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DR. GREEN HERE NEXT SUNDAY At the Union Services in the Hershey Central Theatre He Will Deliver His New Lecture , "Th ree Bells." Special Music by Hershey Quartette There is a fine treat iri store for the people of Hershey and the surrounding country this corning Sunday. Dr. Francis Harvey Green will deliver his new lecture, "Three Bells." It is one of the best addresses of the year and is admirably adapted to the spirit and purpose of the Sunday meetings. Dr. Green has spoken in Hershey several times and his audiences have been larger on each occasion. A full house is ex-pected Sunday. The services begin at 3. There is a musical program of fifteen minutes and then the lecture of about forty minutes. The Hershey quartette of the Jvlen s Chorus will give several numbers, the members, W. L. Dubois, S. B. Snayely, R. H. Sattazahn and Dr. J. Lahdis Zimmerman. The meeting •will be conducted by the Men's Club, James Millard, president, J. M. Brandau, secretary. Dr. Green is one, of the able and brilliant stars of the lecture platform. His work contains much excellent humor arid is particularly strong in its appeal to tetter living. He has abundant idealism of the cheerful kind and he keeps his audience vastly entertained and interested. Ef-forts were made to get him to come to Hershey earlier in the season but; his engagements prevented. . The demand for his lectures takes up all the time he can spare from his work as the head of the Department of English in the West Chester State Normal School. "It is! a real pleasure to me to have another invitation to your interesting town," he wrote to the Men's Club. Thus far the union services here have been successful beyond all previous years. After Dr. t?reen the next speaker will be another star orator, Dr. John Balcom Shaw, president of Utica College, and the author of popular books, He is a speaker of great power. He will be here February 11. ' CLUB WORK IN Y. W. C. A. Under Miss Horrisby the Work is Progressing Finely Under Miss Mabel Hornsby the class and club work of the Y. W. C. A. is progressing with excellent results. There are five classes during the week, Monday and Thursday evenings, with an enrollment of thirty; Tuesday after-noon with an enrollment of twelve; Saturday with an enrollment of 14; Friday afternoon class with an enroll-ment of nine. There are two swimming classes, one Tuesday and one. Friday afternoon . There are eight enrolled in the swimming classes, making a total of eighty-five in all classes. There was started this month a class for small child-ren in rythm work. Children from two and a half to eight " years old are in this class. The fifty juniors in the Association are divided into clubs, The High School Club meets Thursday after-noon, the Loyalty Club Tuesday after-noon, the Sunshine Club Saturday morning, All the clubs arc flourishing this year. PRAISE FOR MR, ROBERTS Glove Tips, published monthly by the Morrison Ricker Manufacturin g Company of Grirnmel, Iowa, prints the following ; "The -winners of the "Grimmcl Glove" Window contest held the week of October 16th, by the Morrison Ruckcr Manu-facturing Company, Grirnmel , Iowa, have been picked by the judge s of the contest, the Hershey Store Company winning the first prize of $30,00 for the best display." , _j ,—, CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION An examination for clerk will lie held at the post office hi this city on Feb-ruary 10, 11)17. Married women will not be admitted to the examination, This prohibition , however , docs not apply to women who arc divorced but they are eligible for appointment only as clerk. Appllcnnl.fi nuiHl. bo physically sound , and male applicants must ho not loss than 5 feet 4 Inches In height In l>«ro feet, and weigh not lorn than 1213 pounds without , overcoat or hat. For nppllcntlon blnnks and for full Information relative to the uxnmlnnfion , qualifications , duties , anlnrlcH , vacations, promollohH, etc, address Immediately MIhh Hernia 1\ Moyor , Post offi ce, HE ALWAYS COMES The genial mid over-yotiiUful tax collector in pinking his rounds thin week, Ho reports progress but no great; en-thu siasm, Tuxes ns " nmml thin year belong to tho lilHher-coiiL-of-llvln fi family, HERSHEY SYSTEM ON THE FARMS How the Cooking for All the Units of the Industrial School Will be ' Done in a Central Plant. - Im-portant Improvements on the Hershey Farms Winter weather has not stopped the improvement work ori the Hershey farms. Perhaps the most interesting operation is the central cooking plant at Home-stead, which is the main building of the Hershey Industrial School. The old fac-tory building in which Mr. Hershey completed his experiments in chocolate making is being turned into a modern kitchen in which all the cooking for . the four units of the School will be done, A unit of the school is a complete set of buildings in. which twenty pupils are housed. The meals will1 be carried by machines from the central plant to the different units. Work on this plant was begun this -week. The Frank Keggereis farm on the Horseshoe Pike east of the present Industrial School is being converted into the fourth unit of the school. It will be one of the show places of Hershey. It has high elevation and a perfect view. The main house will be 34 by 38, two stories of stone, with a two story kitchen 14 by 26. It will have 10 rooms, new baths and shower baths, modern toilets, electric lights, and all conveniences. The first story will be torn out and re-built with colonades and bookcases and adapted to the uses of the school. Around the whole house will be a 10 foot porch. The top of the porch will be flat with fire escapes. There will be new extensions and a new roof.. New dormitories will be begun later. The barn will be enlarged and entirely rebuilt and will be converted into stables. The old farm house, about 200 feet from the main house, will be remodeled. This whole equipment will be strictly up to date. When it is com-pleted another group of 20 boys will be added to the