The Hershey Press 1915-04-15

              Speaker Will be Dr. Edwin Erie
Sparks, President of the Penn-sylvania
State College. Bac-calaureate
Sermon by
Rev. N L. Linebaugh
' The Commencement exercises of the
M. S. • Hershey Consolidated Public
Schools of Derry Township will be
held in the Park' Theater on the even-ing
of May 17 at 7.30 o'clock. Sup-ervising
Principal Eeboch announces
the program today.
The chief speaker will be Dr. Ed-win
Erie Sparks, president of the
Pennsylvania State College. It is
under Dr. Sparks that the State Col-lege
has enjoyed its remarkable
changes and its still more remarkable
successes. It has been developed in-to
one of the great schools of the
country, with more applications than
it has been able to accommodate. It
is a piece of rare good fortune to
have Dr* Sparks as the commencement
orator 'in Hershey.
The Baccalaureate sermon to the
graduating class will be preached by
Rev. N. L. Linebaugh in the .First
United Brethren Church at 7 p. m.
On May 16 Rev. George S. Rente will
assist in the services.
The third annual grammar school
transfer exercises will be held May 5
at 7.30. p. m. and the speaker will be
R. M. McNeal, formerly county sup-erintendent
of Dauphin. Mr. MeNeal
is always a welcome visitor to Her-shey
and his address will be enjoyed.
Sphool Notes
County Superintendent Shambaugh
visited the Hershey schools this week.
Director D. M. Hershey accompanied
him. ¦ /
Tuesday morning a lecture on the
Panama Canal was given to the pupils
from the fifth grade up to the High
School. There were seventy-two
slides and they were shown on the
balopticon with excellent results. A
lecture will be given once a week
from, now until the close of the school.
Subjects of timely importance will
be selected.
The Hershey school is drawing to
the end of a great year's work.
Everybody was delighted to see the
new flag flying from the mast Monday
morning. The storm had . torn the old
flag badly and the new one was much
needed. It is very handsome.
Local School Commencement
Will be Held on 17th of May
Products, Materials and Merchandise
Came From All Parts of the Coun-try.
Hershey Has One of its
Busiest Springs. Forty
Cars of Cocoa Beans
During the twenty-four hours of
Sunday there arrived on the Hershey
tracks of the Philadelphia and Head-ing
Railroad 51 carloads of products ,
materials and merchandise, and the
various articles represented practic-ally
every country of the world.
There were two carloads of sugar.
It came from Cuba.
Four carloads of mixed merchandise
contained articles from different parts
of the United States and from Euro-pean
countries,
A carload of cement was from Now
Jersey.
A carload of lumber was fro m the
South.
Five carloads of coal, one carload
of oil and three carloads of tile wore
from Pennsylvania.
There were two carloads of shocks,
one carload of sand and one carload
of stone from different sections.
Largest of the shipments was 29
carloads of cocoa beans rrom Trinidad
and South American countries. On
Saturday there wore throe carloads
of bouns on the Hershey tracks; on
Sunday 29 arrived and in the early
Iiours of Monday 5 more enmo In , so
that there wore at one time 40 car-loads
of those cocoa beans in the Hor-ahoy
yards.
This is not a record day and it is
mentioned hero lo show the activity
of Horshoy, which la enjoying one of
the busiest Springs in its history and
which is pushin/r work in nil dlrec-lions.
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Two of a Kind
Mr. and Mrs. George ShorUor <>l
Union Deposit are receiving oonjri 'iit-ulntlons
upon the birth of twins on
Monday, April. 12. Thay aro boys,
Both the mother and children uro do-ing
nicely. Mr. ShorUor Ih connect-
«d with ,.,the llorshoy Chocolate Com-
W°y. ^
Requests For Rooms
Requests for rnsorvatlons oC rooms
for the conference of the Urothnm are
coming in. Some afo from the west
And others from near-by points. Thoy
aro being unsworod iuul AJlod . The
entertainment problems aro being
worked out by tlio committees,
In One Day 51 Carloads
Arrived on Hershe y Tracks
All of Hershey Deeply Interested in
- in the Play- and Everybody Anxi-ous
to See it. Large Demand
. . for Tickets., There Will be
Two Hundred in Cast
Bi Bi comes tomorrow night. In
her train will be an army of gallantry
and beauty numbering over 200. It
will be the crowning event of the
season. If you have not secured your
tickets you should hasten to the Her-shey
Drug; Store or to Hooker's Res-taurant
in Hummelstown or to Bund-
Je's Drug Store in Palmyra and make
your reservations before it is too late.
