Plattsburg encampment opens as vast rookie influx arrives
Rookies flood Plattsburg for the encampment with over 1300 beginners arriving by train boat and road amid rain. They face gear issues and learning hurdles as Cornell students depart Ithaca for a ten day march and General Leonard Wood is slated to visit. Harrisburg signs many enlistees for June July and August camps with a list of local participants.
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Plattsburg
Cornell
Ithaca
Leonard Wood
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr
Harrisburg
C. L. Wright
John R.brett
Henry M. Gross
J. William Bowman
Flavel Wright
William L. Keller
Paul H. Chadwick
Ross H. Swope
Fred B. Dapp
E. J. Stackpole, Jr
R. D. Jenkins
Co. I
Victor Braddock
Albert Stackpole
Charles Williams
Col. R. C. Williams
Wilson College to hold commencement in June
Wilson College in Chambersburg will hold commencement exercises June 10 to 14. Baccalaureate on June 11 by Dr Ethelbert D Warfield and the commencement address by Rev Robert Mac Gowan of Lancaster. Twenty seven graduates receive A B degrees with Miss Margaret Elizabeth Brookmeyer, Miss Theodora Culver and Miss Helen May Segner as top honors. Music head Dr Orlando A Mansfield will give an organ recital June 10 and the senior play is set for June 12.
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Chambersburg
Wilson College
Ethelbert D. Warfield
Robert MacGowan
First Presbyterian Church of
Lancaster
Margaret Elizabeth Brookmeyer
Logansport
Ind
Theodora Culver
Jenkintown
Helen May Segner
Shippensburg
Orlando A. Mansfield
Recent Deaths in Central Pennsylvania and Nearby Towns
Lancaster F W Krauskop aged 77 retired businessman died yesterday. Waynesboro Mrs George C Walk 54 died at home Quincy survived by husband and several children. Waynesboro Dr C C Frantz 64 dentist Lancaster died at home. Waynesboro Anna L Lenherr 48 TB died at home Marion. Marietta Lillian Pennypacker 88 widow of William Pennypacker died yesterday. Marietta Joseph Flory 77 pneumonia survived by husband and three children. Lebanon Kitty Alleman 96 died yesterday oldest county resident. Mechanicsburg Past Chancellors meet Knights of Pythias Cumberland County. Dauphin Birthday surprise party for Mary and George Warner. Horsford acid phosphate ad. Willow Street Phares Kreider leg broken when horse kicked him. Waynesboro Eleven workers strike at Decarbonated and Limestone Co. returned to work.
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Lancaster
F. W. Krauskop
Methodist Church
Knights of Pythias
Waynesboro
George C. Walk
Quincy
Martha L. Frantz
C. C. Frantz
Anna L. Lenherr
Marion
Marietta
Lillian Pennypacker
William Pennypacker
Joseph Flory
Plain Dressed Teachers Resign Over Garb Rule
In Rapho township a number of teachers quit after the school board announced enforcement of a State law prohibiting teachers from wearing religious garb or emblems. Some educators from plain churches resigned rather than comply.
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Garth Lancaster
Rapho Township
West Virginia primary results in doubt as returns trickle in
Scattering returns on the West Virginia state primary show A A Lilly andira Robinson in a close Republican governor race with Robinson slightly ahead. Democrat J J Cornwell defeated D E French and Dr Gary Hogg for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. City Planning Conference in Cleveland features talks on planning for smaller cities and starting municipal planning efforts.
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Associated Press
Huntington
W. Va
West Virginia
A. A. Lilly
Andira Robinson
Supreme Court
Robinson
J. J. Cornwell
Jefferson County
D. E. French
Bluefield
Gary Hogg
Fayette County
New Cumberland Social Notes and Local Elections
West Shore social items from New Cumberland and nearby towns list visits and family happenings including Miss Mattie Eckels and Mrs. Eisenberger, trips to Sunbury and Dillsburg, and relatives gathering. school board officers elected at New Cumberland. Lemoyne and Lower Allen educator appointments. a bond election planned. a tailoring shop in Waynesboro was robbed.
