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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1914
Page
9
Sunday closing committee of the Civic Council of Churches reports many dealers remained open and only a few complied. Next Sunday the open names will be published and prosecuted under the 1794 blue law, with fines or six days hard labor on a bread and water diet.
Special to The Telegraph lists numerous 1930s style weddings across Sunbury Harrisburg and nearby towns. Couples include C Dale Wolfe Ada Miller in West Lewisburg, Hovey Goodman Sunbury, Zink Hater Marietta, Leed Krunskop Mountville, Hoffsmith Stoner, Feigley Harman and Gilbert Fitzgerald with officiants from local churches.
Hershey Pa June 29 reports the first annual alumni banquet at the cafe with many graduates teachers and directors attending. Toasts followed the meal. Officers named include President Clarence Uhrich Vice President George Foreman and Secretary Treasurer Miss Catherine Witman.
Enola Pa June 29 The Enola Fire Company hosehouse festival drew large crowds Friday and Saturday with top prizes for cake collecting won by Florence Wynn and Catharine Swartz. A firecracker incident startled a horse, causing damage to a buggy and harness valued at about 60 dollars.
Marietta Pa June 29 Yesterday the Methodist Episcopal Church at Safe Harbor was rededicated after remodeling. It is among the county’s oldest churches dating to 1848 when iron industry thrived in the area. The old portion remains intact with sermons by Rev. Dr E C Griffith and Dr Hull of Millersville in the morning service. Rev Bawden led the afternoon and Rev W T Dunkle near Philadelphia delivered the evening sermon.
Dillsburg Pennsylvania June 29 a dispute between Morrett Coover proprietor of the Dillsburg Shirt Factory and the United Garment Workers of America ended with adopting the union wage scale. Wages for Coover’s workers will rise 62 percent and partners from Sweet Orr & Co. and the union pledged enough orders to keep the plant running full time and add staff.
On Saturday afternoon a large barn on Mrs. Mary Kalbflesh’s farm near Greencastle was completely burned in a severe thunderstorm. The stock was saved, but all other contents were destroyed.
Stoverdale Pennsylvania June 29 Miss Helen Runyan Miss Blanche Williams Miss Katharine Williams Frank Williams and Robert Williams of Bloomsburg with Miss Marguerite Engle Miss Edna Engle and Homer Engle enjoy a ten day house party at Clyffest cottage Also several social visits and cottage stays at Oleander Emory Villa Seldom Inn and Sylva cottage with local residents and Harrisburg trips noted
Mechanicsburg Pa June 29 The Boy Scouts, reorganized under Rev Charles I Raach, show growing interest as several new members join. A hike to Eric s Bridge two miles north of town was enjoyed by the scouts this afternoon.
West Donegal Pennsylvania June 29 Miss Florence Garber of near Maytown and Walter A Herr of this place announce their engagement. The wedding date has not been set.
Lewistown Pennsylvania June 29 General J P Taylor of Reedsville dies suddenly at 87 after a parade weakness and a lightning struck outbuilding incident. Born 1827 he rose from first lieutenant to brigadier general and fought in twenty seven Civil War battles earning commendations.
Recent death notices span Sunbury Elizabethtown Millersville and surrounding towns. Mary Jane Kelley aged 72 died of paralysis at Mary M. Packer hospital. John B. Witmer 93 a former minister died at Elizabethtown. A G Hamaker 65 died after long illness in Sporting Hill. Ella McGuigan 84 died in Millersville. Susan Miller died in Sunbury at her daughter's home after two years of illness. George T. Gold 84 Civil War veteran and retired miller died at his McEwensville home. A C Wolverton 64 died in Sunbury of complications of disease.
Maurice Hinkle and Violet May Strine, both of Hershey, were married at the bride's parents' home. Rev. N L Linebaugh officiated. The groom, a noted Hershey baseball player, left for a Niagara Falls wedding trip with his bride. Mechanicsburg reports Christian Myers from near Lancaster injured when driven by a traction engine horses broke loose, breaking his right leg and causing internal injuries.
A quiet Dauphin ceremony united Miss Nellie Garverich and Lewis Heck at 8 AM in the Methodist Church parsonage. The bride, popular musician daughter of William and Mrs. Garverich, wore dark blue moire silk. the groom, a chemist with Pennsylvnia Milk Products Co., is the son of George and Mrs. Heck of Dauphin. They left for Washington and then on to Harrisburg.
Floyd H. Smith son of Mr and Mrs David C Smith was painting the exterior of Jeremiah Fickes Fourth street when a ladder slipped from an iron bracket dropping him twenty five feet. He sustained a dislocated wrist and numerous bruises and was treated by Dr C E DeLancey.
In Blain Pennsylvania on June 29 the Southwest Madison Township school board elected teachers for the term at Stony Point Elia Phenicie forty dollars Sheaffer's Valley Samuel Shope forty dollars Clark's Grace Zimmerman fifty dollars Cisna Run Seibert Barclay forty dollars Center Jay Smith forty dollars Andersonburg Olive Hench forty dollars and Green Grove Mae Moyer forty dollars. In Dillsburg the Rossville Evangelical Lutheran Church named a building committee for church renovations: Mrs. Margaret Spangler Mrs. Lottie Bowersox C Z March and Charles G Ellicker.
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