The Hershey Press 1917-02-15

              WILL HOLD 45,000
BAGS OF SUGAR
Work on the New Warehouse in the
Factory of the Hershey Chocolate
Company Begun This Weel
Will be Pushed to Early '
Completion
Work was begun this week on the new
sugar warehouse in the plant of the Her-shey
Chocolate Company. The contract
is under John Wickersham of Lancaster,
who has done much of the construction
in Hershey, his last large job being the
hugh structure now occupied by the Her-shey
Press and various Hershey. utilities.
. The sugar warehouse will be of Steel
and concrete, and will connect two of the
large wings of the rear of the factory.
It will have a capacity of 45,000 bags of
sugar with facilities for unloading directly
from the cars and with a modern traveling
crane to handle the material systematically
and expeditiously. . It.will be in keeping
with all the other equipment of the factory
and will be strictly up to date in every
detail. Al C. Kraft will have immediate
charge of the work and under him will be a
force of twenty men* The work will be
pushed with all possible energy tecause
the new warehouse is needed.
Since he finished his work on tie Her-shey
Press building A. C. Kraft has been
erecting an apartment house in Allentown
for Mr. Wickersham. He and those with
him are very glad to return to Hershey
and theyyhave been warmly welcomed by
their old associates here.
Patriotic Sons Will Attend United
Brethren Church in a Body
The members of the P. O. S. of A. will
assemble in their hall at 7 p. m. Sunday
and march in a body to the First United
Brethren Church, where they will hear
a special sermon by Rev: R. R. Butter-wick
on "Washington, the Christian."
A full attendance is asked and all are re-quested
to be prompt.
The officers are: Past President, H.
I. Miller; President, Howard Shellen-hammer;
Vice President, Earl Brown;
Master of Forms, Paul Dundore; Record-ing
Secretary, C. L. Garman; Treasurer,
F. D. Garman; Financial Secretary, Harry
E. Habecker ; Conductor, H. Shiffer ;
Inspector, Russell Zentmeyer; Chaplin,
D. F. Garman; Assistant Recording Sec-retary,
Clarence Uhricli; Right Sentinel,
Claude Shiffer ; Left Sentinel, Samuel
Strine; Trustees, Oscar Spancake, Harry
E. Habecker and Irvin L, Grubb.
SERMON BY DR. BUTTERWICK
TWO STARS COMING
Marqueri te Clark and Mary Pickford
at the Hershey Central
Moving Pictures of the better sort have
made their appeal to the people of Her-shey
and vicinity this winter and have
won notable success. The response has
been fine and the audiences have been
large.
Saturday night, Marguerite Clark in
the famous success, "The Se,vem Sisters"
will be the star and a crowd will turn out
to enjoy this dainty little artist, especially
as the play is full of excellent comedy.
To many Marguerite Clark is the most
enjoyable performer in the speechless
drama.
Next Wednesday evening, February
21st, Mary Pickford will be here in one of
her finest character parts, "Rags," the
play being by Edith Bernard Delano, and
the pictures being produced by the Famous
people. Of course, there will be a full
house to see Mary. There usually is,
Attention is again called to the fact
that Hershey is bringing to this part of
the country the very best that can be
secured and the admission price is only
ten cents,
A STORM VESTIBUUE
A storm vestibule that extends the en-tire
length of the front porch of the Hcr-flhey
Store and Inn entrance was erected
by Jnmcs K, Putt and his force during
the first few days of the week. The wind
has been extremely bitter and strong at
this place during the cold simp and the
many patrons of the Store and Inn will
welcome the improvement., The new
structure Is a fine piece of work.
