The Hershey Press 1917-05-10

              SEE THE BABIES
THIS AFTERNOON
Great Interest in the Show . Being
Held in Hershey Store. So Suc-cessful
That • Manage ment
Has Decided to Make It
• An Annual ' Event
Arrangements are : being made to ac-commodate
a large crowd of visitors at
the store this afternoon when the final
examinations of the numerous babies
brought there in observance of the first
Baby Show of Hershey will be conducted.
Although it is the first time in the history
of the store that this show has been held
in connection with the nation-wide ob-servance
of Baby Week the management
has decided to make it an annual event.
Crowds exceeding by far the expecta-tions
of the management have already
visited the store and expressed their
appreciation of the work being done.
Tuesday afternoon thirty-five babies were
brought to the show where they were
examined by the committee in charge
of that work after which they were pho-tographed
and a copy of the picture
given to the proud mother. The com-mittee
in charge of the examinations to
decide the prize winners consists of Mrs.
Aldus Wirth, Mrs. Lawrence .Edwards,
Miss Kilmore and Dr. Zimmerman.
Particularly attractive decorations har-monizing
with the spirit of the occasion
give some sections of the store an appear-ance
oi a nursery. The window displays
have an atmosphere of home by virtue
of their clever reproductions of scenes
taken from the well known rhymes of
Mother Goose.
Everyone is cordially invited to attend
the show which will close Saturday ev-ening
at 9 o'clock. Handsome prizes
will be awarded to the winners of the
various classes of babies under four
years of age. The results of the contest
will.be announced the early part of next
week.
FINER THAN EVER
IS HERSHEY PARK
Equipment Has Been Considerably
Enlarged And New Accommoda-tions
Have Been Provided. A
Rest Room and Nursery
Photograph Gallery
Hershey Park this season will be more
attractive than ever. The flowers and
plants have reached a degree of beauty
beyond - anything of the past and the
park's whole appearance will be more
lovely than at any other time since it
was established.
All through the winter and spring im-provements
have been in progress. Last
summer the success of the swimming
pool was so great that on many days the
patrons could not all be accommodated.
This year there is an enlargement of the
facilities and the service will be equal to
all demands.
The baseball diamonds and the other
athletic fields are already in prime con-dition
and the work goes on,
The old photograph gallery near the
bridge spanning Spring Creek has been
greatly improved and turned into a
general rest room and nursery for the use
of mothers and children who attend
picnics. The new photograph gallery
is the northern end of the Hershey Cafe.
The Park Cafe lias been enlarged and
the commodious porch has been extended
around the entire northern end, This
is a very great improvement which will
bo appreciated this summer,
Other improvements consist of the new
Horticultural Hall for exhibitions and
the general overhauling of the other
buildings,
The war makes all summer schedules
uncertain but it is likely that Hershoy
Park will have a large number of visitors,
The attractions here arc not only the
recreations to be found in the park but
the assurance that everything is safe and
healthy. Disorder is unknown nnd the
park ia just the place for children and
women. There is ah unlimited suppl y
of filtered water and everything is sanitary,
These attractions bring nn increasing
number of parties to the park and while
large picnics, may not be so numerous as
heretofore the (low of dally visitors will
probably .bo up to the mark of any other
season and perhaps, beyond it.
COUNTY AGENT AT WORK
The now farm bureau for Dau phin
County has been opened In the offices of
the Chamber of Commerce at Harris-burg.
For the first few weeks the farm
agent , II, G. Nissloy, will devote his
time traveling over the county to make
the acquaintance of the fiu/morn nnd to
secure n genera l Iclcn of their methods,
At the meeting of the farm bureau Albert
Slicnk of . Ilorslioy was present. The
bureau Is seeking to find out from the
farmers of tho county how many boys
they will need this summer In (.heir farm
work. '
W. H. LEBKICHER
CHOSEN ADVISOR
Honored by Executive Committee
of the Dauphin " County Sabbath
School Association. Program
for Coming ' Convention
Meeting: at Hershey
At the meeting of the Executive Com-mittee
of the Dauphin County Sabbath
School Association, a very , gratifying
report of the recent series of district
conventions was made. All the districts
are now fully organized, except the dis-trict
comprising the northern part oi
Harrisburg. During the conventions, sub-scriptions
to the new county association
organ, The Dauphin County Sunday
School News, were taken in goodly
numbers. The paper gives every promise
of being a success and of filling a long
felt need in the county work.
