Patriotic Day Plans and Local News from Mechanicsburg
Mechanicsburg plans Patriotic Day at the First United Brethren Church on Sunday June 17 with possible Governor Brumbaugh attendance. A July Chautauqua is planned. F K Player returned from the Dallas Texas Presbyterian General Assembly after a month away visiting Oklahoma and Missouri. Several Mechanicsburg residents attended Dickinson College commencement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechanicsburg
Dr. Prince
Carlisle
First United Brethren Church
Brumbaugh
F. K. Ployer
General Assembly
Dallas
Tex
J. Ellis Bell
Olive Taylor
Walter L. Hauck
John L. Shelly
H. N. Fegley
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
Allentown
General Council
The
Lutheran Church
A. R. Steck
Irving College
B. Reilly
Handley-Baughman
Enhant
Mechanicsburg Bible and Tract Society
William Bobb
Singer
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
John H. Bowman
South Market Street
Katharine Wheelock
Murray L. Dick
Catharine Keefer
Elsie Lenker
Boy Scout to Present Liberty Loan Appeal at Home
A Boy Scout will deliver a Liberty Loan appeal on June 11 12 or 13 at your home as part of a nationwide campaign by the Boy Scouts of America at President Wilsons request. The folder explains how to apply for a Liberty bond and the Scout asks for your answer by June 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Householder
Boy Scouts of America
Wilson
Boy Scout Persuades Man to Buy Liberty Bond Worth 25000
A teenage Scout convinced a skeptical man to purchase a Liberty bond a 25 000 dollar subscription. The piece outlines payment schedules 3 percent interest tax exemptions and potential value appreciation versus other bonds. It cites history noting 1898 Spanish American War bonds with earlier gains and suggests bonds can be exchanged for higher rate issues.
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United States
2,519 Eggs From 35 Barred Rocks
Railway Mail Clerk J. B. Horning reports a record egg yield from 35 Barred Rock hens, delivering 2,519 eggs in five months. Community notes include local visits, chautauqua plans, and upcoming Hershey high school events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabethtown
J. B. Horning
George D. Boggs
A. F. Ricker
Miller
J. H. Buch
A. C. McLanahan
Manheim
West High Street
E. N. Aumiller
S. G. Hershey
Philadelphia
R. H. Forney
W. H. Klein
G. W. Klein
Henrietta
Daisy
Martha
Anna Klein
Alta Hertzler
Fred Klein
D. Boggs
Paul Klein
Bedford
Friendship Fire Company No. 1
H. S. Hoover
Harrisburg
Kathryn Bardwell
Lebanon
Margaret
Myra Shultz
Lancaster
Charles H. Wormley
South Market Street
W. L. Ramsey and Family
Paxtang
F. K. Kuhn
City ceases to exist as league town
Wilkes Barre and Harrisburg drop as New York State League towns after a players owners clash. The franchise is forfeited by George Cockill amid financial distress as seven clubs continue the season and no new city accepts the berth. Reading is not represented, meetings run into the morning with Farrell arranging affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League Town
Wilkes-Barre
Harrisburg
John H. Farrell
A. W. Cook
Charles Miller
Buck” Ramsey
Islanders
George Cockill
South Bethlehem
Old Troy
Farrell
Allen
O'Malley
Scranton
Marks
Officer From HBG with Pershing
Lieutenant R. M. Glaspey said his family knows he joined General Pershing's staff. He married Miss Mary Graber, daughter of Dr. L. K. Graber, and they have a year-old son. He is from William Glaspey of Tuckahoe New Jersey and studied at South Jersey Institute, USC, and UPenn in 1911.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. M. Glaspey
Pershing
Glaspey
Mary Graber
L. K. Graber
North Third Street
William Glaspey
Tuckahoe
N. J
South Jersey Institute
University of Southern California
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Warren Shaffer Contractor Dies in Harrisburg
