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MORE BUILDING IN THE FACTORY On Account of These Alterations And Changes No Visitors Will be Shown ' Through the Plant Until Fur-ther Notice. Work on the Warehouse Proceeds NOTICE Hershey, Pa., April 14, 1917. . . On account of alterations and changes being made in our Factory, no visitors will be shown through the Factory under any circumstances, after today, the 14th inst. HERSHEY CHOCOLATE CO., Win. F. R. Murrie, President. The above notice which was put into effect on Saturday explains itself. It would not be safe to show visitors through the rooms where the alteration and im-provement -work is goirig on. These are the busiest times the plant has ever known. Every department is rushed to its full production and the railroad tracks are crowded with raw materials—sugar, cocoa beans-^ and ma-chinery. The work on the new Cocoa Warehouse is proceeding rapidly and the room it will supply is much needed. Recent visitors to the factory included: Elda Park, Mount Joy; Gordon Piatt, Harrisburg;MissM. Sheean, Philadelphia; R. Paul Scott, and wife, Harrisburg; Joseph Smith, Williamstown; W. F. Fake, West Fairview; W. D. Rider, Mechanics-burg; David C. Brunner, Frederick, Md.; S. M. Miller and wife, Harrisonburg, Va.; S. S. Robinson, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Walter Knepp, Lewistown; Mrs. J. A. Cawley, Pittsburgh ; E. A. Kessler, Or-win; H. W. Lenker, Hope, Kansas; Samuel Bard, Lancaster; George M. Lawson, Middle Haddan, Conn.; Susie M. Lawson, Union, Conn.; Mrs. E. E. Lawton, Harrisburg; Miss Lawton, Har-risburg; Miss E. I. Gregg, Relay, Md.; Wallace Jones, Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y.; H. C.—Zeigler, Palmyra; Hazel Kunkle, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. E. S. Gulick, Long Branch, N. J.; M. L. Hoover, Lancaster; Ira L. Meily, Morris, Minn.; Mrs. C. Harold Wells, Oberlin; Curtis Brenneman, Glen Rock; Mrs. S. H. Ulrich, Elizabethtown; Mrs. L. D. Coble, Mrs. B. Keefer, Elizabethtown; L. Cath-arine Coble,' Elizabethtown ; Luther Gut-shall, Shirmansdale, Charles Ross, Pitts-burgh ; B. Ross, Pittsburgh; C. M. Freeman, Spartansburg, S. C. William North, Solvay, N. Y.; James W. Sterling, Lumber City ; Wm. W. Strausbach, Harrisburg; Robert Goldman, New York City ; Mrs. C. H. Gardener, Lebanon ; Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Rhodes, Lancaster ; George R. Welchans, M. D., Elizabethtown ; Samuel Armstrong, Eliza-bethtown; M. Leroy Wuchter, Lebanon ; Samuel Fackler, Harrisburg ; R. W.Wood-ruff , Selinsgrove; Mrs. Mary Robins; Ada Rodenheiser, Harrisburg ; J. D. Patterson, Altoona ; Mrs. Margaret Pat-terson, Altoona; Elise P. Smith , Rox-borough ; Sarah E. Leverich, Brooklyn, N, Y.; Isabella D. Hampson, Ellicot City, Md. ; Mabel B. Dunning, Baltimore, Md.; Edwin J. Baum, Harrisburg; Harlan B. McWharter , Grenloch, N. J. ; Clare M. Steelier, Hummelstown; Amos M, Hoffer , Lebanon,; Henry Wolfe, Lancaster ; Mrs. Fred Brunner, Rich-mond Hill , L. I,; Mrs. Anna Yeagcr, Lebanon ; Miss Mary Patten , Philadelphia; J. P. Stoner, Lancaster; A. M. Griffith , A. A. Griffith, Duncannon ; F. B. Grecna-walt , Wythcvillc; John H. Parfct , Harris-burg ; Frank V. Seavcrs, Hummelstown. FIRE COMPANY MEETING Will Act on Several Important Mat-ters , May Fir st The next stated meeting of the Hershey Volunteer Fire Company which occurs Tuesday, May 1, will bo one of the most important. meetings the company has ever had. At the last stated meeting amendments to the constitution and by-laws were proposed and these will bo acted on at the May meeting. These amendments will if adopted make changes in the government of the company. Further action will also be taken at. this meeting relative to attending the celebration at. Palmyra in June. An invitation has been received from Annvillo inviting the company to partici-pate) in the dedication of the new $10,000 lire house, and action will bo taken on this InviUiLion. Altogether it. will bo a meeting which every member should at! end. VESPER SERVICE The regular weekly vesper sol'vlcc of the Young Women's Christian Ahhoc1i\- tion was held Friday evening conducted by Miss Ruth Rcinlor. Select readings by Minn Jennet to Donmoyer and vocal roIoh by Miss Mnrgnrol , ' Roiglor were much enjoyed, The attendance was very encouraging lo the officers find members, LITTLE FARMERS AND THIRTY LOTS Operations in East Hershey on Land Whose Use Was Granted Free by M. S; Hershey. Boys Are In-terested in Work. Some Are Done Planting Home farming will be the fad of the year in Hershey. More vegetables will be raised in gardens than ever ' before. Mr. M. S. Hershey has offered land in East Hershey to the boys-of the town and on Monday afternoon the first lots were apportioned to the applicants. Rohrer Snavely will have general charge of this cultivation and will take care of much of the area not used by the boys. John F. Snavely, Manager of the Hershey Men's Club, will help the boys at different times. On the opening day Harry Haver-stick was present to lay out the lots and to give the boys advice. He will be in call on other days. The land has been put in shape for use. Those having lots will supply their own tools arid seeds. All the crops will go to them and there is ' every reason to believe that those who hold on to the work will realize well from their efforts. The lots and cultivators are as follows: 1—Charles McHeffey. 2 and 3-Charles Black. 4 and 5—Bruce Murrie. 6 and 7—Malcolm Murrie. 8, 9, 10, 25, and 26—Harvey Leibfried , Edgar Leibfried", Charles Leibfried. ll, 12, 13, and 14—Charles Robbins, Donald ' Robbins. 15—Ira Gibble. 16—William Leithiser. 17 and 18—Malcolm Kieff er. 19 and 20—Salvador Purcell. 21 and 22—Russell Smith. 23 and 24—Mark Henry. 27 and 28—Joseph Bonfanti. 29—Paul Schlepfer. 30—Robert Bricker. BABY'S HEALTH NATION'SWEALTH Mothers Club of Hershey Will Have Unusual Program The Hershey Mothers' Club continues to do good work in a fine way and its celebration of Baby Day on the 4th of May promises to be one of the delightful days in the history of the town and to bring here many visitors from Hum-melstown, Palmyra and other points. The program is being completed under the direction of the president, Mrs. Ezra F. Hershey and the committee. There will be three meetings as follows: 9:30 a. m.