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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1925
Page
2
Hummelstown's Community Club met at the fire engine house with a post session sketch The Obstinate Family directed by Miss Considine. A card party is planned for Feb 14 at the fire engine house. Numerous local groups and residents are noted with meetings, anniversaries, and family moves amid church and bank notices.
The Palmyra area reports a Fourth Quarterly Conference at Bethany Evangelical Church led by Rev E S Woorder ing with preaching by Rev Spayd. Middletown HS defeated Palmyra HS basketball 54 8. Palmyra girls won 31 15. Public cattle sale held. sleighing party attended by local families. Real estate broker Harry M Hartz adds S W Strauss bonds agency. Obituary notes Mrs Wm Henry Sr 75. Legion takes over Big Five basketball. townsfolk urged support. Various church, school and civic items. snow removal praised. next literary program Feb 6. new bio lab gear installed.
Following children include Mrs Thomas Jones Winfield Sanders of Harrisburg Harry Sanders of Palmyra Mrs Joseph Clark of Hockersville and Mrs John Youtz of Hummelstown Burial was in Hummelstown cemetery Mrs David C Rhoads of Penbrook spent Sunday with friends in town Miss Grace Hoerner returned to Shippenburg Normal School after visiting her parents David Jacks of Allentown visited his parents Mr and Mrs Thomas Jacks Harold Hellyer of Pottsville weekend guests of his parents Mr and Mrs A K Walton Christian Brinser of Harrisburg spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs E Z Etter.
A chicken and waffle supper is planned for Saturday February 7 from 5 to 9 p m in the P O S of A under the auspices of the Men s Bible Class of St John s Lutheran Church. The Faculty Male Quartet of Elizabeth town College performed at the Church of the Brethren on Chestnut Street Sunday evening. Jacob Achenbach foreman in the lasting department of W L Kreider Sons is at home with a cold.
Local residents and families attended the Bible Institute at Elizabethtown College and other church activities. A sixth birthday party for Jane Gochenauer drew guests and luncheon. Continued notes cover baptisms marriages relocations hospitalizations and community meetings with figures and names across Elizabethtown and nearby towns.
George Grady of Campbelltown and Mt Pleasant died Sunday night at 12 30 at home. If he had lived until March 19 he would have been 91. He was a Salem Reformed Church member and leaves a wife three daughters a sister fifteen grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Funeral was held Thursday in Salem Church with Rev Henry I Aulenbach and burial at the adjoining cemetery.
The total value of livestock on Pennsylvania farms on January 1 was estimated at 150.705 million dollars, down from 157.084 million a year earlier. Cattle numbers and per head values mostly fell, with horses 466000, mules 54000, dairy cows 1081000, other cattle 486000, sheep 492000, swine 994000. Per head values: horses 94, mules 103, dairy cows 61, other cattle 31.10, sheep 8.90, swine 16. The report notes declines in most classes except certain cattle and swine.
By April 2000 men will be at work on the Conewingo dam, launching the project. The plan indicates active construction crews and early site work beginning within the target month.
American farmers are advised by the Department of Agriculture to hold down 1925 crops to last year’s acreage to avoid a glut and price drops. A decrease in farm earnings is forecast, with global poor harvests likely to make conditions less favorable. Some bakers may raise bread prices in response to wheat rallies.
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