Baseball Season Starts Saturday Afternoon at Hershey Park
A Hershey Men's Club meeting planned a local baseball team with practice at Hershey Park field Saturday afternoon. Many players attended and organizers aim for a strong Hershey representation. They discussed forming an inter town league with Middletown Hummelstown Palmyra and Hershey to draw crowds and boost the 1926 season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hershey
Hershey Park
Middletown
Hummelstown
Palmyra
Hershey Girl Shoots at Lighting Standards on Cocoa Avenues
A 13 year old Hershey girl used a small rifle to shoot at ornamental lighting standards on Cocoa Avenue. The globe on one standard was broken and the girl, seen by a prominent citizen, handed the rifle to a boy and left toward Areba street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hershey Chocolate Company
Cocoa
Java
Granada
Caracas
Cocoa Avenue
Areba Street
Public Meeting for Community Righteousness at Derry Church
The John Elder Men's Bible Class plans a public meeting at Derry Presby terian Church on Monday May 10 at 730 pm inviting all Adult Sunday School members. The program includes solos, readings, an address by Rev W C Espenshade from Middletown and a brief business meeting urging attendance and candidate nominations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Elder
Derry Presbyterian Church
Harry M. Hocker
Kathryn Weltmer
W. C. Espenshade
Middletown
Dauphin County Sunday School Association
Land
Republican Mass Meeting in Hockersville Monday Evening
A Republican mass meeting is set for Monday evening May 10 at Hockersville in Eric's store. Frank B. Snavely will lead. prominent speakers will discuss campaign issues. Attendees will be served ample refreshments for men and chocolates for ladies. The hour is 7 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hockersville
Hockerville
Frank B. Snavely
Eric
Malcolm Murrie Sets Sail for South America Assignment
Malcolm Murrie son of Mr and Mrs Wm FF Murrie connected with the National City Bank of New York sails May 8 on a Munson line ship to Buenos Aires Argentina to serve a three year posting as an inspector visiting all South American branches for the bank while staying with his parents during vacation prior to departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malcolm Murrice
Wm. Ff.it. Murrie
National City Bank of
New York City
South America
Buenos Aires
Argentina
South Americc
National City Bank
High School Orchestra Prepares for The Little Tycoon Chorus
The High School Orchestra, directed by Misa Roth, has worked hard to accompany the Chorus of The Little Tycoon. Roth is pleased with their progress and promises a real treat, though this is their first ambitious effort. Patrons are urged to give hearty reception and encouragement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misa Roth
United Brethren Plans Mother's Day Observance
The United Brethren Church schedules a Mother's Day program on Sunday May 9 with a 9 15 a m church school program inviting all mothers, 10 30 a m worship, 2 30 p m joint Mother and Daughter Service, and a 7 30 p m choir centered evening program. Transportation is available for mothers needing a ride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Brethren Church
R. G. Hinkel
Irvin Knoll
Women's Missionary Society
Otterbein Guild
Evergy
A. G. Nye
God
Misses Mary
Kathryn Carpenter
Lucile Gilman
Mother's Day Tribute by Foster Tea Frye
Poem honoring mothers role in comfort and guidance. It speaks of a mother’s care through sunshine and rain and urges celebration while her love remains, noting the eventual loss and urging happiness for Mother's Day.
Hershey Park Merry-Go-Round Gets Fresh Makeover
The Hershey Park Merry-Go-Round undergoes a full refresh with new tails bridles and a fresh paint job. A Wurlitzer organ replaces the old instrument offering 40 new selections. Park staff including Russel Zornineyes and assistants propose uniforms and badges for the team.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hershey Park
Russel Zornineyes
Marlyn Herbst
Harry Dowhower
Ross Strine
Miss Mary Eby Hosts Surprise Birthday Party
Ray Kreider of Palmyra was surprised when friends gathered at Miss Mary Eby's home to celebrate his birthday. Hostess Miss Eby organized the evening with gifts and a luncheon for attendees including Merle Cramer Alma Houser Lucile Gilman Mary Evans and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Kreider
Palmyra
Mary Eby
Miss Eby
Kreider
Merle Cramer
Ethel Digsinger
Alma Houser
Lucile Gilman
Mary Evans
Earl Fouche
Mary Ebersole
June Eby
Messia
Herman Enterline
John Bordner
Landis Garman
Elina Mumma
Iarl Frouche
Francis Kellar
Hershey Park Dancing Pavilion to Open This Season
The Hershey Park dancing pavilion opens for the summer season on Wednesday evening May 12. The Keystone Ramplers will headline the attraction. On May 19 the annual May Hop will be held with C. Lloyd Major and His Orchestra performing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hershey Park
Ita
C. Lloyd Major
Hia Orchestra
Hershenites Tour Amato Atlantic City and Philadelphia
Roy Sternberger Paul Brewer Frank Leyba and Austin Shelley traveled to Amato New Jersey on Saturday for an auto race. They then went to Atlantic City to enjoy the nightlife and finished with a Philadelphia night drive before returning in the evening with Mr Shelley at the wheel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Sternberger
Paul Brewer
Frank Leyba
Austin Shelley
Amato
N. J
Atlantic City
Philadelphia
Mr. Shelley
Littl Tycoon Musical Skit at Junior-Senior High
A playful stage program features Gen Knickerbocker as the Great Tycoon with Violet and Rufus among a cast of travelers and chorus. Scenes on an ocean steamer and a Newport villa unfold songs and dances led by Miss Hurricane Dolly and the Japanese chorus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alvin Barry
Wall Street
Japan
Rufus Reddy
Alvin
Lord Dolphin
Teddy
Custom House
Montgomery
Dolly Dimple
Violet
Dot
Dolly
Gen. Knickerbocker
Europe
Newport
Rufus
Hurricane
Ieee
Knickerbocker
Teddy Hobgoblin
Cates Valet
Tycoon
Sham
Great Tycoon
The Smokestack and Words of a Wistful Writer
A column blends verse and humor as the writer imagines leaving the city for mountain childhood days. He laments money, recalls poetry, and notes an Alumni Banquet date of May 29 1926 with a humorous plate-price anecdote.
