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Local Hershey Notes Highlight Weekend Social Life
Community snippets from Hershey and area report travel visits and gatherings. Residents include Garman, Sprenkel, Yingst, Keiffer, and Runkle with multiple trips to Harrisburg, Lebanon, Lancaster, York, and Reading. Local events cover a fire drill, school painting, gym work, and a big rabbit hunt by Roy Hershey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Pavillion
Hershey Band
Michael Yingst
William’s Grove
G. L. Sprenkel
York
Hh.'l. Hildebrand
Walter Ashenfelter
Lebanon
George Buck
Gllison ‘Garman
Will Erb
Hockersville
Frank McCurtin
Harrisburg
Esther Hummel
William Gingrich
Palmyra
A. E. Hershey
William C. Brinker
Anna
Herman Early
Pottstown
George Keller
Lewis Emerich
Majestic
A. M. Henry
Derry ‘Church
William Shakespeare
Frank Derverter
George Wesner
Lutheran Church
Mae. Basehore
Philadelphia
Edward Gross
George Eppley
Robert
Lancaster
Frank Magee
Ulrich Weltmer
George Henry
John Kreider
James Putt
F. S. Hesser
A. Heller
S. D. Clark
Earl Mays
Sarah Shirk
U. B
John and
Charles ‘Bowman
Baker
Howell
Hershey
A. Hall
Ida Steward