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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1916
Page
4
The piece notes the quiet submarine project profits on a Bremen to Baltimore voyage and critiques large 1915 1916 1917 appropriations. It argues most funds fund nonagricultural programs and urges careful reading of totals over impressions of large sums.
In a critique of urban life during a hot spell, the author laments crowded cities, proclaims air as priceless, and argues that country living provides ample space and cool nights. He notes over a score of deaths in cities and contrasts rural life with Wall Street offices.
The essay critiques prophecy and almanacs predicting weather and events amid war. It argues against fortune telling, cites human humility in knowing our place in the cosmos, and notes Nature's constant renewal despite human beliefs and wars.
The annual agricultural bill, about $24,000,000, passed the Senate today in nearly identical form to the House version. It includes federal grain inspection, licensing of grain warehouses, and a 2 cent per pound tax on cash hold for future delivery.
Seventeen members of the Onward Club enjoyed an auto ride to Harrisburg visiting Miss Anna Gordon who has become assistant nurse at the County Alms House. Miss Charlotte Burch of Williamsport led the Sunshine Club storytelling hour and a Bible class plans a Highland Park hike for the supper. Many out of town guests use the Y W C A cafeteria and rest room.
Mr Zimmerman will leave Hershey planing mill in late August to join J H Hollinger at Chambersburg in charge of a large mill. He came to Hershey in February 1914 and built a small shop into a big mill with 25 workers, earning community goodwill for his new position.
Monroe Stover and his brother Kenneth returned from a week long vacation at Pine Grove Furnace. They fished Tom's Creek and whipped forty fine brook trout from the stream during their expedition.
William Miller, a local young man who could not swim, nearly drowned in the Park pool on Sunday. Friends nearby called Shaffer, Schneers and Malone to assist in bringing him to shore as he was exhausted after his rescue.
Miss Dorothea Sellers and Miss Bertha Shank have been ill last week. Sellers stays at her Middletown home and Shank remains home near Uum melstown with a foot injury. George Roberts, ill for weeks, remains in critical condition as Hershey friends visit his Harrisburg home.
Word reached here of the death on Tuesday of Mrs J Williams father in Philadelphia. Mrs Williams is well known in Hershey where she heads the millinery department at the Hershey Store Company.
In Derry Township Dauphin County Pennsylvania Hershey grew from farmland to a modern industrial town by 1913 with 30 000 attendees at the tenth anniversary and a peak crowd of 40000 in 1915. The town features a vast chocolate factory dairies farms a model town plan a large public library school park theatre hotel and a comprehensive business district.
Farmers and laborers sought for year round steady work with good pay at Hershey Transit Company dairies and mills. Positions include track repairmen milkers men for outside labor waiters and waitresses stenographers and general machinery erectors. See Help Wanted page 4. Ten American or Italian laborers requested.
The notice lists trolley and train times for Hershey, Harrisburg, Lebanon, Elizabethtown, Palmyra, and Hummelstown. First cars range from 5.15 a.m. to 6.30 a.m. with service through late evening and Sunday variations. Connections between towns and Conestoga Traction lines noted.
Mechanical department offers good wages and steady work with August 15 1916 start. lumber manager must be a man 30 to 45 familiar with all grades, able to read blueprints, with office experience. pipe filters, shop helpers and boys 16 to 20 also sought. apply at Hershey Employment Bureau Tingmiths. Also lost pearl necklace to Stella A Reisinger care of Dives Pomeroy and Stewart Reading Pa. rent house 219 West Main Palmyra seven rooms hot and cold water bath gas electric. sale Encyclopaedia Britannica ninth edition 31 volumes at Hershey Free Public Library.
Cheap to quick buyer. Chevrolet Roadster in good condition offered by Chas S Bechtle at 617 Cumberland St Lebanon Pa. Bell phone 812-R.
Reward offered for return of a gold watch engraved with J W H in Derry Church Hafner House Derry Church Pa. Contact Hafner House for recovery reward.
Pastor John Irwin Meck conducts Bible School at 9 16 a m and preaches at 7 00. Choir rehearsal scheduled Thursday evening at 8 00.
The notice lists prayer meeting Thursday evening at 7 30 next Sunday School at 9 30 AM Christian Workers' Meeting at 6 30 PM and Preaching service at 7 30 PM for the church community.
Fishburn's Church holds Sunday School at 9.30 and 10.90 a m with Communion at 6.30 p m. Union Depot offers Sunday School at 9.30 a m and Christian Endeavor at 4.30 p m with a Musical Program at 7.80 p m.
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