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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1915
Page
14
Md and Mrs George EB Wharton hosted a farewell party at 554 Woodbine Street for William W Wharton from Alliance Ohio who has been visiting. The event featured games music and refreshments.
The column lists social attendees including Miss Madalyn Stoner and others, plus Messrs. Clyde McKelvey John Ebersol Lawson Motter and more. It records Mrs. Earl F Lybarger visiting from Pittsburgh and families summering at Jenkintown and Atlantic City as well as Yale graduate Stewart Koser returning from New Haven.
An advertisement touts Putnam's Corn Extractor as a painless and dependable remedy for corns and calloused feet. It claims immediate relief with no scarring and no pain, selling 25 cent bottles everywhere and urging readers to buy today for quick recovery.
The Washington Camp No. 8 Booster committee meets this evening to take in new members before the quoit team gathers. the team aims for the A. G. Lehman pennant. Officers of Camp 8 will be installed Thursday evening with George Hohenshieldt as past president and George Mundorff as president, among others. Delegates Ed H. Weigle and W. H. Best, with alternates, were chosen to attend the State Camp in Reading in August. Other camps and local residents are noted with visits, travel, and routine social updates.
LeRoy B C Delaney of Washington DC, son of the late Captain Delaney, visits for legal matters and recounts experiences in Mexico City during the Carranza capture. He claims Mexico’s archy and US intervention as solution, and notes ties to Mexican timber interests and foreign-supply firms. Also includes assorted local society news with residents traveling, visiting relatives, and social visits across Carlisle, Harrisburg, Shiremanstown, and nearby towns.
Mr and Mrs Bruce E Drawbaugh of Altoona former Harrisburgers announce the birth of Bruce Eugene Drawbaugh Jr on Tuesday June 29 1915 Mrs Drawbaugh was Miss Lillian Smith of Mechanicsburg. Mr and Mrs Nauman Ruby of Boston Mass announce the birth of Harold Nauman Ruby on Sunday June 20 1915 Mrs Ruby was formerly Miss Dora Sheriff of Mechanicsburg.
Zella H Book daughter of J Thad Book of 1522 North Sixth street and J Edgar Shull of this city were quietly married this morning at Messiah Lutheran Church parsonage by Rev Henry W A Hanson. Bridesmaid Miss Miriam Book and Robert B Fortenbaugh attended. The couple left for an eastern honeymoon and will reside at Stamm Apartments 1317 Derry street after August 1. The bride graduated Central high and teacher training, has taught at Lincoln school. The groom is an assistant chemist in the State Department of Agriculture and an alumnus of Central high and Pennsylvania State College, member of Alpha Chi Sigma.
Miss Carolyn Reiley Mrs Charles Hannan and Miss Lottie Hoffer of Second and Pine streets travel to Buffalo to visit Mr and Mrs James McKendree Reiley. Mrs Hannan will spend July at the Marlborough Blenheim Atlantic City with Philadelphia friends.
City solicitor D S Seitz offers opinion on constructing comfort stations and an isle of safety in Market Square. He cites 1913 loan provisions allowing multiple facilities if funds permit and defines Market Square as the entire area between BlackBerry and Strawberry streets, with public highway status and no undue obstruction to traffic.
Miss Besse L Hubley daughter of Mrs Alpheus T Hubley of 508 North Third street and Edgar F McClintock of Emerald street son of the late Charles W McClintock married today at 9 o clock in Grace Methodist church Rev Dr John D Fox officiated in presence of immediate families Bride wore a dark blue street costume with hat to match They will reside in the Hubley Apartments after August 1 and start a wedding journey to Washington Norfolk New York and Atlantic City.
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