The Hershey Press 1916-05-18

              HERSHEY PARK 'S
OPENING DAYS
Free ,Dancing Saturday Evening, the
¦ Stock Company Monday, May .
Dance Thursday and Great
M¦ emorial Day Program on Tuesday the Thirtieth .
.. Hershey Park has so many attractions
this year that it is obliged to have several
opening days.- The following big events
are scheduled : .
Saturday evening, May 20, free dancing
in the new park pavilion. Special music.
Everyone invited .
Monday .evening, May 22, opening of
the engagement of the Stock Company in
"The Man On the Box," one of the best
American comedies with a strong cast.
This company will be in Hershey a month
and will have two changes of bill every
week. Performances every evening at
8.00.
Thursday evening, May 25, Annual
May Hop. This always attracts a large
crowd., There will be special trolley ser-vice
with late cars to all.points. Aug-mented
orchestra, military decorations.
Flowers to the ladies.
Tuesday, May 30, Memorial Day,
many thousands are expected and when
all the attractions of the Park will be in
full swing. -
Thus from this week to next autumn
there will be something going on all the
time in Hershey Park. .There are new
restaurants, new buildings, a new .zoo
and more flowers and beauty than ever
before.
The Trolley Service
Last Saturday the Hershey lines took in
10,316 fares and of these 1686 were on the
Elizabethtown line. On Sunday the fares
numbered 7,561, of which 1816 were on the
Elizabethtown line. Daily travel is aver-aging
far beyond 6,000 fares. Thus is
seen the rapid growth of the system's
business. The new line ¦ to Lancaster
county is surpassing all expectations and
it has only begun to touch the traffic that
will flow over it. Tens of thousands of
people from Lancaster county will visit
Hershey this summer.
The service will be increased to ac-commodate
emergencies and those who
come to Hershey to spend the evening can
depend upon getting home promptly.
Cars will be run after schedule time when
necessary to carry late crowds.
People from Elizabethtown and neigh-borhood
can come to Hershey for the
dramatic performance and be sure of
catching a car for the return. They will
be able to see the whole show, Many will
want to enj oy the Malloy-Corinne plays.
A Capital Company
Dan Malloy and Hazel Corinne who
will be seen at the head of their.own Com-pany
at the Hershey Park Theatre, com-mencing
Monday, May 22, have just closed
an all-season run of stock in Toronto where
both are favorites. The policy of this
company differs from many of the others,
in as much as good clean wholesome
comedy predominates, with a tinge of
sensationalism and just enough romance
and sentiment to please all tastes. In
the "Man On The Box" which will be . the
opening play Mr. Malloy will portray the
role of Leiutenant Robert Warburton
originally played by Henry E. Dixcy and
Miss Corinne will be seen as Elizabeth
Annesley originally enacted by Miss
Carlotta Neilson. This piay ran for a solid
year at the Lyric Theatre, N.ew York,
The company includes artists of wide
experience in stock. Great, pains have been
vised in bringing together a company not
only capable in their differen t lines, but
who are also ladies and gentlemen , The
Malloy-Corinne Players come under the
management of O. E, Wee who lias an
enviable reputation for presenting clean
plays. In the supporting company may be
mentioned Miss Polly Holmes, Miss May
Eyre, Robert. Bennett , William Thompson,
David Slim wood and Chris Allworth,
The Fourth Anminl May Hop
Tliu Fourth Annual May Hop will be
hold at Hershey Park Thursday evening,
May 2ril.li, in (lie Now Dance Hall , Music
will bo furnished by an augmented or-chestra
. The llllings are to be military.
The hull will be beautifull y unci attractive-ly
decorated ,
The management, has made arrange-menlH
with street , car companies to run
extra late curs In return ' tin; dancers to
their homes, There will he special musical
features during intemiiHsions.
]| is I ho custom (iI. tliewi Annual May
Hops to present, the ladles wit h roses unci
ttirnii tlouB. This custom will again bo
carried out, I lundrals look forward to thin
dunce and there Is no doubt that (lien!
will he » very largo at tendance.
