The Hershey Press 1910-02-25

              A Sleigh Ride To Bismarck
It Was a Long Ride, but, Oh, You Turkey
Supper .
> For some time we have heard .a great
deal about a sleigh ride that several of
our prominent young men were going to
have, but somehow or other would fall
through at the time . set. But every-thing
comes to him who waits, and as
they had waited long enough, this sleigh
ride came to them, for which they were
very glad. So on Saturday evening
Irvin Aungst got out the sleigh and in
jumped Hoppy Gingrich, Jim Putt,
Frank Barnhart, Clarence Shenk, Pat-rick
Lapplin Hess Bigley, Al. Wirth,
Hoffer. Bowman, Fred Rank, Ed. Gross,
Jesse McSherry, . Polly Garman, Will
Weise, Curt. Hollingsworthj and M.
Hinkle, and away they ¦went. It is a
good long ride to Bismarck, and when
they got there they -were glad, yes,
mighty glad, and the people in that
town were glad to see them. - Mr. 0.
S. Hoke, proprietor of the Cornwall
House, gave them the glad hand, and
he soon had them feeling at home. A
turkey supper, had been prepared and
whiley dining they were treated to
sweet strains of music, as played by the
Bismarck Orchestra , composed of Miss
Lillian Gemmi^
pianist; F. H. Gemmi,
clarionetist; Hi. .Dohner-, trombonist;
and S. Peters, mellophone. ._ Some of
the selections played for their approval
were: "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All
Here!" "Oh, You Kid!" "Are There
Any More at Home Like You," etc.
It's a. long ride from Hershey'to. Bis-marck,
but it is twice as long from
Bismarck to Hershey—that is what we
have been informed.
They Didn t Get Much Booty, Because There
Wasn't Much Boot y to Get
The robbers were with us on Sunday
evening, and Mr. Earl'Mays, the station
agent, will vouch for this, although he
will not enlighten you to any great ex-tent
as to the details, but will refer you
elsewhere, as he did us. As it was,
the robbers entered by the rear door,
and if' an electric light had been placed
at this entrance so that the robbers
could have seen the large placard "No
Entrance, apply at the Ticket Win-dow,"
they might have taken heed
thereto and entered according to these
directions. This is neither here nor
there as Mr. Mays will inform you, for
the result would have been the same.
The robbers got away with some money,
the receipts of Saturday evening and
Sunday. The bag was returned to Mr.
Mays by Mr. . Irvin Good,' who found
same laying on the roadway.
The P. & R. Station Robbed
Mr. Homer Moyer 's Horse Did Not Have a
Ghost of a Show
On Friday evening of last week Mr.
Homer Moyer betook himself to the
home of Mr. George Eppley. Mr. Moy-er's
mission was to challenge Mr. Ep-pley
to have a horse race. Mr. Moyer
had made up his mind that he was" go-ing
to settle for all time who had the
better horse, and he would have Mr.
Eppley hitch up 'his horse. Mr. Eppley
was not feeling in the. humor, but Hom-er
finally persuaded him. So he hitched
up his horse, and a few moments after-
; ward they were going down Chocolate
Avenue; and so fast did they go that
they almost had the Ben Hur chariot
race beat to a frazzle. Passing out of
1 the town Mr. Eppley let his horse out
¦| and he soon left Homer in the gloaming. Homer urged on his horse for all that
| was in him, but it was all to no avail.
: In all, they had five heats, and ^acc'ord-ing
to what Mr. Eppley informs us,
Homer's horse lost all five of them.
For wVich Homer has our sympathy.
As it is,, however, Homer says he en-joys
racing, even if he does get beat.
Homer is not as yet satisfied with the
outcome of this race, and he thinks that
with wheels instead of runners he would
be able to give the laugh to Mr. Eppley.
Decoration Day is coming on and it
might be a good idea to hold this race
at Hershey Park as an added attraction.
Mr. Eppleyt Horse the Winner To the Weather Man, but He Says He Has
Troubles of His Own
Gha,renofe
The Y. M. CI A. had its first business
meeting and social last Thursday eve-ning,
and the weather was fierce and
then some. About 60; members at-tended,
and Carnegie ought to. give
every one a medal for their bravery—
for it took a hero to brave the elements
on that evening. The constitution and
by-laws were adopted, and. afterwards
the meet'ng adjourned.. -It was then
that a goodly amount of ice cream and
cake was gotten away with.
Th9 Y. NI. C. A. Has Issued a
A Little About You, About Your Height or
and Things in General
Howard Romig, Ray Hemminger . and
Merril Hemminger, of this place, spent
Sunday at Manheim. . '- ¦ ._ ¦".','.. -
Cyrus Garnan and 'Miss Mary Gar-man,
of this place, visited friends at
Elizabeth town over Sunday.
Mr. Murrie received a' letter from
Joe Tarbell, the boy who used to fan
them out, a few days ago. Joe states
that he has signed to pitch for the team
in Montreal, Canada, which team is in
the Eastern League, which is the fast-est
outside of the National and Ameri-can
-Leagues. He also states that he
had a misfortune and it may keep him
out of the game for some time. While
cutting wood the axe slipped and gashed
his ankle. j
The Hershey Chocolate Company has
just received another pulverizing ma-chine,
and wnich weighs 6£ tons.
Mr. Harry].Haverstick received an-other
shipment of plants for the- Her-shey
Park Conservatory, consisting of
500 geraniums, 12 azaleas and 4 acubas.
Mr. Hosea Waterer , of Philadelphia,
was in Hershey to see about the lawn
grass seed th'at is to be sown on' the
Presbyterian church grounds, by Mr. M.
S. Hershey. Mr. Waterer furnished
all the seed for the grass used on the
beautiful lawns of Mr. Hershey's pri-vate,
grounds, which consisted of 80
bushels.
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