Hershey Trust Company Opens New Building Across Street
Hershey Trust Company moves to its new building in The Hershey Trust Company Building. President M. S. Hershey declines formal ceremony while inviting visitors to inspect the elegant structure. Workers begin moving to second floor offices as departments pack up.
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Hershey Trust Company
Hershey Trust "Company
M. S. Hershey
Hershey Trust ‘Company
Hershey’ Trust Company
Hershey
Editors Tour Hershey Highlights Enterprise And Education
The Lancaster County Press Association visited Hershey with twenty one editors and wives led by C. S. Yeager and J. R. Missemer. They toured the Hershey Trust Building the M S Hershey Consolidated School and the factory then dined at the Cafe and heard Mr Hershey speak. The visit praised modern methods and called it the association's most successful outing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hershey
Lancaster County Press Association
C. S. Yeager
Ephrata Review
Yeager
Silas E. Bard
Harry G. Steffy
John B. Hagg
Denver Press
William K. Fishburn
Ephrata Reporter
Fishburn
H. E. Grosch
John G
Lancaster County
Round Barn
Mr. Hershey
J. R. Kroidex
Hershey Transit Company
Lebanon
Matt J. Mannix
Mannix
Phey
Haly Association
Ilya O'Clock
Mosarh
Kvelder
Snavely
Brethren Church Committee Visits Hershey for 50000 Attendance Plan
The Church of the Brethren committee, led by P. Miller, met in Hershey to finalize arrangements for next year’s national conference expected to draw over 50 000 attendees. M Hershey plans a 6000 seat tabernacle on the Hershey Park knoll with an acoustically superior design after studying Ocean Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of ‘the Brethren
Hershey
Miller
Church of the Brethren
W. Taylor
Neffsville
M. Longenecker
A. Zug
Palmyra
Ocean Grove
Hershey Auditorium
Hershey Park
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church to Hold First Service
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church will hold its first service in their new building at Cocoa and Granada Avenues next Sunday morning at 10 30. The Bible School session is at 1 80. Dedication services are planned for August 2 with a pre dedication service in the morning and the dedication service at 8 in the evening followed by Vespers. Additional special services are planned on Tuesday Thursday and Friday with addresses on chosen themes.
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Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Cocoa
Granada Avenues
Bible School
Shorthand Reporters Hold Harrisburg Meeting and Hershey Visit
The Pennsylvania Shorthand Reporters Association concluded its annual business session in Harrisburg with plans to seek a uniform court stenography rate and to add a county court decisions supplement. Officers reelected include Joseph F. Patterson and Frank E. Ziegler. Delegates toured Hershey Park and factory operations.
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Pennsylvania Shorthand Reporter’s Association
Harrisburg
Hershey Park
Joseph F. Patterson
Pottsville
Frank TE. Ziegler
William M. Clift
Philadelphia
Frank HE
Ziegler
Frank J. Roth
E H. C. Demming
Edward E. Jauss
Hershey
Florida to Maine Automobile Party Tours Hershay
A Florida Michigan party led by Mr. and Mrs. F W King with Miss King and Mr. and Mrs Woods of Jacksonville visited Hershay for a day and night. They toured the Hershay Factory and attractions under Mr W I R Murrie, president of Hershay Chocolate Company, and will spend a month touring toward Maine. Mr. King heads FP W King and Company, a wholesale house with Jacksonville Tampa Mia and Atlanta branches.
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F. W. King
Miss King
Woods
Jacksonville
Movida
Florida
Hershay
Pactory
W. I. R. Murrie
Hershay Chocolate Company
Thal Tow
Maine
King
FP. W. King and Company
Jaxza
Tampa
Mia
Atlanta
Forshoy
Mass Robin Die Off From Hailstorm Wrecks Birds
Widespread robin deaths reported across Lebanon Valley after severe hail. On the David M. Karmany property 640 robins were found dead and many hundreds more perished in surrounding woods.
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David M. Karmany
Lebanon Valley
Hershey Men's Club plans late July juniors camp
After the juniors camp ended July 15 Hershey Men's Club plans a late July camp north of Prospect Heights. J M Brandau leads with male leaders for one adult per seven boys. Activities include swimming boating hiking and life saving with a daily routine from reveille to taps.
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Hershey Men’s Club
Prospect Heights
Russell Clark
Malcolm Murrie
Laton Giles
Melville’ Keiffer
Cleon Keiffer
Rodper Smith
William Cooper
Orville Shaffer
Harold Martin
Charles Black
Park Cassady
Lewis ‘Cassady
Stanley Gibble
Donald Habaker
William Leithiser
Chester, Marks
Earl Brown
Robert’ Galebach
Roy Galebach
Monroe Stover
Kenneth Stover
John Stauffer
John Zimmerman
Herman Sanders
Hershey Industrial School
Swatara Creek
Swatara
J. M. Brandau
God
Ighakis
Prospect, Heights
Growing Church Sunday Attendance at Mrgt United Brethren
Sunday at Mrgt United Brethren Church drew 250 in Bible School and 61 in Otterbaln Men s Hibla Glasa study groups. Communed 104 as services continued in heat. Bible School enrollment sits at 881 with membership at 149.
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Mrgt United Brethren Church
Bible School
Otterbaln Men
Pinchot In Hershey On Two Hour Stop July 22
Gifford Pinchot and William Draper Lewis Washington Party candidates for U S Senator and Governor will visit Hershey July 22 during an Dauphin County automobile tour. They will speak at the Men's Club at 12 30 p m and proceed to Middletown for an outdoor mass meeting at 7 30 p m after visiting local mills and factories along a wide schedule through Dauphin County.