MR. PUTT'S FINK WORK
JnmeH Putt him done n remarkably lino
piece of work in tlui. large concrete base
and Hid four handsome urns of the now
nettin g of the Hint no of llio door in ller-tthoy
Park. All the work is now llnlshed
and ll makes u very handsome appearance,
Mr. l'uU made (ho designs and the molds,
The result, is altogether artistic unci It
attracts much iiUonlloii. The vases will
ho filled with (lowers,
HERSHEY TEAM
IN GOLF GAMES
Pla n is to Take Part in the Int er-City
Contests. Private Cours e Here is
Being Used More Than Ever
Dearie in the Champion-ship
at St Paul
Golf is. more popular in Hershey than
in any other year and there are . more
players on the private course on the
mansion grounds. This course is in splen-did
condition and it is doubtful if there
is a private course in America that is su-perior
to it. The new green made possible
by the removal of the old farm liouse will
be playable in a few weeks. .
. One of the plans of Edward Dearie is
an amateur golf team in Hershey to com-pete
in the intercity matches which are
held in the fall of the year at the various
country clubs. Already there are several
good players and others are developing.
Mr. A. Boyd Hamilton, chairman of the
grounds committee of the .Harrisburg
Country Club, is much interested in this
plan and he has been in correspondence
with Mr. Dearie.
On June 16 Edward Dearie will compete
in the National Professional Champion-ship
at Miendeaka Country Club, St.
Paul, representing Hershey. The field for
the championship will be the largest
and most brilliant in golf history. The
best courses in America will be represented
The course at Miendeaka was laid out by
Vardon Ray on his last visit jto this
country and is famous. Dearie hopes to
finish well up in the list. .There are ten
money prizes ranging from $300.00 to $10.
DEATH OF MR. W. C. ERB
William C. Erb, aged 69 years, one of
the most widely known men of this com-munity
died Tuesday evening at Glon-dinger's
hospital,- Lebanon, where he had
been taken- earlier in the day to undergo
an operation. He had been in good health
and his sudden death came as a great
shock. He was born in Bainbridge,
Lancaster county and was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel and Eliza (Bowman) Erb.
His father was prominent as a merchant
and lumberman.
Mr. Erb gave much of his life to educa-tion.
He was a teacher and for four terms
was a school director in Derry TowncSp.
He moved to Hockersville in 1873 and
built up a successful store. He won the
confidence of the people and for years was
one of the most prominent and most
popular citizens of the county. He was
elected county auditor in 1894; was auditor
for Derry Township for many years and
was town clerk. He was twice married ,
first to Miss Hocke'r and after her death to
Miss Saylor, who died in 1899. The sur-viving
children are Edna C, J. Clarence,
Alma J., Elmer E„ Clyde S. and Pearl M.
The family is one of the finest in this sec-tion
and' the death of Mr. Erb was received
with profound regret, He was a member
of the Reformed Church.
HERSHEY STORE BANQUET
The Employes Association of the Her-shey
Store Company will hold a banquet
at the Garret House in Elizabethtown
next Wednesday evening, May 24, Many
are expected to attend. The party will
leave Hershey on a special car at 7,30.
Employes living at Palmyra will be taken
home in the special car. It is the first
affair of this kind to be given by the or-ganization,
The officers of the association
are: President , S. D. Clark ; vice-president,
R, F. Hull; secretary, Miss Anna Lent!!;
treasurer , John R, JColl.
LIBRARY LISTS
GROWING FAST
Over . Two Hundred Members Since
the First of the Year and the
Total Membershi p is Now ¦'
Well on to Fifteen Hun-dred.
Books for Boys
Since the first of the year 202 persons
have joined the Hershey Free Public
Library, compared with 197 new members
for the same period in 1915. The increase
continues steadily as the popularity of the
Library spreads through the new territory
opened by the Elizabethtown trolley line
and in other directions.
