Election Returns Spark Hershey Town Buzz
The Hershey Press reports a day of mixed returns as early results favored Hughes but later updates cast doubt. In Derry Township Third Precinct Hershey voters totaled 242 Republican 82 Democratic 5 Prohibition 1 Socialist. Officials promise continued coverage via telegraph and local lines.
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Hershey
Hughes
Derry Township
Derry Church
Derry
House of Representatives
Aaron Shenk Kreider
Annville
Pennsylvania Senate
E. E. Beidleman
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
David Bechtold
Steelton
J. J. Ulsh
Millersburg
P. C. Knox
George Oliver
United States Senate
United States
Boise Penrose
Emory A. Walling
Western Union Telegraph Company
Hershey Bell Telephone Company
Light At Dusk at Hershey Central Theatre Saturday
Orrin Johnson stars in The Light At Dusk one of Vitagraph’s finest offerings. The pictured drama features beautiful reels and Johnson’s acclaimed performance. Saturday showtime is 8 15 with excellent reels planned for next Wednesday.
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Hershey Central Theatre
Orrin Johnson
Vitagraph
Miss Edith Lewis Wins Hearts of Hershey Children
Miss Edith B. Lewis, new Hershey librarian, drew 48 children for a Halloween story hour after school. She read Hansel and Gretel and a witch tale, then another story at their request, and the children elected her their friend.
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Edith B. Lewis
Hershey
Hansel
Graethel
Miss Lewis
Harrisburg
Westminster Guild Formed For Bible and Mission Study
An F I S Young Ladies Bible class meeting at Mrs. R H Taylor's home planned to organize the Westminster Guild for Bible and Mission Study. Carrie Dressler led the study on Mary of Bethany. Attendees included Minnie Snavely Carrie Snavely Katharine Snavely Lottie Conrad and Henrietta Lemon.
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Young Ladies
Presbyterian Sunday School
R. H. Taylor
Westminster Guild For Bible and Mission Study
Misa Carrie Dressler
Mary of
Dearie and Mellvain Tie in Harrisburg Marriage Notice
Harrisburg last week saw the marriage of Mr Dearie to Miss Love Mellvain of Harrisburg and Hershey native Edward Dearie. Mellvain had lived in Hershey this past summer while Dearie served as the golf instructor at the Hershey course for several summers.
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Shemge
Harrisburg
Love Mellvain
Edward 2B
Dearie
Hershey
Mellvain
Mr. Dearie
New Records In Hunting In Hershey Area
The opening rabbit day yielded large bags for Hershey area hunters with many reporting limits and numerous quail. Notable shooters included Adam Whisler with a total 21 rabbits, John Diehm with a rabbit limit near Lebanon, and Ewing Cain and P. N. Kasson with 41 pheasants on a four day mountain expedition.
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Hershey
Palmyra
Hummelstown
Union Deposit
George Zellers
P. N. Kasson
Ewing ‘Cain
Ezra F
George’ Coppenhaver
D. S. Graeff
W. L. Dubois
John Daniel
Herbert Straub
Aldus Wirth
John Haegg
John Diehm
Patty Miller
Henry I. Miller
Maurice Hinkle
Edward Lingle
Edward Lingle, Jr
Jacob Page
Wayne Habaker
Moses Lingle
Adam Whisler
John Heckert
John Cassel
William Curtis
Monroe Curtis
Charls Stuckey
Lebanon
Roy Landis
H. I. Miller
Frank Barnhart
York Springs
George Coppenhaver
Ezra F. Hershey
Denver
Lancaster County
Derry Church
Page
Herbert Schneers
Warden Shultz
Howard Long
Charles Basehore
Robert Fox
C. D. Lingle
Harry Lingle
Lyonsville
Harry Miller
Campbelltown
Wayne Habacker
Homer Dressler
Duncannon
John C. Moyer
Flettsburg
Perry County
Thia
Ewing Cain
Eck Havens
Free Concert Benefit At Post Office In Hershey
Frantz Zinner bets Hughes and Frank Zentmyer bets Wilden with the loser to play a hand organ before the post office Saturday. The concert is free but a tin cup on the organ will collect for Harrisburg Hospital. Even non music lovers can share in the charitable act benefiting the community hospital.
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Frantz Zinner
Hughes
Frank
Zentmyer
Wilden
Harrisburg
Hershey
Hershey Consolidated School Delayed to November 20
The Hershey Consolidated School of Derry Township will remain closed next week during the Teachers Institute week and will not reopen until November 20.
