president.
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Harrisburg Republican Club
North Second Street
William H. Hoffman
Dauphin County
Otto M. Baker
LeRue Metzger
DeWitt A. Fry
William D. Block
Herman Geiger
George B. Nebinger
Hiram Eisenberger
Charles McKay
C. A. Tress
Edward A. Faber
A. J. Bohl
Hoffman
J. S. Reiff
Lykens
George W. Karmany
Mr. Hoffman
West End
Republican Club
C. J. Householder
Tenth Ward
Attorneys Gather at Easton For Big Meet
One of Easton’s largest attorney gatherings occurred at the Pomfret Club for the Pennsylvania Bar Association midwinter session. Judge Edward J. Tox presided as president, with Attorney General Schaeffer delivering a keynote on the profession’s public role. Also reported, H. M. Blair, 56, of West Fairview died after falling from an engine cab.
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Easton
Pomfret Club
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Edward J. Tox
Schaeffer
Fox
Pennsylvania
H. M. Blair
West Fairview
General Barry Dies After Long Service in Islands and War
Major General Thomas H. Barry, retired veteran of the Central and East Departments, died at Walter Reed Hospital at 3:45 AM after a three week illness. He was 64, born in New York, and a 1877 Military Academy graduate. Burial is planned in New York.
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Washington
Dec
Thomas H. Barry
Central Department
Department of the East
Walter Reed Hospital
New York
Barry
Army
Chicago
Eighty-sixth National Army Division
Camp Grant
Rockford
Johnm Barry
General Barry
The
Military Academy
Eighth Army Corps
Department of the Pacific
Philippines
Islands
United States
Department of California
Department of the Philippines
Western Front
New Year Gala Planned at Penn-Harris Hotel
Horace Wiggins and Worthington announce a prohibition era style New Year’s Eve at the Penn Harris Hotel with vaudeville acts led by Wiggins. Dinner, dancing, gifts for guests, and a midnight return to the ballroom follow a full evening of entertainment and a nonattendant Barleycorn.
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Penn-Harris
Penn-Harris Hotel
John Barleycorn
Horace Wiggins
Wiggins
Worthington
New York
Catholic Churches Mark New Year with Vespers and Masses
The New Year is ushered with Solemn Vespers at St Patrick's Cathedral on New Year's Eve at 8 o'clock with sermon by Rev Walter Conner of Philadelphia. Bishop Philip R McDevitt attends and D J Carey celebrates. Special choir music led by Professor Brodeur. On New Year's Day mass schedule varies with multiple churches: 5 30 am first mass, 7 pm at St Patrick's Cathedral, 9 am at St Francis, and 8 pm high mass at St Marys St Lawrence and Church of the Sacred Heart followed by benediction.
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Walter Conner
Philadelphia
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Philip R. McDevitt
D. J. Carey
Brodeur
St. Patrick’s
St. Francis
St. Mary’s
St. Lawrence
Church of the Sacred Heart
Harrisbore Passes First Million-Dollar Budget Unanimously
Harrisbore City Council approved a 1920 budget of 1,062,516.06 and set the tax rate at 12 mills, two higher than last year. The measure funds street and labor/material cost increases and was signed by Mayor D L Keister immediately after passage. Both ordinances take effect at once per state law.
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Harrisbore
D. L. Keister
Shoplifting Increases Hit Harrisburg Merchants
Harrisburg merchants report a six month surge in thefts from store rooms, with more articles stolen from counters and racks than in any comparable period. The rise has led many firms to add extra staff to combat the problem.
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Harrisburg
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