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LIVELY DAYS IN THE BIG FACTORY Running to Full Capacity to Fill the Inrush of the Orders from AH Parts of the United States . Unprecedented Popu- . ularity of Products There is not a busier place in America today than the great plant of the Hershey Chocolate Company and everyone of its fourteen hundred employees feels the impulse and swing of the race to keep ¦within distance of the incoming orders.; For that is the problem of the company, to meet the demands pouring in from the every part of America. It seems as though people everywhere had appreciated the fact that all the Hershey products stood in a class by. themselves. The policy of the company in building up a chocolate and cocoa, business on lines of the highest quality has won the country. There are so many points of superex-cellencein the Hershey plant that in. the merits of the products there is no real competition. No other factory in Am-erica or elsewhere can match the equip-ment. For example, the final ex-cellence of milk chocolate is in the grind-ing in the longitudinal machines which insure the fine flavor and velvety smooth-ness. These machines are big and ex-pensive and they are difficult to get. The Hershey plant has over 200 of them. The other chocolate factories in America have not half that number and no other plant has a fifth of that number. Moreover, of the new machines being installed the majority are being added to the unrivalled outfit of the Hershey factory. This leadership is duplicated in other departments. The Hershey company has the .best milk supply in America; it has its own sugar refinery ; it is the largest buyer in almonds, in the world. So, it is not surprising that orders are coming in far beyond its former business. There are daily inquiries about foreign business and the Hershey company is mentioned in the newspapers as being offerred million dollar contracts from Europe. As a matter of fact, the Hershey company is not considering foreign business unless the conditions be unusual, because the domestic bus-iness is taking its entire output and is calling , for more. Running 100 per cent the Hershey plant offers opportunities . for workmen. The wages are good and the employment steady. It needs girls and boys over 16 and pays them well. The work is at-tractive because of its healthfulness and the modern accommodations. . UNION SERVICES BEGIN NOV. 26 First Speaker Will lie the Eloquent Bishop Cyrus K. Kephart of the United ^Brethren Church One of the Foremost of Pulpit Orators The first of the Sunday afternoon Union Services will be held in the; Hershey Central Theatre Sunday, November 26, at 3 o'clock, and the speaker will be Bishop Cyrua J. Kephart, one of the most eloquent preachers of the United States. In previous seasons these services have drawn thousands of • people to Hershey on Sunday afternoons. The experience has been that the people prefer orators and speakers of the first rank to the usual talks and entertainments. For example last winter the largest audiences were on the three Sundays in January when the speakers were Rev. Dr. Haas of the Lutheran Church, Bishop Bell of the United Brethren Church , and Rev. Dr. Rosa Stevenson of the Presby-terian , men of high standing not only in their respective denominations but in the affairs of the country, This year it ha J been decided to follow this lead and the three churches of town have been asked to select their most eloquent and interesting speakers for the first three Sundays. ¦ Bishop Kephart opens the season and it was through Dr. Bultcrwlck's personal acquaintance and persuasion that the bislwp consented to come cast for his Ilewihcy address. lie has charge of the great southwestern territory of his church and is a man of largo influence and popularity. Ho is known to many Ilcrshcy people and to the people of the Lebanon Valley and it Is likely that crowds will come from nearby towns and cities tp hear him, His subject will be undenominational and fitting to the times. All will . enjoy it. The Union Service Is one of Mr. Ilcr-shcy's ideas to make Hershoy a usefu l center of this part of the slate. The affair Is free of expense to those who attend and not oven a collection la taken up. It will be made additionally attract-ive by good mimic, All arc cordially invited to bo present. The Union Services arc under the di-rection of the Men's Club. TOWN TAKEN BY THE DEMOCRATS They Got Up Just About the Finest Parade That Ever Lit Up the Leba non Valley. Two Bands And a Big Procession • . Lots of Cheering Aloug with > the rest of the country Hershey awoke "Wednesday morning of last week convinced that Hughes and Fairbanks had been elected, and the Republicans were happy. But through the day the changes began and the Democrats took hope, although most of them thought the news too good to be true. But the reports persisted anii the probabilities grew so strong towards evening that a few enthusiastic spirits led by James Murray; Thomas Black and others got out a drum and made a noise. Then others with horns and things joined and by eight o'clock there was enough to make a fair-sized pande-monium, which was promptly expended along the streets and especially in front of the homes of the leading Republicans. Oh Thursday, when the news grew reasonably certain, the Democratic spirit humped itself and the Democrats be-gan to ask William F. R. Murrie what they should do to give proper expression to the volcanos that surged within them. Very promptly he told them to go the limit on a parade and send the bills to him—and that is how Hershey had the biggest, loudest, finest , musicalist, shoutingest political procession that ever raised the roof of Lebanon Valley. . There were two bands, the Hershey band under Director Feese, and the Palmyra Band and they played their full lung power. Frank Crist dressed as Uncle Sam carried an American flag and rode the mule. Herman Schweers carried a big American flag and aroused enthusiasm everywhere. There were ten banners, such as "Our Choice," with a large picture of President Wilson; "Peace Not War," "Four