Hershey Consolidated Adds Public School System Expansion
Derry township school board approved opening the Hershey Consolidated High School on August 30 and the grade schools on September 7, with compulsory attendance starting October 4. Lehman’s School closes to support the Hershey line expansion. about 25 students will ride the trolley from Elizabethtown. Hershey Transit offers five cent round trips, saving costs versus wagon transport. An extra classroom is being prepared in Hershey. Four outlying schools Gravel Hill Waltonville Sunny Side and Stoverdale remain separate with about 25 pupils each. Public auction for abandoned school buildings set for September 18 at 2 p.m. in Hershey. Board to bid coal and awarded general and art supplies contracts. Shenk presides, Snavey secretary.
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Derry Township
Lehman’s
Hershey
Elizabethtown
Hershey Transit Company
Hershey Consolidated School
Gravel
Hill
Waltonville
Sunny Side
Stoverdale
M. S. Hershey
Knowledge Hill
Hockersville
Milton Bradley Company
Philadelphia
Shenk
A. W. Snavely
Picnic at Boiling Springs Draws Four Hundred Hersheyites
Four hundred forty participated in the Hershey union picnic at Boiling Springs under the Sunday Schools of the Presbyterian United Brethren and Lutheran churches. A special train carried the group, the park offered boating and playgrounds, and a baseball game between the Married Men and the Girls ended 9 to 6 for the Girls with a star lineup and local players.
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Hershey Union
Boiling Springs
Presbyterian
United Brethren
Hershey
Swatara
Boiling Springs Park
Romig
Hershey Longner
Schaffer
Shamokin
Ray
Harahey
Rentz
Schaffore
Romigo
Virginia Hershey
Edna Carpenter
Sacha Hummel
Blanche Coopar
Anna Gordon
Bafila
Harrisburg Grocers Picnic At Hershey Draws Big Crowd
Harrisburg grocers hold their eighth annual Hershey picnic with 31 amusement events and 125 prizes. Three special trains and many extra trolleys bring thousands from Harrisburg and nearby towns for a day of parades concerts theater shows baseball and a baby parade.
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Force St
Independent Grocers
Harrisburg
Hershey
Commonwealth Band
Manhattan Opera Company
Opera Company Delights Crowds In Her Shey Run
Robert Kane and the Manhattan Opera Company receive warm applause despite rain. performances of la Diavolo and The Mikado draw strong encores and praise for Gus Vaughan Edith Carlisle and Rena Vaughan. closing Olivette to follow with vaudeville and films planned.
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Robert Kane
Manhattan Opera Company
Hershey
la Diavolo
Gus Vaughan
Edith Carlisle
Zerlina
George Williams
Wilbur Cox
Jetra Warner
Lorenzo
Charles
Bertha Holly
Lord
Lady Alash
Rena Vaughan
Mother Matteo
Princes Hartmann
Mish Carlisle
Avenue work to repave Hershey’s main street
Concrete work on Chocolate Avenue disrupts traffic as repaving continues. The project aims to modernize Hershey’s main thoroughfare, despite temporary inconvenience, to create a premier Pennsylvania street.
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Chocolate Avenue
Rome
Hershey
Ind
Pennsylvania
Snow White Squirrel and Rabbits Added to Zoo Stock
Frantz Zinner buys a snow white squirrel from Perry county found in the mountains and a Giant Flemish rabbit from Ruhe in New York, plus French stock lobear rabbits. He plans to exhibit seven rabbit varieties at Lebanon and Middletown fairs with stock raised for sale. The white squirrel and new rabbits will be shown at the Zoo roundhouse and along the Zoo wall.
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Frantz Zinner
Perry County
Ruhe
New York
Hershey
Zinner
Lebanon
Middletown
Visitors Fill Hershey Inn With Unseasonal Demand
The Hershey Inn reports more guests than typical for this season with many transients staying a day or more. Visitors come from multiple states and cities praising Hershey and its attractions.
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Hershey Inn
Hershey
Record Week At The Cafe August Crowd Grows
August brings a busy week at the cafe with daily patrons ranging from fifty to one hundred fifty. Most visitors are automobile parties arriving from local auctions and nearby areas.
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Lershey
Five Shots Fire In Campbelltown Street Car Rampage
A man named Albert Mennick opened fire aboard a Campbelltown street car around 11 45 p m injuring no one as passengers ducked bullets. Conductor W W Pfautz and motorman Ray Bistline narrowly escaped harm. the attacker was arrested at his Campbelltown home Sunday.
