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High School Opened on Monday With Ninety Pupils. Rooms Handsome-ly Furnished. Art Exhibit; AH Modern Equipment. . School Distances Ninety students, were present Mon-day When Principal F.'tJ. Keboch and his faculty opened , the High.-jjScriool of the . M. SO Hershey Consolidated Public School of Derry Township and the number may soon be increased to a hundred. ' The room presented • a most attractive appearance. It was fully furnished with its 128. box ad-justable desks and its 32 arm pedestal desks, representing: the latest and most convenient in school furniture. All the equipment was in place .and the opening was a success in every re-spect. The pupils expressed jheir ad-miration and declared they would take personal pride in helping, to make their new home realize the high-est expectations. Professor Keboch welcomed each one and the session be-gan with fine enthusiasm. The devotional exercises were con-ducted by Rev. George Snavely Eehtz. Over the building floated a hand-some flag presented by the local camp Patriotic Order Sons of America through the interest of District Presi-dent Cyrus Garrnari and the entire organization. The school authori-ties thanked the members of the order for their cooperation. A Handsome School Since the description and illustra-tion' of the school appeared in thie Hershey Press a few weeks ago much work has been . done. The cement walks have been placed and all the approaches have been fixed. The trees along Grenada avenue are grow-ing rapidly and next, year the beauti-ful building will have a rich setting in foliage. At the same there will not be top much growth—not enough to interfere with the air. AH this lias been very efficientl y arranged. The Hershey School is a fresh-air in-stitution. First it has the elevated location; second the trees are at a safe distance and third the ventila-tion is the most perfect that the sani-tary engineers could provide. Practically all the furnishings . are installed, and there are now actual, accommodations for nearly six hun-dred pupils and the number may be raised to 850 later one. a mile arid a half from the consolidat-ed school his transportation must be provided for.. -This is • in', accordance with article 14, section 1406 of the School Code, and School /Directors Meckley and Witman nave measured the distances from the M. S. Hershey School building to the, following-points -or places: . To Industrial School ..:' . 1 1-8 miles Foreman's (Geo.) ......1 2-5 miles Harvey Hershey . . .. . . . .1 3-5 miles Hockersville via Shope's.. 1 2-5 miles Peiffer's via Swatara ... 1- 1-5 miles Gingrich School Building. 1 2-3 miles Swatafa (Town proper) . 1 3-10 miles Hershey's Low School Tax - In addition to the ' finest public school building and an unequalled equipment and the transportation from all points in the area beyond the mile and a half distance the pupils have free text books. . They also have the advantage of a trained teaching force of fifteen able men and women who have been selected for their ex-perience and competency. For all of this "the school taxation in Derry Township is only 6 .mills and that not only pays for current ex-penses but retires annually $2,000 of the ?15,000 outstanding indebtedness of the- board. What this means can be gathered from comparisons. For instance the tax, in Palmyra is 10 mills and the tax in Hummelstown is 8% mills. Hershey has the . best at the least cost to the taxpayers. Fine Art Exhibit Coming . Principal Keboch has arranged for an art exhibit, beginning September 21. and ending Sept. 26. The collec-tion will consist of about two hundred large and about one hundred and fifty small prints of the master paintings. The exhibit will be placed in the new school building. A small amount will be charged for admission, and with the money suitable pictures to decorate the new school building will be purchased. Attractive Rooms While the Higli School seems to be the prize room there are others just as attractive. For example the Sci-ence Department is admirably equip-ped. Its 68 tablet arm pedestal chairs rising on terraces not only mean comfort and working room to every pupil but provide a close and unobstructed view of everything that may be going on. By this arrange-ment no ,student may miss any part of any experiment or demonstration. There is nothing better anywhere-even in the best medical colleges. In the old-type class'room only a few of the pupils could possibly witness the details of a demonstration. " In the Hershey School every pupil sees everything, It is a wonderful ad-vantage. This kind of efficiency runs throug-put the whole building. For instance take the matter of maps. The whole world is here in its latest lines—not only in the finest examples of the map maker*!, but in expensive globes that hang from the coiling, so that they may bo lowered and raised auto-matically when needed in the recita-tions or to emphasize n passing point in geography. It Is amazing how all this adds to the fascination of world-study. The pupils of the Hershey School have the whole earth and all its nations right before thorn . Superior Advantages Or tuko the study of the earth's re-sources— vitally important just nt this, time when the Avars are changing conditions and showing the impera-tive necessity of studying thp ' ma-terials thai; must bo , mined and raised to support mankind and the needs of civilisation. In other schools boys and girls read about those things In books and recite from thorn , and of ton as not Iho lessons slip off the, tongue and out of memory, It Is not m in the Ilorshoy School, The pupils handle the things; thoy see the raw materials and tlio products , The ob-j ects aro throw n right upon their un-derstanding and the result is educa-ti on nt its' bosk. That Is why the Hoi'Hhoy School moans from two to throo years gain In the tra ining of the pupllH , In Homo of tho rooms nro adjustable desks, In others portable tablet arm chairs , the prevailing color bolng cherry. In nil of thoHo the correct position of tho pupil has boon studied and this moans ri ght; growth and good health. The writer of those Unas used to hnvo to walk throo miles to floh'ool ovon joNO Hoino country roads and , it w«h a very poor excuse for u Hnhopl at? tlmfc. Mark Iho contrast! In Derry Township If any pupil Hvoh more than Hershey Has Finest School With Very Low School Tax In the Park This Week Hershey Reunion Today and Odd Fel-lows Saturday August is drawing to a close and the picnic and reunion .. season will soon be ended for the year. It has not been the best summer for most of the parks of the country, due to the