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Newspaper

Harrisburg Telegraph

Location

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Jun 17, 1916

Page

17

Burglars Busy In Several Lykens Homes And Local School Play

In Lykens Pennsylvania burglars struck multiple homes including Francis Eby's, taking breakfast preparations. Lykens High School held class day with an operetta The Windmills of Holland. Grammar school commencement addressed by Rev Spanger. Local residents visited Wilkes-Barre Harrisburg Dickinson College State College Tamaqua and Williamstown.

Lykens A. H. Soulliard Wilkes-Barre W. A. Treen Locust Dale Samuel Hoff Dickinson College W. H. Cooper Harrisburg William A. Treen Pearl Evelyn Ray Bowman Williamstown Sever Kens Francis Eby Mynbeer Hertogenbasch Solomon Bitterman Vronno Hertogenbasch Maryene “Wilhelmina Naomi Shomper Ilda Vivian Moore Bob van Morgan Moore State College George Smith Tamaqua Lykens Grammar School United Brethren Church Spanger

Personal News From Central Pennsylvania Towns

Thompsontown notes guests from Mount Pleasant Harrisburg and Pittsburgh visiting local families. Visitors include Miss Almira M. Graham Polyeline Hospital Harrisburg and relatives in Philadelphia and Bala. Wormleysburg and New Bloomfield snippets list residents traveling, visiting churches, and attending commencements.

Pennsylvania

Gettysburg Guides Fined For Traffic Rule Violations

Special to the Telegraph Gettysburg Pa June 17 Gettysburg National Park authorities have pursued legal action against three automobile guides for allowing traffic rules on avenues to be broken. The actions target the licensed guides not the unfamiliar drivers. Each guide was arrested and fined five dollars with seven dollars costs.

Gettysburg Gettyspure National Park

Hall's Catarrh Cure marketed as internal remedy

Claim that catarrh is a constitutional blood disease best treated internally with Hall's Catarrh Cure. Presented as not a quack medicine, prescribed by a leading physician, and made from tonics and blood purifiers acting on mucous surfaces. Includes testimonials offer and distribution by F. J. Cheney & Co in Toledo Ohio.

Hall F. J. Cheney & CO Props Toledo

Boy Drowned After Fall Into Spring Near Richfield

In Mifflintown Pa on June 17 a two year old son of Mr and Mrs Solomon Kerstetter accidentally fell into a spring at the home of I H Garman near Richfield and drowned. Nearby news notes list residents traveling and visiting relatives in New Oxford Gettysburg Harrisburg State College and Princeton alongside a church talk by Alice Wishart missionary from Wells Tannery scheduled June 22.

Mifflintown Reuben Auker Jay Samuel Katherine Ella Auker New Oxford Ed Auker Gettysburg Harrisburg John Moyer Ed. Sieber Scranton Ezra C. Doty Josephine Wilson State College Margaret Laird Howard Fasick Altoona Oliver Diffenderfer Alice Wishart Wells Tannery India Presbyterian Church Solomon Kerstetter I.H. Garman Richfield

Ride-a-Wee Cottage At Dauphin Open For Summer

Dauphin Pennsylvania June 17 Dr and Mrs Thomas Poffenberger and daughter Mary of Harrisburg occupy the summer home on Erie street owned by Miss Cora Coffrode. Several Harrisburg visitors and local residents are noted at cottages and social visits across town.

Dauphin

West Hanover School Board Elects Teachers Saturday

West Hanover School Board will meet in Sandy Hollow schoolhouse on Saturday June 24 to elect teachers for the coming term. Local residents and families are listed as visitors and neighbors in the community notice.

West Hanover School Board

Duncannon Pastor Baptizes Eight Members in River

The Rev. Wesley N. Wright of the Church of God immersed eight members in the Susquehanna River last Sunday afternoon. Various local residents and visitors are noted, with social visits and upcoming events including a parcel post sale by the Reminder Brotherhood of the M E Church on June 26.

