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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1917
Page
9
The Lincoln Correspondence Schools offer a ten lesson physical and beauty culture course with over 200 illustrations. Prepared by a world renowned expert, it teaches practical exercises and methods to improve health, complexion, hair, grooming, and overall graceful appearance for women.
A promotional passage extols the modern woman as embodying perfect health grace and beauty with lustrous hair and clear complexion, asserting such attributes command attention and admiration everywhere.
Miss Susan Fralick aged 55 was found dead in her room on Race Street near the Methodist Episcopal Church in Millersburg Pennsylvania. She was last seen Thursday evening while gardening and likely died of heart failure while closing a window. Survived by brothers Alfred Fralick Luzerne and Frank Fralick and sister Mrs. Sarah Noll. Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock this afternoon conducted by Rev Skeath.
Two Harrisburg doctors, Demes A. Treiman and Roscoe Perkins, have been commissioned in the Medical Corps by President Wilson. Both are in the reserve and ordered to hold themselves for active service while continuing to practice locally. Mechanicsburg, Pa. June 4. Jeremiah Burns, 70, died at his daughter’s home in Mechanicsburg. He leaves two daughters, one son, five grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. He was born in Smithburg Md and moved to Mechanicsburg in 1886. He belonged to several fraternal and relief groups in the region.
The Orpheum shows Jules Verne tale Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea all week with matinees. Williamson Brothers supervise the underwater adventure noted as unique and educational with an augmented orchestra.
The Orpheum shows Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea daily matinees, while Majestic and PaxTang Park present vaudeville acts led by Married Via Wireless and The New Reform. Western star William S Hart appears at the Colonial with Margery Wilson directing, and Ford Sterling offers a Keystone comedy. Free admission for ladies Monday night.
A Mother's Magazine article by Jeanne Judson describes day nurseries or creches in wartime England. Mothers leave children at eight in the morning and pick them up at seven. babies two months and younger are fed every two hours with boiled fresh cow’s milk and barley water. The staff includes two trained nurses, four volunteers, a matron, and a doctor for up to forty children, with mothers paying eight cents a day. The piece portrays day nurseries as a model for social welfare and national wealth.
Abram Habecker aged 76 died Friday night a Civil War veteran with two enlistments. Five children four brothers and sisters and many grandchildren survive. Catharine Will aged 81 died in Manheim township after a long illness. She was an early United Brethren Church member with several children surviving.
The High School Alumni Association elected officers: President Carl Smith, Vice President Marguerite Witmyer, Secretary Leroy Sweigert, Treasurer Wendell Houck, Historian Chester A. Good. The annual banquet is set for Friday evening June 29.
Marietta Pa June 4 James T Clendennin of Little Britain township aged 81 died Saturday night He was a descendant of an old family and a pioneer resident He left six children one brother and a number of grandchildren survived by mourners
Mrs. Luther Rhea died at Harrisburg hospital and was buried in New Germantown after funeral at Blain Jackson township. Paul Chubb aged two died after weeks of illness from blood poisoning. funeral set for tomorrow at 2 PM led by Rev Haesler.
Elizabethville reports three locals Grover Byerly Leroy Temple and Leo Walker volunteered at Harrisburg on Saturday a recruiting officer assisted. In Lewistown J P Brower of Mifflintown married Esther Haldeman of Mexico at the bride's parents home the groom works as a clerk in the Mifflin railroad freight office.
The Red Cross Auxiliary started two first aid classes with sessions in Dr. W C Baker's office Monday evening and in the Masonic Hall Monday afternoon under Dr M L Nissley's instruction. In Marietta Pa the Rev R E M Sando marked his tenth anniversary as pastor of the Locust Grove Reformed Church, noting the church's work and his ordination anniversary.
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