business conditions, but Hershey has fared unusually well and has enter-tain ed 100,000 visitors. Today the Hershey Reunion will take place. The full program has been printed in the Press. With good weather the attendance promises to be very large. Many will come from a distance. Tomorrow the shopmen of the Penri-J sylvania Railroad will hold an inter-esting meeting, of themselves and their families and friends. Saturday will be the day of the joint picnic of the Odd Fellows and it will be one of the biggest occasions of the year. Thousands will be here from most of the southern Pennsylva-nia counties and there will be an ela-borate program with able speeches. Church of the Brethren Large District Meeting and Confer-ence Committee Named The Church of the Brethren of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held a district meeting at the Spring Creek Meeting House last Thursday. A committee of seven men were elect-ed to make arrangements for their annual conference to bo hold at Her-shey in 1915. It was a fine gathering of Brethren and 408 members of the denomination partook of tho large dinner served in tho church at tho noon hour, Those elected on the committee wore ; I, W. Taylor, NcfFs-villo , Pa,, John Heir, Myers town , Pa,, J. II, Lpngonockor and John Zug, Palmyra , Pa., Josslo Zoigloi', Royors-ford , Pa., Samuel IIort/,lor, and Goo. Fnlkonstino , Elizubothtown , Pa,, nil men of experience and high stlinding, A Record Trip Mr. and Mrs, Hurry M. ICoonoy and fcholr daughter Martha and Mr, and Mrs. AHIhoii , Carman motored to Bis-murk , Cornwall , SohnfForstown , Kline-fdltorsvillq, ' MIR Crook Center , Rich-land , Stouchsburg, Womulsdorf , No'w-manstown , Shorldun , Myorstown , Jonestown and Grimtvllla , whoro they partook of » ,sumptuous dinner , served by Mrs . Ilurvoy Llnglo, After dinner thoy motored to Munndn Hill , Hun-nvardalo , Union Deposit, Swatam Station , reaching; Horshoy at 7.110, riuiy left Horshoy at 12,1)0. Who can l>ont it? Danger! Hornets have built a largo nost in one of the- horse-chestnut trues In front of tlio homo of George Henry In Worry Church , In Spite of Increase in Cost of Ma-terials arid General Price Raising -¦ ;¦• ' it is Taking Care of its Old Customers at Regular R a t e s These are the busiest days the Her-shey Chocolate ; Company has ever known. In. addition to breaking its records in sales it is making a record that is unique in the trade. Its com-petitors all over the country are us-ing the demoralization of the war to raise prices, but it ,,is supplying its old customers at the same prices that prevailed before there was any ex-pectation of wan In other words it is giving, its customers the benefit of its policy in carrying an abundant sifpply of materials. It is probably the only chocolate factory in' the world that is doing this. From every, quarter comes com-mendation of the company for its course which is in such strong con-trast to the scramble of . many manu-facturers and dealers to , make huge profits out of the abnormal condi-tions. The Hershey Company could easily have sold its output at advanc-ed figures to those who would have speculated ¦• on the deal and it could find excuse to raise prices to its old customers under present circumstan-ces, but it prefers to take care of its friends. Large shipments are being made to all parts of the United States. In the meanwhile the prices of ma-terials have gone up and there is no certainty about the future, but to the extent of its ability the Hershey Company will conserve the' interests of its regular trade. Hershey Chocolate Company Breaking its Best Records Progress of the War It has been a week of exciting war news. 1 Japan is now at war with Gerrnany. Germany has won in the first engagements with the allies and has captured Nemur,—her troops be-ing within 170 miles of Paris. The details of the battles are awaited by the world, and the awful seriousness of the whole situation becomes deep-er every day. Great Britain is frankly preparing for a long war. Russia is advancing into eastern Ger-many. Italy is still neutral. Aus-tria is losing. Great Britain re-mains in control of the seas and com-merce is protected. Frantz Zinner at War He Has Mobilized For the Destruction of a Numerous Enemy After the terrific thunder storm the other day when it seemed that the Germans and the Allies and all the other makers of noise had combined in a mighty cannonading, Frantz Zinner marched forth with a gun. The report .went around that he was going to war—and so he was, The enemy is a brood of rats in tho home of the prairie dogs. Traps set for them have failed , and so Frantz is trying his marksmanship. He has to take times when there are few in the Park, so as to avoid any accidents from stray shots. So far the rats have tho bettor of the campaign , but Frantz is watchful and determined. Just now tho rat is very much of a public problem. This week Dr. Dix-on , State Commissioner of Health , is-sued a general warning in which ho asked all people to do what thoy could to destroy rats. He said: "Rats are groat destroyers of food-stuffs such as eggs, young chickens , pigeons , turkeys, ducks , guineas , both domestic and wild. Thoy also de-stroy large quantities of harvest crops as well us many kinds of moiv chnndiso in store houses. Tho rats must have plenty of food and a safo place to roar their young. It is esti-mated that under tlio most favorable circumstances one pair of rats will increase in five years to 9,000,000, "This is an opportune Mine to be-gin an active warfare against ruts. Not only that wo niay protect our-selves and our animals from com-municable diseases but also as an economic measure , Tho grown rat can oat t\yo ounces of grain a day and the elimination of thoso posts would moan a saving of millions of dollars to tho people of the United States." So it can bo hooh that;, Front/. 