The Hershey Press 1917-01-11

              COME TO HERSHEY
SUNDAY, JAN, 14
Another Great Address Will be Given
at the Union Services in the Her-shey
Central Theater And All
Are Invited. Dr. Charles
C. Ellis the Speaker
Hershey has been fortunate in se-curing
another great speaker for the
union services in the Hershey Central
Theatre beginning at 3 o'clock next
Sunday afternoon, January 14.
In this Valley are more members of
the Church of the Brethren than in any
section pf like area in the world. That
is why the Brethren held their big annual
meeting here that attracted nearly a
hundred thousand visitors to Hershey
in June 1915. For this meeting the
Hershey Convention Hall was rushed so
as to be ready for the use of the confer-ence.
The Brethren's meeting was one
of the local events in the way of crowds
and interest.
So, it seemed that the Church of the
Brethren ought to be represented in the
union services. The United Brethren,
the Lutherans and . the Presbyterians
had secured their foremost orators and
the people crowded to hear them. So far
this season the union meetings have been
signally successful. Leading members of,
the Church of the Brethren .were, con-sulted
and they suggested two names—
Governor Brumbaugh, -who is a preacher
in their church, and Dr. Charles ; Calvert
Ellis, head of the English Department
in their leading institution, Juniata
College. Governor Brumbaugh accepted
but he cannot come until April. A tele-gram
to Dr. Ellis brought a favorable
reply, and so this Sunday he will deliver
his famous lecture on "The Big-gest
"Word in the Dictionary." He
has spoken in Hershey and all who heard
him want to hear him again. Those
who have not heard him should not miss
the opportunity. Everyone is invited.
Admission is free ; not even a collection
is taken up. There will be special music.
The address will be an eloquent pre-sentation
of the inherent capabilities of
youth. It is full of humor and inspira-tiorii
the kind of address thaLkeeps people
awake and that does them good. All
young men should hear it. This is what
is said of Dr. Ellis:
Dr. Ellis has been (lecturing for some
years to different types of audiences.
The one word that has been heard of-tenest
in description of his lectures is
the word inspirational. No word better
describes them. For this reason his ad-dresses
have always been most in de-mand
where young people predominate.
One Indiana town has had him on
its lecture course four successive years.
One Pennsylvania county institute had
him five different times for a week of
day lectures and a popular evening lecture.
Two Virginia colleges have had him . on
their lecture courses three times each.
He is in great demand. Several years
ago, County Superintendent T. S, Davis,
said: "Charles Calvert Ellis is a young
man whose power as an orator, logic as
a thinker , and wit as an entertainer is
not surpassed by any of the so-called
'BigGuns. '" The following is the tribute
of another competent critic: "He has
more power than most lecturers ; he is a
sincerely earnest man; his fund of il-lustration
is wonderful and intensely
interesting; the influence he exerts is
refreshing, wholesome and lasting, " '
HERSHEY IS SAFER
Some of those who left Hershey for
munitions wages are applying for their
old jobs or something else, They say
Hershey and its regular work looks good
to them , and they want to live in a clean
orderly town. Applications for work here
arc increasing. There lire signs that the
big wages in llio war-made factories will
not continue and in ninny cases employees
are discharged without notice. Em-ployment
at Hershey never was HO de-sirable
as It is now.
EXCELLENT PICTURES
Saturday evening, January 111 at the
Hershey Central Theatre the nltnicllon
will be Charlotte Walker in n great.
Lnskey play, "Out of Darkness, " There
will bo a whole evening of line entertain-ment
for ten cents,
Wednesday evening, January 17, the
ever popular Mary Plckford In "The
Dawn of a Tomorrow " will he the offer-ing.
This Is one of the best and there
should bo n crowded house,
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VISITING FROM POTTSTOWN
C, Taylor Lolancl , president and treasur-er,
Hurry Swolnhnrl , wipcriiUondtint. mid
Mr, Miller , assistant, superintendent ,
of the I'ollHlown mid Phooiilxvlllo RHII-way
Company, accompanied by Mr.
