Milton Karns Dies at 47 in Cumberland Valley
Milton C Karns, 47, longtime Cumberland Valley resident and former borough council president, died at his High Street home from heart trouble. A patternmaker at Bethlehem Steel Works in Steelton for 14 years, he served in civic and fraternal roles and is survived by his wife, sister, two nephews and two nieces. Funeral plans not announced. Sermon by Superintendent Swartz at Harrisburg district communion service followed.
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Mechanicsburg
Milton C. Karns
High Street
Karns
Bethlehem Steel Works
Steelton
Internal Revenue
Harrisburg
Trindle Spring Lutheran Church
Melita Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Washington Camp
P. O
Singer Band
E. R. Wiland
Mrs Velma Gray Sees Feet Swell No More With Tanlac
Mrs Velma Gray of Harrisburg Pa describes severe swelling and burning in her feet and limbs. She says Tanlac improved her condition quickly and now she can walk and work without suffering. Tanlac is sold at several local pharmacies including Gorgas Drug Store in Harrisburg and W G Stevens Pharmacy Carlisle.
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Velma Gray
North Seventh Street
Harrisburg
Gorgas
Carlisle
W. G. Stevens
Elizabethtown
Albert W. Cain
Greencastle
Charles B. Carl
Middletown
Colin S. Few
Waynesboro
Clarence Croft
Mechanicsburg
H. F. Brunhouse
Free self treatment for rupture promotes PLAPAO pad
A historic advertisement warns that 7000 people die yearly from rupture and promotes a home trial of the PLAPAO pad as a scientific, safe alternative to trusses. It claims the device seals the hernial opening, remains in place while working or sleeping, and offers a free trial by mail from PLAPAO CO. in St. Louis.
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Plapao CO
St. Louis
Man Dies by Suicide Near Leitersburg Road
Harry L. Stoops aged 38 committed death by his own hand at the home of his step brother Morris C. Sharrah along the Leitersburg road near the iron bridge. He had suffered tuberculosis and sought sanitarium admission but did not receive it promptly. His body was found by Mrs. Sharrah three hours later. he is survived by a daughter and a son.
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Waynesboro
Harry L. Stoops
Morris C. Sharrah
Leitersburg Road
Iron Bridge
Agin
Young Stoops
White Pine
Mont Alton
Food Conservation Train to Visit Mechanicsburg Saturday
Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania June 17 on Saturday June 22 the Pennsylvania food conservation train arrives to teach canning and drying of fresh fruit vegetables and meat. Demonstrations will run with lectures at 10 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon plus an exhibit of home drying appliances. Director Howard Heinz leads the visit from the Food Supply Department and the Girls Military Services Corps will assist.
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Mechanicsburg
Pennsylvania Food Conservation
Howard Heinz
Food Supply Department
Committee of Public Safety
Military Edvices Corps
Ill at home of daughter Mrs Givler aged 95
Mrs Mary Givler aged 95 has been ill for a week at the home of her daughter Mrs Jacob N Strock in Trindle Spring near Mechanicsburg She attends Trinity Lutheran Church and is active for her years Her daughter Mrs John T Lamb also lives in Mechanicsburg Married at Washington Clarence W Glover and Amy Washabaugh were wed at the Methodist Episcopal parsonage Washington DC The groom's brother W H Clever Jr attended The couple will reside in Washington
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Mary Givler
Mechanicsburg
Mary Hummel Givler
Jacob N. Strock
Trindle Spring
Givler
Trinity Lutheran Church
John T. Lamb
Washington
Waynesboro
Clarence W. Glover
Amy Washabaugh
K. Harper Washabaugh
Methodist Episcopal Parsonage
Washington, D. C
Hayes
W. H. Clever, Jr
Clever
Waynesboro High School
West Chester Normal School
Children's Day Services Highlight Local Churches
Mechanicsburg pa June 17 events featured young participants in Children's Day services at the Presbyterian Church with baptisms. The offering supported Sunday school missions. St Mark's Lutheran Bible school and Grave Evangelical Church held services, with Grave Evangelical newly lit and auditorium recarpeted after reopening.