school, making 80, James Putt and his force are doing the work. They have also other operations in hand. On the old Rudy farm the barn has been modernized and made one of the Hershey models. It is 40' by 98, one of the biggest of the Hershey barns. There is ample room for 70 cattle and 8 horses and the upper story will hold 300 tons of hay. On the Conewago farm an addition 16 by 34 feet gives one of the handsomest farm houses in the state, On the Joseph Eckert farm the remodeled barn is 40 by 80 and a new corn house 24 by 38 will hold several thousand bushels of com. On the Gingrich farm important enlarge-ments have been made, "On farm 19 in East Hanover a new scale house to weigh steers, hay, straw , etc., has been built. On number 30 box stalls have been added and the interior of the barn has been remodeled. An attractive place Is the new mechanical headquarters in the Hershey Press Build-ing for the plumbers, tinsmiths , painters and electricians, THE BIG MEETING IN 1918 Revs. I, W, Taylor , of Neffsville ; Jesse Zelglcr of Royersford , an d J II, Longcncckcr of Palmyra visited Hcrsltey lafit week and held a conference with John IC. Snyder, lino,, and others an to the details for the big meeting of the Brethren in Hundley in 1018. They will report to the general committee, Tho probability is they -will come to Horoliey again, m their meeting in 1915 was one of tho most successfu l in the history of the church. Men and Boys and Girls Over 16 CAN FIND ATTRACTIVE WORK AT GOOD WAGES IN THE HERSHEY CHOCOLATE FACTORY e There nro places novy open for men and boya and girls over 16 In tho factory of tho Hcrshoy, Chocolate Company, Tho work in -very desirable be-cause tho wages are good, employment is steady and tho ourroundlriKB nro henltliy and cheerful, Apply by letter or In person to tho Hershey Employ-ment Bureau, Bring re ferences. i ,...„ .......,.....,...»............. ,..,,.....*........... ,'....... .................... ....... TWO HUNDRED VISITORS Special Train Bring- * Fine Crowd ' of Students to Hershey A special train on the Pennsylvania & Reading brought two hundred happy young men to Hershey yesterday. It was the annual outing of the A and B classes of the South Philadelphia High School Boys. They left Philadelphia at eight o'clock and made their first stop at Valley Forge. They were due in Hershey at 10.30 but did not reach here until nearly li. The party went at once to the factory where special guides were waiting. . They saw the factory and seemed to thoroughly enjoy their experience. Then they were rushed to the Hershey Cafe and did ample justice, to the special luncheon which Caterer Krause had provided. They left on their special train at 12.30 for Harrisburg where their program included a reception by Governor Brumbaugh. They ex-pressed themselves ¦ greatly pleased with Hershey and said they would come again and-stay longer. : ? " " ¦ MR. SNYDER. TO SPEAK ©. i Meeting on Child -Labor at Young Women 's Christian Association Next Sunday all the Young Women's Christian Associations of the United States will hold meetings to hear addresses by prominent speakers on the child labor question. It will be a great national demonstration of the very, remarkable progress made in industry and legislation, and of interest taken in the cause by the leading organizations of women. In Her-shey the Association asked John E. Snyder, Esq., to speak and Mr. Snyder has promised a short address. The meeting will be held in the library of the Association and will be presided over by the president, Mrs. M. L. Hershey. There will be special music. All are invited, men as well as women. The ex-ercises will begin at 2,30 and will be over at 3, so that all can attend the union services in the Hershey Central Theatre where Dr. Green will deliver his new lecture. CHANCE TO GET ASHES FREE Generous Offer of Hershe y Choco-late Company Because it has had to use hard coal and for other reasons the Hershey Chocolate Company has an accumulation of ashes which would be very useful and valuable to farmers and other land owners. This is their slack season in hauling and so it is a time for them to profit by the offer of the company to give these aahes to all who come after them and haul them away. While there is a large pile at present it -would be wise for those who want them to act at once. •« FRED CLARK ALL RIGHT The wound in Fred Clark's arm caused by a gun shot late in November of last year is completely healed and tho arm was removed from the sling and bandau.es this week. He will have the full use of hia injured arm and hand, Y. W. C. A.. NOTES There was a fuui attendance at the Vesper services held at the association last Friday evening. Rev, H, II, Taylor , pastor of the Presbyterian church , con-ducted tho services. The association is organizing :i Mission Study clans to meet, every Thursday evening nt 0:45 P. Ivl , The class will be conducted by tho different members of tho religious committee, AGAIN HFRSHEY LED THE WORLD There Was. a Valient Effort to Beat It in the.Sale of Red Cross Seals But it Worn Out and Captured All the Honors . Even Honolulu Made Boast In the great sale of Red Cross seals in December the cry of every town and section was, anything to beat Hershey. Even Honolulu cabled that the people there were determined to show Hershey that it could not keep the honors any longer. Well, the fiijht is over and Hershey cleans up all tie prizes. As soon as the officials pass on the count there will be a new national and state' banner for the towm Last Friday John Yates, secre-tary of the Red Cross Seal Committee, came from Harrisburg to present Mary Keefer, of the sixth grade, Hershey School, with the $2:50) gold piece offered by the committee. .Mary sold 1247 stamps, the largest individual sale in any school in the country outside of Harrisburg. Just 83,673 more Red Cross Seals were sold by the school children of Harris-burg and . Da-uphin county during the campaign of 1916 than that of 1915, the totals announced by Dr. C. R. Phillips, chairman of the Red Cross Seal cornniittee