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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1926
Page
1
Santa Claus will be at the Hershey High School auditorium on Friday evening December 24 at 6 30 to give gifts to about 900 children. The event includes carols by children and selections by older folks as the community completes its fund to cover expenses. Everyone is invited to attend the gift giving.
Raymond Griffith stars in Wet Paint at the Hershey Central Theatre Tuesday December 28 at 7 30 PM. The comedy follows Griffith reversing romance norms as he courts many beauties and ends up wedded to his original girl after a series of comic misadventures including a mistaken home and a car ride without a chauffeur. Helene Costello Bryant Washburn and Arthur Rosson directed the film.
The John Elder Men’s Bible Class of Derry Presbyterian Church presents the seven reel From the Manger to the Cross and the two reel As We Forgive at Hershey Central Theatre on January 5 and 6. Tickets go on sale next week with 25 cent children and 50 cent adults.
The Otterbein Men’s Bible Class chorus will meet at 5 a.m. Christmas day at Clarence Mengle’s 48 West Chocolate Ave and ride in three cars to sing at members’ homes. They also will perform at a Christmas party at the YMCA Friday 8 to 11 p.m. for the U B Church Senior C E B Society.
The Otterbein Men's Bible Class of the U S supa School presented Dr. A IX Wier with a Bible as a Christmas gift. The book held a $20 old note a $5 gold piece and a $100 silver note. Clarence EBengle delivered the presentation citing valued service and hopes for 1927 membership growth toward 100.
About fifty guests were invited to attend a breakfast by Mr. and Mrs. Ashley DeWolf and Minas ata Murrie of Hershey to be held at the Penn-Tiarris Hotel after the Snow Ball at the Harrisburg Country Club on December 20. Guests include visitors at the Murrley home over the holidays and several from Norfolk, New York, Montclair, Hershey, and Bruce Murrle.
The Bindnagesn Lutheran Sunday School holds a Christmas festival on Friday evening December 24 at 7 o clock. The program is titled Glad Christmas Morn by Adam Gerbel. A cordial invitation is extended to the public to attend.
The primary department of Holy Trinity Lutheran Sunday School presents a Christmas program on Thursday evening December 23 at 6 30. The lineup includes hymns prayers recitations solos duets and group exercises by boys and girls with many named participants and a closing pastor’s remarks.
A humorous Christmas verse pair satirizes belief in Santa through a father and son scene and a running gag about a bill found on a toy tree. The column also previews a joke ad and a Greenville notice about churchgate tithes and a cattle-chase joke.
Hershey High opened its basketball season by defeating Elizabethtown 63 to 36 on December 15. Stover and Purcell led scorers with 11 and 12 field goals respectively. Stover faced early fouls and left the second half.
The Hershey girls basketball team faced Elizabethtown and fought hard improving over last year but were defeated 24 to 6. The contest highlighted the girly team's progress and competitive spirit.
Hershey High forms a Mathematics Club with 29 pupils enrolled. Eleven twelfth graders, two eleventh graders, and sixteen tenth graders participate. Officers chosen from the twelfth grade include President Dylek Sponnugle and others. representatives Mae Graybill and Samuel Polk also elected.
Mrs Wilson Cake of 314 Para avenue recovers from minor operation. Mr and Mrs Chan Landis of Palmira announce the birth of a son. Mr and Mrs Ed Wagner announce the birth of a son born on Tuesday.
A pastiche of quirky lines and snippets from a late edition page two column. Transcribed humor about bears, a Scotchman in New York, a secondhand store exchange, and quips on quotation marks and Christmas gifts. Multiple mini-episodes reflect light newspaper fare and wordplay.
A homely shepherds tale leads to a broader claim that Christmas converts the world. The speech links the manger to enduring impact as Christ’s life spanned hospitals and education, with the world divided into Before Bethlehem and After Bethlehem.
A Christmas service will be held at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on Christmas morning at 6 00. The choir prepared a full program including hymns anthems responses and a meditation. The congregation extends Christmas wishes to town and community and prays for a happy New Year.
