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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1915
Page
3
The Columbia pipe mill near Lebanon Valley reopened on Monday, employing at least 250 workers to produce pipes from half to four inches. The revival boosts the local iron industry and keeps mills running around the clock, with labor in short supply.
Sunday conditions on the Swatara left Bindnagles Church road impassable. The Bindnagles Sunday School picnic was postponed due to weather. Community turnout was small for the county fair, camp meeting, and Welsh Bros. show.
Several residents attended the Lebanon fair Cleom camp meeting and the Stuckey reunion at Worshey Park. A child of Mr and Mrs Andrew Hoover died Wednesday and was buried Friday at Hanoverdale. Rev Patrick opelated John Etter returned from hospital Saturday improved. Bridges washed away by heavy rain and Manada creak overflowed causing damage along the Swatara. Paul Basehore ill with rheumatism improving.
Mr and Mrs William Wagner and family visited his brother Samuel Wagner on Sunday afternoon. S H Lesher rents his tenant house to Mr Brown and family who will occupy the home early in September. Lester Glotfelter visited his uncle Daniel Glotfelter on Sunday. S H Yingst was at Lancaster last week and purchased fine cattle. Eva Mann is spending a week with her uncle Harry Pervey and family. H L Gipe and wife visited in Himmelstown Sunday. The Republican party held a meeting at Union Deposit Saturday evening. Services will be held on the chapel Sunday evening at 730 o clock. W M Shakespear will hold his auction sale Saturday September 4. Mrs Harvey Cook is recovering from a serious illness.
Swatara Station reports Mr and Mrs George H Seiler left Sunday morning for a ten day vacation. Mr Earley Etter of Hummelstown will teach the Bible class Sunday afternoon. A Sunday morning storm raised Spring Creek higher than ever with shoals drowned. Prof Edwin Balsbaugh and family of Lebanon were guests of his father and sister Sunday. Rev Irvin Curry taught the Bible Class. Mr and Mrs John Shertzer show interest in Sunday School. Miss Sara Balsbaugh taught her primary class again after illness.
Mrs. Harry L. Hocker spent the week at the Cleona Camp meeting. Attendees at the Lebanon Fair included W. C. Erb, George McCurdy, Clarence Erb, Sol Balsbaugh and Riley Shepler. Mrs. Harvey Shaeffer and daughter Annabel with Miss Elizabeth Shaeffer attended a show in Hummelstown on Wednesday. Edna C. Erb and E. Maud Seiler of Swatara visited Harrisburg midweek. Emma Hocker and Harry Hocker Jr attended a Mt. Gretna house party over the weekend. Chester Burkholder of Reading and Mrs. Burkholder visited Joseph Clark and returned Sunday evening. Mrs. Burkholder will be remembered as Miss Susan Clark. Sara Foreman visits Miss Mabel Hoffman in Pottsville. Elmer E. Erb left for Ann Arbor to vacation with college chums. he graduated from the Ann Arbor law school.
The French Foreign Legion trains with Spartan rigor with detachments in combat lines and long marches from Sidi bel Abbes. Legionnaires endure daily twenty four mile stages and only five minute rests every six miles as part of their training. Wireless messages travel at about 176000 miles per second with an error margin of 16000 miles per second.
A dated poetic plea attributed to Jané Burr laments lost beauty and dreamlike escape. The speaker calls for daffodils and lace palaces while contrasting time for charity, culture, and critique with the irrevocable end of beauty.
Quotation captures a playful exchange about a new auto described as sixteen balky horse power. The dialogue style reflects Brooklyn Life's period sensibility and humor.
Auditors detail receipts and disbursements for South Hanover Township Dauphin County for year ending July 5 1915. Items include state appropriation dog tax tuition store damage repairs wages institutes inspections and various minor expenditures. Total receipts and expenditures recorded with multiple vendor and school district line items.
The immense German 17-inch howitzers smash Belgian forts firing about once every ten minutes. Artillerymen distance themselves from the recoil and discharge the weapons by electricity. Each shot costs over $6,000 according to an estimate.
In a Tit-Bits quip a husband asks if his wife cares about the war. She replies she does by saying she wishes he could go. The comment playfully hints at civilian support for enlistment.
The article estimates about 200000 Germans have been prevented from returning home due to British naval actions. A significant portion of those stranded are said to be residents in the United States.
A quoted exchange from a Philadelphia Public Ledger discussion. An exhorter asks where to find the most miserable man, and a respondent replies that the miserable man hunts you down and tells you about it.
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