show. The total number of sales in the Her-shey schools was 11,911 seals, the total lor the town was €5,800. Steelton's school total was 17,397, and the total for the town wes 27,897. The county total school sales was 78,128; the city 170,274, making a grand total of 250,732. In 1915 the grand total for city and county was 167,059. The total number of seals sold by the school children in the 1916 campaign— which ran throughout the week just be-fore Christmas—was 250,732. In 1915 the total number sold was 167,059. These figures men in actual money received from all sources during the campaign, however, the grar d total of seals sold in Dauphin county, for 1916 being 364,170, totaling $3,641.70 in money. Dr. Phillips, the chairman, pointed out, in announcing the totals, that the school sale which netted $12,507.32 did not cost more than $80 including all prize money to be distributed. "I feel that the people of Dauphin county will be glad to know of the really remarkable results of the Red Cross Seal campaign this year—results which were obtained, at a minimum of expense," said Dr. Phillips. "Hershey, as in 1915, has made a wonderful record," Dr, Phillips point-ed out. "Seventy seals were sold in the bustling little 'chocolate town' for each man, woman, and child in the place as against 26 in 1915, which was a county record and for which they reqeived the prize banner. Hershey this year wins a school banner for the largest sale of seals per pupil and Mary Keefer of Hershey wins the prize for individual effort on the part of school children throughout the county. " The High Salesmen Dr. Phillips announced that M.iss Blanche Meloy 's room in the Forney school building on Allison Hill had the record for rooms throughout the city schools with a total sale of 14,150 seals. In Miss Meloy 's room, Christian Sheets, alone sold 3, 255 seals. The Susquehanna was the high build-ing, an average of 2313 sales per pupil being attained . The total number sold by the 411 children of this building was 10, 100. The total number of seals sold in the city was 170,271, an average of 15 seals per pupil based on enrollment and Hi, based on average daily attend-ance. In the clt-y selling work Dr, Phillips said that a student in the high school who is to bti nameless wold 2,(K)0 seals; that Evelyn Mnir of the Susquehanna building sold 5,700 seals and Dickinson Johnston of the Camp Curtln buildin g sold 5,750, The Johnston and Mnir lad and las-sie were the two high record salesmen for the city and each received prizes of .1i2,50 for their splendid work. In the county wonderful records were made in many places. At I'axtang Frederick Holmes sold -150 seals;Madeline HolT , Lykorm, sold !,()»(), and she re-ceives honorable mention for Hie county; and Mary Keefer, who wins the $2,00 prize for the best county work , sold 1,247, Tho average school sale In the Her-shey scliooln wiih lfi.DH; at Steel ton it wits 15.5!) ; ond at Camp Hill , 15,.'IB. M1SSSTUCKEY INJURED Miss Verim Slucktiy was injured ho fondly In (i full "]>(>" Hi" toy . pavements Inst week f lint she curried her nrm In n sling for a week. Shu Ih a star member of the Hershey Girls' basketball team and her iihsuncu from tho (tamo was keenly felt, The game scheduled for this week with tho Ilnnovor girls will bo played lliu Inst week in January. MR. MURRIE ON FARM COMMITTEE Important Movement to Secure --'a Farm Agent in Dauphin County What it Means to the Agri-cultural Interests of the County. The Profits A meeting of representative farmers of Dauphin county was held at the Engin-eers' Society Club House, Harrisburg, to perfect plans for the Dauphin county farm bureau, which has for its purpose the securing of a farm agent from the extension department of the Pennsyl-vania State College for this county. The meeting was under the auspices of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce. The Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce is fostering the movement for a farm bureau and through its activity farmers in the county will be organi2ed. The bureau's members will be farmers; it will be operated by farmers for farmers The Harrisburg commercial organiza-tion ' will furnish headquarters for the agent who will be a graduate of the Agricultural Department of the Pennsyl-vania State College. In the Agricultural Department of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce which is arranging the details of the organization of the Bureau are: Donald McCormick, chairman ; E. D. Hilleary, William Jennings, William B. McCaleb, W. F. R. Murrie, Martin R. Nissley, Walter S. Schell and F. L. Wright. "The work of the county agricultural extension representatives varies with the needs of their communities, but in gen-eral is . addressed to the improvement of agricultural methods, practices and conditions wherever possible, through demonstrations, talks, and publications and through calling attention to good methods already . practiced by the best farmers of the community." The county extension work is thus briefly summed up by the United States De-partment of Agriculture. The county extension work in Pennsyl-vania, conducted under the supervision of the department of agricultural ex-tension of the Pennsylvania State Col-lege, affords some striking examples of results accomplished in counties where the work is under way. Up in Bradford, which is primarily a dairy county, wonderful improvement has been effected in dairy standards and profits through the agency, of the cow testing associations established through the efforts of the extension representative. Several examples will illustrate the nature of this work. The owner of one herd in the county had an ordinary looking red cow of unknown breeding. He had tried to sell her a number of times but no. one seemed to want her. Her pro-duction for the year in the cow testing association was 74,70 pounds of milk containing 407 pounds of butterfat. Her profit above feed cost during the same year was $113,30. No other cow in ih the herd made as much profit as this one. Some Fine Results In