Constable Balmer credited with catching Lickdale robbers
Palmyra area notes credit constable D P Balmer for tracing and providing key information that led to the arrests of four men accused in the Lickdale and Suedberg railroad station robberies. The report also lists bail defendants and various local social items, including a marriage license, events, and notices.
Palmyra News Highlights Local Events and Sports
Middletown visit to J Dixon Coover. Esther Gingrich undergoes appendicitis operation at Lebanon Sanitorium with hoped for speedy recovery. Globe Music House stock sale adjourned by Lebanon National Bank. Palmyra football beats Highspire 33 to 0 under Coach Swank. next, Hummelstown game. Hi Y alumni delegate chosen for Hazleton conference. Hi V inductees Loyola Alspach Mark Gordon. Trinity class program in Sunday school featured Rev. Swope. Turkey drawing shooting matches listed mid November. White Shoe Repair opens on West Main. Rally Day at First U B Church draws near 1000. Roy Burkhart speaks. Rentals and ads for basement, West Main, Palmyra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander—Coover
Middletown
J. Dixon Coover
East Chevy Street
Esther Gingrich
J. M. Gingrich
Maple Street
Palmyra
Lebanon
Globe Music House
Lebanon National Bank
Bethany United Evangelical Church
First Church
J. S. Heisler
Bethany
Ruth Achenbach
Chappy Moyer
Edward Dusman
Scrappy Brandt
R. E. Swank
Hummelstown
Hi-Y
David Kreider
Hazleton
Hi-V
Louis Alspach
Henry Mark
Gordon Mark
Lloyd Spancake
Trinity Reformed Church
Wm. Swope
Camp Hill
Roy Hershey
South
Harrison Street
John F. Fees
West Main Street
U. B
Roy Burkhart
Dayton
Lykens Quartette
J. Earl Heisey
Postoffice
C. F. Zimmerman
Palmdale
Michael Fernster
South Harrison Street
Leatherman Elected President of Harrisburg Conference
Rev. C. G. Leatherman of Zion Lutheran church was chosen president of the Harrisburg conference serving 31 parishes 42 congregations and 15 534 members with 17 710 Sunday school attendees at Neffsville The community club hosts a chicken corn soup sale November 20 in the Reform church basement with soup at 35 cents a quart and cake contributions requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hummelstown
C. G. Leatherman
Zion Lutheran Church
Harrisburg
Neffsville
Reformed Church
Ll A. m
J. A. Stump
West Main Street
W. R. Fox
Stump
United States School of Embalming
New York City
Homer II Strickler
Atlantic City
Grace Hawk
C. Ek. Hawk
Poplar Avenue
Honard Lehman
Harry Lehman
Lebanon
Longenecker
United Brethren Church
Louise Hummel
Fred J. Hummel
Town
Russell J. Whister
John Whistler
United Brethren
Hagerstown
Plummer
J. Brighthill
Star Theatre
WH. G. Parker
Philadelphia
American Legion Auxiliary
Geo. W. Sutcliffe
Center Square
Marjorie Nissley
the Fisher
Louise Ackenbaugh
Harrigburg
Questa
Emily Cunmings
Misa Michel Fisher
Jean Mebloland
Misa Keith
Mis
Balabaugh
Mie
Rena Knabe
Clarvdaburg
South Water Street
Wain
Shuey
Community Calendar Highlights From Hummelstown Area
Local notices list a Modern Woodmen reception for new members on Thursday November 18 at 8 p m in the camp hall. Ada Walter transfers to Edison Junior High, and several church services and events are scheduled including Thanksgiving at Lutheran church with Rev G W Hallman, a Dec 1 bazaar, a November 19 package party, and various visits and home stays across Harrisburg Union Deposit and Williamsport areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Modern Woodmen of America
Ada Walter
Foose
Harrisburg
Edison
Reformed Church
Arthur Miller
Union Deposit
G. W. Hallman
United Brethren Church
Mary Ebersole
Washington
West High Street
Ladies of the
Irvin F. Keller
South Railroad Street
George Karmany
J. Landis Strickler
West Main Street
Lenore B. Gordon
State College
John F. Bair
North Water Street
Bair
A. B. Dorcas Society
Joseph Hershey
Katie Miller
Charles Swartz
Neal Miller
Hummelstown National Bank
John Taylor and Son
Scrantor
Taylor
Henry Gerber
Ross Swartz
Williamsport
Harriet Crist
Vernon Sellers
Steelton
J. P. Dieffenderfer
Easton
F. J. Schaffner
Robert Strunk
Elizabethtown Kids Raise 118 for Charity Drive
Elizabethtown youths under Miss Ella S. Heistand collected 118 dollars by selling Have a Heart tags to aid destitute women and children in care of the Volunteers of America. Children worked from morning to late afternoon in a friendly competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabethtown
Volunteers of America
Ella S. Heistand
Local contest winners cash prizes and community notices
Martha Hershey won first prize with 10 dollars and 69 cents while Evelyn Vanbaugh took second with 77 5 and Decema Hess earned third with 7 9 0. Other children received movie passes. Masonic Homes stewards moved to Huntingdon Pa to run Leister Hotel. Klein property near Centre Square offered at sale then withdrawn at 19 500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Hershey