WOODMEN BUSY
The Woodmen of the World , Cnmp
304, Hershey, have been active (luring the
win ter months and at a recent mcothiR
initiated elftht now members, exem-plifying
the degree work in full. The cnmp
Ib prospering and meeling every Thursday
evening nt the present rehearsing, the
Uniform Rnuk and Degrco Work prepara-tory
to att ending tlic State convention
to bo held nt Lancaster, April 10, 11, and
12, where it has been invited to compete
for the grand prize offered by the State
Camp, The prize will be awarded for tho
best exemplification of Degree Work,
Th« officers of tho local cnmp with Fred,
Kllngcr as captain of tho Degroe tenm aro
In chnraoi
HERSHEY CLUB
IN NEW HANDS
Board Takes Charge and Outlines
Programs for Many Interesting
Events. Manager Snavely As-sumes
Duties Today. Im-provements
to be Made .
Today John F. Snavely takes up his
duties as Manager of the Hershey Men's
Club. Mr. Snavely was unanimously
elected at the meeting of the members on
Tuesday evening, January 30th, last.
A meeting of the new Board was held in
the library of the Club on Monday even-ing
of this week. President I. Ward
Nicholas presided and those present were
First Vice President George E. Coppen-haver;
Second Vice President Samuel D.
Clark; and Third Vice President Frank
B. Saylor. In the absence of George
Hench, Mr. Saylor ,acted as Recording
Secretary. The meeting lasted over an
hour and during that time there was a
full discussion as to the future plans and
possibilities of the Qub. The sentiment of
all was that the new administration should
get busy and start things going, and it
was declared that .with this new spirit
and with cooperation, the "Club could be
made the leading factor in the life of
Hershey.
A Budget Committee consisting of
President Nicholas and George E. Cop-penhaver
was appointed to outline the
finances and to put everything on a syste-matic
basis. This Committee will receive
the reports from the heads of other Com-mittees
and will work but the question of
money for every activity of the Club.
It was decided that there would be no
honorary committee appointments and
that every man selected for Committee
work would be chosen for the purpose of
doing that work or of handing it over to
someone else. So in the direction of effi-ciency
it was decided to make,' the Com-mittees
at the head of the various sports
consist of one member each, who will be
given full support and who will have at
his call the General Manager of the Or-ganization.
Lists of names are being.pre-pared.
There will be the livliest and most in-teresting
programs that Hershey has
known in the following sports:
Baseball: The Club will.rnaintain strict
supervision of the baseball diamond which
belongs to it. It will arrange a schedule
of games so as to take in all the big days of
the season. Those who wish to try for the
Club will do well to hand in their names at
once.
Tennis: There are seven courts and
these will . be put in first class shape.
Regular matches will be arranged and the
question of prizes will be considered later.
There is no reason why some of the best
tennis matches in the State should not be
played here.
Track Events : It is a purpose to work
up a new interest in running races and
other track events. A great deal is ex-pected
from this program. The details will
be announced later.
Swimming: With the best swimming
pool in Southern Pennsylvania , there is
every reason why Hershey should have
swimming and diving contests of the first
rank. A committee will get busy on this.
Basketball: The basketball season is
nearly over but the organization will
be kept intact and there will be a preser-vation
of all the good material for next
year. It is the purpose of the new manage-ment
not to drop support directly as the
season closes, but to keep up the organi-zation
throughout tho year,
Pocket Billiards: The billiard tables
In the Club have been of great value
during the winter and it is hard to see how
the young men could get along without
them, Excellen t players have been devel-oped
and it is the intention to arrange
events so that they can match their skill
against one another,
An important item la that the Manager
of the Hershey Men's Club will keep a
regular book In which the public events
of Hershey will be scheduled, It is ex-pected
In this way to remedy tho evil that
has long existed of having too many things
happen on the same day or too close to-gether.
The Hershey Men's Club will bo
the clearing house for dates and contests
and it is expected that the Young Women 's
Christian Association and other organi-zations
will cordially join in this arrange-ment.
President Nicholas iuid S, D, Clark were
appointed a Committee to make an exa-mination
of the property and of the present
conditions of the Club and to present their
report and recommendations nt an early
meeting. Manager Snuvcly will act. with
them.
