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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1916
Page
3
Dauphin county Masons plan a Dauphin county memorial building to accompany the Masonic Home at Elizabethtown. A fund now reaches 5000 dollars with an estimated project cost near 30000 dollars and all county lodges will share in the subscriptions.
The Men's Chorus of the Hershey Men's Club presents a fine program at Market House Auditorium Elizabethtown on Thursday evening April 13. The performance is billed as a standout musical event of the season.
John Henry Hilker aged 75 years and 8 days died at his home near Hoffmansville after a fall nine months earlier. He fathered 25 children with two wives, 21 surviving, plus 44 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. The youngest child is about ten. Several details on his family, work as a wood cutter, and surviving kin are noted.
A summer school course at Pennsylvania State College will be led by Professor Hugo Diemer head of industrial engineering. The Pennsylvania Commercial Secretaries Association with secretary Charles M. Ketchum of Washington PA cooperates. Lectures on industrial psychology education and organization will be discussed by experts August 21 to 26.
The Minnesota Agricultural College engineers test show the faster horse gains eight inches on the evener and carries 988 pounds while the slower horse bears 1,102 pounds with a ton load. Col. Walter T. Bradley notes this may overturn common beliefs among farmers who drive horses.
The whip-poor-will is named for its night calls repeating whip poor-will. It nests on the ground in woods and lays two grayish white eggs mottled with pale brown and lilac in June. Distinguished from the night hawk by long bristles, black chin, chestnut and black barred wings, and a rounded tail. males have white outer tail tips, females buff. Size about 10 inches, similar to a woodpecker.
The Young Crusaders held their monthly meeting at Robert Galebach’s Areba Street home on Tuesday evening. A brief business session preceded a program of recitations by Carl Galebach and music by E. L. Bomgardner and class members. Bomgardner gave a lecture on The Meaning of the name The Young Crusaders. Refreshments followed and attendees enjoyed the program.
A historical note explains how European conflict alters newspaper paper color from white to yellow due to wartime paper shortages and changes in dyes. It argues yellow newsprint signals practical wartime constraints rather than disrepute, noting reduced wood pulp imports and potential downsizing of daily papers and magazines for reliability and economy.
The Milking Shorthorn Cattle Club of America held its first annual sale in Painesville Ohio last week. The event showed a high average of 629 dollars for females and 389 dollars for bulls across both classes, including several young animals. The piece argues for calling cattle bred for milk production Dairy Shorthorns and reserves Shorthorns for others, noting the term implies all are milk producers.
New Zealand's 1916 government revenue is estimated at 56,822,490 pounds. The figure reflects wartime fiscal pressures and government spending priorities during the period.
A fragment shows a tense exchange where a father pleads for his daughter to receive the luxuries she is used to while her lover hints at an imminent end, claiming to have provided for over a year.
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