-^-Women Only. 2 to 4 p. m.—Open to all. 8 to 10 p. m.—Open to all. All these meetings will be held in the Hershey Central Theatre, Admission will be free but a collection will be taken up to defray expenses. There will be in-teresting exhibits all day and the program will contain attractive speeches and music. HIGH CLASS ATTRACTIONS Owing to the great popularity of the shows produced by the Triangle Film Company throughout the country the management of the local theatre has de-cided to exhibit a few of their best pro-duction s at the semi-weekly shows, and has already booked several expensive productions. The attractions for Saturday evening will be "Bullets and Brown Eyes" featur-ing Bessie Barriscnle who is regarded as one of the clever actresses in America, Miss Barriscnle has starred in many performances including the role of Lovey Mary in "Mrs. VViggs of the Cab-bage Patch" and as Launa in "The Bird of Paradise. " Movie lovers will bo Riven a rare treat 'next Wednesday evening when Cnrn Kimball Young will appear in "The Dark Silence." Miss Young is known and admired by movie fans, Her acting is wonderful and her ability as an imperson-ator is unsurpassed , "The Dark Silence" in a powerful love drama, Many of the scenes were taken behind the firing lines of the great European war. Despite its many war scenes it never impresses one as a war story; the thread of romance is too strong, THE ASSEMBLY DANCE The first Assembly Dance hold last Thursday evening In fho Press Building was it success from every point , the attendance exceeding by far the expecta-tions of the management. Couples from nearly every surrounding town us well as i\ few from Harrisburg and Lebanon were present. An orchestra from Harrls-burn, played. The next largo dance will be held next Thursday evening with a Lebanon or-chcHlm. furnishing the mimic, This ev-ening the regular dancing class will hold sway with Miss Dorothy Sellers probably presiding at the piano, SCHOOL BOARD TAKES ACTION Adopts Extra Period for the Pupils of the Hershey High School And Elects New Teacher Who Will Have Charge of Athletics All in Fine Health In an effort to makejup_all or-part of the time which was lost during the past school year, the Derry Township School Board by virtue of permission given by the State Board of Education has made a ruling to the effect that pupils of all grades of the High School be compelled to attend a special session_of school to be held every Saturday morning. The students do not take kindly to the proposition, considering it . something of an imposition to have this extra period forced upon them, but when they come to realize the situation the members of the Board believe they will fall in line, uncomplainingly. A ruling of the State Board of Education requires that a certain number of days in the year be devoted to school work and were not this system adopted it would be necessary to continue school through the last week of June instead of closing several weeks earlier as has been the custom. Looking at it from the standpoint of the • present labor situation it is almosj imperative that the older boys and girls be released from school work as quickly as possible. The great shortage in all lines of work such as home work, farming, factory and office work will be greatly aided by these students during the summer months, consequently the sooner they complete their scholastic work the better for the labor situation . Exceptions will be made in cases where it is necessary that the student help his or her people in their means of livelihood. In some instances the student will not be required to attend this special session, At this meeting of the Directors a new teacher was elected for the coming year, Steven C. Leininger, who will be placed in charge of the Manual Training room. Mr. Leininger is, a graduate of the ftjlillers-ville Normal School , and also took a course at Penn State College. At present he is engaged in teaching Manual Train-ing at Gettysburg College, In addition to this Mr. Leininger will be placed in charge of sill branches of athletics in the school. He was formerly the best all-round athletic of his Alma Mater, Under the direction of an ex-perienced athlete there is little doubt that the athletic fame of Hershey High School will not suffer. Mr. Leininger with his wife and family expects to move to Hershey early in the summer, The school is in fine shape and its pupils, numbering close to seven hundred arc in excellent health. SMALLPOX AT STEELTON Evan Kulich , an Austrian , is 111 with the small pox at Stcolton. It is a light at-tack , but the matter Is giving concern to the health authorities because of the thousands employed at Steelton , Including many negroes, Under Dr. Phillips pro-tective measures have been taken. WHOOPING COUGH In the country around Bast Hanover-dale there arc twenty or thirty cases of whooping cough, Efforts lire being made by the health authorities to prevent its spread to other sections. MR. COPE IS NOW POSTMASTER He Took Charge of the Hershey Post - Off ice Tuesday Morning. The Present Force to Be Retained Improvements That May Be Made Very Soon John H. Cope, Hershey's new post-master, received his commission in the late mail of Monday and took charge of the office Tuesday rhorning.' The force who have been running the office for months under the direction of the bonds-men will be retained as follows: Assistant Postmaster, Miss Bessie Moy-er. ¦- . .