Warren Shaffer 51 longtime contractor and building inspector under Dr E S Mears died at his home 2401 North Sixth Street after two weeks with pneumonia. Survived by widow Rosie and two sons Charles and Walter and mother Elizabeth. Burial in East Harrisburg Cemetery. Funeral Tuesday at 2 pm with Rev Stamets and Rev Daugherty officiating. He belonged to Warrior Eagle Tribe 840 IOS, Modern Woodmen Camp 5240, Bricklayers Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren Shaffer
Ezra §&. Mears
North Sixth Street
Rosie Shaffer
Charles
Walter
Elizabeth Shaffer
A. M. Stamets
Augsburg Lutheran Church
Joseph Daugherty
Sixth Street
James Zerby
E. 8. Mears
Shaffer
Warrior Eagle Tribe
Woodmen Camp
Bricklayers Union
Central Powers Hold About 3 Million War Prisoners
Amsterdam reports official figures from German papers showing the Central Powers hold nearly 3,000,000 prisoners of war. Germany has 1,690,731 prisoners including 17,474 officers. Austria-Hungary 1,092,055. Bulgaria 67,582. Turkey 23,903. Overall by nationality: Russian 2,080,699. French 368,607. Serbian 154,620. Italian 98,017. Romanian 79,033. British 45,241. Belgian 42,437. Montenegrin 5,607.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Amsterdam
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria
Turkey
Prohibition Debate Roils Wartime U S Policy
Washington discussion turns on wartime liquor controls as economist Irving Fisher argues for tightening prohibition. Fisher leads a committee of experts studying alcohols impact on national effort. In Philadelphia Ross R. Sheesley, aged 5, dies at home on Race Street. funeral plans pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross R. Sheesley
Race Street
Flag Day Plans Advance for Harrisburg Elks Event
Harrisburg Elks Lodge No. 12 organizes the fourth annual Flag Day on Thursday June 14 with a concert by the Municipal Band from 7 to 7 30 at the Elks home North Second Street a parade 7 30 to 8 p m and exercises at Reservoir Park Meade D Detweiler monument 9 to 10 a patriotic concert follows. Participating groups include Moorhead Knitting Company United Spanish War Veterans Sons of Veterans Company G Reserves and drum corps I O O F post office employees Harrisburg Republican Club Rotary Club Knights of Malta Star of America Commandery G A R in autos and local military companies. Daughters of the American Revolution will attend and other groups are invited to notify the Elks committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
B. P. O. Elks
Elks
North Second Street
Reservoir Park
Meade D. Detweiler Monument
Moorhead Knitting Company
United Spanish War Veterans
Sons of Veterans
Company G
Harrisburg Republican Club
Rotary Club
Knights of Malta
Star of America Commandery
Daughters of the American Revolution
Opinion on inventory to determine collateral inheritance tax
Deputy Attorney General Hargest advised Auditor General Snyder that if an inventory is essential to fix the collateral inheritance tax, the state may authorize proceedings to compel its filing. State Treasurer Kephart was informed there is no lapse of the $300,000 appropriation for the Workmen's Insurance Fund and funds remain available until exhausted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Hargest
Kephart
Relax Discipline Loosened for Fort Niagara Cadets
Fort Niagara N Y June 9. Student officers seeking commissions in the conscript army gain more liberties in the final course. Half the men may leave camp from noon Saturday to 9 45 Sunday night to visit families and the Canad visit ban is lifted. Delegations from Pennsylvania arrive as visitors flood to the camp with planning for a large weekend gathering including Philadelphia groups lodging at the Imperial Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Niagara
N. Y
Samuel L. Miller
Miller
Canad
Gussere
Niagara
Pennsylvania
Niagara Falls
Philadelphia
Imperial Hotel
Remarkable High School Record Girl Avoids Finals