Years More of Pros-perity," and many clever phrases. The parade, with Mr. Murrie as chief marshal, James Murray as aid and Joseph. Hills as cheer leader, formed opposite the planing mill and took this route: Chocolate avenue to Cocoa, to Areba, to Homestead Avenue, counter-marching on Areba, to Cocoa, to Caracas, to Java, countermarching on Caracas, to Ceylon, to Chocolate, to Park Avenue, to Deny Road, all through Derry and countermarching and reaching the east end of Chocolate avenue, then to the planing mill where it disbanded. Along the route houses were brilliantly illuminated and several flung out their flags. The Glynn home was particularly fine and in front of it H. A. Newton waved a big flag. There were many exchanges of pleasantries between the victors and the vanquished and every-body was in good humor. Cheer Leader Hills' voice gave out but he had assistants who kept up the work. Marshal Murrie was warmly greeted everywhere. The parade lasted from 7.30 to 9.30 and there were nearly two hundred in line. ZINNER PLAYS THE ORGAN Saturday was a great day in Hershey beacuse Frantz Zinner played the organ from 12 to 4. It was in fron t o! the post office and he had lost the bet made with Frank Zentmeyer , who saw to it that the organ was properly decorated with such lines as, "The greatest presi-dent this country ever had" and "He gave us peace with honor," and Wilson's picture between them. It was a clever outfit and Zentmeyer made the most of his opportunity, Zinner was a good loser and he gave delight to the hundreds who crowded around him. To make the bet still more interesting a benefit for the Harrlsburg Hospital was added , and this placard was conspicuous: "A Dollar Makes The Dutchman Sing, " Zinner lived up to the card and every dollar brought a song with the organ music. The result was $40 for the hospital. This Incident attracted largo attention in the newspapers and the Harrisburg Patriot had a two column Illustration showing the organ and Zinner and Zentmeyer. SUCCESSFUL HUNTERS Killing 16 rabbits with sixteen shells out of a possible 19 Herbert Straub, a local hunter, claims to bo the chnmplon hunter of the season. Mr. Straub mis-sed his three shots the first clay, but since has laid his prey low with only one shot each. Ho has also shot several quail, John Daniel has also had a very suc-cessful season and bagged two largo cottontails thin week. Ralph Floro wan out last week and shot 4 rabbits and 2 qunll. . . REFORMED MENNONITES The Reformed Monnonitcn will hold services at their meeting house in Derry Church this coming Sunday morning, November 19. WOULD FOLLOW HERSHEY MODEL Lebanon Girls Enjoy Thirty Mile Hike and Learn Interesting Things About the Hershey Young Women's Christian Asso-ciation. A Letter Mrs.. Charles D. Weirick chaperoned a party of Lebanon's finest girls on a hike to Hershey and return. They spent a night at the Young. Women's Christian Association and so they were made fully acquainted with its merits and services. After they returned home Mrs. Weirick sent to the Hershey Press an account of their trip and with it a note saying, "We hope Lebanon will establish and maintain a Young Women's Christian Association as successful as yours. The time is coming when the girls of Lebanon will have to be consid-ered as well as the boys." There is a Young Men's Christian Association in Lebanon. Mrs. Weirick says Lebanon badly needs the Young Women's Christian Association. Lebanon claims a population in excess of 25,000. Hershey s population is about 1700. Thus Hershey has in full oper-ation modern facilities which a city of wealth and thousands does not possess. Indeed it is only by comparison that one realizes the significance and value of an institution such as the Hershey Young Women's Christian Association. It has 250 members and room accommodations for 60. The rooms are models of com-fort and cleanliness. The occupants are employees of the factory and the store. These , accommodations are equal to those of first-class hotels. The whole equipment is on liberal lines. On the first floor is . the Cafeteria, finished in mission, and here food of first quality is served. There are reading rooms, tennis courts, a new baseball diamond and a gymnasium. Camp life is popu-lar. The several active organiza-tions include a Glee Club. The Association gives excellent entertainments. Its work in the factory is very interesting. It gets up programs and finds speakers and conducts classes in English. At the meeting of the board of direct-ors Monday evening, Mrs, M. L. Hershey presiding, further consideration was given to the choice of a new executive secretary, but no conclusion was reached , The president, Mrs. M. L. Hershey, has been giving the Association close attention during the past few months and this direction along with the capable work of Mrs. Chase has been very successful. The association is in fine shape and arrangements are made for the carrying the class and social programs, All the rooms are taken and the cafeteria is very popular. Work for the Winter Senior work outlined is as follows: Monday—7:00 to 8;00 P. M., Gymnasium Class—Marching, free work, folk dancing, apparatus and games. Tuesday—2,30 to 3,00—Swimming Class. 