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Teachers’ Institute
Hershey Consolidated School
Derry Township
Honey Bee essay wins prize at Her shey Industrial School
John D. Grief won a watch in a school contest with an essay titled The Honey Bee There is no other creature which is more useful to man than the honey bee. The piece discusses bee life from nest to swarm and notes honey's composition and geographic presence.
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Hershey
John D. Grief
Mwax
Asia
Italy
Greece
America
Hershey Store Implements Central Money Office
Beginning this week all funds outside the factory and trust company are routed through the Hershey Store central office. The Hershey interests now split into two divisions the Hershey Chocolate Company and the Hershey Industrial School with the store as money center handling transit water electric and telephone company accounts and employee payroll via a new eight person staff and Elliot-Fisher system.
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Trust Company
Hershey
Hershhey Chocolate Company
Hershey Industrial School
Elliot-Fisher
Water Company
Electric Company
Telephone Company
Hershey Girls Basketball Team Ready For Season Opener
Hershey prepares for the season as Miss Ruth V Engle leads a young squad with Miss Myrtle Hershey captaining. They face Myers town High School on November 21 with a schedule including Myerstown Lancaster High Reading High York High Harrisburg Central Pottsville and Oberlin among others.
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Hershey
Myerstown High School
Ruth V. Engle
Myrtle Hershey
Miss Stuckey
Miss Hershey
Esther Snavely
Mary Reigle
Ethel Foltz
Elva Gruber
Hershey High Triumphs Over Hummelstown 13 12
Hershey High defeated Hummelstown High 13 to 12 on Friday afternoon in a hard fought gridiron battle. Hershey led most of the game but Hummelstown threatened late with a second TD that failed on a missed kick. the ball hit the goal post and rebounded. Russell Clark and Earl Brown of Hershey left the game due to injuries.
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Hershey High
Hummelstown High
Hershey
Hummelstown
Russell Clark
Earl Brown
Hershey Chocolate Factory Seeks Workers Over 16
The Hershey Chocolate Company factory opens positions for men and boys and girls over 16. Work praised as desirable with good wages steady employment and healthy surroundings. Apply by letter or in person to the Hershey Employment Bureau.
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Hershey Chocolate Company
Hershey Employment Bureau
Flour Prices in 1900s Market Forecast Reach High
Wholesale flour at $11 per barrel and retail at $10.40, with predictions of $12 a barrel by winter. Wheat shortages and foreign demand push prices, as mills refuse large export orders to protect domestic supply.
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Washburn and Crosby
Hershey
United States
New York Herald
B. P. Hutchinson
Russia
Turkey
James A. Patten
Patten
Produce Exchange
Herald
T. C. Estee
Washburn- Crosby Company
Food Values of Hershey Products and Nutrient Basics
An article explains rising food costs and summarizes Hershey's table of calories for products such as milk chocolate cocoa powder and bars. It outlines the roles of water protein fats and carbohydrates, notes that carbohydrates are essential, and cites government data on protein foods and fats with guidance on budgeting meals through simple references to Bulletin 28 from the Department of Agriculture.
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Hershey Chocolate Company
Hershey's
Hershey’ S
Hershey’s
Department of Agriculture
Washington
New Car Ownership In Derry Road Garage
New car owners are being served at the garage of J C Heas on Derry Road. A new concrete entrance has been laid. Plumbers are installing a modern heating system. Mr. Tess reports sales during the past week featuring Daniel Hite Owl MIM Ford touring Conrad Curry Swatara Station Chaela touring Mr Runkle Liketown Ford touring all 1917 models.
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J.C. Heas
Derry Road
Tess
Daniel Hite
Owl Mim
Ford Touring
Conrad Curry
Swatara Station
Chaela Touring
Mr. Runkle
Liketown
Home on Caracas Avenue Sold to Palmyra Buyer
Mr and Mrs Wilson Rhoads sold their Caracas avenue residence to Mrs Mary Sollenberger of Palmyra. The transaction records show the transfer of ownership between private parties in Hershey.
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Wilson Rhoads
Caracas Avenue
Mary Sollenberger
Palmyra
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Fine Pictures
MR. Dearie and
Miss Love
Vite
Hershey Girls
Pennsylvania
Engle
Hershey Chocolate Factory
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