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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1917
Page
13
Manager Magaro announces Independence week engagement of The Little American starring Mary Pickford. The wartime drama offers stirring land and sea war scenes and follows an American girl trapped in a French chateau amid battle.
The Colonial presents The Dark Road with Dorothy Dalton in a realist vampire drama about a husband who misses his wife's infidelity while she conducts clandestine meetings. The program also features a Charlie Ray film The Pinch Hitter, a Love's Sunset re-issue, and Vaudeville acts at Paxtang Park and Majestic.
Mrs John Renninger hosts the Ladies Organized Bible Class No 7 of the Bethel Church of God in Shiremanstown. Visitors include Miss Martha Miller of Penbrook and families from Warwick N Y New Cumberland and Lancaster. Several locals travel or visit relatives as social news highlights frequent intertown connections.
Mount Union Pa June 30 The superintendent reports over three hundred school and home gardens run by children this first year Alumni Association banquet with about seventy attendees including toastmaster Cloyd B Ewing July 4 planned events Red Cross and fire company prepare big Independence Day celebration Rev Crossman resigns to lead a church near Coatesville Ilvan J Houck named grade school principal local teachers attend State College for six week summer program
Mifflintown Pa June 30 The annual commencement at Mifflintown High School lists sixteen graduates led by John G. Bousum Helen Penny Chester C Bashore Martha Kathryne Dunn James W Kyle Edward McNeal Kathleen Kartz Warren Bachman James Rown Herman Strassburger Kathryn Banks Helen Lewis Grace Deene Kurtz Kauffman George Smith Miss Grace Evans Lancaster guest of Miss Hazel Auker arrivals and local visitors noted including relations from Lewistown Downingtown Sturgis Driftwood Academia Eaglesmere Japan Davenport Iowa and other nearby communities. Collected social visits accompany the ceremony.
In Marysville on June 30 a local hiking crowd enjoyed a two mile trip to Alexander farm with dancing and music. The vaudeville trio Miss Thea Lightner Miss Winnie Lightner and New Alexander performed short skits for guests including Miss Anna Wagner Miss Romaine Benfer and many others while refreshments were served. Sermon and church services followed in Allen Pennsylvania with notes of attendance and social visits. Names of attendees from Harrisburg Gettysburg and Carlisle appear among local residents and guests.
Elizabethtown Pa June 30 patriotic Sunday observed at Christ Reformed Church with a 7 30 p m program by the Men's Bible class featuring a prelude prayer welcome address by G W Dulebohn Star Spangled Banner reading Declaration of Independence Roy Hellman music by orchestra recitation Dorothy Ricker chorus The Flag Without a Stain and Sydney Rodney's Ride readings and vocal solos by A hl Reem Tillman a solo and other readings
Firestone's court victory over Perlman Rim patent proceedings ends a costly royalty era for automakers and owners, eliminating an estimated 1.5 to 2 million dollars annually. The trial exposed Perlman’s connections and prior misconduct, shaping industry history in the demountable rim dispute.
Ethel Staples, an Englishwoman, reports in a London letter to the CEO that she has driven an eight cylinder Cadillac ambulance seven days a week for three months. She says everything is going lovely and asks for a instruction book to learn the car's mechanical construction.
The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company reports thirty six new motorcars in six divisions used for tire testing. From 1915 to 1916 at least forty two other cars were worn out in this service. Testing tires under harsh road conditions proves tire quality beyond laboratory formulas.
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