The Hershey Press 1915-09-09

              Will be Under the Direction of Harry
G. Witmeyer and Will be Compos-ed
of Men and Women Who
Will Give "The Holy
City" In Hershey
Hershey is to Have a regular choral
society under the direction of Harry
G. Witmeyer and the project has the
hearty concurrence of Mr. M. S. Her-shey.
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1 The meeting for organization will
be held Monday, September 20, at 8
p. m. in the Hershey Central Theater.
All who wish to take- part are
cordially invited to be present. Both
men and women are asked to join.
The purpose is to get from the
membership forty selected voices and
later rehearsals will be begun on "The
Holy City." It is expected that the
presentation of| this great musical
work will be made the most important
musical event in the. history of Her-shey
and the effect will' be.'made to
interest all the surrounding towns
and country.
Mr. Witmeyer is well known to
Hershey people. His musical work
is of high grade. He has had wide
experience and he possesses a voice
of unusual volume and quality. The
good results in the union choirs this
summer have been , due mainly to his
leadership.
Choral Society in Hershey
Will be Organized This Month
Hershey Schools Have 545
All Grades Now Open With Largest
Attendance They Have Known
Tuesday morning the grade schools
of the M. S. Hershey Consolidated
School of Derry Township opened and
439 pupils reported. With the 106 in
the High School which was opened a
week ago the total attendance at the
opening was 545, much in excess of
the figures of previous years.
The grade teachers and their schools
are as follows :
Eighth—Arthur Hocker—12 boys,
26 girls, 38.
Seventh—Ira Shenk—30 boys, 20
girls, 50.
Sixth—Sarah Foreman—16 boys, 17
girls, 33.
Fifth—George Foreman—25 boys,
29 girls, 54.
Fourth—Edna C. Erb—25 boys, 26
girls, 51.
Third—Anna Lloyd—16 boys, .20
girls, 36.
Third—Ruth Hershey—16 boys, 11
girls, 27.
Second—May V. Moyer—16 boys, 20
girls, 36. .
Second—Mabel Hoffman—19 boys,
18 girl s, 37.
First—May B. Hershey—25 boys,
14 girls, 39. •
First—Carrie Dressier—27 boys, 11
girls, 38.
A get-together meeting • of the
teachers, members of the Board and a
few others interested in school work
was held last Friday evening. Short
addresses were made by President
Shenk , Secretary Snavely, Supervis-ing
Principal Peters, M. S. Hershey
and L. R. Meekins. Mr. Hershey gave
a very practical talk on working to-gether
and keeping the school organi-zation
out of local jealousies and dif-ferences.
He advised the board and
the faculty to handle all such prob-lems
promptly and he promised his
hearty cooperation.
Sure to See Saturda y's Game
ft is Goin g to he, the Best and Biggest
of th e Year
The biggest baseball attraction of
the season will bo given local fans
thin comin g Saturday, Sept, 11 when
the Hoi'Hh oy team will moot Middlo-town
in n doubl o-heador at this place.
The gnmo wiih originally scheduled
for Middl otown, but arrangements
wore made on Wednesday to transfer
the gamoH. There is always n good
battle when tho»o teams got together
and as Middlotown is fighting for tho
ponmint , tho contests sh ould bo th o
most interesting of tho hoiihoii. It
will bo Middlotown 's first appearance
on th e local diamond. Swiirt« and
Shirk will probably work in tho box
for Middlotown whilci Noi-slioy will
us e Zolglor and Wundoi' .
Twenty Five Fine Mules
There hnvo boon added to tho llor-
H|ioy fni'inH this • wook twonty-flvo
muloH , It Is ono of tho llnuHt drovon
in Lebanon Valley, Thti total live
Htook on th o Hoi 'Hhoy (Winn at pres-ent
Ih about .1,500.
Mothers ' Club
Th o Mothers ' Club will moot in tho
Kind ergarten room next Tuesday
evening, Sopt, 14 lit 8 o'clock. All
moth ers are cordially invited to ut-tend.
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HERSHEY CONVENTION HALL USED LAST MONDAY ; WILL ALSO BE USED NEXT SUN-DAY.
ALREADY DEMONSTRATED THIS GREAT AUDITORIUM , THE LARGEST IN PENN-SYLVANIA,
WAS A WISE PROJECT- MANY CONVENTIONS ARE EXPECTED NEXT YEAR.
