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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1923
Page
4
Local society column notes Miss Edna Miller visited her sister Mrs J M Wanamaker in Elizabethtown over the weekend. The item lists numerous brief travels and visits by residents to nearby towns including Hershey Lancaster Manheim and Philadelphia with mentions of homes and social gatherings.
The Hershey Red Cross thanks the ushers and all who helped make Creature's Band engagement a splendid success.
Mrs. Mary Behm aged 77 died at her daughter Mrs Amos Mark home in Palmyra on Tuesday August 28 after long illness. Survived by son Rudy B Behm two daughters Mrs Mark and Miss Ellen Behm three brothers Daniel John Eli Brinser Elizabethtown one sister Mrs Lizzie Orner Philadelphia. Funeral services at 1 p m at the house Friday and at Steelstown with interment in nearby cemetery. D B Bordlemay in charge.
The piece lauds M. S. Hershey for creating Hershey Pennsylvania, a model town with a factory, park, trolley line, bank, inns, shops, a large nonsectarian free industrial school for fatherless boys, and plans to endow it like Girard College. It notes the Hershey Industrial School houses twenty boys per cottage and emphasizes education in agriculture, horticulture, gardening, and trades. Also mentions Bethany Orphans Home near Wemeldorf’s sixtieth anniversary with preparations for thousands of visitors and special trains.
Holy Trinity Church led by Rev M LeRoy Wachter lists Bible School at 9 15 Paul The Apostle Morin Service 10 30 with theme The Ten Vesper Service at 7 30 As There s Mission. Luther League 6 30 Singing Psalm. Church council meeting September 5 at 6. Harvest Home Sept 16 at 10 30. Vesper Services resume Sept 2 at 7 30 with Luther League at 6 30 due to time change.
Derry Presbyterian Church led by Rev. R H Taylor calls all to a 100 percent Sunday service with Sunday School at 9 15 a m. Delegates invited Dickinson Church to its One Hundredth Anniversary on Sunday afternoon and evening, with Hershey guests expected. Christian Endeavor topic for September 2 will be used September 5 sermon Ps 96 A Singing Psalm. Choir rehearsal Friday at 7 p m.
The First United Brethren Church led by Rev. W E Daugherty offers Sunday School at 9 15, morning worship at 10 30, evening worship at 7 30 with communion at both services. Regular midweek prayer and Bible study on Wednesday at 7 30. Official board meeting on September 5 and Faithful Workers Bible Class social on August 30 at 7 30 at Mrs Hess home. St Joan of Arc Church with Rev P J Phelan lists Masses 8 00 and 10 00, sermon, choir at 9 30, baptisms at noon, confessions Saturday 4 or 7, weekday Mass 7 30, Holy Day Masses 6 30 and 7 30.
The Unie Sunday School Chapel in Sandch will be dedicated on Saturday Sept 8 and Sunday Sept 9. The weekend features multiple services with sermons by Rev Landis Balsbaugh Rev David Zellers Rev A M Kuhns Rev J L Landis Rev J H Witmer Rev Irvin Curry and Rev A S Lehman plus hymns prayers and benedictions. An opening Sunday evening service and a final benediction close the program with invitations to all.
About $1500 in premiums and special prizes will be offered for exhibits at the Dauphin County Grange Fair to be held September 12 13 and 14 at Paxtang Park. Hog premiums rise to 10 for first and 6 for second with poultry prizes up to 4 for pens of four and 50 cents for certain cockerels and pullets.
The fair features livestock including China, Duroc, Berkshire, Hampshire, Yorkshire boars and sows with $30 in premiums for pigs, poultry, pets and more. Departments B and C cover chickens and poultry, with over $100 in premiums across six sections, plus $35 for pets. Horticulture, Department Cb, lists vegetables, nuts and fruits with many premiums, while Db includes crafts and textiles with up to $2 for tatting and crochet and up to $3 for evergreens and prize specimens. Jellies pay $1 first and 50 cents second. W. H. Clever touts the tallest Lima bean stalks in Waynesboro, reaching 26 feet.
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