¦' . • Clerk, C. L. Peiffer. ' Clerk, Miss Viola Boyer. No immediate changes are contemplated and the postmaster, states that he will take his time to get fully acquainted with the office details and to ascertain the wishes of the people in regard to any improvements in the service that may be considered advisable. The improve-ments that have been discussed are as follows: The consolidation of the Derry Church Post Office with that of Hershey and the institution of local free delivery. The keeping open of the Post Office until the mail arriving on the 7:25 P. M. train is distributed. This train has not been on time more than once or twice during the past two or three months and in most instances the mail has been taken to the Post Ofifice and there remained undistributed until the following morning. This meant that Hershey has been with-out a direct- mail service from the east from 11:37 A. M. until the following morning. Of course, much of the eastern mail goes to Harrisburg and then is sent back to Hershey, but the direct service from the east has been just about as bad as it could be. The train arriving at 4:22 from the east brings no local mail. There is also the question of an out-going mail on Sunday if it can be arranged. At present no letters mailed after 7:00 P. M. Saturday move from, Hershey until after 8:00 Monday morning. The Postmaster thus has large op-portunities to improve the postal service of this town. Mr. Cope is well known to most Her-shey people although his home is at the extreme end of the township. He helped to organize the Sunday School in Derry Church and for eighteen years lie has had a large class of ladies. He has been a member of the church for twenty years and one of its leading and most popular members. Last Sunday evening he was installed as one of the trustees, Mr. Cope was born east of Palmyra on January 2(5, 1860, He received his edu-cation in the public schools of Palmyra. For seventeen years he worked on a farm, Then he went into the business of shoe manu facturing. He was with W. L, Krcidcr for fourteen years, A, S, Krcider for seven years and for the past year and a half ho has been with J. Landls and Company. His experience in polices lias been confined to his service as in-spector and cleric of elections. At present he is an inspector of elections; Mr. Cope is a bachelor. LOCAL CHAPTER OF RED CROSS First Meeting Held . Last Monday And Big Organization Meeting Will Be Held Next Monday Ev-ening. Good Speakers ~ Everybody is Invited Everybody is invited to attend a great public meeting at the Hershey Central Theatre next Monday evening at eight o'clock. It will have able speakers and an attractive program. The pur-pose of the meeting will be to complete the organization of the Hershey Chapter of the Red Cross. All are invited, men, women and children. The largest and best meeting of women ever held in Hershey was at the Central Theatre on Monday afternoon to organize for Red Cross work. Hershey had already made a record of having sold the largest number of Red Cross Seals, per capita of any town in the world and today it holds the banners for this achievement. So it was confidently expected that when the matter of organization of Red Cross work for the war was reached there would be a full response. The meeting was much larger than was expected. There were nearly 200 present including ladies from Hum-melstown, Palmyra, and other neighbor-ing towns. Five men were present but they remained quietly on the back seats. The meeting itself was that of the women and was run by them. Mrs. C. V. Glynn presided . With her oh the stage were Mrs. George Mattson of Harrisburg Chapter and Mrs.. Victor F. Lecoq, instructress in surgical supplies for the Red Cross Chapter of Harrisburg. Both of the visitors were warmly received and they expressed delight at coming to Hershey. Mrs. .Lecoq brought with her samples of the different kinds of work done by the members of the Red Cross. Mrs. Glynn made an admirable presiding officer and introduced Mrs. Mattson in a speech expressing the appreciation of the Hershey ladies. " Mrs. Mattson made a delightful and convincing speech. She is an orator and there was never a pause for a word in the story she told so eloquently. She said that the Red Cross represents humanity, that it belongs to no group, no nation, no faction but to the whole, human race. She traced its history from the first meeting in Switzerland in 1859,<>then the International meeting in 1864. The fam-iliar flag of the Red Cross , is that of Switzerland with the colors reversed. The Swiss flag is a white cross on a red background. The Red Cross is a red cross on a white background. The scope of the. work of the Red Cross includes surgeons, nurses, good roads, ambulances, commissary departments and last but not least the work of practically all the members in the making of dressings and garments. The recent notable work of the Red Cross in this country was in the Galveston flood and in the Spanish- American War. Its work in Europe was a matter of current history. In America today the members of the Red Cross are busy preparing dressings and garments and soldier kits. "I hope," said Mrs. Mattson, "it will not happen that we shall need such tilings in America but we are going to have them on hand if we should need them." Mrs, Mattson told of the work that the members in Hershey might do and the question before them was that qf organization , whether or not they should form a Chapter of their own or an auxiliary to the Harrisburg Chapter. To form a Hershey Chapter would necessitate one hundred members. The question was then discussed under the leadership of Mrs. Glynn , Mrs. Magee and others, and Uidics from Pal-myra and Hummelstown promised co-operation, It was promptly seen that the meeting considered that Hershey could form a chapter and so the matter of an Auxiliary to the Harrisburg Chap-ter was dropped, A rising vote showed a largo number in favor of the proposition and no it was decided to form the Her-shey chapter and to proceed at once, First was the election of two officers, and the following were elected unani-mously; Secretary, Mrs, Linn II. Hawbccker, Treasure r, Mrs. John 15. Snyder, It. was then decided to postpone the election of the President and Vice- President , and t h e Board until the public meeting which will bo held next week, Then those who wish to become mem-bers were asked to sign tlio roll. Forty pledges were received and more have been gathered