7.03 to (3,00 —Meeting of the Industrial Clubs. A business meeting is held. Then the clubs unite and courses in ancient history, literature and current events are pursued, Miss Lloyd and Mrs. Hauck , teachers of the Hershey High School, have charge o! the educational work, Thurs-day— 7 to 8—Gymnasium Class. Junior Work outlined is as follows: Tuesday—3,30 to. 5.00-Loyalty Club, ago 10 to 13. Gymnasium work, bas-ketry work will bo started ; Thursday— 3.30 to 130—Sewing Class for Juniors, Mrs, Mowers with several assistants has charge of the class and usefu l articles of wearing apparel are made; Saturday —10 to 11—Sunshine Children, age 6 to 9. Gymnasium Work. A simple course in raffia work will be started . Evening Classes are as follows: Tues-day— 7.30 to 9.30—Sewing Class, Mrs. Bacastow, Teacher. Wednesday—6.30 to 7:30—Crocheting Class. Teacher, Miss Catherine Mumma. Thursday— 7.30 to 8.0O—Bible Class—The De-votional Committee has charge ; Friday1— 6.30-^Vesper services, led by the different pastors of Hershey. The Thirty Mile Hike The account of the hike to Hershey sent by Mrs. Weirick quotes the Leban-on News and tells the following enter : taining story: "Exceedingly happy and not a bit tired from their 30 mile, two-day, hike, the Swatara Camp Fire Girls arrived home from Hershey about three o'clock on Saturday afternoon. The weather had been glorious,' Friday and Saturday, ideal days for hiking and as they all put it they, had an "absoluteluy wonderful" time, Starting at 3:30 o'clock on Friday afternoon, all. wearing the red and blue high school or the crimson and steel caps of the Senior class, in highest spirits, they were enough to cause any one to Young Women's Christian Association doubt whether there was a bunch any-where to beat them for huskiness. They arrived at Hershey around 7:15 o'clock. "An incident these Indians will re-member happened on the hike up. They "put one over" on the two fellows who thought they could scare camp fire girls. Between Annville and Palmyra while the moon was shining brightly they passed . a field in which were immense shocks of corn and there the "ghost" appeared. Sliding from the shadow of the largest shock of all, wrapped in white with flashes of light coming forth from under , its garments, it made a "bee line".for the Campies. The road was covered with small stones just where the girls stood and without utter-ing a word, the girls started the hurling process with vengeance. The tables were turned, and two pairs of legs suddenly seen to come into use as the ghost hur-ried back to the seclusion of the shocks again. The girls stayed at the Y. W. C. A. and Mrs. Chase, the acting secre-tary, and Miss Hornsby, the physical director, had plenty of entertainment planned including special music and dancing in their honor and the evening was pleasantly spent. The Campies were allowed sole use of the gymnasium Saturday morning and they proved well that they were no strangers with the apparatus. The girls fully appreciated the kindness of Mrs. Chase, the matron, and Miss Hornsby, who is a graduate of the New Haven School of Gymnastics, and they' showed their appreciation most by their enjoyment of it. The hike home was started around 12:30 and nothing as stirring as the ghost episode of the night before happen-ed. Those participating in the hike were: Mrs, Charles D. Weirick , guardian; Marion Zellers, Elvira Ward , Miriam Bowman, Blanche Berger, Nancy Ham-mond, Roxie Phillips, Josephine Mack, Margaret Ward, Edith Stager, Eliza-beth Evans, Katharine- Funck, and Mar-garet Matthews!" MOTHERS' MEETING TUESDAY The Mothers' Club will hold a meeting next Tuesday evening, November 21, in the kindergarten room of the M, S. Hershey Consolidated School of Derry Township, Attractive speakers will dis-cuss "The Training of Fathers." The hostesses will bo Mrs. Thomas L. Mc- Hcff y and Mrs. Linn II. llnwbeckcr . All ladies are cordially Invited to bo present. HERSHEY LIVES ON THE TROPICS Remarkable Figures .Showing the Increasing Dependence of the United States on the Pro-ducts of the : Tropical American Countries If it were not for the cocoa and the sugar that are obtained -front tropical countries Hershey would not exist. So there is peculiar interest in a state-ment of facts and figures which the Department of Commerce at Washing-ton has kindly supplied to the Hershey Press. Note the marvelous increase in the importations of cocoa: 1905, 74,000,000 pounds of cocoa imported. 1915, 192,000,000 pounds of cocoa imported. . . 1916,. 243,000,000 pounds of cocoa imported. ¦ In the same period sugar almost doubled. The full statement of the Department of Commerce is as follows: More than a billion dollars worth of tropical products were brought into this country during the fiscal year 1916. The exact total was - $1,060,850,416, according to official figures of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, of the Department of Commerce, and this was a decided increase over $807,642,182 of 1915, the $505,511,552 in 1905, and the $303,476,706 in 1895'. These large and rapidly increasing purchases of tropical products consist mainly of foodstuffs and raw materials not produced in the United States and of certain others grown in our insular territories. Sugar heads the list, with imports valued at $314,000,000 in the fiscal year 1916. That sum represents an increase of $57,000,000 over 1915 and of $156,000,000 over 1914, India rubber, gutta percha, gutta joolatong and other substitutes showed imports in 1916 valued at $159,000,000 as against $86,000,000 in the preceding year. Im-ports of raw silk amounted in value to $124,000,000 a 50 per cent increase over 1915; coffee, $116,000,000, an increase of about 8 per cent over 1915; fibers other than flax, $56,000,000, an increase of almost 50 per cent; fruits and nuts, $55,000,000, a very slight increase; raw cotton, $40,000,000 an increase of about 70 per cent; tobacco and manufactures of, $38,000,000, a decrease of $2,750,000; and cocoa and chocolate, $36,000,000 an increase of 50 per cent over 1915. Other important items in this group are vege-table oils, $34,000,000, against $25,000-, 000 in 1915; tea, $21,000,000 compared with $18,000,000 last year; gums, $15,- 000,000, against $12,000,000 in 1915; dyewoods and extracts, $10,000,000, a-gainst $5,000,000 in 1915; spices, $9,- 000,000, against $6,000,000 in 1915; indigo, $8,000,000, against $1,600,000, in the preceding year; rice, $6,200,- 000, against $6,400,000 in 1915; and cabinet woods, $4,000,000 against $4,- 300,000, in 1915. Feathers, ivory, sago and tapioca, vanilla beans, licorice roots, opium, quinine-bearing barks, and sponges, in sums varying from about $3,000,000 down to less than $1,000,000 each, complete the list of the more im-ported tropical and subtropical products imported. The following shows the remarkable growth in the quantity of specified trop-ical products imported into the United States from foreign countries and its tropical islands, Porto Rico and Hawaii: