Substations to be made later for state police force
Substations will likely be established for the State Police in July or August after 102 new recruits are trained. The first recruits are at Pottsville barracks. a second squad will enlist on July 2. Four troop captains met Major John C. Groome to outline substations and meet summer crowd requests for patrol presence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pottsville Barracks
John C. Groome
Public Service Commission
Ashland
Centralia
Mt. Carmel
Shamokin and
Fayette County
Uniontown
Brigeton and Newtown Turnpike Or
Plank Road Company
Bucks County
Charles E. Pugh
National Guard
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Lancaster
State Bureau of Medical Education and Licensure
State Dairy and Food Division
New Company
Spring Garden Brick and Clay Products Company
York
Speeding and Disorderly Arrests Reported in Steelton
Steelton police under Chief Gardner crack down on late night speeding and disorderly conduct. A carload of tourists led to arrests after 1 am with Mrs Mary Chard and others named. hearings set for 7 30 pm. Summons issued to Harrisburg Transfer Co for traffic ordinance violation. Separate speeding arrest and a clash over removal of stationary showcases noted. Local church services listed for Sunday with times and pastors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steelton
Gardner
Mary Chard
North Sixth Street
Harrisburg
Marian Stouffer
Charlotte Rohler
Saford Street
Alois Jarrek
Harrisburg Transfer Company
Front Street
Paul St. Peter
Penn Street
Subscriptions expected to push Red Cross fund to $28,000
Canvassers in Steelton report five teams aiming for $20,000 with yesterday’s total at $18,102. Final noon Monday luncheon will reveal if $28,000 target is met as captains hold out for final decision. Team totals include M A Cumbler 3 378, T T McEntee 3 550, L E McGinnes 3 389, J A McCurdy 3 032, T J Nelley 4 553.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross Fund
Steelton
M. A. Cumbler
T. T. McEntee
L. E. McGinnes
Dr. J. A. McCurdy
T. J. Nelley
Gettysburg
Colonial Country Club
Cc. A. Alden
Miss Ester McNear Weds J Elmer Moyer in Harrisburg
Ester McNear daughter of Mr and Mrs B F McNear Sr of Bressler married J Elmer Moyer of Harrisburg by Rev G W Getz at Main Street Church of God. Bride wore gray gabardine with Killarney roses and sweetpeas. Bridesmaid Susan Schlosser wore gray silk. Best man John Harold. Couple to honeymoon west then reside in Harrisburg. Many relatives attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ester McNear
B. F. McNear Sr
Bressler
J. Elmer Moyer
Harrisburg
G. W. Getz
Main Street
Church of God
Killarney
Susan Schlosser
John Harold
Lester Green
Roy Hurst
West
B. F. McNear Jr
Alfred McNear
James Nesbit
William Bowers
Roy Schriner
Archie Thompson
A. Bressler
Calder Bruner
Mary Bruner
George Houdeshel
Lucile Houdeshel
Amanda Saer
Thomas Reigle
A. J. Moyer
John Harbold
Robert Shultz
Charles Nesbit
Steelton Lodge To Assist Middletown Degree Work
The degree team of Steelton Lodge No. 411 Knights of Pythias will assist in the degree work of Middletown lodge next Tuesday evening. Fractures Ankle James Dayhoff 28 South Third street is confined to bed with a fractured right ankle from swinging on a grape vine in Pine street woods. Plan Patriotic Service Plans for patriotic services at First Presbyterian Church on July 1 with Prof. L. E. McGinnes and Quincy Bent speaking at the evening service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steelton Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Middletown Lodge
St. John's Music
St. John’s Lutheran Church
L. B. Roth
Miss Reigle
William Kreig
First Presbyterian Church
Raymond
Mary B. Corbett
Ganon
Bumgert
Kuhlan
Lippa
Berceuse
Gounod
Hatton
James Dayhoff
South Third Street
Pine Street Woods
I. H. Albright
Middletown
United Brethren Church
Centenary United Brethren Church
First Presbyterian Arch
L. E. McGinnes
Quincy Bent
Middletown Board Seeks 25000 for Aeroplane School Fund
At a Board of Trade meeting President A H Luckenbill named a committee to raise 25000 for an aeroplane school. H J Wickey chairs with J J Landis E M Colquhoun S C Young and H H Kline. A meeting is planned for next Thursday evening.
