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Harrisburg Telegraph

Location

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Jun 29, 1916

Page

10

Lykens Valley Campmeeting Opens July 25 in Elizabethville

Special to the Telegraph Elizabethville June 29 The Lykens Valley Campmeeting Association of the United Brethren Church will open its annual gathering July 25 in the grove half a mile west of Elizabethville and run ten days through August 3. Rev J C Pease Rev C Angsettow and Rev O G Romig lead daily services with Homer Deitz as chorister and a large chorus. Cottage and tent rentals are managed by A M Romberger. Presiding Elder D D Lowery of Harrisburg oversees all services. officers include President I T Buffington Secretary J C Beitsfield and Superintendent of boarding house A M Romberger.

Elizabethville Lykens Valley The United Brethren Church Pennsylvania Railroad J. C. Pease C \angsettew J. C. Beitsfield A. M. Romberger

Diplomas For Graduates of Social and Personal News Teacher Training Class

Enola Pa June 29 Commencement exercises of the Methodist Episcopal Church teacher training class will be held tomorrow evening. The program includes music, invocations, essays by Beulah Parks and Sara Lackey, addresses by J L Young and Rev A S Fasick, duets, recitations, a class song, diploma presentation by A B Harnish, and a class roll. A banquet will follow at the First United Brethren Church festival room.

Enola Methodist Episcopal Church F. Grant Sleep Beulah Gertrude Parks J. L. Young Mechanicsburg Cumberland County Sabbath School Association Grace Stum Durrance Ejichel Sara Lackey Maude Beshore A. S. Fasick Harrisburg The Methodist Church Hilda May Wagner Esther Irene Reigel A. B. Harnish J. H. Eichel W. L. Troup Beulah G. Parks Helen A. Kuntzleman Hilda May Wagener Hazel G. Stum Durrance E. Bichel Esther I. Reigle W. H. Beshore Maude R. Beshore L. Mae Bitner First United Brethren Church W. M. Brenneman New Cumberland W. Martin Brenneman Market Street A. R. Ayres Trinity United Brethren Church Mount Olivet Cemetery

Central Pennsylvania News Casts A Wide Net Of Local Incidents

In Pottsville Lester Lesser, a Schuylkill Haven boy, was shocked into unconsciousness after grabbing a broken high tension wire. Harry Schumaker saved him. Reading reports include Elk’s State convention parking for 1500 autos, a 9-year-old with lockjaw after stepping on a carpet tack, and a Typographical Union effort to protect city forested mountains. Lansford notes a 5 1 2 pound bass from Haute dam. In Dauphin George Landis hosted a formal dinner at Sidnal with guests from Camp Hill, Harrisburg, Shiremanstown and beyond. Numerous visits and social gatherings occur in Shiremanstown, New Cumberland, Camp Hill, Harrisburg, and surrounding towns with lectures on Home Missions and family visits. Mt Union reports lightning damaging a 70-foot stack at the tannery boilerhouse during a storm.

Reading The Typographical Union Lansford Bert Kline Haute J. R. Hutchinson New Cumberland Penn Grove Pearl Albright Carlisle Snyder Sue R. Kaufman Hotel Iroquois George B. King Millard King Camp Hill T. 8. Wilcox Martin Bomberger Highspire Vernon S. Myers Johnstown H. M. Rupp Shiremanstown Margaret Wertz William Kepford F. D. Sears Barnett Sears Harrisburg George T. Jacobs B. McDonald Philadelphia Melvin S. Bowman Benjamin G. Baker Benjamin, Jr Churchtown Samuel Fleming E. H. Bitner Pleasant Retreat Peter Morris Gehr William W. Braught George H. Rupp United Brethren Sunday School

Horace D. Marsales Dies at 51 in New Market

Horace D. Marsales a traveling salesman died last evening at his New Market home after about two weeks with uremic poisoning. He was 51 and survived by his wife and two children. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made.

Horace D. Marsales Cumberland New Market

Hughes Victory Leads Predict Landslide for Republicans

Washington experts foresee a Republican landslide in the coming election with Hughes and Roosevelt aligned against Wilson. They flag New York as pivotal, estimate 45 electoral votes for the state, and note the Democratic campaign will focus on NY NJ OH IN and a few others while relying on the solid South for support.

Washington D. C Republican National Committee Charles E. Hughes Hughes Roosevelt New York Mexico Wilson Empire State Bull Moose New Jersey Ohio Indiana Solid South Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Ssrerivetee Wssee Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Mexico North Carolina North Dakota Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Toxas Cersees Utah Wecress Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Florida Georgia Texas Eli Wilson South White House

Organize Board of Trade at Hummelstown

Preliminary steps to form a Hummelstown Board of Trade completed at a borough meeting led by chairman Leroy Heller. Edward I. McColgin of Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce gave an address. A constitution committee, chaired by H. M. Horst, will report at a later session. Mrs Jane Speese of Philadelphia and Dauphin, 67, died at Ocean City New Jersey. funeral in Germantown Friday.

Hummelstown Edward I. McColgin Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce Leroy Heller Edwin H. Blessing H. M. Horst Homer H. Strickler Morris Wagner Dauphin Reed Jane Speese Ocean City N. J Philadelphia George Kinter Chicago Germantown

Pennsylvanian Dividend Declarations Highlight Railroad Earnings

Directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Pennsylvania Company announced quarterly and semiannual dividends. The Pennsylvania Company plans a 4 percent semiannual payout, with total 1916 dividends expected at $6.4 million versus $4.8 million in 1915. The railroad’s stock remains on an 8 cent basis, reflecting continued earnings. A feature notes Japan’s rice straw raincoats praised for centuries of waterproofing and a new Paris fabric praised for rain resistance, though fire risk and heavy saturation are noted.

Pennsylvania Railroad Pittsburgh Pennsy Pennsylvania Company Japan Nippon Popular Science Monthly Paris

Cleveland runner walks 11 thousand miles for prize

F. L. Balkan arrived in San Francisco after two and a half years of nonstop walking to win a $8,000 prize offered by the Cleveland Athletic Club for a circuit of 11,000 miles. He wore out fifty four pairs of shoes, made postcards on the road, and kept one haircut and four shaves during the journey.

San Francisco F. L. Balkan Cleveland Athletic Club Balkan

Operator's Sandwich Cost Firm 897.0 in Federal Court

A Missouri telegraph company was ordered to pay Morris & Co. packers 897,698.76 after an operator at the firm ate a sandwich when a fire alarm from the packing plant arrived, delaying response and causing a disastrous fire. The jury based damages on actual loss. Changes at Pennsylvania Road include Henry Wolf Bible named assistant general counsel, I B Thomas as assistant purchasing agent, and Eliot Summer as superintendent of motive power.

Kansas City Missouri District Telegraph Company Morris & Co Telegraph Company Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Railroad Henry Wolf Bible I. B. Thomas Williamsport Eliot Summer West Philadelphia

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