Swoiiihnrt' s HOD , were llio guost «of J, R,
Krolcler and George Slgnor in I lei'shey
.Sunday, They were; taken over ' the
Hornlioy dairy farms. They wore deeply
Impressed with what , t lioy wiw la Ilershuy ,
BIG BOXWOODS
FOR THE SHOW
Received in Hershey from Holland
This Week. They are Remark-
. able Specimens And They
Will be Saved for Easter '
Flower Show. Plants
• Six big, handsome boxwoods from
Holland we're received in Hershey this
week. They are four feet in diameter
and ball shaped and are among , the
finest specimens ever seen in America.
The Holland growers have a knack of
doing these ; things a bit better than
Americans; possibly it is because the
Americans have not the patience.
In the same shipment came two very
remarkable chairs, each, a boxwood
bush, the whole chair being made of a
single growing plant. These extra-ordinary
chairs will be used in the Dutch
garden in the Spring Flower Show.
Thousands of bulbs received -earlier
and now the coming of these chairs show
that the war is not interfering with Harry
Haverstick in getting in his supplies for
the floral and plant development of
Hershey and the carrying out of Hershey
plans in beautifying the grounds and
roads. All this work is going on, but of
course in the. present weather the lahor
is largely that of preparation.
Just now the mam thought is of the
Spring Flower Show to be given at
Easter, in the first part of April..
The intention is to male it surpass
anything in the past. . Last year it was a
record-breaking success, with thousands
in attendance and many present from
the large cities. This year it will be much
more ambitious. Over 20,000 pants
and blooms will be shown. Thousands
of fine bulbs are now in trenches waiting
to be taken up on the 15th of February
and forced to their utmost beauty for
the big show. The exhibits of lilies,
tulips and hyacinths will be profuse and
brilliant, and Haverstick- is quietly gath-ering
a lot of surprises for the lovers of
flowers. All will be seen at the Easter
Show
TONIGHT'S BIG CONCERT
Musical Event of the Season at
Central Theatre
Tonight at 8:15 the Hershey Male
Chorus will give its third annual concert
at the Central Theatre. It will be under
the direction of W. L. Dubois, who has
worked so hard and so successfully in
developing the organization. The
soloist will be Master Adam Harnrne,
the wonderful boy soprano of York,
who has a voice of marked value and
sweetness. He will sing Tosti's "Good
Bye," and Rossini's "Inflarrimatus," dif-ficult
works which will show the range
and caliber of his vocalism. The club
quartette will sing two numbers and the
chorus will sing eight numbers. The
program is rich in variety and the music
is full of melody, so that everyone will
enjoy every part of it,
On Tuesday night the chorus gave its
program at Elizabethlown, There was
a large attendance and the applause was
enthusiastic, there being several encores.
Master . Hamme won an ovation and
his voice was a sensation . The success
in Elizabethlown forecasts a fine triumph
this evening, The chorus will have its
full strength.
THE GREAT SHOW .
Do not forget the date, Friday evening,
February 9, at 7:45 sharp. The arrange-ments
for the Firemen 's entertainment
are about completed , and JI packed house
is looked for by the Committee in charge,
Do not fail to secure your licket early, as
there will be no reserved seats. Chving
to the limited seating capacity, only a
certain number of tickets are for sale at
25c each, These tickets can he pro-cured
from any of the following memliers:
Walter Ashenfeller , William Blinker ,
John Suavely, John Shay, Hugh Warner ,
Herbert Schwecrs, Frantic /Sinner , James
K. Putt , Lloyd Shoiip, Marry Meyer,
James J, Murray,
HIGH SCHOOL SOCIETY
The High School Literary Society
rendered the following program at the
school last. Friday afternoon , January 5:
Song by school , rciulin if of nilaut.es,
by secretary, Myrtle Hershey ; piano
nolo, lislher Suavely; recitation , Gnieo
Stuuffor ; violin solo, Noali KI HUBH I piano
duet , Esther Srmvely and Verna Stuckey;
recitation , Virile Shellenhnminer; music,
school; recitation ,, Daniel Copenhaver;
paper , Mary Reigle; budget , Klvn Gru-boi';
mimic , school.
