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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1915
Page
5
Hogestown Pa June 10 Nearly 600 entries have been made for the eleventh Hogestown Horse and Cattle Show to be held Wednesday and Thursday at Big Head Woods. Tents are up, repairs to pens and stalls are underway, and a restaurant tent with lunch counter will serve visitors.
Elmer Beyer employed on the Mumma farm in East Donegal township was pawly injured when a harrowing accident occurred with three horses. He rode one horse which tangled the single tree and fell, then the other two horses collapsed and kicked. Several bones are broken and internal injury is feared.
New Germantown Pennsylvania June 10 Wednesday evening the Ladies' Sewing Circle of New Germantown entertained their husbands and invited guests at the home of Mr and Mrs James A Noll The confum drum supper was served and enjoyed with many guesses for salads cakes and pastry The following attended including numerous couples and several local residents from Andersonburg Blain and nearby areas.
Advertises 4 inch thick live rubber stair treads for Friday at 12 1/2 cents each, Turkish towels 9 cents, large kimono sleeve aprons 50 cents, 40 inch novelty voile 50 cents per yard, striped granite cloth 3 cents Friday per yard, black messaline 75 cents per yard, cambric skirts 69 cents, silk crepe Windsor ties 25 cents, and The America nickel alarm clock 59 cents.
Central Pennsylvania brief reports note several deaths. Mrs. John W. Huhn of Conestoga, 38, died yesterday. survivors include her husband her mother Mrs. Frank I. Cramer four children and several siblings. Cap tain Massey, Civil War veteran, died at the Soldiers Home in Kansas City. word reached locally. David Klepper of Franklin township died Sunday. funeral services conducted by Rev G. Xveler at the Dillsburg Lutheran Franklin church near Clear Springs.
Berlin dispatch notes Vorwaerts and Tages Zeitung comment on William J. Bryan resignation and Wilson note. Vorwaerts calls Bryan a utopian peace enthusiast and says his exit makes the note nearly an ultimatum. Tages Zeitung asserts Germany cannot concede and rejects any idea of halting submarine warfare as an insult.
A likely first case since parcel post began transport. Two pups were shipped from Middleburg to Lewistown and delivered to Frank Fisher, tobacconist. One pup is a toy spaniel and the other a terrier.
Funeral services for Leland McKin ley Knox will be held tomorrow evening at 7 30 from the parlors of C H Mauk with Rev J Bradley Markward officiating. The body will be shipped to Newark on Saturday by C H Mauk for burial.
The United Mine Workers seek to block the State Department of Mines from issuing certificates while a Dauphin county court weighs whether the Matthews appeal from a Dauphin court decision acts as a supersedeas. The case is set for 2 PM Tuesday June 22 with Law Judge Mccarrell presiding. Also notes building permits for J P Keller and others with stated costs.
Wilkes-Barre Milling Company plant fire causes 35000 loss. James Sullivan 60 killed by train at West Easton. he was a flagman. Special trains carry fire brigades to Lansford June 20 for Four-Company parade. Mrs David Zartman wounded by unknown shooter aiming at a cat in Shamokin. John Cornish 30 dies after 106-foot fall at Suffolk Mine. John Konavagen injured. Hazel Buck 6 dies from burns after hot lard thrown from window in Conyngham home. John J Baskin 39 dies of typhoid in Hazleton. local political figure and former athlete.
City Solicitor D. S. Seitz told the Board of Public Works not to pay the three river interceptor arbitration board members. Each of Farley Gannett Joseph L. Shearer Jr. and Roy G Cox were to receive 1500 dollars for services in preparing their report until the city council sanctions the action.
Two trespass suits filed in Dauphin county court allege negligence in auto accidents. Albert Shack sues W. J. Straub for injuries. J. J. Conklin and W. J. Carter represent Shack. Another case by Frank Spink of Steelton on behalf of Ross Arnold Spink against Mary A. Klinepeter claims her son drove the car that struck young Spink.
Flowers from state highway department workers were given to Joseph W. Hunter, chief engineer and former highway commissioner, in tribute to his reappointment as first deputy. The gesture expressed the workers’ pleasure with his return to the role yesterday afternoon.
Darius Brown faces ruin as a bank teller drains 75 000 dollars and contemplates escape with a plan unraveling. His wife Flo and her gambler brother spark a tense, danger filled scene as a confession and confrontation loom. The story scene ends with a cliffhanger and a wedding notice follows.
Thomas Alexander Morrow, a Civil War veteran born in Peru Mills, Juniata county, died at his Toboyne township home after a stroke on May 25 at age 72. He served with the Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers under Sheridan and was present at Lee's surrender. He leaves a brother Samuel Morrow of Landisburg a sister Mrs. David R. Rhinesmith of Juniata county and children Mrs. C. N. Foose Andersonburg Mrs. Walter E. Morrison New Bloomfield Rhoda Arthur and Roscoe at home.
The United States Department of Agriculture announces 17 year locusts will emerge in 1915 across Dauphin and other counties including Bucks Montgomery Northampton Philadelphia and Westmoreland. The report notes the army worm like insects will be present this season and communities should prepare.
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