Carlisle Boy Dies After Electric Shock In Storm
A severe electrical storm in Carlisle causes one fatality and multiple injuries. Ten year old Carl Keiser died after contacting a downed high voltage cable. Rescue attempts by James Zeigler left him injured. A large water tank crashed through a Dillsburg area canning plant, injuring its engineer. Telephones and telegraphs were disrupted and trees and wires felled across the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlisle
Carl
George Keiser
West Louther Street
Electric Light Company
James B. Zeigler
Dillsburg
Martin Steinmetz Dies in New York at 70
Martin Van Buren Steinmetz, a native of Annville, died at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City after a brief pneumonia illness. He was 70, involved in coal and iron brokerage, and son of Jacob Steinmetz, a well known farmer near Annville. His body returned to Annville for funeral arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annville
Martin van Buren Steinmetz
Steinmetz
Waldorf Astoria
New York City
Jacob Steinmetz
Spong and Harris Marry in New York Ceremony
Miss Jean Kathryn Harris daughter of Mrs. Oliver T. Harris Carlisle and J Norman Spong son of Mr and Mrs J D Spong Evergreen street were married yesterday at noon in the Little Church Around the Corner New York. The bride a Carlisle High School graduate from an old Cumberland Valley family resides with a sister in New York City. The groom a Harrisburg High School graduate and chief clerk to Cumberland Valley Railroad freight agent at Chambersburg will be at home after September 14 at 12 South Main Street Chambersburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Kathryn Harris
Oliver Thomas Harris
Carlisle
J. Norman Spong
J. D. Spong
Evergreen Street
New York City
Carlisle High School
Cumberland Valley
Spong
Harrisburg
Harrisburg High School
Cumberland Valley Railroad
Chambersburg
South Main Street
Prizes Announced for WCTU Franklin County Wins
Waynesboro Pa June 11 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union for Franklin county will receive three prizes at the state convention in Oil City in October. Two prizes consist of a $5 gold piece and ten subscriptions to the Bulletin, the state paper of the WCTU.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waynesboro
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Franklin County
Oil City
Bulletin
Woman's Christian Temperance ‘Union
Farmers Institute Arranged For Dillsburg Next Winter
On Tuesday night the United Agricultural Association of Dillsburg held an agricultural educational meeting in the opera house. The program included music by a quartet recitation The Johnstown Flood by Miss Florence Rhodes and addresses by E B Dorsett Robert S Clark and Harry M Evans. A farmers institute will be held in Dillsburg next winter with date to be announced later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dillsburg
United Agricultural Association of Dillsburg
Opera House
Johnstown
Florence Rhodes
E. B. Dorsett
Grange
Robert S. Clark
Harry M. Evans
J. H. Graff
D. B. Baker
William H. Sidle
Barnes
York
Farmers’ Institute
Oratorical Prizes Awarded at Lebanon Valley College
In Annville Pennsylvania last night the annual junior oratorical contest was held at Engle Hall Lebanon Valley College. Prizes of 20 10 and 5 dollars went to John Ness York Philo A Statton Hagerstown and Verling Jamison Warsaw Indiana. Before judge’s decision Professor R J Guyer presented the A G Spalding loving cup to the class of 1917 for inter class basketball league winners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annville
Engle Hall
Lebanon Valley College
John Ness
York
Philo A. Statton
Hagerstown
Verling Jamison
Warsaw
Ind
R. J. Guyer
A. G. Spalding Loving Cup
West Shore News highlights local music recital and notices
In Lemoyne and New Cumberland events gather today and tomorrow. Students led by Miss Edna Sharman perform a year end music recital at the Lutheran Church with numerous participants. The Old Maid's Association play with Miss Marie Wagner to assist heads to the high school auditorium. A Riverside Council hike visits Mrs Mowery and Mrs Hoffman. A marriage in York between Julia Eldora Bonner and John Bush Laucks is announced. Funeral for infant Klugh planned at home with burial in Dillsburg. A church festival fundraiser for the new Christian Church fund set for Rosler and Rossmoyne streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemoyne
Old Maid's Association
W. W. T. Club
Christian Church Sunday School
Marie Wagner
Harrisburg
New Cumberland
Effie Koch
Bessie Dugan
Sara Stetler
Sue Davis
Riverside Council
Daughters of Liberty
Mowery
Hoffman
Julia Eldora Bonner
John Bush Laucks
York
Stoverdale Cottages Fill Up For Summer Season
Stoverdale cottages report strong early occupancy with many families renting for the season. Local residents including Sourbeer and German families spent days at their cottages Chelsea Sunnyside and Prince Albert while visitors like Professor Gibson and Rev. Romig joined in the grove activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stoverdale