7.1n« nor 's war Is worth while. New Parisian Dance Steps William T, Unird , representative of tho Horshoy Chocolate Co., of Now York City, was a IiuhIiiohh caller In town on Tuesday, In the evening Mr. Ilalrd , tho gues t of Mr. Murric, at-tended Professor Noagloy 's dancing class,' and lie gave the Professor some new stops that ho learned while ho was over In Pnrln several weeks ago, "Tho War Scare Got Away" was es-pecially flno, and Mr, Balrd did It to perfection, Great Crowd at Hillsdale Many From Hershey Among the Fif-teen Thousand lit the Gimp Sunday was a record breaking day at the Hillsdale Campmo'oting. It is estimated that ,15,000 persona wore on tho grounds. Tho closing services of tho camp will bo hold thin evening, Thursday. Thoso from this place who visited tho camp on Sunday in-cluded : Mr. and Mra Harper Suavely, Mary Snnvoly, Mrs. D. N. Eisholmun, Mr, Miller , Mrs, John Koonoy, Mr. Hoffman , Clnrn Henry, Virgio Henry, Mr, and Mrs . John Wostlmfor , daughter Viola , David Cordon , Jr., John Cordon , Irvfn Aungst , Mr, and Mrs. David Gordon and fam-ily, Mr , and Mrs, Jacob Pago and family, Mr, and Mrs, Aaron Slossor nud son Paul , Mr, and Mrs, William Cramer , Mr, and Mrs. Daniel B, Koof-or and family, Mr. and Mrs,! S. D. Chirk , Mr, and Mm, Harry Imbodon , Jonas Itufuihoro , "Virginia 'Witman , Mr, and Mrs,Harry Carman and Mr, and Mrs, Roy M. Stornborgor. Jolly Corn Roast Party Twenty Seven Girls and Their Friends Have Fine Time A jolly party of girls from the Y. W. C. A. and their friends to the num-ber of twenty-seven, held a big corn roast in Hershey Park on Friday. De^ spite the heavy rain the girls spent a delightful evening and thoroughly enjoyed, the roast. The girls, attri-bute part of the success of the roast to a number of Hershey carpenters who supplied them with wood after their kindling had been drenched by the rain. The roast was in charge of Miss .Mary Burch. The girls in-cluded Misses Mary Smith, Flora Keck, Abigail Gordon , Anna Gordon, Virginia Hershey, Myrtle Hershey, Anna Doyle, Himmelberger, Emma Wassner, Jane McElheny, Florence Kitchen, Edna Adams, Jennie Engle-hard,. Bessie Moyer, Sadie Hummel, The invited guests were : Miss Eliza-beth .Jewette, Miss Jeane Curtis, Miss Brockus, Miss Wilson, Miss Stroheck-er. Grocers Had Great Day Three Special Trains Bring Thou-sands From Lancaster In spite of the furious storm which descended just before they got away the Lancaster grocers had a great day in Hershey last Thursday. There were three long special trains and more than three thousand people came. Altogether there were, about four thousand people in the Park. It was a cheerful crowd and it danced and played and enjoyed, itself in all the,swelter of the hottest day of the month. There were twenty-six different contests and the prizes were worth winning. They comprised hams, cameras, candies, groceries, cigars, umbrellas, and other things to eat, use or wear. At the matinee at the theatre every seat was taken and many stood. Girl's Tennis and Base Ball They Have Fine Court and Will Soon Have New Diamond The new clay tennis court recently made at the west end of Hershey Park for the girls of the Y. W. C. A. has been finished and already mem-bers of the association have . taken possession of it and nre playing on it daily. Tho court is the finest in this section. It has been enclosed by a high wire netting. The building , of the court was under the direction of Harry Havorstick and special clay was used/ Tho baseball diamond for tho girls is also woll under way and will bo finished as soon as possible. Derr y Churc h Improved The Brandt ; Brothers , painters and dooorntors of Reading lmvo received the contract to repaint unci docorate tho Interior of the I')ato'y Presbyterian ohimih, Work was fttartod on Monday, New carpot will uIho bo placed In tho church. Price of Sugar Down a Cent But Outlook is Not Hopeful Cause of Big Rise Due to War of Na-tions Which Produce Almost One Half of World's $upply. England's Purchase . Europe's Need Today the price of sugar at the Hershey Store was 7 cents for brown and 8 cents for granulated. This was a fall of a cent a pound, from the prices earlier in the week. The high-est prices in Hershey have been 8 cents for brown arid 9 cents for gran-ulated. In many places in the Mid-dle States the prices have been 9 and 10 cents respectively. ' The rise in sugar coming, right in the midst of the preserving season has been a great hardship, to housewives and it is especially unfortunate this year be-cause of the abundance . and cheap-ness of fruiti Of course the Choco-late. Company which uses something like 150 barrels 'a day has the prob-lem in a big way, but the whole thing comes seriously into every home. Europe's Big Loss \ Why were prices hoisted so sudden-ly? Yesterday the American Sugar Refining Company, which sells about 40 per cent of the refined sugar used in the.United States, issued ^ a state-ment saying that the serious loss in the European crop of sugar, directly due to the war, is responsible for the rise in prices of sugar in this coun-try. " ¦ ¦ ¦ ' .; . A tremendous loss to the European crop has been caused by the war, the statement asserts, resulting in radical advances; in.the price of sugar in Europe and an unprecedented demand for raw sugar at its source of produc-tion. This has resulted, in increased prices of raw sugar, which the com-pany has been obliged to pay, the statement says, and to meet this ad-vance in the price of raw sugar the company has been compelled to ad-vance the price of refined sugar. Why the Sudden Rise The big advance last week is thus explained by the Domestic Sugar Pro-ducers of New York: "Cut off by the outbreak of the war from her supply of 1,500,000 tons of sugar ordinarily secured from . Ger-many, and Austria-Hungary, England turned to the nearest available market, which happened to be New York. Backed by cash, assuming all the war risk involved in shipment and ready to pay whatever prices might be necessary to secure sugar, British buyers invarded the American market. Within little more than a week, they purchased almost 100,000 tons of raw arid refined sugar, bidding up the market nearly 3 cents a pound in the process of getting it. Their buying subsided temporarily .only when they found it impossible to se-cure further prompt transportation. As another war measure for securing a supply of sugar, orders were issued in all the sugar-growing colonies of Great Britain forbidding the sale of sugar except for imperial use. The Visible Supply "At the outbreak of the war the visible supply of sugar available for tho American market was barely suf-ficient to last until tho now crop of American grown sugar should begin to become available in October. The withdrawal of 100,000 tons from this supply created a serious shortage, and inquiries received in the New York market indicating that England would Book to obtain several hundred thou-sand tons more of sugar, and that otlior European , countries might en-deavor to purchase sugar hero, threatened to make this shortage more serious, As a result, American purchasers in the sugar market , seek-ing to protect their own trade, enter-ed into active competition with tho foreign buyers in tho scramble for sugar. To niuke tho situation more acuto, consumers in all parts of the country rushed to lay in supplies far In excess of their ordinary purchases , thus accentuating tho scarcity, After