The Hershey Press 1918-01-18

              Ed. Slesser Participated in Big Re-view
at Camp Gordon. Chas.
Shue Going to Egypt
Camp Gordon, Dec. 3, 1917.
Dear Mr. Snavely:—
Received your letter today and was
glad to hear from you. I thought that I
would answer and tell you what they do
with us down here. They started to drill
us longer. They drill us 10 hours a day,
starting today. Our general went to France
and the fellow that took his place is drill-ing
us with a vengeance. He drilled us
eight hours and then took us out for a hike,
but he forgot to hike us—he ran us for two
hours. You should hear the fellows kick-ing
tonight. Everybody is kicking. I
the quarantine camp fbr fourteen days.
Tiny Carpenter is in the barracks, Kelly
Field No. 2. Boyer, Mervin, Sipe and.
Shuey are in the same squadron. •' We are
supposed to go to Garden Citfr vN. Y.,
when we leave here. I heard from the
lieutenant that we are going to Egypt.
Yesterday I worked in the kitchen peel-ing
potatoes and onions. We get in the
kitchen by turns. If a fellow does not obey
orders he gets ten days, K. P., that means
work in the kitchen.
If you want to join the Army, join the
aviation corps, pick and shovel gang,
ha, ha.
I must come to a close, from your
room-mate, >.
CHAS. SHUE.
don t care if they drill us day and night.
I think I can go with any
^
pf them. You
said you are playing basket-ball. I hope
your team has .better luck than they had
in football. I heard they lost all the games
that they played. Is that so? Do you have
a place in your basketball team for a bum?
If you do I'll play on it if you get me out of
the army, but you will have to kill all
the Germans before you can get me out.
I don't want to get out of the army
before the war is over. I would like to go
to France but they don't want to take me
over. Tasked the captain twice to send me
over, but all that he said was "That is the
way to feel about it." I think they will
soon send us out ofjhere, but it is hard to
tell where we will "be going. From the
way that they are drilling us I believe
that they are getting ready to move us. •
At our last review on Saturday we had
5000 people from Atlanta out to see us.
It was some parade, John, there were
about 40,000 soldiers in line and it took
four hours for all to pass and you know
they don't walk slow in the army. If you
don't believe it, come down and march
with us for about four hours and you will
find out.
They wanted me to be a corporal, but
I djdn't want it. I am afraid they would
make me stay here in the camp and help
drill the next bunch of men that are
drafted. I don't want that. I want to
go over to France if I can. It is time to go
to bed. So long.
ED. SLESSER.
V* . Camp Kelley, Texas, Jan. 1, 1917. •
Dear Pal : \
I am dropping y«u a few lines to let
you know that I received your letter and
.was glad to hear from you.
I am sorry to tell you that I did not
receive the package y,ou sent me. I ex-pect
to get it yet. There are carloads of
mail at the station unpacked and car-loads
at the postoffice not sorted. It
takes five to ten days to receive a letter
after it reaches here.
Yesterday, three aviators fell, i wo were
killed and one badly injured. I find that
most of the accidents occur on the aviator's
last flight at this camp. If they make that
flight, why they get their commission and
then "go over there."
We are not allowed to leave the camp,
for we do hot know what minute we will
get orders to leave. Walmer and another
fellow from Hershey left but I do not know
where. Wetzell left for South Carolina.
One of the Sipe boys and Uhrich are in
Two Letters From
Hershe y Boys
Albert H. White, a Reformer--of Wide
Repute, Will Address the1 Men of
Hershey and Vicinity Sunday
Albert H. White, eastern-superintendent
of the American Civic 'Reform- at Harris-burg,
will address the men of Hershey
and vicinity on Sunday afternoon at 3.00
o'clock, at the Hershey Central. Theatre.
Boys under fourteen years, of age not al-lowed.
...C'
Mr. White has been engaged in reform
work for the past ten years/ and he is
thoroughly familiar with hi& subject. He
has assisted in running down a number of
criminals. Mr. White comes irell endorsed
by the press of the various staffed He has
held meetings in nearly -every town in
Lancaster and Dauphin cojinties, as well
as holding meetings in Philadelphia, Read-ing,
Allentown, Easton aid; other large
cities. He has held meetings .in twelve
different states in the Union/^
MOVIES AT CENTRAL THEATRE Don't miss Julian Eltirige in'"The Clever
Mrs. Carfax," at the Central Theatre on
Saturday evenings Jan." 19th. There is
something startling, something Fascinating
about watching the way Julian Eltinge,
the renowned feminine impersonator, fools
people in his screen adventures.. And the
way he so completely fools the "villian"
and eludes pursuit, is a never-ending source
of amusement. There will also' be a one-reel
comedy.' ¦ '¦-"[¦/
On Wednesday evening,.'January 23rd,
George Walsh will he shown-jh the 5-reel
drama "The Yankee Way," also a Hearst
news reel.
RED CROSS ANNOUNCEMENT
Owing tp the fact that ' the Central
Theatre Building will not ;be; heated on
Monday afternoon, the workers are asked
to be in attendance on. Tuesday .after-noon,
from 2 to 5 o'clock. :.•', .
CHAPLAIN RENTZ ON LEAVE
Thyfeature of the services at-the-Market
Square church was the evening- address by
Chaplain George S. Rents. "The Rev
Mr. »Rentz was assistant pastor of th^e
Market Square church up to Jjhe time when
the call for men became ldiid;'•.-Previous to
the time that he was assistant* pastor of this
church, he was pastor for-several years at
the Derry Presbyterian church, at Derry
Church. He volunteered, as a chaplain.