durin g the week, It is quite possible that the necessary one hundred will be in sight when the 'public meeting is called to order, ' Rod CroHH IncronncH With a national membership of less than 27,000, three years ago, the Red Cross is now making rapid strides to-ward its goal of u million members. WAR COST "WILL HIT EVERYONE Most Radical Change Will Probably Be in the Income Tax And the Lowering of the Exemption Will Hit Many in Hershey ' . Sources of Income America's war finance program calls for $7,000,000,000. That means $70 for every man, woman and child. It is the first big ,blow of the war. It means that whether you go in for the fight or not you have got to pay your share of the expense. How is the money to be raised? The thing that will hit the community like Hershey hardest is the probable reduction in the exemption of the income tax. Under the present law $3,000 for single persons and $4,000 for married persons is the point where the tax begins. Under that law about a score of persons in Her-shey have to pay the income tax. The proposed laws .reducing the exemption to $1,500 for single and $2,000 for married persons would double the number in Hershey and its neighborhood who would have to pay an income tax. This tax would be , 2 per cent on their incomes with the following supertaxes added : Incomes of $3,000 to $4,000, 1 per cent; $4,000 to $5,000, 2 per cent; $5,000 to $10,000, 5 per cent; $10,000 to $20,000, 7 per. cent; $20,000 to $40,000, 8 per cent; $40,000 to $60,000, 10 per cent ; $60,000 to $80,000, 12 per cent; $80,000 to $100,000, 15 per cent; $100,000 to $150,000, 20 per cent; $150,000 to $200,- 000, 25 per cent; $200,000,000 to $1,- 000,000, 33 1-2 per cent; 31,000,000 and over, 40 per cent. "This revenue," Mr. McAdoo says, "would be further increased if the in-come from state and municipal securi-ties and state and municipal salaries were made subject to the income tax." The total increase from this tax is expected to be $340,000,000. If the present excess profits tax of 8 per cent on corporation and partner-ship profits of more than $5,000 and 8 per cent of invested capital were made applicable to the calendar year 1916, the secretary estimates it would yield $226,000,000. Corporations and partner-ships would be given until September to pay the tax. As to the excess profits tax for 1917, collectible • in June, 1918, the existing law allows an exemption of $5,000 and 8 per cent on invested capital, and levies 8 per cent tax on the remainder of the profits of corporations and " partnerships. If this tax, allowing the same exemptions were increased to 10 per cent on profit in excess of 8 per cent and not over 15 per cent of capital invested, to 15 per-cent on profits in excess of 15 per cent and not over 25 per cent of capital invested, to 20 per cent on profits in excess of 25 per cent, and not over 50 per cent of capi-tal invested , and to 25 per cent on pro-fits in excess of 50 per cent of capital invested , the law, according to the Secretary, would yield $425,000,000. Would Tax Railroad Fares Proposed revenue from passenger trans-portation receipts is estimated on the basis of "1 per cent on each 25-cent fare or fraction thereof within the United States," but '"no tax on fare not in excess of 25 cents." Freight transportation , it is estimated would yield $100,000,000 at 1 per cent on each 25 cents or fraction thereof of each frieght bill. An increase of $2 per gallon on dis-tilled spirits, now taxes .$1.10, the Sec-retary says would raise $73,000,000. Suggestions as to possible new sources of taxation through which to raise approx-imately one-half of the estimated cost of the first year of the war , or $1,807,250,- 000, were submitted by Secretary Mc- Adoo this week to the Senate, Finance and the House Ways and Means Com-mittees. The other half of the cost is to be provided by $2,000,000,000 of the bonds authorized by the War Revenue Bill. Other sources, the Secretary believes could be made to yield additional in-come include: excise on sugar , $02,000,0001 stamp taxes on theatre , baseball and other amusement tickets, $75,000,0001 distilled spirits , $73,000,000,000; stamp taxes, miscellaneous, $51,000,000; trans-portation receipts, passenger, $35,000,000; fermented liquors, !p30,000,000; smoking and chewing tobacco, $25,000,000; auto-mobiles, trucks , motorcycles, $1!),800,000; soft drinks, $1<) ,200,000; cigarettes, $17,000 000; rectified liquor , $12,(300,000; ciga rs, $11,()00,(K)() ; excise lax on musical in-struments, grnphophonctt, etc, $7,000,- 000; wines, etc., $0,7(50,000; all dealers in cigars, cigarettes, etc., $4,800,000, The land seen behind the houses in this picture has been divided into plots which will be a par t of the Piesident 's program of Home Farming. Mr. Hershey has given the use of the land free. This week 30 lots were assigned to boys. More will be assigned later. WHERE THE HERSHEY BOYS ARE AT WORK MAYOR MEALS DEAD Mayor Meals of Harrisburg died yes-terday morning at the ago of fifi, Ho had been ill some time, Ho was well lmown to many Hershey people, Men who want good, saf e work at good wages and with steady employment should at once address or app ly at the Hers hey Employment Bureau, Hershey, Pa , A HANDSOME STALLION Delimit', one of the hiinclBomcst stallions in the state, which has been greatly ad-mired by visitors to Mershoy, Is for sale, ' Ho woIrIih over KiOO pounds and ia a black Percheron of aristocratic stock,
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Title | The Hershey Press 1917-04-19 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | The Hershey Press (alternatively published as "Hershey's Weekly" or "Hershey's The Progressive Weekly") was the first local newspaper, published from 1909 until 1926, covering news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Hershey, and surrounding Pennsylvania communities. |
Date | 1917-04-19 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
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Description
Title | The Hershey Press 1917-04-19 |
Subject | Hershey (Pa.)--Newspapers |