another herd there were sixteen cows with yearly records. Eight of these did not produce enough to pay their feed costs, ; Had the owner kept only his eight best cows he would have made a profi t of $55,00 more than he made by working twice as bard to keep the whole sixteen, The best producing cow in the association showed a profit over two and one-half times greater than the total profi t made by this .whole herd of 16 cows. It was such conditions as this which existed in Bradford County before the advent of the farm bureau leader, and which lie has since helped to remedy. A dairyman in one of the Bradford county associations gave the following facts several years ago to prove the immediate value which lie obtained as u result of haying his cows tested. Be-fore testing lie sold heifer calves for $20,00 each ., and bull calves for $5.00 each. As soon as he had his testing as-sociation, records he sold two heifers for $50.00 each and three bull calves for $15.00 each , milking the total increased receipts duo to tho fact that lie had records, $90.00, The testing repre-sented a cash outlay of $113.00 for tho year. In other words for every dollar he invested he received $(),<)() In return. It Is tho ability on the part of tho extension rcprenontnlivo to discover and apply a remedy to bad practices and to Increase agricultural profits to farmera In a county, which makes his work worth many limes the comparatively small salary necessary to command his services, A POPULAR DEPARTMENT Bin Improvements are being made in thu Drug department at tlie Hershey Store, All now fixtures of tho latest type have been added nnd a new modern soda fountain will ho Installed. Tho clnifl department enjoys a large piUronitKC nnd tho largo Increase In business made the improvement necessary, . Secret Ballot Take n to Find Prefer-ences of the Fort y-two Demo-crats Who- Declared Their Party Affiliations ' on the Registration Books A unique vote has been taken in Hershey in the past few days. The Democratic Committee sought the prefer-ence of the 42 Democrats whose names are on the registration books. Almost twice that number voted for the • Democratic ticket last November, but only 43 names are on the books as declared Democrats. The contest for the Hershey postmaster has been quiet but extremely earnest. One result is that the same names of Hershey men appear on one or more of the petitions, and there are instances of some good citizens signing all four pet-itions. So, the Democratic managers are trying the vote in order to find out who is the. strongest locally among the candidates. The letter and the tickets reached Hershey under the stationery of the Democratic State Committee. A ballot was mailed to. each Democratic voter personally and he was asked to fill it out without consulting, anyone or in-forming anybody he had received it. The four names were placed alpha-betically on the ticket as follows: SIMON P.. BACASTOW THOMAS BLACK . JOHN H. COPE FRANK ZENTMYER. The result of this vote is not known, as most of the Democrats sent back their tickets without anyone knowing how they had signed. This is taken as promising early-action on the Hershey postmastership. It has been hanging fire for several months, the delay being mainly due to the com-petitions of the candidates, all of whom are popular, PICTURES OF THE BETTER KIND Saturday, January 27—Pauline Fred-erick in the celebrated emotional drama, "Sold." This is a great five-part photo-play. Wednesday, January 31—Elsie Janis, the international star, in '"Twas. Ever Thus," a romance of the ages. This is a sterling Paramount feature. Large audiences continue at the Her-shey Central Theatre. They enjoy the fine pictures. REV. DR. BUTTERWICK HONORED A fine honor has come to Rev. Dr. Butterwick , pastor of the First United Brethren Church of Hershey, The East Pennsylvania conference took a vote for ministerial delegates to the General Conference at Wichita, Kansas, to be held May 16. Dr. Butterwick received .3871. He is one of the seven delegates thus elected. AT OLD DERRY Sunday was another good day at the Derry Presbyterian Church . The at-tendance, especially in the morning, was more than ordinarily large, and four persons were received into the church , three being baptized. Eighteen have been added to the membership of the church in the past four weeks, The Sunday School, Christian Endeavor So-ciety and mid-week prayermecting arc steadily growing in attendance and interest. THE ST0R7 OF A WATCH John B, Oakum was with the Waltons almost 42 years and ho is now the watch-man of the Hershey Press Building, His employees presented him with n Wallham watch. One day he wore it while plowing and it slipped from his pocket. It lay buried 23 months and then It was plowed up by z\ friend, Mr, Oakum took It to the watchmaker and with a few repairs the timekeeper Is Just as good as it ever was, THE FIREMEN'S SHOW The nrrnngunieiUH for the Firemen 's entertainment are about completed , nnd a packed house Ih looked for by the Com-mittee in charge. Tho date is February !), Do not fall to secure your ticket early, an there will be no reserved scuts, Owing to tho limited sealing capacity, only a certain number of tickets lire for sale at 2' ,5 cents each. HERSHEY CAMP BUSY Tho Head Ciuiip of' tho Woodmen of tho World wlU- meet, nt Lnncimler April JO, II , un ci 12, and tho Hershey Camp has been givun tho very high honor of putting on tho degree work before tho assembled delegates. ' Rehearsals will start, in tho Hershey Camp rooniH to-night nt 7,1)0 sharp and every member Is asked to he on lmnd. The noficu Is signed by Oscar Spnncnko , consul com-mander , cmri J2, R, Mays, clerk. HERSHE Y VOTES FOR POSTMASTER WHERE CENTRAL COOKING PLANT WILL .BE LOCATED
Object Description
Title | The Hershey Press 1917-01-25 |
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 | 1917-01-25 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
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Description
Title | The Hershey Press 1917-01-25 |