Men, Hear the ¦
"Nation 's ^Peril "
By the Capture of Jerusalem We Are
on the Very Edge of Fulfilled
Prophecy
The lecture on Sunday afternoon in the
Central Theatre delivered by the Rev.
Dr. George E. Hawes, pastor of the Mark-et
Square Presbyterian Church, Harris-burg,
fully met the high anticipations that
awaited his coming. His timely subject
"The Possible Meaning of the Capture
of Jerusalem," attracted much attention,
and the audience present, which would
have been much larger but for the severity
of the weather, eagerly waited upon every
word of the instructive and eloquent ad-dress.
It has. been spoken of as among the
best that have been delivered in these
union services.
Dr. Hawes traced very vividly the his-tory
of Jerusalem since it first fell to
Gentile hands under Nebuchadnezzar in
587 B. C, having ever since been 'Trodden
under the foot of the Gentiles," as it is to
continue to be, "until the times of the
Gentiles be fulfilled," i.Luke 21:24.)
By this capture, the last of- the three
great Moslem centres, Mecca, Bagdad and
Jerusalem, has fallen into Gentile hands,
which, in the weakening of the Turks'
morale, as well as an. event in the history
of the Jews and of the world, is considered
a most 'significant fact by rabbis, priests,
ministers, statesmen, and men in the busi-ness
and professional world at large.
When the British army entered the
Holy City—to its great -honor, without
violating any of its sacred places, or even
bombarding its walls from without, it was
the holy place of three religions,—Moslem,
Jewish and Christian. With the Turk
driven out, unless there is to be a rever-sion
of arms, and a German-dictated
peace, as we do not believe there will be,
we are on the very, edge of fulfilled pro-phecy.
What is to become of the Jew? Scatter-ed
to every corner of the earth, even the
smaller islands of the sea, fighting in every
battle with every nation engaged in this
world's war, looking for his return to the
homeland as he has never looked through-out
all these twenty-five centuries, an
outcast since the destruction of Jerusalem
in 70 A. D., never for a moment losing his
identity, though every other nationality
does here in America in three generations;
longing for the coming of his Messiah,
looking out and crying out for both His
coming and their return at each annual
Passover, the Jews as a people are more
(continued on page 8)
Dr. Hawes Gives
Splendid Address
The Big Dep^rtrrent Store Was Filled
W ith Buyers Saturday Taking Ad-vantage
jirf * Bargains Offered J 1 ~ ' » The Pre-In^entory Sale at the Hershey
Department Store which began on Satur-day,
Jan. 12t|, started out with a rush.
The store was) filled with customers who
were taking advantage of the many bar-gains
offered". |The severe weather during
the early part£of the week cut down the
attendance of buyers, but notwithstand-ing,.
were of sifii numbers that made the
sale a big success. The sale is being con-tinued,
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DEATH OF GORMAN G. ANDERSON
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The funeral? of Sergeant Gojman C.
Anderson, who Hied of pneumonia, at Camp
Lee, (Va., will lfs held on Friday morning,
at 10 o'clock, ^t the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. jjCharles -Anderson, of -No'.,
137 South Queen Street, Lancaster, Pa.
Services will foflow at St. Mary's Catholic
Church at 10.30 o'clock, with interment in
St. Mary's cerrtetery.
Sergeant AnMers^n was the first Her-shey
soldier toaose his life in the service.
He enlisted in |he Quartermaster Reserve
Corpfe Co., Ma| 16, 1917, and was called
into camp at Pert Washington, Md.jjuly
9, where he wag transferred to Camp Lee,
Petersburg, Vat, where he was made Ser-geant
in Truck Co., No. 329, at which places
he" dijed of pn&imonia at Base Hospital,
on January 13t|. He was twenty-six years,
three months and five days old.
Prior to his enlistment he was employed
by J. E. Snydtf-, as automobile mechanic
and driver for- a period of four years.
He is survived by his parents, and the
following brothers and sisters: Elizabeth,
wife of Christian J. Ruth, of Lancaster;
Misses Hester End Naomi, who are train-ed
nurses stat»ned in Philadelphia; Ser-geant
Robert, who is in service at Camp
Lee; C. Monroe Anderson, manager of
the Brunswicll garage, Lancaster, arid
Miss Bernice, a|h ome.
He was a member oir the Hershey
Volunteer Firefco. ¦The Hose house is
draped in resjfect to his memory. A
handsome flora piece was given by the
Fire Company and a score of it's members
will attend thesfuneral. ¦ .
SCHEDULE OF INCOME TAX MAN
An Income Wax Deputy Collector will
be at the Post Office in the f< illowing towns
on the dates rfentioned to assist in the
preparation of tacome tax re turns. ,
Lebanon... .1 Jan. 14 to March 1
Middletown.f... Jan. 14 tp 23
Hummdstow|... Jan. 2£j25-26
Hershey.... f.. .Jan. 28 to Feb. 9
Annville.... |... -Feb. lljto 16
Myerstown. £ .. .Feb. 18;to 23
SchaefferstoMi.. .Feb. 25-26
Fredericksbufo.. .Feb. 27 to Mar.'1
Every 'marrisl person living, with wijfe
(or husband) .m|st make return if net in-come
during l|l7 amounted to $2000/00
| or more. ^V Every unmawied person, or if married
and not living with wife (or husband)
must make reairn if net income during
1917 amduntedlto $1000.00 or more: Re-turn
must be made not later than March i.
Pre-In ^entory Sale
| Is Big Success
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