Children Day Services at Neidig United Brethren Church in Oberlin
Oberlin reports Children's Day services in Neidig United Brethren Church main auditorium with a program titled Nature's Diadem of Praise by Sunday school youth and junior to senior department transfers. Funding for Loysville Orphans' Home raised $103 at Salem Lutheran Church. Local church attendees and community members shared news from weekly Christian Endeavor and Sunday School conventions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neidig United Brethren Church
Loysville
Salem Lutheran Church
H. F. Kiefer
Grant Smeltzer
Sherman Reinhower
Ella Beinhower
Christian Endeavor
Hershey
Mildred Eschenaur
Millersburg
Frank Linera
New York City
George Goodfellow
Philadelphia
R. H. Bergstresser
John Buchenauer
Newport
Auto Collision Hurts Three on Calder Street
Miss Loretta R. File 918 South Twenty first street drove a large touring car that collided with a Capital street car near Calder and Fourth. Miss Edith Stoneroad and Daniel File were treated at Polyclinic Hospital and later released. The car was thrown against a telephone pole after impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loretta R. File
South Twenty-first Street
Capital Street
Miss File
Edith Stoneroad
Daniel File
Calder Street
Fourth
Volunteers Increase Since All Infantrymen Go to Gettysburg Camp
The influx follows a War Department plan sending all infantry to Gettysburg Camp. Sixty two volunteers in four days show rising enlistment as recruiters note proximity to Harrisburg aids visiting friends. Peter J. Bond of 818 Capital Street, a retired U S army cook, has been called to recruiting duty amid emergency service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gettysburg
Harrisburg
Peter J. Bond
Capital Street
United States Army
War Department
Residents believe son near Pittsburgh was murdered
Walter Sunday, who lived alone at Walker's Mills near Carnegie, was found dead last Monday with four bullet wounds. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Sunday, say the injuries were not self inflicted and the house was ransacked with valuables taken. They intend to pursue the killers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. F. Sunday
North Fourteenth Street
Walter
Walter Sunday
Walker's Mills
Carnegie
City and Steelton Health Bureaus to Meet Monday
The Harrisburg and Steelton health bureaus plan a joint session Monday at 11 to decide steps against a smallpox outbreak after two cases were found. Hundreds of potential contacts, including many African Americans, have been vaccinated, with others to be examined. Isolation of patients is a primary concern, and one patient has been moved to the city smallpox hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Steelton
City
Arrangements Complete For Playground Season
The opening of the summer playground season was set for Monday after a morning meeting of instructors in the city council chamber. Supervisor Earl C. Ford urged cooperation to make it a record year with swimming classes for girls at each playground and special hours at Island or Seneca Street. Folk dancing classes to start the week of July 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl C. Ford
Island
Seneca Street
Scout Executive Committee to Organize Next Week
Harrisburg Council Boy Scouts prepare to organize standing committees and adopt a constitution and by laws. Scout Executive Joseph H. Stine attended Troop No. 7 meeting at Harris Street United Evangelical Church and discussed camp life as preparations begin for a troop camping trip within two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg Council Boy Scouts
Joseph H. Stine
Harris Street United Evangelical Church
Stine
Austria Nearing General Collapse Says Reports
London reports say Austria's ramshackle government is near collapse as Premier Count Clam-Martinic fails to form a cabinet. Widespread demands from diverse factions strain the minority and alarm the ruling class about the nation's future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Austria
Count Clam-Martinic
Benjamin Strouse Dies Former City Businessman
Benjamin Strouse, a former Harris burger, died today in Pittsburgh at age 52. He was brother to the late Joseph and Michael Strouse and uncle to William and Strouse of this city. Survivors include two sons, three daughters, and one sister Mrs R Fleishman of Carlisle. Strouse lived in Harrisburg from 1858 to 1890 and ran a business at Fourth and Market streets for many years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Strouse
Remarkable Showing of West Fairview Red Cross
West Fairview recently formed an auxiliary to the Harrisburg Chapter. On Thursday the group organized and by Friday enrolled eighty four members with a treasury of 94 dollars. Harrisburg residents Miss Helen Mcfarland and Mrs. Dismukes aided the effort. Officers named include Chairman Mrs. S. I. Cadwallader, Vice Chairman Miss Laura Martin, Secretary Miss Violet Rowland, and Treasurer Mrs. Sylvia Neidig.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Fairview
Red Cross
Harrisburg
Helen Mcfarland
Dismukes
8. I. Cadwallader
Laura Martin
Violet Rowland
Sylvia Neidig
Rotarians Plan U S Army Day Luncheon
Rotarians will hold a U S Army Day luncheon at the Elks Palm Room Monday at noon. Army veterans will be honored and officers from the local recruiting station will speak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tr. S
Palm Room of the Elks
Moral Coward Cries Miss Lusk in Wisconsin Shooting