Tho campaign to Increase the member-ship
of tho Club will bo organized In a few
clays, Already new members are coming in
and there is a fine prospect that tho Club
will have nil the men nnd boys In town on
its list. Special programs will bo arranged
for tho Junior members later.
DOWN TO ZERO
During tho past week tho murcury
touched zero hero. It was the coldest in
ninny years, High winds made it worse,
THE FOOD SHOW
GREAT SUCCESS
Breaks AH Records and Surpasses Ex-pectations.
Will Continue to end
of the Week. Has 27 Fine
Booths. Special Music '
Samples and Souvenirs
The second annual Pure Food Show of
the Hershey Store is in the midst of its
interest and success. Nothing to equal
it has ever been seen outside of the cities.
It was thought that last year's show had
done well but this year's show has gone so
far beyond it that there is no comparison.
Already more .than 5000 people have been
in attendance and the number increases as
the week goes along. The sales, too, are
beyond previous experience. One feature
of the event this year is the number of
persons who have come to the Hershey
Store for the first time. Most of them ex-press
their amazement that a town of Her-shey's
size could possess an establishment
that has all the merits and attractions of
city merchandizing. It means a very large
extension of the store's area of trade as
well as an increased total in its business.
The finest spirit prevails and it would be
impossible, to find a more cheerful lot of
people. In the afternoon and evenings, it
has the appearance of a happy social oc-casion.
With the music and greetings and
laughter and the drawings of prizes and
the distribution of souvenirs, the fun and
interest are continuous S. D. Clark
Manager of the Store, and H. J. Patten,
head of the Grocery Department, and the
large store staff welcome the visitors and
show them every possible attention.
In addition to the thirty-four regular
departments of the store, all of which are
dressed up for this occasion, there are
twenty-seven exhibits in the Pure Food
Show, each exhibit having its own booth
and attendant. All of them are of large
size and are artistically decorated. - In
the decoration of the show, Mr. Berg-stresser
has done excellent work. All the
exhibits deserve unqualified praise and it
is difficult to discriminate among them.
The largest is that of the Franklin Sugar
Company which shows the different steps
in sugar making. Hershey has the honor
of having the first exhibit of the Ryzon
Baking Powder and Mrs, Naylor was sent
from the home office to supervise it. There
are live bees in the Airline Honey Booth,
and Miss Harrison who is in charge always
has an audience to listen to her complete
and extremely interesting account of
honey making. This year the Hershey
Chocolate Company has done itself
proud by exhibits that are interesting
even to those who have lived in the town
for years.
The Hershey Farm Company is to be
praised for the exhibit of the Round Barn
and its products. The booth is very at-tractive.
Surishme Biscuit Company: Miss Horse-field.
- Domino Rice: Miss Blankenship.
Mighty-Nice Bread : Miss Moyer.
Postum and Post Toasties: Miss Al-bright.
Cliquot Gingerale and Sarsaparilla:
Mrs. Flowers.
George Washington Coffee: Mrs. Sin-clair.
Ryzon Baking Powder: Mrs. Naylor.
Gold Medal Flower : Mr.Harrigan.
Berryhill Nursery Company of Harris-burg:
Mr. Morrell.
Not-A-Seed Raisins: Demonstration by
Hershey Store. Samples through the
courtesy of Mr. Kirlin of Lebanon.
Hersto Coffee: Miss Arnold.
Hostetter's Corn: Mrs. Major.
Dromedary Dates and Cocoanut: Mrs.
Page-
Cream of Barley: Miss Ross.
Karo: Mr. Johnson, who not only dem-onstrates,
but who also makes the cakes:
In the Big Room
All the foregoing are in the front part
of the building. In the large area forming
the second half of the big store, the furni-ture
and the hardware have been pushed
back and a splendid space has been pro-vided
which is a veritable show ground
with booths entirely surrounding its three
sides. Here the orchestra'is placed'in the
center and here the crowds gather for the
sugar, honey, cocoa and other delicacies.
The exhibitors and demonstrators here
areas follows:
Jell-O: Mrs. Lanning.
