The Hershey Press 1919-01-02

              The first thing that will attract attention in the
Press this week will be the January Clearance
Sale news from the Hershey Department Store.
Every member of the family will read it and people will be here
from all around this section of the country. The big sale starts
on January 4th and continues until the 11 th,
Seven big days at the Hershey Store. There were so many spec-ials
that the columns of the Press would not hold all of them.
There is a special announcement out, get one.
Excellent
Pictures at
Herslbey
On Saturday evening, January 4th,
TOYS OF FATE has been re-booked-for
Hershey Central Theatre. This is a
seven reel screen masterpiece, starring
the great Nazimova. In Toys Of Fate
she surpasses her work in Revelation
which picture was shown here in October^
There is an unforgetable quality in this
picture. A good two-reel comedy will
also be shown. Show starts at 8:15
o'clock.
Wednesday evening, January 8th,
William Fox presents William Farnum in
a picturization of Zane Grey's: famous
novel "RIDERS OF THE PURPLE
SAGE" a great American drama of the
man who- was not afraid. A great star, a
great story by a great author, a great
cast and a great director! Wm. Farnum,
Frank Lloyd, Zane Grey and Wm. Fox—
these are the chief figures responsible.for
"Riders Of The Purple Sage," a photo-drama
of the West with a new plot, a
picture that is colorful and fascinatingj
stirring in its rush of action and incident,
brimming with the keenest drama, strong
and human and poignant m its emotional ,
interest. It's a classic in nlmaafti^aSBT
drama of a story millions ha*e read. A
MUTT & JEFF comedy"will also be
shown. Show starts^f 7:45 o'clock.
BaglFwe To
Start '¦Schedule -Tuesda y i
The Hershey basket-ball season will
be in full swing, next Tuesday when the
Big Five will get into action, opening
jtheir schedule, with the Tarsus Club of
Harrisburg. The line up will consist of"
Wirth, Dressier, Leibfreid, Slesser, Al.
Smith and Ed: Smith. All of these lads
are ex-soldiers and ex-reserves.
The Olivets are continuing their wining
stride,' and defeated the Lebanon Big
Five last Friday by ap score of 29 to 23.
This Friday the "Olivets will play, the
Royal Fire Co./ of Hamsburg. The
games start at 8:00 o'clock.
The children's rythmn class of the"Y.
W. C. A. that usually met at 9.00 o^clock,
Thursday mornings, will meet at 3:00
o'clock on Thursday afternoon , in the
High School gymnasium.
The children's class that met at 10:00
o'clock on Saturday .morning," )will meet
at 2:00 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. "
Other classes will meet at their, usual
Clhaoge of
•Gym Classes
at Y.W.C A.
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Grover Sheckard, just from the battle-fields
of France, returned to Hershey on
New Year's Day. Although wounded
twice, he looks none the worse for his grim
experience.
Sheckard left Hershey with the first
contingent, on September 20th, 1917.
He was assigned to the 316th infantry,
Company C, and went into military
training at Camp Meade.
On July 9th, the 316th infantry sailed
on the steamship Agamemnon, which
was formerly a German vessel, and after
nine days arrived at Brest, France.
Arriving in France the Division was
taken to a rest camp where they remained
for several days and were then ordered
to the training area—in Dijon, which
place is but a short distance from Switzer-land.
The Division traveled to this sec-tor
by train, consisting of box cars marked
40 hommes. meaning 40 men, or 8 horses.
They were on the way three days, and
after riding in these cars were mighty
tired and glad to arrive at their destina-tion.
On the 7th of September orders were
given to leave Dijon, and six days later
they arrived in the town of Dombasle,
in the fighting sector. The 316th in-fantry
comprised the reserves, and were
supposed to occupy the dugouts in the
rear, which was 2 miles from the German
lines. .The men, however, would not go,
jn^the dugouts, prefering to chance it
out with the Germans by remaining in
the open than by living with the mud,
the rats, and the cooties in the dugouts.
On the night of September 23d, they
were ordered to occupy the first line
trenches, and on the 26th, orders were
given to go "over the top," and Sheckard
participated in one of the biggest drives
ever attempted in the Argonne Forest,
and they drove the Germans back a
distance of 8 miles. He came through
without a scratch.