In Waukesha Wisconsin on June 23 Miss Bessie Lusk a 42 year old Normal school teacher on a hospital cot declares the man she loved is a moral coward and laments the affair that led to the shooting of Mrs David Roberts and her own self. She criticizes him as a charlatan and notes a planned future with green pastures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukesha
Wis
Bessie Lusk
David Roberts
Green Pastures
Miss Lusk
R. E. Roberts
Waukesha Woman's Club
Ellen Key
Guard Enlistments Rise Rapidly in Pennsylvania National Guard
Pennsylvania's National Guard excluding federal service totaled 571 officers and 14,547 men on June 20, per Adjutant General Stewart. Federal-service units exceed 7,500 additional. Since June 10, the Guard gained 19 officers and 650 men. The breakdown lists First Cavalry 54/1,330 etc across artillery, infantry, engineers and auxiliaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
National Guard
Stewart
War Department
Guard
First Cavalry
First Artillery
Second Artillery
Always Man's Job to Keep Boys on the Farm
A milk train time change of one hour thirty five minutes on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway between Reading and Pottsville is blamed for prompting farm youth to quit. The Schuylkill Valley Milk Producers' Association says 168 members rely on the old schedule and complainants say the delay inconveniences farmers cultivating extra acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia and Reading Railway
Reading
Pottsville
Public Service Commission
Schuylkill Valley Milk Producers’ Association
Adapted dairy work hours spark farmer tensions
The report notes a new change requiring men to begin dairy chores at 3 30 and 4 a m while hired help refuse the early hours. It claims it has always been a man's job to keep boys and girls on the farm. MISS VIOLA MINERVA FISHER Funeral services for Miss Fisher will be held at her father's Berryhill street home Monday afternoon with Rev. Dr. Moses in charge. Interment will be at Paxtang. A Central High School graduate of 1916, she died yesterday near the 1917 class start, known in school circles and by many city friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viola Minerva Fisher
Wesley Fisher
Berryhill Street
Moses
Paxtang
Miss Fisher
Central High School
Oscar F. Conner
Susquehanna Street
Henry R. Bender
Delta
Hawkins
Jewish Congregation to Lay Cornerstone For Temple
The Kes her Israel synagogue will lay its cornerstone with ceremonies tomorrow. Services begin at 12 30 at the old Fourth and State location and at the new Capital and Briggs site. Judge McCarrell will speak. Fishman Rosenberg Haas Beidleman Lewis Rosenberg and others participate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kesher Israel
Fourth
State Streets
Capital and
Briggs Streets
J. M. McCarrell
Samuel Fishman
Robbi L. Silver
Robert Rosenberg
Deaths and Funerals Highlight Local Obituaries
Mrs. Susan Singer died after a brief illness at her son's home on Susquehanna Street. Her funeral will be at 8 PM at the home and Tuesday in Middletown, with burial in the Church of God. Also dying were Oscar F. Conner at 69, Millard I Brubaker at 60, and Miss Carrie Whiting with services set for Monday. store owner William J. Livinson faced a $20 fine for fireworks sales. Walter Cleland of 2647 Reel Street was arrested for drunken driving and traffic violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan Singer
Susquehanna Street
John A. Singer
Middletown
Church of God
Walter Cleland
Reel Street
Pretty Curls and Waves Acquired Overnight
A hair curling secret promises lasting curls and natural waviness. Apply a small amount of liquid silmerine at night with a clean toothbrush from root to tip, then wake to dried curls that look natural and a soft lustrous finish.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Henry Ellsworth Zerby
Alice Porterfield
Zerby
Steelton High School
Te University of Pennsylvania
Brumbaugh
John Levy
Coatesville
Richmond
Chris Cash
Kentucky
Tribus and
Massa
New York
Mack's CO
Market Street
Market Square
B. F. Barker
Phoning
Bell
Dial
News OF Steelton
Chief Gardner
Steelton Churches
St. John’s
G. N. Lauffer
First Methodist
W. H. Shaw
Royal Road
Edemnation
S. Ss
Epworth League
Miss Minnicau
Firts Reformed
H. H. Rupp
Jesus
P. m
Grace United Evangelical
J. K. Hoffman
KL. Co. B
Centenary ‘United Brethren
A. K. Wier
C. E
Jr. C. E
Sr. C
St. Mark's
Board of Trade
Board of Trade Eeing
A. H. Luckenbill
H. J. Wickey
J. J. Landis
E. M. Colquhoun
S. C. Young
H. H. Kline
W. P. Evans
Boston
Mass
U. S. Hospital Corps
John Kurtz, Jr
Ann Street
H. C._ Lindemuth
U. of P
Lloyd
George Welcomer
Mary
Bainbridge
D. P. Deatrick
George J. King
Nova Scotia
W. R. Farrington
Annville
M. P. Hocker
Emaus
St. Peter's Lutheran Church
Sherrick Hess
H. M. Hess
Emaus Street
John Houser
Ward Keever
Ward
Searenes
Elizabeth Rogers
Kathryn Essig
New Jersey
Edna Schaeffer
Atlantic City
Joseph Campbell
Ana Ettele
Jacob Schiefer
James
Harry Orner
John Welker
Helen
Ethel
Mt. Gretna
Welker
Jonathan Clouser
Charles Clouser
Allentown
Melvin Leonard, Jr
Oberlin
Edward Stauffer
John Brightbill
Counscil
Wenrick’s Church
Linglestown
Son
City and Steelton Health Bureaus
West Fairview Red Cross
Lusk
Sweetheart
Soutter
Department
Rey
Market St
Singer
Miss Whiting
Carrie Whiting
South Tenth Street
W. E. Ray
Lincoln Cemetery
William J. Livinson
Main
California
Goodrich
Oenerae Truth Goodrich
America
B. F. Goodrich CO
Akron, Ohio
The
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