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 | 19170125 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
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Contact | For information on source and images, contact Hershey Community Archives at contact@hersheyarchives.org. |
Contributing Institution | Milton Hershey School |
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Full Text | DR. GREEN HERE NEXT SUNDAY At the Union Services in the Hershey Central Theatre He Will Deliver His New Lecture , "Th ree Bells." Special Music by Hershey Quartette There is a fine treat iri store for the people of Hershey and the surrounding country this corning Sunday. Dr. Francis Harvey Green will deliver his new lecture, "Three Bells." It is one of the best addresses of the year and is admirably adapted to the spirit and purpose of the Sunday meetings. Dr. Green has spoken in Hershey several times and his audiences have been larger on each occasion. A full house is ex-pected Sunday. The services begin at 3. There is a musical program of fifteen minutes and then the lecture of about forty minutes. The Hershey quartette of the Jvlen s Chorus will give several numbers, the members, W. L. Dubois, S. B. Snayely, R. H. Sattazahn and Dr. J. Lahdis Zimmerman. The meeting •will be conducted by the Men's Club, James Millard, president, J. M. Brandau, secretary. Dr. Green is one, of the able and brilliant stars of the lecture platform. His work contains much excellent humor arid is particularly strong in its appeal to tetter living. He has abundant idealism of the cheerful kind and he keeps his audience vastly entertained and interested. Ef-forts were made to get him to come to Hershey earlier in the season but; his engagements prevented. . The demand for his lectures takes up all the time he can spare from his work as the head of the Department of English in the West Chester State Normal School. "It is! a real pleasure to me to have another invitation to your interesting town," he wrote to the Men's Club. Thus far the union services here have been successful beyond all previous years. After Dr. t?reen the next speaker will be another star orator, Dr. John Balcom Shaw, president of Utica College, and the author of popular books, He is a speaker of great power. He will be here February 11. ' CLUB WORK IN Y. W. C. A. Under Miss Horrisby the Work is Progressing Finely Under Miss Mabel Hornsby the class and club work of the Y. W. C. A. is progressing with excellent results. There are five classes during the week, Monday and Thursday evenings, with an enrollment of thirty; Tuesday after-noon with an enrollment of twelve; Saturday with an enrollment of 14; Friday afternoon class with an enroll-ment of nine. There are two swimming classes, one Tuesday and one. Friday afternoon . There are eight enrolled in the swimming classes, making a total of eighty-five in all classes. There was started this month a class for small child-ren in rythm work. Children from two and a half to eight " years old are in this class. The fifty juniors in the Association are divided into clubs, The High School Club meets Thursday after-noon, the Loyalty Club Tuesday after-noon, the Sunshine Club Saturday morning, All the clubs arc flourishing this year. PRAISE FOR MR, ROBERTS Glove Tips, published monthly by the Morrison Ricker Manufacturin g Company of Grirnmel, Iowa, prints the following ; "The -winners of the "Grimmcl Glove" Window contest held the week of October 16th, by the Morrison Ruckcr Manu-facturing Company, Grirnmel , Iowa, have been picked by the judge s of the contest, the Hershey Store Company winning the first prize of $30,00 for the best display." , _j ,—, CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION An examination for clerk will lie held at the post office hi this city on Feb-ruary 10, 11)17. Married women will not be admitted to the examination, This prohibition , however , docs not apply to women who arc divorced but they are eligible for appointment only as clerk. Appllcnnl.fi nuiHl. bo physically sound , and male applicants must ho not loss than 5 feet 4 Inches In height In l>«ro feet, and weigh not lorn than 1213 pounds without , overcoat or hat. For nppllcntlon blnnks and for full Information relative to the uxnmlnnfion , qualifications , duties , anlnrlcH , vacations, promollohH, etc, address Immediately MIhh Hernia 1\ Moyor , Post offi ce, HE ALWAYS COMES The genial mid over-yotiiUful tax collector in pinking his rounds thin week, Ho reports progress but no great; en-thu siasm, Tuxes ns " nmml thin year belong to tho lilHher-coiiL-of-llvln fi family, HERSHEY SYSTEM ON THE FARMS How the Cooking for All the Units of the Industrial School Will be ' Done in a Central Plant. - Im-portant Improvements on the Hershey Farms Winter weather has not stopped the improvement work ori the Hershey farms. Perhaps the most interesting operation is the central cooking plant at Home-stead, which is the main building of the Hershey Industrial School. The old fac-tory building in which Mr. Hershey completed his experiments in chocolate making is being turned into a modern kitchen in which all the cooking for . the four units of the School will be done, A unit of the school is a complete set of buildings in. which twenty pupils are housed. The meals will1 be carried by machines from the central plant to the different units. Work on this plant was begun this -week. The Frank Keggereis farm on the Horseshoe Pike east of the present Industrial School is being converted into the fourth unit of the school. It will be one of the show places of Hershey. It has high elevation and a perfect view. The main house will be 34 by 38, two stories of stone, with a two story kitchen 14 by 26. It will have 10 rooms, new baths and shower baths, modern toilets, electric lights, and all conveniences. The first story will be torn out and re-built with colonades and bookcases and adapted to the uses of the school. Around the whole house will be a 10 foot porch. The top of the porch will be flat with fire escapes. There will be new extensions and a new