Special Trains for the Camps Draw More Draftees
Movements of men drafted for special training intensified today with a first contingent of fifty six leaving for Vancouver Barracks for aircraft production. Planned runs include 31 tomorrow, 41 on the 17th, 16 on the 18th, 32 on the 19th, and 149 on the 23rd, plus 501 colored men to Camp Sherman on the 21st.
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Pittsburgh
Gaston
Vancouver Barracks
West
Camp Sherman
Lee
Greenleaf
Pennsylvania
Smash Records On Drive Aways At Overland Plant
Overland plant reports a surge in drive away activity with 2938 cars moved in the past month, far exceeding 1917. John N. Willys notes these figures reflect dealer readiness for spring demand and not gross shipments. He expects sustained auto demand through 1918 amid high wartime pressures.
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Overland
John N. Willys
Willys
Sons and Daughters of Pryor Family in Service
Blain, Pa, June 15. Ruth Pryor studies Red Cross nursing in New York City and visits two weeks with her mother Mrs. Margaret Pryor. Sister Nellie Pryor is in France with Base Hospital No. 8. Three Pryor brothers serve in the U.S. Army: Lorenzo B. Pryor in Troop L, Third U.S. Cavalry in France. Samuel C. Pryor in Company F, 339th Field Artillery at Camp Dodge, Iowa. Hayes V. Pryor enlisted at 19 and is at Columbus Barracks, Columbus, Ohio.
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Camp Dodge
Iowa
Hayes V. Pryor
United States Cavalry
Columbus Barracks
Columbus
Ohio
Cablegram Tells of His Safe Arrival in France
Mr and Mrs William Gerdes 515 Emerald street have received advices that their son Corporal Charles A Gerdes of Battery E 108th Field Artillery 28th Division has safely arrived in France He had been in training at Camp Hancock Ga
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William Gerdes
Emerald Street
Charles A. Gerdes
France
Gerdes
One Hundred and Eighth Field Artillery
Twenty-eighth Division
Camp Hancock
Summer Girls Extend Lifeguard Hours at Surf Beach
Atlantic City officials bow to demands to keep lifeguards an hour later during summer as daylight rules shift and baths are regulated by the new time. Patrons are barred from drinks in saloons and cafes to prevent accidents and deter soldiers in uniform from liquor. June records show over 100000 bathers.
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Atlantic City
Permanent Organization of Ad Club to Be Effected
Plans for the successful organization of the Harrisburg Advertising Club move forward with a committee on permanent organization formulating ten tentative rules. Chairman F R Downey leads the group with E Fred Rowe William H Bennetham Jr Carl Hanson and Lee Moss. A follow up meeting with invitations to prospective members will be held within a week.
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Harrisburg Advertising Club
F. R. Downey
E. Fred Rowe
William H. Bennetham, Jr
Carl Hanson
Lee Moss
Harrisburg
Dauphin County Sunday School Conven tion Meets in Hershey
The thirty second annual convention of the Dauphin County Sunday School will convene in Hershey on June 27 and 28 with day sessions in the park and evening sessions at the Central Theater. Each Sunday School may send four delegates including the minister and superintendent. officers include President H Howard Hoy and treasurer W H Repp. The program covers key Sunday School topics amid the present crisis. York Haven surpasses Third Liberty Loan quota by twentyfold, raising 105000 on a 5000 goal with a parade and flag display.
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Dauphin County
Hershey
Park
Central Theater
H. Howard Hoy
Millersburg
C.L. Dice
Harrisburg
H. C. Demming
W. H.repp
C. Austin Miles
Philadelphia
York Haven
York County
The Nations Honor Roll Broadcast Totals
War Department figures show 818 023 lists of the nations fallen and injured with categories for killed in action wounded in action and missing. The tally includes death by disease accident and other causes and notes corrections to the official totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Local plating shop invites customers to inspect work quality
A plating and polishing business invites prospective clients to call, mail a card, or visit to view the quality of their workmanship firsthand.
West Side rowdy row leads to four arrests in Steelton
Four West Side residents George Dailey Edward Dailey Archie Hammacker and James Miller were arrested after a late Thursday quarrel near Main and Francis streets. Patrolman Winn seized Hammacker and Dailey and later Miller, recovering a mace used in the scuffle. They were jailed in Steelton awaiting a hearing before Justice Stepl next week on assault and battery and resisting an officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burgess McEntee
West Side
John Gibb
George Dailey
Edward Daily
Archie Hammacker
James Miller
Dauphin County
Justice of the Peace
Stepl
Winn
Main and Francis
Hammacker
Rowdies
Edward Dailey
Miller
Boy Scouts to Present Play in High School Auditorium
Troop 1 of Boy Scouts of America led by scout master Charles W. McCoy presents a three act comedy titled The Boy Scouts at the High School auditorium tonight directed by Prof. W M Hardrode. Proceeds aid borough welfare work and summer camping. The cast includes Nip William Messinger Tuck Charles Arnold and others with Claude Baskins providing incidental music and Lloyd Watsons group supplying most of the blackface comedy.