Tomorrow night at the Hershey Cen-tral
Theater the great comedy of toys
will be given.
The full cast was printed in last
week's Press and it will be found in
the programs. These programs, by
the way, have been made to yield well
for the cause under the able general-ship
of Mrs. C. V. Glynn and they are
handsomely printed. The proceeds
from the performance and all reve-nues
connected with it go to Hershey
Y. W. C. A., which does such great
good in this community and which is
the rallying point for the young wom-en
for all this section- of Lebanon
Valley. So, in enjoying Bi Bi you
are not only getting your money's
worth several times over but you are
also helping one of the finest societies
in the state. In order that your cup
of joy may flow to the brim it may be
well for you to read this plot care-fully
and to note the specialties that
are to enhance the interest of the dif-ferent
acts:
Tlie Plot of the Play
' The stony represents a dream given
to the Toyman's daughter Katy, by
the Sandman. The opening scene is
in a toy shop at night. The Sand-man
puts the Toyman's daughter to
sleep. In her dream Katy is visited
by the retired Fairy, Sylvania, who
leaves a "bottle of magic smelling
salts, by means of which all the dolls
and toys are brought to life and hold
high carnival.
Bibi, a French , doll, is a flirt. She
is beloved by Prince Caramel and
Sergeant Bonbon, and rather favors
the former. The Man-in-the-Moon,
however, catches her . fancy, and se-cretly
they elope on' a tandem to the
Moon by. way of the,! Milky Way. The
aid of the Fairy is. requested to find
the wayward doll.
• Bibi returns, and for her escapade
is again transformed into a doll. The
fickle Prince thereupon deserts her,
and when she is again brought to life
she bestows her heart and' hand upon
the faithful lover Sergeant Bonbon,
after which the festival of dolls be-gins.
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The carnival scene is brought to an
end by the appearance of the Fairy
who summons the Sandman to aid
her to get the dolls back to the Toy-shop.
Katy awakes from her slum-ber
to find that it was all a dream.
ACT II—-Scene—-In the Toyshop
ACT—Scene—In the Toyshop ;
Time—E-vening, 9 o'clock; Specialty
—Jumping Jack Drill.
ACT II—Scene—In the Toyshop;
Time—Midnight; Specialties—Quartet
—The Ovl and the Pussy Cat. Drill
of the paper dollies.
ACT III—Scene I, In the Toyshop;
Time, A few minutes after midnight;
Specialty—Letter block drill.
Scone II—Garden scene—Festival
of Dolls; Time—About one o'clock in
the morning.
Entrance of (a) Fairies , (b) Dresden
Shepherdesses, (c) Spring Fantasy,
(d) Tennis Drill , (o) Jumping Rope
Drill , (f) The Jingle of a Jap, (g)
The Topsles, (h) Grecian Harp Drill.
Scone III—Garden scone—Gather-ing
of tho Dolls; Time, Morning; En-trance
of Sandman—Sinking of the
Hush , Hxish , song.
Bi Bi Tomorrow Evening
Will Draw Large Audience
Hershe y Trus t Cempany
New llermrl, Shows Iiiereiw e In All of
tho Activities
Tho report of tho condition of tho
Hershey Trust Company printed In
detail In this issue of tho Press shows
tho steady i»nd substantial growth of
this prosperous institution. Its re-sources
sit tho cloHO of business April
l> wore {fl. ,027,444, 18 and its deposits
woro over a million dollars. A unique
feature of this hank's strength is
that about two-thirds of Iks resources
or Ijil ,120,510.70 aro in gllt-edgo securi-ties,
Thun , too, with its capital of
1125,000 It has a surphiH of 1125,000
and undivided , profits of StU U,I)7H.:i().
This your tho increase In the num-ber
of depositors has been largo and
ednsliint and Horshoy Is now tho
bankin g center for an Important area
of Lubmion Valley. More of the
boxes In Its impregnable safety vault
have boon .rented. Tho whole history
of tho Horshoy Trust Company is
that of Holld , continuous growth, Tho
now report is signed by the treasurer ,
S. 0. Btochor , and is attested by M,
S. Horshoy, William II, Lobklchor mid
John M. Snydor , ¦,
GETTING READ YFOR THE BALL GAMES
Hershey s large
Athletic Field is
located in the
west part of the
Hershey Park. It
h a s a l a rg e
grandstand and
t w o bleachers.
