The Hershey Press 1915-11-25

              Some Wonderful Things in
Hershey Chocolate Plant
How Efficiency Has Been Carried to
its Best Point in the New Equip-ment.
A Remarkable Eleva-tor.
The Water Supply.
The Sugar Refinery
So extensive has the . Hershey
Chocolate Factory grown that not
even half of those employed within
its walls know what it contains or see
the constant improvements that - are
being added. In the large the factory
is a great stone fortress with 35 acres
of floor space. In system it is a group
of over thirty buildings all connected
and duly related. And almost every
month a new building is. added.
But the great thing as in the- ef-ficiency
details.
The usual factory handling the
enormous business of the Hershey
Company would be spending tens of
thousands of dollars for hauling. Here
not a cent. The gravity system tum-bles
the products from floor to floor,
conveys them by carriers and picks
up their needs as they go until they
reach the freight cars all packed and
marked for their destinations. No
factory in the world does, this sort of
thing more amazingly and yet it
seems as. easy as rolling off the pro-verbial
log. i ' '
A.' new wonder is the flexible ele-vator
that picks up a bag of cocoa
beans at the east end of the plant and
deftly takes it to the floor and place
required, the operator simply touch-ing
a button for the whole operation.
It is so simple that it seems absurd,
and yet it is a marvel of its kind. ¦
Most factories have water for gen-eral
purposes and special water for
drinking. In the Hershey factory
there is only one kind—the best moun-tain
water thoroughly filtered and it is
distributed in pipes throughout the
whole plant.
Here ventilation is a matter of
science and the air is kept clear and
pure, with the result that the em-ployees'
of the factory are seldom ill
from any cause. There is health not
only in. all Hershey products but in
all their surroundings.
The new milk house is another ad-dition.
And do you. know that in the
Hershey factory the milk is not , only
tested before it is accepted but it is
put through a centrifugal process that
removes from it every iota of unclean-liness
? It becomes cleanest milk in
the world.
And the sugar. It is not possible
to show many people the new sugar
refinery because it is located in the
far part of the plant, but it is the
latest equipment of its kind and it re-fines
60,000 pounds a day. It is near
the chemical lobaratory and is under
the supervision of the chemist. Here
is another unique feature of the Her-shey
plant—a complete modern chemi-cal
laboratory where the Hershey pro-cesses
and products are under continu-ous
investigation.
The new power plant where the
stoking is done by machinery and
where special coal is fed into the fur-naces
upsets all preconceptions of a
place of its kind, ty is as clean as a
parlor and with its high walls and line
light has cathedral proportions.
Special Services in Derr y
Beginning, next Sunday evangelistic
services will be hold in the Derry
Presbyterian Church every evening at
7.45 o'clock for two weeks, Tho
preacher for the first week will he
Rev. Harry B, King of tho Paxton
Presbyterian Church. Rov. George
Fulton , minister of tho Mechanics-burg
Presbyterian Church , will preach
during tho second woolc, At nil tho
services a special song- book will bo
used, "Familiar Songs of tho Gospel."
The song services with which tho
mooting will bo opened each evening
will ho in charge of I. L. Rolnt , tho
loader of tho Presbyterian choir.
Thank sgiving Day Services
Tho congregations of Horshoy will
hold union services at tho Lutheran
Church of the Holy Trinity on Tlmnks-givlng
Day, beginning at 10 a. m.
Tho services will bo conducted by
John Irwin Mock; Hoy, N, U Lino-
Imngh , pastor of tho United ItniLhro n ,
will assist , and tho Mormon will bo by
Rov, Goorgo S. Rent/,, pastor of Dorry
Prosbytoriuii Church, Thoro wi ll bo
special music. All' are invited,
A Few Pr ize Porkers
Tho buUiluM'ing mmHon wuh begun
liliiH woolc and , many largo porkers aro
being sliutgluorod, Bumuol flimrmn
unci family nnslstod by George llonry
killed sovon largo porkers on Monday.