One of the important items of business
was the election of William JL Lebkicher
of Hershey as an advisory"1 member of
the Executive Committee upon the
motion , of Col. H. C. Demming.
Col. Demming spoke of Mr, Lebkicher
as a man who has long had a deep interest
All Invited to the Baby Show Here This Afternoon
Hwsfiey Department Store and Inn , Hershey, Pa.
in the work of the Sunday Schools in
the community, especially among the
young people. , ' '
A report was made by the committee
preparing the program for the County
Convention to be held in Millersburg
June 26 and 27. The state workers on
the program will be Preston G, Orwig, one
of the livest wires in the Sunday School
world as well as one of the most practical
workers in the state, and Miss L. Grace
Kane, the new Elementary Superintend-ent,
who is making a fine reputation by
her work throughout the state. Other
attractive speakers will be on the program,
among them, Rev. Mr. Holtzapple, the
local Anti-Saloon League Superintendent,
whose unique power as an exponent of
temperance is greatly appreciated through-out
Dauphin County, The attention of
Sunday School Workers is called to the
date and the place of the convention—
Millersburg, June 26 to 27. The pastor,
the superintenden t, the primary super-intendent
and two representatives from
each school are entitled to participate in
the deliberations of the convention.
NO DANCING UNTIL MAY 17
Owing to tho structual improvemibrits
being made in the Press Building the
weekly dances will be discontinued.
These dances have been popular with
tho people of Hershey and the neighbor-ing
towns, the attendance being very
gratifying to tho management.
The lull ,in dancing will not bo of long
duration however, Thursday, May 17,
tho first dance of tho summer will be
held in the Park dance hall. * A special
orchestra has been secured for this
occasion.
Final plans are being arranged for tho
Fourth Annual May Hop to bo held in
the park Thursday, May 24. According
to tho management it will surpa ss all
previous dances in tho history of tho
park, Definite information regarding it
will bo announced Inter.
ALLISON CARMAN ILL
The Hershey Press is (n receipt of a
letter from tho Rev, E. A. Sharp, pastor
Urethral Church of McKccsport , slutl ng
that Allison Gnrmnn is quite ill at (ho
homo of hiii sister In thai town, It will
bo several "wcoIch before Mr, Gnrmnn will
bo ahlo to correspond with nny of his
frlcnda Rev, Sharp slates Hint although
Mr. Gnrmnn Is quite ill , hopes are held
out that ho will recover.
Tho next meeting of the Executive
Committee will probably be held in
Hershey.
TONIGHT AT THE
HERSHEY SCHOO L
Exhibit of the Pupils in Drawing And
Industrial Work. All Are Invited
There- Will Be A Fine Literary
Program Presented by the
Students . The Music
On Thursday evening, the tenth of
May, will be an exhibit of the Hershey
School drawing and industrial work.
The various exhibits will be on the black-boardsof
the school rooms. The exhibition
will consist largely of work done in drawing
but a large part oi it will be of an indus-trial
nature which the individual teachers
worked up with the scholars at periods
other than their regular school routine.
<¦ The industrial work is the beginning of
larger things for the Deny Township
schools, to be conducted under the manual
training work which -will be started next
year.
The High School will render a literary
program at 7:30 which will be in keeping
with the exhibit and to it the patrons of
the school are urged to come. The
program follows: Music, America, High
School; Talk, Iron and Steel, Verna
Stuckey '18; Value of Latin, Malcolm
Murrie '19;PianoSolo, Martha Keeney 18;
The Development of English Literature,
Susan Curry 17; Violin Duet, Josephine
Ferrucci 17 and Noah Klauss 19; Appli-cations
of Mathematics, Chester Eber-sole
18; Song, Boys Chorus, Mr. Hauck ;
Talk, Dynamo, John Brenberger '17;
Vocal Solo, Eva Rupkle '20; Talk,
Medical Barks, Grace Stauffer '19; Read-ing,
Lillian Shope 19; History, Katharine
Jones 18; Song, Girls Chorus, Miss
Kramlich ; Song, Star Spangled Banner,
School.
FARMER S SHOULD ATTEND
Address by Dr. Taylor , Leading Au-thority
, on Soil Cultu r e And
Crop Raising
Dr. E. W. Taylor of Moline, III,, who
is one of the best known authorities on
soil culture and crop raising in the United
Stales today, will deliver an address at
Hershey on May 24th , 1917, at 2 P. M.
