Soldier Hides in Mountain Near Newton Hamilton
Thomas Strausser, a young man from near Newton Hamilton, fled into the mountains near Lewistown to avoid being labeled a deserter and facing a firing squad. He was in Camp Meade with an early draft unit when four fingers on his left hand were severed by an ax during wood cutting. discharged on medical grounds, he later fled the hospital in delirium and has been living in the woods for about ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewistown
Thomas Strausser
Newton Hamilton
Wilds
Camp Meade
Beckley’s Office Training School Promotes Courses
The advertisement touts Beckley’s Office Training School at 121 Market Street Harrisburg offering day and night classes year round. It highlights individual desks 3000 square feet of space and monthly progress reports with graduates securing positions near Harrisburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley’s Office Training School
Market ST
Kaufman's
Harrisburg
Gregg Short
Pitman
Pen Mar Park To Open For Summer Season
Waynesboro and Pen Mar hotel and amusement leaders report park will open June 22 with excursion trains from Baltimore on Thursdays and Sundays and new York service Sundays in summer. Epilogue notes haymaking underway with Clover crop strong. labor shortages threaten harvest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pen Mar Park
Waynesboro
Pen Mar
Western Maryland Railroad Company
Baltimore
York
Carlisle High school 81st commencement week features dances
Carlisle Pennsylvania June 12 The 81st commencement week at Carlisle High School featured a class day in the opera house. The class of 77, the largest ever in the district, performed a patriotic number, tableaux and dances by girls in costume. Commencement atd tomorrow with alumni reception Friday. grade schools close Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlisle
Carlisle High School
Carlisle Opera House
Fire destroys Stout school in Upper Mifflin
Carlisle reports Elizabeth Cohick aged Newville resident died from overexertion while rushing to a fire she believed endangered a relative's barn. The lightning sparked blaze destroyed the Stout school in Upper Mifflin township. Cohick collapsed on the road and died shortly after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlisle
Elizabeth Cohick
Newville
Stout
Upper Mifflin Township
Cohick
Farrinhand Falls From Barn At Manheim Farm
Addison Burkholder of Manheim township fell about thirty feet from the barn overden on A. Weidman’s farm near Marietta yesterday. He sustained a dislocated right shoulder and internal injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farrinhand
Marietta
Addison Burkholder
Manheim Township
A. Weidman
Marietta Aviation Officer Dies in Florida Plane Fall
Lieut Benjamin Hiestand of Marietta and Cadet Caston were killed and seriously hurt respectively when an aircraft fell at Dorr Field in Arcadia Florida. Hiestand born August 11 1898 attended Dartmouth before enlisting in the Aviation Corps during World War I. He would have turned twenty next August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marietta
Benjamin Hiestand
Henry
Hiestand
East Market Street
Aviation Corps
Arcadia
Florida
Caston
Pennsylvania
Dorrfield
Dartmouth
United States
Germany
Gerald
Naval Reserves
Cape May
Interesting Addresses at Columbia Alumni Meeting
Columbia High School Alumni Association gathered in Columbia Pennsylvania on June 12 for a program of addresses by alumni from diverse fields. Speakers included Albert C. Rochow Oliver Knipe Colonel J Edgar Hoffer Arthur R Campbell Bruner Hershey Charles T Floro Mrs Mary Rich Alexander Mrs Ella Preston Griest and Reginald Wright Kauffman. Games and social activities followed in the gymnasium along with officers named President Walter G Stevenson Vice President William L Bucher and Secretary Treasurer Ada M Forry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Columbia High School
Albert C. Rochow
Attory
York County
Oliver Knipe
Auditing Department
The
U.S. Treasury
Washington, D. C
J. Edgar Hoffer
Ordnance Department
U.S. Army
Springfield
Mass
Arthur R.campbell
Eight Hundred and Seventh Aero Squadron
YeCook Field
Dayton
Ohio
Bruner Hershey
New York
Charles T. Floro
Watertown
Mary Rich Alexander
Lewistown
Ella Preston Griest
Lancaster
Reginald Wright Kauffman
Collision injures driver as horse becomes unhitched in Columbia
