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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1915
Page
2
The Hershey Press based in Hershey Pennsylvania promotes itself as a modern city with ample homes and garages, a motoring center, and a thriving, affluent workforce. It notes advertising open to merchants and manufacturers, with rates on application, and lists staff and contact details.
Schedule reveals transit between Hummelstown Hartisburg and Hershey with first and last cars from multiple towns, hourly half hour intervals, and Sunday changes. Trains eastbound and westbound times list stops and passenger notes. Also includes cafe hours, store hours, library hours, and post office closures Sundays.
The piece describes crowds in Hershey as healthy and well composed. It praises people in comfortable dress, nourishing food, debt avoidance, and cheerful temperaments. It links sensible living to peace, calmness of soul, and absence of common American ailments.
The campaign reports great progress with thousands of overwinter Asles killed and few files remaining in town. Officials urge continued effort with traps baited borax on manure plies and weekly garbage can cleanup to sustain gains.
The article praises Hershey as possibly the cleanest town in America thanks to daily garbage collection and incineration. It notes ongoing vigilance and community cooperation as essential to maintaining the neat, flyless condition.
The Hershey plan of cooperation aims for durable success through consolidation and customer sharing. The Hershey Store operates 28 tightly run departments with quality goods and reasonable profits, reducing waste and enabling broad participation by customers through purchase-based shares.
An article extols the Hershey Industrial School on an eighteen acre estate near Hershey. It describes a practical program for training orphans in healthful living, education, and character building, aiming to place graduates in the college or university best suited to them. It portrays the 60 boys as a happy, busy group in a simple, non elaborate setting.
Since opening three months ago the Hershey Free Public Library near seven thousand visitors and over five thousand book exchanges. Through May 1915 circulation reached 6573 versus 8225 for the same period in 1914, up 104 percent. There are 1496 volumes on shelves with 269 added this year. 105 new accessions support Boy Scouts Campfire Girls and Italian reading. Membership now 975 with 588 in Hershey and 487 nearby towns. New fiction popular. seven day and reserve systems aid quick circulation.
A description of Hershey Chocolates and Cocoas production highlighting four main operations in the Hershey Factory. It notes roasting grinding and cocoa butter reduction to digest the cocoa and the finishing machines that give velvety smoothness and even flavor. The plant contains 183 machines, more than ten times that of any other U.S. chocolate factory.
Rev. George Snavely Rentz serves Derry Presbyterian Church with Sunday School at 9 30 a m morning worship at 10 30 a m theme The Evidence of Life Christian Endeavor at 6 45 p m evening worship at 7 30 p m theme Evangelism and Social Service Web 7 45 p m Prayer Meeting theme Everlasting Rev N L Linebaugh pastor Bible School at 9 15 a m sermon at 10 15 by Pres G D Gossard D D of Lebanon Valley College Junior Hour at 2 00 p m intermediate service at 2 00 p m Young People Society Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p m sermon at 7 30 p m prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 45
The Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church of the Holy Trinity schedules Bible School at 9:15 a m and a sermon at 6 30 p m Rev Mgr Brown engages John Irvin Meek of Philadelphia for three months He will reside in Hershey and deliver his first sermon on Sunday evening June 13.
English Lutheran Church announces Rev. A. C. Forscht Ph D as pastor while Church of the Brethren lists J. H. Longenecker as elder in charge, reflecting leadership assignments in the community.
Strong sermons at the Derry Presbyterian Church featured two Church of the Brethren preachers. Elder P. Miller of Roanoke Virginia preached in the morning on John 16:5 Apart from me ye can do nothing, stressing Christ's supreme value for the Christian life.
Visitors tour the Hershey Chocolate Company plant covering over 30 acres with a cafe at the main corner and imposing limestone walls. The interior showcases four monumental concrete rear rooms each about 100 feet by 100 feet, plus metal and glass furnishings, 1260 lockers, and a second story restaurant seating 1200.
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