the Cuban Crop "The price for which tho buyers of Groat Britain and America are con-tending is the Cuban sugar crop, England and tho United States each Import , annuall y about 2,000,000 long tons of sugar. Tho Cuban crop is alioul ; 2,500,000 tons , enough to sup-ply one of thoso two big customers , but entirely inadequate to moot the needs' of both. The prospect , there-fore , Is for a Uoon struggle on the part of those two countries to secure the hulk of tho coming Cuban crop in case the war continues for any con-; siilorable length of time, "European nations. , producing an-nually 8,000,000 long toiiH of sugar, or 45 pur oont, of tho entire world's suga r , ,supply, avo now at war, A largo part of this crop will bo sacri-ficed— how much remains to bo soon. At any rate, approximately 2,000,000 tons ordiimrly exported from thoso countries Is withdrawn .from accus-tomed tviido ohuiinols , and this moans a world-wide scarcity of sugar , while. tho war continues, and probably for Homo time uftorvrtrdu ," twenty Thousand People in Panic at Lebanon Fair. A Number of Barns Burned. Houses Damaged; Traffic Interrupted. Three Separate Storms During the most severe electrical storm of the summer on Thursday last the lightning struck the house of John R. Zoll, corner of Ceylon and Caracas Avenues, : Hershey, cutting the chimney off and then going to the cellar where it damaged the heater pipes. Several neighbors * were mo-mentarily ' stunned but not seriously injured. . Lester Deverter was more affected than ,any other but he soon recovered! , ' From Hershey could be seen the re-flections of two fires, one of which was from the burning of the Berry-hill Nurseries at Paxtonia where the damage amounted to over $5,000. Storm Breaks The day was the most oppressive of . the year. The rriurcury soared above 90 and the humidity vyas high. In the afternoon it became very close and about four o'clock the clouds be-gan . to gather. The skies were in-tensely black with great streaks of yellow and shortly after five the wind became strong. About six the storm broke, with vivid lightning and peals of thunder that shook everything. Thousands of excursionsists from Lancaster rushed to shelter and the station and all the buildings of the Park were crowded. Several women fainted j'Hut restoratives were prompt-ly applied and the crowd was entrain-ed, without mishap. In the meanwhile the storm reach-ed great fury, with torrents of rain. There was a let-up after an hour, but another storm followed and after a second respite a third storm came. Altogether it was a lively evening. For a large part of the time the elec-tric lights in the town were out and trolley traffic was interrupted. Many from Hershey who attended the Leb-anon Fair were caught on the way but got home safely later in the even-ing. . . . . . . Excitement at the Fair At the Lebanon Fair the largest crowd ever assembled pn the grounds went into a partial panic and thou-sands were drenched. The attendance was over 20,000. Pickpockets reaped a harvest. Tents and' small buildings were blewn down. All electric lights on the fair grounds were put out of service. In Lebanon two houses were unroofed. The barn of Aaron Keener of Colebrook was struck and entirely destroyed. At ¦ Mt. Gretna thirteen ladies and children were stunned, some of them being knocked, down and a building was set on fire. Many minor damages were reported and Lebanon was in darkness most of the night. To the west of Hershey the storms raged furiously, In Harrisburg lights were blown out and trolley cars were stalled. In Enola lightning knocked a hole through the Y. M. C. A. and set fire to a restaurant, one of the freaks being to turn pies up-side down. At Paxtonia part of the hotel was blown down. At Camphill a double chimney in tho home of Adam Egolf was struck and its shat-tered pieces crashed through the roof. The homes of Enos Smith and Harry Evinger, at Duncannon , wore struck. Some of the Casualties Tho homo of George Hotrick, near Penbrook , was struck twice, the first bolt tearing away tho chimney and tho second tearing out window sashes and breaking several windows in tho house, Tho food wire of tho Harris-burg Li ght and Power Company at Penbrook was struck and blazed for nearly an hour. One barn near Man-ada Gap was totally destroyed. Wires wore down all over Harris-burg. At Eleventh and Hansom streets an electric transformer sot lire to a polo, Thousands of huge storm left, six burned barns and two hurried residences in its wake. In Hershey the actual damage was slight and after the storms . passed the air was much cooler. , For a while Friday it looked . as though there would .be a return of Thursday 's com-motion, but after a sharp shower and a few brilliant flashes the sun came out and the afternoon was delight-ful.. '• ¦ • ' ¦ ¦ On some of the outlying Hershey farms the damage from hail was severe and crops were, laid flat on the fields. The storm , was especially severe along.the course of the moun-tains. . ¦. ' ¦ ¦ ' "¦ limbs of trees wore blown away in Ilnrrisburg parks, and It will take foresters a long time to repair tho dumugo. Some of the trees woro ir-reparably ruined. The urea of storm damages extend-ed throughout the central and north - eastern portions of the State. Ton woro killed , 00 injured and twenty houses wrecked In tho cyclonic storm at WilkoH-Barre , "Two ' of tho dead woro girls storm-stayed in tho Laurel Silk Mill , which was demolished by lightning. In other sections there woro flovornl deaths and many burns woro burned. Ten Killed , Many Hurl At Shenandoah two men were struck by lightn ing, while nt PofctsvlUo lightning lilt the Ponsylvanla Itnll-road titntion. Tho storm appears to lmvo followed about tho course of tho sovoro storm that swept through tho same region In July, starting around th e north branch at WHUofl-Barro and swooping down to Sunbury, thonco following tho main stream to tho ocean. ' Through tlio Cumberland valley, from Moohanlcflburg to Carlisle tho Lightning Hit in Hershey During Severe Raiii Storm
Object Description
Title | The Hershey Press 1914-08-27 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | The Hershey Press (alternatively published as "Hershey's Weekly" or "Hershey's The Progressive Weekly") was the first local newspaper, published from 1909 until 1926, covering news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Hershey, and surrounding Pennsylvania communities. |
Date | 1914-08-27 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
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Description