Round Barn Milk and Dairy Products:
Hershey Farm Company.'
Hoosier Cabinet: Hershey Store Com-pany.
Airline Bee Products: Miss Harrison.
Sun Kist Canned Products: Miss Miller
Autoline Oil: Mr. Miller.
Franklin Sugar Company: Mr. Landis
Beech Nut Products : Mr. Bosserman,
^Atlantic Rust Preventive: Miss Heine
mann.
Mapleline : Mrs. Wootten.
Hershey Cocoa and other Products:
MissBoltz.
• Bricker 's Bread and Cakes: Mr.
Shadle.
White House Coffee and Tea: Miss
Shofstall.
Samples, souvenirs and free gifts number
many more than last year. All the visitors
are delighted. The new Hershey post
cards which are now on sale include a
fine picture in colors of the Hershey Store.
LADIES' GUILD
The Ladies Guild will give a social at
the home of the pastor, 20 West Chocolate
avenue; Hershey, Thursday evening, to
which all the members and friends of
the Church, congregation, Sunday School
and other organizations are cordially
Invited. Business meeting of the Christian
Endeavor Society will be held at the same
lime and place, A good time is expected.
The marriage of Miss Ora Bowman of
Campbell town and Leonard Edris, for
sometime a resident, of Hershey, took
place last Saturday. After a short stay
tho newly married couple accompanied
by Mrs. Bowman's mother will go to
Ohio where Mr. Bowman has been engaged
with a large automobile firm.
EDRIS-BOWMAN
PLAYED HANOVER
The basketball game between tho Hcr-phcy
High School and Hanover High
School girls played at the Men's Club
Wednesday night attracted a large crowd.
Ilcrshoy defeated tho Hanover team on
their homo floor earlier in the season and
wore counting on another victory hero,
Full details of the game will appear In tho
Press noxt week.
The demonstrators this year arc of fine
type and they have made an excellent
impression on the people, All of them have
become popular.
On the first day more than 2500 people
were present in the afternoon and even-ing,
The free moving pictures at tho Her-shey
Centra l Theater drew a packed house
and there was much interest in the in-dustrial
pictures shown through the cour-tesy
of Ryzon Baking Powder and Air-lino
Honey. There are special features for
each clay and evening and so any lime you
come up to tho close of the show, you will
bo well entertained and you will see In
operation one of the finest stores in
America , with prices that cannot bo
matched anywhere In tho State,
The following Is a list of tho exhibitors
with the names of tho demonstrators In
the front half of the Hershey Store:
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Men arid Boys and Girls Over 16
CAN FIND ATTRACTIVE WORK AT GOOD WACES IN THE
HERSHEY CHOCOLATE FACTORY
There aro places now open for men and boya and girla over 16 in tlie
factory of the Hershey Chocolate Company, The work ia very desirable be-cause
tho wages pre good, employment ia steady nnd tho surroundings are
healthy and cheerful. Apply by letter or, in person to tho Ilcrahey Employ-ment
Bureau. Bring references,
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BIG BANQUET ON
FEBRUARY 22
Hershey Volunteer'Firernen Will Cele-brate
Their Tenth Anniversary'by
a Notable Dinner at the Her-shey
Cafe. Their Big Sho-w •
a Hugh Success
The Hershey Volunteer. Fire Depart-ment
will be ten years old next Sunday.
It would not do to let such an event pass
without worthy celebration and some-time
ago it was decided that a banquet
was due. For that purpose an entertain-ment
was projected and this big show
took place last Friday evening, and netted
about $170.00. Thus a dinner worth while
can be given without drawing on the
members and without slighting any one.
The entertainment committee reported
to a special meeting of the Fire Company
Tuesday evening and the report was re-ceived
with great enthusiasm and thanks
were extended unanimously to the men
who had done the work. The committee
was: Walter Asherifelter, Williarh Brink-er,
John Snavely, John Shay, Hugh Wag-ner,
Herbert Schweers, Frantz Zinner,
James K. Putt, Lloyd Shoap, Harry Moy-er,
James J. Murray.