John H. Gordon with John II. Howard
as tho chlol" butcher , Hlauglitorod two
porkers weighing 1100 pounds onoh.
Aaron SIohhoi' and family butchered
two hogs on Tuesday that tipped tho
hcuIoh at 2H0 pounds ouch.
Trust Company's Message
Good Wishes and Congratulations On
the Blessings of the Year
The Hershey Trust Company sends
this message through the Press to its
many friends:
"President Vvoodrow Wilson,,/in
his annual proclamation, has desig-nated
Thursday, November 25th,
as a day of national Thanks-giving.
"In a year unprecedented in the en-tire
listory of the world, every loyal
citizen of this great Nation of ours
must have every reason to be thank-ful
for the privileges of peace and
prosperity that are ours.
"This bank joins gratefully with
our community in observing Thanks-giving
and will not be open for busir
ness that day.
"And, prompted by the prevailing
spirit of modern business, and believ-ing
that true thanksgiving is best ex-pressed
in Service to , others, the
Hershey Trust Company offers you
the Benefits of its good banking ser-vice>—
the advantages of its financial
strength and the courteous co-opera-tion
at all times of its officers and' or-ganization.
"T"o those whom we appreciatively
term our customers,—and. to those
whom we hope eventually to so term,
—we extend wishes for happy home
gatherings, family reunions, feasting
and general rejoicings."
Hershe y Band Concert
Next Friday evening, November 26,
in the Hershey Central Theatre, the
Hershey Band will give a compliment-ary
concert to the citizens of Hershey
and vicinity, at which time the follow-ing
program will be rendered:
Overture, "Morning, Noon and
Night in Vienna" Suppe
Selection from ''High Jinks".. .Tobani
Fantasia, "Grand American,", j .Clark
Memories of the "Sunny South"
Lampe
Overture, "Pique Dame" .. Suppe
Tarantella, "Forosetta" .. Arditt
"Songs of Uncle Sam" Hosmer
Selection from "Carmen" ... .Godfrey
March, "Militaire Francaise" Lake
Star Spangled Banner
The public is cordially invited.
Mothers ' Club Meeting
The Mothers' Club met Tuesday
evening in the School Building. Im-portant
work was done. This club is
larger than ever and the interest in
its program grows constantly. .. At
Tuesday evening's meeting there was
a. round table talk that was very in-teresting.
It concerned various chil-dren
's problems. The hostesses were
Mrs. E. F. Hershey and Mrs. J. Hills.
Saturda y's Great Game
Hershey and Palmyra Are in Shape
For an Earnest Contest
Hershey's most interesting athletic
event of the fall season will take place
on this coming Saturday at the Park
athletic field when the local football
eleven will meet the Palmyra
For the past two seasons
these clubs have been meet-ing
and all tho games have
been well played and much
interest has been shown. In
order that the Hershey team
shall have the best encour-agement
from the local root-ers,
a booster meeting will
bo held at the club this Fri-day
evening and songs and
yells will bo rehearsed. . The
Herflhey band will also bo
present if tho weather is
favorable. Palmyra will also
bring a large delegation of
followers and there will bo
team
plenty of excitement and
noiso.
Both teams have enjoyed
thei r most successful seasons
and both aro confident of
victory. Although Palmyra
has never boon able to
register a victory over tho
Horshoy eleven they aro
banking on Winning Satur-day
's conflict. Thoy hnvo
improved their team during
the past woolc and will enter
into> the game confident of
victory.
Tho Iloi'fihoy playoi'H liavo
shown more Interests tho past
woelc than any time this sea-son
and aro working hnrd on
now plays and signals with
will oh thoy hope to overthrow
their rivals. Horshoy will
present thoir regular line-up:
O. Horrtnor , .). Hordnor ,
Dourolf , J, Mailono , Nowlyn ,
]irynon , KoinlK, Kontmoyor ,
M, SIohho p , liollingH Worth ,
Sollonborgur , Tobias and
Made. All the playoi 'H uro in
tho iplulc of condition ,
Followers of both Uianis
will bo glad to loani thitt ; two
very good ofllclals In Ross
Rout) Swart/, and Joseph Hol«
linger hnvo boon soon rod to
handle, tho giuno, Both are
muniborH of tho Lebanon
Valley College squad and
both considered authorities on
tho gnmo. The game will bo
call ed promptl y i\t !! o'clock.