This week thirty-one new volumes were
placed on the shelves. Twelve of these,
selections from the best recent fiction,
are in great demand, and all have been
made seven-day books.
"Heart's Content," by Ralph Henry
Barbour, is a bright summer romance of
New England.
"The Lost Prince," by Frances Hodg-son
Burnett, has fdrjts hero a prince who
does not know he is one, though he has
always the noble image of a prince before
him.
"Rich Man, Poor Man," by Maxi-milian
Foster, is a piquant story with
a surprising ending.
"The Light of Western Stars," by Zane
Grey, mingles humor -with its melodra-matic
plot. -
Helen R., Martin's latest book, "Her
Husband's Purse," describes the material-ism
of a Pennsylvania husband in con-flict
with the liberal scheme of life of a
young wife.
"Just David," by Eleanor H. Porter,
who wrote "Pollyanna" and enjoys the
distinction of being the author of three
of the ten most popular books of the
month , is another "Glad Book" with a
boy in the leading role.
"Steve Yeager," by William M. Raine,
is a good Western story with plenty of
complications, plots and hairbreadth es-capes.
/'Under the Country Sky," by Grace S.
Richmond, is an absorbing novel of a real
American home.
"Man of Music Mountain," by Frank
H. Spearman, a tale of the Rockies, deals
simply and.realistically with the elemental
things of life. • ¦ ¦. . _
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Booth Tarkington 's "Seventeen," is a
story of youth, and summer time and the
Baxter family, especially William.
"The Real Adventure," by Henry K.
Webster, sets forth a very real problem
of modern life and character.
"Rose O' Paradise," by Grace Miller
White, is a romance . with many scenes
laid among the "short-wood" gatherers of
Lake Cayuga.
One of the best short histories of Penn-sylvania
is "Pennsylvania, the Keystone,"
by Former Governor Samuel W. Penny-packer.
The New International Year Book for
1915 is a valuable addition to the works
of reference,
Some time ago three volumes of the
well-known "Rover Boys" Series were
presented to the Library, and these proved
so . popular among boy readers that the
entire set of twenty volumes has been
obtained.
BIRTH OF THE NATION RETURNS
Beginning today Griffith's masterpiece,
"The Birth of a Nation " is filling a return
engagement at the Lebanon Academy of
Music, Afternoons at 2 and evenings at
8. This is n fine opportunity, for Hershey
people to see this,bes t and most wonderful
of all moving pictures. The trolleys are
very eonvenien t,
SWATS BY THE SWARTZES
And the 13th Day Proved Too Much
For the Hershey Team
The thirteenth of the month and the
Swartz family' proved an unbeatable
combination for the Hershey Men's Club
baseball team in its opening game with
the Harris Park Athletic Club on the local
diamond Saturday afternoon, when the
visitors annexed a slow scrap to the tune
of 11 to 3. When Hershey came to bat
there was a Swartz to the left of them, a
Swartz to the right of them, a Swartz to
front of them and a Swartz .behind them.
The right fielder, center fielder , shortstop
and catcher all sported the same monicker.
And when they came to bat themselves
these Swartzes cracked out six clean blows,
one of them a triple in the eighth inning
with the rest of the family occupying all
the bases, which was the contribution of
the kind-hearted . fellows to Hershey's
Clean-Up.Day. .
Homer Dressier pitched for the locals,
and deserved better support than he had.
He was steady all the way and if the Her-shey
outfielders had not listened to the
little birds singing in the new grove around
the Convention Hall instead of grabbing
the flies that whizzed about them, or the
infielders had tanglefooted their gloves
and tamed their fractious arms, Harris
Park would not have trod upon the
"Welcome" mat eleven times.
Smith,' the visiting slabman, had an
effective out-drop that kept him from
being bombarded much, and he had a big
horseshoe in his pocket for use in the
pinches. With men on bases the locals
hit into easy double plays or forceouts,
and eight of them didn't hit into any-thing
but the fresh air.