F. Marion Sourbeer, Jr
Robert
Chelsea Cottage
John W. German, Jr
South Thirteenth Street
Sunnyside
Edward Johnston
Robert Johnston
Robert Mathias
Paul Johnston
Kramer Johnston
J. J. Gibson
Lancaster
Grove
Scott Shearn
F. Marion Sourbeer
L. C. Graffius
Chelsea
Amanda Yost
Hummelstown
Kilmer
Hummel
Carlisle High School Class of 58 to Graduate in Opera House
The seventy seventh commencement in Carlisle Pennsylvania will honor fifty eight graduates, the largest class in school history. Alumni awards include a $25 prize to valedictorian May Houseman, while donations fund $50 prizes for best essays on early U.S. history by junior Denton B. Rebek and Isabelle Diffenderfer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlisle
Opera House
Carlisle High School
May Houseman
J. Frank Briner
Ruby R. Vale
Philadelphia
J. Webster Henderson
Charles Lytle Lamberton
Isabelle Diffenderfer
Denton B. Rebek
Miss Howe Entertains Sunday School Class
In Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania on June 11 Miss Mary C Howe hosted the First United Brethren Church Sunday school class at her West Cooper Street home. The event featured rose and honeysuckle decorations in blue and gold, a business session followed by social time and refreshments for Weir Strock Paul Brandt Miller Coover Walter Kreitzer Clair Vogelsong and Miss Mary Howe. Officers listed include President Weir Strock Secretary Miller Coover and Treasurer Clair Vogelsong.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechanicsburg
Mary C. Howe
First United Brethren Church
Weat Coover Street
Weir Strock
Paul Brandt
Miller Coover
Walter Kreitzer
Clair Vogelsong
Mary Howe
Clair, Vogelsong
Kept wedding secret in Millersburg couple wed in New York
In Millersburg Pennsylvania Howard Sausser and Agnes Walker secretly married in New York City in December 1912. Sausser is recovering from an appendectomy at Harrisburg Hospital. In Greencastle Nina R Davison named superintendent of Chambersburg Hospital succeeding Nettie Gable. Davison a graduate of Philadelphia Children’s and Maternity Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millersburg
Howard Sausser
Agnes Walker
New York City
Sausser
Harrisburg
Greencastle
Nina R. Davison
Mary L. Davison
Chambersburg Hospital
Nettie Gable
Miss Davison
Children’s and Maternity Hospital
Philadelphia
Mary Catherine Shomier Grabs Highest Senior Honor at Columbia HS
Miss Mary Catherine Shomier age 17, youngest in her class, earned the senior class valedictorian honor at Columbia High School and will enter Vassar College in the fall. In Greencastle another report notes a stranger named Young passed bogus checks, defrauding Frank Conn and another Chambersburg merchant, totaling 48.50, with the forger later located at Cumberland Valley station.
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Slick Stranger
Columbia High School
Columbia
Mary Catherine Shomier
J. E. Shomier
Shomier
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Greencastle
Young
Frank Conn
Citizens’ National Bank of
M. E. Johnson
Conn
Chambersburg
Cumberland Valley
Gets-It For Corns On Your Piggy-Wiggies
A vintage advertisement touts GETS-IT as a quick corn cure, claiming it shrivels corns in two seconds without plasters or cutting tools. It warns against painful methods and promotes 25 cent bottles sold by B. Lawrence & Co. of Chicago.
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Johnnie
B. Lawrence & Co
Chicago
Philadelphia Doctor Weds Miss Long In Millersburg Farm Home
Dr J W Post a Philadelphia physician and Miss Helen Gilbert Long eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Long were married at the bride’s parents home in Millersburg Pa Wednesday at 9 am The Rev Skeath of the Methodist Church performed the ceremony in the presence of family and a few guests A wedding breakfast followed and the couple left for Baltimore and southern points on their honeymoon they will reside in Philadelphia
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Millersburg
J. W. Post
Philadelphia
Helen Gilbert Long
Thomas Long
North Street
Skeath
Methodist Church
C. W.noll
Ethel Bradenbaugh
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Carl Keiser
Martin Steinmetz
New York
T. U
Eke Toosec
West Shore News
Sara Davis
Esther Spangler
Esther Cummings
Hazel Wise
Cathrine Wolfensburger
Esther Bushey
Hazel Howard
Anna Sutton
Anna Haertzeler
Rhoda Spangler
Beulah Spangler
Kenneth Sweeney
Margaret Kunklé
Sara Hoover
Mary Nebinger
William Klugh
Festival For Church Fund
Rosler Avenue
Rossmoyne Street
New Church Fund
Miss Howe
Nalve
N. Third St
Catharine Shomier
Shakespeare
Ie Si
Barrisburg
Great Authors Library
Phlaa
Dr. Pierce’s
Golden
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
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