Tho gaino lias attracted wide
attention and many football
lovers from tho surrounding
towns will bo on hand , •Hor-shey
expects to win.
Special Meeting at the Young Wo-men's
Christian Association Was
• Marked by Many Pleasant
Features and the Address
Was One of the Best
Friday evening was an impressive
occasion at .the Young Women's Chris-tian
Association. It was a special
meeting to hear Miss Mabel Nelson
Thurston ' of Washington. , . Miss
Thurston is one of the most success-ful
volunteer workers in the associa-tion.
In Washington she.conducts a
remarkable Bible class in which the
members have many practical ac-tivities,
and so unusual has been her
work that she is one of the favorite
speakers at Y: W. C. A. meetings.
At the meeting Miss Mary Loeb
presided. The Glee Club fourteen
strong made its first appearance of
the season and sang beautifully. The
association clubs, including the Otter-bein
Guild Girls, marched in and made
a fine opening for the program. The
clubs are larger than ever and they
are proud of their banners.
Miss Thurston spoke of the larger
life. The greatest thing ' is to live,
It is possible to live to the full orbit
of opportunity. The way to this
greater joy and usefulness is through
the development of the spirit. The
doing of good broadened the mind and
the soul. Duty was a profitable teach-er.
In all these things the Y. W. C,
A. helped and those who take advant-age
of its plans and ideals move into
a higher sphere of contentment and
usefulness. Miss Thurston captivat-ed
her audience and although she
spoke the better part of an hour she
was importuned to talk to the girls
informally for another hour. The
whole meeting was fine. More than
sixty were present.
During the special half hour pre-ceding
the Sunday Union Services
over 100 colored pictures showing the
Young -Women's Christian Association
in different parts of the world and its
wide scope of work and its noble
buildings were shown on the screen.
Miss Alice Elder gave interesting ac-counts-
of them. Miss Mary Leob led
the devotional part of the program.
Mrs. C.'V.. Glynn was at the piano.
Live Well the Full Life
Was Miss Thurston 's Message
Mr. and Mrs. Hershey's Part y
In Honor of Mr. and Mrs. C. Edwin
Dearnley of Germantown
A delightful event of the social sea-son
was the party given last Thursday
evening by Mr. and Mrs. Ezra F.
Hershey in honor of Mr. and Mrs. C.
Edwin Dearnley of Germantown.
Mrs. Dearnley was formerl y Miss
Margaret Leithiser, one of the lovli-est
and most popular, girls of Hershey.
The bridal trip recently-ended was to
the Pacific Coast and through the
Panama Canal.
Mr. and Mrs. Hershey turned the
Hershey Cafe into a bower of beauty.
It was a bridal feast of color arid de-sign
and was a tribute to the young
folks. The artist of the occasion was
E. J. Krause and he outdid himself in
his work. In the center of the main
dining room was a great wedding bell
of white with decorations and below
it was the playing fountain. The
chandaliers were draped in many col-ors.
The treatment of the walls was
profuse and artistic and there was
abundant use of colored lights. ¦ The
tables radiated from the fountain with
the huge wedding bell as the central
theme. The whole effect was ex-quisite
and the decorations were pro-nounced
the handsomest ever seen in
Hershey. , The supper was elaborate
and was served in courses. Cards fol-lowed.
There was a special orchestra
which played throughout the evening.
The guests were:
Hummelstown—Mr. and Mrs. Allen
G. Walton, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T.
Fox, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Walton, Mr.
arid Mrs. J. Landis Strickler, Dr. and
Mrs. M. L. Nissley, Miss Emma Wal-ton
, Miss Carroll Walton, Miss Alma
Hershey, Miss Clara Walmer, Russell
Stoner; LeRoy Holler, William Gaus.
