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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1912
Page
5
There is promise of real ragtime in at least one program of the Chautauqua next fall. Signor Ciricillo, the conductor of Ciricillo's Italian Band.
Signore Ciricillo praises ragtime and two steps saying a conductor must be a skilled musician with strong phrasing. He notes ragtime’s syncopation and the effect of forte or piano. He recalls a ragtime piece with trombone passages that his players initially balked at but then warmed to after explanation.
The seventeenth annual State Y M C A Bible conference will convene at Mt Gretna from August seventeenth to twenty fifth. Prominent speakers include Scofield Stine Chafer Fox Ulrich and Pettingill with J Raymond Hemminger leading music. Y M C A men and Christian workers from across the state will attend for training and discussion.
Zembo Temple members of the Knights of the Mystic Shrine will hold their annual picnic at Mt Gretna today. A special train leaves Pennsylvania Station at 1.50 p m. G W McKhenny is in charge. The day includes amusements a Zembo Patrol drill and a Zembo band concert in the evening.
A saying notes that no man has starved for remaining silent, implying silence protects rather than harms in tense situations. The remark emphasizes the value of restraint and discretion in dangerous or sensitive contexts.
Miss Hilda Finegan is seriously ill at home on Penn Street. Ada Y. Pierce spent Sunday in Harrisburg. J C Rutherford with family on Rife Street. Funeral held for Mrs Thomas Holland at St Marys Catholic Church Middletown. Interment in Middletown cemetery. Herbert Smith of Reading visited his parents. Harold Kauffman on Penn Street vacationing at Hershey with A W Snavely family. Miss Ethel Pierce visited Dorothy Howden of Steelton. Helen Sidelein of Hoboken visiting her mother Elizabeth Bryans. Miss Mary Hite spent Monday with Reuben Coble family.
Schmidt, newly elected Tax Collector, read taxation statutes aloud and sent bills for unusual taxes including a $16 charge for two goats owned by O’Brien on the Heights. O’Brien confronted him, demanding authority for a tax on goats, while Schmidt cited a highway frontage tax from Section 1,492.60n.
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