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Mrs. Hershe y's 80th Birthda y
Remembered by Her Friends and
Honored by Mr. M. S. Hershey
Last Saturday "Mrs. Fannie B. Her-shey
reached her eightieth birthday
and. if she had given her consent it
would have been celebrated by the
whole community, for there is among
the people of Hershey a unique re-gard
for her, and this feeling extends
to those who have never had the
pleasure of meeting her. But she is
averse to all forms of notoriety and
publicity ' and her wishes had to be
respected. However, no one could
stop the flow of flowers, cards and
birthday greetings that came from old
friends and acquaintances and these
gave her great pleasure. - Morning
callers, even those who arrived very
early, found that she had gone. It
afterwards transpired that her son
had prepared a surprise for her at
High Point. It was one . of the jolh-est
breakfasts ever served. Mrs.
Hershey was of course the chief guest
and presiding at the table was her
son, while all around were tho happy
youngsters from the. Hershey Indus-trial
School, their appetites keen,
their voices musical with merriment.
Afterwards Mr. Hershey told them to
hide themselves in the big canna bed
and let the photographer take their
pictures. The result was a remark-able
photograph in which flowers ,
urchins and sunshine are delightfully
combined, In spite of her years Mrs.
Hershey has fine health and enjoys
her early morning walk long before
many in Hershey are awake. Mental-ly
she is as youthful and alert as per-sons
half her age and she ta kes deep
interest in all the plans and policies
of her son.
61 Miles On 61st Birthda y
Doctor Fnger of Harrisburg Stops in
Hershey on His Journey
Th o most interesting visitor to
Hershey Thursday was Dr. II. Fagor
of Harrisburg. It was his (ilst birth -
day an d ho was celebrating it by
walking (51 miles, Ho reached Her-sh
ey in the afternoon and stopped to
talk with len ding citizens. They
found him in fine spirits and wore
greatly entertained by him, After
ho fini shed his journey later in the
day at, Harrisburg ho said to a Pa-tri
ot reporter:
"I started on my trip at !l o'clock
in th e morning, un ci walked through
Ponhrook to Paxtonla , whore I spent
perhaps h/ilf an hour for breakfast.
Aft er breakfast I walked to Grant-vill
o, West Ilun ovor , Jonestown ,. Ono ,
Lebanon , Annvillo , llorshoy, thr ough
Humm el Htown and then home, ar-rivin
g at 8 o'clock in tho evening.
"I had a mighty fine time. It was
I'omni'kahlo how many people know
of my taking this trip , People driving
al ong the road would stop and iislc mo
If I worn Dr. Fiifror , th e man on tho
(ll-milo liiko , and I had lUimoroi iH of-
.forH of a lift from kindr-hoiirUid per-sons.
"One of tho worst things that lmp-pons
to mo," said ho humorously, "Ih
tha i; tho no walks damage my too nulla
Last your I lost two too nulls , and th e
way my toon hurt tonight I huvo u
f ooling j ih though something like Mm I
will huppo|i this time, You hoo I
walk 22 00 stops to tho mile and 1
throw my foot, forward in my hInmih ,
which causes th e soreness.
"All people could keep In good
h enlth 1 lieu mo if thoy would oat Iohh
and walk more, I always leave lh«
tabl e hungry and rise at 4 o'olodc."
Snavely-Henry
Joseph Richard Snavely- of Hershey
and Miss Helen Oldweiler Henry of
Palmyra were married on Tuesday in
the famous Little Church Around the
Corner, New York. The ceremony
was the' Episcopal service and the af-fair
was quiet, being witnessed ,by a
few friends. Mr. and Mrs. Snavely
stopped at' the Martinique Hotel.
Yesterday they sailed for Bermuda
on the "Bermudian," and they are
expected to reach the islands tomor-row.
In Bermuda they will be at the
Hotel Frascati. They are due to re-turn
to New York on the. 16th and to
be at home after the 20th. They will
live in Palmyra.
Because of the great popularity of
the bride and the groom there was un-usual
interest in the wedding.. The
announcement cards were received in
Hershey yesterday morning and were
the first intimations that many had of
the marriage, but others were in the
secret and when Mr. and Mrs. Snave-ly
reached their ship they found
cordial congratulations that had been
wired from Hershey. The bride is one
of the most charming young ladies of
Palmyra, She is the daughter of Mrs.
Estelle Henry of Elizabethtown but
has spent recent years in Palmyra
with her grandfather, Mr. William
Henry. The groom is of the large
and well-known family of southern
Pennsylvania and has long been
identified with the Hershey interests.
He is manager of the Hershey Press
and pf the Hershey Printing Com-pan
y. For the trip to New York Mr.
M. S. Hershey sent his automobile to
Palmyra for them to use in catching
the Queen of the Valley at Lebanon.
OVER 30,000 HAVE SEEN GAMES PLAYED ON THIS DIAMOND IN 1015. HERE , TOO, THE
GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA ADDRESSED AN AUDIENCE OF 15,000 LAST JUNE.
