The Hershey Press 1918-08-22

              On Sunday, Aug. 25th, the Catholic
people of Hershey and vicinity who have
been using the Central Theatre as a
church since Spring will attend Mass in
their newly finished Chapel in the Her-shey
Press Bldg., Third Floor rear.
The room has been tastefully decor-ated
and is really a credit to the efforts
of the director of the Mission in Her-shey,
Rev. Father Phelan, who comes
from the Cathedral, Harrisburg, to
attend to the spiritual needs of the mem-bers
of the church in this vicinity.
The congregation that will . assemble
there will comprise over three hundred
people and it is hoped that soon after, the
war that ground may be broken for a
Church on the lot that was kindly given
to the late Bishop Shanahan by Mr.
M. S. Hershey for.that purpose.
Mr. Hershey is to be thanked and the
people who will benefit appreciate his
generosity in giving the use of the sec-tion
of the Press Bldg., to them to use
until a church can be built.
Catholi c Cha pel
in Pr ess Building
TO GIVE THE BOYS A CAKE OF
CHOCOLATE
Last week several hundred Army trucks
passed through Hershey, and have Jbeen
passing through for quite some time.
These boys are on thek^way. "over there".
No doubt they have heard of Hershey, and
presumably thought that .when they
passed through the Chocolate Town that
they would be treated. However, if they
pass through when the cocoa beans are be?
ing roasted they get a smell—but that is
all.
In other towns the Red Cross look after
the boys passing through, giving them a
cup of coffee and a sandwich.
Isn't it possible for the Hershey Red
Cross Branch to fall in line? It would be
an easy matter to raise a chocolate fund
and have someone give the boys passing
through a cake of chocolate. It would be
mightily appreciated.
DERR Y PRESBYTERIAN SUN DAY
SCHOOL PICNIC
The Derry Presbyterian Sunday School
picnic will be held in the church grove on
Saturday afternoon, August 24th,
All members and friends of the Church
and Sunday-School are invited to attend
this picnic.
Each family is asked to contribute
toward the joint luncheon which will be
served at 5.30 o'clock.
Everybody come and have a good
time.
PAUL D. ULRICH LEAVES HERSHEY
PauHD. Ulrich, the expert photogra-pher
who has been in charge of the Her-shey
Studio for the past seven years, has
resigned his position and^taken charge of
the studio and laboratory work for J. H.
Kellberg, of Harrisburg.
Mr. Ulrich while in Hershey has done
considerable photographic work of ar-tistic
merit, which has met much com-mendatory
mention from photographers
throughout the country, 1
It is with much regret that we see Mr.
Ulrich leave Hershey, and we* wish him
much luck and prosperity irt: his' new
work. 4:
The Pickert Sisters Stock Company
played to very big business during the
last three days of the past week, when
they presented a war play without a
name. On ^Saturday evening many
people were turned away. Many names
have been suggested for the play, and
the committee will award the $5.00 in
gold on Saturday evening of this week.
The various members of the company
were at their best, but it remained for
Chester Woodward to present some-thing
out of the ordinary in the scenery
line.
The first act set was made of a very
pretty cretonne and was termed by
many as the "doll set". The last act
was, the trenches and this scene was one
of the best ever seen on the local stage.
The view of no man's land was a won-derful
picture.
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
this week that pretty little Irish comedy,
"Peggy O' Moore" will be presented.
For the last act Mr. Woodward is pre-paring
an elaborate garden drop, a view
of the Hershey grounds.
For Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
of next week, Augusta J. Evans master-piece
"St. Elmo" will be presented.
This play is by request of the public, and
no doubt large crowds will be in attend-ance
at its every performance. Val. C.
Cleary will be seen as St. Elmo and
Blanche Pickert as Edna Earl. Nearly
everyone is familiar with the book, so it
is not necessary to give a synopsis of the
play.
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Chas. Summer's big Republic Theatre
success "The Natural Law", in 3 acts,
will be presented.
This play has been presented from
coast to coast and is extremely well
spoken of.
The story is the love of a boy and
girl, swept into the current of an adult
passion. When a girl goes out into the
world to make her fight for success alone
sooner or later she must face some ser-ious
decisions. If she is as charming a
girl as Ruth Stanley, the pathetic hero-ine
of "The Natural Law" she cannot
escape the crisis that is bound to occur
when the urging of love and adventur-ous
youth takes hold of her soul. Such
a crisis is faced by Ruth Stanley, success-ful
girl artist, loved by two men—one
a famous athlete, the other a physician.
"St. Elmo" is
the Play Chosen
The Sixth, Seventh and Eighth grades
and the High School of Hershey will
open on Monday morning, August 26th.
The First, Second , Third, Fourth and
Fifth grades, as well as the Rural schools
will open on Tuesday, September 3d.
Persons who were not in the Her-shey
schools last year should come to
the school building on Friday, August
23d, to be classified. They must bring
with them their transfer cards, report
cards or certificates of promotion.
