The Hershey Press 1909-10-22

              The Otterbein Men's Bible
Glass Awarded a Banner
One of the Glasses Having the
Largest Percentage of
Members in Line
The Men's Bible Classes from Hershey
and vicinity did credit to themselves and
to the towns that they represented on
Thursday evening in the great parade
at Harrisburg. For the past two weeks
the committee, composed of Rev. 0. G.
Romig, W. D. Long and Arthur Hocker,
left no stone unturned to make it "a
complete success. Arrangements were
made with the P. & R. railroad .to have
train No. 97, known as the "Flyer," to
stop here and take on passengers to the
Capital City. Although the weather
was threatening, in fact, it was drizzling
at the time, but this did not dampen the
ardor of the Men's Bible Glasses, for
upon the arrival of the train there wei e
57 persons at the depot to accompany
the party. The Hershey Band had been
engaged a,nd they tuined out in full ,
with but a single exception, and tney
furnished excellent music. Upon tne
arrival at ilarrisburg the entire delega-tion,"
haaded by the Band, marched in a
body to Second and Chestnut Struts,
where the parade was formed. The
parade, which.wa,s the largest one ever
-held in the Capital City, moved.at eight
o'clock. Tne route of the parade cov-ered
over fifty squares of the piinripal
streets of the city, and the delegation
from this place was assigned a place in
tirstdivision. It is estimated that there
were over six thousand Aien in line.
The great surprise of \the affair came
to the Otteib.in Men's Bible Class on
Friday evening, when the State Sabbath
School Association awar.ded_ .the prize
banners to the classas having the largest
percentage of members in line. One of
these beautiful banners was presented
to this class, the presentation speech
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Hershey Briefs
A Little About You and About
Your Neighbor
Mrs. J. Moyer, of Derry Church and
Miss Catherine Mumma, of this place,'
attended the. State Sabbath School Con-?
vention at Harrisburg last weekj as the
delegates from the United Brethren
Sunday School at this place..
John Kirk, wife and daughter, of
Palmyra; Prof. M. G." Oberholtzer, of
Bechtelsville, Berks County, and Fritz
Hendricks, of Carlisle, were the guests
of Rev. O. G. Romig and family over
Sunday.
A balky horse is the very dickens,
and Mr. Will C. Erb, of Hockersville,
will vouch for this. Experience is a
great teacher, and Mr. Erb wa"s"taught
a few. things as to just what a horse
will do -upon .certain occasions. As it
was, Mr. Erb was driving on his 'way
home on Tuesday morning and was just
passing Hershey Park when all of a
sudden the horse took unto himself a
notion that he would like to linger a
short while in order tha^ he might en-joy
the beauty of the surroundings that
lay before him, and he came to a sudden
halt. Mr. Erb wasn't feeling in a
poetical mood himself , and he "endeav-ored
.to show his horse that this was not
the time and place for any such monkey-fooddle
business, for it was getting on
to dinner time. His efforts were un-availing.
In fact, the more persistent
Mr. Erb became, all .the more stubborn
was the': horse. Mr. Erb met his
^Waterloo. - He pulled- the horse to a
post, and tied it, then proceeded to .his
home by trolley. Afterwards, he sent
down for the horse, which had by that
time decided it no bad idea for him.'to
be in his stall and where he coukl hear
the sound of "eats."
Mr. Harry Haverstick informs us that
he is awaiting the arrival from Holland
of 6000 stalks of tulips and hyacinths,
and will plant them in and around the
home grounds of Mr'. M. S. Hershey. ;
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The above is a picture of the Salem
United Brethren Church, located at
Hershey, Pa. Perhaps a few lines in
regard to its history may be of interest
to the many readers of "the Press. In
writing up the history of a church the
average reader must bear in mind that
it is always somewhat difficult to secure
the information concerning the earlv>
period of its history, on acount of the
fact that in those days no-accurate rec-ords
were made. Hence the writer did
not have acoess to any old records, but
the facts which are given in this sketch
have been obtained through the kind-ness
of several of the oldest members
of the congregation.
The history of the congregation .dates
back over a half a century. Among
the faithful wdrkers in the church who
bore the heat and toil of. the day in its
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A Brief History of the Salem U. B. Church