Elizabethtown College Anniversary and Local Notes
The article notes Elizabethtown College celebrate its eleventh founding anniversary with speakers Dr D C Ober and Rev H H Apple in the college chapel. It records local curiosities and events including large turnips, a church organ cost and Carnegie gift, a long-journey voter, a 110 pound buck, a long cigar claim, a barn fire with livestock loss, hunting accident, pardon denial for an arson convict, a giant pumpkin, an owl in a church organ, funeral in Dauphin, diphtheria cases, a farmers institute in Linglestown, a corn scoring class, and the death of G W Frank. The Riverside Chapel Middletown marked its twenty first birthday with special services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabethtown College
D. C. Ober
H. H. Apple
Franklin-Marshall College
Parlor Hypocrisies and the Ironies of Modern Morals
A clipped essay collection critiques philanthropy at home and abroad while noting contradictions in ethics and social behavior. It lampoons men who preach virtue yet bend rules, and women who judge others while pursuing advantage in everyday bargains.
Junior Church Organization Formed in Hummelstown
A junior church organization was formed at the Reformed Church in Hummelstown on a Sunday afternoon. Officers will mirror the church congregation and aim to acquaint young people with church membership duties and foster their involvement in church work. A service by the juniors will follow in the morning service next Sunday with a short sermon for the youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reformed Church
Rev
Tyson
The
Methodist Church
W. L.ferry
Harrisburg
Elvira Lutz
Dillsburg
George Fox
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David ‘Shissler
Elizabethtown
Trinity Evangelical Church
Minnheim
Andrew Carnegie
George M. Strack
Myerstown
Mr. Strack
Lebanon
Clinton County
John Sellers
Annville
Barney Gastrock
Linglestown
Stoneroller
Fisherville
Guiliano ‘d’Angelo
Eastern
Lebanon County Court
State Board of Pardons
Uriah S. Seltzer
Palmyra
United Brethren Church
James Bell
Dau
Phin
William Bell
Steelton
G. W. Frank
Mr. Frank
Riverside Chapel
Middletown
Kar
Junior Church Organization
Hummelstown
Mary Grove
Helen Keller
John Poorman
Newton
Gordon
Town
Paul Shank
Edward Hassler
Greencastle
Harvey Taylor
D. C. Rhoads
George F. Greenawalt
Selinsgrove
Levi Ebersole
Jessie Smith
Newport
William Wolf
Allen K. Walton
Violet Cassel
Allen Walton, Jr
Sarah Landis
Minnie Poorman
Union Deposit
Walter T. Bradley
Girards Ave
Philadelphia
Hoffer
Engle
George P. Hoffer
Swatara
M. Hoffer
Trey Landis
B. Cassady
Telephone Mikki
John B
Swatara Pa
Plymouth Rock
Bradley
White Plymouth Rock
Fisher
S. C
MNO
M. Baker Union Deposit
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