Birthday Surprise Party for Mrs Jerome Furman

Mrs Jerome Furman of Montandon Pennsylvania was surprised on her birthday evening at her home with lawn festivities and Japanese lanterns. Attendees included numerous local couples and relatives. a later note mentions a Dollar Social by the Baptist Church Ladies Aid, raising about 28 dollars. Other items list varied social visits and trips among residents like Miss Edna Beaner, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Kieffer, and the Grims.

Montandon Jerome Furman Peete Ann Ereeny James Angus Fairchild Arthur Best DeWitt Fairchild Myron Fairchild W. C. Burrey Henry Renn C. M. Hauck Frank Hockenberry Thomas Steigert Ray Sheets Franklin Artley Charles Carr Wis Forrest Harner Ed. Reitz Harvey Wenzel Lee Beiber Frank Fries Walter Ritter George Hill Jesse Shortess Frank Cox James Deitrick Lee Grimm Bertha Reed Mary Garber Pearl Fries Altha Harner Edna Renn May Viola Hockenberry Anna Abram Fairchild William Frederick Lee Pfluger Barron Wenzel Milton Beiber Stewart Sheets Donald Scott Ha Mazeppa Herndon Cope J. F. Hill Philadelhia Jen Myers Sunbury

Two Five-Foot Blacksakes Killed at Millersburg

Millersburg Pa June 17 The Johnson Baillie Shoe Company tore out a condemned boiler and will install a larger one with the new unit in place after June 30 when the plant closes for ten days. Borough council plans pave three street sections totaling 1800 feet. A new firehouse and other improvements will wait until next year. Two blacksnakes about five feet long were killed near the railroad roundhouse by William McKissick and his son Richard. Lightning struck the chimney at A G Barigs Pine street home during a severe electrical storm. Thomas Myers serves as grand juror this week. Miss Fay Long returns from Philadelphia. Henry Starr returns from Gettysburg College for summer. Minister Accepts Call Elizabethville Samuel Cooper Lewistown spent days with his mother. Mrs Charles H Gardinier and son of Milleraville visit grandparents D M Stine. John Phillips and family return from Harrisburg. Joseph R Stine home from Franklin and Marshall College. Galen Naylor and family from Harrisburg visit father Dr W E Naylor. Miss Irene Bressler from Harrisburg visits mother. Harris Sheesley from Harrisburg visits. Postmaster M A Miller at Harrisburg. Rev J B Beam accepts call to Reformed Church West Hazleton will move soon. Rev E J Heilman and J H Bonowitz attend Lutheran Synod at Reading. Mrs Charles M Hoffman of Philadelphia visits sister Mrs H H Weaver. R F D Carrier P E Stine at Harrisburg. Rev B L Romberger of Wilkes Barre visits brother A M Romberger family. Rev and Mrs J S Farnsworth of Orwigsburg spend a week nearby.