Millersbur g Enjoyed Hershey
Editors Say Pleasant Things About
' the Motor Run Last Week
Last week the members of the Mil-lersburg
Auto Club with their famil-ies,
took an outing to Hershey. About
forty cars were lined up at the Park,
says the Millersburg Herald, "and
shortly thereafter the procession mov-ed
toward the Capital City, carrying
upwards of two hundred people. The
weather was most delightful for the
day's outing and the roads were never
in better condition. It was a day of
real enjoyment and unalloyed pleas-ure,
no incident or accident on the trip
going or coming to mar in the least
the fondest expectations of the party.
After arriving in Hershey a little time
was consumer in straightening out
stiff joints caused by the forty miles
continuous ride, and in making ob-servations.
A ravenous appetite pro-duced
by the morning ride in a brac-ing
atmosphei-e. suggested that the
most logical part next on the program
was the dining hall .of the hotel or
well-filled lunch basket. After dinner
the immense Chocolate factories were
visited , where the process of convert-ing
milk and cocoa into the delicious
chocolate was explained by the super-intendents
of the several departments,
the magnificient dairy farms visited
and fine stock of Holsteins exhibited.
The Millersburg Sentinel says: "The
day was ideal , the roads in fine condi-tion
, and not a single thing occurred
to disturb the pleasure of the party.
The cars were , checked out here by
8.25 a. m., reaching Hershey shortly
after 11.00. The speed limit was set
for 20 miles an hour, which restriction
was well observed. After taking din-ner
in the beautiful grove and at the
Hershey restaurant, the ' party was
taken through the big factory and
witnessed the making of tho famous
Hershey chocolates. Here one is
greatly impressed with tho high de-gree
of efficiency in operation , the
massive machinery used , and the
faultless arrangement of every detail
of the great plant. It was a real
tr eat to scores of the visitors."
Hershe y's Weather Prophet
Now that tho regul ar excursi on
season has closed and there are no
more big picnics , Manager A, L.
Heilman , tho prophet, says there will
be clear skies and plenty of dry air,
Ho calculates that enough water pass-ed
down Spring Creek this summer
to keep the Atlantic Ocean wot until
doomsday,
When Completed it Will be One of the
Finest Private Courses in the
United States. The New -
Eighth Hole Will Take In
the Old Farm House
The golf course on . the Hershey
mansion grounds will - be lengthened
500 yards, reaching a total length of
3020 yards, with 9 holes.
The holes to be rebuilt are 2, 3, 6,
8, and 9.
The new 8th hole will take ih the
Old Farm House at present occupied
by Harry Haverstick and the hole
will be a punch bowl effect, making
it very sporty.
All tees will be set back, making
the course more difficult. When the
new improvements are completed this
will be one of the finest and most at-tractive
private courses in America.
Golf has grown greatly in' popular-ity
in Hershey this season and the
course has been much patronized by
prominent people. Players for the
past week included Mr. W. C. Gren-abl
e, Mr. G. Wiedman, Mr. and Mrs.
C. Gaither, Colonel and Mrs.. Foster
and Mr. and Mrs. World , 'of Shenley
Park, Pittsburg. "The season is now
at , its height. - ¦ :
Everything in golf done in Hershey
attracts attention because with .the
building of the new 18 hole course on
the slopes of Highland Park Hershey
is a coming golf center.
Mansion Grounds Golf Course
Will be Increased 500 Yards
Followers of Pastor Russell
International Bible Students Associa-tion
Convention Here
The International Bible Students
Association convention now meeting
in Hershey has an attendance of about
500 but its meetings are drawing
many more. ' They are generally
known as Russellites or followers of
Pastor EusselL On the program
here Pastor Russell is called Brother
Russell. In the literature of the or-ganization
he is called the President
of the Association.
President Russell is to give a pub-lic
lecture in the Convention Hall
Sunday afternoon at 2.30. It is un-derstood
that this lecture will deal
with the present war in Europe and
its outcome. The lecture will be the
big event' of the convention and pre-parations
are being made by his fol-lowers
for a very large audience.
Pastor Russell has always been a
center of discussion and turmoil, and
there is plenty of excitement under
the surface this week, but outwardly
everything seems to be going along
anrnably and the members of the
Association appear to know how to
handle a convention expertly. They
say they have held many such con-ventions
in all parts of the country
this year and that they have branches
in Great Britain , Germany, France,
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Australia,
Indi a, South Africa and other places.
Their spokesman said to the Press:
"The work is carried on entirely by
voluntary contributions, no collections
being taken at any of the services."
The Association is said to bo very
wealthy.
For the first part of the week the
chairman was W. E. VanAmburg and
for the second half W. F. Hudgings.
The Association gives a series of very
unu sual motion pictures. The next
performance will be Saturday night in
the Park Theater and tho last per-formance
will be Sunday night. The
conv ention continues unti l Sunday
ni ght.