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Troop 1
Boy Scouts of America
Charles W. McCoy
Boy Scouts
Prof
W. M. Hardrode
Prof. Hazebrode
Nip
William Messinger
Tuck
Charles Arnold
Henry Spensler
Worthington -Leonard
William Spensler
Tony Ardis
Merl Harman
Jakie Stein
Chester Reed
Chubby Childs
William Rupp
David Dayhoff
Jackson
Floyd Watson
Lippy Scudder
Lloyd Rhoades
Bob
Clifford Douglass
Jack
Hewitt Myers
Phily
Howard Blyder
Lee
Norman Sheesly
Tom
Paul McNamee
Shorty
Huston Bellows
Harry
Crescent Rupp
Charley
John Hoblitzer
Will
Robert Mentzer
Frank
Harry Hartman
Claude Baskins
Victoria Theater
Atlantic City
Lloyd Watson
Local Lodges Hold Annual Memorial Services Tomorrow
Knights of Pythias from Carthage and Steelton lodges plan memorial exercises at Steelton lodge hall then at Baldwin Cemetery followed by church services at St John Lutheran. Program includes prayers, choirs, memorial oration by Charles B Pass, grave decoration, and songs They That Trust Passing Down the Valley and America. Funeral planned for Harry Geist, 29, with services Monday at 2 pm at the Burkes residence and burial in Oberlin cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of Pythias
Carthage Lodge
Steelton Lodge
Hall of Steelton Lodge
Baldwin Cemetery
St. John’s Lutheran Church
William Kreiz
H. R. Rupp
Harold Wells
Earl Thomas
Charles B. Pass
America
Harry Geist
Simon Burkes
Enhant
Burkes
Oberlin
Arrival of Corporal Zeater Overseas Reported
Relatives of Corporal William M. Zeater of this city have received word of his safe arrival in France. He serves with Company A, One Hundred and Third Ammunition Train, previously stationed at Camp Hancock. Zeater is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. P. Driskel of this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William M. Zeater
France
One Hundred and Third
Camp Hancock
Corporal Zeater
Centenary A. B. Church Children’s Day Exercises Set
Annual Children’s Day program at Centenary United Brethren Church begins Sunday at 7 30 pm. The event features songs, solos, recitations, dialogues, a doll exercise, sketches, a patriotic drill and performances by Emmett Geiger Willette Cargill Fay Clouser Carmen Eisenhart Anna Pugh and many others.
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Centenary United Brethren Church
Mr. Wier
Emmett Geiger
Willette Cargill
Paul Steever
John Keim
Richard Stouffer
Anna Pugh
Fay Clouser
Cora Pisle
Harriet Fry
Teressa Anderson
Ruth Richards
Helen Anderson
Louise Sanders
Cora Fry
Barbara Saylor
Isabel Kuntz
Toleda Shipp
Marion Malehorn
Lavena Bennett
Alice Shaeffer
Fannie Steever
Widely Known Athlete Enlists in Marines from Steelton
Thomas Gaffney a Steelton High School graduate and longtime local sports figure has enlisted in the Marines and will depart Thursday. He plans to report to Parry Island South Carolina. In school he set track football and basketball records and later coached the Steelton High basketball team. He also managed the transportation department's narrow gauge road at night.
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Thomas. Gaffney
Steelton High School
Transportation Department
Pariy Island
South Carolina
Gaffney
Steelton
Government Food Car to Be Here Monday
The government food conservation car will be on the siding of the Steelton Store Company on Monday. Two demonstrations will be given from 10:00 to 12:00 and 2:00 to 5:30. Mrs. B. Vanier leads the borough committee with assistance from several named local ladies.
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Steelton Store Company
PB. Vanier
Borough Food Conservation Committee
J. M. Heagy
John Bethel
Marion Hill
E. R. Whipple
Estelle Thompson
Catherine McCoy
Pauline Barrett
Steel Plant Employe Electrocuted at Work
At the local steel plant last night Henry Carringlin aged 52 a negro was electrocuted while turning off an electric switch. Death was instant. Carringlin worked at the incinerator located at the ore banks and resided at 12 Cumber's Row.