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Mechanicsburg
Presbyterian Church
St. Mark’s Lutheran Bible School
Grave Evangelical Church
Farmers' Institutes Held at Landisburg and Millerstown
Perry County Board of Farmers' Institute Managers voted to hold institutes this year at Landisburg and Millerstown. Clark M. Bower of Blain serves as board chairman.
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Farmers’ Institutes
New Bloomfield
Perry County
Perry County Soldier Serving in Canal Zone
Earl G Waldsmith of Blain enlists January 4 1917 and trains at Port Slocum NY now with Company K Twenty-ninth Infantry Camp Gaillard canal zone Panama. His father John M Waldsmith of Jackson township is Civil War veteran. He has not been home since enlisting. Halifax Pa June 17 Joel Hert guest of honor at family dinner with relatives from Millersburg Fisherville Enders and others.
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Blain
Earl G. Waldsmith
Army
Port Slocum
N. Y
Company K
Twenty-ninth Infantry
Camp Gaillard
Canal Zone
Panama
John M. Waldsmith
Jackson Township
Waldsmith
Mer
Halifax
Joel Hert
Near Town
Ira D. Gephart
Elmer &. Hampton
Piece of German airplane sent from France to Halifax
Herman H. Richter an American ambulance driver in France sent a wood fragment from a German airplane shot down within Allied lines to his mother Mrs Carl Richter of Market Street. Richter joined last year with a State College unit and has been in France since fall.
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Halifax
Herman H. Richter
France
Carl Richter
Market Street
Richter
Lutheran Reunion in Fisherville Draws Local Crowd
The Fisherville Lutheran Church reunion will be held at W. H. Miller's grave in Fisherville on Saturday July 20. Music will be provided by the Loysville Orphans Home Band.
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Halifax
Fisherville
Ella Miller Weds Howard L Charles in Marietta ceremony
Miss Ella Miller of Marietta married Howard L Charles of Bainbridge Saturday in Kinderhook Church. Rev. N N Lower officiated. The couple will reside in Conoy township.
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Charles Miller
Marietta
Ella Miller
Howard L. Charles
Bainbridge
N. N. Lower
Kinderhook United Evangelical Church
Conoy Township
Ruth Rothrock and M J Shellenberger Wedding Announced
Marietta Pennsylvania notice of Ruth Rothrock and M J Shellenberger marriage with ceremony conducted in Chestertown Maryland by Rev J L Ward on a Monday in June.
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Marietta, Pa
Ruth Rothrock
M. J. Shellenberger
Chestertown
J. L. Ward
United Brethren Picnic Slated Near Town Park
Halifax Sunday school unit announces a picnic at Buffalo Park one mile north of town on Saturday July 13. Aimed at congregants and families, the event invites attendance, fellowship, and community activities in a summer gathering tradition.
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United Brethren
Halifax
United Brethren Sunday School
Buffalo Park
Etzweiler couple announce birth of son
Mr and Mrs Emanuel Etzweiler of near town Halifax Pa announce the birth of a son on Friday June 14 in the local residence.
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Halifax
Emanuel Etzweiler
Near Town
Etzweiler
Beckley Office Training School Promises Expert Instruction Harrisburg
Certificated Gregg Teacher Charles R. Beckley advertises Beckley's Office Training School at 121 Market Street Harrisburg offering Gregg shorthand bookkeeping and typewriting with night and day classes. The school claims 3000 square feet of space, individual desks, monthly progress reports, high quality teachers and postgraduation placement in the Harrisburg area. Free Saturday courses and a free test-out option are promoted along with bell phone numbers for inquiries.
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Charles R. Beckley
Gregg
Eastern Commercial Teachers’ Association
Beckley
Market ST
Kaufman's
Harrisburg
Bell
Series of Accidents to Adams County Children
Gettysburg Pennsylvania June 17. A week of mishaps befalls three children living near Gettysburg within a mile of each other. Grace Sullenberger, 9 to 13, tramped on glass and a nail injuring her foot and later was gored by a bull. Norman Rudisill, 9 or 9s, nearly lost a foot after a mower blade struck his leg while hiding in tall grass. George Williams sustained a leg wound from two hay fork prongs above the knee while working on a farm.
