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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1914
Page
8
A long column lists visits and guests around Hummelstown and nearby towns including Yokohama travelers W K Tresize and A L Bagnall hosted by the Waltons in Hummelstown, plus numerous locals visiting Harrisburg York Lebanon and Philadelphia.
Local items from Campbelltown Pennsylvania note Landis Greenawalt leaving for State College as a student. Several residents are ill or moving, houses for rent on Main street, family visits to Hershey and Palmyra, a church service schedule, recovered stolen register keys found, a chicken yard otter captured, and Christmas festival plans underway.
Reports include J M Walmer's driving horse death, Mrs Eisenhour illness, Postmaster Polffer installs new hot air furnace, Bertha Gingrich visits Harrisburg, auditors settle road accounts and supervisors organize for next year. Dr Fox of Hummelstown inspects animals. Snow worsens road conditions. Witmer night plant completed and operating well. Rev A C Foracht to preach Lutheran services Sunday afternoon. Christmas approaching in two weeks. preparations urged.
The Christmas Festival directed by the Young Women’s Christian Association will be held at Hershey Central Theater Thursday evening December 17 at 8 15. Rehearsals are progressing and a fine program is planned with orchestra reading solos readings and a two part program featuring Finnegan’s Flat. Ticket prices vary by seating with a crowd expected and advance purchase advised.
Harvey Curry moved into his recently purchased property from Samuel Slesser in Union Deposit. Warren Longenecker from the Pennsylvania Steel Company electrical department was in the area Monday. Otto Weisner killed several fine porkers this week. Geo Foreman has a well drilled at his new residence. Rev P H Balsbaugh of Harrisburg conducted revival services at Fishburns church Thursday evening. W C Erb attended his sister in law Mary Erb of Lebanon's funeral Friday. Mr and Mrs Ammon O Neal visited Mr and Mrs Levi Nye of Sand Hill Sunday. Harry Etter visiting his son in law Edward O Neal. Miss Mary Greenawalt and John Greenawalt visited George Foreman. Meta Cramer of Lebanon spent days visiting W C Erb. Derry Township auditors met at Hershey December 7 to audit the supervisors account and found it correct.
Mrs Elizabeth DeMuth aged seventy five died at her Spring Creek Avenue home Tuesday morning after a prior stroke on Thanksgiving. Survived by daughter Mrs Herbert Scott of Hershey and son Abram DeMuth of Palmyra, she was a lifelong resident and respected figure. Funeral at 2 pm tomorrow at her daughter's home with Rev N L Linebaugh and Rev O G Romig officiating. burial at Henry’s Church. long time member of West United Brethren Church.
Miss Mary Looh departed yesterday for the conference of the Volunteer Workers of the Young Women's Christian Association in Philadelphia. She served as delegate of the Hershey Young Women's Christian Association.
Carmine Guarviane, 19, a foreigner living at Swatara Station, is hospitalized in Harrisburg with a broken leg and arm and body bruises after falling thirty feet from a roof at Hershey Chocolate Factory. He was unconscious. Dr. M L Hershey treated him and accompanied him to the hospital. He is expected to recover.
Tonight at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church a study theme titled What Comprises a Christmas Praise Service will guide the service with a fuller week night format. The December Mission and Aid Society meeting follows as the pastor opens the topic. The December 17 subject is Lessons from the widow's mite and next Sunday's sermon is The Second Coming of Christ.
Tonight dancing at Hershey Park Pavilion with the Hershey orchestra providing music. A popular event with a large attendance expected. floor conditions are fine and the concert-like music adds value to the admission. Admission is 15 cents for ladies and 20 cents for gentlemen.
A broken telephone pole stands in front of John Heckert’s barn on Spring Creek Avenue across the creek from Hershey. It is partly buried and supported by wires, sways in the wind, and may fall, posing a hazard to travelers in the area.
Reported last week in the west end of town, six choice hens and one large cockerel were stolen from the hennery of George Marks. No arrests announced.
A car carrying 1,269 bushels of wheat was sent last week from Hummelstown by Joseph Burkholder to a mill in Berks county.
Handsome checks issued to all members of the Christmas Savings Club accompany an offer for a regular bank account yielding three percent interest if held six months or a year. The colored checks feature Christmas green and red floral decoration and carry a personal message from the Hershey Trust Company signed by Treasurer S C Stecher. The fund has been successful and another will open before the New Year. details to follow in the Press next week.
Mr and Mrs S S Brown quietly marked their 27th wedding anniversary at home on Caracas Avenue with only immediate family present.
A London Opinion verse laments Austrian setbacks as Russian troops surge toward Przemysl and beyond. The speaker warns of Cossack numbers and looting, invoking towns like Olkusz Yaroslav Stryj Rzeszow Csikszereda and Zaleszczyki while pleading for safety.
Some large French insurance companies maintain dental records of clients to aid identification after death, using teeth profiles as a biometric reference within their archives.
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