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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1916
Page
7
J W Johnston of Rochester New York plans a fund whose interest will decorate the grave of John Burns in Evergreen cemetery every July first. Burns died defending Gettysburg area during the 1863 Confederate invasion.
ALSPURE ICE promotes storage benefits for households claiming it keeps meats and other foods in good condition enabling buying in larger quantities.
The Sipe family reunion was held on Saturday at Williams Grove Do Little cottage in New Cumberland with many relatives listed as attendees from Paxtang Shiremanstown White Hill and other nearby towns. Other items note a gym class clock purchase for Dauphin grammar school a revived Dauphin Choral Society meetings and a Tower City wedding. Major General Goethals discussed retirement with President Wilson and Harrisburg Hospital announced a new resident physician Dr Humphrey W Gwynn of Tallahassee beginning July 1. Good Will Fire Co paid tribute to Dr Hare with a gold badge at Tabernacle Baptist Church.
American Telephone and Telegraph Company announces district plant headquarters in the Arcade Building Harrisburg under P M Hall to supervise work on long distance lines across Harrisburg division of Bell Penna, 42 counties in state and two in New Jersey. Hall from New Haven brings assistants who will reside in Harrisburg. Ada Paifley 18 Hershey seeks glass removed from throat at Harrisburg Hospital after a bottle of soft drink broke. She left the institution after treatment. Exercises will be held at Sixth Street United Brethren church for graduates of Harrisburg College and High School with addresses, recitations and music. Dr F E Downes to deliver main address. Graduates listed include Miss Mary Dougherty Lebanon Valley, Miss Nita Spangler, Homer Kreider, Penrose Hoover, George Troup.
Newport Outing Club of Newport Pa plans its annual car tour weather permitting for June 21. About seventy five members will travel to Lancaster via Elizabethtown for a Masonic home inspection then dine at the New Franklin. The group will tour Lancaster industries before returning through Lebanon to Harrisburg. Club officers are Dr William H Hoopes president and Lemuel W Strimmer secretary treasurer.
In South Norwalk Connecticut fire broke out in the kitchen during a wedding at James A Farrell's Rock Ledge home. The blaze destroyed the structure with an estimated 150000 dollars in losses. Mary Theresa Farrell wed Joseph B Murray earlier that day. Wedding presents valued at 50000 dollars were saved as guests and servants evacuated.
The Harrisburg Grocers Association met at the Metropolitan hotel to plan the annual picnic at Hershey Park on Monday August 10. A full committee was named with L G Orr as chairman and H E Crownshield as assistant chairman. The association will hold weekly meetings until the event. In a second item, minister Wallace R Knorr of Virginia accepted the pastorate at St Michael's Lutheran Church in Strasburg Pa.
Athens Pa June 20 The jinx haunts State Senator Charles E Mills of Athens as he campaigns for re election hindered by rheumatism and sanatorium care. Opponent Good Roads Jones won the nomination. Jones fell ill with acute appendicitis and had surgery at Sayre hospital where the appendix ruptured.
Governor Brumbaugh states Pennsylvania will promptly mobilize its guardsmen from Mount Gretna on Saturday and keep others ready if needed. He says the commonwealth has prepared for such an emergency and will act quickly to fulfill its duty.
Harrisburg hosts the State C. E. convention July 11 to 14 with nearly twelve hundred delegates registered from Harrisburg and nearby. A junior choir and booster rally are planned with a long list of committee appointments for music, reception, and lodging.
Waynesboro reporter says Israel Zuckerman of Waynesboro and Ada Kliman of Chambersburg will wed this evening at 7 at the bride's home. Zuckerman works with his father in the Middletown coal business.
An 19th century style advertisement asserts catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated internally. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a blood purifying tonic working on mucous surfaces, claiming physician endorsement and nationwide popularity. Also touts Hall's Family Pills for constipation with testimonials requested.
Oyster Bay June 20 After a conference with Theodore Roosevelt Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Massachusetts said he believed the former President would back Charles E Hughes in the coming campaign He noted Roosevelt appeared in better health than expected and that discussion focused mainly on Hughes not Mexico Lodge had earlier met Hughes and Republican National Committee members in New York Census of visitors to Sagamore Hill included C P Connell y A J Hopkins and other Progressive and Radical party figures from several states
Captain George F. Lumb of the State Constabulary gave an address on A True American at the Stevens Memorial Methodist church Men’s Bible class meeting. Special music came from the Sunday School Orchestra and refreshments followed for a large turnout.
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