In Columbia Pennsylvania on June 12 Aaron Nagle owner and driver of an automobile truck blinded by sun glare crashed into a delivery team carrying two small children. The horse bolted free and the wagon occupants were thrown to the street. The driver and father were bruised while the children were unhurt. Lancaster County notes report two deaths: Ettla Ettla widow of Captain George H. Ettla aged 81 and Andrew Clark aged 75 both residents of Rock Hill near Marietta. Henry S. Detwiler aged 76 a Mountville resident and Civil War veteran died suddenly after a stroke having served eleven years as rural mail carrier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Aaron Nagle
Lancaster County
Marietta
Ettla
George H. Ettla
Andrew Clark
Rock Hill
Henry S. Detwiler
Mountville
Suburban Notes From Anville And Nearby Towns
Harrisburg resident Robert Graybill visits Annville for several days. Annville teachers Misses Loos Dodd and Barger return home for vacation. Various relatives and visitors move between Annville Williamsport Philadelphia and nearby towns during breaks and holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annville
Robert Graybill
Harrisburg
Anna Loos
Verone Dodd
Elsie Barger
Polly Reed
Hummelstown
D. J. Brandt
Austin Brandt
France
Albert Herr
A.S. Weaver
Lilly, Pa
W. H. Weaver
Oliver Yake
Camp Meade
Cam
Yake
William Miller
Dawson Yake
Anthony Warta
Lebanon
John Keller
John Gebhard
Philadelphia
Frank Gebhard
Aaron 8. Kreider, Jr
A. 8. Kreider
East Main Street
Committee Forms to Investigate Rent Profiteering
A Harrisburg real estate board and city officials appointed a joint committee to study rent profiteering. Linwood B. Wanbaugh was chosen chair and Herman P. Miller secretary. They planned informal talks and will act after Miller's return from a national real estate session next week. Residents with complaints were urged to contact Wanbaugh at 119 North Seventeenth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg Real Estate Board
Keisier
Linwood B. Wanbaugh
Herman P. Miller
Miller
National Real Estate Organization
National Real Estate Organization To Be Held Next Week. Mr. Miller
Vanbaugh
North Seventeenth Street
Graduates Honored at Wharton School Exercises
Dr Josiah H Peniman VP addressed the class of 1918 at the Technical High School auditorium urging war work for the country. Professor George E McFarland awarded certificates to Thomas J Bard L Ira Cargill William H Dimmick Charles B E Fox Lee M Hale George L Neff Lawrence A Och John B E Zook B Frank Morgal Wharton is part of UPenn extension division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josiah H. Peniman
University of Pennsylvania
Wharton School
Technical High School
Peniman
George E. McFarland
Accounting
Thomas J. Bard
L. Ira Cargill
William H. Dimmick
Charles BE. Fox
Lee M. Hale
George L. Neff
Lawrence A. Och
John BE. Zook
B. Frank Morgal
Also Mentioned on This Page
Marietta, Pa
Meade
Woods
Dial
Charles R. Beckley
Gregg
Eastern Commercial Teachers’ Association
Cumberland Valley
Co. I
Lewis
Gibbons
Mechanicsburg
Tiis Ruth Wise
112Th Infantry
J. Gibbons
North Front Street
McKeesport
Simon H. Kneiley
Elizabethville
Akron
Mr. Kneiley
Eshelman-Snyder
Robert H. Eshelman
Maytown
Spartanburg
Anna Lydia Snyder
Whittaker
Trinity Lutheran Church
Beleans
Bellans
Harvey J. Heiler
Hayden Myers
Red Rock
Juniata
Mount Union
Bobtown
This County
Davis
Rankin G. Hambleton
Drumore Township
Fairfield
Packard
Packard Motor Car Company of
Bell
Harrisburg, PA
Marietta Aviation
Lieut
Mite Society
Poffenberger
Dauphin, Pa
Presbyterian Church
Thomas Poffenberger
Allegheny Street
Charles O’donnel
Sabra M. Bell
Freeman C. Gerberich
Harry B. Greenawalt
William P. Clark
Alice B. Hess
George W. Heck
J. D. M. Reed
Anne Miller
Mary Umberger
Elizabeth Poffenberger
Margaret Brooks
Carrie Gerberich
Mary Poffenberger
William Minsker
Zionsville
Liverpool
G. H. Knox
Methodist Church
Stanley
Paul Knox
One Hundred and Twelfth Regiment of Infantry
Perry County
E. G. Miller
George C. K. Sample
John F
Andrew Glasser
Goldsboro
Weimer Farm
Bainbridge
Williamstown
Evelyn Mellon
William Leaker
Rufus Williams
Marion Badtorf
University Hospital
Charles Badtorf
Arthur Durbin
Laura
Rochester
N. Y
H. A. Shaffer
Jacob Mellon
George Mellon
Ford Koenig
Reading
William Koenig
Thelma Evans
Wiconisco
Roy Evans
Lynn Parsell
Charles White
L. C
Wilbur’ Stailey
East Orange
Jacob Stailey
Hazel Resh
William Huhn
Ed. Shuler’s
White” Progressive Club
White”’ Rotary
Progressive Club
America
Progressive
Victor
Market Street
Furnishers
Uncle Sam’s Boys
Are
Foch
Picardy
Flanders
St. Mihiel
Toul
Ferdinand Foch
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nly
Telegraph
B. C
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!