Miriam C. Cassel a 15 year old from Hummelstown Pennsylvania has not taken a final exam in three years. Her yearly general averages are 94.0 for freshman 94.2 for sophomore and 94.6 for junior. If healthy she could graduate at 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hummelstown
Miriam C. Cassel
Harry N. Cassel
Miss Rowe Hosts Bishop Henderson Bible Class in Millerstown
In Millerstown Pennsylvania on June 9 the Bishop Henderson Bible class was entertained at Miss Mary Rowe’s home. Numerous residents visited relatives and friends, with several attending weddings and family gatherings across the nearby towns including Altoona Harrisburg Tyrone and Cumberland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millerstown
Bishop Henderson
Mary Rowe
Herbert Hopple
Harry Hopple
Jessie Kipp
Altoona
David Snyder
William Blain
Annie Eckels
Harrisburg
Elmer Wilson
D. M. Rickabaugh
Charles Mitchell
Frank Mitchell
Harrisbore
Margaret Brown
Nan Hough
Tyrone
James Ulsh
Madera High School
Robert Shenk
John Raffensberger
Casper Swartz
Lemoyne
Elmer Piefer
Frank Wagner
Donald Shover
John Wagner
New Bloomfield
Lewis Dimm
Calvin
Philadelphia
J. C. Kipp
Charles Allen
Middleburg
Mary Allen
Margaret Dunfee
Hammonton
N. J
Charles Ross
C. F. Himes
Mary Pellew
Cumberland
Melvin Beimer
Martha Pretz
Jerry Raffensberger
Newport
Jane Sheaffer
James Rounsley, Jr
Carlisle and
Meryl Page
Lewistown
Banks Page
Mrs W B Gross to Spend Summer in Massachusetts
Mrs W B Gross and niece Miss Charlotte Virginia Smith leave Dauphin for Alexandria then on to Washington New York City Newport R I and Salisbury Beach Mass to join her husband for the summer. Also notes summer openings and visitors in surrounding towns and a June 9 update on Duncan Iron and Steel adding a magnetic crane to unload scrap iron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York Springs
Blanch Robinson
Mechanicsburg
William F. Reed
William Freeland
Leon Myers
Harry Biletts
Helen
Harry, Jr
Catharine Kamies
Bowmansdale
Jacob Winegardner
Lucy Novinger
Harrisburg
William P. Clark
Frederick Lyter
Frank J. Wallis
Donald Speece
William Colver
William, Jr
Pillow
Clarence Winegardner
Winegardner
Howard Rhoads
John Gohl
J. W. Hawthorne
Erie Street
Walter Shaffer
New York City
Charles Shaffer
George Noss
Russell Noss
Fred Page
Duncannon
John B. McKissick
Gettysburg Academy
S. Lane Long
William Bell Clark
Philadelphia
W. P. Clark
Four Newville High graduates receive diplomas
Commencement exercises at Newville High School feature diplomas presented by C. T. McCullough. Graduates are Margaret McLaughlin, Mary Hefflefinger, Bertha Shenk, and Walter Koser. Civic Club plans a garden party at Miss Emma Gracey’s home. Additional items note Church events and local visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newville
Mary Hefflefinger
Margaret McLaughlin
Walter Koser
Bertha Shenk
Humphrey C. Deibert
C. T. McCullough
Board of Education
Mary Helefinger
Civic Club
Emma Gracey
Parsonage Street
Church of God
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Annie Greaver
Philadelphia
J. K. Andrews
Marie Chapman
New York City
M. Lou McCune
Harry A. Fry
Virginia Rae
Paxtang
Edwin H. Fry
Margaret A. Fry
George Dry
Carrie Henninger Weds Eston Klinger at Home Word of Merger
Miss Carrie Henninger and Eston Klinger married by Rev. Wehr near Berrysburg Pa last Saturday. The couple received a serenade from Klinger's band at the bride's home. Many relatives and friends attended including the Henninger and Hartman families. Church events and local visits are noted, with various residents listed in attendance and travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berrysburg
Carrie Henninger
Eston Klinger
Near Town
Wehr
Klinger
Earl Stine
Floyd
Peter
Woodrow
Isaac Troutman
Harry Troutman
Charles Henninger
John Weaver
Clair Shenk
Lancaster
Paul Huyett
Charles Kebach
Robert Deibler
Atlantic City
Ida Carter
Williamsport
Lutheran and Reformed Church
Evangelical Sunday School
Allentown
Helen Daniel
Harrisburg
M.rs. Daniel
Hazel Deibler
Bethlehem
