The Hershey Press 1914-09-24

              Contest For Young Women's Christian
Association Still Raging With
Great Success and Will Con-tinue
Until , Next Tuesday
Evening. The Officers
It is the finest battle that was ever
fought, that of the Golds and the
Blues, for they are fighting for a
larger membership of the Young Wo-men's
Christian Association. So far
the results have been large, but they
are not satisfied. They will.not stop
until they bring in every member
possible. Miss Elder gives notice
that all reports must be turned in
not later than Tuesday evening,
September 29. "Do not forget," says
Miss Elder, "that renewals count one-half
point and ^each member whose
membership expires in September or
October should help her side - by re-newing
promptly."
Bearing on this campaign are the
words, of Jessie Wilson Sayre. daugh-ter
of President Wilson: "To be-come
a. member of the Young Wom-en's.
Christian Association is riot to
bu^ dollar's worth of privileges or to
sell a dollar's worth of support of a
thing that is good and ought to be
kept going, but is to share in some-thing
which is living, and sharing
means giving what one has and get-ting
in turn what others have given."
The Y. W. C. A..is planning many
important activities for the fall and
winter and so the membership will
carry more value than ever before.
The officers of the Board of Directors
are as follows : president, Mrs. M.'L.
Hershey; vice-president, Miss Mary
Leob; recording secretary, Miss Viola
Boyer; treasurer,. Miss Bertha Leib-hart.
The officials are: general sec-retary,
Miss Alice Elder; physical di-rector,
Miss Mary G. Burch ; luncheon
director, Miss Sarah L. Steck ; kinder-gartner,'
Miss Margaret Langworthy.
Both Sides Claim Victory
In Battle For New Members
Pictures in the Park
Some of the Best to l)e Shown With
New Vaudeville Acts
During the week the pictures at the
Park Theater have been unusually
fine and the attendance has been good.
On Monday night Messrs. Hartman
and Mayer gave , the acts and there
was much applause.
For the coming Saturday night a
new program will be offered. The
monologist will be Miss S. M. Wag-ner.
Little Miss Shay will sing. Rus-sel
Clark will give more of the songs
in which he has been so , successful.
There will be an unusually large line
of up-to-date pictures.
Now that September has turned
warm again the Park is the ideal
place for an evening's•¦ entertainment
and the theater is very comfortable.
Fine Art at the School
The exhibit of masterpieces of art
at the public school building this
week is a great success. The at-tendance
on the opeiting night was
large. Mr. Keboch made an address
and an interesting lecture on \tr't was
delivered -by Miss Wir .o-ort , who was
cordially applauded, Russell Clark's
solo was encored. The exhibit will
continue tonight and tomorrow night.
Service at Derr y
The pretty decorations added much
to the success oJ! tlio Harvest Homo
Services hold in tho Dorry Prosby-torinn
church last Sunday. Tlio pas-tor
Rev. George Snnvoly Rents*
p i'oachod a very appropriate Harmon ,
having for his tliomo, "Tho Grace of
Gratitude In Harvest Time," Tlio
church wiih well filled and a special
offering for tlio European war fund
of the American Rod Gross Society
wits falcon. Special mimic wan render-ed.
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Great Building to be. Completed in
Time For Holding the AnnuaL
Meeting of the Church of the
Brethren in 1915. Will.
Seat Over 5,000
. A modern convention hall with a
seating capacity of over five thousand
will be erected on the hill to the north-west
of the* athletic field. The lo-cation
is ideal for such a building,
which .will occupy the only considera-ble
piece of ground, hot utilized in
the present limits of the town. The
elevation will assure coolness in sum-mer
and all the conveniences of Her-shey
Park will be .at hand."
Work is already under way. Gard-ener
Harry Haverstick and his force
are constructing a new <walk ten feet
wide from the northern end of the
bridge over Spring Creek and are
lining it with fine, plants and shrub-bery.
The , idea is to make it as
beautiful as possible in keeping with
the general scheme of -Hershey Park.
The walk will be covered.
