Local People Graduate at Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College graduated its class yesterday morning with Katharine Vandevort Fahnestock of Riverside and Marcus Pritchard Dowell of this city among the diploma recipients. Fahnestock majored in public speaking and plans to travel to the New England States to appear on the Chautauqua platform.
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Swarthmore College
Katherine Vandevort Fahnestock
Riverside
Marcus Pritchard Dowell
Fahnestock
New England States
Last General Meeting of P R R Women’s Division War Relief
Mrs William Elmer superintendent announces the final monthly meeting of the P RR Women’s Division War Relief Department 2 to be held at the P R R Y M C A Forty first and Westminster avenues Thursday evening June 26 Brigadier General Atterbury will address the gathering.
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Philadelphia
William Elmer
P. R. R. Women’s Division For War Relief
Present Electric Lamp Shower at St Marks Lutheran Church
A miscellaneous shower hosted by St Marks Lutheran Church West Fairview and the Ladies Aid Society honored Mr. and Mrs. George William Smeltzer in their newly furnished home. Gifts included an electric lamp and other useful items. A social hour followed with refreshments for many attendees including Mrs. J. F. Moore and Mrs. Eugene Fager. The Hebrew Ladies Aid Society will hold its end meeting at Kesher Israel Synagogue Capital and Briggs streets with Mrs. David Cooper presiding.
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St. Mark's Lutheran Church
West Fairview
Ladies’ Aid Society
George William Smeltzer
J. F. Moore
Eugene Fager
H. W. Wachtman
Laura Langletz
Edgar Miller
Joe Blair
D. H. Wagner
Ermina Langletz
George Toughter
Robert Myers
I. W. Matter
George Phillips
T. W. Eshenbaugh
W. P. Boughter
C. H. Lantz
Paul Lantz
James Roddy
E. Myers
Jennie Eslinger
Bernard Gladfelter
Aloah
George Wibar
C. T. Lilley
AID Society
Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society
Kesher Israel Synagogue
Capital
Briggs Streets
David Cooper
Spring Carnival Bright Pageant At Camp Hill Civic Club
Mr and Mrs C O Shaar present a dance at Camp Hill Civic Club Community Carnival with a Queen of Spring and month represented by ten girls each. June and Summer enter as guests with a rainbow finale led by Miss Virginia Shaar. Mrs John Sweeny hosts a Victory parcel booth selling items from five to twenty five cents urging residents to participate.
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C. O. Shaar
Camp Hill
Spring
June
Summer
Virginia Shaar
John Sweeny
Victory
Hart Swonger Bride Ties to Chicago Man in Baltimore
Miss Rebecca Swonger wed Paul M. Hart in Baltimore on August 3 1918. The ceremony was performed by Rev Everett. Mrs Hart met her husband in Washington at the Treasury Division of Loans and Currency. Hart, a Leland Stanford graduate and former war lieutenant, is now district manager for Sauers Extract Co. in Richmond Virginia and stationed in Minneapolis. Mrs Hart will join him there this week.
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M. K. Swonger
Woodbine Street
Rebecca Swonger
Paul M. Hart
Chicago
Baltimore
Everett
Sauers Extract Company
Richmond
Minneapolis
Minn
Hart
Grace Snyder Weds Ira Standt In Penbrook Home Ceremony
Miss Grace Irene Snyder of Penbrook married Ira Leaman Standt of Hainton in a 10 o clock morning ceremony at the Rev. Lewis Reiter’s Walnut Street home. The ring event featured a Georgette crepe gown and a shower of bride roses. After a brief wedding trip, the couple will reside in Hainton. Standt, an electrician for Bethlehem Steel at Steelton, was the groom. Guests at the Kister home include Mrs. C. T. Chappelle and Miss Lenora Yarbett visiting Washington Heights, while Sergeant Arthur Kister is on furlough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Irene Snyder
Penbrook
Ira Leaman Standt
Hainton
Lewis Reiter
Walnut Street
Hainton. Mr. Standt
Bethlehem Steel Company
Steelton
Kister
C. T. Chappelle
Lenora Yarbett
Michael Kister
Washington Heights
Arthur Kister
United States
Seat Sale Opens For Mrs Bumpstead Leigh
Central High School presents a high quality comedy to be staged at the Orpheum Theater on June 12. Senior cast led by George N. Pulas as Peter Swallow, Esquire features a dozen roles under Miss Clara P. Ewing guidance. Proceeds support school purposes.
