The Hershey Press 1911-02-10

              Our Little Town Apace
With the Cities
Young Women 's Christian Association Or-ganized
on Monday. State Industrial
' Secretary Present. Constitution Adopted
OlH
El meeting held at the Hersh-ey
Inn on Monday to com-plete
plans for the organiza-
¦ 1 tion of a Young Women's
Christian Association was well attended
especially taking into consideration the
inclemency of the weather. The meet-ing
was called to order at 8 o'clock,
Mrs. M. L. Hershey presiding. Miss
Esther Hummel was appointed pianist.
The devotional exercises were in charge
of Mrs. Gilbert, president of the Y.
W. C. A. in Harrisburg. The secretary
then read the minutes of all previous
"meetings which record showed the .de-velopment
of the work up to the time a
call was issued to the field secretary
asking for direction towards a perma-nent
organization.
Miss Mary Johns Hopper, of Phila-delphia,
State Industrial Secretary was
then introduced. In a most interesting
and admirable manner, Miss Jones told
those present just what an organization
like the Y. W. C. A. would mean to
them personally and to the community
in which they live. She described a Y.
W. C. A. organized in Alabama City,
Alabama, by the Dwight Manufactur-ing
Company, which in many respects
resembles the organization and its pos-sibilities
here in Hershey. She plainly
told those present that help and support
from without, important as it always
is, would not guarantee success; that
there must be another force, a deep
interest, an unrelenting purpose with-in
if the work was to prove permanent
and helpful.'
Miss Mabel C. Jones, of Harrisburg,
then addressed the meeting.' She dealt
,fw,ith several phases of the inner work-ing
of a good Y. W. C. A. and showed
what could be accomplished along these
." lines. Her address was very interest-
\ * ing and instructive.
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Samuel D. Clark
Heads Y. M. G. A
Special Meeting of the New Board of Direc
tors Held on Monday Evening. Advi
sory Board for Coming Year Also Chosen
n
" HE members of the new. active
Board of. Directors of the Y.
1 M. C. A. met in special ses-
¦ 1 sion on Monday evening in
the Association building. According to
the constitution the board chooses its
own officers. By ballot, the following
men were chosen for the coming year:
President, Samuel D. Clark; vice-presi-dent,
Albert W. Snavely; treasurer, S.
C. Stecher; secretary, Earl R. Mays.
The constitution also provides that the
active board shall choose the members
of the advisory board." The following
were elected until the next annual elec-tion:
Ezra Hershey, W. F. M. Murrie,
Wm. Lebkicher, M. S. Hershey, H. P.
Imboden, Dr. M. L. Hershey and Frank
B. Snavely. The regular monthly meet-ing
will be held next Monday evening
at 7.30 when both boards will meet:
Sparks Fly on Tuesday
Liveliest Meeting Since Organization of the
Fire Company
0
" 1HE members of the Hershey
Volunteer Fire Company all
sat up and took notice on
. 1 Tuesday evening at the -reg-ular
monthly session. They have met
before but really they never" met
as they this time met. There were
several there, yes, a goodly 'number.
The old faithfuls who have endured
the dry sessions often, held had a rare
treat this time. The big fire on Janu-ary
23 when the Hershey garage was
destroyed, has caused some reflection
on'the part of the company. On Tues-day
evening accounts were given of* the
(continued on page 16).
Address of Abraham Lincoln
Delivered 19th Day of November. 1863, at the Dedication of Gettysburg Cemetery
^^OURSCORE
and
sev-mm
en years ago our
Jf ] fathers brought for th
upon this continent a
new nation , conceived in lib-erty,
and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are
created equal. Now we are
engaged in a great civil war ,
testing whether that nation ,
or any nation so conceived
and so ' dedicated , can long
endure. We are met on a
great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field as a final
resting place of those who
here gave their lives that that
nation might live. It is al-together
fitting and proper
that we should do this.
But , in a larger sense, we
can not dedicate , we can not
consecrate, we can not hal-low
this ground. The brave
men, living and dead , who
struggled here, have conse-crated
it far above our power
to add or detraqt. The world will little note, nor long
remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what
they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedi-cated
here to the unfinished work which they who fought
here have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us
to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before
us—that from these honored dead we take increased de-votion
to that cause for which they gave the last full meas-ure
of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain—that this nation , und er God,
shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of
the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish
from the earth.