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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1926
Page
2
Palmyra announces a two week Vacation Bible School at the Church of the Brethren Chestnut Street starting Monday July 12 under Rev. Frank S. Carper with all Palmyra children invited.
Walter Fasnacht spent the week end with his parents on North Chestnut Street. Mrs Mary Carmany on Railroad Street sustained a wrist fracture last week. Mrs Mary Landis Susie Kreider and Cyrus Zimmerman return from a ten day trip to Bellview Ohio covering over 1200 miles with no mishaps thanks to Eva Brunner of Annville driving Mrs Landis Cadillac. For rent two furnished rooms on North Railroad Street. For rent garage on South Lincoln Street. For rent double on rear of Mark property North Railroad Street.
The Better Homes Series holds its second illustrated lecture Friday July 16 at 8 pm in Star Theatre. J M Brighthill lumber dealer sponsors the event titled Asbestos Building Materials with motion pictures. Attendance is free.
Reed Walmer of Philadelphia spent the weekend with his mother Mrs Annie Walmer. James Fox a Yale student is mentioned by his aunt Miss Fox. Robert Kiefer was injured cutting a limb from a cherry tree and severed an artery in his leg. Zion Lutheran Church pipe organ is under repair. Wm Musser broke his arm in a fall from a horse while visiting his uncle at Linglestown.
Elizabethtown College will host a ten day Tri County Bible Training School from July 29 to August 8 open to anyone over fifteen from Dauphin Lebanon and Lancaster counties. Local events include a Hill Climb trophy race and a large Basehore family reunion at Elizabethtown College Chapel with Prof J T Baugher speaker and a program featuring music and recitations.
The 1927 reunion will be held again at Elizabethtown College on July 4. Mr and Mrs Edgar Hoover and Wm Winters of this place attended the wedding reception and birthday supper at the home of Mr and Mrs Joseph Werner near Mastersonville.
Campbelltown residents join the Shelly family reunion near Mt Zion on Mosday. Herman Mengle and Allen Mengle attend a funeral at Coopersburg last Thursday. Mrs Adaline Weltmer, a longtime resident, celebrated her 76th birthday on July Fourth. Read ing visitors Henry Aulenbach and family visit Rev H S Aulen bach. Fire Company's Carnival ends Saturday night. Kat Horst visits Reading. Preaching at Herman Mengel's home south of town on Sunday for all day services. Ray Clauser works at Lights Garage in Palmyra.
Dauphin County farmers face a lean hay year with prices at 30 to 60 cents. County agents urge cutting clover at full bloom for a second crop and timely alfalfa harvest to avoid harming crown shoots. Soybeans cover about 1500 acres and respond to harrowing to break crusts, a method also used by Ohio growers for better emergence.
Saturn, a giant planet fourteen times Earth's size, appeared last week near the moon and will be visible for months, says Dr. John A. Miller of Swarthmore University. He notes no unusual significance in the close juxtaposition and places Saturn at about 886 million miles away.
Washington weather forecasters clash with ocean current propheters in a bitter dispute over seasonal forecasts. Officials mocked the ocean group’s claim of a colder spring and summer, while the unofficial prophets defend about 80 percent accuracy in their past autumn predictions.
The Pennsylvania wheat harvest lags a week to ten days due to a cool spring. Southern counties may begin cutting late this week, central counties next week, and overall quality is expected to be good but not record. Japanese beetle movement is postponed but quarantine enforcement will tighten as beetles emerge.
Chicago Health Commissioner Dr. Herman N. Bundesen releases 1925 Health Department data showing married men have lower death rates than single widowed or divorced men across age groups. In ages 25–34, 35–44, 55–64, and above 65 married men die less, while England debates weighing eggs by weight instead of count.
The Roerich Museum announced that Hemis Monastery in Ladak preserves manuscripts written during Christ's lifetime by Lamas detailing his travels and preaching in India Tibet and Central Asia. The texts could illuminate years before his return to Jerusalem in his twenty ninth year.
Dr Greenwood Miller of the University of Pennsylvania says one in a million chances in finding an ideal mate. He lists factors influencing love among college students and notes a study finding key elements shaping romantic choice.
The survey notes give which features students find appealing such as beautiful eyes hair and stature while repelled by deep set eyes full neck and red hair. It compares the odds of finding a perfect mate to a royal flush and cites English income tax for a married man with one child earning 2000, 3000, and 5000 dollars.
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