Dr. Taylor farms many thousand acres
of land in various sections of the country
and is at the head of one of the largest
soil culture departments in the United
States and has had a life-long experience
in intensive farming and all this implies,
His experience is so varied and his
tests have been so exhaustive that ho can
give you information which you cannot
buy,
This talk which Dr. Taylor will give
will bo on soil culture, fertilizers , seed
selection , preparation of tho seed bed
stock raising, etc., and will cover ground
which will make it of intcrcBl and profit,
to every farmer and his family,
To hear Dr. Taylor will consume one-half
hour of your time, and wo believe
that you cannot afford , oven though it
should bo your busy season , to let such
an opportunity pass by. You will secure
more actual information in this address
than you could in a month of reading
and it is all practical Information which
Dr, Taylor has gathered from actual
farming, experience,
FOR HUMMELSTOWN RED CROSS
Tho Ilummolstown auxiliary of tho
Red Cross Society will hold a Shirt
Waist Dmico Saturday evening, May 12,
In tho old Bawl Hall , Mummolstown ,
tho proceeds of which will bo used in
tho Red Cross work.
Therefore, sot wide tho afternoon of
Mny 24, and come to hear this famous
agriculturist and got something to take
homo t hat will mnl<e you money,
HERSHEY WOMEN
WANT WORKER S
Red Cross Plans Need More Volunteers
There is Also Great Demand for
Materials. Rooms Open One
to. Five Every Monday and
Thursday. Progress
For the Red Cross work the rooms in
the Hershey Central Theatre Building
are open from 1 to 5 every Monday and
Thursday. All women whether members
or not are urged to help. They are
asked to come at any time and stay as
long as they choose. Beginning Tuesday,
May 1,5, the rooms will be open from 7
until 10 to meet the wisles of those who
cannot work in the afternoon . "We are
in need of more workers," say the leaders.
There is also great need of old muslin,
old Jirien,^wo>rn-out bed spreads and
turkish towels; the only requirement is
that they be clean. This is another way
the women of Hershey may do their bit.
The membership campaign is still on
and excellent progress is being made.
If you have not joined send in your
dollar; that is the only charge for full
membership. The Hershey Auxiliary has
now over 20O members. There should
be twice that number. Join now.
In order to raise money trie women
have planned to give a series of parties.
Each woman is asked to entertain four
of her friend s and acceptance of her
invitation obligates the paying of 25
cents. In this way quite a sum may be
raised for the current expenses.
NOW THE TIME
TO BUY A HOME
Mr. Hershey s Fine Offer to Employes
of Hershey Interests
There is great interest in Mr. Hersliey's
offer of homes at the cost of their con-struction,
which means that very desirable
residences in Hershey may be obtained
at from 30 to 40 per cent less than could
be duplicated for today.
The offer is only to employes of the
Hershey interests. Each home will be
sold at cost on a payment of 10 per cent of
the purchase price witli fixed monthly
payments, When these payments reach
25 per cent of the ' purchase price a
deed will be given and a mortgage at
5 per cent will be taken for tho remaining
sum.
Mr. Hersh ey makes this very generous
offer because ho wants as many Iiomc-owners
in Hershey as possible.
The publication of the offer laxt week
aroused deep interest. Inquiries are
made daily and' many sales are expected,
The first sal« was 11 Trinidad Avenue to
Frank J. Christ, TIic second sale was
104 Caracas Ave., to II. F. Kiofer. For
list of properties see page 8,
TO PLAY ROSEWOOD SATURDAY
Bad weatlicr ' prevented tho opening of
the 1917 baseball season in Hershey
when tho East End A, C. of Harrisburg
had been scheduled to oppose tho Hershoy
hoys on the Park diamond.
The Rosewood Club of Harrisburg will
be the attraction Saturday afternoon,
May 12, Tho Rosewood team comes
here with a fine reputation, having won
the city championship hist year, Ac-cording
to report tho team will be even
stronger this summer having secured the
services of several new players, I-lershcy
will bo represented by an exceptionally
fast team which gives every hsHuranco
of an interesting content,
Tho game will begin promptly sit 3,'lf>,
The batteries for the game will l>o Sidles
and PottoiKcr for Hershoy and Gardner
and Beach for Rosewood,
CELEBRATION A
GREAT SUCCESS
All Three Sessions of the Day Devoted
to Babies Were Full , of Interest
And Instruction. Excellen t
. Lectures. Praise for the
Spirit.of Mothers ' Club
In celebration of Baby Week the exer-cises
held last Friday in the Central
Theatre were a decided success. At all
three sessions educational and helpful
addresses were given by lecturers well
qualified to speak upon their chosen
subjects.