Description | The Hershey Press (alternatively published as "Hershey's Weekly" or "Hershey's The Progressive Weekly") was the first local newspaper, published from 1909 until 1926, covering news and events throughout the Township of Derry, Hershey, and surrounding Pennsylvania communities. |
Date | 19170419 |
Location Covered | Hershey (Pa.) |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Rights | https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en |
Contact | For information on source and images, contact Hershey Community Archives at contact@hersheyarchives.org. |
Contributing Institution | Milton Hershey School |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text | MORE BUILDING IN THE FACTORY On Account of These Alterations And Changes No Visitors Will be Shown ' Through the Plant Until Fur-ther Notice. Work on the Warehouse Proceeds NOTICE Hershey, Pa., April 14, 1917. . . On account of alterations and changes being made in our Factory, no visitors will be shown through the Factory under any circumstances, after today, the 14th inst. HERSHEY CHOCOLATE CO., Win. F. R. Murrie, President. The above notice which was put into effect on Saturday explains itself. It would not be safe to show visitors through the rooms where the alteration and im-provement -work is goirig on. These are the busiest times the plant has ever known. Every department is rushed to its full production and the railroad tracks are crowded with raw materials—sugar, cocoa beans-^ and ma-chinery. The work on the new Cocoa Warehouse is proceeding rapidly and the room it will supply is much needed. Recent visitors to the factory included: Elda Park, Mount Joy; Gordon Piatt, Harrisburg;MissM. Sheean, Philadelphia; R. Paul Scott, and wife, Harrisburg; Joseph Smith, Williamstown; W. F. Fake, West Fairview; W. D. Rider, Mechanics-burg; David C. Brunner, Frederick, Md.; S. M. Miller and wife, Harrisonburg, Va.; S. S. Robinson, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Walter Knepp, Lewistown; Mrs. J. A. Cawley, Pittsburgh ; E. A. Kessler, Or-win; H. W. Lenker, Hope, Kansas; Samuel Bard, Lancaster; George M. Lawson, Middle Haddan, Conn.; Susie M. Lawson, Union, Conn.; Mrs. E. E. Lawton, Harrisburg; Miss Lawton, Har-risburg; Miss E. I. Gregg, Relay, Md.; Wallace Jones, Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y.; H. C.—Zeigler, Palmyra; Hazel Kunkle, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. E. S. Gulick, Long Branch, N. J.; M. L. Hoover, Lancaster; Ira L. Meily, Morris, Minn.; Mrs. C. Harold Wells, Oberlin; Curtis Brenneman, Glen Rock; Mrs. S. H. Ulrich, Elizabethtown; Mrs. L. D. Coble, Mrs. B. Keefer, Elizabethtown; L. Cath-arine Coble,' Elizabethtown ; Luther Gut-shall, Shirmansdale, Charles Ross, Pitts-burgh ; B. Ross, Pittsburgh; C. M. Freeman, Spartansburg, S. C. William North, Solvay, N. Y.; James W. Sterling, Lumber City ; Wm. W. Strausbach, Harrisburg; Robert Goldman, New York City ; Mrs. C. H. Gardener, Lebanon ; Mr. and Mrs. Ephraim Rhodes, Lancaster ; George R. Welchans, M. D., Elizabethtown ; Samuel Armstrong, Eliza-bethtown; M. Leroy Wuchter, Lebanon ; Samuel Fackler, Harrisburg ; R. W.Wood-ruff , Selinsgrove; Mrs. Mary Robins; Ada Rodenheiser, Harrisburg ; J. D. Patterson, Altoona ; Mrs. Margaret Pat-terson, Altoona; Elise P. Smith , Rox-borough ; Sarah E. Leverich, Brooklyn, N, Y.; Isabella D. Hampson, Ellicot City, Md. ; Mabel B. Dunning, Baltimore, Md.; Edwin J. Baum, Harrisburg; Harlan B. McWharter , Grenloch, N. J. ; Clare M. Steelier, Hummelstown; Amos M, Hoffer , Lebanon,; Henry Wolfe, Lancaster ; Mrs. Fred Brunner, Rich-mond Hill , L. I,; Mrs. Anna Yeagcr, Lebanon ; Miss Mary Patten , Philadelphia; J. P. Stoner, Lancaster; A. M. Griffith , A. A. Griffith, Duncannon ; F. B. Grecna-walt , Wythcvillc; John H. Parfct , Harris-burg ; Frank V. Seavcrs, Hummelstown. FIRE COMPANY MEETING Will Act on Several Important Mat-ters , May Fir st The next stated meeting of the Hershey Volunteer Fire Company which occurs Tuesday, May 1, will bo one of the most important. meetings the company has ever had. At the last stated meeting amendments to the constitution and by-laws were proposed and these will bo acted on at the May meeting. These amendments will if adopted make changes in the government of the company. Further action will also be taken at. this meeting relative to attending the celebration at. Palmyra in June. An invitation has been received from Annvillo inviting the company to partici-pate) in the dedication of the new $10,000 lire house, and action will bo taken on this InviUiLion. Altogether it. will bo a meeting which every member should at! end. VESPER SERVICE The regular weekly vesper sol'vlcc of the Young Women's Christian Ahhoc1i\- tion was held Friday evening conducted by Miss Ruth Rcinlor. Select readings by Minn Jennet to Donmoyer and vocal roIoh by Miss Mnrgnrol , ' Roiglor were much enjoyed, The attendance was very encouraging lo the officers find members, LITTLE FARMERS AND THIRTY LOTS Operations in East Hershey on Land Whose Use Was Granted Free by M. S; Hershey. Boys Are In-terested in Work. Some Are Done Planting Home farming will be the fad of the year in Hershey. More vegetables will be raised in gardens than ever ' before. Mr. M. S. Hershey has offered land in East Hershey to the boys-of the town and on Monday afternoon the first lots were apportioned to the applicants. Rohrer Snavely will have general charge of this cultivation and will take care of much of the area not used by the boys. John F. Snavely, Manager of the Hershey Men's Club, will help the boys at different times. On the opening day Harry Haver-stick was present to lay out the lots and to give the boys advice. He will be in call on other days. The land has been put in shape for use. Those having lots will supply their own tools arid seeds. All the crops will go to them and there is ' every reason to believe that those who hold on to the work will realize well from their efforts. The lots and cultivators are as follows: 1—Charles McHeffey. 2 and 3-Charles Black. 