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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1916
Page
4
The Hershey Press notes a heated sea conflict and bold navy goals, projecting American battle cruisers with 180000 horsepower and faster speeds. It praises Hershey Industrial School boys for initiative in self-made projects from tomato frames to cement work, praising their observation as core education.
The Hershey Chocolate Company pursues a vast integration from Cuba sugar and West Indies cacao to Lebanon Valley milk. It buys plantations, builds lines, and ships sugar by its own cars to Hershey factories. The article lauds the healthful, self-sufficient process and the town’s ideal factory setting.
Reports from the Hershey Industrial School detail high scores for an 8 year old and a 12 year old across deportment reading writing spelling arithmetic geography grammar history drawing mechanics. The 60 boys’ routine combines worship outdoor work and shop tasks with farming, poultry, and rabbit projects powering a lively, healthful day.
A German paper notes Verdun endures a brutal fourth month with heavy German losses. The author questions civilized nations and contrasts mission civilizers with the violence they unleash, urging reflection on humanity and restraint.
The verse urges letting go of lost chances from past folly and focusing on present possibility. It counsels keeping eyes open for new opportunities, warning that old woes may obscure current chances and a missed today can slip by unnoticed.
Charles J. Holland of Palmyra died after a long illness. He leaves a widow and two daughters and a son. Burial in Duncannon with funeral arrangements by William Henry of Palmyra. John Zellers died at his daughter’s home near Campbellstown. Funeral services were held in the Lutheran church at Hummelstown with interment in the Hummelstown Cemetery.
In 1903 farmland turned modern town in Derry Township Dauphin County Pennsylvania near Harrisburg Lebanon Philadelphia New York. By 1915 Hershey boasted a 30000 attendance for its tenth anniversary with rapid growth, a major chocolate factory, mill elevator dairy network 850 pupil school system and a large park and public facilities shaping a thriving community centered on industry and transit.
Schedules list first and last car times for Hershey, Hummelstown, Harrisburg, Lebanon, Elizabethtown, Palmyra, and connections. Hourly and half hourly departures run from early morning to late evening with Sunday variations and cross-town links via Conestoga Traction Company. Cafes, shops, and services hours are also posted for the Hershey complex.
A batch of help wanted lines advertises farm hands, millers, waitresses, waitresses, milkers, track repairmen, counter help, and factory workers. Various posts specify good pay, steady year round work, and suitability notes for clean, sober applicants at Hershey Employment Bureau.
Rev Linebaugh leads Bible School at 9 15 and sermon at 10 15 on Sunday with theme The Woe of Tyre. Junior hours at 2 and Christian Endeavor at 6 39, Children's Day exercises at 7 30, all welcome. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 45. Hear the children.
Sunday School begins at 9.30.4 a.m. with preaching at 10.30 a.m. by Rev. Robert Bordman of Lancaster. Christian Endeavor at 6.45 p.m. with preaching at 7.30 p.m. by Rev. Robert Bordman. Wednesday evening prayer meeting and choir rehearsal.
The Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity holds Bible School at 9.15 a.m. morning worship at 7 p.m. Rev. Reiler preaches. Choir rehearsal is 7.30 p.m. Thursday. Ladies Missionary Society meets Wednesday evening at Mrs. John Leese's home.
Pipefitter. Apply Elershey Employment Bureau WANTED Half grown girl to assist with house work and wailing Sleep at home if near Also a woman for general house works sleep at home if preferred Inquire Squire Cassady Spring Creek Road Derry Church Pa FOR SALE At sacrifice New latest model Bowser 4604 call on gasoline tank and curb pump outfit with electric grit Never unpacked Harrisburg Auto Company Clarrisburg Pa
Fishburn's Church holds Sunday School at 9.30 a.m. preaching at 10.30 a.m. Christian Endeavor at 6.30 p.m. Union Deposit Sunday School starts at 9.50 a.m. Children's Day exercises at 7.00 p.m.
The church announces a prayer meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m and a preaching service at 10 30 p m. Sunday School begins at 9 30 a m and Christian Workers Meeting at 6 80 p m.
Patty Miller and Abe Dearolf of Hershey joined Duncannon’s lineup to halt Marysville, leaders of the Dauphin Perry League, in a Saturday game. The two Hershey athletes made timely saves to help Duncannon secure the win.
John Elder class at Areba Street held a biweekly meeting at his home on Monday evening. The group decided to meet monthly thereafter and the next gathering was set for Monday evening July 10 at P. Bacastow's home with refreshments served. Attendees included M. A. Gundersdorff, Paul Gingrich, I. L. Relat, John Stoudt, P. Bacastow, William Kurtz, Ivan L. Menage and John II Boyer.
Rev. Elias H. Hershey of Lancaster visited his son Ezra F. Hershey and family over the weekend. Mrs. Perry of Harrisburg attended Miss Mary Burch at the YWCA Tuesday. Lillian Gresh of Hummelstown could not work due to a sore finger injured at the factory. Mrs. John C. Sands of Schuylkill Haven and Mrs. J. R. Lehman of Mountville visited the Mumma sisters. James Keller of Lancaster, former Hershey Factory foreman, was a visitor to Hershey on Sunday. Russell J. Gleim of the Harrisburg National Bank stayed with Roy G. Mumma last week. Mr. Mumma toattend an evening banquet of the Wharton Extension School in Harrisburg.
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