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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1911
Page
7
The Ladies' Guild of Derry Presbyterian Church arranged and paid for new pews totaling 435 dollars. A Philadelphia company representative delivered and installed the pews last week.
Lebanon marked its twenty fifth anniversary as a city with observances referencing its incorporation on November 25 1836. Records show last Saturday as the date observed for the milestone.
Thirty seven men attended the Y M C A gathering. Rev G Benj Segelken of Steelton spoke on current moral issues including temperance honesty and impurity and urged staying far from the marginal line with guidance from Jesus Christ. Next Sunday Prof H H Shenk will discuss Religious Pioneers in the new reading room. All men invited.
The Press acknowledges an error in last week’s issue about the Zentmeyer family reunion. Information from a relied source proved inaccurate. the event was not held as previously stated.
The article describes a fur necklet or short stole with a muff for young girls. It notes seals, minx, otter, and chinchilla as materials for children's sets and shows a muff with three large scallops and a bearer neck scarf. A cinnamon brown coat with big leather gilt buttons is paired with a velvet hat trimmed with brown satin ribbons.
S Barbara E Myers of Jay received a barrel of Irish potatoes from her son Robert E Myers of Minto North Dakota. The harvest yielded exceptionally large tubers some weighing one pound ten ounces and measuring 17 inches. The barrel's crop came from Mr Yoder's farm with rows averaging seven bushels. Myers now manages Rev Isaac Mast's large farm while he tours the Eastern States.
Laundry Packages Left a Hershey Laundry cannot deliver due to missing addresses for M. Roth mer David Martin and S. Yost. If unclaimed within ten days the packages will be sold.
ENRY SHANK of East Middle of town is praised for extensive spraying of fruit trees. One tree yielded fifteen bushels of apples despite three overloaded limbs. The Rev Joseph Nissley farm orchard near Hummelstown also benefited from his spraying.
For the week ending December 2 unclaimed mail remains for Edward Stuck Homer Smith Galen F Kuntz and Edward Strack at the Her shey post office.
A reflective passage contrasts frugality with generosity and warns against boasting or assuming wisdom. It advises staying resilient, optimistic, and practical, avoiding self praise, and noting ready money is elusive to the eager, while happiness lies nearby if effort continues.
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