The Hershey Press 1915-02-11

              HERSHEY SCHOOL IS AN EDUCATIONAL CENTER
Another Important Meeting Will Begin Tomor*
row and Will Continue for Two Days. An
Attractive Program of Addresses , Discus->
sions and Music. The Participants.
Although the M. S. Hershey Consolidated School of Def ry j
Township has been open only since last September it has al- . j
ready been the meeting place of important educational con- ;
ventions'and it has been visited by hundreds of educators i
from all parts of the country who have been attracted by its
value as a model in school construction and convenience.
Last month the teachers of the District held the most ¦
successful institute in their history and beginning tomorrow j
the school directors of Dauphin County will conduct their
midwinter session. While the meetings will be in the Her-shey
Central Theater because of the accommodations the
main point of attraction will be the new building which is
called the model consolidated school of the country. '
The exercises tomorrow begin at 1.30 with an invocation
by Rev. George S. Rentz. The music will be^Junder Miss
Wingert. President Murrie cf the Chocolate. Company will
deliver the address ,of welcome and President Ira.W. Hoover
of the Dauphin County School Directors' Association will re-spond.
Professor E. M. Rapp, superintendent of the schools
of Berks county, will deliver the first address on "The Coun-try
School." ¦ The second address will be "Consolidation of
Schools; Costs; Results," by Albert W. Snavely, secretary
of the Derry Township Board. Following will be a round
uiuie ujl iiiipunaiiL scnuui yxuuieiiio.
Friday evening at 8 o'clock the Hershey
orchestra will be present. The invoca-tion
will be asked by Rev. N. L. Line-baugh.
Professor Keboch will sing a
splo. The first address will be by M.
S. Hershey. Superintendent Rapp will
give an illustrated lecture entitled "A
Crusade for Better Country Schools."
The moving pictures of Hershey will be
shown. Saturday's session -will begin
at 8.30. The main address will be by
Department State Superintendent Reed
B. Teitrick and there will be the var-ious
reports and a., round table of lead-ing:
topics. Master Lewis Cassady will
sing a solo. The Association has 200
members. In Dauphin county are 39
school districts with 400 teachers and
11,000 pupils.
Busy Days at the School
New Musical and Literary Program.
Personal Items
These are among the livliest days
of the year at the M. S. Hershey Con-solidated
Public School of Derry
Township. . There is something new
all the time and there are visitors
daily to inspect the building and look
into the good work of Principal Ke-boch
and his staff. In spite of the
bad weather the attendance keeps be-yond
the 90 mark and the health of
the children is wonderfuly good. The
year's progress is going beyond ex-pectations.
Musical and Literary Program of
the Hershey High School for Feb.
19 at li'30 p. m. is as follows: II
Trovatore : Song—Anvil Chorus,
High School Boys; Life of Verdi,
Chester Ebersole; Piano Solo, il
Troyatore, Eva Gruber; Story of
Opera, Elizabeth Forscht; Piano
Duet, Anvil Chorus, Verna Stuckey
and Mildred Keboch ; Victrola Selec-tions,
Kindness of Albert Snavely who
will furnish the Victrola.
Tannheuser: Song No, 8 School
Book, From Tannheuser;' Life of
Warner , Martha Keenoy; O'du mein
holder Abend Stern , Victrola; Story
of Opera, Ruth Landis; Victrola Se-lections.
Principal F. D. Keboch attended the
State Convention of the School Di-rectors
at Harrisburg last Thursday
evening. Last Saturday he attended
meeting of the teachers o:f Lebanon
county.
Ira Shonk was unable to teach his
school on Monday and Tuesday on ac-count
of an attack of pjrlp, Mrs.
Everett, the substitute teacher,
taught his grade.
The annual entertainment; of the
Public Schools will bo hold in the
month of March. Owing to the great
number who attend and talco part 'in
this annual performance the Park
Theater will bo used.