As many as ten
thousand persons
may witness a
contest on these
grounds. At pres-
- ent the field has
been sown in new
grass and it will
be rnade one of
t h e ' best ; dia-monds
in . t h e
country. Hershey
being a member
of the Pennsyl-vania
C e n t r a l
League will have
a fine season of
Tfirst-class b a l l ,
and the interest-ing
being taken
in the program is
keen and general!
The regular sea-son
opens May 1.
Hershey Base Ball Team
Needs More Good Pitchers
Weakness of Nine Must be Corrected
Before the Season Starts. Man-ager
Marquart Realizes the
Situation, and is Looking
for the Right Men.
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The Hershey baseball team is round-ing
into excellent shape. During the
past weeks the players have been
getting regular practice every
Tuesday and; Friday evening. The
pitching material, however, is far be-low
that of other seasons and it will
be necessary for the club to secure a
few good hurlers betore the opening
of the season. In other years Her-shey's
strength depended upon its
pitchers, but this season this depart-ment
is the weakest in the history of
the game here. Hershey's first year
on the diamond brought to light an
excellent mouridsman. in Hinkle. After
twirling several years here he joined
the leaguers where he remained until
his arm went back two years ago.
During the season of 1911 Mat-thews,
Saylor and Blaser made an
effective trio.
.During the seasons of 1912-13
Matthews and Saylor bore the brunt
of the work and Hershey won many
games.
Last season Skiles, of Millersville
Normal School, Zeigler of Lebanon
Valley and Saylor performed well and
Hershey again won honors on the dia-mond.
None of these men remains
here this season but Saylor, and his
arm is still suffering from injuries
received last season.
Manager Marquart is in corres-pondence
with several good men. He
realizes the need of quick action and
he is after ability.
Death of Mrs Painter
It Came Suddenly Yesterday After-noon
at Her Home ii» Hershey
Mrs. Josiah B. Painter died on
Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock.
She had been ailing for sometime with
heart trouble and about two weeks
ago was taken ill with tho grippe
which affected tho heart and hastened
her. death. She was agod (54 years.
Mrs. Painter, who was tho daugh-ter
of tho late Mr. and Mrs. David
Gingrich ,, was a resident of Derry
township all her life , during which
time sho was a faithful member of
tho United Brethren " church and a
Sunday school toachor, Sho was one
of tho organizers of the church.
During her late years sho had lived
at nor homo in Spring Crook avenue
with her husband and daughter Mary.
Sho was widely known throughout the
township and hor death was a severe
shock to tho pntiro community.
Sho is survived by hor husband mid
daughter Mary, a brother Levi II.
Gingrich of Hnnovordulo and two sis-ters,
Mrs'. Jacob Sanders of this pliico
unci Mrs. Samuel Haln of Mlddlotown.
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Dancin g Next Week
Opening of the Season Will be in tho
New Pavilion
The reopening of tho Horshoy
daiicoH will take pluco next Thursday
evening, April 22. Thin ovont will bo
In tho now pavilion In the west end of
Horshoy Park. It will draw a largo
crowd and there will lio ovory effort
to make it a brilliant success. Tho
Howhoy Bund and nn augmented or-chestra
will play, There will lio plen-ty
of excellent music, Tho admission
will bo 20 conts for man. and 1(5 oonta
for ladles. Tho dancing will begin
at eight o'clock,
Cleanu p in the Morning;
Storm in the Afternoon
Last Saturday Was Certainly Her-shey's
Busy Day.,. What the Carts
and the Fires Missed the Wind
and the Rain Carried Away,
Hershey Well Washed
Clean-up Day was a bigger success
than anybody had dared to hope. It
left Hershey cleaned-up, blown-up,
washed-up.
The success of the movement was
made certain by the prompt coopera-tion
of the people. Most of them did
not wait until Saturday. They began
to get rid of the dust and to burn the
rubbish and the collecting forces put
on three carts . instead of one. In
this manner the work had proceeded
all the week and . Saturday was the
finishing day. All joined. There was
activity in every home and on every
lot.
High winds the first part of the
day brought new lots, of dust but the
battle went forward and cleanliness
won.
Then in the afternoon the storms
came. Rain fell in torrents, There
was a wonderful display, of lightning
with much heavy thunder. Twice at
night lights were all out in Hershey,
but before midnigh t the tumult was
over and Sunday morning Hershey
awoke to enjoy a town thoroughly
cleaned and very much washed.
Now the crusade to keep the town
clean and to kill all flies will go on.
The fly traps have been distributed.
Fly swatters are general. Thousands
of flies have been slain , but the word
has gone forth that the battle has
just begun , Be on the lookout for
the overwinter flies. They are the
pests that breed the summer swarms.
