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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1912
Page
3
Community notices list pastors and families visiting relatives in Hershey and nearby towns. The column notes church services, college commencements, birth announcements, and local social visits including business trips by Rev O G Romig, Rev I Meyer Hershey, Herman Ober, and others, with occasional employment changes and real estate ads.
Anna Laura Schaeffer wife of contractor Jacob B Schaeffer of 211 N 6th St Reading died last Saturday at her husband's Mount Penn summer home from a complication of diseases after a lingering illness. She was a daughter of William K and Sarah Leithiser Brumbach Read ing residents. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church. Survived by her husband and others.
Two daughters Ruth and Anna are named along with brothers and sisters James B. and William Leithiser of Hershey and three women Mrs. George Weiler Mrs. Oliver Sprecher and Mrs. David Ermentrout of Reading in a family notice.
Mrs. Myrtle Trout of Harrisburg Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cohen of Philadelphia Mr. and Mrs A F Kalbach of Philadelphia and William S Weir of Wilmington Delaware arrive at Hershey Vin in a brief social notice.
A Thursday gathering of United Brethren members in Quincy Franklin County drew about two thousand attendees despite rain. A special eleven car train from Harrisburg brought delegates from Lebanon Myerstown Annville Palmyra Hershey Swarata and Hummelstown. Congressman B. K. Fochit delivered the afternoon address as the Hagerstown U B Church orchestra provided special music. Dinner was served at the orphanage home and the exercises were held in a large new barn.
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