Tropical Imports into the United States (In millions of pounds.) Articles 1905 1915 1916 Sugar 4,517 7,288 7,618 ColTce 1,051 1,12(1 1,204 Fibers 665 788 1,066 Rubber 68 196 304 Rice 109 280 2C8 Cotton 85 19C 233 Cocoa 74 192 243 Tea 103 97 110 Spices 53 60 83 Tobacco, leaf.. 30 53 G5 Silk , raw 22 31 42 MR. DIEHM'S NEW CAR Mr, and Mrs, John B. Dielim spent Saturday on a motor trip through the upper part of Dauphin county. The trip was made in their now Cloverleaf Elgin car which they purchased last week. MR. COPENHAYER'S CHANDLER George E. Copcnhaver, of the Hershey Industrial School, purchased a Chandler six cylinder car last week, It is a lata model and a beauty, The purchase was mado through an agency In Harris-burg. TWO NEW MACHINES SOLD J. C. Hess during the past week sold a King "8" machine and n Ford touring car. The- King car was purchased by Ira J. Bacastow of Horshey and tho Ford went to a parly at Swatara Station. CUSTOMER PAYS ALL IN THE END Simple Lesson In Modern Merchan-dising That Is of Large Import-ance In These Days of the High Cost of Things Policy of This . Store Prices of all commodities are increasing so rapidly that everybody will soon have to study ways of economy. The . time has come when the saving of the penny is important to every family. One of the evils that increase the cost Of goods is the abuse of the delivery system. Some people think that it is nothing to put a store to extra trouble. They forget that the store has to pay and in order to live it must pass this expense to the customers. It is the greatest mistake to think that the merchant who promises free de-livery is not including the cost of it in his bill. . Common sense ought to show anyone how plain that is. And yet customers would have the delivery wagons making extra trips all day for their special convenience. In Hershey the Department Store has outlined a system of deliveries that will serve the largest number at the most convenient hours, and it is striving to cut out'all the special trips unless there be absolute urgency for them. There will be a saving in this poliicy and it will be put in the lower cost of goods. In other words the Hershey. Store and its customers are about to enter into a plain, common sense cooperation that will save money. This delivery question is now a big one in the merchandise business every-where. One of the great merchants of the country is thus quoted by the leading business paper of America, The Journal of Commerce: "Good, efficient, prompt delivery is an asset to a store, and it is good advertising. "Practically nothing can be done except-ing to educate the public up to a point where it will endeavor to be fair to the stores as the stores are to . their customers. There are cases where a customer will see an attractive rug and order it sent home to see how it looks on the floor. Perhaps the next day we will be asked to send for it and take it back. It adds to our delivery costs, and we get nothing out of it, but what can we do? "In cases like this it is also unfair to the salesman, for when the merchandise is bought and then returned and credited, it decreases their earnings, or the earnings they expect, but we cannot refuse to accomodate the customer. "The delivery department is for the convenience of the people purchasing in our store. THE PRICES FOR GOODS IN THE DEPARTMENT STORES ALL HAVE TO BEAR THE DELIVERY COSTS ANYWAY, SO IN THE END THE CUSTOMER PAYS THEM. Still it is true that some people make this delivery cost still higher for t,he stores through being unfair." An illustration of how unfairly some of the stores are treated may be seen by the following incident: A woman phoned the hat department of a big shop and asked to have a man call for one of her items of headgear that she desired trimmed over, The hat was called for and taken to the store. The woman appeared next day and ordered it trimmed with a bow of navy blue ribbon; the trimming was done and the hat sent to her residence. A day later she had the hat returned. Another example of the unreasonable-ness of some requests for the delivery of merchandise is the following; A woman ordered some wooden button molds, tho total amount of the sale being about 6 cents, and she asked to have them sent to her home on 180th street and wanted them sent "special." Car fare for the delivery boy alone would have amounted to more than ' the sale, and tho store pointed out this to tho customer that her request was "slightly unreasonable." Tho woman had to bo handled diplo-matically, however, or the store would have lost her permanently as a customer. Tho manager of the store was wonder-ing if one of his competitors would have delivered that 6-ccnt sale. An official of another store, discussing tho high cost of deliveries and tho prob-lems confronting thorn, said: "The only thing we can do Is to try to get tho public to give our stores as fair a deal as wo try to give to everybody who makes a purchase from us. Wo only ask them not to bo unfair , and wo can only attempt to point out to them, when unfairness la apparent , that wo ought not to bo obliged to put up with it." LUTHERAN , DELEGATION E, L, Bomgardncr, Dr. H. G. Mumma, A. T. Heilmnn and Rev. John I, Mock, as representatives of tho local Holy Trinity Lutheran church , attended tho meeting of tho Zlon Lutheran church , Harrls-burg, last week. An organization will bo effected to obscrvo'tho Quadrlccntonn lnl of tho Reformation in tho Lutheran churches of Harrisburg and vicinity. 1 11I t IMtll • kl lint » tkl IM M( MM MI111 HIM t k M M11 f • 11N11111 M 11M 1 T I | J ril I (nil I • t t 11 • (11111M M11 HH ................................................................................. ....................... Men and Boys and Girls Over 16 CAN FIND ATTRACTIVE WORK AT GOOD WAGES IN THE HERSHEY CHOCOLATE FACTORY There are places now open for men and boys,and glrla over 16 in tho factory of the Herahoy Chocolate Company. Tho work is very desirable be-cause tho wages arc good, employment; la steady and tho surroundings are healthy and cheerful. Apply by letter or in person to tho Hershey Employ-ment Bureau.
