The Hershey Press 1912-01-18

              Wm, F. R, Murrie and S. D. Clark, Captains
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Big Three Weeks Campaign For Members In the Hershey Y, M, C. A.
Has Started off , Will Close February 3
SSSjIONDAY mqrnin g the Hershey
1^1 I Young Men's Christian As-
\ \§ sociation began a big cam-
SSSl. paign for new members that
is to continue for three weeks. Every
one of the 152 men who are members
at the present time are to have a part
in the campaign. The plan is thisr .
The whole membership of the As-sociation
has been divided into two
teams. At the head of the teams as
captains are William F. R. Murrie-and
Si Dt Clark. Under each captain are
seven lieutenants who in turn have un-der
them nine or ten men. In this
way each member of the Association is
to have a part in the campaign. The
two teams ' are to be known by the
names .of their respective captains,
Their 'lieutenants are: . ' :.. ' " ' •
M urrie vs :men—Joseph Snavely,
Frank B. Snavely, George Eppley, Al.
Wirth, Russell Stoner, H. S. Moyer,
and David Kreider.
Clark's men—G. E. Copenhaver, A.
T. Heijman, Andrew Myers; Ira Her-shey,
Joseph Hills, Dr. M. L. Nissley,
and Eugene Pocoek. .. .
The contest is to see which team
can bring in the most members before
February 3. The contest began on
Monday morning but it wilj take the
greater part of this week for the cap-tains
to get their men together and
their work organized.
. .. . • WHO CAN JOIN AND HOW
Membershi p in the Association is
open to every man of ; good character
in the community. It is the aim of
this campaign to give every man in
the community a personal invitation to
join. In order to become a member it
is necessary for the applicant to fill
out an application blank that gives
name, address, occupation, church
membership or church preference and
age. This blank must be put into thfe
hands of the Genera! Secretary of the
Association with three dollars. This
pays the dues for one year. The ap-plication
is then presented to the Board
of Directors and must be passed by
them before the membership ticket is
issued^.
PRIVILEGES
As soon as the application and the
dues are received the applicant is given
a receipt which admits- the 'bearer to
the full privileges of the Association.
This includes the use of the,gymnas-ium,
showers, swimming pool, game
rooms and reading room. The reading
room, however, is.. open to all men
whether they are members or not.
TO WIND UP
February 3 is the date when the
campaign will close. On the afternoon
and evening of that day there will be
"Open House" at the Y,. M. C. A. The
building will be thrown open to the
public at that time. A special effort
will be made to get all the new mem-bers
out at that time. On that even-ing
announcement will be made regard-ing
the .winning team.. When the
count is made only those applications
that are paid will be included.
SPECIAL
In order to give the men of the
community an opportunity to see the
advantages of Association membership,
the social committee is making ar-rangements
for a social evening at the
rooms of the Association on Thursday
evening, January 25. At this time the
whole building will be open. There
will be special work in. the gymnasium
in addition to an exhibition game of
volley ball and such other gymnasium
work as may be arranged. Eefreshr-ments
will be served in the reading
room and everything will be done to
make the evening a . pleasant and pro-fitable-
one. All men in the communi-ty
are welcome to attend the stunts of
this evening; . There will be no admis-sion
or. silver offering. The gymnasi-um
work will begin at 8 o'clock. ;
Teachers and Directo rs Meet
Assembled at McKinley High School Thurs-day
Evening For Discussion of the New
School Code
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" IN order to get a better under-standing
of thenew schoo l code, _____ the. teachers and members of
the Board of Directors of Derry
township schools met at the McKinley
High school building last Thursday even-ing.
All Of .the teachers were present
and all of the members of '. the Board
except Daniel Hershey who was out of
town. E. M. Hershey, attorney, .was
present and gave an explanation of the
new law in detail, sit is the intention of
the Board and teachers to enforce the
law in every detail in the future^
Men's Meeting at the Y. M.C <A
C^rjJEETINGS are being held at
the
l_f I '"Y--M.' 'Q/A. each .' Smiday^af-
HM ternoon.as has been announced
from time to time. The
meeting last Sunday was addressed by
Prof. L. E. McGinnes, of Steelton.
Special attention of all the men in
the community is called to the meet-ings
that will be held the next, two
Sundays. Mr. 0. P. Beckley, of Har-risburg,
is the speaker for the meeting
next Sunday. Mr. Beckley is at the
head of the Men's Movement in the
United Brethren Church . He: will
speak on the "Men and Religion Move-ment"
at the Hershey Y. M. ti A.
The meeting on Sunday, January
28, will be in charge of the Men's Bi-ble
class of the United Brethren
Church. The class will have full charge
of the meeting and . the arrangements
for it. The speaker that they have
secured for that occasion is Mr. 0. M.
Wilson, of Johnstown, Pa. -
All the meetings are held at three
o'clock in the afternoon. All men are
invited to attend the meetings;
Men do not lack strength; they lack
the will to concentrate and act.
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" |HE Board of Directors of the Y;
W. C. A. met Wednesday ' ev-ening
and formerly elected Miss
Alice Elder as their general
secretary. All are delighted with the
prospect of work soon to begin, A full
meeting of the Association will be called
next week and by that time plans and
outline of work for term will be formu-lated.
Classes in dressmaking, millin-ery
and gymnasium will : be'' started as
soon as possible: AU desiring to enter
these classes should get in touch with
the secretary at Room 15, Hershey
Inn. \
Y. W. C. A. Work to
Take Definite Form
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' IARRY WIRTH, the "Saturday
Evening Post' ' boy of Hershey,
, is the proud possessor of a
handsome 19-jewel gold watch
which he has won as a prize for selling
the most "Posts" in any town in Penn-sylvania
of the size of Hershey, during
an thirteen weeks contest.
The watch is the prize put up by the
president of the company. . Harry says
he had no thought of being the winner
of the contest until he received the
watch. In the thirteen weeks during
which the contest lasted Harry sold
1,585 copies of the "Post. ?'
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Harry Wirth Takes First Prize
Has Honor of Selling Largest Number of
" Saturday Evening Posts " in Town of
This Size ¦•
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[jn=|N addition to the collection of an-
(Va w imals in Hershey Park was
IQJI made with the birth of a female
j. zebu last. Friday morning about
8 o'clock,; This is the second zebu that
has been born since the animals we're
put in the park two years ago. -There
are now five in the herd.
New Arrival in Hershey Zoo
Zebu Born in Hershey Park Last Friday
Morning