Fire Devastates Curry & Son Flour Mill at Swatara Station
About 11 p.m. on Saturday a large fire destroyed John B. Curry & Son's flour mill grain elevator and coal yards at Swatara Station. Firefighters saved Swatara Hotel and nearby structures as water scarcity hampered efforts. Loss estimated around 75,000 dollars with partial insurance. railroad ties and a box car area also burned.
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Hummelstown
Curry & Son
Hershey Steamer
Hummelstown Chemical Company
Swatara
Philadelphia and
Reading
A. G. Stauffer
Delightful Garden Party For Newport Church Choir
Colonel H. A. Moore hosted a garden party at Clemson Place Sucker Point for the Newport Pennsylvania Presbyterian Church choir. Guests included Mrs. Percy C. Morrow Mrs. Edith Brandt Barton Mrs. William G. Loy Mrs. William Wilson Sharon Mrs. Maurice Wolf Misses Anne Lynn Irvin Lillian R. Flickinger Amanda L. Brown Margaret Bassett and Messrs. William M. Benson William Wilson Sharon Charles C. Brandt Edwin Morrow and Charles Bassett.
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Newport
H. A. Moore
Clemson Place
Sucker Point
The
Presbyterian Church
Percy C. Morrow
Edith Brandt Barton
William G. Loy
William Wilson Sharon
Maurice Wolf
Anne Lynn Irvin
Lillian R. Flickinger
Amanda L. Brown
Margaret Bassett
William M. Benson
Charles C. Brandt
Edwin Morrow
Charles Bassett
Memorial Day Parade in Dillsburg Observed
The Dillsburg post and Sons of Veterans organized a Memorial Day events with lodges marching from the public square led by the Dillsburg band. More than a hundred Sunday school children bore flags and attended services at the cemetery. Rev. G. H. Eveler delivered the memorial address.
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Dillsburg
Dillsburg Cemetery
G. H. Eveler
Lutheran Church
Fine Soldiers' Monument Unveiled at Millersburg
Millersburg Pennsylvania marked Memorial Day with a G A R ceremony at Oak Hill Cemetery and the unveiling of the West Park monument at 1 p m A large crowd heard Dr Charles M Rickert and Rev William Skeath speak Music came from the Citizens Band of Millersburg the Berrysburg Band and a Millersburg male chorus Afterward Millersburg defeated Halifax 6 to 1 in a baseball game followed by a band concert to close the day
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Millersburg
Oak Hill Cemetery
West Park
Citizens’ Band of
Berrysburg
Charles M. Rickert
William C. Skeath
Methodist Episcopal Church
Halifax
West Shore News Reports Young Teacher Dies After Auto Trip
Miss Ruth Meyer a 22 year old third grade teacher in Marysville Pennsylvania died suddenly from acute indigestion after an evening automobile trip with Postmaster J W Beers and family. Funeral held today.
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Marysville
Ruth Meyer
E. W. Snyder
Poslam Soap Real Foe to Impure Skin Ad
Try Poslam Soap for daily toilet and bath use. Benefits include purified skin, improved color and quality, soothing softness, and protection against infection. Sold by druggists everywhere. large size 25 cents, toilet size 15 cents. Hagerstown notices include Sbaugh living with grandparents and Peiffer employed by Pennsylvania Railroad, moving to Harrisburg.
Man Dies from Head Injury Suffered a Year Ago
Marysville reports the death of 14 year old James Messinger from cerebral hemorrhage. He was struck on the head by a brick about a year earlier, a injury physicians say caused his death. Funeral set for 2 p.m. tomorrow.
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Marysville
James Messinger
Jennie Messinger
Lincoln Street
Messinger
Marysville Grammar School
Birth Announcements and 1914 Baccalaureate Sermon
Mrs Elias Rhinehart announces a daughter born May 23. Mr and Mrs Samuel Crossley announce a daughter born May. Mr and Mrs Benjamin Weaver and Mr and Mrs Tolbert Hummel announce a son born May 3. Mr and Mrs Walter Myers announce a son born May 9. The baccalaureate sermon for the class of 1914 was delivered at Zion Lutheran Church in Marysville by Rev. S. L. Rice.
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Enola
S. H. Rodgers
Columbia Road
Elias Rhinehart
Samuel Crossley
Benjamin Weaver
Tolbert Hummel
Walter Myers
Amos Baker
Marysville
Zion Lutheran Church
S. L. Rice
Festivities at Irving College and Conservatory Week
In Mechanicsburg Pa the Irving College and Music Conservatory observe commencement week starting with a Dramatic Club performance of A Rose O Plymouth Town directed by Miss Elizabeth Janet Rae. Cast includes Rhoda Green Vera Care Itelen Freet and others. Baccalaureate by Rev Dr Steck Carlisle and address by Rev H W A Hanson Harrisburg. Glee club concert and grand music class concert follow with alumnae events and trustees meeting.