Hall
Bruce
Philadelphia
Isaiah Daniel
Henrice Daniel
Elizabethville
Harry Snyder
Memorial Services Observed by Tower City Red Men and Knights
Memorial Day services planned in Tower City Pennsylvania with a sermon in the Reformed Church by Rev. Slinghoff and a separate service by the Knights of Pythias. The baccalaureate sermon for graduates will be delivered by Rev. Slinghoff on Sunday morning. Ambulance corps recruits Luther Horn Walter Campbell John Snyder and Robert Long went to Allentown for U S Army training escorted by over a hundred people. John Hand and John Bender were jailed in Pottsville awaiting trial for stealing cars and causing damage. Mrs Rishe, 86, fell and bruised her leg while visiting. Mr and Mrs W H Martz visited Williamstown. Charles Snyder Clyde Erdman Russell Shadle and Arthur Bleman visited Harrisburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hershey
Park Theater
Madison C. Peters
Brooklyn
N. Y
United Brethren Church
R. R. Butterwick
Central Theater
J. Landis Zimmerman
Louisa Graham Marsh
Baltimore
Charles Basehore
Lyonsville
C. G. Romig
New Holland
H. N. Herr
Lancaster
John B. Kohr
Lebanon
Monroe Capp
Aaron Zuber
M. P._ Johnson
Marie
Paxtonia
Mabel Dunning
Mervin Lowe
Mary
Harrisburg
H. W. Stine
Harry Tripner
Thomas
Carlisle
J. O. Dise
York
Viola Ressler
John Hershey Lenhart
Mountville
Lancaster County
United Brethren Parsonage
George Leib
Cornwall
Tower City
Slinghoff
Reformed Church
Knights of Pythias
Mr. Slinghoff
John Hand
John Bender
Pottsville
Rishe
W. H. Martz
Williamstown
Charles Snyder
Clyde Erdman
Russell Shadle
Arthur Bleman
Harrisurs
Local News Briefs Duncannon Pa June 9
Clergy plans preachings as Rev M E Swartz and Rev Wesley N Wright announce sermons in local churches. Mrs Emory Campbell returns to Harrisburg after visiting relatives. Mr and Mrs Samuel Vogel return from Buffalo Niagara Falls visiting Edward Vogel. Other residents host visitors including Mrs Harry Wohl Blanche Wohl and Ruth Wills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche Wohl
Altoona
Penn Township
Wesley N. Wright
Church of God
Evergreen Lodge
David McKenzie
Lykens
Whiteside
Philadelphia
Millersburg plans house to house Liberty Bond drive
In Millersburg Pennsylvania a meeting of local businessmen led to a canvass plan to explain the Liberty Bond issue and boost sales, with captains appointed for each street. A 17 year old boy was badly burned by a delayed explosion using caterpillars and gunpowder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millersburg
Millersburg Club
Lewis Geyer
Geyer
A. N. Brubaker
E. H. Green
Brooklyn
N. Y
Lloyd Billow
America to Send More Ships to France Report
Paris reports an additional American flotilla of destroyers and patrol boats to cooperate with French forces in the English Channel and the Atlantic. Naval bases are prepared to accommodate the ships, ready for departure shortly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
France
Paris
English Channel
Atlantic
Mafin
Indict Directors Over Pittsburgh Life and Trust Fraud
A county grand jury indicted twelve former directors of the Pittsburgh Life and Trust Company for conspiracy connected to the $1,900,000 fraud by Clarence B Birdseye and associates from New York. The directors resigned when affairs were transferred to Birdseye interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Life and Trust Company
Clarence B. Birdseye
New York
Birdseye
East Pennsylvania Missionary Society Pledges Funds at Palmyra
Eleven thousand dollars was pledged by the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Women s Missionary Society of the United Brethren Church for mission work in the coming year. Officers elected include President Mrs Oliver Friday of Mountville and other leaders from Lancaster Lebanon Palmyra Allen town Steelton and related towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lebanon
East Pennsylvania
Women's Missionary Society of the United Brethren Church
