Dillsburg Brick Plant Dismantled
The large brick plant at Dillsburg, built five years ago by the Dillsburg Vitrified Brick and Tile Co, is being torn down. Bricks from the five kilns will be sold for building, and machinery will go to a junk dealer. The plant, once cost over $125000, failed to operate successfully and changed hands several times. In fall last, Hosselt of Shippensburg bought it for 4500 and now directs the dismantling.
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Telegraph
Shippensburg
Freckles fade with double strength ethined product
A vintage advertisement promises removal of freckles using ethinedouble strength. It claims nightly and morning application by any druggist can fade dark spots and clear the complexion with a money back guarantee if ineffective.
Woman Kills Giant Bald Eagle Near White Pine Sanatorium
In Waynesboro Pennsylvania on June 5 Mrs. Benjamin Hassler wife of a state forest ranger and her daughter Mrs. Emmett Cobaugh killed a huge bald eagle thought six feet ten inches from wingtip to wingtip. The bird attacked a horse on the road to the White Pine sanatorium Mt Alto and Mrs. Hassler struck it with a club, bringing it down dead.
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Waynesboro
Benjamin Hassler
White Pine Sanatorium
Mt. Alto
Hassler
Residents Organize After a Series of Robberies in Annville
Anville residents plan a town meeting to form a protective vigilant committee after robberies struck Harry Matterness home and Rev W H Weaver house. Missing items totals not yet known. Nearby Marietta mourns Mrs Harry Hein a 37 year old mother and grandmother. Samuel Drumheller Civil War veteran dies at 66 in Sunbury. Mechanicsburg to restart Boy Scout company in Harnish building. Rev J W Weeter accepts New Bloomfield Lutheran charge moving from Allentown next week.
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Anville
Annville
Harry Matterness
W. H. Weaver
Arnul Committee
Marietta
Harry Hein
Schickley
Frederick Haas
Sunbury
Samuel Drumheller
Lower Augusta Township
Mechanicsburg
Harnish
New Bloomfield
J. W. Weeter
Allentown
Fifty Three Graduate At Sunbury High School
Sunbury high school awarded diplomas to fifty three graduates in a combined commencement and class day ceremony. William T. Johnson gave the salutatory, Miss Erma Mae Manbeck delivered the valedictory, and Superintendent I C M Ellenberger spoke at the commencement.
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Sunbury
Sunbury High School
William T. Johnson
Erma Mae Manbeck
I. C. M. Ellenberger
Rolling Green Park
Attending Wedding and Community Events in Enola and New Cumberland
R H of the Enola P R Y M C A attends a ride with James A Huston at Mount Rock. Ira P Dean of Harrisburg lectures on the Object of Service at 8 PM. Rev S N Good to preach to Citizens Hose Company at 7 30 PM with special choir music. Three hundred pupils enrolled in public schools with 36 perfect attendance. Sunday school rally June 14 at Trinity United Brethren Church. Children’s Day program that evening. New Cumberland high school trip to Gettysburg postponed by rain. Anna and Helen Arnold ill with pneumonia. Auditor General Powell sends FE C Dewey to represent before mothers pensions trustees conference.
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Enola
The
Ira P. Dean
Harrisburg
New Cumberland
N. Good
Church of God
Citizens’ Hose Company
I. O. of A
Hose House
Trinity United Brethren Church
New Cumberland High School
Gettysburg
Powell
FE. C. Dewey
Third Street
Conference of Trustees of Mothers’ Pensions
Pennsylvania Endeavor Convention Heads to New Cumberland
Two hundred delegates and ministers are expected to gather in New Cumberland on June 16 17 and 18 for the Christian Endeavor convention of the Pennsylvania branch.
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New Cumberland
Christian Endeavor
Pennsylvania
Postmaster Rumor Sparks Railroad Men Turmoil
Sunbury Pennsylvania June 6 a local report claimed Postmaster Benjamin Apple had job openings for 15000 farm workers in Oklahoma. the claim proved unfounded and Apple’s office went into seclusion for a day or two as Pennsylvania Railroad workers who lost jobs in a strike pressed the postmaster for truth Marietta June 5 Miss Barbara Habecker daughter of Mrs Mary Habecker married Reuben Fellerbaum of St Joy at Donegal Presbyterian Church the bride a Maytown High School graduate they will live at Mt Joy
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Sunbury
Benjamin Apple
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania Railroad
Marietta
Barbara BE. Habecker
Mary N. Habecker
Reuben S’. Fellerbaum
St. Joy
Frank G. Bossert
Donegal Presbyterian Church
Maytown
Mt. Joy
Wedding Unites Nora Fortney and George Billett in Dillsburg
In Dillsburg Pennsylvania on May 30, Miss Nora Fortney of Carroll Township and George Billett were married by Rev. O K E Krenz at the Fortney home, with the bride’s parents Mr and Mrs William Fortney hosting.
