Camp Hill Fete a Great Social and Charity Event
The Camp Hill Civic Club carnival raised over one hundred dollars for emergency aid war work at Zacharias Park. The Allied Nations Dance featured Miss Anna Fleisher as queen with Virginia Shaar and a 56 year old David Horn in captain’s uniform performing in a colorful program. Luncheon and supper, auction of leftovers, fortune teller booth, and baked goods sales completed the day under Mrs. W. C. Siegmund and Dr. Siegmund’s busy leadership amid sunshine and cheer.
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Camp Hill
Anna Fleisher
Virginia Shaar
David Horn
Howard Goodman
W. R. Rowland
Grandma's Pantry
Guert W. Ensign
W. C. Siegmund
Dr. Siegmund
Firm Closes Offices as Partners Enter War Service
The firm of Johnson and Kelker closes its Calder building offices indefinitely as both partners join war work. W W Johnson, senior partner and area architect, leaves local clientele for government work with Potts Manufacturing at Mechanicsburg. Thomas M Kelker, junior partner, works on government projects at Norfolk Virginia naval base.
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Johnson and Kelker
Calder
W. W. Johnson
Potts Manufacturing Company
Mechanicsburg
Thomas M. Kelker
Norfolk
Mr. Johnson
Christian Science Church
Front and
Woodbine Streets
ROS Ltd Need Cleaners Associated Amounts
ROS Ltd requires cleaners for service charges totaling 42.50 25.00 35.00 and 39.60 in listed amounts.
Popular Messenger Bennie Longenecker Rejoins Navy Life
Benjamin Longenecker Jr known as Bennie a top Western Union messenger has enlisted in the U S Navy and just returned from a ten day furlough with his parents in Marysville He says the Navy life suits him and he enjoys the telegraph key work on the Wisconsin a United States steamship
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Longenecker, Jr
Western Union
Bennie
United States Navy
United States
Wisconsin
Benjamin Ngenecker
Marysville
Navy
War Poem by 10 Year Old Muriel Gannett
Muriel Gannett aged 10, daughter of Mr and Mrs Farley Gannett, writes a wartime poem on a Nantillie porch. The verses praise the United States and France, claim victory in the war, and reference past wins over Mexico and Spain. Dated May 27, 1918.
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Muriel Gannett
Muriel Sanders Gannett
Mexico
Spain
France
America
Mr and Mrs Thos March Leave for Greensburg
Mr and Mrs Thomas of The Belvedere plan a March departure for Greensburg where Professor March becomes city superintendent of schools. He is a brother of General Peyton C. March of Washington, D. C. Mrs March is bid farewell with friends in attendance. APRON SALE THURSDAY The Embroidery Guild of St Andrew's Episcopal Church will hold an apron sale Thursday June 6 from 4 to 9 pm with aprons from every state plus ice cream cake and coffee.
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Thomas
March
Belvedere
North Streets
Greensburg
Professor March
Peyton C. March
Washington, D. C
United States Army
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Little-Fulton Wedding in York United States Army Captain Jenny Little
Miss Jessie May Fulton of York and Captain John Shirley Little of the United States Regular Army were wed in York. Miss Fulton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Fulton, taught art and languages in Wilmington and York before her marriage. The couple will reside at 162 Twenty-fifth Street Elmhurst LA and will be at home after July 1.
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Harrisburg
Jessie May Fulton
East College Avenue
York
John Shirley Little
United States Regular Army
Fulton
C. M. Fulton
Twenty-fifth Street
Elmhurst
L. A
Harrisburg Social Notes Highlight Local Entertaining
The Harrisburg column lists Saturday dinner parties at the Country Club with Mrs Philip T Meredith hosting for Mr and Mrs Jacob Franhaiser of Johnstown and guests including Henderson Gilbert Walter H Gaither Carl Kaltwasser Frank Payne v Hummel Berghaus John Motter and John Comstock. Other readers attendances mention Red Cross nurse Miss Mabel Sliker safe return from overseas and ambulancier Meade D Detweiler’s promotion to captain on the Italian front.
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Country Club
Harrisburg
Philip T. Meredith
Jacob Franheiser
Johnstown
Henderson Gilbert
Walter H. Gaither
Carl Kaltwasser
Frank Payne
V. Hummel Berghaus
John Motter
John Comstock
RED Cross
A. H. Sliker
Calder Street
Miss Mabel Sliker
Miss Sliker
Camp Upton
Dutch Helfrick Joins Company at Camp Greene
Dutch Helfrick of 1633 North Third Street left today to join his company at Camp Greene Charlotte North Carolina after a two week furlough with relatives. He had been stationed with the aerial squadron at Ace Texas and the unit was moved to Camp Greene during his absence. He promises to share many tales of camp life and appears cheerful.
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Dutch" Helfrick
North Third Street
Camp Greene
Charlotte
N.C
Ace
Texas
Dancel and Orchestra of Philadelphia at Summerdale Park
The colored Dancel and Orchestra of Philadelphia perform at Summerdale Park on Thursday evening June 6. Admission is 50 cents with an additional 16 cents or related charge.
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of Philadelphia
Summerdale Park
Central Seniors in Play Friday at Central High
Thomas Lantz stars as Brighton Early in the class Play The Hoodoo a three act comedy Hazel Snow plays opposite him The plot centers on an Egyptian scarab that falls to the bridegroom causing a series of misadventures Dodo De Graft portrayed by Lillian Speakman blackmails the groom and a wedding guest nearly disrupts the ceremony The scarab is discarded ending in a happy marriage Anne Young of 338 Chestnut street visits Washington friends.