JUNIQR CHAMPIONSHIP
The Junior basketball chnniploiiHhlp
of Uomlioy was decided lust Tim winy
evening nf the Men 's Club court, when the
IIorsliuy Olivets defeated tlio Momii'clis
in n grout, game by llio score of !iH to 2H,
The Olivets showed splendid loam work
mid llioir passing wtm a big factor In their
victory.
ASSOCIATION
HAS FINE YEAR
Y. W. C. A. Has Two Hundred Mem-bers
And it Finished Its Fifth
Year With a Handsome Sur-plus.
Enjoyable Annual
Meeting. Luncheon
The fifth annual meeting of the Y.
W. C. A. was one of the most successful
and interesting the organization has
eyer had. The largre assembly room was
filled. Mrs. M. L. Hershey, the president,
made, a. gracious presiding officer and
kept the proceedings moving splendidly.
Miss Bertha Moyer was secretary. Ex-cellent
music was iurnished "by a com-mittee
under the leadership of Miss
Mumma ' and a quartette of members
distinguished itself by two numbers
which evoked applause.
At present the association has no
general secretary, the successor to Miss
Trace not having been chosen, and Mrs
Hershey made the reporLancL-presented
the review of the year's work which the
secretary usually reads. It was a most
favorable account «f the successful ac-tivities
of the year with growing usefulness
of the association not only in taking care
of its members but in stimulating thern
in directions that added greatly to their
happiness. The _ exchange and general
work, the various classes and the liter-ature
had all been kept up to their high
mark. . The membership is about 200.
Mrs. Ida M. Chase, who has been
house secretary and cafeteria directress
since the middle of last August , reported
that an average of 133 meals had been
served daily and that the average price
was 14-cents. Improvements include
new beds, bathroom furn ishings and
needed furniture. The house is more
attractive and comfortable now than it
ever has been.
The rates to girls are now 50, 75 and
$1.25 per week, probably the lowest
enjoyed for such accommodations. The
members living in the building also have
special rates in the cafeteria, Others
are charged more, but even then the
prices are very reasonable, An in-increasing
number of women and girls
are writing for rooms so that they may
spend their vacations in Hershey. In
this respect preference is always given
to the girls who work in Hershey, and at
present they occupy practically all of
the accommodations.
Mrs, Flowers and Mrs, Linn Haw-becker,
delegates to the summer con-ferences,
presented unusually valuable
reports on their visits. They made these
reports of real benefi t, as they included
in them their own observations of the
meetings and the new ideas they had
picked up in their travels, These, like
other reports, showed the earnest spirit
of the Hershey Association in nil its work.
A model report that elicited praise
was that of the treasurer , Miss Annu
Mowery, If was a complete statin 1
tlcial statement of the year 's work of the
association , very alily digested and tabu-luted.
It showed expenditures of over
eight, thousand dollars and a gratifying
surplus.
lhe nominating committee. Miss Ni«-
ltiey chairman , presented the group of
third year managers, as follows, Mrs.
It, It. Bulterwick , Mrs, John II. Moyer,
Mrs. Ulrich Weitnier , Mrs, iCmmu Cas-sady,
Mrs, Ezra F. Hershey, Mrs. Frank
IL Suavely, Mrs- George Copenhaver,
Mrs, Kwing Cain i»nd Mrs, M, L. llershy,
all of wliom were elected unanimously.
