The Hershey Press 1919-05-15

              Kiddaes Have
Big Time at
Baby Show
¦With a setting and background resembling
a miniature circus, kiddies to the number of
40 or more, played around in the sand to
their hearts content in the space prepared
and reserved for their exclusive use in the
Hershey Store during the days known as
Baby Week. The circle in which they
played contained toys of every description
calculated to fill the youngsters with delight.
Hobby-horses, see-saws, slides, automobiles,
coaster wagons were but a small feature of
the thrills enjoyed by the tots.
All previous good times ' were totally
eclipsed by the activities of the closing hours
Saturday evening. Two real Shetland pon-ies
galloping around the saw dust ring
brought howls of delight from the youngsters
and as the turn of each tot to ride on the
ponies' backs came alone the enjoyment
reached the climax. With the last ride,
passed into history the most enjoyable time
in the young careers of the little tots.
Despite the very disagreeable weat her of
the three last days of theTweek" the number
of peoplg.wbo brought their little ones to
the sjofe- numbered several hundred. Dur-ing
the three days, 123 babies were registered
i^'at the registration booth. There were also
a number who failed to register.
At the time of registration each child was
given a number: Saturday evening the
numbers were all placed in a box and one
number drawn from it. The child holding
the corresponding number was entitled to
$5 worth of baby merchandise. In this case
the lucky baby was HaroWLAdam Hosteller,
31 N. Lincoln Street, Palmyra. Master
Harold will be one year old on the 27th day
of next month.
' All babies three years and under were
given a silver spoon as a souvenir of the
occasion . In addition all of (he youngsters
were photographed free of charge and a
picture given the parents.
Although old man Pluvius worked un-usually
hard during the time of the Baby-
Week, the event was nevertheless one of the
most successful affairs in the history of the
store.
RAIN PREVENTS BALL GAME
Jupiter Pluvius was given the decision in
the game scheduled to have been played
Saturday af ternoon between the Hershey
Baseball team and Rutherford A. C. at
Rutherford. Hershey's schedule had called
for a game with the Duncannon team of the
Dauphin-Perry League, but they cancelled
on the local combination for some unex-plained
reason and Rutherford was substi-tuted.
The home season for the local boys will
open Saturday afternoon with the St. Mary's
team of Steelton. St. Mary's has an un-usually
strong combination, particularly in
the offensive department. Their fielding too
is above the average. Little fear is enter-tained
among the Hershey boys as to the
outcome of the game. The home team will
enter the game full of confidence and their
practice work during the past week more
than justifies that faith. The battery for
the Hershey team will more than likely be
Bishop and Ream. It is probable that
Hummel will do the hurling for the visitors.
G. O. L. TO TAKE IN NEW MEMBERS
Reports from the G. 0. L. Club show that
the organization is progressing nicely and
several applicants are being considered for
membership. The members of the club
took a trip to Harrisburg Saturday return-ing
late in the evening. Suitable location
for a club room is being sought and it is
altogether likely that the organization will
be permanently located in the near future.
GUN CLUB NEWS
The members of the Hershey Gun Club
are planning a. match to be held within the
next few weeks. The large Western Auto-matic
Trap arrived several days and will
be placed in position within a few days.
H. W. Stine, secretary of the club has re-quested
that all mejnbers report at the field
tomorrow evening at 7:80 o'clock.
New Bakery
to Open ©mi
July 1st
With an equipment complete in every
detail the Hershey Bakery will begin operat-ing
July 1, in their new quarters in the Press
Building. The contract for large ovens
which will be installed within the next few
weeks has been given the Standard Oven
Company of Pittsburg and will be capable
of turning out over 2000 loaves of bread a
day. The balance of equipment is being
made and furnished by a French manufac-turing
corporation of Paris, and by the J.
H. Day Co., of New York City.
In addition to the bread a specialt y will
be made of the baking of French rolls, fa ncy
cakes, and pastries and French bread.
Situated in the modernly constructed
building with all conveniences for perfect
sanitary arrangements the new bakery will,
upon completion, be one of the most up-to-date
establishments of its kind in the state
and will fill a long felt need.'
BASEBALL TEAM TO STAGE BIG SHOW
AH indications point to a crowded house
Saturday evening when the entertainment
under the auspices of the Hershey Baseball
team is given in the Park Theatre.
The program will consist of vaudeville and
moving pictures. The movie end of the
evening will be an unusual attraction, stanr-'
ing Madge Kennedy, the popular actress, in
one of her most winning productions, "Day
Dreams."