It was decided to hold. a. banquet on
Washington's Birthday.' So on next Thurs-day
evening, a week from today, the Cafe
will be ablaze with light and with the mer-riment
of the Firemen.
Caterer Krause has been engaged to
supply a feast that will be notable even
in the long list of banquet triumphs in
Hershey. •
The Big Show
The vaudeville and motion picture en-tertainment
of the Firemen was hugely
enjoyed by the people of Hershey and the
surrounding towns. The seating capacity
of the Central Theatre was taxed to the
limit. Long before the hour set for the
show to start nearly ail the seats were
filled and a large number were compelled
to stand. It was a great social as well
as a financial success. About $170 was
realized. .
Local talent composed the greater part
of the program and the individuals crown-ed
themselves with glory. The Maugans
Trio of Harrisburg, easily the star
performers of the evening, brought before
the eyes of the audience scattered parts
of' Uncle Tom's Cabin constructed into a
playlett that did justice to the actors them-selves
and that famous old play. Ulie
Maygans, who is well known in the town
of Hershey, played the part of Little Eva
effectively.
Russell Clark rendered very good vocal
selections with much ease and confidence.
Frantz Zinner, who impersonated the great
European Hypnotist, held the audience
in his power at all times by his wonder-ful
demonstration. His subjects were
taken directly from the audience and his
power compelled them to s-wim, fish ,
row, sing, enjoy the -wonderful sights of
Hershey, especially the Easter show of
Harry Haverstick, be chased by bees,
and caused all to nearly burst with
laughter. Thos. Ingram who played
the part of Madame Cecil imported for
the occasion demonstrated his art which
clearly showed that training secured in
foreign countries far exceeds that of
American Conservatories. Paul Grim
and Thomas Ingram rendered excellent
Trombone selections and were highly
applauded. The Fire House Comedy Four
composed of Herman Schweers, Robert
Sattazahn , Bowman Snavely and Clinton
Hoffer made up a quartette of sweet sing-ers
whose melody would be hard to sur-pass
in the whole state of Pennsylvania,
The Nigger Night School composed of
John Snavely, William Drinker , David
Ditzler, Edward C. Buohl, Harry Miller
and James Murray produced a comedy
act full of fun. However, the brutal meth-ods
of Professor Solan Sloe, for inflicting
education into the minds of his pupils
would never bo recommended by the
School Board of this district. His tasks
were almost Impossible for the mentalities
of his pupils and that they might be able
to express their ideas in answer to his
questions they were compelled to cite
local instances in order that their ideas
would bo made plain to the audience.
"William C. Drinker who impersonated
Deborah White, the enraged parent of
Andy White , nearly caused a riot in tho
;scbool room by persistent methods In
disturbing Ilia' cxccrcises ot the school .
Music was fu rnished by the Hershey
Band which rendered excellent selec-tions.
Clark L. Bnro presided at tho piano
and aided the singers admirably. Maurice
Ilinklo as stage manager assisted by John
Shay and Louis Blinker handled tho pro-,
gram with the skill of profe ssionals, In
all respects It was one of tho most successful
programs over enjoyed in I Usrshey, while
the size of tho audience broke all tho
season's records,
MR. SNYDER'S NEW CAR
One of tho latest model automobiles in
ll ershey is that of J. E. Snyder, Esq,
Tho machine is n 1017 twin-six Packard
and was delivered to Mr. Snyder in Her-shoy
last Friday. It has been greatly ad-mired,
THOUSANDS WILL
COME TO HERSHEY
Lutherans Will Hold a Great Reunion
i n Hershey Park Next J line. Prorn-
.• ises to be one of. the Red Let- .• •
ter Days in Park History
Many Meetings
There is every indication' that this will
be a record breaking year in the meet-ings
and events held in Hershey Park.