Object Description
Title | The Hershey Press 1916-11-16 |
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 | 1916-11-16 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
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Description
Title | The Hershey Press 1916-11-16 |
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 | 19161116 |
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 | LIVELY DAYS IN THE BIG FACTORY Running to Full Capacity to Fill the Inrush of the Orders from AH Parts of the United States . Unprecedented Popu- . ularity of Products There is not a busier place in America today than the great plant of the Hershey Chocolate Company and everyone of its fourteen hundred employees feels the impulse and swing of the race to keep ¦within distance of the incoming orders.; For that is the problem of the company, to meet the demands pouring in from the every part of America. It seems as though people everywhere had appreciated the fact that all the Hershey products stood in a class by. themselves. The policy of the company in building up a chocolate and cocoa, business on lines of the highest quality has won the country. There are so many points of superex-cellencein the Hershey plant that in. the merits of the products there is no real competition. No other factory in Am-erica or elsewhere can match the equip-ment. For example, the final ex-cellence of milk chocolate is in the grind-ing in the longitudinal machines which insure the fine flavor and velvety smooth-ness. These machines are big and ex-pensive and they are difficult to get. The Hershey plant has over 200 of them. The other chocolate factories in America have not half that number and no other plant has a fifth of that number. Moreover, of the new machines being installed the majority are being added to the unrivalled outfit of the Hershey factory. This leadership is duplicated in other departments. The Hershey company has the .best milk supply in America; it has its own sugar refinery ; it is the largest buyer in almonds, in the world. So, it is not surprising that orders are coming in far beyond its former business. There are daily inquiries about foreign business and the Hershey company is mentioned in the newspapers as being offerred million dollar contracts from Europe. As a matter of fact, the Hershey company is not considering foreign business unless the conditions be unusual, because the domestic bus-iness is taking its entire output and is calling , for more. Running 100 per cent the Hershey plant offers opportunities . for workmen. The wages are good and the employment steady. It needs girls and boys over 16 and pays them well. The work is at-tractive because of its healthfulness and the modern accommodations. . UNION SERVICES BEGIN NOV. 26 First Speaker Will lie the Eloquent Bishop Cyrus K. Kephart of the United ^Brethren Church One of the Foremost of Pulpit Orators The first of the Sunday afternoon Union Services will be held in the; Hershey Central Theatre Sunday, November 26, at 3 o'clock, and the speaker will be Bishop Cyrua J. Kephart, one of the most eloquent preachers of the United States. In previous seasons these services have drawn thousands of • people to Hershey on Sunday afternoons. The experience has been that the people prefer orators and speakers of the first rank to the usual talks and entertainments. For example last winter the largest audiences were on the three Sundays in January when the speakers were Rev. Dr. Haas of the Lutheran Church, Bishop Bell of the United Brethren Church , and Rev. Dr. Rosa Stevenson of the Presby-terian , men of high standing not only in their respective denominations but in the affairs of the country, This year it ha J been decided to follow this lead and the three churches of town have been asked to select their most eloquent and interesting speakers for the first three Sundays. ¦ Bishop Kephart opens the season and it was through Dr. Bultcrwlck's personal acquaintance and persuasion that the bislwp consented to come cast for his Ilewihcy address. lie has charge of the great southwestern territory of his church and is a man of largo influence and popularity. Ho is known to many Ilcrshcy people and to the people of the Lebanon Valley and it Is likely that crowds will come from nearby towns and cities tp hear him, His subject will be undenominational and fitting to the times. All will . enjoy it. The Union Service Is one of Mr. Ilcr-shcy's ideas to make Hershoy a usefu l center of this part of the slate. The affair Is free of expense to those who attend and not oven a collection la taken up. It will be made additionally attract-ive by good mimic, All arc cordially invited to bo present. The Union Services arc under the di-rection of the Men's Club. TOWN TAKEN BY THE DEMOCRATS They Got Up Just About the Finest Parade That Ever Lit Up the Leba non Valley. Two Bands And a Big Procession • . Lots of Cheering Aloug with > the rest of the country Hershey awoke "Wednesday morning of last week convinced that Hughes and Fairbanks had been elected, and the Republicans were happy. But through the day the changes began and the Democrats took hope, although most of them thought the news too good to be true. But the reports persisted anii the probabilities grew so strong towards evening that a few enthusiastic spirits led by James Murray; Thomas Black and others got out a drum and made a noise. Then others with horns and things joined and by eight o'clock there was enough to make a fair-sized pande-monium, which was promptly expended along the streets and especially in front of the homes of the leading Republicans. Oh Thursday, when the news grew reasonably certain, the Democratic spirit humped itself and the Democrats be-gan to ask William F. R. Murrie what they should do to give proper expression to the volcanos that surged within them. Very promptly he told them to go the limit on a parade and send the bills to him—and that is how Hershey had the biggest, loudest, finest , musicalist, shoutingest political procession that ever raised the roof of Lebanon Valley. . There were two bands, the Hershey band under Director Feese, and the Palmyra Band and they played their full lung power. Frank