Palmyra
Oliver Friday
Mountville
G. W. Batdorf
Lancaster
Hummelstown Agent Earnest Heads to National Woodmen Convention
Richard B. Earnest real estate agent and justice of the peace of Hummelstown Pa will depart June 17 for Chicago as a Pennsylvania delegate to the Modern Woodmen of America national convention. He will stay one week and now serves as clerk of Camp No 10714 in Hummelstown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Hummelstown
Richard B. Earnest
of Modern Woodmen of America
Pennsylvania
Earnest
Ashes of I W W leader found among suspect items in Scranton arrest
State Police in Scranton find two ounces of ashes believed to be Stromberg, an I W W leader executed in Salt Lake City, among Salvatore Zampano's effects after an anticonscription pamphlet arrest. The will directs cremation and distribution of ashes to faithful members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Salvatore Zampano
Old Forge
Stromberg
Salt Lake City
Montana fifth to fill her regular army quota
Montana becomes the fifth state to meet its regular army quota with 834 volunteers, surpassing the 752 required. Daily recruiting totals were low at 1 868 nationwide, led by New York with 316 volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Washington
New York
Two Eyes Removed From Harrisburg Hospital
Samuel Brandt of Huntsdale and Henry Sioe of Wormleysburg had their right eyes removed at Harrisburg Hospital last night. Brandt worked in a quarry and Sioe in the Enola Enginehouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Brandt
Huntsdale
Henry Sioe
Wormleysburg
Enola
Harrisburg
Girl Attacked. Hair Cut Off During Night Assault
Catherine Botz, 16, of South Twentieth Street, was attacked last night by two unknown men. They used a pocket knife to cut off locks of her hair in an assault around 11 o clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Botz
South Twentieth Street
Provisions of Game Code Approved Yesterday
Provisions outline hunting seasons for various game from September through January. Species include pheasant quail wild turkey raccoon bear deer plover rail snipe and waterfowl among others with specific date ranges.
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GES
U. B. Church
F. K. Player
Presbyterian General Assembly
Texas
BOY Scouts
Boy Scout Messenger
Wnman
Commonwealth
Liberty Bond
Liberty
Hershey High
Halifax
George Shoop
W. A. Riland
A. B. Nace
Elmer Sheesley
Myra Chubb
Reading
Harry O. Chubb
Ivy Killinger
W. EB. Geary
William Daugherty
Elmer Daugherty
David Mockerman
Anna Biever
Mary Biever
Homer Stailey
Edith Mildred
Jane Bowman
W. E. Fetterhoff
Lucknow
Abram Fetterhoff
Halifax Township
Claude G. Ryan
Steelton
G. S. Gemberling
Linn Hawbeck
Minnie Snake
Harry Sheetz
Cornelius Enders
John Wise
C. E. Wise
Tobias Wolfgang
Market Street
Red Cross
D. E. Fetterolf
Lutheran Synod
George Snyder
Montandon
Edward Long
Dalmatia
E. E. Dockey
Biglerville
Thompsontown
Edward Shippen Thompson
Oak Lane
Charles Cummings
R. D. Cameron
Leidy
E. B. Cameron
Darry Conner
Elmer Leyder
Clarence Lupro
Sterling Run
B. F. Gayman
Hershey Man
ODD Fellows
DR. Peters
High Street
U. B
Cochill
HBG
Louise Eckels
Z. R. Nell
Edna Starliper
Bessie Houck
Lilian Davis
Amy Brown
Bessie Worner
Ellen Messner
Gertrude Jenner
Milton Markley
John Krall
Joseph Snyder
Charles Boak
William W. Caldwell
Helen Carson
Katherine McCarrell
Mary Beatty
Alice Weiger
Mary Weiger
Mary Bevard
Helen Bowers
Louella Hawkins
Helen B. McCall
Helen N. McCall
Miss Bretz
Miss Bucher
Vera Care
J. W. Self
George W. Lutz
Daniel Saul
T. Gougler, Jr
C. H. Mendenhall
W. I. Fenton
E. Milford Haynes
Teutonic Powers
Central Europe
U. 8
Yale
Irving Fisher
Yale University
Dr. Fisher
Fisher
Elks Lodge
FT. Niagara
Miss Rowe
W. B. Gross
Massachusetts
Duncannon, Pa
Duncannon Iron and Steel Company
Newville High
Gracey
Miss Carrie Henninger
Bride of
Red Men
Liberty Bond Committee
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