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Henry Carringlin
Carringlin
Cumbler’s Row
Arrives Overseas George W Yoselowitz Returns Home
George W Yoselowitz of Battery A 113th Regiment Thirtieth Division has arrived overseas per word to his brother Jacob Yoselowitz. He resides at 68 South Second Street. Good Will Fire Company Enchant holds a 2 PM special meeting to act on the death of member Harry Geist. William Dehner of the local post office vacationing in Atlantic City. Mr and Mrs Joseph Zacks of South Front Street host Mrs Charles H Fried and children from Memphis Tennessee with her mother.
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George W. Yoselowitz
Battery A
113Th Regiment
Jacob Yoselowitz
South Second Street
Good Will Fire Company
Good Will Fire Company of Enchant
Harry Geist
William Dehner
Atlantic City
Joseph Zacks
South Front Street
Charles H. Fried
Memphis
Tenn
Weissport
J. Walter Wilde
Hazleton
Patton
State Compensation Board
Harry A. Patton
Steelton
Harrisburg
Bennett Musical Institute of
Nellie J. Bennett
G. W. Bennett
Eli B. Betzer
East Hanover
Clara I. Miller
Religious services and sermons schedule update
First Reformed Church sets 10 45 am sermon What Is Your Life and 7 pm junior congregation Our Ten Servants. June 30 Holy Communion and birthday offering. Trinity Episcopal 8 Holy Communion 10 church school 11 morning prayer and sermon 7 30 evening prayer and sermon. St Johns Lutheran Rev G N Lauffer preaches 10 45 am A New and Living Way and 7 30 pm Gods Good Will with Sunday school 9 80 and C E 6 30. First Presbyterian Rev C B Segelken preaches 11 am The Law of Love and Good Will and 7 30 pm The sp el of Loyalty with Sunday school 9 45.
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First Reformed
H. H. Rupp
Trinity Episcopal
W. C. Heilman
St. John's Lutheran
G. N. Lauffer
C. E
First Presbyterian
C. B. Segelken
Greiner Will Study Bridge At State Capitol Area
State officials plan a monumental viaduct from Capitol Park edge to Allison Hill brow as part of a park improvement scheme. Engineer J E Greiner will study the proposed State street viaduct known as Commonwealth Way, while legal adviser William H Hargest assists Capitol Extension matters.
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Arnold W. Brunner
Capitol Park
Allison Hill
General Park
J. E. Greiner
Walnut Street
Mulberry Street
State Street
Commonwealth Way
William H. Hargest
Harrisburg
Capitol
Plain
Pennsylvania
Church of the Brethren
State Capitol
Register of the Suides
Paxtang
Hershey
Nathan R. Buller
Wilkes-Barre
Pittsburgh
Public Service Commis
Lodge Bitter Opposes Buchanan Statue in Senate
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts bitterly opposed a bill to erect a Buchanan statue in Meridian Hill Washington arguing that Buchanan was disloyal. The bill, funded by Harriet Lane Johnson’s $100,000 bequest, has passed the House and awaits Senate vote. The debate stretched to Monday as Lodge sought more data on Buchanan’s career.
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Washington
James Buchanan
United States
Benedict Arnold
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Senate
Buchanan
Lodge
Harriet Lane Johnson
Baltimore
White House
Meridian Hill
House
Fire Company Meets After Death of Local Resident
A special meeting of the Citizen Fire Company is set for this evening at 8 o clock to discuss actions following the death of Harry Geist.
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Citizen Fire Company
Harry Geist
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Smash Records
Overland Company
Pryor
Liberty
Harrisburg Auto & Tire Repair CO
South Third Street
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Alspure Ice Stations
Delaware
Boas
Hamilton St
Woodbine
Hamilton
Forster & Cowden
Walnut
Swatara
Chestnut
Forster
27Th St
Penbrook, Pa
United Ice and Coal Co
Forster and Cowden Streets
Cablegram
Corporal Charles A. Gerdes
Ad Club
Burgess Fines
West Siders
Gibb
Corporal William M. Zeater
Centenary A. B. Church
Marine Corps
Miss Billet
Myrtle Billet
Benjamin Billet
North Second Street
Honora Gaffney
Fothergill
Steelton Churches
RST
Aree
Market Street
Greiner
Bridge
Hargest
William M. Hardeputy
Sunbury
Daniel I. Lafean
Potter County
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The
Douglass Association
Rank Bradley
Harry BE. James
Louise Jenkins
Fannie Lee
Susan Beckwith
Mary H. Howard
John W. Bailor
C. F. Howard
Annie M. Ferguson
Vernon R. James
H. H. Cooper
Allen E. Fry
Palm Beach
St., Cor
Harrisburg Railways
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