The Hershey Press 1910-02-04

              Halley's Comet.
An Interesting Article by Prof. Max Lehman
Probably the most interes ting body to
be seen in the heavens, an yet the one
about which astronomy can tell us the
least, is the comet. From time to time
the solar system is visited by these pe-culiar
bodies. They come unheralded,
suddenly, silently, from the great un-known
space, beyond the boundaries of
our system; flash in upon us like an in-spiration,
and are gone again as quickly,
and in the same quiet manner.
Where they come from, where they
go, of what they are made, whether
they will ever return, are questions
which is puzzling science today, and
which, for the most part, remain unan-swered.
We, of course, have many
theories ,' conjectures, opinions; but pos-itive
information is rare.
Of ti.ese questions, the last is by far
the most easy to answer. In the case
of some few the orbit has been computed
and the length of their period fixed.
Among this number-is Halley's. comet,
the one in which interest is now cen-tered
, and which is so soon to flash in
view to the naked eye.
The history of this comet is particu-larly
interesting. It was first observed
by Halley in 1682, and from observa-tions
taken at that time .he was able to
compute its orbit. He declared its or-bit
to be an ellipse and the length ot its
period to be about 75 years. -From this
he reasoned that it should have appeared
in 1607, 1531 and 1456. On looking 'jip
the records he actually found that a
comet did appear in each of those years,
whose orbits bore a striking resemblance
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The Hershey Band Will Hold a
Dance and Package Party.
It Will be Held on Saturday Evening, Feb-ruary
12, at the Hershey Park Pavilion.
The Hershey Band has followed
^
the
example of the ground hog, and has
come out of seclusion. They are going
to hold a dance and package party. It
will be held on Saturday evening, Feb-ruary
12, at 8:00 o'clock, at the Hershey
Park Pavilion . The band will furnish
the music: for the dance, and as they
have been doing some tall practising
for the past few months, you can be
prepared for music that will, make your
feet do some tall . two-stepping and
waltzing, and the same way , for the
barn dance and schottische.' This is no
press agent Tarn, just the plain truth,
and we want; you to come and hear for
yourself.
There will also be a package party.
The committee atates that they would
like everybody to bring a package.
These packages they will then have
autioned off to the highest bidder. Be
sure you have them securely wrapped
so that no one will know their contents.
They have secured some valuable arti-cles
from some of the citizens w ho have
the band's interests at heart. These
will be auctioned off without anyone
knowing what they are bidding for.
There will be lots of fun, so be sure
that you are there to help enjoy it.
The admission is ten cents, which in-cludes
the privilege of dancing, and as
the proceeds are for a worthy cause,
the Hershey Park Pavilion (ought to be
'crowded—so let's help crowd it.
Hershey Briefs
A Little About You, Abou t Your Neighbor
and Things in General
Mrs. Fanny Moyer is a visitor in
Trenton, N. J., leaving on Monday
morning.
Mr. J. E. Stevenson represents the
Ailing & Cory Paper Co., of Pittsburg,
and Hershey is on his route. He in-forms
us that he staggered the station
agent at Harrisburg when he asked, for
a ticket to Her and She. It isn't half
bad, especially for a traveling "sales-man;
Mr. Jas. K. Putt came to.' the rescue
of Mr. Haverstick, and Harry is again
in a good humor. Mr. Haverstick had
been informing us for some little-time
that he was going to have a fine con-crete
form made which would contain
quite a number of gold fish , etc. Some
how or other this fell through. So
Harry went to Jim and told him his
troubles, and Jim took compassion on
Harry and built him a large wooden
tank. And it is a peach. Harry is go-ing
over to the Henry Meeting House
and is going to secure a lot of old weath-ered
rocks, and will place these around
this tank, and Harry says that it will
look something like a mountain—only
different. He has secured m collection
of water plants for this aquarium, and.
when Harry has 'secured the- gold fish,
which he says will be in about week's
time, it will be worth going miles to see/
Harry says there is nothing like doing-things,
right.
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Philadelphia is to have a candy show.
Demonstrations of various methods of
making candy, free distribution of
sweets, contests in candy wrapping,
and* awards of boxes of candy are some
"of . the features that are promised at
this candy show, which will be held for
a period of eight days, beginning on
Saturday night.
The Hershey Chocolate; Company will
have, a booth. And it is a handsome
one, too. It is 20 x 26 feet. . This will,
have a miniature chocolate, outfit, con-sisting
of a- finisherj a melangeur, a
mill and two wrapping machine. This
outfit is practically new and was shipped
direct from J. M. Lehman, Dresden,
Germany. ' . .
Mr. William Brinker will have charge
of the booth,; and he will show the
Philadelphians how chocolate is made,
vand William is the one that can do it.
He will make a sweet eating paste, and
this will be for free distribution.
Mr. Ray Brehm will have charge of
the wrapping machines, assisted by
Harry Boyer.
A carload of chocolates were for-warded
to Philadelphia for this candy
show. *+-. ;
The Candy Show Will he All
to the Candy.
Mr. William Brinker Will Show Philadel-phians
How Chocolate is Made.
There will be a Men's Gospel Meeting
in the Y. Ms. C. A., on Sunday at 3:30 p.
m. Rev. Burt Smith, of Hummelstown,
will speak.
Men's Gospel Meeting