Title | The Hershey Press 1914-08-27 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | The Hershey Press (alternatively published as "Hershey's Weekly" or "Hershey's The Progressive Weekly") was the first local newspaper, published from 1909 until 1926, covering news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Hershey, and surrounding Pennsylvania communities. |
Date | 1914-08-27 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Rights | https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en |
Contact | For information on source and images, contact Hershey Community Archives at contact@hersheyarchives.org. |
Contributing Institution | Milton Hershey School |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text | High School Opened on Monday With Ninety Pupils. Rooms Handsome-ly Furnished. Art Exhibit; AH Modern Equipment. . School Distances Ninety students, were present Mon-day When Principal F.'tJ. Keboch and his faculty opened , the High.-jjScriool of the . M. SO Hershey Consolidated Public School of Derry Township and the number may soon be increased to a hundred. ' The room presented • a most attractive appearance. It was fully furnished with its 128. box ad-justable desks and its 32 arm pedestal desks, representing: the latest and most convenient in school furniture. All the equipment was in place .and the opening was a success in every re-spect. The pupils expressed jheir ad-miration and declared they would take personal pride in helping, to make their new home realize the high-est expectations. Professor Keboch welcomed each one and the session be-gan with fine enthusiasm. The devotional exercises were con-ducted by Rev. George Snavely Eehtz. Over the building floated a hand-some flag presented by the local camp Patriotic Order Sons of America through the interest of District Presi-dent Cyrus Garrnari and the entire organization. The school authori-ties thanked the members of the order for their cooperation. A Handsome School Since the description and illustra-tion' of the school appeared in thie Hershey Press a few weeks ago much work has been . done. The cement walks have been placed and all the approaches have been fixed. The trees along Grenada avenue are grow-ing rapidly and next, year the beauti-ful building will have a rich setting in foliage. At the same there will not be top much growth—not enough to interfere with the air. AH this lias been very efficientl y arranged. The Hershey School is a fresh-air in-stitution. First it has the elevated location; second the trees are at a safe distance and third the ventila-tion is the most perfect that the sani-tary engineers could provide. Practically all the furnishings . are installed, and there are now actual, accommodations for nearly six hun-dred pupils and the number may be raised to 850 later one. a mile arid a half from the consolidat-ed school his transportation must be provided for.. -This is • in', accordance with article 14, section 1406 of the School Code, and School /Directors Meckley and Witman nave measured the distances from the M. S. Hershey School building to the, following-points -or places: . To Industrial School ..:' . 1 1-8 miles Foreman's (Geo.) ......1 2-5 miles Harvey Hershey . . .. . . . .1 3-5 miles Hockersville via Shope's.. 1 2-5 miles Peiffer's via Swatara ... 1- 1-5 miles Gingrich School Building. 1 2-3 miles Swatafa (Town proper) . 1 3-10 miles Hershey's Low School Tax - In addition to the ' finest public school building and an unequalled equipment and the transportation from all points in the area beyond the mile and a half distance the pupils have free text books. . They also have the advantage of a trained teaching force of fifteen able men and women who have been selected for their ex-perience and competency. For all of this "the school taxation in Derry Township is only 6 .mills and that not only pays for current ex-penses but retires annually $2,000 of the ?15,000 outstanding indebtedness of the- board. What this means can be gathered from comparisons. For instance the tax, in Palmyra is 10 mills and the tax in Hummelstown is 8% mills. Hershey has the . best at the least cost to the taxpayers. Fine Art Exhibit Coming . Principal Keboch has arranged for an art exhibit, beginning September 21. and ending Sept. 26. The collec-tion will consist of about two hundred large and about one hundred and fifty small prints of the master paintings. The exhibit will be placed in the new school building. A small amount will be charged for admission, and with the money suitable pictures to decorate the new school building will be purchased. Attractive Rooms While the Higli School seems to be the prize room there are others just as attractive. For example the Sci-ence Department is admirably equip-ped. Its 68 tablet arm pedestal chairs rising on terraces not only mean comfort and working room to every pupil but provide a close and unobstructed view of everything that may be going on. By this arrange-ment no ,student may miss any part of any experiment or demonstration. There is nothing better anywhere-even in the best medical colleges. In the old-type class'room only a few of the pupils could possibly witness the details of a demonstration. " In the Hershey School every pupil sees everything, It is a wonderful ad-vantage. This kind of efficiency runs throug-put the whole building. For instance take the matter of maps. The whole world is here in its latest lines—not only in the finest examples of the map maker*!, but in expensive globes that hang from the coiling, so that they may bo lowered and raised auto-matically when needed in the recita-tions or to emphasize n passing point in geography. It Is amazing how all this adds to the fascination of world-study. The pupils of the Hershey School have the whole earth and all its nations right before thorn . Superior Advantages Or tuko the study of the earth's re-sources— vitally important just nt this, time when the Avars are changing conditions and showing the impera-tive necessity of studying thp ' ma-terials thai; must bo , mined and raised to support mankind and the needs of civilisation. In other schools boys and girls read about those things In books and recite from thorn , and of ton as not Iho lessons slip off the, tongue and out of memory, It Is not m in the Ilorshoy School, The pupils handle the things; thoy see the raw materials and tlio products , The ob-j ects aro throw n right upon their un-derstanding and the result is educa-ti on nt its' bosk. That Is why the Hoi'Hhoy School moans from two to throo years gain In the tra ining of the pupllH , In Homo of tho rooms nro adjustable desks, In others portable tablet arm chairs , the prevailing color bolng cherry. In nil of thoHo the