Hummelstown Community News Highlights Local Life
Hummelstown residents host a miscellaneous shower for Mrs. J Paul Hummel at 241 West Main. Funeral rites held for Elizabeth E Strickler, lifelong borough resident and descendant of Hummel founder. Reports cover local visits, theatre and movie outings, political meetings, jury duty, and Memorial plans. Armistice Day services planned with a noted Dickinson College figure addressing Swatara Post 265. Notices include property sale, lost purse, and marriage license news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Paul Hummel
F. J. Bolton
West Main Street
Hummelstown
Walter Ebersole
Town
Mabel Gongloff
Chamber Hill
A. Moyer Hummel
Mary Nissley
Mary Kreider
Anna Brenneman
Elizabeth E. Strickler
South Rosanna Street
Louis M. Strickler
H. S. Garnes
Zion Lutheran Church
Lillie B. Wise
Williamstown
Institute
Harrisburg
A. R. King
Emily Cummings
Florence Huber
Marion Walter
Anna Casse
Irvin Keller
Clarence
Orpheum
Annie B. Nye
Annie Burkholder
Miss Price
Myrtle Garrett
Chestnut Street
Franklin Zeider
South Railroad Street
Dauphin County
Mabel Dronise Jones
A.S. Cooper
Charles Pass
Charles Whitman
New York State
Lillian Russell
E. E. Beidelman
Pennsylvania
William C. Sproul
Ritchie
Burgess
R. F. Swabb
Philadelphia
Delaware
Swabb
Harry S. Harvey
Charles Glass
Chemical Fire Company
Father's Association
David C. Hummel
J. Earl Brighthill
Beatrice Nissley
Mary Buch
Elizabethtown
Albert FE. Burridge
Olcey & Burridge
H. A. Hoff
India
Wolfe
H. M. Wolfe
Lloyd Zimmerman
Hagerstown
Penbrook
Timothy Green
Aubrey Garnet
Waltonville
Frank B. Wickersham
Green
Methodist
Howard S. Mervin
Dickinson College
Bishop Henderson
M. E. Church
South Water Street
Harry J. Straub
Hershey
Sadie Snavely
John H. Cassel
Mary A. Blatt
Briggs Street
F. J. Schaffner
Robert M. Baer
Arias Bloom
United States District Court
Middle District
Sunbury
J. Landis Strickler
Frank S. Strickler
Kilmer
Swatara Post
American Legion
Legion
Star Theatre
League of Nations
Ladies’ Bible Class
Reformed Sunday School
Reformed Church
P. R. Laucks
Hi. M. Wolf
Guaker Valley
Esther
Mary Bomgardeer
Wilson
Mabel Rupert
Rupert
William Faeckler
Melvin
Katherine
Allentown
Seeger
Clarence Conrad
James Barclay
Marjorie Nissley
New Bloomfield
Helen Blessing
Irene Haynes
Pardeton
Irene Burns
Walter A. Geesey
Fred G. McCall
Blomestead
Carnegie
John H. Gay
Gertrude Lee
Mary Fox
Gay
Miss Fox
George Edward Reed
L.L.D
Reed
George D. Blackburn
Newark
Fooling the boss with a busy day on the ladder
Dooley jokes with Casey that he has carried the same hod all day while pretending to work. The boss believes he is laboring hard, unaware the effort is a ruse to fool him. A humorous exchange highlights workplace storytelling and ribbing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casey
Dooley
Manny
What's in a Name A Swede seeks whiskey in a dry era
A Swede enters a corner drug store and asks for whiskey. The clerk notes the country is dry and suggests a saloon option. Across the street a proprietor offers squirrel whiskey and the Swede replies he wants not to fly but to jump around a while.
He Who Would Not Lend Money In A Flatly Told Tale
A vivid dialogue exposes a loan dispute with sharp refusals and taunts about Ponzi schemes. The exchange centers on trust, repayment, and snubbing of a creditor in street language. The speaker challenges the lender and refuses immediate repayment while offering a future six bits.
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Russell B. Stoner
Herbert Schaffner
J. P. Dieffenderfer
Easton
Richard B. Earnest
Pennsylvania Railroad
Coatesville
Sun Office
Goodyear
H. J. Banister Co
Havana
Memphis
Hershey Department Store
Penna