On the 27th orders were given to take
Montfaucon, one of the Germans' impreg-nable
positions, and the French stated
that it would take at least three months
to oust the Germans from it. It took
Uncle Sam's boys just 3 hours to occupy
this position .
On September 28th the drive was con-tinued,
and resulted in running the Ger-mans
back for four more miles.
On September 29th they met with
greater resistance, and were now stacking
-up against the famous Prussian Guards.
It was in this battle that Sheckard was
wounded—shot in the left foot. ' He was
taken to the hospital where he remained
until October 22d.
On October 22d, he joined his company
in the St. Miehl sector, which was very
quiet.
On October 24th orders were given for
the 316th to be relieved and to go to the
rest sector. While on their way they
got in a very stiff engagement with the
Germans in the Verdun sector. The
battle began on October 27th and Sheck-ard
was under continuous shell fire for
7 days.
On November 4th it was Company C's
lot to take Hill 378. This hill was of
very great military importance, and Com-pany
C was ordered to take the hill and
hold it at any cost. It took Company
C exactly 2 hois and 10 minutes to
capture this position, and they inflicted
severe punishment to the defenders. It
was while organizing this position that
Sheckard received his second wound—
shot through the hip.
While going to/the first aid station he
corraled 6 Germans, and marched them
to the prison pen, a distance of 6 miles,
with the exception of one, who was killed
by a German shell.
Sheckard was taken to the hospital at
Bordeaux, and was convalescing when
the armistice was signed.
On November 13 he was ordered to
the States, departing on December 6th,
sailing on the U. S. S. Mercury, an old
German vessel,, and rafter a voyage of
fourteen days, ten ofi.which were stormy
RED CROSS KNITTERS TO "STACK"
NEEDLES"?'
¦i America's army of women knitters, who
did riot cease work with the signing of
the. armistice, have been ordered by the
Red Cross to "stack needles," their task
accomplished. An inventory of articles
in reserve shows sufficient on hand to
meet the needs of fighting men in this
country and abroad and of Red Cross
relief commissions: Knitted articles now
in the making will be finished and turned
into the 854 Red Cross chapters, which
will issue no more yam.
More than 10,000,000 sweaters, socks,
mufflers, helmets and wristlets were
turned out in the seventeen months pre-ceding
the overthrow of the Central Pow-ers.
Virtually every man. in the army
was given woolen accessories fashioned
by the tireless fingers of thousands of
women, who chose that method of aiding
to win the war.
he landed at Newport News, and was
taken to the old soldjt^s* home at Hamp-ton,
when he receivj^ thS-best of
care,
attention and con^fat|)n.' He was
afterwards transferredjto"1Camp Meadj5
preparatory ,tp beinglgrnustered out of
service. . ixf' ¦&& «
It was in Octobetfriat Sheckard was
recommended.for a cornpission but owing
to the fact: that hep wounded and
returned home, he h|Hhot heard any
thing definite from the War Department.
We asked Sheckard hoV many prisoners
he had captured, and hcinformed us that
at one time he gathered in nine single-handed,
and it was not said boastfully
either. In advancing to a position they
were ordered to capture, great difficulty
was experienced in getting by three Ger-man
machine gun nests, which were
mowing down our boys as fast as they
came in view. It takes a keen eye to
determine just where a machine gun nest
is located, as they use smokeless powder,
and all one can hear is the gun's pit-pat.
Sheckard, however, saw a faint flare from
the machine gun, or thought he saw it.
He was ordered to lead a detachment to
capture th^se nests. No. sooner had they
got in view than the three machine guns
started firing. - Sheckard was left to com-plete
the task unaided. -He got in a posi-tion
where it was impossible farjhe other
two Germans to fire without firing upon
the third machine gun nest, and they
quit firing. The other German nest then
got cold feet and also stopped firing and
tried to get away—Sheckard then rushed
the nest, and captured the whole outfit,
and it wasn't long afterward .that the
other two nests were cleaned up.
Sheckard states that the • only other
Hershey boy in his regiment was Harry
Straub; and he was wounded on Septem-ber
29th, in his right arm and body.
Hershey Hero
Returns fromm
"Over There95