correct position of tho pupil has boon studied and this moans ri ght; growth and good health. The writer of those Unas used to hnvo to walk throo miles to floh'ool ovon joNO Hoino country roads and , it w«h a very poor excuse for u Hnhopl at? tlmfc. Mark Iho contrast! In Derry Township If any pupil Hvoh more than Hershey Has Finest School With Very Low School Tax In the Park This Week Hershey Reunion Today and Odd Fel-lows Saturday August is drawing to a close and the picnic and reunion .. season will soon be ended for the year. It has not been the best summer for most of the parks of the country, due to the business conditions, but Hershey has fared unusually well and has enter-tain ed 100,000 visitors. Today the Hershey Reunion will take place. The full program has been printed in the Press. With good weather the attendance promises to be very large. Many will come from a distance. Tomorrow the shopmen of the Penri-J sylvania Railroad will hold an inter-esting meeting, of themselves and their families and friends. Saturday will be the day of the joint picnic of the Odd Fellows and it will be one of the biggest occasions of the year. Thousands will be here from most of the southern Pennsylva-nia counties and there will be an ela-borate program with able speeches. Church of the Brethren Large District Meeting and Confer-ence Committee Named The Church of the Brethren of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held a district meeting at the Spring Creek Meeting House last Thursday. A committee of seven men were elect-ed to make arrangements for their annual conference to bo hold at Her-shey in 1915. It was a fine gathering of Brethren and 408 members of the denomination partook of tho large dinner served in tho church at tho noon hour, Those elected on the committee wore ; I, W. Taylor, NcfFs-villo , Pa,, John Heir, Myers town , Pa,, J. II, Lpngonockor and John Zug, Palmyra , Pa., Josslo Zoigloi', Royors-ford , Pa., Samuel IIort/,lor, and Goo. Fnlkonstino , Elizubothtown , Pa,, nil men of experience and high stlinding, A Record Trip Mr. and Mrs, Hurry M. ICoonoy and fcholr daughter Martha and Mr, and Mrs. AHIhoii , Carman motored to Bis-murk , Cornwall , SohnfForstown , Kline-fdltorsvillq, ' MIR Crook Center , Rich-land , Stouchsburg, Womulsdorf , No'w-manstown , Shorldun , Myorstown , Jonestown and Grimtvllla , whoro they partook of » ,sumptuous dinner , served by Mrs . Ilurvoy Llnglo, After dinner thoy motored to Munndn Hill , Hun-nvardalo , Union Deposit, Swatam Station , reaching; Horshoy at 7.110, riuiy left Horshoy at 12,1)0. Who can l>ont it? Danger! Hornets have built a largo nost in one of the- horse-chestnut trues In front of tlio homo of George Henry In Worry Church , In Spite of Increase in Cost of Ma-terials arid General Price Raising -¦ ;¦• ' it is Taking Care of its Old Customers at Regular R a t e s These are the busiest days the Her-shey Chocolate ; Company has ever known. In. addition to breaking its records in sales it is making a record that is unique in the trade. Its com-petitors all over the country are us-ing the demoralization of the war to raise prices, but it ,,is supplying its old customers at the same prices that prevailed before there was any ex-pectation of wan In other words it is giving, its customers the benefit of its policy in carrying an abundant sifpply of materials. It is probably the only chocolate factory in' the world that is doing this. From every, quarter comes com-mendation of the company for its course which is in such strong con-trast to the scramble of . many manu-facturers and dealers to , make huge profits out of the abnormal condi-tions. The Hershey Company could easily have sold its output at advanc-ed figures to those who would have speculated ¦• on the deal and it could find excuse to raise prices to its old customers under present circumstan-ces, but it prefers to take care of its friends. Large shipments are being made to all parts of the United States. In the meanwhile the prices of ma-terials have gone up and there is no certainty about the future, but to the extent of its ability the Hershey Company will conserve the' interests of its regular trade. Hershey Chocolate Company Breaking its Best Records Progress of the War It has been a week of exciting war news. 1 Japan is now at war with Gerrnany. Germany has won in the first engagements with the allies and has captured Nemur,—her troops be-ing within 170 miles of Paris. The details of the battles are awaited by the world, and the awful seriousness of the whole situation becomes deep-er every day. Great Britain is frankly preparing for a long war. Russia is advancing into eastern Ger-many. Italy is still neutral. Aus-tria is losing. Great Britain re-mains in control of the seas and com-merce is protected. Frantz Zinner at War He Has Mobilized For the Destruction of a Numerous Enemy After the terrific thunder storm the other day when it seemed that the Germans and the Allies and all the other makers of noise had combined in a mighty cannonading, Frantz Zinner marched forth with a gun. The report .went around that he was going to war—and so he was, The enemy is a brood of rats in tho home of the prairie dogs. Traps set for them have failed , and so Frantz is trying his marksmanship. He has to take times when there are few in the Park, so as to avoid any accidents from stray shots. So far the rats have tho bettor of the campaign , but Frantz is watchful and determined. Just now tho rat is very much of a public problem. This week Dr. Dix-on , State Commissioner of Health , is-sued a general warning in which ho asked all people to do what thoy could to destroy rats. He said: "Rats are groat destroyers of food-stuffs such as eggs, young chickens , pigeons , turkeys, ducks , guineas , both domestic and wild. Thoy also de-stroy large quantities of harvest crops as well us many kinds of moiv chnndiso in store houses. Tho rats must have plenty of food and a safo place to roar their young. It is esti-mated that under tlio most favorable circumstances one pair of rats will increase in five years to 9,000,000, "This is an opportune Mine to be-gin an active warfare against ruts. Not only that wo niay protect our-selves and our animals from com-municable diseases but also as an economic measure , Tho grown rat can oat t\yo ounces of grain a day and the elimination of thoso posts would moan a saving of millions of dollars to tho people of the United States." So it can bo hooh that;, Front/. 