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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1915
Page
4
The item lists the Hershey newspaper staff including M S Hershey proprietor L R Meskins editor J R Snavety manager and telephones Hershey Bell and Western Union telegraph service. It notes entry at Hershey post office as second class mail matter dated February 11 1915.
The document lists train and car schedules with start times and last trips for travel between Hershey Harrisburg Lebanon Palmyra and Hummelstown, including Sunday variations. It also notes hours for breakfast dining, dinner, supper, bank hours, store hours, cafe hours, drugstore hours, post office lobby hours and mail deadlines, and states no mails depart on Sunday.
February signals garden work with seed selection advice. Buy seed from reputable firms, avoid government seeds, and plant more flowers. Hershey could be a rose paradise with more rose bushes in yards and gardens, starting now.
The speech portrays Wilson as a prophet of prosperity. He says the nation is entering a new era of enterprise after nearly twenty years of uncertainty caused by numerous questions and unknown outcomes. He argues progress will resume as people move beyond doubts toward growth.
The piece critiques unclear regulation and widespread charges against business while praising honest, civic minded merchants. Hershey organization messengers report nationwide reports of improving conditions. It notes President’s optimism but urges avoiding extra congressional sessions and curbing new laws that sap national revenues and disrupt trade.
The Hershey club memorializes Ira Kohir noting cheerful ness faithfulness and cordial relations. Resolutions call to spread the minutes and send a copy to his family signed by the Executive Committee including James Millard president and several vice presidents and secretaries.
Rev George Snavely Rentz leads Sunday School at 9 30 a m and morning worship at 10 30 a m with the theme Impressions of Mr Sunday and His Work Junior Mission Band meets at 2 p m Christian Endeavor at 6 45 p m Evening worship at 7 30 p m features an address by Mr Herant Athanasian of Armenia now in Lebanon Valley College on The Christian Church in Armenia
Rockefeller testified before the United States Commission on Industrial Relations offering that higher wages benefit workers over charity and expressing openness to workers joining boards of directors. Critics call the idealism remote, urging practical plans for worker partnership and real change in modern business.
Everett High School's basketball team has posted seven wins and five losses this season. Their upcoming slate includes Steelton Sec. at Hershey, Myerstown H S at Hershey, Albright Preps at Myerstown, Elizabethtown H S at Hershey, and Harrisburg Central Scrubs at Hershey, with a Middletown game and a Steelton Scrubs trip listed as pending, plus five other games unconfirmed.
Reverend N L Linebaugh leads Bible School at 9 15. Sermon at 10 15. Junior Hour at 2 00. Senior C E at 6 30. Evening sermon at 7 30. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7 30 p m.
Reverend Frederick C. Krapf leads services at the Church of the Holy Trinity with Bible School at 9.15 and 9.00 a.m. Devotional study at 6.30 p.m. Weeknight service Thursdays at 7.45 p.m. Chief service 10.30 a.m. Catechumens class Monday 3.45 and 7.45 p.m. Lenten midweek service Wednesday 7.45 p.m.
A full Harrisburg crowd watched Greystock of the Eastern League edge Harrisburg Independents 89 to 47 in a tough, evenly matched contest. Sugar man from the New York State League led Greystock with clutch dribbles and scoring, while Harrisburg missed star guard David McConnel. Rote and McCord, Geisel, Ford, and Arthur battled hard, but the Leaguers pulled away late as Hershey fans returned for the tilt.
A poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar contemplates elusive love and longing. Repeated questions of where love and fulfillment have gone evoke fading seasons and distant future meetings.
The Church of the Brethren announces a prayer meeting Saturday at 7 30 p m followed by a preaching service at 7 30 p m Elder J H Longenecker will lead both events in the church hall and sanctuary.
Reverend A C Forscht announces services at Hornerstown and Union Deposit Lutheran churches on Sunday February 14 at 10 30 a m and 7 p m with a protracted prayer service starting Wednesday February 17 at 7 30 p m continuing indefinitely all invited.
Rev. George W. Hallman will lead Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and preaching at 7:30 p.m. at Fishburn's Church as part of Union Circuit activities.
Hershey High defeated Enhaut 6 to 9 as Ed Zimmerman set a high school scoring record with 20 field goals. The locals dominated from start to finish at the Hershey Gym, with Wirth Clark Zimmerman Long Bartels and Zacks contributing shots and Bartels referee Pelffor noting 20 minute halves.
A poem by Walt Mason imagines a soldier longing to die in battle to gain lasting fame and a heroic epitaph. He hopes his name be inscribed in a dispatch, while his mother labors in poverty and his widow mourns, his children left hungry. The text contrasts glory with the grim outcome for those left behind.
A playful banter erupts as Bello jokes about the late entrant and Puck remarks that everyone but the girl was present, creating a whimsical scene of misaligned arrivals.
A special meeting of the stockholders of the Hershey Trust Company will be held at the company office on Thursday February 18 1915 at 1 PM to consider and vote on amendments to the By-Laws submitted by the Board of Directors at their January 7 1915 meeting.
Electric refrigerating systems are now being installed in florists shops to keep flowers in cold storage until sold, extending shelf life and preserving freshness for customers.
Feb 9 report from Bindnagles notes Sunday afternoon services at Bindnagles Church and revival meetings at the Church of God with large nightly crowds. The Swatara flood impeded travel on Tuesday while a public sale of Percival Ohmacht estate drew a good crowd and an old 107 year old chest sold for 7.50.
The week’s deaths include Mary Fasnacht aged 78 of Hershey area who died after a paralytic stroke and was interred at Hershey Meeting House with six grandsons as pallbearers. Leo Linebaugh of 1128 North George Street York died of valvular heart trouble after a recent indigestion illness, survived by wife and six children. funeral services held in York with interment at Prospect Hill Cemetery.
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