All children must be vaccinated,
whether they attend school or not. A
certificate showing that a successful
vaccination was made must be pre-sented.
The teachers who will begin work on
Monday, are as follows:
Clyde M. Thompson, Science.
Lillian M. Rowe, Latin and Mathe-matics.
Ruth Tiffany, English , French and
Spanish.
Pauline H. Clark , History.
Edgar F. Slichter, Commercial course.
Stephen C. Leininger, Manual train-ing.
Frances A. Williams, music and Draw-ing.
Carrie A. Wetzel, Domestic Science.
Arthur P. Hocker, Eighth grade.
Martha Rogers, Seventh grade.
Sara Foreman, Sixth grade.
The Continuation School will open on
Tuesday afternoon , Sept. 3d. at 3.30.
Mr. Arthur P. Hocker will have charge
of this school this year.
The Government is making provis-ions
to take care of boys who have grad-uated
from High Schools. This should
encourage all boys to attend High
School this year.
Hershe y Schools
Open Next Monday
By economizing in consumption and
with the resultant saving purchasing the
Government's war securities the American
citizen performs a double duty. The citi-zen
and the Government can not use the
same labor and material ; if the citizen uses
it, the material and the labor can not be
used by the Government. If the citizen
economizes in consumption, so much ma-terial
and labor and transportation space
is left free for Government uses. And
when the saving effected is lent to the
Government more money is thus placed
at the disposal of the Government.
The more the people save the more
money, labor, and material's are left for
the winning of the war, the greater and
more complete the support given to our
fighting men.
SAVING AND SERVING.
f Eight stalwart and trusty Hershey- i
ites have been sworn in the Pennsyl- j
vania Home Defence Police, and who are |
as follows: |
Harry Miller, captain. i
Wm. Curtis. ;
J. F. Snavely
Wm. H. Graver.
Dan. Graeff.
Walter Leibfreid. !
Erick Erickson. |
Chas. Bickel. \
I
HOME DEFENCE POLICE |
The attention of owners of Liberty
Bonds and War Savings Stamps is called
to the following. They are financing the
work :
On one day in June last approximately
27,000,000 cartridges of various descrip-tions
were produced in the United States
manufacturing plants for the United
States Government.
The daily average production of United
States Army rifles was broken in the week
ending June 29, an average of 10,142 rifles
a day of a modified Enfield and Springfield
type being maintained. In addition
spare parts equivalent to several thousand
rifles and several thousand Russian rifles
were manufactured.
HIGH PRODUCTION OF ARMS AND
MUNITIONS.
The Hershey Park management is
going to put on something big on Labor
Day, Sept. 2d. The Pickert Sisters
Stock Company have been engaged for
this day, and the big war play produc-tion,
"The War Baby", will be pre-sented.
The Hershey Park theatre is
too small for the proper presentation of
this play, and will be shown in the Con-vention
Hall.
Chester Woodward, that clever stage
wizard , has engaged a number of elec-tricians
and carpenters, and who are
now busily making the stupendous
stage settings for this wonderful pro-d
uction.
"The War Baby" is written by B. A.
Fox, who enlisted in the British Army
and was wounded several times, which
has incapacitated him from further ser-vice.
Mr. Fox is the author of the war
play presented last week, which created
much favorable criticism. "The War
Baby ", however, is his masterpiece, and
every one should see it—for it will be
worth going miles to see.
The play will be given, rain or shine.
Big Production
on Labor Day
The large number of people attended
the Surprise Day in July and the diffi-culty
in serving them in the ordinary
day prompted the management to ex-tend
the business day to nine o'clock,
p. m., on Surprise Day, Friday, Aug 23d.
This extension of time will allow all
of the folks who desire to come in the
evening to be surprised as well as their
neighbors who can come to Hershey
during the day.
The store will clos£ on Thursday even-ing,
at 6.30 instead of 8 o'clock.
SURPRISE DAY HOURS AT
HERSHEY DEP'T STORE
Wm. Curtis, one of Hershey's fore-most
volunteer policemen, among his
other talents, is also an expert tennis
player.
The other evening while having a set
with Wm. Graver, a valiant fellow officer ,
Mr. Curtis was placed in a peculiar di-lemma.
The ball was served, and Mr.
Curtis in his effort to recover it, made
a tremendous effort, became unbal-anced,
and came down with a thud.
He was carrying a box of matches in
his trousers pocket , and the compact
ignited them. A blaze immediately enr
sued, and Officer Curtis made a fast
sprint around the court, running so fast
that it was quite some difficulty for
Officer Graver to catch Officer Curtis,
and help save his trousers.
"Moral; Carry Safety matches.
WM. CURTIS HAS A NARROW
ESCAPE
In the moulding machine room of the
Hershey Chocolate Company the girls
are, as in other plants throughout the
nation, wearing bloomers.
It has been found that bloomers give
girls greater freedom of action, and there
is much less chance of accidents result-ing
through skirts becoming entangled
in machinery.
FACTORY GIRLS WEARING
BLOOMERS