GoorKo Dockort spent Saturday in
Lebanon.
Lecture on India
AiiKimtino Ohol Entertained ' Large
Audience on Sunday
Another largo audience UHseinblod
Sunday afternoon at tlio union moot-ing
In Horshoy Central Theate r and
greatly enjoyed the illustrated loc-turo
of Augustine Dooji Ohol on his
native country. His viown of India
wore, excellent and his own story was
capitally presented,
E. L, Bomgnrdnor wuh the loader
for the day, President Jiuiioh Mil-lard
wuh on the slngo. Rw, George
S. ItontK asked the invocation, The
excellent congregational singing was
undor Mr, Keboch and tho orchestra
was present. The uhIioi'h woro Wil-liam
1.1. Gelling, John I\foyor, Baton
Marks and Widtor Stanley.
ISfoxt Sunday 'at !) Ityiry G. Os-trandor
pf Now York will present an
illuHlrntoil talk on "Peoples and Re-ligious
of tho Oriental Wotid." It is
n vivid and extremely Intorofiting lec-ture
and all are invited.
Death of Mrs. J. B. Leithiser
Hershey Loses One of its Most
Estimable Ladies
¦ Mrs. Lorena G., wife of Mr. J. B.
Leithiser, died at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning. While she had been ill for
months and while she was under the
care of two physicians and a trained
niirse during the past several weeks,
the end was not expected and the
news came as a shock to the com-munity.
There had been deep sym-pathy
with her in her long suffering
and daily . inquiries were made as to
her condition. The devotion of her
husband and her . daughter through
the ordeal affected the people of Her-shey
profoundly and increased the in-terest
they felt and the hope they en-tertained
for her recovery. Her age
was 46 years, 4 months.
Mrs. Leithiser's death is a great
loss to Hershey, for she took an ac-tive
and valuable part in the social
and charitable work of the town.
She was always kindhearted and was
much beloved. She was the daugh ter of Christian and Barbara Hershet^f
of Philadelphia and was a first cousin/
of M. S. Hershey. Her marriage to
Mr. Leithiser was on June 16, 1892,
at Reading. They resided in Reading
and also in Philadelphia. They came
to Hershey five years ago and three
years ago they occupied their new
house in East Hershey, one of the
handsomest residences in Lebanon
Valley and a center of hospitality and
delightful social life. Their only
daughter, Miss Margaret Lorena
Leithiser, aided her mother in making
this home happy and attractive.
The details of the funeral were not
completed when this issue of the
Press was printed , but the services
will be held at the residence in Her-shey
at 9.15 Saturday morning and
the interment will be at the Charles
Evans Cemetery, Reading. George
Karmany of Hummelstown is the un-dertaker.
Because of Mrs. Leithiser's death
all local social events for the present
week were cancelled.
The Christians of Armenia
An Address by Mr. Herant Athan-asian
in tho Derry Church
Next Sunday evening, Fob, 14th,
at 7.30 o'clock. Mr, Herant Athan-asian
will deliver an address in the
Horry Presbyterian Church on "Tho
Christian Church in Armenia." As a
member of tho stout-hearted church ,
Mr. Athunnsinn can toll of his own
experience and those of his fellow-countrymen
as only one who has
known tho cruelty and terror of
persecution can toll It. Few churches
in the modern world have borne ho
strong a witness as has tho Armenian
church. Tho , faithful martyrs and
confessors of this mountainous land
know much of "tho terrible , heart-shattering
secret of His way with uh "
m Mrs. Moynoll puts it, Tho testi-mony
of Dr. Gossan!, President of
Lebanon Valloy College and Rev. Paul
Wltman , pastor of tho Lutheran
Church of Annvillo , Is very strong ao
to tho power and interest of Mr,
AthanaHian 's story of his native land,
All are very ' urgently invited to
hoar this stirring message.