There nro two other groups of manngera
who did not. have lo ho elected this year ,
After the meeting, fruit mind , wind -
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| i' .Men and Boys and Girls Oyer 16
CAN FIND ATTRACTIVE WORK AT GOOD WAGES IN THE
HERSHEY CHOCOLATE FACTORY
i There nr< plncca now open for inert and boya and girls over lfl In the
; fuctory 'of the Hcrnhoy Chocolate Company, The work la very desirable be-
: enuse.thc wn«cs are good, employment in steady and the surroundings are
healthy and cheerful, Apply by letter or la person to the Hershey Employ-ment
Bureau . Bring references,
wiches, ice cream and cake were served
by six graceful members, Miss Kitchen,
Miss Mary Smith, Nliss Motter, Miss
Gephart, Miss Emma Wassner, and Miss
Agnes Dahm. They worked under the
social committee of which Mrs. Bacastow
was president. .
On January 28 a meeting will be held
in the Reading Room to hear an address
on child, labor. On February 5 the board
will meet to organize and elect officers.
EARLY FOR FLIES
THEY ARE HERE
In New York a Prize Was Given for
the First Winter Fly Killed. A
Few Have Been Found in Her-shey
and Some Have
Also Been Captured
Six flies have been killed in the Hershey
Press Building since the New Year
began. This is the newest structure in
Hershey with all the improvements in
ventilation and sanitation and so the
presence of the flies shows that there are
some in Hershey waiting for the warmer
weather in which to breed their, millions.
It means that Hershey's fly campaign,
one of the famous fights of its kind, must
be waged with renewed energy this year.
And now is the.time to begin.
The same organization will be main-tained,
with William F. R. Murrie as
chajrman and W. L. Dubois as secretary.
There are permanent committees that
have in their charge every street, alley
and building of the town.
Hershey 's fight against the fly began
two years ago. The first year's results
were good but not large. Last year there
were no flies in Hershey until after the
first week in August, Other towns of
the Valley had flies several weeks before
Hershey, showing that the campaign
here had been practical and beneficial.
This year by beginning early and waging
the war unceasingly Hershey can be
rid of the pests. But it means killing
every winter fly in sight—in never letting
up on the fight.
Among the news items of the week
was this from New "York :
"Through the • capture of the first
winter fly of the year Miss Catherine
Brennan , of this city, not only has pre-vented
the potential existence of about a
billion flies next summer, but has won
a prize offered by Edward Hatch , Jr „
a chairman of the Merchants' Association
Committee on Pollution, In submitting
the fly Miss Brennan made affidavits that
she had found it under the kitchen table
in her home after a search of several
hours which extended even to Broad-way
restaurants. Mr. Hatch had pre-viously
announced he would give a prize
to the first person sending to the Mer-chants
' association the first fly captured
after the beginning of the year, One
of the rules of the contest was that the
insect must be "wild" fly, that is, a fly
that had not been nurtured and reserved
for capture, "
livery progressive community, lie it
town or city, is fighting the flies this year,
Hershey ought to innke the record , It
has a line start and nil that is needed is
persistence and cooperation,
NO DANCE THIS EVENING
Owing to the concert of the Hershey
Men 's Chorus at the Central Theatre
this evening there -will be no dance In
the Press Building. But beginning the
18th there will be a dunce every Thursday
evening, with a special orchestra, The
dances have proven very successful.
NIP AND TUCK
WENT THE GAME
Here Was a Came That Was With
While And That Thrilled the Large.
Crowd And Delighted Every-one,
Even If It Did Result
in Hershey's Defeat
The most thrilling game of the season
was played at the Men's Club court
last Friday evening when Hershey's
Big Five met defeat at the hands of the
fast Rosewood A. C. of Harrisburg in
a game that required a five minute ex-tra
period. The game at the close of
regulation time was deadlocked at 34.
In • the extra minutes Hershey had sev-eral
chances to win but Shenk was not
able to land his shots from the penalty
mark. Rosewood scored a field goal and
a foul. The final score was 37 to 36. '
The game was a nip and tuck affair
throughout, the lead alternating many
times. Hershey played a great floor
game, but were off in their shooting
while on the other hand Rosewood . con-tributed
a number of sensational shots.