Mr. M. S. Hershey has inspected
some of the noted auditoriums and
last week he sent Builder James K.
Putt to gather the'details of the fam-ous
hall at Ocean Grove which seats
8,500 . persons with a standing capaci-ty
of more than 10,000. It is not
likely that any particular plan will be
followed; but the best of several will
be taken and combined in ' the new
building,' which is destined to be one
of the finest convention, halls in the
United States.
Near, the hall is the trolley, line to
Prospect Heights and in front is the
miniature railway. N Around- are fine
boulevards for automobiles and oth-er
vehicles. The site is in comforta-ble
walking distance of the town and
the railroad station.
Urgency in this new enterprise is
necessary because of the coming of
the Church of the Brethren in its
great meeting next year. This meet-ing
is one of the largest annual con-ventions
held in the world. It is es-timated
that it will bring to Hershey
more than 50,000 people and some of
the estimates run much higher than
that. It will be by far' the largest
crowd Hershey has ,ever . known and
will establish Hershey's position as
a convention . centre. In the future
Hershey will invite the most impor-tant
conventions and conferences with
full assurance that it can take care of
all who come. m
The Church of the Brethren
Although the Church of the Breth-ren
is strong in this section of the
United States many do not know its
size and7 its interesting history. The
story of the church is told in a large
book of 559 pages by Dr. Martin
Grove Brumbaugh, the present re-publican
candidate for Governor and
one of the most distinguished schol-ars
of the denomination, Ho says
that in the beginning the church had
no representative body and no general
conference. "Annual Meeting," ho
says, "was created as a means of de-fense
and as a means of edification.
It is a distinct creation of a very re-markable
movement among the Gor-man
sects of Pennsylvania , known as
the Tonsylvnnia Synods of 1742.'" The church has had a phonominal
growth in educational activity. It
does great missionary work. It con-trols
its own productions and does
its own printing; tlio handsome his-tory
by Dr. Brumbaugh was printed
by the Brethren Publishin g House.
"From tlio first ," nays Dr. Brum-baugh
, "the Gorman Nap tint Church
challenged all creeds and turned tri-umphantl
y to tlio word of God for
Its faith and .its practice. Hor evan-gelic
tonots arc clour and consistent.
Tlio triune God Is accepted , tho di-vinity
of Jesus declared , tho function
of tho Holy Ghost; honored. Faith,
repentance ) and baptism are tho stops
to salvation. Through those and
these alone is convoralon possible.!'
Baptism is by trine immersion. Foot-washing,
as t,nught in John 1!!, Is hold
to bo a.divine ordinance. Tho Love
Feast, or Lord's Supper , always ob-served
with /the communion , Is n rfull
moul, partaken by tho members fn tho
evening only. Tho Holy Kiss, or
Salutation , is given at tho close of tho
Lord' s Supper and just before tlio
Communion. Dr. Uri.imbuugh 's ac-count
continues !
"Government is democratic , in tlio
extreme. Tho membership rules.
Tho congregational activity Is prac-tically
unlimited. On question of.mo-ment
tho congregation appeals for
guidance to District Meetings , made
up of delegatus from the respective
churches. The District Mootlngs,
may, when tho conditions seem to
warrant , appeal to the Annual Moe-t-
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National Convention Hall
to Crown West Hershey Park
Dedication of New School
Principal Speaker Will be Dr. Schaef-fer,
Super intendent of Public
Schools of Pennsylvania
The formal dedication of tho M. S.
Hershey Consolidated Schools of
Dorry Township will takqjtlnco at 1.30
p. m., Tuesday, October 18. The pro-gra
m was arranged at a mooting
Tuesday night by tho school trustees
and Principal Keboch. President
Shonk presided with A. W. Snavoly
secretary.
At tluj dedication the principal
speakers will bo Mr. M. S. Horshoy;
President Shonk of the Board ; Hon.
Henry Ilouck ," Secretary of Internal
Affairs, and the orator of the day, Dr.
N. C. SclmofTo r, superintendent of tho
public schools of Pennsylvania.