Crist dressed as Uncle Sam carried an American flag and rode the mule. Herman Schweers carried a big American flag and aroused enthusiasm everywhere. There were ten banners, such as "Our Choice," with a large picture of President Wilson; "Peace Not War," "Four Years More of Pros-perity," and many clever phrases. The parade, with Mr. Murrie as chief marshal, James Murray as aid and Joseph. Hills as cheer leader, formed opposite the planing mill and took this route: Chocolate avenue to Cocoa, to Areba, to Homestead Avenue, counter-marching on Areba, to Cocoa, to Caracas, to Java, countermarching on Caracas, to Ceylon, to Chocolate, to Park Avenue, to Deny Road, all through Derry and countermarching and reaching the east end of Chocolate avenue, then to the planing mill where it disbanded. Along the route houses were brilliantly illuminated and several flung out their flags. The Glynn home was particularly fine and in front of it H. A. Newton waved a big flag. There were many exchanges of pleasantries between the victors and the vanquished and every-body was in good humor. Cheer Leader Hills' voice gave out but he had assistants who kept up the work. Marshal Murrie was warmly greeted everywhere. The parade lasted from 7.30 to 9.30 and there were nearly two hundred in line. ZINNER PLAYS THE ORGAN Saturday was a great day in Hershey beacuse Frantz Zinner played the organ from 12 to 4. It was in fron t o! the post office and he had lost the bet made with Frank Zentmeyer , who saw to it that the organ was properly decorated with such lines as, "The greatest presi-dent this country ever had" and "He gave us peace with honor," and Wilson's picture between them. It was a clever outfit and Zentmeyer made the most of his opportunity, Zinner was a good loser and he gave delight to the hundreds who crowded around him. To make the bet still more interesting a benefit for the Harrlsburg Hospital was added , and this placard was conspicuous: "A Dollar Makes The Dutchman Sing, " Zinner lived up to the card and every dollar brought a song with the organ music. The result was $40 for the hospital. This Incident attracted largo attention in the newspapers and the Harrisburg Patriot had a two column Illustration showing the organ and Zinner and Zentmeyer. SUCCESSFUL HUNTERS Killing 16 rabbits with sixteen shells out of a possible 19 Herbert Straub, a local hunter, claims to bo the chnmplon hunter of the season. Mr. Straub mis-sed his three shots the first clay, but since has laid his prey low with only one shot each. Ho has also shot several quail, John Daniel has also had a very suc-cessful season and bagged two largo cottontails thin week. Ralph Floro wan out last week and shot 4 rabbits and 2 qunll. . . REFORMED MENNONITES The Reformed Monnonitcn will hold services at their meeting house in Derry Church this coming Sunday morning, November 19. WOULD FOLLOW HERSHEY MODEL Lebanon Girls Enjoy Thirty Mile Hike and Learn Interesting Things About the Hershey Young Women's Christian Asso-ciation. A Letter Mrs.. Charles D. Weirick chaperoned a party of Lebanon's finest girls on a hike to Hershey and return. They spent a night at the Young. Women's Christian Association and so they were made fully acquainted with its merits and services. After they returned home Mrs. Weirick sent to the Hershey Press an account of their trip and with it a note saying, "We hope Lebanon will establish and maintain a Young Women's Christian Association as successful as yours. The time is coming when the girls of Lebanon will have to be consid-ered as well as the boys." There is a Young Men's Christian Association in Lebanon. Mrs. Weirick says Lebanon badly needs the Young Women's Christian Association. Lebanon claims a population in excess of 25,000. Hershey s population is about 1700. Thus Hershey has in full oper-ation modern facilities which a city of wealth and thousands does not possess. Indeed it is only by comparison that one realizes the significance and value of an institution such as the Hershey Young Women's Christian Association. It has 250 members and room accommodations for 60. The rooms are models of com-fort and cleanliness. The occupants are employees of the factory and the store. These , accommodations are equal to those of first-class hotels. The whole equipment is on liberal lines. On the first floor is . the Cafeteria, finished in mission, and here food of first quality is served. There are reading rooms, tennis courts, a new baseball diamond and a gymnasium. Camp life is popu-lar. The several active organiza-tions include a Glee Club. The Association gives excellent entertainments. Its work in the factory is very interesting. It gets up programs and finds speakers and conducts classes in English. At the meeting of the board of direct-ors Monday evening, Mrs, M. L. Hershey presiding, further consideration was given to the choice of a new executive secretary, but no conclusion was reached , The president, Mrs. M. L. Hershey, has been giving the Association close attention during the past few months and this direction along with the capable work of Mrs. Chase has been very successful. The association is in fine shape and arrangements are made for the carrying the class and social programs, All the rooms are taken and the cafeteria is very popular. Work for the Winter Senior work outlined is as follows: Monday—7:00 to 8;00 P. M., Gymnasium Class—Marching, free work, folk dancing, apparatus and games. Tuesday—2,30 to 3,00—Swimming Class. 