At the morning .session to which only
ladies were admitted, Mrs. Ezra Hershey,
president of the Hershey Mothers' Club,
under whose auspices the exercises -were
given, delivered a graceful address of
welcome. Miss Anna M. Wanbaugh, a
registered nurse of Harrisburg, gave an
interesting lecture, after which Miss
Helen Landgraph rendered a pleasing
vocal solo.
A heavy rain was responsible for the
limited attendance in the afternoon.
W. L. Dubois who presided introduced
Dr. Zimmerman who lectured on, "Care,
Feeding and Clothing of Children."
Dr. Zimmerman's lecture was worthy of
a larger audience as the points he brought
out would prove of value to all mothers.
He advocated and urged the necessity of
training a child in its early, months in
regard to feeding and other habits, de-claring
that the brain .grows or develops
most in the first two years.
Another point brought out by Dr.
Zimmerman was the too frequent oc-curence
of a proud parent "showing off"
the baby to admiring visitors. He ex-plained
that the first two years the baby
should have undisturbed qiuet without
any strain being placed on its nerves;
Careful exercise and plenty of fresh, air
are other essentials in the proper care of
babies, he declared.
A good attendance was recorded at
the evening service which was in the
charge of Rev. R. H. Taylor. Addresses
and musical selections by Miss Helen
Fox: of Hummelstown and Mr. Dubois
of Hershey with a trombone solo by
Edgar Harkins featured the session.
Rev. J. I. Meek in his address empha-sized
the importance of taking care of the
babies, declaring that to save the lives
of the babies is a religious duty: "Our
responsibility lies in the caring for the
child," he continued. In speaking of the
observance of Baby Week he said that
the spirit back of the movement was the
spirit of Christianity. Rev. Meek fur-ther
insisted that it is patriotic duty to
be interested in the movement as the
babies of today are the men and women
of tomorrow. He emphasized the words
of a previous speaker in reference to the
importance of fresh air at all times and
cited the benefits bestowed upon the
people of Hershey in the requisites of
good health including water, food and
pure air,
One of the most interesting talks in
Hershey was given by William Essig
of Harrisburg, who spoke on "Daddy's
Bit to Do At Home." In speaking of
the father 's place in the home he stated
his conviction that there are far too many
daddies spending their evenings in pool-rooms
and cigar stores instead of at home
where by every law of mankind they
belong. "There are too many daddies
who are not chums to their boys," he
went on to say and urged every father
to wake up in this respect and make his
children his confidents.
Becoming eloquent as he warmed up
to> his subject Mr, Essig repeatedly
brought his audience to applause. Ad-dressing
the younger people present
Mr. Essig said, "Boys, be affectionate to
each other and above all things defend
your sister; stand by her at. nil times and
be ever ready to protect her from harm.
And men," ho continued , "if you are not
daddy enough to make your boy of
more value to tho world than you are,
you are failing in your duty. " Contin-uing
he said, "Bo a sweetheart at all
times. A touch on the hands, a kiss on
Hie lips is sweeter than anything in tho
world," Mr. Essig concluded his ad-dress
by cautioning the men not to
become shirkers but to do their bit
wherever it may bo required ,
Tho last address of the evening was
by Dr, J, L, Mowcry of Lancaster who
gave an exceedingly in|ercsting talk on
tuberculosis in infants. Dr. Mowcry
claims that forty per cent of tubercular
infections begin in tho child and that by
proper enre It can he averted, The
theory of hereditary tuberculosis Is being
¦worn away by scientists and the cause
is being placed upon the Impure milk
supply, ho continued, According to sta-tistics,
out of 28,000,000 dair y cows In
United States, 9,000,000 were fou nd to be
tubercular.
Tho members of the club did excellent
work in decorating tho theatre for the
celebration, There wore many educational
signs bearing upon babies and health
and nil tlietiu were artistically arranged,
Tho whole affair reflected great credit on
the club.