The Hershey team looks about as
promising as the Athletics, did a month
ago. If Manager Brinser shows the shrewd-ness
of a Connie Mack the Men's Club
nine will develop into a lively organiza-tion.
Erichson played a good game at
second. Heagy and W. Dressier-each, belt-ed
out a couple of neat wallops. Ralph
Schaeffer pitched the ninth inning and
showed promise.
BRETHREN'S BIG MEETING
Henry 's Meeting House Was Crowded
All Day Saturday
Members of the Church of the Brethren
from over all Dauphin and Lebanon coun-ties
were in attendance at the Spring
Love Feast held at Henry's Meeting house,
just east of Hershey, on Saturday evening.
Over 300 members took communion -which
was administered by the Rev. Levi Mohler
Elizabethtown. Preaching services were
held on Sunday morning. Eight speakers
were present and each gave a fi fteen min-ute
talk. Many remained for, the Sunday
School meeting which was held in the
afternoon and there were over three-hundred
who took their dinners in the
church. Rev. Amos Koons of Union De-posit
and John Aungst of Hoernerstown
were in charge of the Sunday school ser-vices.
The church was crowded for all
services.
DEATH OF MRS. GARRETT
Mrs. Lhzabeth Garrett , wife of Cyrus
Garrett of Union Deposit , died last Fri-day
evening after an illness of several
months. She was 71 years old, She is
survived by her , husband and 9 children ,
22 grand children and two great grand
children. Funeral services were held on
Tuesday morning with the Revs. N, L.
Linobaugh of Hershey and T, Patrick of
Hanoverdale officiating, Burial was made
in the Hanoverdale cemetery.
LEVI ZIMMERMAN
PASSES AWAY
Death of the Veteran of Derry Church
After the First Illness He Ever Had
i Sold Mr. Hershey Some of the
First Land for the Present
Town. Life History
Levi Zimmerman who was 84 years old
February 22 last died Monday morning
at" 2.15 o'clock. His daughter, Mrs. John
Houtz and her husband were with him
when the end came.
Mr. Zimmerman contracted "a severe
cold 9 weeks ago while on a visit to .his
farms at. Hanoverdale. Pneumonia lafer
set in and was the cause of his death. It
was his first . illness in his life and he was
never bedfast.
He had been a resident of Derry, Church
for some 50 years. His wife, Elizabeth,
(nee Karmany, ^preceeded him in death
14 years ago.
Mr. - Zimmerman was the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Zimmerman, pioneer
residents of this vicinity. He is survived
by the following children : Mrs. John
Houtz, at home; Mrs. George Yingst, of
Derry; Mrs. John S. Shope, of Annville;
Mrs. W. H. Youndt, of Bushong, Kans.;
sons, A. C. Zimmerman, of Lebanon ; H.
M. Zimmerman, of Allentown. There are
12'grandchildren. '
¦" The funeral will be held Friday morning
at 9 o'clock from his late home in Derry.
Short services will be conducted at the
house by Revs. Sterriat of Abbottstown, a
former pastor, and Rev. Hilbish of Sun-bury.
Rev. J. C. Manifold of Palmyra
will assist in further services to be held at
the St. John's Lutheran church, Palmyra.
Burial will be made at Annville in Ever-green
cemetery in the family lot.
He owned two properties and store in
Derry and a farm at Hanoverdale and
Lyonsville, and some woodland at Gravel
Hill.
Mr. Zimmerman's career was varied.
He was born, in North Annville Township.
When he was three years old his parents
moved to Hanoverdale and there he grew
up. He had the life of the farmer's boy
and this open air work gave him a rugged
constitution. When he was a young man
his family returned to the vicinity of the
water works at Annville. He became a
boatman on the old Union Canal and here
he had some of the most interesting ex-perience,
of his life. He made the'trip to and
from ' Philadelphia and drove the , mules.
He witnessed the whole development of
transportation in America. He was em-ployed
on a canal that is now a memory.