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Gifford Pinchot
Washington Party
United States
William Draper Lewis
Hershey
Dauphin County
John H. Kreider
Congress
Joseph B. Martin
William W. Lenker
Assembly
Ira J. Mosey
Middletown
Harrisburg
Pinchot and Lewis
Steelton
Enhaut
Town Hall
Oberlin
Paxtang
Kraemer
Penbrook
Fishburn
Progress
Paxtonia
Linglestown
Shellsville
Grantville
Union Deposit
Swatara
Heyshey
Bachmansville
Deodate
Hockersville
Hummelstown
Public Square
Highspire
McDanel’s
Royalton
Rutherford
Pinchot
Lewis
Picnic Parade Boosts Hershey Park Popularity
Picnics every day fill Hershey Park in coming weeks with groups from Reading Lancaster Harrisburg York Haven and other towns. Sunday schools from Reading will arrive tomorrow escorted by the Hershey Band joining several church groups and Lutheran picnics in a steady caravan of visitors.
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Hershey Park
Hershey
Reading
Hershey Band
Faith
St. John's
St. James
Lancaster
Harrisburg
Boiline Springs
Hurt While Swimming At Park Pool Injures Local Boy
Eight year old Logtar Kopp son of Mr and Mrs B L Kopp was hurt in the Park pool last Friday afternoon. He was struck on the head while wading near shore and rendered unconscious. His brother Miles helped summon aid as bystanders failed to notice the injury. The boy was rushed home by his father and treated for a lacerated lip by Arthur McCafferty after entering the water chute on Sunday.
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Logtar
B. L. Kopp
Park
Ind
Miles
Arthur
McCafferty
Shute
Parcel Post Drives Express Firms to Losses in Year End Results
Parcel post growth crowds Hershey’s post office as larger quarters are sought and express companies cut rates to compete. The Interstate Commerce Commission data show American Express and Adams firms suffering steep declines in nine months ending June 30, 1914, with losses totaling over three million dollars, while Southern and Western lines better weathered the shift.
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Hershey Post
Parcel Post
Hershey
Express
American
American Express
United States Express Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern and Western Lines
Culum
Adams, American and Globe
Adams
Globe Company
Death of John Yetter at Hummelstown electric plant
John Yetter of Hummelstown was found dead at the electric plant on Saturday morning. Postmortem findings ruled out electrocution and cited bursting of a large blood vessel near the heart. He leaves a widow Bertha Reager and siblings, with services by Rev. Herbert S. Garnes of Zion Lutheran. Interment is in Hummelstown Cemetery.
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John Vetter
Hummelstown
Perkins
Harrisburg
Bertha Reaper
John Reager
Yetter
Harry Yeter
Chamber's Hill
Herbert 5S
Garnes
Zion Lutheran Church
Woodmen
Visit From Former Pastor Rev Sharp Highlights Hershey Stop
Rev EH A Sharp, former pastor of the United Brethren church in Hershey, visited Portage Cambrian county and Hershey on Tuesday and Wednesday. He left Hershey a year ago and has since led rapid growth. A new thirty thousand dollar church opened before his Portage move, with Sharp conducting the first service. In the past year two hundred twenty two new members joined the church, seven of them men. Many Hershey friends commend his work.
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A. Sharp
United Brethren Church
Portage
Cambrian County
Hershey
Sharp
Altea
Township approves road repair funding request
Derry Township supervisors asked the State Highway Department to help finance a road project. The plan covers Union Deposit Road from Union Deposit to Swatara Station, with repairs slated for about a 120 foot long stretch near the Swatara Creek bridge.
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Balanca
Derry Township
State Highway Department
Union Dapoalt
Swatard Station
Swatara Station
Swatara Croak Bridge
Nowy Union
Worst Automobile Tragedy In Lebanon County History
A Lebanon county race crash near Annville injures LeRoy Stauffer and Gilbert Stewart and kills Claud Withers. Stewart charged with involuntary manslaughter as witnesses describe racing cars fleeing the scene in a heartless manner.
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Lebanon
Dauphin
Ford
LeRoy Stauffer
Palmyra
Abbott- Detroit
Gilbert Stewart
Harrisburg
Annville
Wilbur Reed
Abbott-Detroit
Claud, Withers
Roy Stauffer
Lebanon Hospital
Chester Bruce
Frank Spangler
Wilbur Reid
Paul Zimmerman
Stewart
Prosper Boyer
Lebanon News
Stauffer
Reed
Coroner Light
Lebanon County
Plenty of Peaches Near Hershey With Big Pennsylvania Orchard
Orchard crops across Dauphin York Adams and Franklin counties look plentiful this year with Colonel Harry C Trexlers large Schnecksville area orchard expected to match last years 60000 baskets. Warm weather spurs early picking in a week to ten days and prices may rise if the Southern crop remains lighter.
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Hershey
Dauphin
York
Adams
Franklin
Harry C. Trexler
Schneckaville
Pennsylvania
America
Lyceum Course Planned for Winter by Hershey Men's Club
The Hershey Men's Club lined up a six attraction Lyceum course for the coming winter with acts including Olympian Ladies Mia Mask Ooalitan Quartettio Johnson and Mitchel plus a Panama Lecture. Dates to be settled. likely Monday evenings with a flat rate of one dollar for the full course or 26 cents per single admission.
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Hershey
Lyceum
Olympian
Mia
Mask
Ooalitan Quartettio
Johnson
Mitchel
Panama
Alnglo
New Concrete Work on Park Avenue Buildings
William Stoner oversaw government funded concrete glopa in front of his recently erected Park Avenue buildings. Walks around the homes were laid as part of the project. The work was completed by Gus Moyers.
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William Stoner
Park Avenue
Gus Moyers
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