roof.. New dormitories will be begun later. The barn will be enlarged and entirely rebuilt and will be converted into stables. The old farm house, about 200 feet from the main house, will be remodeled. This whole equipment will be strictly up to date. When it is com-pleted another group of 20 boys will be added to the school, making 80, James Putt and his force are doing the work. They have also other operations in hand. On the old Rudy farm the barn has been modernized and made one of the Hershey models. It is 40' by 98, one of the biggest of the Hershey barns. There is ample room for 70 cattle and 8 horses and the upper story will hold 300 tons of hay. On the Conewago farm an addition 16 by 34 feet gives one of the handsomest farm houses in the state, On the Joseph Eckert farm the remodeled barn is 40 by 80 and a new corn house 24 by 38 will hold several thousand bushels of com. On the Gingrich farm important enlarge-ments have been made, "On farm 19 in East Hanover a new scale house to weigh steers, hay, straw , etc., has been built. On number 30 box stalls have been added and the interior of the barn has been remodeled. An attractive place Is the new mechanical headquarters in the Hershey Press Build-ing for the plumbers, tinsmiths , painters and electricians, THE BIG MEETING IN 1918 Revs. I, W, Taylor , of Neffsville ; Jesse Zelglcr of Royersford , an d J II, Longcncckcr of Palmyra visited Hcrsltey lafit week and held a conference with John IC. Snyder, lino,, and others an to the details for the big meeting of the Brethren in Hundley in 1018. They will report to the general committee, Tho probability is they -will come to Horoliey again, m their meeting in 1915 was one of tho most successfu l in the history of the church. Men and Boys and Girls Over 16 CAN FIND ATTRACTIVE WORK AT GOOD WAGES IN THE HERSHEY CHOCOLATE FACTORY e There nro places novy open for men and boya and girls over 16 In tho factory of tho Hcrshoy, Chocolate Company, Tho work in -very desirable be-cause tho wages are good, employment is steady and tho ourroundlriKB nro henltliy and cheerful, Apply by letter or In person to tho Hershey Employ-ment Bureau, Bring re ferences. i ,...„ .......,.....,...»............. ,..,,.....*........... ,'....... .................... ....... TWO HUNDRED VISITORS Special Train Bring- * Fine Crowd ' of Students to Hershey A special train on the Pennsylvania & Reading brought two hundred happy young men to Hershey yesterday. It was the annual outing of the A and B classes of the South Philadelphia High School Boys. They left Philadelphia at eight o'clock and made their first stop at Valley Forge. They were due in Hershey at 10.30 but did not reach here until nearly li. The party went at once to the factory where special guides were waiting. . They saw the factory and seemed to thoroughly enjoy their experience. Then they were rushed to the Hershey Cafe and did ample justice, to the special luncheon which Caterer Krause had provided. They left on their special train at 12.30 for Harrisburg where their program included a reception by Governor Brumbaugh. They ex-pressed themselves ¦ greatly pleased with Hershey and said they would come again and-stay longer. : ? " " ¦ MR. SNYDER. TO SPEAK ©. i Meeting on Child -Labor at Young Women 's Christian Association Next Sunday all the Young Women's Christian Associations of the United States will hold meetings to hear addresses by prominent speakers on the child labor question. It will be a great national demonstration of the very, remarkable progress made in industry and legislation, and of interest taken in the cause by the leading organizations of women. In Her-shey the Association asked John E. Snyder, Esq., to speak and Mr. Snyder has promised a short address. The meeting will be held in the library of the Association and will be presided over by the president, Mrs. M. L. Hershey. There will be special music. All are invited, men as well as women. The ex-ercises will begin at 2,30 and will be over at 3, so that all can attend the union services in the Hershey Central Theatre where Dr. Green will deliver his new lecture. CHANCE TO GET ASHES FREE Generous Offer of Hershe y Choco-late Company Because it has had to use hard coal and for other reasons the Hershey Chocolate Company has an accumulation of ashes which would be very useful and valuable to farmers and other land owners. This is their slack season in hauling and so it is a time for them to profit by the offer of the company to give these aahes to all who come after them and haul them away. While there is a large pile at present it -would be wise for those who want them to act at once. •« FRED CLARK ALL RIGHT The wound in Fred Clark's arm caused by a gun shot late in November of last year is completely healed and tho arm was removed from the sling and bandau.es this week. He will have the full use of hia injured arm and hand, Y. W. C. A.. NOTES There was a fuui attendance at the Vesper services held at the association last Friday evening. Rev, H, II, Taylor , pastor of the Presbyterian church , con-ducted tho services. The association is organizing :i Mission Study clans to meet, every Thursday evening nt 0:45 P. Ivl , The class will be conducted by tho different members of tho religious committee, AGAIN HFRSHEY LED THE WORLD There Was. a Valient Effort to Beat It in the.Sale of Red Cross Seals But it Worn Out and Captured All the Honors . Even Honolulu Made Boast In the great sale of Red Cross seals in December the cry of every town and section was, anything to beat Hershey. Even Honolulu cabled that the people there were determined to show Hershey that it could not keep the honors any longer. Well, the fiijht is over and Hershey cleans up all tie prizes. As soon as the officials pass on the count there will be a new national and state' banner for the towm Last Friday John Yates, secre-tary of the Red Cross Seal Committee, came from Harrisburg to present Mary Keefer, of the sixth grade, Hershey School, with the $2:50) gold piece offered by the committee. .Mary sold 1247 stamps, the