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Dillsburg
Nora Fortney
Carrol Township
George Billett
O. KE. Krenz
Recital at Firehouse Mechanicsburg Pa
On Saturday June 6 at 8 oclock a piano recital will be given in the Rescue Hook and Ladder Company parlor by pupils of Professor J Raymond Swartz Harrisburg singers will assist Swartz is noted for fine music and the event is expected to be among the best Tuesday the Silver Spring township school directors met and elected teachers Hogestown grammar W T Kimmel Hogestown primary Florence Kost New Kingston grammar John Hetrick New Kingston primary Effie Hetrick Mumma s A L Brubaker Anderson Miriam London Pleasant Grove M E Felty Fairview Hall Grace Lindsay Simmons Abram Stamey Pond Emma Kost Trindle Spring Grace Wilson.
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Mechanicsburg
Rescue Hook and Ladder Company
J. Raymond Swartz
Harrisburg
Swartz
Silver Spring Township
Hogestown Grammar
W. T. Kimmel
Hogestown
Florence Kost
New Kingston Grammar
John Hetrick
New Kingston
Effie Hetrick
Mumma’s
A. L. Brubaker
Anderson's
Miriam London
Pleasant Grove
M. E. Felty
Fairview Hall
Grace Lindsay
Simmons
Abram Stamey
Pond
Emma Kost
Trindle Spring
Grace Wilson
Central Pennsylvania News Briefs Report Local Happenings
Harris Dental Society outing at Riverview Hotel in Pequea. Elizabethtown school board names E A Aumiller principal and Benjamin Eckman assistant. Lancaster line car and freight collision injures motorman Harry Hennegar and reconductor Thomas Depew. Lebanon arrests John Livering for horse theft from Rev Kreder. horse found at Livering home. Reading worker Carl Reiter killed by falling iron at Carpenter Steel. Altoona fire destroys fifty seven one sed buildings of Blair County Road Drivers Association, loss about 8000. York father Joshua Smith, 56, commits suicide in barn behind son Emanuel Smith’s business. Shamokin coal strike at Susquehanna Hickory Ridge and Scott Shaft collieries to unionize. Norristown Marie Lambricei, 35, dies by self-inflicted gunshot. Mahanoy City Joseph Larkaitis killed, John Ruffus burned by gas explosion at Tunnel Ridge Colliery.
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Marietta
Harris Dental Society
Lancaster County
Riverview
Pequa
Elizabethtown
E. A. Aumiller
Benjamin Eckman
Lancaster
Lancaster and Eastern
Harry P. Hennegar
Thomas Depew
Lebanon
John Livering
Henry Kre‘der
Dunkard
Campbelltown
Livering
Reading
Carl Reiter
Carpenter Steel Works
Altoona
Blair County Road Drivers’ Association
York
Joshua Smith
Emanuel Smith
N. W. Sellers
Hickory Ridge
United Mine Workers of America
Scott Shaft
Norristown
Marie Lambricei
Mahanoy City
Joseph Larkaitis
John Ruffus
Tunnel Ridge
Paxtang Park Vaudeville Attracts Harrisburg Patrons
The Paxtang park vaudeville theater is the leading amusement spot for Harrisburg patrons with Florine LeVere and her Seminary Girls and Cowan's Posing Dogs drawing strong crowds. Next week manager Davis schedules Palfrey Barton and Brown in The Follies of Vaudeville as a big time headliner.
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Paxtang Park
Harrisburg
Park
Florine LeVere
Cowan
Paxtang
Miss le Vere
Davis
Palfrey, Barton and Brown
Park Theater
Bobus Billionaire Leads At Photoplay Theater
Warner feature in three reels shows a bold man spending freely by borrowing from rich patrons until exposed and run out of town. Etta of the Footlights, a two reel Vitagraph, depicts stage life for the actress. A Tight Squeeze, eighth Edison Dolly installment, rounds out the program.
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Warner
Bobus
Etta
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