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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1919
Page
9
In York and Adams counties farmers press Congressman Edward S. Brooks to repeal daylight saving. They argue the clock change disrupts farming, from dew slows haymaking to milk schedules, claiming sun-based work is natural and profitable.
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker and Mrs Baker visited Wilson College Chambersburg Pennsylvania on June 3 for the Alumnae Association reunion. Mrs Baker, a former student and voice instructor, gave a vocal recital at 3 PM and Baker spoke briefly. Officers for the new year were elected: President Elizabeth B. Riddle, first vice-president Fredericka Brixner Boag, second vice-president Mary Moorehead Bovart, secretary Florence Nickles, assistant secretary Edna N. Hafer, treasurer Elizabeth Patterson, assistant treasurer Edna Leisenring Thompson.
Gettysburg Pa June 9 for the third time the dedication date for the Hayes Humphreys and Geary monuments on the battlefield was changed. The July first ceremony has been dropped leaving no fixed date yet. The Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Commission led by Judge Charles F McKenna will resume fall plans for transferring the monuments. Also reported is the drowning of Raymond Hershey a discharged soldier from Carlisle found in a creek near his mother’s home after an afternoon of swimming while his brother had earlier been in the water. He had recently returned from service in France and planned to marry Isa belle Taylor near Arendtsville before moving to California.
Miss Puera B. Robison, former primary teacher in Liverpool, has been re elected supervisor of the Junior School and instructor to Bible I at Williamsport Dickinson Seminary. She will spend the summer vacation with her mother, Mrs Emma Robison.
Norman Wilt of the Seventy-ninth Division 315th Field Signal Battalion returned home Saturday after ten months of service in France. He arrived in Liverpool Pennsylvania where families welcomed him back from the war.
Central Pennsylvania and nearby towns record visits and social notes. Mrs L E Broenniman of New York City visits her mother Mrs Minnie Killough while Miss Helen Leitzinger and Mrs Lucy Fetterman stay with the Fettermans in Fountain Springs. Various locals host and visit relatives in Harrisburg Carlisle Philadelphia and beyond detailing travel and kinship.
Blain Pennsylvania June 9 The annual cattlemen reunion gathers farmers from Cumberland Franklin and Perry counties on Friday at the old Sailing grounds Three Square Hollow along the main road from New Germantown Perry county. The picnic will be an all day event with a basket dinner served at noon.
Waynesboro Pa June 9 King David Commandery Knights of Malta marks its eighteenth anniversary Tuesday evening Grand Commander S Raymond Snyder Chambersburg to attend A large class to receive the second degree followed by a social hour and refreshments
Paul G. Yingling and Miss Margaret L. Mentzer were married at the First Brethren church in Waynesboro Pennsylvania on Friday evening. The bridegroom served three years in the United States Army and has recently been discharged from service.
Lewistown reports a letter says George Ferguson, a George Washington fireman and Milroy native, fell down a hatch on the Vaterland renamed George Washington. He is hospitalized and expected to recover.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Wenik of Market Square announce the birth of a son on Friday June 6 1919 in Liverpool Pennsylvania.
In Waynesboro Pennsylvania a baby girl was born to Mrs Samuel Baker Becks Row while she is a smallpox victim. The infant and mother show encouraging signs though eight new smallpox cases emerged in The Row over two days. Three more Baker family cases are reported along with illness in Kinney Baer and Walters households.
Carlisle Pa June 9 Sixteen men will receive diplomas from the Dickinson School of Law at combined commencement exercises for the College and School of Law. Listed are Louis J. Chesky David N. Feldman Max Fisher Thomas J. Frailey Herman J. Goldberg Edward Goldman Joseph N. Gorson William W. Jenkins Bernard L. Lemisch Jerome I. Myers Forest J. Mervine Jacob A. Raub Jr Elsie C. De Renzo John W Speicher Albert Strite Charles L. Williams Branch Dale. Mrs Catherine Eckert Dies Mechanicsburg Pa June 9 Mrs Eckert died at 8 30 am at the home of her niece after a year and a half with a broken hip. She was born April 13 1838 in Palmyra Lebanon County and lived in Mechanicsburg thirteen years. Funeral Wednesday at 2 pm at the Balso home Harrisburg Cemetery private burial in Eckert plot.
Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania June 9 Mr and Mrs M Grant Mohler entertained fourteen convalescent soldiers from United States General Army Hospital No 31 Carlisle yesterday afternoon at their home Sunnyside in the eastern section of town The soldiers enjoyed music a social time and strawberry shortcake with berries and real cream Those present included Lieut R J Stearns John G Tully Sgt Harry Feldman Arthur E Chambers Corp Earl Cyphers William Stouffer F R Fogle D S Cole William L Housel Scott Foster William B Jones Leo E Stafford Corp M D Kalliett Sgt Charles Reiter and others with guests Mr and Mrs R R Stowell Camp Hill Mr and Mrs Thomas Baldwin Chadds Ford Mr and Mrs Lincoln Holler Harrisburg
Locust swarms reach Hagerstown and threaten the South Mountain fruit belt. Seven teen locusts have begun causing damage to peach trees and other fruit, prompting growers to cover ripening fruit with mosquito netting to prevent further destruction.
Carlisle Pa June 9 Carlisle Chamber of Commerce drives growth as a New York dress firm agrees to lease and begin silk dress manufacture within two weeks while Cumberland County Agricultural Society sells the fair grounds to C H Mast and Sons Co of Philadelphia for a branch plant. Youngest couple, Mattie Mae Eckstine and Roy Blickenstaff wed at Chewsville with parental consent. Mercerburg tannery workers receive raises—ordinary workers one dollar weekly and beam shop workers three dollars weekly. the plant employs 150 men.
Dr. B Emerson Nevin, Mercersburg physician and Mercersburg Academy doctor, slipped on a step leaving a patient’s home and fractured his left leg. He was recently discharged from the U S Medical Corps.
Vic tor Koble Sunbury high constable truant officer and dog catcher had Private Albert Mengle of the One Handed and Third Ammunition Train Twenty eighth Division arrested for riding a bicycle on a sidewalk more than two years earlier. Law barred holding for misdemeanor after two years, Mengle was discharged. Koble had seized a flobert rifle. Mengle’s father recovered it with Koble paying costs. Mengle joined the Selinsgrove Motor Truck Unit and was immune from arrest until honorable discharge.
A large delegation of Quincy township taxpayers will travel to Chambersburg tomorrow for a conference with the county commissioners about the Quincy road proposition. Waynesboro businessmen with a stake in the road will join, as about $51,000 in State aid money remains available for the project.
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