Hanover Resolves Precede Independence Day by Two Years
Reading from Hershey Library history, Hanover Township frontiersmen in Dauphin County signed the Hanover Resolves on June 4, 1774, a full two years before the Philadelphia Declaration. The Scotch Irish pioneers, later memorialized on local gravestones, backed liberty with rifles and helped spark the American Revolution.
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Hershey
Philadelphia
Hanover
Hanover Township
Dauphin County
Lancaster County
Great Britain
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Memory Stretchers and Hershey News of 1915
Travel over the Hershey Elizabethtown trolley ran 600 to 1 000 fares daily with higher Sunday totals. The Hershey Company Christmas Fund reached 18 000 dollars. Robert D Stover bought land on West Caracas Avenue as building work progressed. Gruber's barber shop advertised three chairs no waiting near Yingst's Store in Derry Church. The Hershey Press building neared completion with six miles of steel beams. The yearly grippe warning appeared.
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Hershey Press
Elizabethtown
Robert D. Stover
Areba Street
Hershey Improvement Company
Caracas Avenue
AP Setee
J. E. Gruber
Yingst
Derry Church
Committees Named For Major Martin Testimonial Dinner
Committee appointments announced to arrange a testimonial dinner for Major Thomas F. Martin of Hershey American Legion post and Pennsylvania State Police Training School. Dinner July 17 at 6 30 p m at Park Golf Club with co chairs Joseph J. Huss and Harold S. Mohler leading.
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Thomas F. Martin
Hershey American Legion
The
Park Golf Club
Martin
Hershey
American Legion
Pennsylvania
Ralph Shadle
Elizabethville
19Th Legion
Raymond Weaver
Middletown
Gene Buggy
Lykens
Dave Nevinger
Edwin C. Miller
Harold S. Mohler
Harry R. Knoll
James R. Yeager
Charles J. Buchinsky
J. Ben Dobson
Harrisburg
HHS Graduate Joins Navy Waves from Hershey High
A Hershey High School graduate, Audrey D. Detweiler, joins the Waves at Bainbridge Maryland. The Harrisburg Navy Recruiting Station announced her enlistment, and she is the daughter of Mrs. Bertha B. Shroyer of 1100 East Derry Road Palmyra.
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Hershey High School
Navy
U. S. Navy
Harrisburg
Audrey D. Detweiler
Bertha B. Shroyer
Derry Road
Palmyra
Palmdale
Detweiler
Waves
Naval Training Center
Bainbridge
Physician Listed For Weekend Care In Hershey
The Hershey News lists Dr. L. G. Fetterman as available for week end care when your family physician cannot be reached. He also handles accident cases and transient patients. Call 3 8956 at 41 W. Caracas Ave or contact the Hershey operator for July 3 4.
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Hershey News
L. G. Fetterman
Caracas Ave
Hershey
Call to Worship Services Across Local Churches
A compiled church notices listing schedules for call to worship services at Derry Presbyterian Church Westminster Fellowship and Westminster areas, Spring Creek Church of the Brethren, Holy Trinity, First Evangelical United Brethren, St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church and others with service times, Sunday schools, and pastors named notable for each congregation.
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Derry Presbyterian Church
Church School
Westminster Fellowship
Church Lawn
W. Sheldon Blair
Spring « Creek
Church of the Brethren
J. Herbert Miller
the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity
The
Stephen Schullery
First Evangelical United Brethren Church
Thomas W. Guinivan
St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church
Areba Ave
Anthony J. Mayan
Dominick A. Mammarella
Fishburn
Evangelical United Brethren
Union Deposit Evangelical United Brethren Church
J. R. MacDonald
United Christian Services
Balsbaugh’s Church
New School Head Tu Reside in Cocoa Avenue Home
Derry Township announces Dr. L Eugene Jacques will live at 205 Cocoa Avenue with his wife Dana Raleigh and children Beth and Bobby. Board approves repairs to prepare the home and lists vacancies for next year including Fourth and Fifth Grade teachers and a junior high industrial arts post. Principal Lange to arrange a substitute for Charles Eyler called for military service. Vocational Lab moves rooms 229 to 230 and corridors will connect the vocational school with elementary and high school buildings.
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Derry Township
L. Eugene Jacques
Cocoa Avenue
Jacques
Dane Raleigh
Beth
Bobby
Jersey Shore
George D. Lange
Charles Eyler
Eyler
Vocational Science Laboratory
Ten 754 Grads Enter Navy
The U S Navy Recruiting Station at Harrisburg announces the enlistment of ten area graduates from Hershey High School Milton Hershey School or Hershey Junior College. Recruits at Bainbridge Maryland include Edward R Petrucci Glenn E Zeigler Joseph P Butch Jr Richard E Bomgardner George E Grace Robert D McCann Henry G Rott Alan L Evans Richard S Piergallini and Randall M Waybright.
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U. S. Navy
Harrisburg
Hershey High School
Milton Hershey School
Hershey Junior College
U. S. Naval Training Center
Bainbridge
Maryland
Edward R. Petrucci
West
Aretha Avenue
Glenn E. Zeigler
Granada Avenue
Joseph P. Butch, Jr
Swatara Street
Swatara Station
Richard E. Bomgardner
Hummelstown
George E. Grace
Middletown
Robert D. McCann
Elizabethtown
Henry G. Rott
Annville
Milton Hershey
Alan L. Evans
Richard S. Piergallini
Linden Road
Randall M. Waybright
Hershey
Promotion of Joseph R. MacDonald at Osan Air Base
Joseph R. MacDonald, stationed at Osan Air Base Korea, receives a recent promotion to Airman Second Class reflecting continued rank advancement and service alignment within the unit.
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Joseph Richard MacDonald
Osan Air Base
Korea
Air‘man
Hershey Dominates Tennis Match Series Shows 25th Victory
Hershey men sweep York 6-3 at York behind Calkins McCool Borland Barron and Snyder in singles with Hinkle and Burgoon taking key wins. Doubles see Calkins Burgoon and Borland Myers prevail as Hershey extends win streak.
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Hershey
York
Jack Calkins
Earl Frey
John McCool
Jim Higgens
Mark Borland
John Katz
Nat Barron
Jack Burgoon
Les Snyder
John Myers
Sam Hinkle
Dick Humbert
Calkins-Burgoon
Barron-Humbert
Borland-Myers
Frey Higgens
Paul Speice-Snyder
McCool-Hinkle
Sunday Hershey
Hinkle-Kauffman
Medlar-Keller
Marcocci-Spangler
Witenski-Hildebrand
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Floyd W. Noye
America
England
Central
Frederic A. Godcharles
Patrick Henry
Lexington
Susquehanna River
Hershey Company
HHS
Navy Waves
All Saints Episcopal Mission
Lyndon Hess
Cational School
Carl Erdmann
Jack Berkley
Ray Impink
Bob Rice
Charles Guthrie
Bloom-Bynack
Calkins-Eisen
McCool-Burgoon
Erdmann-Vo
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