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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1909
Page
3
Hershey Volunteer Fire Company plans a lively Wednesday evening on October 13 at 8.00. The Entertainment Committee promises 18 songs and 13 speeches with no dull moments. If the committee fails, the chairman must donate 13 dollars to the treasury for the 13 night. Members urged to attend and enjoy a youthful, festive atmosphere.
Otterbein Men's Bible Class meets with Union Deposit and Fishburn's groups at the United Brethren Church Hershey to organize a trip to Harrisburg next Thursday for the great Men's movement parade. Rev. O. G. Romig chairs. L. H. Hollingsworth is secretary. 100 men expected. band to accompany. depart 5 10 PM by special trolley.
A prosperous farmer sends his son to New York to begin life as a clerk. After six months the farmer asks how he is faring and where he spends his nights. The merchant replies that the son sleeps in the store by day and has no knowledge of his nights.
Rev. C Benj Segelken leads services at the Derry Church located beside Mr M B Hershey’s private grounds. Regular Sabbath services are 7 30 PM with Sabbath School at 1 30 PM. Beginning Oct 17 there will be 10 30 AM and 7 30 PM services. all welcome with invitation to come.
A church notice board announced a Saturday potato pie supper followed by Sunday evening subject titled A Night of Agony. The juxtaposed items suggest a community event with a social gathering and a contrasting reflective talk.
A terse proverb notes that foresight is not needed to see someone’s end. The line implies that outcomes are evident to onlookers even without deep planning.
Salem United Brothers proclaims itself as an open church for the unchurched and a refuge for the unsaved. It emphasizes hospitality to strangers, spiritual welfare of the town, and a study of God’s Word, with services Sundays at 10 am and 7 30 pm led by Rev. O G Romig. A stray line notes a quip about a man feeling out of water when a girl lands him.
A courtroom scene in a Southern city features a Black woman summoned to testify. She challenges the interrogator's question on age, telling the judge that she believes no lady should be forced to testify against herself.
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