largest individual sale in any school in the country outside of Harrisburg. Just 83,673 more Red Cross Seals were sold by the school children of Harris-burg and . Da-uphin county during the campaign of 1916 than that of 1915, the totals announced by Dr. C. R. Phillips, chairman of the Red Cross Seal cornniittee show. The total number of sales in the Her-shey schools was 11,911 seals, the total lor the town was €5,800. Steelton's school total was 17,397, and the total for the town wes 27,897. The county total school sales was 78,128; the city 170,274, making a grand total of 250,732. In 1915 the grand total for city and county was 167,059. The total number of seals sold by the school children in the 1916 campaign— which ran throughout the week just be-fore Christmas—was 250,732. In 1915 the total number sold was 167,059. These figures men in actual money received from all sources during the campaign, however, the grar d total of seals sold in Dauphin county, for 1916 being 364,170, totaling $3,641.70 in money. Dr. Phillips, the chairman, pointed out, in announcing the totals, that the school sale which netted $12,507.32 did not cost more than $80 including all prize money to be distributed. "I feel that the people of Dauphin county will be glad to know of the really remarkable results of the Red Cross Seal campaign this year—results which were obtained, at a minimum of expense," said Dr. Phillips. "Hershey, as in 1915, has made a wonderful record," Dr, Phillips point-ed out. "Seventy seals were sold in the bustling little 'chocolate town' for each man, woman, and child in the place as against 26 in 1915, which was a county record and for which they reqeived the prize banner. Hershey this year wins a school banner for the largest sale of seals per pupil and Mary Keefer of Hershey wins the prize for individual effort on the part of school children throughout the county. " The High Salesmen Dr. Phillips announced that M.iss Blanche Meloy 's room in the Forney school building on Allison Hill had the record for rooms throughout the city schools with a total sale of 14,150 seals. In Miss Meloy 's room, Christian Sheets, alone sold 3, 255 seals. The Susquehanna was the high build-ing, an average of 2313 sales per pupil being attained . The total number sold by the 411 children of this building was 10, 100. The total number of seals sold in the city was 170,271, an average of 15 seals per pupil based on enrollment and Hi, based on average daily attend-ance. In the clt-y selling work Dr, Phillips said that a student in the high school who is to bti nameless wold 2,(K)0 seals; that Evelyn Mnir of the Susquehanna building sold 5,700 seals and Dickinson Johnston of the Camp Curtln buildin g sold 5,750, The Johnston and Mnir lad and las-sie were the two high record salesmen for the city and each received prizes of .1i2,50 for their splendid work. In the county wonderful records were made in many places. At I'axtang Frederick Holmes sold -150 seals;Madeline HolT , Lykorm, sold !,()»(), and she re-ceives honorable mention for Hie county; and Mary Keefer, who wins the $2,00 prize for the best county work , sold 1,247, Tho average school sale In the Her-shey scliooln wiih lfi.DH; at Steel ton it wits 15.5!) ; ond at Camp Hill , 15,.'IB. M1SSSTUCKEY INJURED Miss Verim Slucktiy was injured ho fondly In (i full "]>(>" Hi" toy . pavements Inst week f lint she curried her nrm In n sling for a week. Shu Ih a star member of the Hershey Girls' basketball team and her iihsuncu from tho (tamo was keenly felt, The game scheduled for this week with tho Ilnnovor girls will bo played lliu Inst week in January. MR. MURRIE ON FARM COMMITTEE Important Movement to Secure --'a Farm Agent in Dauphin County What it Means to the Agri-cultural Interests of the County. The Profits A meeting of representative farmers of Dauphin county was held at the Engin-eers' Society Club House, Harrisburg, to perfect plans for the Dauphin county farm bureau, which has for its purpose the securing of a farm agent from the extension department of the Pennsyl-vania State College for this county. The meeting was under the auspices of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce. The Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce is fostering the movement for a farm bureau and through its activity farmers in the county will be organi2ed. The bureau's members will be farmers; it will be operated by farmers for farmers The Harrisburg commercial organiza-tion ' will furnish headquarters for the agent who will be a graduate of the Agricultural Department of the Pennsyl-vania State College. In the Agricultural Department of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce which is arranging the details of the organization of the Bureau are: Donald McCormick, chairman ; E. D. Hilleary, William Jennings, William B. McCaleb, W. F. R. Murrie, Martin R. Nissley, Walter S. Schell and F. L. Wright. "The work of the county agricultural extension representatives varies with the needs of their communities, but in gen-eral is . addressed to the improvement of agricultural methods, practices and conditions wherever possible, through demonstrations, talks, and publications and through calling attention to good methods already . practiced by the best farmers of the community." The county extension work is thus briefly summed up by the United States De-partment of Agriculture. The county extension work in Pennsyl-vania, conducted under the supervision of the department of agricultural ex-tension of the Pennsylvania State Col-lege, affords some striking examples of results accomplished in counties where the work is under way. Up in Bradford, which is primarily a dairy county, wonderful improvement has been effected in dairy standards and profits through the agency, of the cow testing associations established through the efforts of the extension representative. Several examples will illustrate the nature of this work. The owner of one herd in the county had an ordinary looking red cow of unknown breeding. He had tried to sell