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Central High School
Bumpstead- Leigh
Central
Harrisburg
Clara P. Ewing
Orpheum Theater
Fiske
Demosthenes
George N. Pulas
Peter Swallow
Orpheum
Miss Freda Nonemacher Weds Paul Halbert in Navy Blues Gown
Miss Freda Nonemacher daughter of Mr and Mrs J H Nonemacher of Wormleysburg wed Paul Halbert son of Mr and Mrs Harry Halbert in a ring ceremony at the Halbert home 1416 Liberty Street Rev Ebner Vance officiated only immediate family attended Navy blue messaline and Georgette crepe gown worn by the bride. The couple will reside in this city.
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Freda Nonemacher
J. H. Nonemacher
Wormleysburg
Paul Halbert
Harry Halbert
Halbert
Liberty Street
Ss. Ebner Vance
Mrs. Halbert
Births in the City Notify Shipley Ricker Caplan Families
Mr and Mrs William L Shipley announce a daughter Mary Louise Shipley born June 5 1919 at 23 South Second street Mrs and Mrs Paul T Ricker announce a son Irvin Samuel Ricker born June 9 1919 at 817 North Third street Mrs Ricker formerly Miss Levenia Bur ridge of Hummelstown Mr and Mrs P H Caplan announce a daughter Helena Evelyn Genie seer supe REALE Mrs Caplan born Ida Cohen of this city.
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William L. Shipley
South Second Street
Mary Louise Shipley
Paul T. Ricker
North Third_street
Irvin Samuel Ricker
Ricker
Levenia Burridge
Hummelstown
P. H. Caplan
North Second Street
Helena Evelyn Genie Seer Supe
Caplan
S Ida Cohen
Wallower Coe Bridal June 24 in Harrisburg
Mr and Mrs Sanford DeWitt Coe invite guests to the marriage of their daughter Dora Wickersham Coe to Herbert Hoover Wallower on Tuesday June 24 at noon at St Pauls Episcopal church. A reception at Civic Club House follows at 12:30. The bride is active in Red Cross work. the groom has Army service and mining ties in Joplin Missouri.
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Sanford DeWitt Coe
North Second Street
Dora Wickersham Coe
Herbert Hoover Wallower
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Civic Club House
Harrisburg
Red Cross
Wallower
United States Army
E. Z. Wallower
Front
Maclay Streets
Joplin
Queen Esther Circle Elects New Officers
The Queen Esther Circle of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church met at Miss Helen McFarland 2101 Bellevue Road to reorganize for the coming year. Officers elected were Miss Sara Caton president, Miss Marion Hartwick vice president, Miss Mabel Doyle recording secretary, Miss Dorothy Heckman corresponding secretary, Miss Elizabeth Sansom treasurer. Members present included Miss Gertrude Kenney Miss Adaline Klinehinst Miss Geraldine Walters Miss Miriam Caton Mrs F M Tyler and Miss Helen McFarland.
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Queen Esther
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
Helen McFarland
Bellevue Road
Sara Caton
Marion Hartwick
Mabel Doyle
Dorothy Heckman
Elizabeth Sansom
Gertrude Kenney
Adaline Klinehinst
Geraldine Walters
Miriam Caton
F. M. Tyler
Miss Herman Hosts Luncheon for Miss Coe in List of Guests
Miss Almeda Herman of 2025 North Front Street entertained at a luncheon in compliment to Miss Dora Wicker Coe who will wed Herbert Hoover Wallower on Tuesday June 24. Garden flowers adorned the table as Miss Dorothy Wallower and others joined in the event. Captain Archibald G. Knisely Jr. has returned home after nearly a year in France with the 310th Field Artillery arriving May 26 aboard the Tiger and welcomed by local family and friends.