Hershey—Miss May Hershey, Miss
Bertha Leibhart, Mr. and Mrs. W. F.
R. Murrie, Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Herr,
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Snavely, J. B,
Leithiser, M. S. Hershey, F. C. Snave-ly,
George Shearer, William Curtis..
Hockersville—Elmer Erb.
Philadelphia—Mr. and Mrs. C. Ed-win
Dearnley.
Reading—Mr. and Mrs. D. Erman-trout,
Miss Anna Schaeffer, Miss Ruth
Schaeffer.
Lancaster—Mr. and ' Mrs. Edward
Seigler, Mr. and Mrs. E. Guard Urban,
Mr., and Mrs. J. Roland Gilbert.
Those in the receiving line were:
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra F. Hershey, Mr.
and Mrs. C. Edwin Dearnley, J. B.
Leithiser, Mr. and Mrs. D. Erman-trout
and Misses Ruth and Anna
Schaeffer.
The prizes were : -Ladies, first, Mrs.
W. F. R. Murrie; second, Mrs. M. L.
Nissley; third , Miss Bertha Leibhart.
Gentlemen 's, first , Robert T. Fox; sec-ond
, J, B. Leithiser; third , E. Guard
Urban.
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He Will be . the Orator at the Sunday
Afternoon Union Services in the
Hershey Central Theater. .
'Dr. Ferguson Spoke on .
the Home. . Music
The Sunday afternoon Union Ser-vices
. in the' Hershey Central Theater
continue to draw large audiences and
many come from the nearby towns.
Last Sunday there were people from
Harrisburg and Lebanon and many
from both Palmyra and Hummels-town.'
The meetings have not struck
their right gait yet, but there is as-surance
in the coming attractions and
it will be worth while not to miss any
service during the rest of the season.
Next Sunday the speaker will be
Dr. Charles William Heathcote and he
will speak on "Optimism.". Regard-ing
Dr. Heathcote the following comes
from Dr. Wm. J. Gies, Director
Biological Chemistry, Columbia Uni-versity,
New York City :
"I have had the pleasure of a long
and intimate acquaintance with Dr.
Heathcote. He is an able, impressive
arid magnetic orator, with a winning
personality grounded in Christian
character, with high talents devoted
unselfishly to public service, and with
a leader's voice that speaks the op-timism
and courage of youth, con-viction
and high purpose in the lan-guage
of faith , and hope and charity.
His training for the pulpit and - plat-form
has been exceptionally broad and
deep. His comprehension of religious,
social, literary and civic History, con-ditions
and problems is remarkable,
and his mastery of the. art of crystal-lizing
the essence . of complicated
questions and situations into , concise
and lucid expression imparts delight-ful
effectiveness and easy understand-ing
to all his , lectures and addresses.
Dr. Heathcote embodies and continues
the noblest traditions of the American
platform."
Last Sunday the leader for the day
was S. D. Clark; the clergyman Rev.
G. S. Rentz ; the director H. G. Wit-meyer
and the accompanist E.. J.
Krause. Miss Pauline Clark and Mr.
Witmeyer sang a very effective, duet.
The speaker was Rev. Dr. Ferguson
of Philadelphia who told of the lights
and shadows of the home. He held
his audience for an hour and a half
and parts of his address were fine. It
was interspersed with stories.
Charles William Heathcote
Messenger of Sunshine
Contest Still On ¦ The contest of the Juniors is grow-ing
more exciting. The Old Roses
have 11 points and their flag flies
from the pole. But the Elves have 9
points and they are busy. The older
Juniors are acting as big sisters.
Everybod y Please Get Busy
and Kill the Winter Fly
If This be Done the Campaign Will be
Practically Won and Hershey Will
Have Few if Any Flies Next
Spring and Summer.
Good Movement
Now is the time to kill every fly in
sight and to keep on killing them un-til
the winter flies in Hershey are de-stroyed.
