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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1915
Page
6
Clergymen nationwide urge Sabbath observance as Methodist leaders press Brumbaugh and Mayor Royal to block Sunday Capitol openings for excursion crowds. Sermons at multiple churches highlight worship of the Lord’s Day with titles like Guard the Sacred Day and Calling the Sabbath a Delight.
Dauphin County Sabbath School Association holds its twenty-ninth annual meeting June 24 and 25 at St. Peter's Lutheran Middletown. Sessions include registration, devotions, addresses by Rev. Fuller Bergstresser and others, reports by officers, and committee appointments.
The St Matthew's Lutheran Church congregation marks its first anniversary with services led by Rev Dr J A Singmaster at 10 30 am and 7 30 pm. New members will join, cradle roll day observed, and children will be baptized. A Monday reception follows in the social rooms.
Grace M E Church plans a special service honoring thirty members returning from preparatory schools and colleges. Ten minute talks by Wilbur Townsend Boas Sites and Frank Heen will lead the program with H B Sassaman presiding and Charles W Bell giving the welcome.
Harrisburg and vicinity Lutherans prepare for an annual reunion at Reservoir Park next Thursday with Luther Minter as chairman. Speakers include Rev. Dr. J. B. Simon of Hagerstown and A. H. Durboran of Pittsburgh. Loysville Orphan School band will perform, games planned for youth, under Lutheran Brotherhood auspices.
Multiple incidents across central Pennsylvania report Civil War veteran Peter Deeter’s death at 74 in Shamokin after a noted duel at Gettysburg. In Lancaster County a horse kick led to leg amputation for Charles Bowers near Elizabethtown. Hazleton mourns Joseph Ward, 72, a leading G. A. R. member, from a shell fragment removed post 1864. Allentown sees William Lichtenwalmer held for trial on pool ticket sales. York reports manslaughter charges against Harry Landes and William Stahle after a fatal auto collision. Pottsville notes a coal mine accident at Oakhill Colliery causing Michael Minkel’s death. Pottsville also records a minimal will bequest by Arthur J. Pilgrim.
A new motorcycle owned by B. B. Brosius of Barnesville Maryland was found badly broken on the public road along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal at Weverton with no trace of the rider. Officers are attempting to locate Mr. Brosius.
The Stevens Memorial Methodist church opens a new sermon series with Rev. C A Smucker presenting Rachael in Love at First Sight. Next Sunday he preaches Ruths Love in the Barley Field at the same church. Civic Council of Churches meets June 22 at Zion Lutheran to elect a new president and discuss other business. Frank C Bosler hospitalized after being thrown from an untrained colt in Carlisle.
Blain Pa June 19 Between six and seven thousand people visited Tressler's Orphan Home Loysville for Visitors Day. More than 600 autos and trains carried hundreds of passengers. The day featured songs drills and recitations by students the Home band and a boys military drill. Five graduates received diplomas Rowland Le Roy Fowler Isaac Milton Craig Benjamin Filmore Jumper Merritt Dewey Detweiler Lorene Eleanor Kennedy. Charles H. Shanck Gettysburg Pa addressed the audience and the Board of Trustees president presented the diplomas.
Professor William Bowman resigns as principal of Lemoyne high school and a successor will be elected at a local board meeting tonight with an assistant principal to be chosen. Bowman, a 1907 founder and longtime educator, previously served Cumberland County schools for 25 years. Edith Mumma also departs as assistant recital leader, and several capable successors are seen as in view. THREE GIRLS TO LEAD Y P S C E at Christ Lutheran church will hear Miss Katz Sanders and Ferguson in a talk titled Christ's Call to the Young Women of Today.
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