Then came the railroad , the automobile
and the flying machine; Mr. Zimmerman
saw them all. Thus in one lifetime so much
qf human progress was crowded. Another
development he saw was in wages. He
received 50 cents a day for. an all-day job
on the canal; now the engineers who run
the locomotives that cross the old canal
get over ten times that pay for an eight
hour day, Mr. Zimmerman left the canal
because he was badly frozen in the hard
winter of 1852.
It was as a merchant that Mr. Zim-merman
was best known. For five years he
successfully conducted a store at Bind-naglcs
Church , handling general mer-chandise
and enjoying a wide personal fol-lowing.
Then lie erected the first store in
Derry Church and ran it for many years.
He built uj) a profitable business and when
he retired he was succeeded by his son-in-
law , George Yingst. In recent years Mr.
Zimmerman led a social life and was visited
by many of the veterans of this section.
lie was much interested in the growth of
Hershey and he sold to M, S, Hershey some
of the first land bought for ,the new town,
It is one of the plciisnntricsW the locality
that Mr, Zimmerman often said , "I sold
this land to Mr, Hershey on condition that
he would improve it, " Even Mr. Zimmer-man
hud many a laugh at the Improve-ments
that followed, Neither he nor any-one
else had the faintest idea what great
changes would come, Mr. Zimmerman was
one of tilts local people who believed in
Mr. Hershey 's big plans and who rejoiced
in llieii' .success. Mr. Zimmerman whh a
fiillhfu l Lutheran unci he assisted in the
erection of threo churches, ul Palmyra , at
Sniifl I (III and at Annville , For ninny
years lie w:is treasurer of the Palmyra
church mid was a member of its board at
the, time of his <)ei\lh , For many years he
was "n director,'of the Mutual Fire In-surance
Company of Annville,
MRS. HARVEY B. BITZER
Mr s, Annie K, Bluer , wife of K, B.
Bil/.er, daughter "f Kcv. Nliim and the
lute Kllznbolli Frnntz Hershey, died on
Sunday, She was born November M,
lH(il) , Mm. Bitzer was a member of the
Reformed MunmmlLo Church for fifteen
yt!iirn, She in survived by her husband and
two climghLers , Helen, wife of Edward
W, Seigier unci ICllniibeth , wife of 'IS,
Guard .Urban , her father , Rev. KIIhb
11, Uorslioy, one slater Mary wife of
Moni'oo M. Pfiuitz , of Miinhelm, (.wo
brothers, ChriwUun, of Dutvoil , "Mich.,
atld 12sr.rn, of Hershey, Pa. Brief services
will bo at her lute home In Lancaster today
with further servleo at Strntmo ..Church
near Eplirutn.
Transfer Exercises and Commence
merit of the M, S. Hershe y Conso-lidated
Schools of Derry Town-ship
. Will Draw ... Lar ge
Crowds. Graduates
The annual exercises of the M, S. Her-shey
Consolidated Schools of Derry Town-ship
will be unusually interesting this year.
The Grammar School transfer will take
place tonight at the Park Theater with
Professor El M. Balsbaugh as the prin-cipal
speaker. Those to be transferred
are: Charles W. Black, Pane Brunner,
Clair Balsbaugh, Daniel Copenhaver,
LeRoy Dowhower, Phares Eckhert, Alvin
McKmne, Paul Stoudt, Romeo Savastio,
Charles Ulrich, Clarence Von Neida, Hugh
Imboden, Kathryn Balsbaugh, Pauline
Edris, Lydia Fasnacht, Adaline Ferrucci,
Blanche Gordon, Sara Hanshue, Anna
Klauss, Kathryn Leithiser, Margaret Mil-ler,
Esta Murrie, Thelma Ricker, Eva
Runkle, Ellen Sholly, Carrie Smith,
Miriam Boyer, Edith Lefler, Francis Nye
and Martha Nye.