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Mattie Eckels
Carlisle
Mary Eisenberger
New Cumberland
W. R. Gohn
W. W. Zimmerman
Johnstown
W. A. Cobb
Alfred
South River
N. J
N. F. Reed
Sunbury
Frank Eastbrook
Rochester
N. Y
Edith Beaver
George Beckley
Dillsburg
R. C. Wear
Hazleton
James Smith
Howard C. Kraber
Harrisburg
Jacob M. Sheely
Homestead
Shire Manstown
C. Herman Devinney
Ray
Paul Devinney
Kunkle
Hickorytown
Shiremanstown
Louise
Kate Noell
Hazel Deckman
Mary Deckman
John Shetter
Sara Eichelberger
White Hill
L. D. Crankleton
P. B. Smith
Robert Reiff
N. H. Speck
Mary Gracey
Jane McCachran
Hilda Commer
Shippensburg
Addie K. Fulton
Mildred Fogelsonger
Mary Buttorff
Lower Allen
Lower Allen School Board
Camp Hill
Elkwood Grammar School
Lawrence Cupp
Claire Frysinger
Ethel Coover
Ethel Watts
Mumper
Grayce Shelley
Gorgas
Paul Harbolt
Mateer
Feulat
Spangler
Lisburn
Paul Stoner
Frogtown
Irene Rupp
Harrisburg Lodge Plans Enlarged Home and Carnival
Harrisburg Lodge No. 107 Inc. votes to buy 926 North Third Street the L. K. Graber property to enlarge the lodge home with a rear addition and multi floor facilities. The annual carnival is set for the week of July 10 with Levitt Taxier Shows United of New York, a street parade, 32 parade cars, five three ton trucks and a 30 man band, totaling about 400 people in the company.
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Harrisburg Lodge
Loyal Order of House, No. 107, Inc
North Third Street
L. K. Graber
Fourth
Seneca Streets
United
New York
Ther
Dr Reckord Explains Blood Vascular System
Dr Frank F D Reckord presented a detailed paper on the anatomy and pathology of the blood vascular system at the Dauphin County Medical Society meeting in Harrisburg. W J S Miller of Harrisburg assisted as local representative of Pathescope Company, Pennsylvania, demonstrating with pathescope motion pictures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dauphin County Medical Society
Harrisburg Academy of Medicine
Frank F. D. Reckord
W. J. 8. Miller
Harrisburg
Pathescope Company of
Pennsylvania
Reckord
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Tolel
Dauphin
Mite
Bell-Ans
E. Blumenstein
South Court Street
5Th Ave
Broadway
D. P. Ritchey
Atlantic City
RAND
JALEN_ HALL
NJ Hotel and Sanatorium
F.L Young
Gent
Wildwood, WN. J
Wildwood
Wildwood Crest
Sonneat
J. Whitesell
Wildwood, N. J
Walter S. Schell
Market St
Mechanicsburg
Knights of Pythias of
Cumberland County
Churchtown
Christian Warner
Mary
George
Horsford
Willow Street
Phares Kreider
Lancaster County
Waynesboro, Pa
Decarbonated and Lime Stone Company
Jillian M. Thurston
William J. Smith
St. John’s Methodist Episcopal Church
John H. Daugherty
Nelle Stevens
Russel C.shipman
Zion Lutheran Church
J. M. Francis
Robert R. Thompson
First Baptist Church
York
Spring Grove
Atlantic Refining Company
A. L. Sowers
Hogestown
Big Head Woods
Guy Myers
Siddonsburg
York County
Chicago
Philadelphia
Allentown
Augusta
Hagerstown
Biederwolf
Eypeeereters
W. E. Biederwolf
Methodist Episcopal Sunday School
Cleveland
Ohio
John Nolan
Cambridge
Mass
John K. Stauffer
Reading
Thomas Adams
Ottawa
Canada
New Post
New Post Toasties
West Shore News
West Shore
Jean Dodge
H. M. Rupp
R. D. Moyer
Shiremanst Town
William E. Houry
Paul Houry
Blanche Houry
Phoebe Houry
William Bates
Robert
Shiremenstown
Gettysburg
Martha Hoover
Ida Ruby
Church of God At
Blairsville
Sue Housholder
Goldsboro
Margery Oren
Lemoyne
Cumberland
W. C. Bushey
G. J. Dick
Mens Store
Palm Beach
Norfolk
Lodge
Dr. Reckord
First National Bank
Market Street
Oscar
John C. Herman & CO
Harrisburg, Pa
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