Woodmen to Give a Supper
The Saner Kraut Supper and Social
to bo given under tho uuspiclos of tho
Uniformqd Rank of tho Woodmen of
the World of llershoy Camp No. 804
Mill be hold on this coming Saturday
evening in the P, O, S. of A. Hall in
HorHhoy Park from 7 to 11 o'clock,
During the past fow weeks a number
of tho members have boon hoIHii k
tickets, Tho sale 1ms boon largo. Tho
tickets are ten coats,
Holy Trinity s Big Day
Sixth Anniversary of its Bible School
Brings a Large Attendance
With an attendance that excelled
that of any previous session, Holy
Trinity Lutheran Bible School last
Sunday observed to the very day its
sixth ' anniversary. The entrance
upon the seventh year of the school's
existance brought with it a change of
the session from the afternoon to the
morning at 9.15 o'clock. This hour
generally considered more, favorable
to efficient , service in teaching and
spiritual effort and as affording an op-portunity,
of attendance to a greater
number of people, was proven to be
so by last Sunday's change.
The whole service of the school par-took
of a festival character. Follow-ing
the opening service and a word
of greeting from Pastor Krapf , there
came the lesson period, which was
shortened for the day to 15 minutes.
The close of the session was given
over to the special anniversary feat-ures.
The historical sketch was read by
the School's secretary, Norman Z.
Stable, who also was one of those
present at the first session. This
sketch, recalling the words of the pro-phet
Zechariah, "For who has. de-spised
the day of small things," in-dicated
the main "stages by which
under God's blessing, the school had
come,to its present . encouraging posi-tion.
The anniversary address was deliv-ered
by the Hon. Edwin T. Kunkle of
Stroudsburg. For many years Mr.
Kunkle was engaged in the preparing
of others for teaching, but in later
years has been connected with the
First National Bank of Stroudsburg.
Elected to the State Assembly from
Monroe County after a brief but re-markable
campaign , Mr. Kunkle was
also advanced by the bank directors
to assistant cashier. Closely identi-fied
with the church , and active al-ready
as a student in teaching an
adult class, Mr. Kunkle was able to
speak an appropriate word of advice
and encouragement to the people of
Holy Trinity Bible School. His ad-dress
was..in tho main an application
to local conditions of the exhorta-tion
in Haggai 2:4, "Bo strong and
work: for I am with you , saitli the
Lord of Hosts." He believed , ho said,
in anniversaries and compared them
to milestones. An anniversary Sun-day
should also bo an "Evory-moinbor
present Sunday." Ho censured par-ents
who, being able, did not them-selves
como to Bible School.. Ho paid
a tribute to Horshoy wlth'its comfort-able
homos and beautiful surround-ings.
Ho congratulated tho congre-gation
on its churehly and comfort-able
house of worship, Pleading for
personal service, ho urged in tho
phrase of tho day, that all prove to
bo live wires in tho work of tho
school and church.
At the anniversary Vespers nt
7.30 o'clock , Pastor Krapf spoke on
"Tho Work of the Blblo School in tho
light of tho Pa ruble of tho Sowor,"
Blblo School work, ho said , was pre-eminently
sowlngi the seed, of tho
Word. In the day 's gospel tho Lord
indicated some of tho dillicultlofi that
must bo reckoned with. Ho .urgod
tho exorcise and cultivation of rov-oronco
and tho recognition of tho fact
that God first moved toward man
and that in tho word of God wo huvo
a means of Grace. The duty of tho
school was to touch and impart not
merely tho letter and logi c hut ; also
tho life of tho Word of God. Plead-ing
for prayer for success in reaching
for good tho soul and life of the
members, ,ho likewise added a request
for such further offlcloncy and co-operation
as would make possible tho
fullest use of tho comparatively limit-ed
time available for Bible , School
work. G. II. Moyor, Esq,, of Palmyra
expressed his congratulations.