Alma Mater nostalgia and a pledge to the old school
A writer laments past failures and jokes about returning to his Alma Mater. He recalls leaving in 1921 and contemplates future visits to speak to students about striving and failure, admitting he may never have his name on the rocks of eternity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mansfield State Normal School
Shim
Dollaer
Alma Mater
O. K
Portals of Learning
Skipper
Dee Jay
Old Maida
Bray
Hershey Minstrels Celebrate Local Show Success
The Hershey Minstrels receive praise for their recent local performance. The note credits the group with revealing how audiences view themselves and notes the show made a strong impression.
Fable of Two Deaf Girls in a Timeless Tale
Two girls in a fable never declare simple reassurance. One stays silent on fine endings, the other rejects the phrase directly all right. Both are deaf and dumb in this ancient moral vignette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fable
New American Star Marion Talley Sings at Hershey Park
A concert by Marion Talley at Hershey Park Convention Hall on Sunday afternoon May 30 is hailed as a standout musical event. The 19 year old Kansas singer, dubbed the Jenny Lind of the Twentieth Century, rose to fame after a Metropolitan Opera debut and has already performed five concerts. Her rising fame and the Hershey venue are anticipated to draw large crowds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hershey Park
Marion Talley
Miss Talley
Jenny Lind
Kansas
West
Metropolitan Opera House
Hershey
Hershey Convention Hall
Fay Lanphier in The American Venus at Hershey Central
The Paramount beauty comedy The American Venus starring Fay Lanphier Miss America and Esther Ralston appears at Hershey Central Theatre Tuesday May 11 at 7 30 pm. The color fashion show lavish sets and thrilling stunts promise high spectacle and romance in a tale of a small town girl entering a beauty contest to aid her father and fend off rival interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paramount
Hershey Central Theatre
Atlantic City
Fay Lanphier
America
Esther Ralston
Lawrence Gray
Ford Sterling
Frank Tuttle
Townsend Artin
All Around Helpers Hold Class Meeting
The All Around Helpers Sunday School class of the United Brethren Church met at Miss Alice Reilley’s home on May 4. The gathering featured music and games with refreshments served to listed attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hespera
Claga
United Brethren Church
Alice Reilley
Suzanna Alexander
Marie Bauder
Viola Mengle
Sara Leibfried
Helen Strimble
Kathryn Hostetter
Kathryn Weidler
Doris Brubaker
Ethel Ebersole
Phyllis Hamaker
Mary Catharine Hartman
Ana Simmons
Elolke Moyer
Violet Sternberger
Dorothy Imboden
Milas Mabel Lingle
Ceacher
Della Belmont Finds Stage at Central Theatre Saturday
Miss Della Belmont, singing comedienne from the Up Father show, appears at the Wernhey Central Theatre Saturday evening May 8 with performances at 6 30 and 8 30 o clock. Belmont is noted for the Maggie role from her prior stage work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Della Belmont
Central Theatre
Wernhey Central Theatre
Irvin H. Slesser Elected President of District Association
The Dauphin County Sabbath School District No. 5 convention met at Spring Creek Church of the Brethren on April 26 with sessions at 2 and 7 30 p m. Irvin H. Slesser was elected president as officers including vice president Noah Gibble and secretary Paul R. Gingrich were named and the district covers fourteen Sabbath Schools from Hershey Union Deposit and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dauphin County Sabbath School Association
Spring Creek Church of the Brethren
Irvin H. Slesser
Paul M. Kinports
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
Slesser
H. K. Geyer
Christian Education
The
County Association
Rev. Geyer
R. H. Taylor
Derry Presbyterian Church
A. G. Nye
First U. B. Church
Hershey
Hershey Volunteer Fire Co Holds May Meeting
The Hershey Volunteer Fire Co held its regular meeting on Tuesday May 4 with listed members present. The group discussed hosting a housing of a new Hahn fire truck, a street fair and dance, membership changes, fundraising for a chemical truck, pool table repairs, and recent alarms including chimney fires at Brookside Meadow Brook Farms and a field fire at Rudy Farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hershey Volunteer Fire Co
