Local Savings Clubs Share Large Christmas Funds
A. H. Kettering of Annville served as treasurer as the A. S. Kreider shoe company Christmas fund paid out 3500 to club members, part of a four year total of 15000 with 70 members this year and expected growth in 1915. Berks farmers call heavy snowfall Nature’s pruning day boosting future fruit quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Kettering
Annville
A. S. Kreider Shoe Company
Berks County
Farmers Bank of
Middletown
Vian Gleanings – Local Notes From December 14 1914
Local briefs report track Laying progress at Vian through the cut and readiness to ballast toward Deodate. Residents named include Gordon with a new bin at his crusher, Frank Shiffer involved in a local matter, and Constable Snavely catering to patrons. Community updates cover weather delays, church services, and social visits to Lebanon Valley College and Harrisburg.
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Vian
Reily Shepler
Fishburn’s
Clarence Uhrich
Lebanon Valley College
L. V.leanon
Teachers’ Institute
Wm. Nornhold
John Nornhold
Harrisburg
McCorkle Brothers
Michael Miller
Lancaster
Edith Shenk
Stough
Hamsburg
Hershey Camp shines in Keystone Woodmen of the World
Hershey Camp No. 364 of Hershey Pennsylvania, started June 2 by State Manager Stover and Keystone Camp No. 60, grew from 18 to 126 applications. The camp chose Hershey as its name and aims to mirror the town’s temperate, industrious image with a robust, ritual-free degree work and active leadership under Deputy A. H. Edgar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keystone Woodman
Hershey
Pennsylvania
Stover
Keystone Camp
Harrisburg
Klugh
A. H. Edgar
Dauphin County Jury Draws 1915 Names for January Courts
The Dauphin County jury wheel, refreshed by Sheriff Wells and Commissioners Edward Capp and Samuel M. Taylor, lists 900 names for January 1915. New jurors are prominent. notable participants include Grand Jury members James Strickler and John Baer, and several Petit and Traverse jurors from Hanover, South Hanover, Derry, and surrounding townships. The old wheel’s 80 years of service ends as it passes to the Dauphin County Historical Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem Lutheran Bible Class
Lebanon
John Reinoehl
Reinoehl
United States
Dauphin
Sheriff Wells
Edward Capp
Samuel M. Taylor
James Maul
Dauphin County Historical Society
George Kunkel
Harry C. Wells
Capp and Taylor
Marion Verbeke
James B. Strickler
South Hanover
John C. Baer
Hess Bigley
Hershey
Henry €. Forney
George Shertzer
Richard Zigler
West Hanover
Henry N. Hummer
John C. Cassel
East Hanover
Geo. W. Light, Jr
Hummelstown
William Lingle
Londonderry
John B. Aldinger
Derry
Traverse
Soldierly Smith and Tailor Exchange Wry Reproach
A brief dialogue imagines a soldier asking a tailor if he was at Balaklava. The tailor declined, prompting the soldier to remark on the tailor's grand flair in charging for services.
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Balaklava
Peppermint Oil Urged to Drive Away Mice
A historical tip advises strong antipathy to peppermint and sprinkling pepper mint oil around mouse haunts to deter them. The guidance frames odor as a preventive measure and suggests practical application for households seeking to reduce rodent presence.
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Lebanon Valley
Joseph F. Lauck
Palmyra
William L. Finnegan
Elizabethtown
A. H. Longenecker
Will H. Erb
E J. Stackpole
The
Harrisburg Telegraph
Benjamin M. Nead
Mr. Nead
Franklin County
Nathan Reigel
Sarah Nye
William Nye
Carrie
Joseph Neidig
East Hanver Township
Ezra Kreider
Yeggmen
Newgard and Bachman
Annville Coal and Grain Merchants
Howard Henry
Gregory
South Dakota
Jerome Henry
Railroad Street
J. Landis Strickler
Red Cross
Blough Bros. Shoe Manufacturing Company
Young Men’s Christian Association of Lebanon
John Sleaser
East Round Top
Eugene Herr
Ruben Tobias
Daniel Spangler
Charles Pfanmiller
Charles Planmilley
John Boyer
Lebanon’ County
Mr. Herr
David Brandt
Bunker Hill
Brandt
Oficer
Nebraska
Awgwan
Woodmen
Hershey, Penna
Robert Stahle
Martin V. Nye
Elias Deimler
A. Cooper
Wright
John H. Perkey
John H. Aungst
Levi Gingrich
William D. Long
William G. Early
Underwood
Emil A. Trefzger
New York City
North Third Street
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