The Hershey Chocolate Co. Office Bowling team defeated the Wrapping Department by 48 pins on Beam Alleys. Team members include Warner, Speicher, Johnson, Bill Spangler, Geesaman and Tinney for the Office side, while Lingle, Patrick, Mekenroth, Morris, Parnsler and Shirk represented Wrapping. High scores featured Spangler and Johnson at 178 with strong showings from Morris, Mekenroth and Lingle.
The Junior Olivers of Hershey Men's Club traveled to Harrisburg on Saturday, December 18, and lost 24 to 20 in an overtime thriller. After leading 10 to 1 in the first half, the game was 19 all at full time as Rajahs failed to break 6 men defense in the extra period. Rucker and Tinney starred at guards with Serine Baler and Trummer supporting from the forwards. Tammer and Deppen split center duties.
The Church of the Brethren Sunday School on East Areba avenue will present a Christmas program Sunday evening December 26 at 7 o'clock. The program features songs prayers recitations duets dialogues and readings by many students and includes titles such as Joybells of Bethlehem The Big Red Flower My Gift to Him and Between the Spirit of Mission and the Spirit of the Church.
Mins Pauline Houser and Burdett Robertson of town were united in marriage by Reverend R H Taylor pastor of Derry Presbyterian Church on Wednesday afternoon December 15 at 6 p.m. The newlyweds left for Burlington New Jersey to begin their future life together.
Misses Kathryn Leichelser Elizabeth Copenhaver Edna Deckert and Minnie Whittle hosted a Christmas party for the primary department children on December 21 in the church basement. Each child received a gift a box of bon bons and an orange.
An attempt has been made to organize an industrial basketball league with several committees including the Prinding Wrapping and Shulling departments and offices and a Met's Club. Games are planned for Tuesday evenings alongside junior divisions. Hershey Dept Store and the Planing Mill are invited to enter teams.
The Hershey Industrial School schedules a multi grade Christmas program with students and teachers performing songs, recitations, plays, and pantomimes. Featured participants include Miss Annie McKeehn Mrs Batdorf Miss Emerich and several named students such as Ellis Kline Monroe Hoke Allan Bauman Harold Shaffer and more across grades I to VII.
Hershey hosts a demonstration of the Record O Phone, an electro magnetic sound recorder that captures and reproduces speech without wear. The machine can amplify to five thousand times and records voices from public leaders such as Woodrow Wilson Lloyd George and Harding. Visitors at No 49 Trinidad Avenue Vershey may see free demonstrations daily except Saturday and Sunday.
The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania State Educational Association will meet in Blurrinburg from December 24 to 30. The program covers kindergarten through high school work with sessions at Wim. Venn Ufigh School and John Clarks Pgh School. Teachers from Derry Township will attend many sessions and pupils may join the event. The community is urged to attend and a fine display of school work will be shown with national and state educators speaking at general and sectional meetings.
Hershey boys rout Middletown 13 field goals and a foul to win in Lower Dauphin County League play. Purcell led with 3, Stover 4, Sponaugle 2, Miller 1, Balsbaugh 3, Jacobs 1. Middletown held to one field goal. Girls trailed 14 to 26 as Middletown took the win.
Douglas Fairbanks leads color adventure The Black Pirate a 17th century piracy tale showing at Hershey Central Theatre Saturday December 25 with showings at 6 30 and 8 30. Billie Dove stars opposite Fairbanks while Anders Randolf Donald Crisp and Sam De Grasse fill key roles in a swashbuckling crew faced with peril and pursuit.
The First U S Sunday School hosts a Christmas program at seven o clock featuring Welcome Addresses by Joyce Cake Kathryn Hoerner and Mary Bascomb, a School Song Yuletide Bells, various primary and beginner songs, group choruses, and a collection with announcements. George Dressler Richard Zentimeyer Clyde Slabacker lead the junior and primary segments. Dorothy Habecker and Bertha Habecker oversee distribution of gifts and the benediction.
The Printing Department team defeated Hershey Men’s Club 65 to 45 on a December Tuesday evening. Carr Pasnacht led for the Printers with strong scoring aided by Dissinger while Magrind starred for Hershey’s side.
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