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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1911
Page
4
The Hershey Press invites readers to submit articles and items of interest for publication. Advertising space is available at regular rates. Published in Hershey, with second class mail designation and date December 7, 1911.
The thirty fifth anniversary issue highlights the paper and city. Thanksgiving is likened to a bride's day with Lebanon clerks issuing nearly a score of wedding licenses. Six were public, others kept news private until after ceremonies.
A Carlisle area note questions 63 turkeys served for Thanksgiving at a school with about 1000 students, then defends Indians as citizens. It contrasts past depictions with present progress and calls for viewing Indians as active members of society. The piece includes local lore about Lawn and Conewago hill, describing town businesses, inns, mills, butchers, a cornmeal factory, and telegraph training.
The 1911 judiciary code will abolish the nation’s circuit courts on January 1 1912 leaving district courts nine circuit courts of appeal and the Supreme Court. Twenty nine circuit judges transfer to the appeals courts while circuit clerks offices are abolished. Dauphin County sits in the Third Judicial district with judges Buffington Gray and Lanning. The Harrisburg meetings on May and December have been sporadic due to light dockets.
D. K. Spayd, a retired Prescott farmer aged 84, died Friday at his son Rev H B Spayd’s home in Annville after a brief illness. He leaves daughters Mrs J J Bomberger Palmyra and sons Rev H B Spayd Annville and Rev M B Spayd Springfield Illinois. Funeral held Tuesday at 9 30 in the United Brethren church at Annville.
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