Evelyn Vanbaugh
Decema Hess
Vera Willey
Franklin Shank
Helen Shoop
Arthur E. Shultz
Stewart
Masonic Homes
Huntingdon
Leister
Stewart Operating Co
Klein
A. Dissinger
Centre Square
Lester Dohner
Lottie Dohner
Lewis Hartman
Maytown
Isaac Walton
S. D. Boggs
C. R. Boggs
E. G. Kearn
Hertzler
Frank B. Sweigart
Middletown
Hipple
West Hummelstown Street
Conewago Post
American Legion
Memorial Grove
Masonic Home
Black Horse Hotel
W. N. Faust
Lancaster Post
W. S. Laubenstein
Russell Rheinhart
Mt. Joy
Evelyn Coover
Otterbein United Brethren Church
Harrisburg
Rev
Snavely
York
Fred Eichler
Buffalo
N. Y
Lydia Brandt
H. H. Brandt
Washington Street
Florida
Thos. Smithy
South Market Street
Abram Greiner
Mt. Joy Township
United States Civil Service
Elizabethtown
Clayton R. Frey
Moose Theatre
Ambrose Plummer
Frank Croman
Earl Kuhn
Amy Treichler
James J. Doyle, Jr
Abram Heisey
Walter F. Eshelman
Abram B. Brandt
Hurley E. Herring
George Alwine
Public sale and local notices from Campbelltown area
Campbelltown will hold a public sale of household goods on Saturday November 20. Local residents and visitors are noted including Mrs Shelly visiting Lebanon and Jerre Martin and Alice visiting Coatesville. Various church activities and sick lists are mentioned along with a lost license tag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Kulp
Bachmansville
Shelly
John Fisher
Lebanon
Geo. Peters
Easton
Geo. Snavely
Philadelphia
U. B
A. B. Spangler
Schaefferstown
The
Reformed Church
Christian Gingrich
M. S. Long
Lancaster
U. C
Joseph Bowman
Harry Bowman
Caldwell
New York
Geo. Eisenhauer
October marriage licenses dip in Dauphin County records
Dauphin County records show 112 marriage licenses issued in October 1926, down 23 from October 1925. Ten month total reaches 1136, modestly higher than 1112 a year earlier. Two Pottsville hunters returned from nearby mountains with a fox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cupid
Dauphin County
Pottsville
Fox in tree view and pheasant concerns across Pennsylvania
Hunters saw a fox treeing and falling after a shot, then wounding dogs before being killed. Bucks and Montgomery Counties residents seek state Game Commission action to protect ring-neck pheasants, believed to help control Japanese beetles. Red Lion hosts a large churchgoing Sunday with Rally Day yielding $38,587. Chestnut, butternut, walnut and hickory crops expected in several counties amid blight. Budapest leads with five daily crisis reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucks
Montgomery Counties
State Game Commission
Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
State Department of Forests and Waters
Forest
Crawford
Clarion
Venango
Warren
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hershey Press
Hershey
Balmer
Lickdale Station
D. P. Balmer
Lickdale
Suedberg
Charles Brandt
Jonestown
Ralph Zimmerman
George Filbert
Clayton Peiffer
Meckville
Edward A. Snyder
U.S. Army
North Front Street
Hiram Snyder
Eva Leedom
Annville
Clara Dishong
Honus Wagner
Slick Sam
Red and Gun Club
Railroad Street
Kelchner
Iroquois Theatre
Kathryn Kelchner
Margaret Gerberich
Heatrice Slesser
Slesser
Otterbein Guild
Paul Shiffler
Charles Shiffler
Union Deposit Cemetery
First Lutheran
Wilbur Pearson
Irvin Farnsler
Arbney Disney
Malcolm Manwiller
Harry Daub
Palmyra W.C
Friends
Palm United Lutheran Church
Milton B. Sherk
John Kaley
Oak Street
M. WB. Krum
J. Spayd Bomberger
Nord Railroad Street
John N. Fees
Dawson Benneth
John EE. Gibble
Ele
Shippens Gang
Church of the Brethren
Jennie
Eleanor
Rey, Ruppert
Kedith
Donald Strothern
Morence
Merman Seavers
Thorshey
Martha
Henry Irvin
Palmyras
Grace
Jacob Longenecker
Garber
Walter Hartman
John Zug
Agron Grubb
Allen Mbersole
Jacob Baum
Albert ‘Tl. Sheritz
Edward Par
Clarion Quartette
First U. B. Church
Telatty Reformed Church
Ev. Frank 5
Carper
Astoria
Joseph Gibble
Lizzie Gibble
David Flory
Edna
Lawn
Morris Landis
Mizpah Faith Home
Fredericksburg
Russell D. Smith
Phares Martin
Peter Reist Kraybill
E. F. Yoder
Simon Witmer
Elizabeth Serge
Amos Espenshade
Quincy
Franklin County
Literary Society
Elizabethtown High School
Abram Coble
West
Adolph Layher
Edna Schlecht
Ernest Kauffman
William Kauffman
William Krodel
Kenneth
Sara Krodel
Elizabeth Garman
A. K. Garman
North Poplar Street
Campbelltown
G. C. Wolfersberger
A. M. Brandt
Lebanon Valley
Hershey National Bank
Hershey, Penna
Red Lion
United Brethren, Reformed
Budapest
Shaslas
Lab Olamud
K. K
Chuck Roast
Lamb
Armour
Sprecht
Boston Beams
Redman
Mason's
Cliquot Club
Hershey Department Store
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