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Gettysburg
Grace Sullenberger
Norman Rudisill
York
George Williams
Negro Shoots Fellow Employee at Stone Quarries
In Hummelstown on June 17 Robert Robinson of Waltonville was jailed in Dauphin County after shooting fellow employee Robert Johnson, also of Waltonville, at the Walton quarries. Robinson fired five shots. Johnson was hit once in the left arm and to be taken to Harrisburg hospital for bullet removal.
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Hummelstown
Robert Robinson
Waltonville
Dauphin County
Robert Johnson
Walton Quarries
Robinson
Johnson
Harrisburg
Dance for Newlyweds in Harrisburg Honor at Erie Street Home
A informal dance in Erie street Erie street Harrisburg honored newly married couple Mr and Mrs Harry Delone. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Floyd Hopkins Mr and Mrs Aloysius Delone and Miss Mabel Wilbert from Harrisburg who drove to Dauphin on Saturday evening.
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Dauphin
Floyd Hopkins
Aloysius Delone
Harry Delone
Mabel Wilbert
Harrisburg
Bertha Sellers
Erie Street
Informal Dance By Miss Ethel Forney Aids C A O Society
Dauphin Pennsylvania June 17 A delightfully informal dance was given Saturday evening in Hawthorne's hall by Miss Ethel R Forney a member of this year s graduating class of the Harrisburg Central High School for the 1918 members of the C A O Society Refreshments were served to Misses Emma Keeney Kathryn Breckenridge Nancy McCullough Helen H Hoffman Lillian Speakman Elizabeth Speakman Kathryn Roeder Mildred Sheesley Helen Levy Eleanor Jones Miss Forney Willard Smith Kenneth Thomas Edwin Rockefeller Wilmer King Fred Wright Robert Wallower William McBride Herbert Meyers Louis Kraybill Harold Martz and Jay Stoll
Red Cross asks Dr. Cooper to organize coast hospital unit
Sunbury Pennsylvania June 17 The American Red Cross appeals to Dr E B Cooper Sunbury to organize a naval station emergency hospital unit in Northumberland county ready to respond at any date to coast war hospital calls nationwide The letter says age is not a bar to service and there is no age limit.
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Sunbury
American Red Cross Today
E. B. Cooper
Naval Station
Northumberland County
United States
Cooper
Sunbury Doctors Asked to File War Service Questionnaires
Sunbury doctors of military age were ordered to complete questionnaires outlining special qualifications for war work. Physicians over draft age and under 50 were also urged to fill out forms and offer foreign service if required by the Government.
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Sunbury
Heavy peach crop forecast in Snyder county belt
Middleburg Pennsylvania reports in Snyder county peach belt indicate a harvest likely to be one of the heaviest in 25 years. Farmer H. H. Grim states the crop will double last year’s yield based on gathered information.
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Middleburg
Snyder County
H. H. Grim
Suburban Notes Rumors From Williamsport to Blain Area
Suburban notes record visits and travel across towns including Williamsport Dickinson Seminary guest Edna Albert and former pupil Puera Robison, visits by Rev G C Cramer, and residents such as Hazel Resh and G H Knox. Other items note Olive Martin in Lancaster county, Frysingers return from Hershey, Ritner moving to Blain, and Arthur Martin registrant in Blain.
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Liverpool
Edna Albert
Williamsport Dickinson Seminary
Puera B. Robison
G. C. Cramer
Annie Stailey
Zella Flickinger
Hershey
Percy Boughey
Montandon
William H. Hoon
Carlisle
Howards Shuler
Martinsburg Family Visits Relatives. York Travel Notes
Ralph Hawthorne and family from Martinsburg W Va spent the weekend with relatives in town. Philip Deimler of Harrisburg visited W P Shuey. Miss Mary Greenawalt visited friends in York last week. Richard Earnest and family and Mrs Jacob Martz with Miss Mamie Earnest left for South Bethlehem for several days. Use McNell s Cold Tablets Adv.
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Ralph Hawthorne
Martinsburg
W. Va
Philip Deimler
Harrisburg
W. P. Shuey
Mary Greenawalt
York
Richard B. Earnest
Jacob Martz
Richard Earnest
Mamie Earnest
South Bethlehem
Columbia Boy With Machine Gun Battalion in England
Columbia Pa June 17 Mr and Mrs Fred Rost of South Third Street have been informed of the arrival of their son James E Rost in England with Company B One Hundred and Ninth Machine Gun Battalion He states he is well and enjoyed the trip very much.