Miss Kennedy's career in the movie world
has been one -of the most successful in the
histor\ of the game. From her first appear-ance
-wie made a decided sensation and in
this picture she fairly excells any other in
which she has participated.
The vaudeville part of the program will
be well taken care of by the Hershey Quar-tette,
the Dietz brothers of Lancaster, a
musical act by Fred Pronic and a singing
act by Miss Lois Shea. Jud ging from all
reports any one act would be well wort h the
price of admission.
Ever since the organiza tion of the first
baseball team in Hershey, the teams have
been self-supporting. As a matter of pride
the boys are desirous of maintaining that
reputation and for that reason decided to
stage a benefi t program in an effort to raise
sufficient funds to finance the team through
the coming season. Hershey has always bad
an unusually strong team and in order to
retain such it has been found necessary to
bring fast teams here from points many
miles from Hershey. In order to do this
and give a sufficient guarantee it can readily
be seen that a considerable sum of money
is required. Accordingly the members of
the team and of the Men's Club are anxious
to have the whole hearted support of the
people of Hershey. The money derived
from the show will be used for the purpose
of bringing such attractions to Hershey.
The price of admission has been fixed at the
moderate sum of twenty-five cents and it is
hoped that everyone will turn out.
PALMYRA PLANS CELEBRATION
Plans for a big patriotic demonstration to
be held on Memorial Day, May 30, at Pal-myra,
in which all returned soldiers, sailors
and marines formerly of this vicinity, will
take part, have been announced by the
patriotic organizations of town.. The parade
will have the twofold purpose of serving
as a peace demonstration and home-coming
reception for the more than forty men from
Palmyra and vicinity who are returning one
by one. Other nearby communities are
invited to participate in the program.
REV. TAYLOR ON A TRIP
Rev. R. H. Taylor left for New York
Monday to attend a Seminary Class Re-union,
and thence to St. Louis to attend the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, as a commissioner from the Presby-tery
of Carlisle.
The Rev. John H. Reed, of Lebanon, will
supply the pulpit of the Derry Presbyterian
Church in the absence of Mr. Taylor, May
18 and 25. '
Hershey Press
Eagerly Read
in Germany
From the general tone of the letter re-ceived
by the Hershey. Press this week, it is
evident tha t the Hershey boys who are
serving with the American Army of Occupa-tion
are enjoying life despite the fact that
they are thousands of miles from home.
From all indications however it is probable
that they will be on the homeward path
bef ore many weeks roll by. The letter in
full follows:
\^
Treves, Germany,
* April 15, 1919.
The Hershey Press',
Hershey, Penna.
Gentlemen:
We are glad to say that the
Hershey Press has found its way into Ger-many
too and brought a little more cheer
to at least two of the Hershey boys here.
The slogan "Berlin or Bust" was a good one,
but we only,gptNtbis far after*bjking all over
this old part 'of the. world, but that-t^s>nof
fault of ours, * '. '
We are glad to ni ie m your columns that
the Olivets- have challenged the Independ-ents
and are desirous .to know the outcome
of that game. After"' trimming all the
teams for miles around we think that the
Olivets showed a great deal of true American
sportsmanship in challenging the Independ-ents
and hope that 'the' result of that game
was in favor of the Hershey quintette.
We have before us a copy of the Hershey
Press of . March 6, 1919 and have noted the
following item—
"Rumor has it that Charles Fralick,
better known as "Fuzzy," contracted sun-burn
on the roof of his mouth while watching
the flight of an aeroplane over the city Mon-day
morning."
May we supplement that article by saying
that if our good friend "Fuzzy-" had been
over here with us, he might have had more
than the roof of his mouth burnt. Of
course, this is submitted with due apologies
to all concerned.
We have been stationed in this ancient
German city for quite some time and have
been privileged to see the ruins of an old
Roman amphitheatre, palace, buildings, and
the present bridge across the Moselle River
was originally of Homan construction. All
of these old constructions are coneeeded to
be 2000 years old. May we add that the
habits and customs of these native people
seem to be about as old as the buildings of
Roman origin.
Quite unlike the general opinion that
Army life is not a busy one,, may we say
that we have been very busy keeping the
"Watch on the Rhine" wound.up, and take
this opportunity, through your columns, to
extend our best regards and best wishes to
our many friends in Hershey.
Respectfully,
Elmer P. Swartz, Pvt.,
R. G. Hinkel, Corp.
Company "D," 56th Pioneer Infantry,
American E. F.