Thoro will bo clio)'UHOs<>l>y the school
children and music by the full band.
Tho occasion wjll bo oiio of the most;
import ant over hold in the town. All
schools in the ' township are invited
and special arrangements will bo
made for thorn and for other guests.
It was , announced at, tho board
meeting t|mt tho total cost of the
new school buildi ng was SI05.000.
Birds For the Zoo
Frantz Zinner returned last week
from a short trip to Philadelphia
whore ho purchased a number of now
specimens of birds which have boon
added to tho many attractions in tho
Horshoy Zoo. Following is tho list
of birds that wore purchased: 2 Wax
Bills , 2 Orange Chocks, 2 White wind
Gray Javas, 2 Cut Throat finches , 2
Black Head Nun , 1 Widah , 2 Blue
/Incites, 2 Bull/Inches , 1 Rosa Cocka-too,
2 Negro finches , Sis Kin finch ,
Sofran finch , 2 Canaries, Gold finch ,
2 Rod Bill Weavers^
Hershey's New Post-Office
Increase in Business Has Forced the
Scfcyring of Larger Quarters
So steady has been the increase in
the postal business of Hershey that
larger quarters have become urgent-ly
necessary. The present rooms,
while excellent in their way, are much
overcrowded. The Department has
been a little slow in acting, but this
week it sent its inspector to see
General Manager J. B. Leithiser and
the matter was duly arranged.
The new post-office will bo tho for-mer
bank building-on Chocolate Ave-nue.
It has a fine interior of 46^ by
22% feet and' its location on oho of
the four corners of tho center of the
town is most fortunate. Mr. Leit-hiser
has given orders for tho thor-ough
renovation of the rooms and for
an equipment of now fixtures.' It will
be one of tho handsomest and most
convenient offices in tho state. Work
will bo pushed,
The old vault in tho building will
bo moved to tho offices of tlio Choco-late
Company.
It Will Begin on Friday Evening, Oc-tober-
23, and Will Include Monthly
Lectures and Performances of
Excellent Merit. Course
Tickets Low
It is the intention to make this fall
and winter the most.. interesting.' and
entertaining season that Hershey has
ever known. The growth of the
town's. population and the increase of
the 'contributing-territory can furnish
a support that will enable the engage-ment
of ¦ high-grade attractions. To
this end all the interests of the com-munity
will steadily work. The old
school house, is to be put to public
use. The Young Women's Christian
Association is perfecting ambitious
plans. And already the Men's Club
has arranged for a notable course of
lectures and concerts and. the tickets
will soon be on sale. It is planned to
give the course of six attractions for
a dollar. In other places the prices
for single admission range from
twenty-five cents to fifty cents and
even higher, but the purpose is to get
a high attendance and so the rate
has -been put at a minimum for the
course ticket;
The course will be opened on the
evening of Friday, October 23, by Dr.
Andrew Johnson, one . of the briliant
orators of the day. He has Jbeen be-fore
the public for seventeen years
and has always pleased-his audience.
He is a ,.capital story teller and is full
of wit and humor and there is not a
dull moment in his lecture. This .is
the testimony of one of the foremost
Chautauqua managers: , "Dr. Andrew
Johnson, a master of the platform,
possesses, the largest fund of good
stories I have ever heard, and I have
never listened to but one other person
who could tell theni as well. He car-ried
the audience with a swing and
made them' laugh whether they want-ed
to" or not."
On Monday evening, November 23,
will .come, the Olynipia Ladies Quar-tette,
lSd by Miss Dazalia Underwood,
the Australian nightingale. The
quartette's repertoire includes jubilee
^cjjoruses, plantation melodies, descrip-tive
songs, vocal quartettes, trios,
duets and solos, instrumental quar-tettes,
trios and duets, and solos on
violin and piano. A sketch, "The
Party," by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, is
one of the interesting features , of
their program: The . Olympia Ladies
is one of the most versatile and bril-liant
quartettes of singers, instru-mentalists
and entertainers ever ' of-fered
in the Lyceum, and a popular
attraction for the best Chautauquas
and Lyceum Courses.