Clarence Uhrich
Irvin Uhler
C. A. Wiley
Ed. Bomgardner
Herman Seavers
Clyde Ebersole
Paul Seavers
Jno
H. Gordon
Roy Johnston
Jas. F. X. Murray
Chemical No. 1 Fire Co
Hummelstown
Hahn
Fgll
Buffalo Fire Apparatus Company
Uhrich
H. S. Boyer
Brookside
Meadow Brook
Rudy Farm
Hershey
Fire Siren Echoes at Meadow Brook Farm Fire
A morning fire at Meadow Brook Farm triggered the fire siren at six o clock. Chief Boyer and crew arrived in about seventeen minutes and extinguished the blaze. The operator’s repeated siren blasts are described with mixed feelings of relief and weariness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meadow Brook
Boyer
Abte
Bayer
Layer
Murries to Take Canadian Trip and Engagement News
Mr and Mrs Murrie plan a midsummer trip to Canada visiting Western Canada the Pacific Coast and Panama Canal on return. Kata Murrie will graduate from Columbia University June 6 then stay a month in Lake Placid. Bruce Murrie has one year left at Newman School. Isabelle Buchannon of Verona NJ engages William Barron of Newark NJ. ceremony set for May 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murrie
Kata
Bruce
Canada
Pacific Coast
Panama Canal
Kuta
Columbia University
Lake Placid
Bruce Murrle
Newman School
Lakewood
N. J
Princeton
Mary Buchannon
Isabelle Buchannon
Verona
William Barron
Newark
Miss Buchannon
Hershey
Hershey High School
Hershey Minstrels Win Approval of Large Audience
The Hershey Minstrels performed to a capacity crowd at Hershey High School on April 28. Directors Paul Ruf and John Snavely led an evening of tuneful numbers and jokes with standout solos by Alex Magrini Clinton Hoffer and Henry Schaeffer and a lively Lebanon Quartet number. The show benefited Hershey High School activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hershey Minstrels
Hershey High School
William Shaub
Clinton Hoffer
Edward Shea
Laurence Edwards
Walter Priestley
Paul J. Ruf
John F. Snavely
Alex Magrini
Henry Schaeffer
Lebanon
Barry
Richards
Raf
Arnold
al Rice
Coppah Moon
Miss Hannah
Anita Stewart in South Sea Island Story at Hershey Central
Anita Stewart stars in Never the Twain Shall Meet a South Sea Island tale shown at Hershey Central Theatre Thursday May 13 at 7 30 pm. Cosmopolitan production directed by Maurice Tourneur filmed in Tahiti and Moorea with Bert Lytell Justine Johnstone George Siegmann and others. The film features tropical scenery exotic interior sets by Joseph Urban and romantic drama centered on Tamea the halfcaste Island princess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter B. Kyne
South Sea Islands
Hershey Central Theatre
Maurice Tourneur
Tahiti
Moorea
South Sea
Anita Stewart
Bert Lytell
Frantly Gordon
Justine Johnstone
Miss Stewart
Dan Pritchard
Joseph Urban
Hershey Milk Dealers Hold Seventh Annual Meeting Notes
J W Mitten of the Department of Agriculture spoke on milk testing for Hershey Chocolate Company at Moyer's restaurant Lebanon. Miles Horst spoke on Health Standards of Dairy Cattle. A C Berger discussed cooperation between the Mariner and the Station Man. J H Benneth spoke on producer station relations. WN Hershey chaired and answered employee questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Mitten
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Foods and Chemistry
Hershey Chocolate Company
Moyer’s
Lebanon
Mitten
Miles Horst
Near Iona
A. C. Berger
Mariner
J. H. Benneth
Agricultural Extension Association
WN. Hershey
Paul Shoop Hooks a Fish at Spring Creek
Paul Shoop former Hershey Volunteer Fire Company president fished Spring Creek Monday evening. He bought a new rod and tackle but landed only a small sucker despite pride and effort. He recalls better luck at Pottaville where he was reputed for fishing prowess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Shoop
Hershey Volunteer Fire Company
Hershey
Spring Creek
Paul
Pottaville
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Malcolm Murrie
United Brethren
Mother
Foster Tea Frye
Littl Tycoon
Fligh School
Nickerbockers
Harold Sours
the Great
Landis Curryrd
John Gilman
Roy Dundore
Sam, Curry
Richard Arnold
Lois Gilman
Grace Lloyd
Louise Shay
Esther Magrini
Mary Heil
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Neers
By Dee Jay Gee
Tam
James Russell Lowell
James
Liberty Cross Roads
Attaboy
District Association
Hershey Milk
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