Kline at forward and Trump at guard
registered 13 goals between them, 8 of
which went to the former. For Hershey
Zentrneyer. tallied the 'highest number
of field goals. He was credited with four
while his opponent was able to land only
one. Shenk, Wirth' and Hench each
tallied three goals from the field and
Leibfried one. Slesser had an off night
at the guard position allowing his man
eight baskets, and was unable to score a
point.
The score:
Hershey Rosewood
Shenk. .' . . , . ¥ . . . . : .Kline
Wirth...... :F.. Kentz
Zentrneyer .. .G Tittle
H e n c h . . . . . . . . . . . G Trump
Slesser G. Killinger
[Leibfried] "
Field goals—Kline, 8; Kentz, 1; Tittle, 1;
Trump, 5; Killinger, 1; Shenk, 3; Wirth, 3;
Leibfried, 1; 2entmeyer, 4; Hench, 3.
Foul goals—Shenk, 8; Kline, 5. .
Referee—Foster.
THE GOVERNOR IN HERSHEY
Dr. and Mrs. Brumbaugh Dine at
the Hershey Cafe
Governor and Mrs. Brumbaugh mo-tored
to Hershey on Saturday and dined
at the Hershey Cafe. The last previous
visit of the governor was one evening
when he was ori his way back from the
camp at Mt, Gretna , when he and his
large party stopped at the ' Quick Lunch
and tested its food , trying everything
from beans to pie and pronouncing it good,
At the Cafe the Governor asked for
the regular , dinner and when he found
that it included frankfurters and sauer-kraut
he and his wife were 'much pleased,
' "Ah, this is good," said the governor,
and he ate heartily.
When the grove around Derry Church
was replanted Governor Brumbaugh and
Mr. M. S, Hershey planted the first
tree. As they stood opposite each other,
spades in hand , the governor remarked,
"Hershey, -with chocolate on one side
and sauerkraut on the other , this tree
ought to grow." '
The tree is growing and the governor 's
partiality to sauerkraut has all the
completeness of boyhood faith.
While here the governor found some
old friends. He and Mrs, Brumbaugh
left Hershey for Lebanon, where ' they
went to call on Uncle Henry Houcl< ,
who has been ill,
Judging from the newspaper reports of
Pennsylvania politics at present one
would suppose that all men in public
life would be greatly disturbed, Others
may be, the but governor looked as happy
and contented as though every day were
a holiday,
JOHN ALLEN TO LEAVE
John Allen , who has been assistant. In
the Hershey Men 's Club for over two
years, will go to Richmond , Vn,, as as-sistant
in the $75,000 Young Men's
Christian Association of that city, lie
IMH been very popular in I lershuy.
He took purl in nil the sports and was
u member of leading organizations
including the Male Chorus and the
United Brethren choir,
MR. €ONDER IN TOWN
¦\V . I'.). Condor has returned to Ilorshey
after completing an important contract,
in Louisiana, He will shortly leave for
Cuba where lie will jo in Mr. M. S, Ilor-shey
'H staff In the development of the
sugar properties. Mr, Gonder is ac-companied
hy Mrs, Gender.
LIKES THE HERSHEY LIBRARY
lion, Kolxii'l. P, Hliss, of the Pennsyl-vania
Free l.ihrnry Commission, visited
Htirtthoy Monday and spent some time
In ,¦ the Hemliey Free Library. lie is
deeply Interested In the devolpomont of
the Hershey library. Mr, Bliss' cam-in
talon lifiw ii library of 3(1,000 volumes.
THIS SAVING
REACHES YOU
Point Made in These Columns Sub-stantiated
by Recent Inquiry by
Census Bureau Customers
Must Pay for Hauling:
Unnecessary Delivery
• The new policy of the Hershey Store is
to inaugurate every economy that can
reduce the cost of merchandising and
then pass the benefit on 'to the customer.
It aims to become the model Cash
Store with expenses so organized that
there will not be an unnecessary penny
in the overhead charges.
Bear in mind that the customer must
pay the cost of doing business, That
is in the price of everything bought.