The High School commencement will
be held in the Park Theater Tuesday
evening, May 23, at 7.30. On Sunday
evening next in the Central . Theater
Rev. J. D. M. Brown will preach the ser-mon.
On Tuesday evening the speaker
will be j . M. Bechtel, secretary of the State
Board of Education. The graduates are:
William Balsbaugh, Minnie Whittle, Sara
Fox, Sarah Curry, Lillian Crum, Harry
Wirth, Eva Gruber, Elizabeth Copen-haver,
Elizabeth Forscht, Ethel Hocker,
Anna Gordon, Herman Wagner, and Ray-mond
Miller.
William Balsbaugh is valedictorian of
the class; ; Minnie Whittle salutatorian ;
Sara . Fox ranks third and Anna Gordon
has the class motto..
The board of the M, S. Hershey Con-solidated
Schools of Derry Township
elected A. Strasburg, oi Lehigli, as as-sistant
principal of the School for the com-ing
year. Mr. Strasburg is a graduate pf
Lehigh university and is teaching in Le-high
schools. Two other teachers are to.be
chosen.
CHORAL'S SPLENDID PROGRAM
Everyone Should Attend the Concert
Tomorrow Evening
Tomorrow—Friday—evening the Chor
al Society will give one of the best con
certs and entertainments of the season
It is excellent all the way through. The
society under Mr. Witmeyer and with Mrs.
C. V. Glynn as accompanyist has rehears-ed,
its numbers thoroughly and the two
soloists, Miss Johnson, the violinist, and
Miss Kreider, the reader, are both artists.
The evening will be an unusual treat
both in good music and in clever eriter-fainment.
There should be a crowded
house. The following is the program:
PART I
1. "Hail, Bright Abode," ... Wagner
2. "When Billows.Are Rocking,". .Geibel
Men's Chorus
3. Violin Solo—"Ave Maria ",, .Schuber t
Miss Elizabeth R. Johnson
4. "Pilgrim 's Chorus," Wagner
PART II
5. "Hallelujah Chorus," Beethoven
6. Reading— "Michael Comes Into His
Own," By Imogene Clark
Miss Kathryn Kreider
7. "Southern Melodies," Foster
Men 's Chorus
8. Violin Solo
fa) "Rignndon " Monsigny
(b) "Rondino" Kreisler
9. "Soldier 's Chorus" Gounod
EVERYONE WAS DELIGHTED
Spring Entertainment of the Y. W. C
A. Woa o Grout Succobo
It takes more than a rainy night, to
dampen the entluisinnm of the friends
of the Y. W, C, A, Tuesday evening the
Park theater was almos t filled hi spile of
the downpour and Miss Trace, Miss
Burch and Miss Oman who directed the
spring entertainme nt , were happy. The
program given in last week's Press was
a go in every detail, The cmilatsi was fine
and honors went, to Mrs, Bowman , Miss
Henry, Miss Kolllson and all llut Glee
Club, The comedy scored, with much
applause to Miss Hpahr , Mr, Campbell,
Miss Uolloy mid all the cast, The Her-shey
Band was unusually melodious , The
following girls took part In the drills
cleverly directed by Miss Burch:
Flower Basket Drill! Florence Cilpplo ,
Florence Snuiilh , Mary Magrlnl, Tressa
Magrlni, Violet Lane , Dorothy Hills ,
Sarah Crist , I2vn Imboden , Dorothy
Stover , Lillian Zenlmuyor , Inn Carpenter ,
Mildred Miller , Japanese Clirh: Ruth
Clark , Margaret Horner , Clara Hess,
Miriam Suavely, Grace Smith , Mabel
Cooper, Cather ine Carpenter , Elsie Lane ,
Glnditt Crist, , Josephine Gelling, lilvn
Miller, Indian Club Drill: Jimllnn DIh-singer,
Veriin Slucky, Esther Snavley,
Florence Landgrnf , I rene Gerber , Isabel
Fuller.
SCHOOL EVENTS
NOW AT HAND