Hershey Against St. Joseph
Hottest Game of the Season Expected
on Friday Night
Hershey will meet St. Joseph of
Lancaster on Friday evening at the
Hershey. Men's Club gymnasium in
their annual basketball tilt and the
record-crowd of the season is expect-ed
to be on hand for the game. Leo
Houck, the middleweight fighter, will
be in the visitors' line-up and will play
at one of the forward positions. Her-shey'has.
not gained a verdict over St.
Joseph in the past three years, but
expects to turn the trick on Friday
night .as it did one week ago with the
York All-Collegians. The St. Joseph
five have played about 18 games this
season and have lost- but two and
these to teams of the Eastern League.
The Hershey team will probably pre-sent
the ' same lineup as last week,
with McCprd playing at forward, St.
Joseph has practically the same men
as in other years which are as fol-lows:
Houck, . Kimmel, Hecker, Sel-bach
and Kirchner. With McCord as
a leader the Hershey five have taken
on new life, as showed in last week's
game, and the game on Friday night
is sure to be the greatest of the. sea-son.
Hershe y Girls Victorious
Played a Brilliant and Winning Game
at Lebanon
The Pards, the first girls' basket
ball five of the Y. W. C. A, accom-panied
by a number of rooters, went
to Lebanon on Monday evening and
in a well played game won from the
Moravian girl s by the score of 20 to
17. The game was played. ' in ithe
Sixth Street Auditorium and -was
witnessed by a large crowd. It was
the local girls' first game and they
deserve a lot of credit for their ex-cellent
showing. Although modified
rules were used the game was rough-ly
played owing to tho referee having
but little knowledge of girls' rules.
Miss Virginia Hershey, captain of
tho Hershey team, was easily the star
of the game and her field goal from
tho center of the floor brought forth
rounds of applause. Miss Myrtl e
Hershey thro w tho fouls in a stun-ning
manner missing but one of her
chances. Miss Verna Stuckey played
well at forward while Miss Jostina
Dissingor and Miss Florence Land-graph
starred in general ofllciency.
Arrangements arc being made for tho
same teams to moot here on March (5.
He Was Only 32 Years Old and Was
One of the Best-Liked Young Men
in the Town. Was Helping
Others When He Met His
Fate. Deep Sorrow
Nothing that has happened since
Hershey Avas founded caused more
general or sincere sorrow than the
death of Ira Kohr in the early hours
of last Saturday .morning. It cast a
gloom over the whole community.
Coroner Eekinger of Harrisburg who
was. summoned and who made an in-vestigation
shortly after the accident
occurred gave out the following state-ment:
. ,
"E. M. Hershey, his wife and son
and chauffeur, of Hershey, were re-turning
home from a visit to Oberlin
when the car skidded on the Beaver
School. Hill, a . little way east of the
Rutherford freight years. It went
into the ditch and was slightly dam-aged
but caused no injuries to the oc-r
cupants. .
. "Leaving the chauffeur in charge
of the car, Mr. Hershey, his -wife and
son walked to Hummelstown where
they got a trolley to Hershey. There
Mr. Hershey found Ira Kohr and the
two returned in the car of M. S. Her-shey
to help the first car out of the
ditch. Kohr was driving about eigh-teen
miles an hour when they reached
the hill. He applied the breaks, but
the . car skidded on the smooth icy
road and went over the bank, turn-ing
turtle. Kohr was caught by the
overturned car, but died soon after,
but Mr. Hershey escaped with a few
slight bruises. Kohr had gone to
Mr. Hershey's assistance voluntarily
and was considered an experienced
driver and well acquainted with the
road. The hill is steep at this point
and the road was like glass from the
ice. No formal inquest will be held,
the investigation alone being con-sidered,
sufficient. "
Ira Kohr was 32 years of age. He
had been in the employ of Mr. M. S.