her a number of times but no. one seemed to want her. Her pro-duction for the year in the cow testing association was 74,70 pounds of milk containing 407 pounds of butterfat. Her profit above feed cost during the same year was $113,30. No other cow in ih the herd made as much profit as this one. Some Fine Results In another herd there were sixteen cows with yearly records. Eight of these did not produce enough to pay their feed costs, ; Had the owner kept only his eight best cows he would have made a profi t of $55,00 more than he made by working twice as bard to keep the whole sixteen, The best producing cow in the association showed a profit over two and one-half times greater than the total profi t made by this .whole herd of 16 cows. It was such conditions as this which existed in Bradford County before the advent of the farm bureau leader, and which lie has since helped to remedy. A dairyman in one of the Bradford county associations gave the following facts several years ago to prove the immediate value which lie obtained as u result of haying his cows tested. Be-fore testing lie sold heifer calves for $20,00 each ., and bull calves for $5.00 each. As soon as he had his testing as-sociation, records he sold two heifers for $50.00 each and three bull calves for $15.00 each , milking the total increased receipts duo to tho fact that lie had records, $90.00, The testing repre-sented a cash outlay of $113.00 for tho year. In other words for every dollar he invested he received $(),<)() In return. It Is tho ability on the part of tho extension rcprenontnlivo to discover and apply a remedy to bad practices and to Increase agricultural profits to farmera In a county, which makes his work worth many limes the comparatively small salary necessary to command his services, A POPULAR DEPARTMENT Bin Improvements are being made in thu Drug department at tlie Hershey Store, All now fixtures of tho latest type have been added nnd a new modern soda fountain will ho Installed. Tho clnifl department enjoys a large piUronitKC nnd tho largo Increase In business made the improvement necessary, . Secret Ballot Take n to Find Prefer-ences of the Fort y-two Demo-crats Who- Declared Their Party Affiliations ' on the Registration Books A unique vote has been taken in Hershey in the past few days. The Democratic Committee sought the prefer-ence of the 42 Democrats whose names are on the registration books. Almost twice that number voted for the • Democratic ticket last November, but only 43 names are on the books as declared Democrats. The contest for the Hershey postmaster has been quiet but extremely earnest. One result is that the same names of Hershey men appear on one or more of the petitions, and there are instances of some good citizens signing all four pet-itions. So, the Democratic managers are trying the vote in order to find out who is the. strongest locally among the candidates. The letter and the tickets reached Hershey under the stationery of the Democratic State Committee. A ballot was mailed to. each Democratic voter personally and he was asked to fill it out without consulting, anyone or in-forming anybody he had received it. The four names were placed alpha-betically on the ticket as follows: SIMON P.. BACASTOW THOMAS BLACK . JOHN H. COPE FRANK ZENTMYER. The result of this vote is not known, as most of the Democrats sent back their tickets without anyone knowing how they had signed. This is taken as promising early-action on the Hershey postmastership. It has been hanging fire for several months, the delay being mainly due to the com-petitions of the candidates, all of whom are popular, PICTURES OF THE BETTER KIND Saturday, January 27—Pauline Fred-erick in the celebrated emotional drama, "Sold." This is a great five-part photo-play. Wednesday, January 31—Elsie Janis, the international star, in '"Twas. Ever Thus," a romance of the ages. This is a sterling Paramount feature. Large audiences continue at the Her-shey Central Theatre. They enjoy the fine pictures. REV. DR. BUTTERWICK HONORED A fine honor has come to Rev. Dr. Butterwick , pastor of the First United Brethren Church of Hershey, The East Pennsylvania conference took a vote for ministerial delegates to the General Conference at Wichita, Kansas, to be held May 16. Dr. Butterwick received .3871. He is one of the seven delegates thus elected. AT OLD DERRY Sunday was another good day at the Derry Presbyterian Church . The at-tendance, especially in the morning, was more than ordinarily large, and four persons were received into the church , three being baptized. Eighteen have been added to the membership of the church in the past four weeks, The Sunday School, Christian Endeavor So-ciety and mid-week prayermecting arc steadily growing in attendance and interest. THE ST0R7 OF A WATCH John B, Oakum was with the Waltons almost 42 years and ho is now the watch-man of the Hershey Press Building, His employees presented him with n Wallham watch. One day he wore it while plowing and it slipped from his pocket. It lay buried 23 months and then It was plowed up by z\ friend, Mr, Oakum took It to the watchmaker and with a few repairs the timekeeper Is Just as good as it ever was, THE FIREMEN'S SHOW The nrrnngunieiUH for the Firemen 's entertainment are about completed , nnd a packed house Ih looked for by the Com-mittee in charge. Tho date is February !), Do not fall to secure your ticket early, an there will be no reserved scuts, Owing to tho limited sealing capacity, only a certain number of tickets lire for sale at 2' ,5 cents each. HERSHEY CAMP BUSY Tho Head Ciuiip of' tho Woodmen of tho World wlU- meet, nt Lnncimler April JO, II , un ci 12, and tho Hershey Camp has been givun tho very high honor of putting on tho degree work before tho assembled delegates. ' Rehearsals will start, in tho Hershey Camp rooniH to-night nt 7,1)0 sharp and every member Is asked to he on lmnd. The noficu Is signed by Oscar Spnncnko , consul com-mander , cmri J2, R, Mays, clerk. HERSHE Y VOTES FOR POSTMASTER WHERE CENTRAL COOKING PLANT WILL .BE LOCATED |