4 and 5—Bruce Murrie. 6 and 7—Malcolm Murrie. 8, 9, 10, 25, and 26—Harvey Leibfried , Edgar Leibfried", Charles Leibfried. ll, 12, 13, and 14—Charles Robbins, Donald ' Robbins. 15—Ira Gibble. 16—William Leithiser. 17 and 18—Malcolm Kieff er. 19 and 20—Salvador Purcell. 21 and 22—Russell Smith. 23 and 24—Mark Henry. 27 and 28—Joseph Bonfanti. 29—Paul Schlepfer. 30—Robert Bricker. BABY'S HEALTH NATION'SWEALTH Mothers Club of Hershey Will Have Unusual Program The Hershey Mothers' Club continues to do good work in a fine way and its celebration of Baby Day on the 4th of May promises to be one of the delightful days in the history of the town and to bring here many visitors from Hum-melstown, Palmyra and other points. The program is being completed under the direction of the president, Mrs. Ezra F. Hershey and the committee. There will be three meetings as follows: 9:30 a. m.-^-Women Only. 2 to 4 p. m.—Open to all. 8 to 10 p. m.—Open to all. All these meetings will be held in the Hershey Central Theatre, Admission will be free but a collection will be taken up to defray expenses. There will be in-teresting exhibits all day and the program will contain attractive speeches and music. HIGH CLASS ATTRACTIONS Owing to the great popularity of the shows produced by the Triangle Film Company throughout the country the management of the local theatre has de-cided to exhibit a few of their best pro-duction s at the semi-weekly shows, and has already booked several expensive productions. The attractions for Saturday evening will be "Bullets and Brown Eyes" featur-ing Bessie Barriscnle who is regarded as one of the clever actresses in America, Miss Barriscnle has starred in many performances including the role of Lovey Mary in "Mrs. VViggs of the Cab-bage Patch" and as Launa in "The Bird of Paradise. " Movie lovers will bo Riven a rare treat 'next Wednesday evening when Cnrn Kimball Young will appear in "The Dark Silence." Miss Young is known and admired by movie fans, Her acting is wonderful and her ability as an imperson-ator is unsurpassed , "The Dark Silence" in a powerful love drama, Many of the scenes were taken behind the firing lines of the great European war. Despite its many war scenes it never impresses one as a war story; the thread of romance is too strong, THE ASSEMBLY DANCE The first Assembly Dance hold last Thursday evening In fho Press Building was it success from every point , the attendance exceeding by far the expecta-tions of the management. Couples from nearly every surrounding town us well as i\ few from Harrisburg and Lebanon were present. An orchestra from Harrls-burn, played. The next largo dance will be held next Thursday evening with a Lebanon or-chcHlm. furnishing the mimic, This ev-ening the regular dancing class will hold sway with Miss Dorothy Sellers probably presiding at the piano, SCHOOL BOARD TAKES ACTION Adopts Extra Period for the Pupils of the Hershey High School And Elects New Teacher Who Will Have Charge of Athletics All in Fine Health In an effort to makejup_all or-part of the time which was lost during the past school year, the Derry Township School Board by virtue of permission given by the State Board of Education has made a ruling to the effect that pupils of all grades of the High School be compelled to attend a special session_of school to be held every Saturday morning. The students do not take kindly to the proposition, considering it . something of an imposition to have this extra period forced upon them, but when they come to realize the situation the members of the Board believe they will fall in line, uncomplainingly. A ruling of the State Board of Education requires that a certain number of days in the year be devoted to school work and were not this system adopted it would be necessary to continue school through the last week of June instead of closing several weeks earlier as has been the custom. Looking at it from the standpoint of the • present labor situation it is almosj imperative that the older boys and girls be released from school work as quickly as possible. The great shortage in all lines of work such as home work, farming, factory and office work will be greatly aided by these students during the summer months, consequently the sooner they complete their scholastic work the better for the labor situation . Exceptions will be made in cases where it is necessary that the student help his or her people in their means of livelihood. In some instances the student will not be required to attend this special session, At this meeting of the Directors a new teacher was elected for the coming year, Steven C. Leininger, who will be placed in charge of the Manual Training room. Mr. Leininger is, a graduate of the ftjlillers-ville Normal School , and also took a course at Penn State College. At present he is engaged in teaching Manual Train-ing at Gettysburg College, In addition to this Mr. Leininger will be placed in charge of sill branches of athletics in the school. He was formerly the best all-round athletic of his Alma Mater, Under the direction of an ex-perienced athlete there is little doubt that the athletic fame of Hershey High School will not suffer. Mr. Leininger with his wife and family expects to move to Hershey early in the summer, The school is in fine shape and its pupils, numbering close to seven hundred arc in excellent health. SMALLPOX AT STEELTON Evan Kulich , an Austrian , is 111 with the small pox at Stcolton. It is a light at-tack , but the matter Is giving concern to the health authorities because of the thousands employed at Steelton , Including many negroes, Under Dr. Phillips pro-tective measures have been taken. WHOOPING COUGH In the country around Bast Hanover-dale there arc twenty or thirty cases of whooping cough, Efforts lire being made by the health authorities to prevent its spread to other sections. MR. COPE IS NOW POSTMASTER He Took Charge of the Hershey Post - Off ice Tuesday Morning. The Present Force to Be Retained Improvements That May Be Made Very Soon John H. Cope, Hershey's new post-master, received his commission in the late mail of Monday and took charge of the office Tuesday rhorning.' The force who have been running the office for months under the direction of the bonds-men will be retained as follows: Assistant Postmaster, Miss Bessie Moy-er. ¦- . .