Hershey for more than ten years and
in recent years he was Mr. Hershey's
special . chauffeur. He was a fine,
careful, upstanding young man of
clean character and attractive social
qualities. He was universally liked
and he was always willing to help oth-ers.
So when Mr. E. M. Hershey
asked his assistance early Saturday
morning, he readily assented and got
out the Selden car of M. S. Hershey
and started for the stranded car on
Beaver School Hill. The accident
seems to have been one of those cases
of skidding on ice that are beyond
human foresight or control. The big
machine turned and fell. E. M. Her-shey
was thrown upon the road and
Ira Kohr was pinned under the wreck.
He was conscious for a few minutes
and called to Harry Boyer and Charles
Zerfoss who were with the other ma-chine.
They responded at once and
raised the machine. "A little higher
and I will be all right," said Kohr,
but before the work could be done he
was dead. His skull was fractured ,
but the marks were scarcely dis-tinguishable.
The Selden car was
badly damaged. E. M. Hershey's" ma-chine
was practically unscratched.
Mr. Hershey was deeply affected by
the accident.
Ira Kohr leaves a wife, who was
Miss Emorich of Swatara, and a son
and daughter, and his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Daniel Kohr, who live on a
farm near Highspire. Ira Kohr was
a resident of Hershey practically from
tho beginning of tho town and was
ono of its most popular mon. Ho
lived on Caracas Avenue. He was a
member of several organizations and
last week ho joined tho Fire Company.
Tho funeral took place yesterday
morning from his homo in Horshoy
and tho attendance was nn impressive
tribute to tho esteem in which he was
hold. From tho house the services
woro continued at tho Brethren
Church in Hummelstown. Rov,
Weaver of Lancaster County preach-ed
at tho homo. Rov. John
Mosoman of Lancaster prenchod at
tho church. Interment was in tho
HummoMown cemetery. The pall-bearers
woro: Harry Boyer, Gorman
Anderson , Maurice Kosor, James
Hotrick , Charles Stuckoy and John
Snavely. Tho floral tributes wore re-markable
for their number and beau-ty.
Action by Ilornhoy Men's Club
At u mooting of tho Executive Com-mittoo
of tho HorHhoy Man 's Club ,
President James Millard presiding
and J, M, Brandau secretary, tho fol-lowing
resolutions woro unanimously
adopted :
WHEREAS, in tho midden and
tragic death of Ira Kohr tho town of
Horslioy has lost a useful ci tizen and
tho Horshoy Men 's Club a faithful and
valued member; therefore ba il;
RESOLVED, that tho Incentive
Committee of tho HorHhoy Men's
Club, speaking for tho entire or-ganisation
, place upon record their
appreciation of his unblemished char-actor
and their deep sorrow that a
career of such service and promise
(Continued on Pago 4)
Ira Kohr of Hershe y Killed
In Automobile Accident
Progress in its Many 'Activities Re-ported
and Praised and Officers for
the Ensuing Year Elected.
Fine Record of the Clubs.
Volunteers Thanked.
The annual 'meeting of the Young
Women's Christian Association was
held on January 25 in the reading
room of the association. The presi-dent,
Mrs. M. L. Hershey, presided.
The meeting Was well attended and
much interest was shown in the pro-ceedings.
All the reports were • favorable and
proved the association to be in fine
condition and the work of the various
departments going along prosperous-ly.
In all respects satisfactory pro-gress
over tho preceding year was in:
dicated. The record of the various
clubs was especially fine.
The Association expressed its ap-preciation'
of the efforts of the volun-teer
workers for the Association,
among them being George Copenhav-er,
Miss Ella Keggeries, Mrs. H. G.
Mumma, Mrs. Harry Everett, . and
the members of the different com-mittees
who took part in the forward
interests of the Association during
the year. All the employed officers
were praised for their faithfulness
and efficiency.
