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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
4
The Hershey Press is published every Thursday by the Hershey Printing Company and entered at the Hershey Post Office as second class matter.
An authority claims Hershey boasts dramatic health gains and wealth growth. The death rate from tuberculosis has fallen about 50 percent nationally, while Hershey reports almost no tuberculosis and rising per capita wealth, making the town a durable advertising point and an enticing place to live.
A Hershey day saw nearly two thousand workers at the factory, a Saturday half-holiday, cleanup across town, and crowds at the Hershey Store and Firemen's Fair. Hundreds attended, traffic surged with a thousand cars, and the day emphasized health and wholesome recreation in Hershey.
A.C. Chiostermann argues chocolate use revives as a wholesome home beverage and food. He warns against adulteration as demand exceeds cocoa bean supply and urges buyers to choose high grade American cocoa and chocolate products for quality and safety.
A poetic reflection on haymaking joy and its rising profits. May 1916 is called a month of flowers with fieldwork praised for sunlit harvests. The piece jokes about adding machines to count profits alongside typewriters for poets of the harvest.
The piece argues Americans are waiting for party nominations, foreseeing independent voting and a potential war defining the nation’s course. It emphasizes calm, not indifference, and frames November’s choice as the nation’s defining question.
Clean up day was a great success in Hershey. The community is urged to form a habit of picking up rubbish daily. A tidy yard and garden reflect pride, health, and happiness, making Hershey a pleasant home for children and a clean town free of flies.
The piece praises wildflowers on Highland Park slopes near spring. It compares their colors to bits of sky and invokes Wordsworthian imagery of the soft blue sky melting into the heart, inviting a moment of reflection and virtue.
Poem fragment remembering soldiers with garlands roses and tears. The speaker links May flowers to graves and a quiet city where soldiers sleep. Readers are urged to honor forgotten heroes with flowers and lasting remembrance through the years.
Hershey grows from farmland to a modern town in Derry Township Dauphin County Pennsylvania. By 1915 a record crowd of 40 000 attended events while factories farms and a full civic complex support 2 000 daily visitors and 1600 residents with 8 500 acres of dairy farms.
Job notices for cooks waitresses dairies milkers and factory workers appear with Hershey Employment Bureau contact. Positions include track repairmen outside labor and dining room staff, plus a public sale notice for Mrs George Wesner of Spring Creek Avenue.
A courtroom remark notes a defendant asking forgiveness from a man named George Idea after a prior encounter. The judge references the exchange, quoting the dialogue and pondering its meaning within the case context.
Detailed trolley and train timetables for Hershey, Hummelstown, Harrisburg, Lebanon, Palmyra, and Elizabethtown. Includes first and last cars, hourly and half hour departures, Sunday changes, connections at Elizabethtown and Hershey, and accompanying cafe, shop, and public service hours.
Mothers Day service at First United Brethren Church featured an eloquent sermon by Rev. N. L. Linebaugh on Our Mothers. After the sermon attendants were invited to the altar and each received a carnation as the Ladies Chorus sang.
Voters turned out sparsely on Tuesday while Penrose secured a majority of national and state delegates. Philadelphia pursued its major loan plan for a new transit system amid mild interest in the proceedings.
The French Academy of Sciences offers a $20,000 prize to the first person who communicates with any planet other than Mars, encouraging interplanetary contact and discovery.
Rev N L Linebaugh will lead Bible School at 9 15 and sermon at 10 15 on the theme The Church at Pergamios. Junior and Intermediate hour at 2 00 Senior Christian Endeavor at 6 30 and Wednesday prayer at 7 45 with topic The Mallennial Reign of Christ Upon the Earth.
Prayer meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m Sunday School 9 30 a m Christian Workers Meeting 6 30 p m Preaching Service 7 30 p m.
Fishburn church holds Sunday School at 9 30 a m with Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p m and preaching at 7 30 p m Union Deposit offers Sunday School at 9 30 a m Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p m and preaching at 10 30 a m.
Pp O S A OF HALL reports Reverend Worrall of Harrisburg will conduct services every Sunday afternoon at Yo'clock at the Christian Missionary Alliance. All are welcome.
Mrs Jerry Martin aged 68 died suddenly at her Vian home Sunday night. She had been visiting Peter Lehman and family at Sand Hill when she suffered apoplexy. Funeral services are set for Thursday from her late home with burial in the Reformed Cemetery at Campbelltown. She leaves a husband and several children.
In Derry Charch and near Cyrus Weathafer, several chickens were taken from a coop of Joseph Detweller but frightened away before entry. The report mentions plans to introduce reindeer in the Peace River Valley, noting that flies hinder the animals.
Miss Fannie Wenger and C Park Mowery of Paradise Lancaster County united in marriage Friday May 12 at Derry Church home of Mr and Mrs Morris Wenger. Rev Im Klick officiated at 1 o clock with immediate relatives present. Reception followed at the Wenger residence before a wedding trip to Atlantic City. they will reside in Paradise after June 14.
Hershey attendees plus Miss Pauline Clark and Miss Virginia Hershey joined Saturday May Day festivities at Lebanon Valley College. It was the largest May Day event in the college’s history with Miss Viola Imber crowned queen and other students Miss Clark and Miss Hershey among participants.
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