7.1n« nor 's war Is worth while. New Parisian Dance Steps William T, Unird , representative of tho Horshoy Chocolate Co., of Now York City, was a IiuhIiiohh caller In town on Tuesday, In the evening Mr. Ilalrd , tho gues t of Mr. Murric, at-tended Professor Noagloy 's dancing class,' and lie gave the Professor some new stops that ho learned while ho was over In Pnrln several weeks ago, "Tho War Scare Got Away" was es-pecially flno, and Mr, Balrd did It to perfection, Great Crowd at Hillsdale Many From Hershey Among the Fif-teen Thousand lit the Gimp Sunday was a record breaking day at the Hillsdale Campmo'oting. It is estimated that ,15,000 persona wore on tho grounds. Tho closing services of tho camp will bo hold thin evening, Thursday. Thoso from this place who visited tho camp on Sunday in-cluded : Mr. and Mra Harper Suavely, Mary Snnvoly, Mrs. D. N. Eisholmun, Mr, Miller , Mrs, John Koonoy, Mr. Hoffman , Clnrn Henry, Virgio Henry, Mr, and Mrs . John Wostlmfor , daughter Viola , David Cordon , Jr., John Cordon , Irvfn Aungst , Mr, and Mrs. David Gordon and fam-ily, Mr , and Mrs, Jacob Pago and family, Mr, and Mrs, Aaron Slossor nud son Paul , Mr, and Mrs, William Cramer , Mr, and Mrs. Daniel B, Koof-or and family, Mr. and Mrs,! S. D. Chirk , Mr, and Mm, Harry Imbodon , Jonas Itufuihoro , "Virginia 'Witman , Mr, and Mrs,Harry Carman and Mr, and Mrs, Roy M. Stornborgor. Jolly Corn Roast Party Twenty Seven Girls and Their Friends Have Fine Time A jolly party of girls from the Y. W. C. A. and their friends to the num-ber of twenty-seven, held a big corn roast in Hershey Park on Friday. De^ spite the heavy rain the girls spent a delightful evening and thoroughly enjoyed, the roast. The girls, attri-bute part of the success of the roast to a number of Hershey carpenters who supplied them with wood after their kindling had been drenched by the rain. The roast was in charge of Miss .Mary Burch. The girls in-cluded Misses Mary Smith, Flora Keck, Abigail Gordon , Anna Gordon, Virginia Hershey, Myrtle Hershey, Anna Doyle, Himmelberger, Emma Wassner, Jane McElheny, Florence Kitchen, Edna Adams, Jennie Engle-hard,. Bessie Moyer, Sadie Hummel, The invited guests were : Miss Eliza-beth .Jewette, Miss Jeane Curtis, Miss Brockus, Miss Wilson, Miss Stroheck-er. Grocers Had Great Day Three Special Trains Bring Thou-sands From Lancaster In spite of the furious storm which descended just before they got away the Lancaster grocers had a great day in Hershey last Thursday. There were three long special trains and more than three thousand people came. Altogether there were, about four thousand people in the Park. It was a cheerful crowd and it danced and played and enjoyed, itself in all the,swelter of the hottest day of the month. There were twenty-six different contests and the prizes were worth winning. They comprised hams, cameras, candies, groceries, cigars, umbrellas, and other things to eat, use or wear. At the matinee at the theatre every seat was taken and many stood. Girl's Tennis and Base Ball They Have Fine Court and Will Soon Have New Diamond The new clay tennis court recently made at the west end of Hershey Park for the girls of the Y. W. C. A. has been finished and already mem-bers of the association have . taken possession of it and nre playing on it daily. Tho court is the finest in this section. It has been enclosed by a high wire netting. The building , of the court was under the direction of Harry Havorstick and special clay was used/ Tho baseball diamond for tho girls is also woll under way and will bo finished as soon as possible. Derr y Churc h Improved The Brandt ; Brothers , painters and dooorntors of Reading lmvo received the contract to repaint unci docorate tho Interior of the I')ato'y Presbyterian ohimih, Work was fttartod on Monday, New carpot will uIho bo placed In tho church. Price of Sugar Down a Cent But Outlook is Not Hopeful Cause of Big Rise Due to War of Na-tions Which Produce Almost One Half of World's $upply. England's Purchase . Europe's Need Today the price of sugar at the Hershey Store was 7 cents for brown and 8 cents for granulated. This was a fall of a cent a pound, from the prices earlier in the week. The high-est prices in Hershey have been 8 cents for brown arid 9 cents for gran-ulated. In many places in the Mid-dle States the prices have been 9 and 10 cents respectively. ' The rise in sugar coming, right in the midst of the preserving season has been a great hardship, to housewives and it is especially unfortunate this year be-cause of the abundance . and cheap-ness of fruiti Of course the Choco-late. Company which uses something like 150 barrels 'a day has the prob-lem in a big way, but the whole thing comes seriously into every home. Europe's Big Loss \ Why were prices hoisted so sudden-ly? Yesterday the American Sugar Refining Company, which sells about 40 per cent of the refined sugar used in the.United States, issued ^ a state-ment saying that the serious loss in the European crop of sugar, directly due to the war, is responsible for the rise in prices of sugar in this coun-try. " ¦ ¦ ¦ ' .; . A tremendous loss to the European crop has been caused by the war, the statement asserts, resulting in radical advances; in.the price of sugar in Europe and an unprecedented demand for raw sugar at its source of produc-tion. This has resulted, in increased prices of raw sugar, which the com-pany has been obliged to pay, the statement says, and to meet this ad-vance in the price of raw sugar the company has been compelled to ad-vance the price of refined sugar. Why the Sudden Rise The big advance last week is thus explained by the Domestic Sugar Pro-ducers of New York: "Cut off by the outbreak of the war from her supply of 1,500,000 tons of sugar ordinarily secured from . Ger-many, and Austria-Hungary, England turned to the nearest available market, which happened to be New York. Backed by cash, assuming all the war risk involved in shipment and ready to pay whatever prices might be necessary to secure sugar, British buyers invarded the American market. Within little more than a week, they purchased almost 100,000 tons of raw arid refined sugar, bidding up the market nearly 3 cents a pound in the process of getting it. Their buying subsided temporarily .only when they found it impossible to se-cure further prompt transportation. As another war measure for securing a supply of sugar, orders were issued in all the sugar-growing colonies of Great Britain forbidding the sale of sugar except for imperial use. The Visible Supply "At the outbreak of the war the visible supply of sugar available for tho American market was barely suf-ficient to last until tho now crop of American grown sugar should begin to become available in October. The withdrawal of 100,000 tons from this supply created a serious shortage, and