Officers Elected
At the regular monthly meeting of
the Board of Directors the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: president Mrs.'M. L. Hershey;
vice-president, Miss Mary Leob;
treasurer, Miss Anna Mowery; sec-retary,
Miss . Bertha Moyer. -
The Spring classes in sewing- and
cooking began on the first of Febru-ary.
A number of girls enrolled and
it is hoped more will take advantage
of the opportunity.
The junior gym classes have been
divided intif two sections—and they
are preparing for a contest in drills
and marching. This contest will
mark the closing of the season's
work sometime in April and will be
open to parents and all others in-terested.
The sewing of the juniors
will he exhibited at the time of this
contest. More teachers are needed
for the junior sewing classes arid
volunteers are invited. The second
term of work of the junior class be-gan
Thursday afternoon. There are
about 30 enrolled in this class which
is taught by Miss Alice Elder and
Mrs. Harry Everett.
The afternoon sewing class meets
Monday afternoon at 2, the evening
class at 7.30. Twelve lessons are
given for $1.50. Mrs. S. P. Bacas-tow
teaches the sewing and Miss Ella
Steck the cooking. ,
Annual Meeting of Y. W. C. A.
Finds its Good Work Growing
So He Writes to Postmaster Newton
of Hershey
Postmaster Newton received the
following letter last week and asks
The Press to give the matter publicity
in order that any young woman- who
is interested may apply.
Tho letter is dated at a town in
Kentucky, Jan. 31, 1915 and reads as
follows:
"Postmaster
I wish you wod fine mo a good wom-an
to rite to mo. Age 20 or 25, my
ago is 27.
I want you to soo Rome ono when
you get this letter. I hope you will
look for some ono at onco and soo If
she wont rite to me—please do like I
ask you. I will pay you for your
Trubblo to bo true. please soo A
Bough t it so I will close look to here
fromo you at wonco, and tho other ono
too ho I will close.
Tho name Is withhold for obvious
reasons but Mr. Newton will gladly
give all particulars in his power to
any young lady who is interested.
Kentucky Man Wants a Wife
Cecilian Concert Tonight
Tonight tho Cocillun Concert Com-pany
will give tho last number of tho
Horahoy Men 's Club's lycoum course
and ono of tho finest programs of tho
wlntor will bo presented, Tho com-pany
is composed of four glftcjj
artists and their (selections ofTor^a
wide variety of interest , onjoyrhonj ;
and merit. Tlio performance pOWo
ladles Is expected to bo "iibrjj lj aijg
close to tho host sorloB o^ofttaj ^
meats that Horshoy has known.
"Bi Bl" him como and tho parts will
bo assigned this woek. Rehearsals
will begin in onnioflt next wook and
there will ho hard work right on to
tho final presentation of tho lumpiest
play over soon In Horshoy. There are
12 principal parts and over a hundred
minor parts,
Bi Bi Has Arrived
A young man about 17 years of
ago by tho name of Martin , employed
with his father , Jacob Martin on tho
R. J. Walton dairy near Hummels-tow
n , had his ' right log broken on
Tuesday morning just above tho ankle
whom ho fell from tho milk team
which ho was drivin g at tho station
of tho Horshoy Chocolate Company.
Tho accident happened after "tho
young man had finished unloading tho
milk and wuh about to climb upon tho
,soat of the wagon when h sudden
Jork by tho mules throw him to the
ground. l.)i\ Horshoy sot tho frac-ture
temporally, after which tho
young man was removed to tho Har-risburg
lloHpital .
Broke His Leg
Fred Lee Humphrey Married
Cards hnvo boon received in Her-shey
from , Mrs. Francos G. Swarthout
announcing tho marriage of her
diuitflftur Florence Scoboy to Fred Loo
Humphrey, on Thursday, February <1,
at Denver , Col. Mr. Humphrey is
one of tho most popular of tho Hor-shoy
roprosontatlvoH , Mr, and Mrs.
Humphrey will bo at homo after
March 1 at 018 Emerson Street, Den-ver.