Hershe y Press Building
New Hoisting Tower One the Highest
Things in Hershey
Another new hoisting tower which
stands 108 foot in height was erected
at tho new Horshoy Press building
during tho past week. This is tho
second tower eroded , tho other being
91 feet high. A. C. Kraft, who is
superintending tho work, is pushing
tho job hard and by tho end of tho
week expects to start tho column
forms for tho second floor, Tho
work on tho foundation has been hold
back by reason of sovornl holes
which soom to have no bottom nnd up
until this time tho workmen have boon
unablo to strike foundation. All tho
other work is progressing rapidly.
P. N. Hershe y's New Home
Paris N, Hershoy, of the Horshoy
Chocolate Company, has purchased
from Harry lluil'amoyor, the building
contractor , tho line modern two and
ono half story brick homo on the
south side of Highland Place, noar
Fourth street, in Iluthnwny Park,
Lebanon. Mr, Horshoy, who is pres-ident
of tho Lebanon school hoard and
at present a resident of Liberty
Square , plans to take possession of
his now homo i\t an early day. Work
has already Htiirtod on tho creation of
a lino brick pj nvago In tlio roar of tho
homo.
Big Band Concert
On tho 27th ol tho month tho Hor-shoy
Band under Professor Hamuol J.
Fooso will hold its anniversary contort
In tho Horshoy Park Theater, It will
Ixi tho !)!!8lh concert given by tlio band
and will bo a star musical ovont. Pro-fessor
Fooso Is arranging n brilliant
program. No admission will bo
charged , hut voluntary contributions
will bo accepted.
Roland -Eckert
Basil Roland and Miss Amy Fekorl,
both of Hummolstown , woro married
April 10th by Rov. A. C. Forsoht ul
the rosUloneo of Jonas Mmprioh , Hum-molstown.
Nov. Mr, Farscht said , "Wo
wish these estimable young puoplo tho
very best this holy relation ' can give
thorn In life 's journe y."
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Special Meetin g For Mothers
A special mooting of tho Mothers'
Club will bo hold In tho Horshoy
Kindergarten rooms on Tuesday, Apr.
20th , at 7.110 o'clock, A largo attend-ance
Is desired,
Elected Pastor of St. Andrews Evan-gelical
Lutheran Church of Atlan-tic
City. His Fine Work in
Hershey and Palmyra. Pop-ular
and Successful Here
High' honors have come to Rev.
Frederick C. Krapf , pastor of the
Church of the Holy Trinity at Her-shey.
He has been elected pastor of
St. Andrews Evangelical Lutheran
Church By-The-Sea, Atlantic City,
one of the most desirable charges in
the denomination. Everybody in Her-shey
is delighted that the compliment
has come to one who deserves it so
well but everybody is sorry that it
takes Mr Krapf away f rom this town.
He is not only one of the best men in
the community but he is pne of the
most popular.
The election took place"a month ago
but the news of it was carefully
guarded so that Mr. Krapf could get
his work in Hershey and Palmyra'well
in hand for turning it over to others.
The date of the election was March
10. The call followed his occupation
of the , pulpit of the seashore " church
on Sunday, March 7th.
The call was accepted and Pastor
Krapf will enter , upon the work in
his new field on May 1st.
St. Andrew's church is located at
Pacific and Michigan Avenues, back
from the Hotel Dennis. The Church
ministers not only to a local congrega-tion
with possibilities of considerable
growth, but likewise to a large num-ber
of people who make their church
home with the congregation for short-er
or longer periods during the "sum-mer
and increasingly so also at other
seasons of tlie year.
The parsonage of the congregation
is located at 40 N. Iowa Avenue in
upper Chelsea.
In entering upon the pastorate of
St. Andrew's Church,' Pastor Krapf
returns to the state where he had
previously spent a ministry of four-teen
years,. , And while pastor for
this period of Holy Trinity Church,
Elizabeth, he. also served as President
for four years of the State Luther
League. In this latter capacity he
presided at the annual convention in
St. Andrew's church on Nev. 5, 1901.
The Rev. Mr. Krapf preached his
first sermon in Hershey on January
1st, 1911 at the morning service. In
the evening of that day he preached in
Palm Church, Palmyra.
Following the call to the Palmyra-
Hershey Parish , Pastor Krapf was in-stalled
in Palm Church, Palmyra, on
Monday night, Feb. 27, 1911, the new
building having been dedicated only
the day before.
He succeeded the Rev. C. K. ' Fegley,
who as field Missionary had charge
of the parish for about nine months,
and who in addition to his spiritual
ministrations during that time, not
only largely supervised the erection
of the Palmyra church but also or-ganized
the congregation here at Her-shey.
