The Hershey Press 1912-08-29

              DAIRYMAN'S DAY AT
HERSHEY ON SATURDAY
Innovation By the Hershey Choco-late
Company For Benefit of Milk
Producers. Speakers of National
Prominence tWill Deliver lec-tures.
Ail Are Invited
Saturday will' be the great day
for the farmers and milk pro-ducers
of Dauphin, Lebanon,
and adj oining counties. 1500
invitations have been sent out
to the farmers and dairymen of
this section of the state to come
to Hershey oil Saturday with
their wives, children and sweet-hearts,
to attend the great
Dairyman's Day lectures and
visit through the Chocolate
Company's plant.
The Dairyman's Day is an in-novation,
but like everything
that the Chocolate Company un-dertakes
will be a success. A
very interesting program has
been prepared and very promi-nent
lectures have been secured
to talk on subj ects pertaining to
the milk production of the farm,
and how to make it -pay the
greatest interest.
The morning, from nine
o'clock until noon will be spent
in going through the Chocolate
Company's plant and seeing the
manufacture of chocolate. Spe-cial
guides will be furnished by
the company for the conveni-ence
of the many visitors, and
the inspection of the chocolate
factory will be one of the most
interesting features of the day.
The afternoon program will
be of an instructive nature and
will be a great help to all inter-ested
in increasing both -their
milk production, and profit from
their farms. An address of
Welcome will be delivered by Mr.
Wm. F. R. Murrie, president of
the Chocolate Company, and an
address on "Our Relation," by
Delos L. James, Superintendent
of the milk department of the
Hershey Chocolate Company.
Besides these there will be two
addresses or lectures by men
famous in their line, and who
will be able to give the farmers
and dairymen some information
that will be of great help and
value to them. , The first ad-dress
will be delivered by Dr.
Gurie G. Hopkins, of the Uni-versity
of Illinois, who will
speak on "Soil Fertility and Fer-tilizers."
The second lecture
will be made by the Professor
John Trueman, of Storr's Agri-cultural
College.
At four p. m. a demonstration
will be given at the Hershey de-monstration
farm, southeast of
Hershey, of the Sharpies milk-ing
machine. This is the ma-chine
that is being go success-fully
used on the Hershey de-monstration
farm, and is now
doing all the milking.
The local reception committee
is composed of the following
men : Frank B. Snavely, Geo.
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Two o clock next Wednesday afternoon will mark the
opening of the Hershey Chautauqua to which the citizens
of Hershey and vicinity have been looking -forward for
the past two months. By that time all will be in readi-ness
so that the program will start off smoothly to con-tinue
throughout . the seven days and the- thirty-two
events. -^
Two committees have been appointed to "make pre-liminary
arrangements for . the week. One is a decor-ating
committee which is to see that the stage of the
theater is Properly decorated and arranged. The decora-tions
will largely consist of plants and American flags.
Mrs. C. V. Glynn is chairman of this committee. An-other,
a reception committee, will meet the Chautauqua
people as they come in on the trains each day. Every
effort will be made to make the people who come to take
part on the progran each day feel at home while in our
town. Mrs. M. L. Hershey is chairman of this com-mittee.
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Program Will Begin at Two O'clock Wednesday. Ciricillo s
Band the Big Feature On the First Day
Preliminary to the opening lecture, by Mr. Downey,
the platform manager, on the opening day^la word of
welcome will be; given to the Chautauqua by a repre-sentative
of the local committee. . The committee will be
represented on the platform during the opening session.
After the brief opening exercises Mr. Downey will de-liver
the first of his series of lectures on "The Right of a
Child to Be Well Born : Heredity." Mr. Downey was in
Hershey for a few hours on last Friday making arrange-ments
for his coming here for the week. His lectures
will be given each afternoon at two o'clock. . ,
At three o'clock the opening concert will be given by
Ciricillo's Italian band. This will conclude the afternoon
program. In the evening a second concert* will be given
by the band followed by the illustrated lecture entitled
"Seeing America," at nine o'clock. Following this the
motion pictures will be thrown on the canvas at nine
forty-five. This will conclude the first day's program. •
There is still time to secure season tickets for the
week. Those who desire tickets should get them at once.
Every season ticket holder should be present from the
beginning of the first session. Three thousand programs
for the daily sessions have just arrived
Chautau qua
Opens Next Week
MCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL
ATTENDANCE IS FAIR
Deny Township High School
opened Monday with an enroll-ment
of .39. The senior class
consists of seven members; the
j unior class thirteen ; the sopho-more
class four and the fresh-men
class, fourteen. Of these
39 pupils, 21 are from the coun-try
or township proper, 11 from
Hershey, 5 from Derry Church,
one from Union Deposit, and one
from Campbelltown.
The enrollment in a high
school, located in a district as
large and thickly settled as
Derry Township, should be not
less than 60. -
Eleven pupils withdrew from
the freshmen class during the
last term. Total number of
students who withdrew from the
High school during the last
term is twenty.
CHORAL SOCIETY
HERE TO STAY
The Hershey Choral Society
has come j ;o be. an established
institution among the many and
varied enterprises of this wide
awake and up-to-date communi-ty.
During the coming months,
weekly rehearsals, on Tuesday
evenings, will be held at the pa-vilion
under the direction of
Conductor Feese. The music
commitee has outlined a pro-gram
of interesting and instruc-tive
musical works, by good
composers, and it is hoped
thereby to develop a healthyrin-terest
in chorus smgiTig7 and to
give Hershey a first class musi-cal
organization.
Young men and women,
possessing fair voices and musi-cal
knowledge are invited to be-come
members and. to take ad-vantage
of good 'musical trairi-ing,
and -to enj oy tne rriany
pleasures and benefits that
chorus work affords.
SCHOOLS WILL OPEN
ON TUESDAY, SEPT. 3
All the rest of the schools in
Derry Township will open ft)r
an eight month term, Tuesday,
September 3. •, ¦