All the Events Scheduled Came Off
Without a Hitch and Those Who
Came Enjoyed Themselves
Greatly. Music in the
Big Convention Hall
It rained almost everywhere Mon-day
morning and the clouds loafed
around all the afternoon. As a holi-day
it was a disappointment, for it
was just the kind of weather that
called off most trips and. kept folks at
home. Of all the resorts Hershey
Park felt the effect the least. Of
course there were not the many thou-sands
that were expected , but there
were in reality several thousands and
the automobiles ran into the hundreds,
so-that the whole afternoon and eve-ning
picture offered much animation
and attraction. ,
Doubtless the cause, of Hershey's
showing for the day was the fact that
the Park' lived strictly up to its ad-vertisements.
The scheduled events
took place. • All the amusements and
recreations and points of interest
were open. There was abundant
shelter for everybody with plenty of
food and light refreshment. There
was something going on all the time.
The dancing was very' popular. Many
saw the Zoo. The children enjoyed
the all-steel play apparatus. The
swimming pool was a center of inter-est.
The miniature railway was run-ning.
Everything was going. So, in
spite of the rain , the Hershey crowds
got the full benefits of a genuine hoh>
day.
The Harrisburg Chorus
Owing to the rain of the morning
the thousand members of the' Stough
chorus from Harrisburg did not all re-spond.
About three hundred reached
Hershey, but they made the concert
distinctly worth while. • The big Con-vention
Hall was used. Two thou-sand
persons attended and applauded
an excellent program most efficiently
rendered. This program was as fol-lows:
. Part 1—Diadem, Eilor; "Since
Jesus Came into My Heart," Gabriel ;
"Sweeter as the Years Go By," Mor-ris;
"Sail On," Gabriel; male chor-uses
; (a,)"Just Outside the Door,"
Ackley; (b), "O, God of Good," Gabri-el;
"I Want to See Jesus, Don't You,"
Bottorf ; "Crown Him," Gabriel.
Part 2 — "Immahuel," Gabriel ;
"Glory," from Mozart; "Praise Ye
Jehovah," Grounod; "From Every
Stormy Wind," (Soprano obligate
solo), Wilder; "The Everlasting Fath-er,"
(Tenor obligate solo), Gabriel;
"The House That Stood the Storm,"
Herbert; "Great is Jehovah," from
Warner; America, Smith .
Concerts By the Hershey Band
The Hershey Band gave two fine
concerts on Labor Day, and. both were
greatly enjoyed. The program for the
afternoon was: ' March Militaire
Francaise, Lake; Overture, "Pique
Dame,"' Suppe; Fantasia, "America
Forever," Tobani; Cornet Solo, "The
Surf Polka ," Steinhauser, (E. E. Wil-liams,
Soloist) ; Selection, "High
Jinks," Clark ; Fantasia, '"The Opera
Mirror," Tobani; Melodies from "The
Sunny South ," Lampe; Tarantella,
"Forosettu ," Arditt; "Star Spangled
Bann er."
The program' for tho evening was:
Overture, "Tannhauaor ," Wagncr-Sa-fran
ok; Grand Selection, from "I'l
Trovortore ," Verdi; Cornet Duet,
"Bird s of the Forest," "Messrs.
Deramo and Marrar "; Ballot Music
from "Faust," Gounod; Grand Selec-tion
from "Th e Rose Maiden ," Cowen ;
Melodies from the "Quaker Girl ,"
Douglas; Suite, "Pore Gynt ," Groj g;
Selection , from "Sweethearts," Her-bert-
Clark ; "Star Spangled Banner."
Good Crowds on Labor Day
In Spite of the Morning Rain
Music, Dancing and Pictures
Ilerslicy Park Huh a Fine Program
For the Early Autumn Weeks
Beginning next Monday moving
plcturoH ot (futility will bo shown
every evening in tho Hoi'Hhoy Park
Theater, starting tit 7.30. Five ex-cellent
, reels will lie given. The ad-mission
will bo ton cents.
Thorn will bo dnncing next Satur-day
ovwning and after this wook
th oro will also bu dancing on Wednes-day
ovonings.
Tim lmn <! concert nt the Park next
Sntui'diiy afterno on will bo from 2.80
to 5, Sunda y afternoon tho concert
will bo In two parts; 2.30 to .'MO and
4 l,o (5, Th e f ull band of forty pieces
will piii'ticlpiiUi , Tho band concerts
ivr o entirely free. II, ia just tho time
of the year for an automobile trip to
Hoi-Hli oy Park.
Weather Forecast For the Week Be-ginning
Today
Local hIiowoi-h will bo followed by
fair and pl easant weather until tho
151th or 14th , when thoro Ih a proba-bility
of u return to unsettled woathor
and showers.