Halifax Laura Sweigard Millersburg Lillie Lebo Gertrude Hoover Elizabethville Arthur Miller Matamoras Joseph Miller Benjamin Radle William Sweigard Penbrook William Rummel George Lebo Carrie Enterline J. F. Sheesley Carsonville Irs C. H. Botts Jerseyshore J. O. Ball Shippensburg Claude Bowman Lancaster Cornelus Bowman Howard Seltzer Steelton Daniel Weopster Leslie Shope Staunton, Va R. Shope Mary Clemson Harrisburg Hospital Ben Clark Seagrist Seagrist Trinity Reformed Sunday School Joseph Umberger Ella Umberger Carrie Forney Elmer &, Daugherty Christine Neidig Kennett Square A. H. Neidig Wilmot Ayers Bedford Springs Kathrine Pike J. T.ster Philadelphia B. A. Brubaker W. L. Pike Hummelstown Ike George Bowman Harvey Banner Enola Elmer E. Daugherty William Bordner Oliver Schroyer Sunbury J. M. Schroyer A. H. Prenzel Third Street Charity Lodge Methodist Episcopal Cemetery Washington Camp Agnes Bailey Dauphin Samuel Bowman Thomas Poffenberger Mary Harrisburg Erie Street Cora Coffrode Olive Douden Washington, D. C Harrisburg Central High School Joseph Frantz Bide-a Charles Singer Mildred Romberger Wayne Singer Bertha Tredwell Rochester N. Y W. F. Reed Raymond Suydam Ralph Seiders Ernest Shafter David Nowinski David Ella Nowinski George W. Heck Lloyd Speece Speeceville A.S. Speece Joseph Cresswell Martha William P. Clark Marie Weddell New York City George Kline H. E. Lucas Etta McNeely A. C. Perling Carl and Ida Ida M. Perling Duncannon I. Lane Long Harrison Hoover William Hoover A. C. Cobl Norman W. Brooks Newark N. J Emory Wireman Mary Umberger Emma Reel Harry Pfleeger Frantzville Heights Newton W. Speece Red Lake Minn D. F. Seller Thomas Kinter William Kinter Trenton Novinger William P. Hartleparg Clara Poffenberger Johnson-Baillie Shoe Company Market Street Union Street William McKissick Richard Pennsylvania Railroad A. G. Barig Pine Street Thomas Myers Samuel Cooper Lewistown Charles H Gardinier Milleraville D. M. Stine John Phillips Joseph R. Stine Franklin and Marshall College Irene Bressler Reading Charles M. Hoffman H. H. Weaver R. F. D. Carrier P. E. Stine B. L. Romberger Wilkes-Barre A. M. Romberger J. 8. Farnsworth Orwigsburg

Duncannon School Board Names Teachers For Term

Duncannon Pa June 17 The borough School Board elected the following teachers Principal C M Lodge Huntingdon assistant principal J L L Bucke Grammar W J Kines B Grammar Alma J Pennell Intermediate Josephine George Second Primary Margaretta Rosboro First Primary Cordelia Gray North Duncannon Catherine Hamilton Macie Ruth Zimmerman Professor W A McCune supervisory principal for the past two terms has accepted a place in the faculty of Harrisburg High School.

Duncannon C. M. Lodge Huntingdon J. L. L. Bucke W. J. Kines Alma J. Pennell Josephine George Margaretta Rosboro Cordellia Gray North Duncannon Catharine Hamilton Macie Ruth Zimmerman W. A. McCune Harrisbure High School

Auto for Every Nine Persons in Gettysburg Area

Multiple local notes include a Gettysburg College push for military instruction, a planned demonstration by the Gettysburg fire company with a new Boyd six cylinder engine, a denied ground use for a revival at the Reading depot, a Gettysburg marriage by Correne Deatrick and Jay W. Bringman, newly planned Civil War monument dedications on the battlefield, a Virginia monument completion this summer, wild turkey sightings near Mount Carmel, and York Springs versus Bonneauville auto counts. Dauphin County Christian Endeavor convention set for June 22 at Hummelstown Reformed Church with Rev George Edward Owes delivering the sermon.

Gettysburg Board of Trustees Gettysburg College Gettysburg Fire Company Boyd Bonniwell Philadelphia Pennsylvania State Firemen’s Associaton Reading Railroad Correne Deatrick Biglerville Jay W. Bringman Elkton Abner Doubleday Reynolds John C. Robinson Virginia Jacob Nary Mount Carmel Church Orrtanna Smiley Bonneauville York Springs Dauphin Hummelstown Dauphin County Christian Endeavor Unn Hummelstown Reformed Church George Edward Owes Market Square Presbyterian Church Harrisburg

Health of Women Wrecked by Ignorance

An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for women at all life stages. It claims effectiveness for irregular or painful periods, backache, headaches, and nervousness, touts alcohol-free composition from natural herbs, and offers the product in liquid or tablet forms with a free booklet.

Franklin Dr. Pierce Mary Lucas Otter St

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