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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1915
Page
8
A long list of visits and trips among Hershey area residents. Families from Palmyra, Lebanon, Annville and Philadelphia share Sundays at homes, inns, and beaches. Several Hershey Chocolate Company staff members take vacations and attend events in Atlantic City and Philadelphia. A public notice asks for the return of a stolen bicycle and offers a reward. another ad seeks family washing and household help.
Twenty one members of the Shake spearan club traveled from Hershey to Grantville last Wednesday evening for a chicken and waffle supper at the Grantville hotel. The group includes Misses Amy Brandt Myra Kulp Mary Kulp Fannie Kulp Naomi Grubb Carrie Goss Emma Hocker Edith Shenk Sara Curry Susan Brinser and Messrs Lee Hocker Harry Hocker Harry Dando Ira Shenk Paul Ensminger Harry Foreman George Foreman Enos Kulp John Curry and Conrad Curry.
George D. Hoffman of Beaver and representative of the H J Heinz Company Pittsburg visited Hershey this week. He is on an automobile tour of the state with five companions. They dined at the Hershey Cafe and visited the factory and town. He once lived in Harrisburg and noted many changes in Lebanon Valley.
An automobile party including Mr. and Mrs. John E. Snyder and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Espenshade and Mr. William F. R. Murrie with family spent Saturday and Sunday touring the northeastern part of the state. They traversed the Poconos up to Pike County and returned Sunday night without mishap, enjoying fine mountain scenery.
Nathan Ober, a well known Campbelltown resident, fell from a wheat wagon while working near Syner and broke his leg in two places. He is being treated at Lebanon hospital. Edwin Sanders will hold a public sale of household goods on Saturday August 7 two miles west of town. Sheriff Strupp and wife of Lebanon visited here Sunday. Mrs Harry Lenig and two daughters of Reading visited her aunt here Sunday. Thieves broke into Mrs Walters store Monday night and stole valuable goods. M S Long and his three threshing machines are busy this time of year. Mrs Paul Dundore of Latrobe visited friends in town. Sunday school at 9, church at 7 30 with Rev Frantz preaching Sunday Aug 8.
Bindnagles Church reports a well attended Saturday picnic held by the P C S of A at Grantville. Several local residents and visitors from Palmyra Bearmont Harrisburg Coffestown and nearby areas were seen with families visiting relatives and friends through Sunday.
Rev H K Lants delivered an excellent sermon to a large appreciative audience at the Lutheran church. Galen T Boyer and family from Washington DC visited his mother Mary Bi Boyer and relatives including C S Boyer Harry A Boyer John A Boyer W Martin Boyer and Edward Rhoads. Wilvabeth Killinger hosted visitors from Narrrighurge with Mrs A W Boyer and others joining in a Sunday gathering.
Friends at Harrisburg Mr and Mrs Thomas E Hetrick and Mr and Mrs James Hetrick took an automobile trip on Sunday visiting Mr and Mrs Morris Sherk at Cornwall and Mr and Mrs Edmund Shutter of Bismark. The guests of Mr and Mrs R H Hetrick and Miss Alice Hetrick included Mr and Mrs Milton D Hetrick and family Mr and Mrs John H Ramleér Eden Hetrick Miss Annie Hetrick Mrs W H Deibler Miss Annie Ulrich and Miss Blanche Mumma. Mrs Herman Stoner Miss Mabel Stoner Miss Ellen Moyer Mrs J H Kuntz Miss Irene Hummer Charles Hummer Wayne Hummer Mrs William H Deibler and Miss Annie Urich were recent guests of Mrs Thomas KE Hetrick and Miss Katie Watmer.
Miss Elizabeth Kline, daughter of Rev. J H Kline, married Rev. Andrew M Dixon of Brooklyn at the Kline home in Elizabethtown. The ceremony was by Rev. J H Kline. bridesmaid Anna Kline. best man Holmes Falkenstein. Music by Paul Engle and Mary Elizabeth Miller marked the occasion. Guests viewed gifts before proceeding to reception.
The Kline residence lawn hosted an outdoor wedding supper. Mrs. Dixon, a respected musical artist and former head of Elizabethtown College’s music department, led singing for the Church of the Brethren at Hershey in June. Rev. Dixon, a Lancaster County schoolteacher turned pastor, pursues theological studies at Juniata College and is known as an evangelist.
Record yields projected across Hershey farms with corn recapturing after two severe hailstorms. Wheat output set to surpass past highs, oats also strong. About one to two thousand cattle thriving, milk production at peak. Round barn and new calf barn drawing visitors. In Chicago an electric pie machine can produce 23 000 pies daily by six workers.
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