The Hershey Press 1911-04-20

              Beautiful Easter Display
Large Crowds Visit the Local Greenhouses
Which Were at Their Best
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" I SPECIAL invitation had been
issued to the public to visit
the Hershey greenhouses on
¦ I Sunday and several hundred
persons availed themselves of the pri-vilege
on that day. The house on Mr.
Hershey's private grounds is divided
into three rooms. In the west- end is
an abundant supply of most beautiful
f ancy-leaf border plants, such as cro-tons,
coleuses, acalphas, the achar-anthus,
stevia, dusty miller, , petunias,
fancy-leaf caladiums, tuberous-rooted
begonia, etc. A feature of special at-traction
in this room is the large Japa-nese
cucumber vine on which are ripe
cucumbers at least two feet in length.
These are edible. An orange and lem-on
tree both bearing1 fruit are also in
this room. The middle house is devot-ed
to tropical plants and, a large, artis-tic
fern bank. In the front , or east
house, are the carnations, Easter lilies
and more than 2,000. geraniums for the
beds outside.
The other house in the Park contains
many interesting floral specimens. The
Japanese-garden was of great interest.
In the center is an imported Japanese
lantern of majolica, unique in design ;
placed here and there in the, garden
are 24 big bay trees and 24 boxwood
trees trimmed in various shapes; 2
oleander plants about to bloom form
another part, also 24 blooming azaleas
of the Indica variety; tulips here and
there gave f uther color and beauty to
the scene. ' There are six alocasia
plants in ' this house all of which are
in genuine, imported Japanese urns of
terra cotta. The pyramid in the cen-ter
of • this house is nearly 20 feet in
height. This is composed of umbrella
plants, dracenae, • 50 aspidistras, be-gonias,
palms and sansiveria. At the
foot is a Boston fern which is more
than ten feet across. Beautiful bril-liancy
plants, 1,000 geraniums, 300 helio-trope
plants, vines, rubber plants, etc.
are other features of this greenhouse.
Two large banana plants are growing
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Finds Misspelled Word
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* [AST week the Press contained
a misspelled word in one ' of
its advertisements and it was
. I stated that .the- subscriber
who discovered it and sent in the first
correct answer would be entitled- to 50
cents worth of laundry work '.at the
Hershey laundry- Miss Georgia Wick's
reply was the first correct one. . The
word "specalty" on page 6 of last
week's issue was the word incorrectly
spelled, the "i" being omitted. There
is another word in one of the advertise-ments
of this issue which is incorrectly
spelled. Find the word and cut out the
advertisement. Address "Prize Win-ner,"
Hershey, Pa. . Letters will be
opened at noon on Tuesday. The same
offer is extended to the winner this
week as was given to.'the winner ;of
last week's contest. All laundry work
must be done within ten days of "the
time the winner's name is announced.- .
Travelers ' Association to Meet Here on Fri-day
and Saturday. Governor Tener Will
Speak at Banquet.
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" [REPARATIONS for the enter-tainment
of the convention
of the Travelers' Protective
. 1 Association which meets here
on Friday, and Saturday of this week
are about completed. There will be
about 150 delegates. The gathering is
under the auspices of Post E, Lebanon
where the delegates will be provided
with rooming accommodations. The
opening session will be held in the Her-shey
Park auditorium on Friday morn-ing
and will continue thruout the day.
On Friday evening the delegates and
their friends will be entertained by the
Hershey Chocolate Company at a- ban-quet
in the Hershey cafe and dining
room. Governor John K. Tener will be
the principal guest of honor and will
respond to the toast, "Our Common-wealth."
Mr; M~ S. Hershey wili give
the address of welcome." E. H. Molly,
of Lebanon," will serve as toastmaster
at the banquet. The program in full is
as follows: Orchestra; song, . "Amer-ica;"
invocation, Rev. J. T. Satchel,
D.D., state chaplain, Columbia, Pa.;
address of- welcome, Mr. M. S. Hershey,-
Hershey Chocolate Company; orchestra ;
address, "Our Commonwealth," Hon.
John K. Tener, Governor of Pennsylva-nia;
address, "An Uncrowed. Hero,"
John R. Watts, Esq., Brooklyn, N. Y.;
orchestra; address, "The Traveling-
Man from a Minister's Point of View,"
Rev. T. W. Davis, D.D., Philadelphia,
Pa.; address, "The Traveling Man in
Politics," Hon. Marlin E. Olmsted, M.
C, Harrisburg, Pa.; orchestra ; address,
"The Traveling Man as the Manufac-turer
Sees Him," Mr. A. S. Kreider,
Annville, Pa. ; address, ,Dr. D. P. Ger-berich,
Lebanon, Ea.; address, "Our
Organization, How to Make It Grow,"
Alex. Lawrence, state president, Phila-delphia,
Pa. ; orchestra; song, "Auld
Lang Syne."
The Post E. committee in charge of
the arrangements consists of E. H.
Molly, W. P. Coldren, H. W. Spessard,
Walter F. Garrett and Sherman Deitz-ler.
Hershey Will Enter-tain
Big Gathering
Special Session Held to Consider the New
Buildin g Proposition
1 SPECIAL meeting of the di-rectors
of the township
schools was held in the Mc-
I Kinley building in town last
Thursday evening. The ' purpose " of
this meeting was to hear the report of
the committee which had been appoint-ed
to secure plans and bids from dif-ferent
architects on the new building
proposition. Ulrich Weltmer and B.
E. Engle constituted this committee.
It was decided to accept the plans and
figures of architect George H. Grove,
of Harrisburg. As was stated in last
week's Press it is the intention of the
board to beautify the present building
by making a few alterations, and then
build another portion on the east side
duubling the capacity of the building.
Work will be begun as- soon as the
plans are entirely completed and speci-fications
are ready. A central entrance
will be built extending out somewhat
from the present building thus greatly
improving the looks of the structure.
Another meeting will be held on April
26 when futher steps will be taken in
this important direction of providing
for the welfare of the boys and girls
of school age.
School Directors Meet
Instructive Lecture by Dr. E. U. Hoenschel
Who Has Traveled Extensively
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' INLY a few more than fifty
persons were present on Mon-day
evening to hear the lec-
' ture oh ' 'Nature's Big Four''
by Dr. E. U. Hoenschel. Those who
were present listened to a very instruc-
Nature's Big Four
tive address by one who has traveled
very extensively both m this country
and Europe. As a preface to his main
theme of Nature's wonders, the lec-turer
read ' from the first chapter of
Genesis and showed "that religion and
science were not antagonistic. He
then discussed the nebular hypothesis
as accounting for the formation of the
planets one of which is the earth upon
which we live. He explained the pres-ence'
of the heated interior of the earth
before he set forth his explanation of
the presence of the first of -the four big
things of which he was to speak.-'
The first wonder presented was the
Gey s e r s- of Yellowstone National
Park. He then in turn gave a descrip-tion
of the Grand Canyon of the Colo-rado,
the Petrified "Forests of Arizona
and the Sequoia Trees of the Yosemite
valley. He exhibited specimens of the
petrified wood and cones from the large
trees. The cone of . the largest - tree in
the world is very small and the* seed is
minute. The first of these " wonders
tho big, represents a condition of un-rest;
the second presents itself as a
great gash in the bosom of fair earth;
the third speaks of cataclysms and of
entombments ;«the fourth, however, the
great giant trees, speak of quiet and
of steady, uninterrupted growth' and
the gathering of power thru the ages.