Growth of the Hershey Church
Pastor Krapf will be missed in Her-shey.
While he had his home in Pal-myra
he Was a constant factor in the
life and upbuilding of this town. His
remarkable energy knew no pause or
discouragement. The little congrega-tion
he toolc hold of here was a mere
handful but that only stimulated him
tho more and while his idea of a now
church seemed a dream to; most poo-pie
it whs lo him a certainty "which
simply had to come about. And by
porsistenca and hard work ho brought
it about, On May 18, 1918, tho
ground was broken; on September 21,
19111, tho corner stono was laid , and
on August 2, 1914, tho now church
was dedicated—tho beautiful edifice
of stono that cost about }plO ,()00 and
that is a model of its size. It shows
tho cast of Pastor Krapf's mind that
the present church is built so that it
may bo n part of a much larger church
to bo erected to fit tho Horshoy of to-morrow,
Pastor Krapf's work in Horshoy has
boon signally successful in ovory par-ticular.
Congregational membership
and attmidmico at tho services' in-creased
almost 200 per cent, Tho
Bible School increased mora than 100
per cent, Tho Lutheran Louguo and
tho Mission nnd Aid Society prosper-ed
greatly. In nil its activities tho
church Ih going ahead.
Tho going of Pastor Krapf is deep-ly
Colt lint thoro Is genera l gratifica-tion
that tho honor came to ono who
won it by hard work , lino ability and
high ideals.
Honors For Rev. F.C . Krapf;
Hershey Sorry to Lose Him
Night Train From Harrisbur g
Tho movement for a Into night train
from Hiu'risburg is being urged along
tho lino from Ilnrrlsburg to Reading
and beyond, Tho latest train now la
tho (1.16 which Is much too early for
many pooplo. What la demanded is
a train that lonvos Harrisburg about
11 or preferably 11.15, so tlittt pooplo
may attend meetings, tho theater or
social funetionsji K\ 11, Maya, tho
local agent, finds that thoro is gener-al
support for tho train In Horshoy.
Dr. Dixon Shows That Beverages Con-tain
no Nutrition and That Exces-sive
Use of Them Leads to
Nervousness and Digestive
Troubles. Cocoa Gains
A great fact in American life is
the extraordinary increase in the use
of cocoa as a beverage. The con-sumption
has more than doubled since
Hershey was founded twelve years
ago and the increase is going, on at
the present time at a greater rate
than ever. The day is coming when
cocoa will be the popular beverage of
America. The reason is found in its
nutritive-value. It is not only drink
but food. . It nourishes.
There 5s a crusade forming against
the excessive use of tea and coffee.
The doctors are leading it. They
have seen the effects and scientific
analysis has shown that the dangers
are real.
In line with the new advice that is
coming from medical and- food ex-perts
is the following statement made
this week by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon ,
Commissioner of Health for the State
of Pennsylvania:
"Coffee and tea are the beverages
used almost universally by the adult
population throughout the civilized
and semi-civilized worlds.
"It is impossible to say how many
tens of millions of dollars are ex-pended
upon them annually. Although
their use has steadily increased they
might be discontinued by the multi-tudes
who have formed the habit with-out
the loss of any benefit and in tho
majority of cases abstinence would
result in distinct physical gain.
"Neither coffee nor tea is to be con-sidered
foods. Both are stimulants
and it is this which is responsible for
their popularity. As with all other
stimulants there is a continual tend-ency
to over-indulgonco because a
moderate allowance after a time fails
to give the necessary incitement to
the nervous system.
"While tho mind is often stimulated
to good work for a short time by cof-fee
or tea any stimulus which they
give is transitory for there is a period
of depression following tho use of all
stimulants, Experiments have shown
that over-indulgence in both have a
tendency in tho long run to dull tho
working of tho mind,
"A moderate use may not bo follow-ed
by any noticeable ill effect but
nervousness nnd distu rbances of tho
digestive system is almost certain to
follow tho excessive use of either,
Tea has an astringent action which
is often harmful.
"Any vnluo which might follow
from the uso of a warm bovorugo with
meals, whoro tho majority of tho food
is bolow tho body temperature , is
probably offset by this action. Hot
water or tho 'cambrlu tea' (hot water,
whole milk and sugar) of our child-hood
days is far hotter.
"Many pooplo roly upon coffee and
tea almost entirely as bovorngos and
fall to drink tho proper quantity oC
pure water. "'
The Commissioner of Health
Warns Against Tea and Coffee