On Monday evening, December 21
the attraction will be C, C. Mitchell,
who comes acclaimed as one of the
finest of platform artists. He is a
dramatic orator of great force. He
brings tears as well as laughter and
his presentation is said to be a' wond-erful
success "He hold his audience
for one hour and a half with rapt at-tention,"
writes the president of a
Western College. It is wit, philosophy
and enjoyable entertainment, say
those who have heard him.
On Monday ' evening, January 4,
Marion Ballou Fisk, the Cartoonist-lecturer,
will give an illustrated talk
that is said to be the best thing of its
kind on tho boards. Mrs. Fisk is not
a novico in the Lyceum field. She has
lectured in twenty states in, the last
five years, and has met with universal
success, It has many times been
said to hor: "Most cartoonists enter-tain
us just for tho time, but you have
given us something to carry away
with us,"
She makes friends of the old sol-diers,
At one place thoy presented
her with a group picture of tho Post,
as a mark of their esteem and appre-ciation
of hor illustrated song, "Tent-ing
Tonight oil tho Old Camp
Ground ," whoso author , Walter Kit-tredgo
, was one of hor chlldhoood's
acquaintances.
On Monday evening, January 25
thoro will bo a lecture on the Panama
Canal and the Panama Pacific Expo-sition
with 200 views—a star feature
of this star course.
¦. Tlio concluding attraction will bo
the Cocillnn Concert on Thursday
even ing, February 11, a happy climax
of a most unusual schedule, Of this
company of artists it is said: "The
Gocilitm Concert Company is a, hap-py
combination of four versatile ar-tists
each experienced and well fitted
to fill hor place in tho Company, lb
is seldom that n combination of four
young ladies Is capable of presenting
such , a variety of good things in ono
program, In addition to tho Orches-tra
numbers which form tho main
part of their evening 's entertainment ,
thoy will give vocal selections, both
solos and duetts , a crayon 'sketch of
unusual merit , Instrument solos, read-ings,
and a costume Japanese sketch
In which all the members participate
Each , member has had experience oik
tlio Ij ycouni 'platform for it varying-number
of years."
Course tickets will floo/i bo on s«lo
a(; tho Men 's Club and other places In
Hershoy, '
Hershey Lyceum Course
Has First-Class Attractions
Tho groat war goes on with terri-ble
loss of- life. Two million mon arc
under fire in the second week of the
battle in northern Franco. ""Both sides
aro holding their linos, Russia is
winning over tho Austrians. Gorman
submarines sank three " British cruis-ers
of 12,000 tons each , and many
lives wore lost, A long war is pro-dieted.
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Progress of the War
All en v>, ura ri; nguroti in a run-away
on Monday morning when the
horse which he wuh driving became
frightened at a train shifting In tho
local yards. Tho horse darted down
oyer tlio lawn at the pumping sta-tion
near tjui Factory, throwing , the
occupant out and completely over-turning
the wagon. The homo con-tinned
Its mad (lash until it ranched
tho crook al tho pumping station. Mr.
Graft luckily oscnpod injuries.
Mr. Craft in Runawa y
Miss Edna Landls gavo a theater
party on Monday ovonlng at; tho Or-pheum
In ITarrMiurg for her guest,
Miss Union Warner , of York. Tho
¦guests Included: MIhho h Mario John- son , Blanche Wengert , Martha Clark ,
ftoHslo Moyor, Hcrtlia Moyer, Rut h
Landls, Eltonboth Glide and Edna
Landls, The party was chaperoned
by Mrs. Foldt of Btoolton , a sister of
the hostess.
Miss Landis ' Theater Party
The first rohorsal for tho homo
talont sliow entitled ''Claim Ntnty- ,
six " was hold on . Tuesday evening.
The. play will bo given for tho bene-fit
olj the Horshoy baseball team and
will bo rendered under the direction
of Samuel J. Fooho. The characters
of tlio show will bo. taken by tho mem-bers
of the baseball team assisted by
several outsiders including five fe-male
characters, Tho ditto for the
show which will bo hold In tho theater
will bo announced later.