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Campbelltown
Albert Mennick
W. W. Pfautz
Ray Bistline
Owen Huyes
Curtin Hollingsworth
Walter
Mennick
Bistline
Pfautz
Ralph Fiore
Lebanon
Fiore
Horst
Fly Fight Group Opens Campaign Against Nuisance Pigs and Piles
Fly Fighters at a Hershey and Derry Church meeting led by Chairman Murrie and secretary W L Dubois plan aggressive steps to end breeding places for flies. A four member inspection committee will target dirty pig pens and rotting garbage. Owners will be reported to the State Health Department if cleanup fails.
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Hershey
Derry
Murrie
W. L. Dubois
State Health Department
Kaley Had Fine Nerve After Hand Amputation Try
William Kaley of Palmyra an employee at the Hershey Chocolate Factory lost his left hand in a wrapping machine near the wrist. He remained conscious and calmly recorded his time at the scene. Dr. Hershey treated him in room 8 before he was sent to Harrisburg Hospital. Kaley supports a family of three children.
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William Kaley
Palmyra
Hershey Chocolate Factory
Dr. Hershey
Harrisburg Hospital
Kaley
Rev Dr Fry to Speak at Hershay Aug 20 in Lebanon Valley
The Lebanon Valley community expects Rev Dr Charles L Fry to preach at the Lutheran Church in Hershay on the morning of August 20. Pastor John Irvin Meek has received consent to host the event with special services for the day.
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Lebanon Valley
Charles L. Fry
Hershay
John Irvin Meek
Bank Improvement Work Underway in Hummelstown Centre Square
Farmers Bank begins alterations to the armors bank building in Centre Square Hummelstown The vault was placed in the frame adjoining where banking will be conducted during remodeling Interior will be entirely rearranged and used for banking purposes.
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Armors! Bank
Centre Square
Hummelstown
Ktrnndara
All Rooms Taken For August In the Hershey Association
A board meeting of the Y W C A reports high activity with over twenty attendees. The cafeteria and stand profits helped pay back bills, with 93 transients since May and all rooms booked for August.
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Hershey Association
M. L. Hershey
Hershey
Hershey Chocolate Company
Booth
Association
Onward Club
Onward
Camp Nepahwin
Miss Burch
Burch
Ite
Vaudeville Features at Park Theatre Next Week
A week of comedy vaudeville is planned at the Park Theatre featuring Moreno in a comedy pantomime, Billy and Maud Keller in a laughable skit, Tommy Kelley and Florenca Drake from Keith's, Tiagno Coleman and Company ventriloquists, Gruot and Bruet as magical minstrel boys with a magical melange and their own scenery.
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the Park Theatre
Moreno
Billy & Maude Keller
Tommy Kelley
Florenca Drake
Big Keith
Theatroy
Tiagno Coleman
Union Service in Hershey Park Draws Big Crowd
More than a thousand gather for a rain interrupted union service at Hershey Park bandshell. Rev. Linebaugh preaches on The True Foundation from I Corinthians 3 11 as Rev. Hershey and local choirs lead the readings and music. A rain plan keeps the service adaptable with next week at the band-shell and a 5000 expectation for the August 22 festival.
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Park
Jupiter Pluvius
Linebaugh
Park Theater
Hershey Park
I. Moyer
Hershey
Shamokin
Witmeyer
Pauline Clark
N. L. Linebaugh
God
Christ
Paul
Jesus Christ
John Irwin Meek
Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity
James B. Ely
Lemon Hill Association of
Philadelphia
J. Lincoln Hall
I’. Nevin Wiest
Applause For Charles Maurer At Hershey Park Theater
Charles Maurer surprised the audience by stepping from directing the orchestra to manning the xylophone. He delivered masterful, lively performances that drew vigorous applause and an encore each night this week.
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Charles Maurer
Hea Hershay Park Theater
Maurer
Beeen
Hershey
Charlie
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Globe
Harrisburg Grocers
Newmanstown
Womelsdorf
Sinking Springs
Emaus
Runkel
Harrisburg Motor Club
Manhattan Company
Holy Trinity Church
Frederick C. Krapf
Union Choir
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity
Farmer
Krapf
Peter
John E. Snyder
Mr. Krapf
George Wesner
Atlantic City
Hershey Zoo
Dr. Fry
Farmers’ Bank Improvement
Elorshey
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