The Hershey Press 1911-09-07

              Free Lecture by African jp
Thomas Leigh to Speak In Theate r Next
Sunday Afternoon. Will Return to
Native Land^
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" IHOMAS LEIGH, the African
student who was to have giv-en
his lecture on African life
¦ -1 and customs from the band-stand
in Hershey park on last Sunday
afternoon, was on the grounds and
ready to speak at the time appointed
but found it necessary to. postpone his
lecture until next Sunday.
Mr. Leigh is a native African. He
was born in Freetown, Sierra Leorie,
West Africa in 1888. He started to go
to school at five years of age and at
fifteen graduated from the Wesleyan
Missionary High School. During the
two years and nine months that followed
he completed the course in Alber acad-emy
in Freetown. After a two month's
lecture tour in England during the early
fall of 1908 Leigh came to the United
States and took his first year's work in
medicine at Howard- University- in
Washington, B. C. He is now an under-graduate
of Chicago University.
Student Leigh now plans to return to
Africa this fall where he will teach in
his home town. The American winters
have undermined his health. He hopes
that a year spent in his native land will
help him regain strength sufficiently to
return to America and complete his
course in medicine and theology. He
expects ultimately to he a medical mis-sionary,
to his own people working under
the mission board of the United Breth-ren
Church:
Mr. Leigh has given his lectures in
Myerstown, Annville, Avon, Lebanon,
Wernersville, Hebron Fontana arid
Hummelstown. He carries credentials
from Chicago University and from
prominent leaders of the United Breth-ren
Church, in this country.
His lecture, African Life and Customs,
will be given in the theater in Hershey
park next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
He will dress in his native costume. No
admission will be charged but an offer-ing
will be taken. All are welcome.
New Editor For the Press
Eugene W. Pocock Will Also Serve as Sec-retary
of the Young Men's Christian
Associa tion. '
H
INAL actibn was taken on Fri-day
evening in choosing a
successor to C. S. Gee as
—J editor of the Hershey Press
and general secretary of the Young
Men's Christian Association. Eugene
W. Pocock, of Blissfield, Michigan,
was unanimously elected. Mr. Pocock
arrived in Hershey last week and has
already assumed his duties.
The board is peculiarly fortunate in
securing Mr. Pocock to .fill these re-sponsibilities
for he is eminently quali-fied
for both. He is a graduate of
the University of Wooster where he
was'associated with Mr. Gee in Y. M.
C.: A. work and later succeeded him as
president of . the University Young
Men's Christian Association. He has
had business experience and . other
training which will fit him for the
editorship of the Press.
The work of the Y. M. C. A. for
the coming year will be begun at once
along religious,, educational and social
lines. A membership campaign will
be one of the first things and in this
every old member can greatly assist
the committee and the new secretary.
His office will continue to be in the
Press building. His room is No. .2
at the Y. M. C. A. dormitory.
Will Widen Culvert
H
" IESTERDAY 30 men began work
on the widening of the culvert
_ just east of Hershey station on
" the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad. This is done to admit of the
laying of another track. The work is
being done by the Philadelphia Building
and Gqijstruction Company who have
thetxontract. A shanty has been built
for the workmen. Twelve car loads : of
sand and cement are on the grounds.
Girl Opens Suit Case at Depot and Is Later
Arrested With the Garment On
S
' JEFORE taking her train on Sun-day
Miss Cora Kegerreis left
her suit case at the Hershey
station and went over to the
park. She was gone for only a short
time but upon her return noticed that
the case had been opened. Upon in-vestigation
it was found that a silk
dress had been removed. Miss Keg-erreis
remembered that there was but
one person in: the room at the time.
This was- a young woman who is fre-quently
seen sitting around the trolley
waiting room.
The services . of a justice were se-cured
at once and the girl was traced
to Palmyra. She was found sitting
upon a porch there with the stolen
dress on. A sample of the goods had
been procured in the meantime and
even then the young woman refused
to acknowledge the dress other than
her own. It was necessary , to secure
Constable Gingrich who took her be-fore
Squire Huggendubler. She fin-ally
plead guilty to the theft and was
given twenty minutes to return to her
home, remove the dress and return it.
This was done and she was not prose-cuted
further.
Steals Dress In
Broad Daylight
Officers For Ensuin g Year Placed In Nomi
nation. Election One Month Later
H
" JFFICERS for the coming year
were nominated on Tuesday
. evening by the- members of
the Hershey Volunteer Fire
Company at their regular monthly
meeting. These . names will be acted
upon at the meeting one month hence.
The ticket is as follows:
President—Joseph Hills
Vice-President—Aldus Wirth
Secretary—Daniel Graeff
Treasurer—Frank B. Snavely
Chief—John Conrad
Asst. Chief—Hess Bigley
Trustees—C. V. Glynn
Eli Rhine
Charles Simpson
Fire Company
Holds Meeting
Mo G. Kegel Unanimousl y Electe d By
Board of Directors , Man of Abilit y and
Experience,
BfflT a called meeting of the board
IV¦4 ] of directors of the Young
|t*J| Men's Christian Association
•^PHI last Friday evening John G.
Kegel was unanimously elected as
Physical 'director and athletic coach.
New Physical
Director Arrives
Mr. Kogel arrived yesterday and will
take up his work at once.
He comes here from Philadelphia
and was formerly director at Glenn
Mills School for Boys. He is well
prepared for ,the position he comes to
fill. He has had seven years experi-ence
in physical work in several schools
in this state and Maryland. He has
been at Mercersburg Academy and
Tome Institute. He also had entire
charge at one time of the outdoor
gymnasium of the largest playground
in Baltimore. He has made a special
study of body building and khqws well
how to handle wrestling, tumbling,
boxing and swimming as well as all
the outdoor sports.
Schedules for the fall work will be
announced soon thru the Press. With
the new gymnasium and its splendid
equipment . and a trained and experi-enced
director the work of the physi-cal
department should enjoy phenome-nal
growth this coming year.
Along the line of the least resist-ance
we find the most wrecks, and
this is why some fail while others
succeed.