A Great Show Coming
John II. Moyor, salesman for tho
Implement department of tho Hor-shoy
Storo Company, Is in charge of
it exhibit of implements at; tho Car-lisle
fair this week. Mr. Moyor will
[lomonstrato a largo variety of tho
farming implements sold by tho Storo
Company,
Exhibit at Carlisle
Last wook n now electric sign bear-ing
tlio inscription "EAT" was placed
In front of.' tlio Harshey quick lunch.
Tho sign was erected by It. F. Hull
and his force of electricians.
New Quick Lunch Sign
| There Is Only One Way to Progress and That Is To Keep On Going
j) Hershey 's Way Is Not Only To Keep On Bat To Add On—See Below |
New Planing Mill is Modern in Every
Detail and is Busy Filling Orders
Fo¦ r Twenty-Seven New Houses. Fine Stock of Best Lum-ber
on . Hand
Another big Hershey industry has
/gotten under way so quietly that even
the people of the town did not realize
its size or importance. The new
planing mill is in . full operation. Not
all of its score of machines are placed,
but the more importanrare going and
there is a steady chorus of saws and
things during working hours. It , is
under the management of L. W. Zim-merman.
The new planing mill is the finest
of its kind in Lebanon Valley. It is
a handsome two story and basement
red brick structure, 60 by 100 feet,
and all its three floors have an abund-ance
of light. The construction is
very substantial, so that there is no
vibration from machinery. The whole
building is' heated by steam. . Each
machine is electrically driven, having
its own motor. Modern ideas pre-vail
in every detail. Already the mill
has a big motor truck and two deliv-ery
wagons. It has, too, its own
railway sidings arid' every convenience
for the . receipt and shipment of ma-terials
and products.
A large shed and dry kiln will be
built.within* the next few weeks, the
foundations being already under way.
In the present sheds are large sup-plies
of lumber, including the best
grades from Idaho, Michigan, and the
southern states. ¦• The mill will do
fine work for modern homes and it is
now busy' on orders for 27 residences
—3 at Bressler, 9 at Steeltonf 1 .at
Hummelstown and 14 being" built in
Hershey by the . Hershey Improve-ment
Company. . -
In the Hershey mill force are' the
Messrs. Hoover of Berryburg . who
sold their mill to the Hershey inter-ests..
AH are master mechanics and
together with John Hershey of this
place they turn out large quantities of
interior trimmings for "houses. The
force numbers fifteen skilled men.
Another Big Hershe y Industry
Now Operating Successfully
Shipments From Factory and Cars
Handled by Railroad Company
i Break Records. Forward Mpve-
J ment in Various Interests. .
No Let-Up in ' Activity
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$ September is the? busiest month
Hershey has ever experienced. Al-ready
the totals far surpass any pre-vious
showing. The Chocolate Com-pany
has been' pushed to its utmost
endeavor to fill orders r,an&' the busi-ness
is still pouring in. In the hun-dreds
of carloads that have been sent
out all of the United States and
much of Canada have been reached.
A feature of the trade .is the number
of carload lots sent to Pacific Coast
points. It was thought that when
the record was broken by the ship-,
ment of 26 carloads on the first day
of September that there would be a
lull, but this has not proven to .be the
case. On the other hand the business
has . increased. The enlargements
which will add ten acres of floor space
to the factory are well, towards com-pletion.
In addition to the outgoing pro-ducts
the local station vof the Phila-delphia
and Reading ' \Railroad has
handled many cars of supplies and
incoming materials, so that the
September record of freight is far in
advance of any previous figures.
It has been a great dairy year and
the Hershey Chocolate Company has
used vast quantities of milk, more
than ever before.
Other, Hershey interests are going
ahead. Work on the new trolley line
into Lancaster county is b'eiW done
with great vigor and several miles
are graded. The new line . is to be
completed by the first of next April.
It will open important new territory
to Hershey, increase the milk supply
and bring new trade. The Hershey
Transit Company is putting in its
own power on all its lines.