If this be done faithfully and
generally Hershey will be a flyless
town in 1916,
The fly crusade was started in Her-shey
early this year. A public meet-ing
was held in Hershey Central
Theater and Dr. Dawson, who had
done notable- work in Cleveland, was
secured to give a practical explana-tion
and to tell just how fly eradica-tion
should be done. The result of
this meeting was the organization of
a general committee and the syste-matic
districting of Hershey and Der-ry
Church, forty of the leading citi-zens
cordially cooperating in the
plans. The head of the committee
was W. F. R. Murrie and the secretary
and expert was W. L. Dubois.
Mr. Murrie in discussing the sum-mer's
campaign said undoubted good
had been accomplished and that there
were fewer flies in Hershey than in
previous summers. It was not expect-ed
that the whole fight would be won
in , a single season. The big thing
done was educating the community ,to
regard the fly/as a public enemy and
training men, women and children to
swat every fly they could. In , this
way millions were destroyed and the
evil was very considerably mitigated.
In fact, until midsummer there were
practically no flies in Hershey. Later
it was found that one or two men
were keeping manure piles and these
became . breeding places that supplied
the whole neighborhood with more
flies than it wanted. Counting every-thing,
the campaign was a success,
and one of its best results was the
thorough collecting and the incinera-tion
of the garbage. With due dili-gence
Mr. Murrie thought the flies can
be driven out of Hershey next year.
Mr. Dubois said the thing to . do now
is to kill the mother flies that last
over the winter and breed the . new
crops. It can be done if all will unite
in the work. Every mother fly killed
means thousands less next year. He
believed that the fly eradication cam-paign
had done valuable educational
work and that the people understood
the harmfulness of this pest and the
need of driving it out of Hershey.
In the well-known fly catachism dis-tributed
by the committee last spring
was, the following: . ¦ .
Are there flies in Hershey and Der-ry
Church all the year around ?
Yes. In winter they may be seen
active in places kept warm enough,
Where it is cold, they hide in cracks
and come out in the spring.
Do many flies live over winter?
No.- Only a few young mother
flies survive. The rest die before
spring,
What do flies do in the spring?
Thoy begin feeding actively and
soon commence laying eggs. For this
purpose they go out of the buildings,
and seek preferably horse manure; if
they cannot find this, they may lay
their ogRs in any wet rotting, animal
or ' vegetable matter. Thoy find this
matter by smell , even though we may
not notice any odor.
How many egg's does a fly lay ?
About 120 to 150 at a laying and a
fly may live to lay six times,
How long does a fly live ?
About three month s in summer.
Thoy may live much longer in the win-tor.
How many files may breed from a
pair in spring?
Allowing six batches of 1G0 each ,
supposing all to live and find filth to
brood In , the number would bo 101,-
010,000,000,000,000,000, enough to
Jniry tho entire earth 47 foot (loop.
Why not kill tho fly in tho winter or
early spring ?
Do llershoy and Dorry Church raise
thoir own flies ?
Practically all tho flios of Horshoy
and Dorry Church brood in tho town.
What particul ar good would, come
from killing winter flies?
Killing tho fllos that live over win-tor
mount) killing tho mother flios be-fore
thoy can lay oggs in tho spring.
If wo did cloun up all tho manure
and filth from tho neighborhood , would
not fllos swarm la from other parts ?
A fly seldom travels ovor flvo hun-dred
yiirdH from its broodin g place.
Picture Program for the Week
TliniikHglving night—Mary Pickford
In "Cinderella ," n capital picture.
Saturday, Novem ber 27—"Tho Mil-lionaire
liixhy," by Anna Kathorlno
Croon,
Monday, November 20—"Tho Lion
of Venice" In 0 parts.
Wednesday, December l-j ."Silvor
Threads Among tho Gold," in (5 parts,
with Richard .1, Joso.
Largo audiences continue and tho
moving picture season Is n big suc-cess.
Here wc have a picture of pence anc| beauty, a true expression of what Thnnksgivinp; means to America and espe-cially
to Lebanon Valley. It is the year of the largest crops in the Notion 's history , the record production of its fields
and pastures and its herds and (locks. This particular view is n meadow on one of the Hershey farm s,