WALTER BISTLINE CELEBRATES
BIRTHDAY
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bistline of Caracas
Avenue held a delightful party in honor of
the 8th Birthday Anniversary of their son
Walter, Monday evening. Master Bistline
was the recipient of many beautiful gifts.
A very pleasant evening was spent in the
playing of games after which refreshments
were served. In the center of the table was
a large birthday cake containing eight
candles.
Those present were the following: Misses
Anna Brinker, Linnie Heagy, Anna Margaret
Kraft, Violet Carr and Thelma Bistline; and
Masters, Russel Stuckey, Kenneth Stuckey,
Norman Kohr, Edison Rice, Charles Baker,
Ellwood Deckard, Russel Hetrick, Robert
Kraft, Ralph Bistline Jr ., Stanton Can,
and Roy Carr.
OLIVETS AFTER GAME
Through a mix up of-some kind in the sea-son
schedule the Olivets find themselves
without a game for the coming Saturday.
Negotiations are now pending with the man-agement
of a Duncannon team for a contest
but as yet nothing definite has been arranged.
Victory Loam
Fpt TlhroTUiglhi
in Late Rally
"Over the Top'." With a last minute
rally the people of the Hershey District re- *
sponded to the appeal to support the. Victory
Loan by making a last minute stampede
that nearly overwhelmed the committee in
charge. With prospects anything but favor-able
all over the country and indications
pointing to a possible failure, the people sud-denly
awakened from their lethargy and
came to the rescue in true American style.
When the final results were tabulated rt
was seen that the loan had been oversub-'
scribed by nearly one billion dollars.
The final figures show that fully 15,000,-
000 persons had a hand in sending the issue
over the top, which is more than the total
number of buyers of the first and second
issues combined. The third and fourth
loans, however, exceeded the present issue
in individual subscriptions. Reason for
that fact can be attributed to the fact that
^labor at that time was more in demand and
'W^es^we£e.nigomejjCases considerably higher
Iii-allJ^K^teMiiiss ^ues the^ersneyfdisi'' :':' >
trict-hM b5^|ua8Bn:the honor roll, in each .
(ase|n^^?sjf^^BsOTbin g their allotted
Nofc-TO^^^ffi * matter of Liberty Loans
has HeVs]Sp|ymsjg;eredth e call but in every
case wherejtn^S^aitry
has
been called upon
to raUy tda^i^upport of
some patriotic or.
humanitaiiaicf.Aappeal, Hershey has gone
"over the tSp," and with.considerable room
to spare. When the final records are com-piled
and the events of the past several
years are entered in the annals of history,
it will be seen that Hershey has established
a record that will be a matter of pride for %:.
the residents of the town and the people *% ,
whose efforts made possible the splendid ' ' £
showing. ;?
DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT
"In the light of the silvery mopn:" through
the masterful artistical display work of .the
Hershey Store decorator, just such an atmos-pherical
affect has been produced in the
Park dance pavilion for the big May-Hop
to be held Wednesday evening, May 21. '
Two large moons slyly peeping from behind :
the clouds and casting light shadows over
the floor , giving it a perfect out-door effect ,
will be one of the outstanding novelties of
this greatest of summer dances.
The Banjo-Saxo Orchestra, of Harrisburg,
.conceded to be one of the best .in the state ' '. '
will furnish the music. Special cars will
be run directly to the pavilion. Indications
point to a large attendance from Hershey
and the surrounding towns.
"SWAT THE FLY" CAMPAIGN ON IN
FULL FORCE
"Swat the Ely"—With the advance of
warm weather the various Civic Clubs all
over the country are preparing to deal the .
death blow to the common and dangerous
pestilence, the. By. Already the. land is ' '
•being flooded with'iiumerous forms of propa-ganda
urging that all possible effort be made
to exterminate the common enemy.
"Victory over the Fly" will be the islogan.
The details of the works planned not only
includes the swatting of the fly but a de-termined
effort is being made to "destroy all
breeding places. A number of cities have ni
former years offered several cash prizes to
the person destroying the largest number of
flies, within a certain time. The result has
always justified the expenditure as it has
been the means of exterminating .millions
of flies. ¦
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It has been figured that by killing one fly,
early in the season before it has had time to
breed it is equivilent to killing one million
later in the .summer.
In the appeal sent out last week by the
State Department of Health it is particularly
urged that all housewives carefully screen
any feeding places and keep a tight lid. "
on all garbage cans. One garbage can left
unscreened may be the indirect cause pf- .' ^r
the death of a number of babies. According
to the bulletin published by. the BSard of
Health, the body of a.fly carries sufficient
germs to cause the death of a yoimgbaby. ¦ ':...-M * :