The Hershey Press 1918-04-25

              A Performance That Will Be Worth
Going Miles to See. Come One
Come All. Popular Prices
Hershey is going to have a real minstrel
sshow on Thursday evening, May 2nd,
and it will be held at the Hershey Park
Theatre. The minstrel show will be held
for the benefit of the Hershey Volunteer
Fire Company. Tickets are 10c, 20c
and 30c.
Twenty or more young men have been
practicing for quite some time, and they,
from what we hear, will give a rattling
good show.
Tom Black will represent a tallow face
colored barber from Lancaster; Billy
Brinker will represent a chocolate cream
drop; Dave Ditzler will represent a
Chink Laundry colored gemmen; and
Jno. F. Snavely will represent the porter
at the Hershey Employment Bureau.
These end men have a lot of new jokes, of
a local turn, and quite a number of old
ones—they will do all in their power to
make a laugh.
Miss Katherine Mumma has had some
task on her hands training the chorus,
composed of twenty voices, and she has
done a good j ob of it.
The show will open with a grand chorus
aided by the funny end men. Russel
Clark then follows with a solo "Wait Until
the American Reaches Berlin." The
third number on the program will be by
the quartet, composed of Fred. Clark,
James Wiley, Peter Brunner, and C. L.
Peiffer, who will warble "The Blue Bird
Will Soon Blow This Way." Mr. Wiley
will then have the spot-light and will sing
tha wonderful ditty, "Mt. Joy is the
Capital of Pennsylvania." The next
solo number will be by Fred Clark, who
will sing that popular ballad "Miss Eliza
Jane." Last by not least will be the grand
finale, by the chorus, with Russell Clark
in the solo part, singing Keep the Home
Fires Burning.
In the olio Noah Klauss will demonstrate
the wonderful capabilities of the violin,
and will play some of the classics as well
as some of the more popular airs.
Frantz Zinner is going to stage a big
act. He has kept the act a secret, but it
has been noised around that it will be a
combination consisting of barn-yard circus
and sleight-of-hand performance and a
Punch and Judy show. Frantz believes
in putting on an act that is bound to
please someone. We may rest assured,
however, that it will be a typical Zinner
masterpiece, and worth seeing.
Wm. Harvey, will again put on his Harry
Lauder suit, and give a real Scotch lassie
song and a Highland fling, that will top
off the evening.
So that everybody will get the worth of
their money, moving pictures will be
shown between the acts.
The Hershey Orchestra will play, and
that alone is worth the price of admission.
Surely the Hershey Park Theatre should
be filled to overflowing . The proceeds will
be for a good cause, and besides, you will
put on two and a half pounds of fat laugh-ing
at the wonderful antics of the funny
men.
Doutrichs, of Harrisburg, have loaned
the full dress suits to the minstrels, and
(continued on page 6)
Ever ybody is Going
To the Minstrels
¦ — == "
For the Duration
of the War
Put Your Dollars Int o the
Third Libert y Loan to Stay
'T'HE men who have gone into the
*• army and the navy have enlisted
"for the duration of the war."
The money that we have put be-hind
the army and navy should be
invested for the duratio n of the war.
Every dollar that goes into the Third
Liberty Loan should be subscribed with
the firm resolve that it is there to stay as
long as the country needs it.
Our men are in the front line, with the
casualty lists mounting daily. They cannot
turn back until their work is done. Our
dollars must not turn back.
Our ships are setting out along the haz-ardous
3000-mile line of communications.
In spite of all attacks, they must go on to
the end of the voyage. Our dollars must
go on to the end.
It is easy to subscribe to a Liberty Bond.
But as Secretary McAdoo has pointed out,
subscribing does not help, unless we actually
mean to pay for the bond, and to keep it.
To hold it for only a few months and then
sell it or turn it back to the bank, or use it
to pay the grocer or tailor, is like enlisting
in the army for three months and then going
home when the guns begin to roar.
Every subscriber should take all the
bonds that he can pay for in cash and with
the savings of the near future. If this does
not come up to his share he should of course
borrow from his bank in order to take more.
But whatever amount he borrows, it should
be with the positive intention of paying it
off out of additional savings or increased
earnings.
There should be no home which does
not buy its Liberty Bond, and every bond
should be bought for the duration of the
war.
: I Let's Make the Last Week pf the
Liberty Loan Campaign the Best.
: Buy Liberty Bonds
This week the country will have entered
upon the; third week of the Liberty Loan
campaign. At this writing the work is
being cairied on with enthusiasm and
with a patriotic response. No one be-lieves
that the loan will fail of complete
subscript on. But it is not sufficient for
the Ameican people to take the three
billion dollars offered. Their patriotism
and detei mination can be measured prop-erly
only by a large over-subscription.
Do not Y esitate to subscribe because you
can take only a little. Every fifty-dollar
bond counts. .Do not hesitate to talk to
your neighbors and friends about buying
bonds. This is no time for reticence,
reserve, or false modesty. We have the
men, the finest men in the world. We
need ships, airplanes, shells, powder, rifles,
machine jguns, and-other equipment.
You may not be able to fight, but you
can proHde these things—most of
all, the ships. Buy another fifty-dollar
bond to :day, and help the Government
to build ships. Don't be discouraged,
but at the same time do not be too op-timistic.
! Do not refuse to buy your fifty-dollar
bond because you think the banks
are coming in with their millions. For
two years we have lived in this country
on the "Let George-do-it" basis. Let's do
it ourselves now. Three -billion dollars is
an enormous sum to raise. But the
quicker, :easier, and more completely we
raise it, the more convinced will Germany
be that we mean to see the thing through.
If you have bought all the bonds for cash
you can; buy some on the installment
plan. Most Americans are afraid of the
words "installment plan." No one need
to be afraid of the plan in buying Liberty
Bonds. It is perhaps the most patriotic
way in which bonds can now be bought.
The man who buys on the installment
plan is pledging a certain amount of his
income for the next few months, to be
paid regularly to the support of the Gov-ernment.!
Make the last week of the
campaign the best. Buy Liberty Bonds!
Ever y Fifty Dollar
Bond Coun ts
Will be ^leljjl in Holy Trinity Church
April 29th and 30th. Everybody
Invited. Program
The Lancaster Conference of the
Ministerium | of Pennsylvania and Ad-jacent
States will hold its Spring meeting
April 29th 4nd -30th, 1918, in the Holy
Trinity Church, Hershey, Pa.
The program is as follows:
Monday pvening, 7:30 o'clock—The
Service of . Confession and Absolution;
Conference Sermon, by the President;
The Holy Communion; The President's
Report; Chaplain of the Convention,
Rev. C. O. Dierolf.
Tuesday morning, 9 o'clock—Opening
Service; Rol Call of Pastors and Dele-gates;
Reports of Officers, Treasurer and
Statistician; Reports of Standing Com-mittees;
Nominations for Boards of Min-
(continued on page 6)
Landa ^ter Confer-j
ence at Hershey