The Hershey Press 1917-01-25

              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."
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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
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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.
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MR. SNYDER. TO SPEAK
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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.
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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