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Almeda Hermar
North Front Street
Dora Wickersham Coe
Herbert Hoover Wallower
Dorothy Wallower
Ruth Payne
Mary Myers
Martha Bailey
Elizabeth Knnsely
Mary Mitchell
Julia Stamm
Katherine Stamm
Howard Bingaman
Mary Creighton
J. Hoffer Detweiler
E. J. Stackpole, Jr
John C. Herman
Harry T. Neale
Knisely
Archibald G. Knisely, Jr
Front
Maclay Streets
France
310Th Field Artillery
New York
A. G. Knisely
Elizabeth Knisely
Paul G. Smith
Reeves Improves and Plans Return Home Saturday
Robert B Reeves secretary of the Central Y M A has been recuperating in Southern Pines North Carolina and writes he is greatly improved in health and will return to the city on Saturday Tea for Mrs Motter Invitations have been issued by Mrs Frank A Robbins Jr of Cottage Hill Steelton to a tea Saturday afternoon June 14 to meet Mrs J C Motter a recent bride Harrisburg District Epworth League officers motor to Chambersburg for a meeting at the Methodist Episcopal Church Dr and Mrs Charles Reel will leave tomorrow for Detroit to visit their son George K Reel manager for the La Salle Steel Company
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George W. Creighton
Mary Creighton
Riverside Apartments
Pittsburgh
Richard J. Miller
State Street
Philadelphia
G. U
Edward Owens
Norfolk
Wau
Ebensburg
BE. D. Byer
Green Street
Atlantic City
Sheepshead Bay
William B. Sloan
Charles L. Sheaffer
Robert B. Reeves
The
Central Y. M. A
Southern Pines
North Carolina
Charles W. Bell
Harrisburg
Epworth League
Chambersburg
Methodist Episcopal Church
Charles Reel
North Third Street
Detroit, Mich
George K. Reel
la Salle Steel Company
Wager on trench digging shows pace breaks aid output
Major A C Farquharson recounted for Parliament a bet between two front line officers. One let men work as hard as they could. the other used three squads rotating five minutes on, ten off. The rotating schedule won, illustrating relief periods boost efficiency. The piece also includes humor from various papers about social conversations and proverbs.
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London
A. C. Farquharson
House of Commons
Bamboo Grass Grows Rapidly in Far East
The giant bamboo grass of Japan and China grows at two feet daily with a clump spreading across landscapes. It replaces iron and other materials in many uses, from houses and fences to furniture, awnings, sails ribs, rake handles, poultry coops, bird cages, pillows, mattresses, and chopsticks for eating.
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Japan
China
List of Everyday Items Mentioned in a Pleading Catalog
A fragment lists items such as pipes for smoking brooms for sweeping chairs to sit upon skewers to pin the hair hats to screen the head paper to write on the pencil to write with the crab net and the fishpole.
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Broad
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Market Street
Hart-Swonger Bridal
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Wallace
the Art & Gift Shop
N. Second St
Jennings Mfg. Co
Seiler School
Margaret L. Oyster
Florence
America
E.W. Snedley
Curtin Street
Camp Devens
Mass
Wallace A. Snedley
Company C
Twentythird Engineers
George Landis
G. C. Landis
New Cumberland
Samuel Stites
Phoebe
Des Moines
Iowa
Frank Jons Sites
Frank C. Sites
Camp Merritt
Wallower-Coe
Queen Esther Circle
Miss Herman
Miss Coe
Stouffer’s Restaurant
N. Court St
Maryland
Neidig Bros. Ltd
Golden Roast
R.H. Lyon
Penn-Harris
Harrisburg, Pa
Detroit
Birmingham Age-Herald
Bill Bottletop
Washington Star
Gahl Rinkenbach&Rouse Optometrists
Ce Septicians
Narrisburg, “Pa
Imperial Tea CO
Chestnut St
Ksefe Corser
Essard
ThiyrLrcerlex
Prima, Judd
Nuway
Deft Devices Co., Inc
Ander
J. H. Troup
Genis i
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Pses
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Sohmer
Mehlin
Estey
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Kimball
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Haines Bros
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Huntington
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