7.03 to (3,00 —Meeting of the Industrial Clubs. A business meeting is held. Then the clubs unite and courses in ancient history, literature and current events are pursued, Miss Lloyd and Mrs. Hauck , teachers of the Hershey High School, have charge o! the educational work, Thurs-day— 7 to 8—Gymnasium Class. Junior Work outlined is as follows: Tuesday—3,30 to. 5.00-Loyalty Club, ago 10 to 13. Gymnasium work, bas-ketry work will bo started ; Thursday— 3.30 to 130—Sewing Class for Juniors, Mrs, Mowers with several assistants has charge of the class and usefu l articles of wearing apparel are made; Saturday —10 to 11—Sunshine Children, age 6 to 9. Gymnasium Work. A simple course in raffia work will be started . Evening Classes are as follows: Tues-day— 7.30 to 9.30—Sewing Class, Mrs. Bacastow, Teacher. Wednesday—6.30 to 7:30—Crocheting Class. Teacher, Miss Catherine Mumma. Thursday— 7.30 to 8.0O—Bible Class—The De-votional Committee has charge ; Friday1— 6.30-^Vesper services, led by the different pastors of Hershey. The Thirty Mile Hike The account of the hike to Hershey sent by Mrs. Weirick quotes the Leban-on News and tells the following enter : taining story: "Exceedingly happy and not a bit tired from their 30 mile, two-day, hike, the Swatara Camp Fire Girls arrived home from Hershey about three o'clock on Saturday afternoon. The weather had been glorious,' Friday and Saturday, ideal days for hiking and as they all put it they, had an "absoluteluy wonderful" time, Starting at 3:30 o'clock on Friday afternoon, all. wearing the red and blue high school or the crimson and steel caps of the Senior class, in highest spirits, they were enough to cause any one to Young Women's Christian Association doubt whether there was a bunch any-where to beat them for huskiness. They arrived at Hershey around 7:15 o'clock. "An incident these Indians will re-member happened on the hike up. They "put one over" on the two fellows who thought they could scare camp fire girls. Between Annville and Palmyra while the moon was shining brightly they passed . a field in which were immense shocks of corn and there the "ghost" appeared. Sliding from the shadow of the largest shock of all, wrapped in white with flashes of light coming forth from under , its garments, it made a "bee line".for the Campies. The road was covered with small stones just where the girls stood and without utter-ing a word, the girls started the hurling process with vengeance. The tables were turned, and two pairs of legs suddenly seen to come into use as the ghost hur-ried back to the seclusion of the shocks again. The girls stayed at the Y. W. C. A. and Mrs. Chase, the acting secre-tary, and Miss Hornsby, the physical director, had plenty of entertainment planned including special music and dancing in their honor and the evening was pleasantly spent. The Campies were allowed sole use of the gymnasium Saturday morning and they proved well that they were no strangers with the apparatus. The girls fully appreciated the kindness of Mrs. Chase, the matron, and Miss Hornsby, who is a graduate of the New Haven School of Gymnastics, and they' showed their appreciation most by their enjoyment of it. The hike home was started around 12:30 and nothing as stirring as the ghost episode of the night before happen-ed. Those participating in the hike were: Mrs, Charles D. Weirick , guardian; Marion Zellers, Elvira Ward , Miriam Bowman, Blanche Berger, Nancy Ham-mond, Roxie Phillips, Josephine Mack, Margaret Ward, Edith Stager, Eliza-beth Evans, Katharine- Funck, and Mar-garet Matthews!" MOTHERS' MEETING TUESDAY The Mothers' Club will hold a meeting next Tuesday evening, November 21, in the kindergarten room of the M, S. Hershey Consolidated School of Derry Township, Attractive speakers will dis-cuss "The Training of Fathers." The hostesses will bo Mrs. Thomas L. Mc- Hcff y and Mrs. Linn II. llnwbeckcr . All ladies are cordially Invited to bo present. HERSHEY LIVES ON THE TROPICS Remarkable Figures .Showing the Increasing Dependence of the United States on the Pro-ducts of the : Tropical American Countries If it were not for the cocoa and the sugar that are obtained -front tropical countries Hershey would not exist. So there is peculiar interest in a state-ment of facts and figures which the Department of Commerce at Washing-ton has kindly supplied to the Hershey Press. Note the marvelous increase in the importations of cocoa: 1905, 74,000,000 pounds of cocoa imported. 1915, 192,000,000 pounds of cocoa imported. . . 1916,. 243,000,000 pounds of cocoa imported. ¦ In the same period sugar almost doubled. The full statement of the Department of Commerce is as follows: More than a billion dollars worth of tropical products were brought into this country during the fiscal year 1916. The exact total was - $1,060,850,416, according to official figures of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, of the Department of Commerce, and this was a decided increase over $807,642,182 of 1915, the $505,511,552 in 1905, and the $303,476,706 in 1895'. These large and rapidly increasing purchases of tropical products consist mainly of foodstuffs and raw materials not produced in the United States and of certain others grown in our insular territories. Sugar heads the list, with imports valued at $314,000,000 in the fiscal year 1916. That sum represents an increase of $57,000,000 over 1915 and of $156,000,000 over 1914, India rubber, gutta percha, gutta joolatong and other substitutes showed imports in 1916 valued at $159,000,000 as against $86,000,000 in the preceding year. Im-ports of raw silk amounted in value to $124,000,000 a 50 per cent increase over 1915; coffee, $116,000,000, an increase of about 8 per cent over 1915; fibers other than flax, $56,000,000, an increase of almost 50 per cent; fruits and nuts, $55,000,000, a very slight increase; raw cotton, $40,000,000 an increase of about 70 per cent; tobacco and manufactures of, $38,000,000, a decrease of $2,750,000; and cocoa and chocolate, $36,000,000 an increase of 50 per cent over 1915. Other important items in this group are vege-table oils, $34,000,000, against $25,000-, 000 in 1915; tea, $21,000,000 compared with $18,000,000 last year; gums, $15,- 000,000, against $12,000,000 in 1915; dyewoods and extracts, $10,000,000, a-gainst $5,000,000 in 1915; spices, $9,- 000,000, against $6,000,000 in 1915; indigo, $8,000,000, against $1,600,000, in the preceding year; rice, $6,200,- 000, against $6,400,000 in 1915; and cabinet woods, $4,000,000 against $4,- 300,000, in 1915. Feathers, ivory, sago and tapioca, vanilla beans, licorice roots, opium, quinine-bearing barks, and sponges, in sums varying from about $3,000,000 down to less than $1,000,000 each, complete the list of the more im-ported tropical and subtropical products imported. The following shows the remarkable growth in the quantity of specified trop-ical products imported into the