¦' . • Clerk, C. L. Peiffer. ' Clerk, Miss Viola Boyer. No immediate changes are contemplated and the postmaster, states that he will take his time to get fully acquainted with the office details and to ascertain the wishes of the people in regard to any improvements in the service that may be considered advisable. The improve-ments that have been discussed are as follows: The consolidation of the Derry Church Post Office with that of Hershey and the institution of local free delivery. The keeping open of the Post Office until the mail arriving on the 7:25 P. M. train is distributed. This train has not been on time more than once or twice during the past two or three months and in most instances the mail has been taken to the Post Ofifice and there remained undistributed until the following morning. This meant that Hershey has been with-out a direct- mail service from the east from 11:37 A. M. until the following morning. Of course, much of the eastern mail goes to Harrisburg and then is sent back to Hershey, but the direct service from the east has been just about as bad as it could be. The train arriving at 4:22 from the east brings no local mail. There is also the question of an out-going mail on Sunday if it can be arranged. At present no letters mailed after 7:00 P. M. Saturday move from, Hershey until after 8:00 Monday morning. The Postmaster thus has large op-portunities to improve the postal service of this town. Mr. Cope is well known to most Her-shey people although his home is at the extreme end of the township. He helped to organize the Sunday School in Derry Church and for eighteen years lie has had a large class of ladies. He has been a member of the church for twenty years and one of its leading and most popular members. Last Sunday evening he was installed as one of the trustees, Mr. Cope was born east of Palmyra on January 2(5, 1860, He received his edu-cation in the public schools of Palmyra. For seventeen years he worked on a farm, Then he went into the business of shoe manu facturing. He was with W. L, Krcidcr for fourteen years, A, S, Krcider for seven years and for the past year and a half ho has been with J. Landls and Company. His experience in polices lias been confined to his service as in-spector and cleric of elections. At present he is an inspector of elections; Mr. Cope is a bachelor. LOCAL CHAPTER OF RED CROSS First Meeting Held . Last Monday And Big Organization Meeting Will Be Held Next Monday Ev-ening. Good Speakers ~ Everybody is Invited Everybody is invited to attend a great public meeting at the Hershey Central Theatre next Monday evening at eight o'clock. It will have able speakers and an attractive program. The pur-pose of the meeting will be to complete the organization of the Hershey Chapter of the Red Cross. All are invited, men, women and children. The largest and best meeting of women ever held in Hershey was at the Central Theatre on Monday afternoon to organize for Red Cross work. Hershey had already made a record of having sold the largest number of Red Cross Seals, per capita of any town in the world and today it holds the banners for this achievement. So it was confidently expected that when the matter of organization of Red Cross work for the war was reached there would be a full response. The meeting was much larger than was expected. There were nearly 200 present including ladies from Hum-melstown, Palmyra, and other neighbor-ing towns. Five men were present but they remained quietly on the back seats. The meeting itself was that of the women and was run by them. Mrs. C. V. Glynn presided . With her oh the stage were Mrs. George Mattson of Harrisburg Chapter and Mrs.. Victor F. Lecoq, instructress in surgical supplies for the Red Cross Chapter of Harrisburg. Both of the visitors were warmly received and they expressed delight at coming to Hershey. Mrs. .Lecoq brought with her samples of the different kinds of work done by the members of the Red Cross. Mrs. Glynn made an admirable presiding officer and introduced Mrs. Mattson in a speech expressing the appreciation of the Hershey ladies. " Mrs. Mattson made a delightful and convincing speech. She is an orator and there was never a pause for a word in the story she told so eloquently. She said that the Red Cross represents humanity, that it belongs to no group, no nation, no faction but to the whole, human race. She traced its history from the first meeting in Switzerland in 1859,<>then the International meeting in 1864. The fam-iliar flag of the Red Cross , is that of Switzerland with the colors reversed. The Swiss flag is a white cross on a red background. The Red Cross is a red cross on a white background. The scope of the. work of the Red Cross includes surgeons, nurses, good roads, ambulances, commissary departments and last but not least the work of practically all the members in the making of dressings and garments. The recent notable work of the Red Cross in this country was in the Galveston flood and in the Spanish- American War. Its work in Europe was a matter of current history. In America today the members of the Red Cross are busy preparing dressings and garments and soldier kits. "I hope," said Mrs. Mattson, "it will not happen that we shall need such tilings in America but we are going to have them on hand if we should need them." Mrs, Mattson told of the work that the members in Hershey might do and the question before them was that qf organization , whether or not they should form a Chapter of their own or an auxiliary to the Harrisburg Chapter. To form a Hershey Chapter would necessitate one hundred members. The question was then discussed under the leadership of Mrs. Glynn , Mrs. Magee and others, and Uidics from Pal-myra and Hummelstown promised co-operation, It was promptly seen that the meeting considered that Hershey could form a chapter and so the matter