On the Hershey farms a number of
houses and barns, ten new silos and
many outbuildings are being built.
There will soon be 50 modern silos on
the Hershey farms. The piggery is
being extended. A special herd of
Guernseys will soon be added. Over
6,000 tons of silage have been stored.
Within the past three months much
has been added to Hershey. The Her-shey
Trust Company Building, the
handsomest bank in Southern Penn-sylvania,
was occupied in July. The
new public school building costing
,11105,000 was opened in September.
The reservoirs on Prespect Heights
with a capacity of a million gallons
were tested last week and the pres-sure
threw a stream strong enough
to go over any building in the town.
The new building for the Fire De-partment
is almost ready. Under
construction in tho town are twenty
modern residences.
Separate items on this page tell' of
other additions and improvements. .
September Biggest Month
In All HersheyV History
Work is Being Rushed on Addition to
the Old School Building and the .
Result Will be a Cozy Theatre
For the Winter. Will
Seat' 750 Persons
The old school building, right in
the centre of the town's interest and
movement, is being turned into use
for ' the people of Hershey and the :
surrounding country. It is a hand-some
structure of granite and its pos-sibilities
are large. First there ; will
be a modern auditorium with a seat-ing
capacity of 750 and with the
equipment of a complete theatre for
moving pictures, dramatic perform-ances,
lectures and all the attractions
that promise to give to Hershey the
most delightful winter it has known
since it was founded.
- In order to get plenty of space and
light for this new auditorium the
east wall of the building has been re-moved
and an extension 40 by 52 feet
is being built under the direction of
James K. Putt. The stone founda-tions
are in and the frame structure
will be erected as rapidly as possible.'
It will give an interior 75 by 52 feet
and 28 feet high, insuring abundant
room and the best ventilation. Oh
the lower fiob'f will be seats for 550
and in the gallery—which will be the
remodeled upper .floor of the old
building—there will be seats for 150"
more, making 70Q in all. The stage
will be at the east ' side and will be
fully equipped. In order that there
may be the best facilities for the
drops and other paraphernalia the
stage height will be carried to 30
feet. The stage itself will be 30 feet
wide and 22 feet deep. The seats
will be of modern type, commodious
and comfortables
The location of this new auditorium,
could not be better. It is the most
convenient point for the residents of
Hershey and directly in front of it is
the stopping and exchange place of
the trolley cars. The railroad station
is only a block away. The plan will
be to give attractions of such merit
that people will be drawn from all
the towns and country within ten
miles or more of Hershey. The regu-lar
attendance from the town will, of
course, ba^ilia. main dependence, but
hundreds will ' come nightly from
Hummelstown, Palmyra and other
places , for they will find a modern
theatre, a few steps from the cars
and with all comforts of the best a
city can offer. Also the prices will
bo very moderate. All of this means
a winter of fine activity and enter-tainment
for the town and its increas-ing
importance as the social centre
of lower Lebanon Valley.
The rooms of the west half of the
building will bo devoted to public pur-poses
which will be announced later.
Until the handsome welfare depart-ment
now under construction in the
factory is ready they will be used by
the girls at the luncheon hour. .
Hershey's New Auditorium
Will be Ready in a Month
More than tho necessary ono hun-dred
have enrolled for tho Ilarrisburg
Extension School of the University
of Ponn , for which Professor Wendall
P. Ralno visited Hershoy ¦ last; wook,
but ; tho registration will continue un-til
October 12. Some university of-ficial
will bo found In the -rooms of tho
Chamber of Commerce , llarrisbufg,
every afternoon from 2 until 4.J10 p.
m. and every Wednesday, Thursday
mid , Friday evenings from 7 until 1)
p, in. for the purpose of registration
or of giving Information to those de-siring
it.
, Extension School Assured
A fine now wall made of limestone.
Is being placed In front of the prop-erty
of Mrs. Llst sdo Lot termini on
Spring ', Crook avonuo occupied by
Goorgo Goosaman, and family. Tho
masonry work Is being done by J. 11.
Painter.
A Limestone Wall