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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1916
Page
8
A long list of residents and visitors recounts trips to New York Boston Reading Harrisburg Atlantic City and Philadelphia. Names include Ewing Cain Edna Gehret Marion Holloway Pearl Lindemuth Helen Landgraf Dorothy Feeser Dorothea Sellers and many more as they visit relatives attend college, plays, weddings, and local events in Hershey Palmyra Annville and surrounding towns.
S E Bertolet and family A M Wilson and Miss Florence Wilson of Reading were entertained at the home of P S Wilson and family Miss Ruth Kerr of Harrisburg visited her sister Mrs M A Gunderstorff and family Saturday and Sunday. Misses Catharine and Elizabeth Mumma hosted Miss Adda Herrman of Steelton. Eva Gruber of Campbelltown a Hershey High School graduate left for Frederick Md to attend the girls school. Harry M Gruber of Lawn William Peters and Misses Kathryn and Eva Gruber were guests at the home of Alvin Flowers Sunday. William A Curtis spent weekend at Old Ferry along the Juniata River. E J Krause moved from Lebanon to Hershey and occupies the home of Diehm on Cocoa avenue. S S Scholl and wife of Pittsburgh with Albert Scholl visited Mrs Ewing Cain and family. Miss Helen Laucks of Harrisburg was guest of the Cains. Claire Nye of Washington DC visits relatives in Hummelstown. Miss Alta Reinhold left for Selinsgrove University. J P Stuckey and family and Harry Yingst and family visited S H Yingst and wife at Sand Beach. Bernice Nissley ill in Hummelstown. Walter Gonder and Mrs Gonder, now in Hershey, visited Strasburg over Sunday. Miss Bertha Leibhart visited Miss Marie Johnson of Harrisburg. Mrs C Edwin Dearnley of Philadelphia visited her father J B Leithiser in Hershey. Mr and Mrs James Herrick and Mr and Mrs Thomas Hetrick of Shellsville visited Hershey friends. Mrs F F Boyd of Philadelphia guest of Mr and Mrs C V Glynn several days. A U P S E meeting of United Brethren church to be held Friday evening.
At eight o'clock, officers will be elected for the ensuing term. The notice specifies the time for the election and the upcoming term’s beginning.
Adam Garman returned from Philadelphia where his daughter Margaret Ina Garman married William Monroe Miller at St Elizabeth Church on 23rd Street. The ceremony was followed by a honeymoon in Atlantic City. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Adam Garman of this place. The groom is a Villanova student who worked in Hershey last summer. They will reside in Philadelphia.
Miss Lillie Boger of Annville and John Ebersole of Hershey wed Saturday afternoon at the Lebanon Lutheran parsonage with Rev. O. O. Leidich officiating. Ebersole, a Hershey man, recently returned from Atlantic City and Philadelphia and will reside in Hershey.
Leroy Bowers Harnish, superintendent for Pennsylvania, says the World’s Purity Federation will push an aggressive campaign to ensure parental instruction of children. The new State Advisory Board includes Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, Rabbi Henry Berkowitz, Mrs. Edwin C. Grice, Congressman A. S. Kreider, Frederick A. Rhodes M D, Mrs. L. Clyde Bixler, Suzanne S. Beatty, Edwin E. Sparks, Rev. J. S. Fulton, Prof. H. H. Baish, Rev. George M. Diffenderfer, and Edward W. Biddle.
Mrs Lizzie E Garman 62 wife of Allison Garman died at home on Chocolate Avenue Hershey after five months illness She was a native of Jonestown Pa and daughter of John and Hannah Miller Funeral services Saturday 7 pm at home and Sunday 8 30 am at Myerstown United Brethren cemetery conducted by Rev N L Linebaugh William Henry Palmyra in charge of funeral
Congress favors ending the one cent stamp tax on telegrams and long distance telephone messages and the special revenue tax on chewing gum. The Hershey Chocolate Company held several thousand dollars worth of stamps it would not now need to use.
The Bureau of the Census reports a preliminary death rate of 13.5 per 1 000 in 1915 for the United States registration area. Based on 909 155 deaths from 25 states and 41 cities in nonregistration areas, the 1915 population estimate is 67 337 000. This rate is the lowest on record and surpasses 1914's 13.6 rate.
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