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Mechanicsburg
Irving College and
Music Conservatory
Rose
Plymouth Town
Elizabeth Janet Rae
Columbian Hall
Irving
Rhoda Green
Vera Care
Itelen Freet
Lavina Lines
Martha Turner
Wilna Worthington
Anna Bergman
Nelle Rimstidt
A. R. Steck
Carlisle
H. W. A. Hanson
College Young Women's Christian Association
Glee Club
Board of Trustees
High School Class to Present Dickens Play in Newport
The graduating class of the Newport High School will stage The Cricket on the Hearth a Dickens play dramatized by Albert Smith at the Photoplay Theater tomorrow and Wednesday. Elaborate costumes have been secured from Philadelphia. The cast includes John Perry bingle John L. Sunday Tackleton E Spurgeon Fulcomer Caleb Plummer Stanley Wickes Old Gentleman Jesse Sunday Dot Elizabeth Smoyer Bertha blind girl Margaret Bassett Mrs Fielding Sara Runkle May Fielding Margaret Wertz Tilly Slow boy Eleanor Manning Mrs Dot Erma Morrow.
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Newport
Charles Dickens
Albert Smith
Philadelphia
John Perrybingle
John L. Sunday
Mr. Tackleton
E. Spurgeon Fulcomer
Caleb Plummer
Stanley Wickes
Jesse Sunday
Dot
Elizabeth Smoyer
Bertha
Margaret Bassett
Calvary United Brethren church elects youth officers
Dillsburg Pennsylvania June 1 The Young People's Christian Endeavor Union at Calvary United Brethren Church elected officers including President Miss Huldah Bender Vice President John H Arnold Recording secretary Miss Ethel Lerew Corresponding secretary Miss Carrie Filler Treasurer Arthur Hess Organist Miss Ethel Coulsin Assistant organist Miss Sarah Baker Librarian Clyde Hess Assistant librarian Parker Nester This notes the slate of youth leaders for the local church group.
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Dillsburg
Young People's Christian Endeavor Union
Calvary United Brethren Church
Huldah Bender
John H. Arnold
Ethel Lerew
Carrie Filler
Athur Hess
Ethel Coulsin
Sarah Baker
Clyde Hess
Parker Nester
Donegal Presbyterian Church elects officers in annual meeting
In Marietta Pennsylvania the Donegal Presbyterian Church elected trustees eight R Slaymaker Lancaster William H Fink Marietta Amos Gish Rheems auditors Horace Heisey Coney Jacob Zook Donegal at its annual congregational meeting It was also decided to hold the annual reunion on June 17.
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Marietta
Old Donegal
Touring Berkshire Hills with Lark Party to New York
Millersburg Pa June 1 Mr and Mrs H L Lark travel by car with daughter Mrs William J Gies of New York City. They plan to visit Northfield Connecticut and then continue to New York City.
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Millersburg
H. L. Lark
William J. Gies
New York City
Berkshire Hills
Northfield
Connecticut
Narrow Escape From Death at Hershey Junior Men Banquet
John G. Engle, owner of Engle nurseries and Civil War veteran, narrowly escaped death when a dynamite cap explosion while burning brush near a railroad injured him. He was treated by Dr. H. A. Mowery. The same report notes a horse dying of lockjaw in Dillsburg and a boy undergoing appendicitis surgery in Millersburg. Hershey Junior Men's Club hosted a banquet for about seventy five boys at the Hershey Cafe with speeches by George Coppenhaver and others.
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Hershey
Marietta
John G. Engle
Engle Nurseries
H. A. Mowery
Hershey, Pa
Hershey Cafe
M. S. Hershey
C. G. Romig
J. L. Brandan
George Coppenhaver
Hershey Industrial School
E. C. Hills
New York
Milton Wagner
Lebanon
Industrial School
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Swatara Station
Newport Church
West Shore News
Benefit OF Brotherhood
Brothers Road
Federated Railroad
Highland Park
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Civic Club
Board of Trade
Flatiron
Marysville, Pa
Jacob Carmichael
Lester R. Mutch
Ruth F. Kennedy
I. N. Bair
United Evangelical Church of
Mt. Holly
Mutch
J. D. Shull Bakery
Flora Thaueh
Harry Peiffer
Lucknow
Hagerstown
NEW Cumberland Weddings
New Cumberland
Arthur J. Peterman
Eva Willis
Trinity United Brethren Parsonage
B. D. Rojohn
Peterman
Elliott-Fisher Typewriter Works
Esther Gise
Reno Street
Norman Franklin Goodyear
Harrisburg
N. Good
Church of God Parsonage
William Keister
Bridge Street
Jason Byers
Harold
J. H. Young
Martha Byers
M. Keister
Nellie Keister
Maggie Prowell
Jesse Ren
J. C. Forncrook
Mount Olivet Cemetery
John Kirk
Post 462
Grand Army of the Republic
Cera
Market Street
Peeram Courthouse
Donegal
Lockjaw
Amos Riever
South
Baltimore Street
Howard Sausser
Frank Sausser
Union Street
Harrisburg Hospital
Shippensburg
E. N. Kirkpatrick
Normal School
Shredded Wheat Company
Niagara Falls, N.Y
Broad Street
J. N. Kinnard
Third Street
West Harrisburg Market House Co
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