The Hershey Press 1912-04-18

              STORE OPENING
IN FULL SWING
DECORATIONS AND MAGNIFI-CENT
DISPLAY OF GOODS
MAKE THE ROOMS
ATTRACTIVE
Yesterday morning the Hershey
Store company opened the doors of
its building for the four days big
spring opening. Aside from the dis-play
of goods throughout the two
large store rooms, each b£ the pil-lars
has been twined with colors and
topped off with a hoop webbed with
dainty colored papers. The whole
presents a display of color that is
suggestive of the spring time and
adds greatly to the attractiveness of
the store rooms. .. ¦
In a corner near the grocery de-partment
a neat, booth has been ar-ranged
where the grocers are serving
coffee to the visitors during the open-ing
days. They are serving only Her-shey's
own varieties, but are giving
all an oportunity to sample the Her-shey
blends.
In the new room the voting is in
charge of S.- 'J. Eby who has a desk
near the door. Each person who en-ters
the store during the opening is
entitled to one vote and a chance on
the articles that are to be given away
free at the close of the week. Each
person voting has to deposit his ballot
with Mr. Eby who keeps the record.
The new suggestion rooms in- the
furniture department have been fur-nished.
In them the buyer sees the
room furnishings to the best possible
advantage. The arrangement and
furnishings of all of these!' rooms
shows the housekeeper how to best
arrange and furnish the home.
The Band Concerts
Each evening the people visiting
the store are being entertained by
special musical concerts. Wednesday
evening the Hershey Band gave a con-cert
of popular music. Tonight,
Thursday, the concert . is {to be com-posed
of classical numbers as it will
also on Saturday night. The concert
Friday night will be given by the
orchestra _and several numbers wity
also be sung by the Y. M. C. A. glee
club. These concerts will all continue
from 7.15 to 9 o'clock each evening.
GAS COMPANY TO
LAY NEW LINE
WILL EXTEND FROM MAIN LINE
ON CHOCOLATE AVENUE^
TO DERRY CHURCH
The Annville and Palmyra Gtfs
company is going to lay a new branch
line from the main line that extends
along Chocolate avenue, in Hershey^
down through Hershey Park and over
into Derry Church. The new line
will give many more people ah oppor-tunity
to have the gas put into their
dwellings. Under the new manage-ment
the gas company is giving much
better satisfaction than formerly.
The difficulties that have hindered the
service of the company have been
remedied and the company is now in
shape to serve the public with gas for
light and fuel in abundance. :.
HERSHEY BUYS
MOVER CREAMERY
Saturday the Hershey Chocolate
company made the purchase of the
creamery in Campbelltown belonging
to John H. Moyer. This will bring
the milk to the Hershey factory from
all of the Moyer stations which were
located at Lickdale, Harper's Tavern,
Ulrich's store, Rank's store, Grant-ville
"and Shellsville. The purchase
was made to satisfy the demand-for
milk made by the constantly increas-ing
business of the Chocolate com-pany.
The purchasers of the cream-ery
took possession today.
Hershe y Y. M. C. A. Team Has Won 14 Out
of 19 Games Durin g the Past Season
The basket ball season just over was
a very successful one for the Hershey
to find John. Let us hope that he will
be with us next season. His heavy
scoring at most of the games was re-sponsible
for the team's confidence
and their superb team work which in
turn aided him in his scoring.
Y. M. C. A. team. The team has
been composed of John Snavely and
Walter Leibfreid, forwards; Ira Her-shey,
center; Early, Keller and Ed.
Slesser, guards; Mumper and Ricker,
subs. This line-up is not the heavi-est
that has represented the Hershey
Y. M. C. A., but is by far the clever-est
and fastest workers that have
made up the team since basket ball
has become popular in the community.
Before the season was two-thirds
over the team .suffered a severe loss
in Ed. Slesser. who left , for Akron,
Ohio, to take up work there. Un-doubtedly
•Ed. worked as hard as any
man on the team and with a style of
his own. Altho not much of a shot
with the ball, he made up for that
with the close playing of his man.
He was seldom scored on.
For- all-around floor men, the equals
of Keller and Early are not easy to
find. By all-around floor men is
The other forward position was
usually played by Walter Leibfreid.
"Walt" is an exceptionally fast man,
the fastest on the team, but he was
greatly handicapped by his light
weight against .his heavier opponents.
Whenever John was on the floor
"Wailt*?:-wa^ always at a. convenient
position ready to receive the ball.
John often remarked that he felt
more at home during the game with
"Walt" at his side, and 'Walt" always
played with the same feeling of confi-dence
towards John. In every game
during the season when these two
men were in: the forward positions
there was no lack of excitement. If
they did not finish the play "Skip"
did.
As substitutes Mumper and Ricker
stuck with the team, faithfully
throughout the season. Both men are
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meant clever at shooting baskets and
passing the ball and ah ability to play
any position on the team. While
these two men could play well any of
the positions, they played their best
game at guard.
Those who have followed the team
during the season, well know "Skip"
Hershey's ability as a. center. With-out
doubt he played harder than any
man on the team and did it with less
effort. He was in a large measure
responsible for Hershey having a win-ning
team.
John Snavely—we all know him
and what he has done as a basket
ball player. He was often called
"the old man" by his colleagues, but
"the old man" could go some. He was
always in the thickest of the fray,
and where the ball was we were sure
Review of Basket Ball
Beginning at two o'clock, on Satur-day
afternoon, May 4, the Board of
School Directors of Derry township
will have sale of one hundred and
thirty Derry Township School Dis-trict
bonds. The bonds are on one
hundred dollar denominations , and
bear interest at 4 per cent, per an-num,
payable semi-annually. The
sale will be held in front of . the
McKinley High school building, at
Hershey.
SCHOOL BONDS TO BE SOLD