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Local notes from Hershey area residents and visitors
Mt. Joy residents Joseph Witmer and sister Minnie return from a visit with Miss Martha Clark. Many locals and visitors list trips to Harrisburg Reading Lebanon Hummelstown Palmyra and Schuylkill towns. Court and church events along with repairs, sales, and farming tasks appear across multiple households.
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Joseph Witmer
Minnie
Mt. Joy
Martha
Ruth Hershey
Steelton
Harry F. Hershey
William Newashe
Carlisle
Derry Church
John Staubach
la Grippe
Joseph Cromas
Bradley
Jacob Page
Herman Early
Harrisburg
John Kogel
Pottstown
Earl Mays
Ewing Cain
Harold
Reading
Haefner
Lydia Weltmer
George W. Henry i
Israel Moyer
Bashore
Allentown
William R. F. Murrie
New York
Leon Mumper
Lebanon
Palmyra
Eugene David Shenk
Hummelstown
David Matthews
A. H. Rider
Hanoverdale
Roy Weistling
Frank Bonfanti
William Lappin
Bill
Curley Maugans
J.B. Sneath
Harry Garman
Christian Ishey
Robert Phalm
Williamsport
Joe Cramer
Hershey
George W. Henry
John ‘Keener
Shippensburg
Harold Yaple
Walter Pee
New Castle
Yaple
Elizabeth Yaple
A.K. Moyer
Kathryn
Garber
Isaac Shelly
Lizzie Landis
John Landis
Mary
Helen
D. M. Stoudt
Ulrich’ ‘Weltmer
Harry Moyer