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Thomas Lantz
Central High
Brighton
Hazel Snow
Mr. Lantz
Dodo de Graft
Lillian Speakman
Miss de Graft
Local births announced in Enhaut area May 1918
Mr and Mrs W Floyd Geary announce the birth of William Jay Geary on May 31 1918. Mrs Geary was formerly Bess Boyer of Enhaut. Benjamin F Meyers Africa and Mrs Africa announce Benjamin Franklin Meyers Africa Jr born May 29 1918 at Poly Clinic Hospital. Jane Antoniette Traver born May 24 1918. C R Kirk’s son Ernest born May 24 1918. Mary Elizabeth Erdley born May 24 1918 at Harrisburg Hospital. Anna Martha Lytle born May 29 1918. Doris Civila Rice born May 29 1918. plus notes on prior names for Mrs Lytle and Mrs Rice.
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W. Floyd Geary
Enhaut
William Jay Geary
North Fifth Street
Jane Antoinette Traver
Traver
Elsie Yount
C. R. Kirk
Regina Street
Ernest Kirk
Kirk
Mary Ernest
Newport
Preston Erdley
State Street
Mary Elizabeth Erdley
Harrisburg Hospital
Lytle
North Sixth Street
Anna Martha Lytle
Mary R. Colsher
Benjamin Rice
Green Street
Doris Civila Rice
Memorial Day Cottage Dance at Nobody Home
An informal Memorial Day dance took place at the Nobody Home cottage near Juniata Bridge. Decorations in national colors, music by the Nobody Home Jazz band, and a supper followed. Attendees included numerous local residents and guests headed by Miss Katharine Keener with a weekend group from Bridgeton Carlisle Altoona and others planning Panama trips.
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Nobody Home Cottage
Juniata Bridge
Nobody Home
Jane Hirsh
Minnie Noble
Rachel Noble
Miriam Mellinger
Ruth Laverty
Anna Rudy
Laura Boyer
Mary Oliver
Helen Oliver
Margaret Ford
Marion Ford
Elizabeth Albert
Helen Rote
Mildred Hartzel
Margaret Gough
Maud Nace
Estella Rudy
Elizabeth
Katharine Keener
North Third Street
Friends
Thomas Keener
Bridgeton
N. J
William Bolan
Carlisle
Thomas Bowman
Altoona
Sergt Patton Visited by Mechanicsburg Friends
Sergt Percy B. Patton of the Motor Mechanics, 3rd Regiment, now at Camp Greene, Charlotte, N C, spent part of a five days' furlough with his fiancée Miss Mabel Ebert of Mechanicsburg last week. He says all the boys are anxious to get over there. Capt Reiley Home. Captain and Mrs James McKendree Reiley Jr came from Baltimore for a weekend stay at the Townsend home. Mrs Reiley had been visiting her husband with the 811th Machine Gun Battalion at Camp Meade.
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Lee W. Flowers
Philadelphia
Margaret Flowers
Harris Street
Edith Sible
The
Cove
Meade D. Detweiler
Horace J. Jackson
Colonial Acres
Oaks
Reading
Horace G. Hoffman
Minneapolis
Minn
Ban‘Jamifi Rice
Green Street
Henry B. Bent
State Street
Bay Head
N. J
James B. Regan
Knickerbocker
New York
Senate
Council of National Defense
Washington
J. A. Parthemore
Derry Street
Carolyn Reiley
Buffalo
N. Y
Margaretta Swartz
Pine Streets
Major
Frank R. Leib
Charles Forney Leib
Helen Leib
Pottsville
Satpasar
Nellie Gaines
Estelle Gaines
Pittsburgh
Arthur D. Black
Penn Street
Sallie E. Hellerman
Willis Hickman
Arthur M. Keown
Nellie Payne
Seven Gables School
Swarthmore
Frank Payne
Sara Montgomery McCulloch
Rodcarmel Apartments
St. Mary’s School
Burlington
Edward Cliveden
Cincinnati
Ohio
Homer
King, Street
E Imer Black
Helena Black
Baltimore
Percy BE. Patton
Mabel Ebert
Mechanicsburg
Patton
Camp Greene
Charlotte
N. C
Retley
James McKendree Reiley, Jr
Townsend
North Fourth Street
Reiley
811Th Machine Gun
Camp Meade
Plan Big Rummage Sale For Open Air School
The Susquehanna open air school holds a rummage sale Thursday afternoon June 6 at Sixth and Cedar Streets to raise funds for the annual picnic. Pupils gain a day outing funded by donations. extra expenses are met by the sale. Miss Marian Williams leads as principal with Miss Claudine Melville as assistant.
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Susquehanna Open Air
Sixth
Cedar Streets
Marian Williams
Claudine Melville
Meeting Tomorrow Night for National War Aid
Plans for an outdoor summer meeting of the National War Aid Society will be announced at tomorrow evening’s meeting in Fahnestock hall at 7 45. Mrs. William Jennings will preside Mrs. James G Sanders will lead the music. Annia Hamilton Wood will give current events and Arch H Dinsmore will present an illustrated lecture on Rocky Mountain Trails Afoot as the boys’ secretary of the Y M C O. All members urged to attend.
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National War Aid Society
Fahnestock Hall
William ‘Jennings
James G. Sanders
Annia Hamilton Wood
Rocky Mountain Trails
Arch H. Dinsmore
Y. M. Co
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