The Hershey Store is reducing the
cost by cutting off the needless things.
One of these is the excess in its delivery
service. The Press impressed its readers
with the fact that when customers de-manded
extravagant , delivery services
the cost of it would fair upon them.
The Hershey Store is meeting the situa-tion
by standardizing its delivery service
so that it will be run to meet the wishes
of the largest number of people. As
far as possible all special trips will be cut
out.
Ndw this means a lot in dollars and
cents. Since the " Press discussed the
point the Census Bureau has.accumulated
a lot of figures and it sends the following
to this newspaper, and it is hoped that
all interested in the details of modern
business will read it:
A report on the preliminary survey
concerning the subject of local distribu-tion
of commodities has been made to
Secretary of Commerce Redfield by Di-rector
Sam. L. Rogers of the Census
Bureau. The results "of this investi-gation,
which was made in the city of
Washington, confirm the general im-pression
that the. cost of tity cartage
is a fact of considerable magnitude in
the price paid by the consumer, and,
in the opinion of Secretary Redfield,
justify the Census Bureau in selecting
some representative city or cities and
detailing experts for the purpose of
making a more comprehensive study of
the subject of delivery cost in relation to
the prices of commodities.
"For the four selected classes of mer-chandise
covered .by the preliminary
survey—ice, coal, wood, milk, and de-partment-
store merchandise—represent-ing
total gross sales of about $6,000,000,
the cost of delivery alone amounted to
nearly $500,000, or about 8 per cent,
according to the figures compiled . It is
the Secretary 's belief that in this single
phase of cost great economies are possible
and he also believes that the survey of
the selected city or cities—revealing as
it doubtless will , the very considerable
proportion which the cost of cartage con-tributes
to retail prices—will focus "the
attention of consumers upon the great
saving to be affected by eliminating du-plication
and thus be of distinct aid in
reducing the high cost of living. "
MR. MUMMA WILL LEAVE
R. G, Mumma, for the past few years
employed by the Hershey Chocolate
Company in the executive office, lias
resigned his position and will leave on
Saturday for his home in Lancaster,
Mr, Mumma ia one of Hershey 's most
popular young men and his many friends
will be sorry to see him leave. Mr,
Mumma while in Hershey made his
home at the Hershey Inn,
FROM MANY STATES
Salesmen of the Hershey Chocolate
Com pany, who were in at the home office
last week from their various territories
included : F. W. Jachne, Indfanapolis ,
hid,; II , D, James, Quincy, III,;' J, L.
Martin , Elgin , 111.; H. A. Nell , Carthago;
Mo, ; T, V. Moore, Des Moines, la,;
F. H, McGarty, Peoria , 111,; F, F. Golden ,
Duvonport , la,; H, 12. Reeves, Saginaw,
Mich, ; 11, G, Green , Milwaukee, Wis,;
C, 15, Silencer, Plainwell , Mich. ; C, W.
Mcl^irland , Duluth , Minn,; IT, S, Coff-man
, Madison, Wis. ; L. E, Troup,
Flmira , N, "Y. ; K, S. Drane, Newark ,
N, J,; J, F, Howard , New Jersey; J. 11.
MeUride, Columbus, Ohio; C. F, Frey-lag,
Cincinnati , Ohio; J. R. Sluhley,
Dayton , Ohio; R, II , Suavely, Plain-
Held , N, ,1,
NEW STORM TERM
The weather Bureau Is taking advan-tage
of the miserable weather conditions
which extend over all lhe eastern part of
the country to teach the people of these
United Slates a new weather LernW
"gliwo, " This used to be called a "sleet
storm, " Henceforth it is to be known aa,a
"glnze, " If It gpts worse, with wind
and trlmiulnii H of all kinds, It will bo
cnlkd an "ice storm, " The name sleet
henceforth will bo reserved for the small ,
dry, round , hard frozen globules which
do not nialto the pavements particu-larly
dangerous,
Young Women's Christian Association .