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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1910
Page
12
A Sunday crowd at Hershey Park watched a boy spear a large sucker with an iron rod near the new concrete bridge at the park’s lower end. The incident drew quick talk as Italians from nearby Little Italy converged. Brownie claimed the fish and plans to tell the tale.
Master Malcolm and Miss Marion Murrie hosted a Saturday birthday party for their seventh and fourth birthdays. Boys played baseball while girls applauded a lively scene. Guests included Elsie Wick Eva Imboden Nissley Imboden Hugh Imboden Ruth Patterson Raymond Kasson Melba Kasson Joe Hills Dorothy Hills Harold Cain Martha Klein Henrietta Klein Robert Eppley Landis Kreider Annie Klauss Noah Klauss Edward Spross Charley Black Ethel Mowrer Mason Murrie and Esther Murrie.
In a bold letter to the editor Amelia admits she does not love Adam though she once used him to boost her standing as leading lady in a local show. She ridicules his interest, hints at moving on to another flame, and tells him to leave town. AMELIA signs the note with a taunting N B remark about his claim she cannot make love.
At the Hershey Volunteer Fire Company monthly meeting a committee was formed to purchase a bell for the fire house. Members George Eppley C W Glynn and Wm Brinker were named to consider the purchase, intended to aid on meeting nights by signaling when to assemble.
A brief meeting note mentions hoping for a bell and getting one quickly. It defines a kilowatt as almost exactly one and one third horsepower.
Hershey High School students host a Friday festival with ice cream cake soft drinks candy and other treats to raise funds for the school's Athletic Association. The event starts at six tonight at the high school.
Philadelphia prices for flour grains and poultry show quiet to firm trades. Wheat and rye futures range with No 2 red corn and yellow oats at steady to firm levels. Butter eggs and potatoes also show stable to steady reads with slight regional variances.
Live stock market report from Pittsburg Union Stock Yards shows CATTS steady with primes 8.28 to 8.50, choice 7.90 to 8.20, SHEEP firm with prime wethers 6.85 to 7.00, lambs 5 to 8.75, veal calves 8.50 to 9. Hog prices firm with heavies and primes 11.25, mediums 11.15 to 11.20, heavy Yorkers 15 to 15.15, light Yorkers 11.10, pigs 10.80 to 10.95, roughs 10.00 to 10.50.
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