of an Auxiliary to the Harrisburg Chap-ter was dropped, A rising vote showed a largo number in favor of the proposition and no it was decided to form the Her-shey chapter and to proceed at once, First was the election of two officers, and the following were elected unani-mously; Secretary, Mrs, Linn II. Hawbccker, Treasure r, Mrs. John 15. Snyder, It. was then decided to postpone the election of the President and Vice- President , and t h e Board until the public meeting which will bo held next week, Then those who wish to become mem-bers were asked to sign tlio roll. Forty pledges were received and more have been gathered durin g the week, It is quite possible that the necessary one hundred will be in sight when the 'public meeting is called to order, ' Rod CroHH IncronncH With a national membership of less than 27,000, three years ago, the Red Cross is now making rapid strides to-ward its goal of u million members. WAR COST "WILL HIT EVERYONE Most Radical Change Will Probably Be in the Income Tax And the Lowering of the Exemption Will Hit Many in Hershey ' . Sources of Income America's war finance program calls for $7,000,000,000. That means $70 for every man, woman and child. It is the first big ,blow of the war. It means that whether you go in for the fight or not you have got to pay your share of the expense. How is the money to be raised? The thing that will hit the community like Hershey hardest is the probable reduction in the exemption of the income tax. Under the present law $3,000 for single persons and $4,000 for married persons is the point where the tax begins. Under that law about a score of persons in Her-shey have to pay the income tax. The proposed laws .reducing the exemption to $1,500 for single and $2,000 for married persons would double the number in Hershey and its neighborhood who would have to pay an income tax. This tax would be , 2 per cent on their incomes with the following supertaxes added : Incomes of $3,000 to $4,000, 1 per cent; $4,000 to $5,000, 2 per cent; $5,000 to $10,000, 5 per cent; $10,000 to $20,000, 7 per. cent; $20,000 to $40,000, 8 per cent; $40,000 to $60,000, 10 per cent ; $60,000 to $80,000, 12 per cent; $80,000 to $100,000, 15 per cent; $100,000 to $150,000, 20 per cent; $150,000 to $200,- 000, 25 per cent; $200,000,000 to $1,- 000,000, 33 1-2 per cent; 31,000,000 and over, 40 per cent. "This revenue," Mr. McAdoo says, "would be further increased if the in-come from state and municipal securi-ties and state and municipal salaries were made subject to the income tax." The total increase from this tax is expected to be $340,000,000. If the present excess profits tax of 8 per cent on corporation and partner-ship profits of more than $5,000 and 8 per cent of invested capital were made applicable to the calendar year 1916, the secretary estimates it would yield $226,000,000. Corporations and partner-ships would be given until September to pay the tax. As to the excess profits tax for 1917, collectible • in June, 1918, the existing law allows an exemption of $5,000 and 8 per cent on invested capital, and levies 8 per cent tax on the remainder of the profits of corporations and " partnerships. If this tax, allowing the same exemptions were increased to 10 per cent on profit in excess of 8 per cent and not over 15 per cent of capital invested, to 15 per-cent on profits in excess of 15 per cent and not over 25 per cent of capital invested, to 20 per cent on profits in excess of 25 per cent, and not over 50 per cent of capi-tal invested , and to 25 per cent on pro-fits in excess of 50 per cent of capital invested , the law, according to the Secretary, would yield $425,000,000. Would Tax Railroad Fares Proposed revenue from passenger trans-portation receipts is estimated on the basis of "1 per cent on each 25-cent fare or fraction thereof within the United States," but '"no tax on fare not in excess of 25 cents." Freight transportation , it is estimated would yield $100,000,000 at 1 per cent on each 25 cents or fraction thereof of each frieght bill. An increase of $2 per gallon on dis-tilled spirits, now taxes .$1.10, the Sec-retary says would raise $73,000,000. Suggestions as to possible new sources of taxation through which to raise approx-imately one-half of the estimated cost of the first year of the war , or $1,807,250,- 000, were submitted by Secretary Mc- Adoo this week to the Senate, Finance and the House Ways and Means Com-mittees. The other half of the cost is to be provided by $2,000,000,000 of the bonds authorized by the War Revenue Bill. Other sources, the Secretary believes could be made to yield additional in-come include: excise on sugar , $02,000,0001 stamp taxes on theatre , baseball and other amusement tickets, $75,000,0001 distilled spirits , $73,000,000,000; stamp taxes, miscellaneous, $51,000,000; trans-portation receipts, passenger, $35,000,000; fermented liquors, !p30,000,000; smoking and chewing tobacco, $25,000,000; auto-mobiles, trucks , motorcycles, $1!),800,000; soft drinks, $1<) ,200,000; cigarettes, $17,000 000; rectified liquor , $12,(300,000; ciga rs, $11,()00,(K)() ; excise lax on musical in-struments, grnphophonctt, etc, $7,000,- 000; wines, etc., $0,7(50,000; all dealers in cigars, cigarettes, etc., $4,800,000, The land seen behind the houses in this picture has been divided into plots which will be a par t of the Piesident 's program of Home Farming. Mr. Hershey has given the use of the land free. This week 30 lots were assigned to boys. More will be assigned later. WHERE THE HERSHEY BOYS ARE AT WORK MAYOR MEALS DEAD Mayor Meals of Harrisburg died yes-terday morning at the ago of fifi, Ho had been ill some time, Ho was well lmown to many Hershey people, Men who want good, saf e work at good wages and with steady employment should at once address or app ly at the Hers hey Employment Bureau, Hershey, Pa , A HANDSOME STALLION Delimit', one of the hiinclBomcst stallions in the state, which has been greatly ad-mired by visitors to Mershoy, Is for sale, ' Ho woIrIih over KiOO pounds and ia a black Percheron of aristocratic stock, |