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Columbia, Pa
Fred Rost
South Third Street
James E. Rost
England
One Hundred and Ninth Machine
Mrs Ursula Huber Drowns at Stone Quarry Near Columbia
Mrs Ursula Huber 55 wife of Otto Huber general manager of Gary Silk Company's plant in Columbia was found drowned at Bongarts stone quarry near her home early Saturday. She had been ill and suffered melancholia with a married son a daughter and a 10 year old son surviving.
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Otto Huber
Columbia
Ursula Huber
Gary Silk Company
Ast Columbia
Bongart
Huber
Children’s Day Flags Parade at Methodist Church
In Gettysburg Pennsylvania on June 17 children’s day services were held at the Methodist Church with a patriotic program. A service flag bearing five stars was presented, one star being gold. Albert J. Lentz, the town’s sole war fatality in France, belonged to this church.
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Gettysburg
France
Albert J. Lentz
Dentist Joins Army Dental Corps From Sunbury
Sunbury dentist Dr. E A Brown enlisted in the United States Army and is ordered to report for assignment in Philadelphia. He will receive a lieutenancy and be placed in the dental corps.
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ARMY
Sunbury
E. A. Brown
United States Army
Philadelphia
Sunbury Board Offers Vocational Employment Certificates
Sunbury Pa June 17 Sunbury School Board announced that every student over 14 will receive a vocational employment certificate this year regardless of class standing to help relieve the local labor shortage.
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Sunbury
Sunbury School Board
W. A. Geesey
Geeesey
Horse Breaks Back in Farm Accident at Middleburg
In Middleburg Pennsylvania on June 17 a horse frightened by John Starr ran into a tree and sustained a broken back. Starr escaped with only minor injuries.
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Middleburg
John Starr
Starr
Nuxated Iron touted by famous officials and doctors
An advertisement extols Nuxated Iron as a powerful tonic and blood builder, citing endorsements from national figures and physicians. It urges a two week trial of five grain tablets three times daily after meals and promises refunds if unsatisfied. The copy claims wide usage and asserts superior absorption compared with older iron products.
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Leslie M. Shaw
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Atkinson
Court of Claims of Washington
Wm. L. Chambers
United States Board of Mediation and Conciliation
The
International Court
Samoa
Charles A. Towne
Minnesota
U. S
Richard Rolland Kenney
Delaware
U. S. Army
John L. Clem
Shiloh
David Stuart Gordon
Gettysburg
Wm. R. Kerr
Chicago
A. J. Newman
City of
Jefferson Park Hospital
James Francis Sullivan
Bellevue Hospital
New York
Westchester County Hospital
Boeing
United States Senate
House of Representatives
Croll Keller
J. Nelson
Geo. A. Go
Funeral services held for Clifton C. Gross in Clifton
Funeral services for Clifton C. Gross were conducted at his brother William Bell Gross’s Market Square home in Dauphin on June 17 after his death in New York City. Pallbearers included Harrisburg residents William Bell Corbett Harry Miller William Miller Nagle Miller and physicians Harry B. Greenawalt and Dr. William P. Clark.
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Clifton. Gross
Dauphin
Clifton C. Gross
New York City
William Bell Gross
Market Square
Edwin P. Robinson
William Bell Corbett
Harry Miller
William Miller
Nagle Miller
Harrisburg
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Morris E. Swartz
Methodist Episcopal Church
J. Ellis Bell
Tanlac
Mont Alto
Palm Beach
Ne “dl
Earl G
Nummelstown
Alice H. Fox
War Department
Ralph M. Fox
Twenty-eighth
United States Infantry
Adams County
Negro
DANCE
Society
Physicians For War Work
Olive Martin
H. H. Martin
Lancaster County
Clarence Patrie
Dayton
E. Harkins
Harry Ritner
the Woods
Kitner
George F. Stine
Harvey Frysinger
Charlotte
Frank
Grace Frysinger
J. A. Shumaker
Arthur M. Martin
Britt, Ta
W. H. Martin
McNell’s
Columbia Boy
Harry B. Greenawalt
William P. Clark
Mademoiselle
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