United States from foreign countries and its tropical islands, Porto Rico and Hawaii: Tropical Imports into the United States (In millions of pounds.) Articles 1905 1915 1916 Sugar 4,517 7,288 7,618 ColTce 1,051 1,12(1 1,204 Fibers 665 788 1,066 Rubber 68 196 304 Rice 109 280 2C8 Cotton 85 19C 233 Cocoa 74 192 243 Tea 103 97 110 Spices 53 60 83 Tobacco, leaf.. 30 53 G5 Silk , raw 22 31 42 MR. DIEHM'S NEW CAR Mr, and Mrs, John B. Dielim spent Saturday on a motor trip through the upper part of Dauphin county. The trip was made in their now Cloverleaf Elgin car which they purchased last week. MR. COPENHAYER'S CHANDLER George E. Copcnhaver, of the Hershey Industrial School, purchased a Chandler six cylinder car last week, It is a lata model and a beauty, The purchase was mado through an agency In Harris-burg. TWO NEW MACHINES SOLD J. C. Hess during the past week sold a King "8" machine and n Ford touring car. The- King car was purchased by Ira J. Bacastow of Horshey and tho Ford went to a parly at Swatara Station. CUSTOMER PAYS ALL IN THE END Simple Lesson In Modern Merchan-dising That Is of Large Import-ance In These Days of the High Cost of Things Policy of This . Store Prices of all commodities are increasing so rapidly that everybody will soon have to study ways of economy. The . time has come when the saving of the penny is important to every family. One of the evils that increase the cost Of goods is the abuse of the delivery system. Some people think that it is nothing to put a store to extra trouble. They forget that the store has to pay and in order to live it must pass this expense to the customers. It is the greatest mistake to think that the merchant who promises free de-livery is not including the cost of it in his bill. . Common sense ought to show anyone how plain that is. And yet customers would have the delivery wagons making extra trips all day for their special convenience. In Hershey the Department Store has outlined a system of deliveries that will serve the largest number at the most convenient hours, and it is striving to cut out'all the special trips unless there be absolute urgency for them. There will be a saving in this poliicy and it will be put in the lower cost of goods. In other words the Hershey. Store and its customers are about to enter into a plain, common sense cooperation that will save money. This delivery question is now a big one in the merchandise business every-where. One of the great merchants of the country is thus quoted by the leading business paper of America, The Journal of Commerce: "Good, efficient, prompt delivery is an asset to a store, and it is good advertising. "Practically nothing can be done except-ing to educate the public up to a point where it will endeavor to be fair to the stores as the stores are to . their customers. There are cases where a customer will see an attractive rug and order it sent home to see how it looks on the floor. Perhaps the next day we will be asked to send for it and take it back. It adds to our delivery costs, and we get nothing out of it, but what can we do? "In cases like this it is also unfair to the salesman, for when the merchandise is bought and then returned and credited, it decreases their earnings, or the earnings they expect, but we cannot refuse to accomodate the customer. "The delivery department is for the convenience of the people purchasing in our store. THE PRICES FOR GOODS IN THE DEPARTMENT STORES ALL HAVE TO BEAR THE DELIVERY COSTS ANYWAY, SO IN THE END THE CUSTOMER PAYS THEM. Still it is true that some people make this delivery cost still higher for t,he stores through being unfair." An illustration of how unfairly some of the stores are treated may be seen by the following incident: A woman phoned the hat department of a big shop and asked to have a man call for one of her items of headgear that she desired trimmed over, The hat was called for and taken to the store. The woman appeared next day and ordered it trimmed with a bow of navy blue ribbon; the trimming was done and the hat sent to her residence. A day later she had the hat returned. Another example of the unreasonable-ness of some requests for the delivery of merchandise is the following; A woman ordered some wooden button molds, tho total amount of the sale being about 6 cents, and she asked to have them sent to her home on 180th street and wanted them sent "special." Car fare for the delivery boy alone would have amounted to more than ' the sale, and tho store pointed out this to tho customer that her request was "slightly unreasonable." Tho woman had to bo handled diplo-matically, however, or the store would have lost her permanently as a customer. Tho manager of the store was wonder-ing if one of his competitors would have delivered that 6-ccnt sale. An official of another store, discussing tho high cost of deliveries and tho prob-lems confronting thorn, said: "The only thing we can do Is to try to get tho public to give our stores as fair a deal as wo try to give to everybody who makes a purchase from us. Wo only ask them not to bo unfair , and wo can only attempt to point out to them, when unfairness la apparent , that wo ought not to bo obliged to put up with it." LUTHERAN , DELEGATION E, L, Bomgardncr, Dr. H. G. Mumma, A. T. Heilmnn and Rev. John I, Mock, as representatives of tho local Holy Trinity Lutheran church , attended tho meeting of tho Zlon Lutheran church , Harrls-burg, last week. An organization will bo effected to obscrvo'tho Quadrlccntonn lnl of tho Reformation in tho Lutheran churches of Harrisburg and vicinity. 1 11I t IMtll • kl lint » tkl IM M( MM MI111 HIM t k M M11 f • 11N11111 M 11M 1 T I | J ril I (nil I • t t 11 • (11111M M11 HH ................................................................................. ....................... Men and Boys and Girls Over 16 CAN FIND ATTRACTIVE WORK AT GOOD WAGES IN THE HERSHEY CHOCOLATE FACTORY There are places now open for men and boys,and glrla over 16 in tho factory of the Herahoy Chocolate Company. Tho work is very desirable be-cause tho wages arc good, employment; la steady and tho surroundings are healthy and cheerful. Apply by letter or in person to tho Hershey Employ-ment Bureau. |