inquiries received in the New York market indicating that England would Book to obtain several hundred thou-sand tons more of sugar, and that otlior European , countries might en-deavor to purchase sugar hero, threatened to make this shortage more serious, As a result, American purchasers in the sugar market , seek-ing to protect their own trade, enter-ed into active competition with tho foreign buyers in tho scramble for sugar. To niuke tho situation more acuto, consumers in all parts of the country rushed to lay in supplies far In excess of their ordinary purchases , thus accentuating tho scarcity, After the Cuban Crop "The price for which tho buyers of Groat Britain and America are con-tending is the Cuban sugar crop, England and tho United States each Import , annuall y about 2,000,000 long tons of sugar. Tho Cuban crop is alioul ; 2,500,000 tons , enough to sup-ply one of thoso two big customers , but entirely inadequate to moot the needs' of both. The prospect , there-fore , Is for a Uoon struggle on the part of those two countries to secure the hulk of tho coming Cuban crop in case the war continues for any con-; siilorable length of time, "European nations. , producing an-nually 8,000,000 long toiiH of sugar, or 45 pur oont, of tho entire world's suga r , ,supply, avo now at war, A largo part of this crop will bo sacri-ficed— how much remains to bo soon. At any rate, approximately 2,000,000 tons ordiimrly exported from thoso countries Is withdrawn .from accus-tomed tviido ohuiinols , and this moans a world-wide scarcity of sugar , while. tho war continues, and probably for Homo time uftorvrtrdu ," twenty Thousand People in Panic at Lebanon Fair. A Number of Barns Burned. Houses Damaged; Traffic Interrupted. Three Separate Storms During the most severe electrical storm of the summer on Thursday last the lightning struck the house of John R. Zoll, corner of Ceylon and Caracas Avenues, : Hershey, cutting the chimney off and then going to the cellar where it damaged the heater pipes. Several neighbors * were mo-mentarily ' stunned but not seriously injured. . Lester Deverter was more affected than ,any other but he soon recovered! , ' From Hershey could be seen the re-flections of two fires, one of which was from the burning of the Berry-hill Nurseries at Paxtonia where the damage amounted to over $5,000. Storm Breaks The day was the most oppressive of . the year. The rriurcury soared above 90 and the humidity vyas high. In the afternoon it became very close and about four o'clock the clouds be-gan . to gather. The skies were in-tensely black with great streaks of yellow and shortly after five the wind became strong. About six the storm broke, with vivid lightning and peals of thunder that shook everything. Thousands of excursionsists from Lancaster rushed to shelter and the station and all the buildings of the Park were crowded. Several women fainted j'Hut restoratives were prompt-ly applied and the crowd was entrain-ed, without mishap. In the meanwhile the storm reach-ed great fury, with torrents of rain. There was a let-up after an hour, but another storm followed and after a second respite a third storm came. Altogether it was a lively evening. For a large part of the time the elec-tric lights in the town were out and trolley traffic was interrupted. Many from Hershey who attended the Leb-anon Fair were caught on the way but got home safely later in the even-ing. . . . . . . Excitement at the Fair At the Lebanon Fair the largest crowd ever assembled pn the grounds went into a partial panic and thou-sands were drenched. The attendance was over 20,000. Pickpockets reaped a harvest. Tents and' small buildings were blewn down. All electric lights on the fair grounds were put out of service. In Lebanon two houses were unroofed. The barn of Aaron Keener of Colebrook was struck and entirely destroyed. At ¦ Mt. Gretna thirteen ladies and children were stunned, some of them being knocked, down and a building was set on fire. Many minor damages were reported and Lebanon was in darkness most of the night. To the west of Hershey the storms raged furiously, In Harrisburg lights were blown out and trolley cars were stalled. In Enola lightning knocked a hole through the Y. M. C. A. and set fire to a restaurant, one of the freaks being to turn pies up-side down. At Paxtonia part of the hotel was blown down. At Camphill a double chimney in tho home of Adam Egolf was struck and its shat-tered pieces crashed through the roof. The homes of Enos Smith and Harry Evinger, at Duncannon , wore struck. Some of the Casualties Tho homo of George Hotrick, near Penbrook , was struck twice, the first bolt tearing away tho chimney and tho second tearing out window sashes and breaking several windows in tho house, Tho food wire of tho Harris-burg Li ght and Power Company at Penbrook was struck and blazed for nearly an hour. One barn near Man-ada Gap was totally destroyed. Wires wore down all over Harris-burg. At Eleventh and Hansom streets an electric transformer sot lire to a polo, Thousands of huge storm left, six burned barns and two hurried residences in its wake. In Hershey the actual damage was slight and after the storms . passed the air was much cooler. , For a while Friday it looked . as though there would .be a return of Thursday 's com-motion, but after a sharp shower and a few brilliant flashes the sun came out and the afternoon was delight-ful.. '• ¦ • ' ¦ ¦ On some of the outlying Hershey farms the damage from hail was severe and crops were, laid flat on the fields. The storm , was especially severe along.the course of the moun-tains. . ¦. ' ¦ ¦ ' "¦ limbs of trees wore blown away in Ilnrrisburg parks, and It will take foresters a long time to repair tho dumugo. Some of the trees woro ir-reparably ruined. The urea of storm damages extend-ed throughout the central and north - eastern portions of the State. Ton woro killed , 00 injured and twenty houses wrecked In tho cyclonic storm at WilkoH-Barre , "Two ' of tho dead woro girls storm-stayed in tho Laurel Silk Mill , which was demolished by lightning. In other sections there woro flovornl deaths and many burns woro burned. Ten Killed , Many Hurl At Shenandoah two men were struck by lightn ing, while nt PofctsvlUo lightning lilt the Ponsylvanla Itnll-road titntion. Tho storm appears to lmvo followed about tho course of tho sovoro storm that swept through tho same region In July, starting around th e north branch at WHUofl-Barro and swooping down to Sunbury, thonco following tho main stream to tho ocean. ' Through tlio Cumberland valley, from Moohanlcflburg to Carlisle tho Lightning Hit in Hershey During Severe Raiii Storm |