HIGH SCHOOL 'S
LARGEST CLASS
Commencement Will Be Held in the
Park Amphitheatre on June 12th
Grammar School Transf er Ex-ercises
Next Week. Ros-ter
of New Teachers
The High. School Commencement will
be held in the Parfy Theatre on the ev-ening
of Tuesday, June 12th. There
will be twenty-three in the senior class.
This will be the largest class, gradu-ated
from the Hershey High School.
The . Grammar School Transfer exer-cises
will be lield- the evening of the sev-enteenth
of May in the Park Theatre.
The exhibit will be held at the School
Building on the evening of Thursday
and . all day Friday. The patrons will
be welcome m the schools . at which
time the last regular lessons prior to the
examinations will be held. The grade
schools close on Friday, May 18, and
examinations will be held all next week.
The following teachers are elected:
Stacey E. Peters, Supervising principal.
Professor Peters begins~another year with
increasing popularity and success.
George W. Hauck, History and Math-ematics.
Mr. Hauck is a graduate of
Dickinson College. He was principal
of the LeRaysville schools before coming
to Hershey. This' will be his second year
in Hershey. Mr. Hauck is an accomplish-ed
pianist and has had charge of the boys'
chorus of the High School.
Anna H. Lloyd, English. Miss Lloyd
is a graduate of Irving College and has
done post graduate work at Columbia
University. Miss Lloyd has been here
two years.
Ruth V. Engle, Latin and German.
Miss ' Engle is a graduate of Lebanon
Valley College and has done post graduate
work at the University of Chicago.
She has been here two years
C. M. Thompson, Science including
Agriculture. He is a graduate of State
College and is now teaching Science in
the Moundsville West Virginia High
School. Moundsville is a town of about
ten thousand inhabitants. He is married.
Edgar F. Slichter will have charge of
the Commercial course of the High
School and the penmanship in the grades.
Mr. Slichter is married. He was the
proprietor of a Cornmerical school for
six years and is now teaching the ' com-mercial
courses in the , Chambersburg
High School, where he has been for
six years.
Stephen C. Leininger will have charge
of the Manual Training and the Athletics
of the School. Mr. Leininger is a gradu-ate
of the Millersville Normal School
and has taken courses at State College in
manual training. Mr. Leininger was a
star athlete at his Alma Mater. He is
married. He is now teaching Manual
Training in the Gettysburg Schools.
Mabel B. Dunning will have charge of
the Domestic Science. Miss Dunning
is a graduate of Maryland Institute and
she took work at Johns Hopkins and
Drexel Institute. Miss Dunning had
charge of the Domestic .Science in the
Weston, West Virginia, Schools. Miss
Dunning has charge of the Continuation
Schools of Hershey, Palmyra, and Annville
this year, Next year she will have the
Continuation school in Hershey only.
Another addition to the schools will
be the Junior High School This will
not mean more teachers but will for the
present require teachers to teach certain
subjects in the higher grade schools.
It will be a specializing of teachers.
Arthur P. I locker will have mathematical
subjects as his major and Miss Pauline
Clark will have English as her major
subject, Each teacher will teach part
of the time in the seventh and eighth
grades.
Mr. Hockcr is a graduate of tho Ship-pensburg
Normal School.
Miss Clark is a graduate of Lebanon
Valley College,
Miss Sara Foreman, a graduate of tho
Normal School sit Shlppenshurg, will
have charge of tho sixth grade,
Miss Edna Erb, a graduate of West
Chester Normal School, will have tho
fourth Grade.
Miss Esther K. Moyer , a graduate of
Lebanon Valley College, will have tho
fifth grade.
Miss Mildred Thomas, n graduate of
West Chester Normal School who
lias taught in the New Jersey schools,
will have the other fifth grade.
Miss Flora Colvln , a graduate of In-diana
Stnto Normal School , and . Miss
Adeline S. Paul , n graduate of West
Chester Normal School, will have tho
third grades,
Miss Dora Dise, a graduate of Millers-ville,
and Miss Carrlo M. Dressier, a
graduate of Mlllersvillo, will have tho
second grades.
Mlaa May B, Hershoy, si graduate of
Lebanon Valley College who has had
tho primary schools for n number of
years, will again huvo tho American
Primary School,
Miss Elizabeth E. DIsBlnger, n gra duate
of Kutulown Normal School, will have
charge of tho Italian Primary School.