Many engagements are already scheduled
and inquiries are coming in daily. So
far the biggest Convention on the list is
the grand reunion of all the Lutheran
Churches of Harrisburg and vicinity which
includes the churches at Hummelstown
and those in Hairisburg's radius. It is
expected that many thousands will be
present and in that event the big Hershey
Convention Hall will be used. The Lan-caster
Conference is expected to hold its
reunion in Hershey and it may join .'with
the Harrisburg gathering. The combina-tion
of these two forces would make June
28th one of the red-letter days in Park
history. The Lancaster Conference in-cludes
the churches of Lancaster and
Lebanon Counties and the church at
Hershey belongs to it. Rev. John I.
Meek has been in communication with the
officers.
It is recognized that Hershey has facil-ities
that can be found in no other place.
In the Park are the Convention Hall,
seating 6000 and with a capacity of over
10,000, and the Park Amphitheater seat-ing
1600 and with a capacity of over
2,000. The Central Theater in the town
can also be used for smaller meetings.
There are many other halls and rooms for
committees and the variots purposes of a
big reunion, while Hershey Park itself
has shown its resources by accommodat-ing
a crowd of over 30,000 people in one
day.
Leading up to the reunions in the sum-mer
and autumn are various services
celebrating the quadncentennial of the
Protestant reformation. This coming
Sunday there will be held in the Chestnut
Street Auditorium at Harrisburg the first
of the series of special services. Rev. Dr.
C. M. Jacobs of Mt. Airy Theological
Seminary, Philadelphia, -who was one of
the speakers at the union services in Her-shey
this winter,- will deliver the main
address and another address will be by
Rev. Dr. A. R. Steck, Pastor of the First
Lutheran Church, Carlisle. A musical
program by massed .choirs of the Luther-an
churches in Harrisburg and vicinity
will be a feature of the service. Many
Hershey people are expected to attend.
FARMERS TAKE NOTICE
Now is the Time to Get Ashes Free at
the Hershey Factory
Farmers and others who wish ashes
can get them by going; to the Hershey
Chocolate factory and hauling them away.
On account of the heavy winter and the
cold, there is a large accumulation of
ashes. Everyone who wants them can
get all he can move, The Company is
always willing to help farmers and others
by giving them these Ashes but this is
the particular time when they should come
for them because I he supply Is abundant
and teams are not so much needed for
regular work on farms aa they will be later
in the season.
GOOD GAME TOMORROW
Another big basketball attraction has
been arranged (or this coming Friday even-ing
at the Hershey Men's Club when the
representative five of tho club will play
tho strong Mt, Joy tossers. This will be
the fourth meeting of the two teams, Mt.
Joy gaining the decision on two occasions
and llcrahcy one. Hershey defeated the
Mt. Joy quintet here and Mt. Joy was
successful in grabbing the games played on
their court. The local tossers will be out
to even tho count and the fans will bo
treated to a real exhibition of the sport.
The Herflhey team was not scheduled last
week and all the playom aro In the best of
cpndltion. On Saturday evening the Her-shey
five will go to Carlisle where they will
play tho Y. M, C, A, live of that place.
THE HAPPY LIFE
Reuben Boingardner , residing on a farm
near Hummelstown and tho father of
E, L. Domgnrdner, of Hershey, received
many felicitations this week from friends
throughout the county upon the occasion
of his 80lh birthday. Mr. Bomgardner
has led the farmer 's life for many years
and to this ho attributes hia splendid
health. He is well preserved and still
enjoys hie dully labors about tho farm.
Mr. Bomganlnor is highly esteemed and
ia one of tho most successful farmers in
Dauphin county.
On May 10th and 11th there will be
the Lutheran Reformation Pageant in
Harrisburg. Special services are being
planned to occur from time to time until
next October. In fact the whole spripg,
summer and autumn will have many large
and interesting Lutheran services in ob-servance
of the anniversary of the Re-formation.
VIEW IN PURE FOOD SHOW OF HERSHEY STORE