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CENTRAL PA. NEWS
35,000 ATTEND
GRANGERS'PICNIC
Prohibition Party Holds Rally
and Presents Its Cause to
Farmer Voters
Mechanicsburg. Pa.. Sept. 1. De
spite all predictions that the crowd at
Granger's Picnic would be considera
bly lessened this year, owing to the
fact that children under 16 years were
barred, the people were there yester
day to the number of about 35,000,
according to estimates by the general
manager, R. H. Thomas, Jr.
The Prohibition party held a rally
in the morning with the Rev. Dr. B. E.
P. Prugh as speaker, in the auditor
ium. and an interesting address on the
subject was made by Prof. J. A.
Sprenkle of New Cumberland.
Mrs. Elmer E. Melick, State secre
tary of the Pennsylvania Division for
National Preparedness, gave an inter
esting and enlightening address on the
work of this organization. She talked
on woman's part in preparedness, not
only for war but calamities. "The
newspapers." she said, "have been
pointing out in four different ways the
evidence either of preparedness or the
need of it, by the European war, the
call of troops to-our own border, the
railroad strike and the epidemic of
Infantile paralysis. The purpose of
this division is to organize women
throughout the State of Pennsylvania
for preparedness in the event of war
and to be ready for work in those
fields in which women can most effec
tively aid at such times and in cast of
State calamity.
A large audience enjoyed the lec
ture last evening by W. W. W. Roberts
on the 'Heart of Africa," illustrated
with beautiful pictures in nature's own
colors by the autochrome process.
To-day will witness the closing of
the great picnic and while many people
visited the groeve, a number of the ex
hibitors began to pack up. preparatory
to leaving. A dance will be held in
the large pavilion, this evening and
music will be furnished by an orches
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A matter of comment was the good
conduct on the grounds despite the
large crowd.
Missouri Pastor Accepts
Call to Derry Church
Hershey, Pa.. Sept. 1. The Rev.
R. K. Taylor, of Joplin. Mo., has ac
cepted a call to the pastorate of Derry
Presbvterian Church. It is expected
that the call will be sanctioned by the
Carlisle Presbytery, which will hold
its semiannual" meeting September 15.
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FRIDAY EVENING,
Lemoyne Woman Present at
Grangers' For 43 Years
Special to the Telegraph
Mechanicsburg. Pa.. Sept. I.—lt is
doubtful if anybody has the record of
Mrs. Henry Bitner, of Lemoyne, who
is S3 years old and has regularly at
tended Granges' Picnic at Williams
Grove ever since it was instituted.
Mrs. Bitner. unaccompanied, went to
the picnic yesterday and mingled In
the big crowd. She recalled the first
Cranger Picnic, when, she said, people
came with huge baskets of lunch and
everybody played "Bingo" and danced.
Speeches were made after dinner. Mrs.
Bitner has not missed one year in at
tending the Grangers' Picnic during
the forty-three years of Its existence.
WOLFINGER FAMILY REUNION
Special to the Telegraph
Waynesboro, Pa.. Sept. 1. Two
hundred persons attended the Wolf
inger family reunion at the Old Forge
road, near Leitersburg, Wednesday.
Next year the reunion will be held at
the old Wolflnger homestead at
Reid. Md.
ANNOUNCE BIRTH OF DAUGHTER
Special to the Telegraph
Dauphin, Pa., Sept. 1. Mr. and
Mrs. William A. Powley announce the
birth of a daughter. Fay Mary Powley
on Friday, August 25, 1916.
CORNROAST AT THE ELM
Special to the Telegraph
Dauphin, Pa., Sept. 1. A delight
ful cornroast was held last evening at
the Elm Tree by a party of people in
honor of Miss Kathryn Myers, of
Brooklyn. The party included Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Reed, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
G. Pedlow, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. M.
Reed, Miss Anne Hoffman, Miss Ora
Bickel, Miss Kathryn Meyers, Miss
Carrie E. Gerberich, Miss Anna
Houck, Miss Mary S. Poffenberger,
Miss Kathryn Boughner, John L. Por
ter, Ray Hoffman, Edgar W. Forney.
Bion C. Welker, Walter Seller. Charles
S. Gerberich. Alan Williamson, Chas.
Rhodes, Wilmer Boughner and Russel
Reed.
HERBERT A. STRONG DIES
Special to the Telegraph
Mechanicsburg, Pa., Sept. I.—Her
bert A. Strong, aged 67 years, died at
the home of his son, E. E. Strong,
photographer, in East Main street. Mr.
Strong was a native of New York
State and had lived in Mechanicsburg
for the past three years. He was a
member of the Presbyterian Church of
Buflalo, X. Y., and a member of the
Kniyhts of the Maccabees. Mr. Strong
had a stroke of paralysis several years
ago. tut had only been ill a few days
prior to his death. He is survived by
his wife and one son. E. E. Strong, of
Mechanicsburg.
RURAL CARRIERS TO MEET
Special to the Telegraph
New Bloomfield, Pa.. Sept. I.—On
Monday the annual convention of the
Perry-Juniata-Snyder - Mifflin County
Rural Letter Carriers' Association will
be held at the courthouse here.
WEST SHORE NEWS
HOUSE PARTY AT GRETNA
New Cumberland. Pa., Sept. 1.
The following young women went to
Mt. Gretna yesterday, where they will
entertain friends at a houseparty:
Misse "Hazel Rosenberger, Marguerite
Witmyer, Carrie Garver, of New Cum
berland, Miss Ruth Haverstock, of
Lancaster, Miss Virgrie Detwiler, of
Middletown. Miss Jennie Naylor of
New Cumberland will chaperone the
party which will remain until after
Labor Day.
PARTY HOME FROM GRETNA
The following party has Just re
turned from Mt. Gretna, where they
occupied Glen Fern Cottage: Mr. and
Mrs. Guy Schaffer, Misses Anna Day
hoff, Addie Guistwhlte, Ruth Mc-
Cleary. Messrs. John Kaufman. Wayne
Rockey and Millard Houser.
PICNIC AT ROCKY SPRINGS
Marysville, Pa., Sept. 1. Belle of
Blue Mountain Lodge. No. 217, Ladies'
Auxiliary to Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen held a picnic at Rocky
Springs Park, near here, yesterday.
Social and Personal News
of Towns Along West Shore
Mrs. Ella Byers, of New Cumber
land, is visiting relatives in Dillsburg
and Franklintown.
Miss Jennie Pyrter of New Cumber
land. has returned from a visit to Ply
mouth and Wilkes-Barre.
The following persons spent Wed
nesday at The Pines, in York county:
Mr. and Mrs. William Keister, Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse Oren of New Cumberland,
and Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Harris
burg.
Mrs. F. C. Coover and son, Rich
ard. of New Cumberland, who have
been visiting the former's home at
Manheim. have returned home.
Prof. L. D. Crunkelton of Littles
town, Pa., former principal of New
Cumberland schools, visited friends
there yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fencil and son,
Leon, of New Cumberland, and their
guests. Mrs. George Jones and Miss
Lana Nagle, of Baltimore, motored tte
Hershey on Tuesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Abram Roudybush and
family of Rock Hills, Adams county,
spent several days at New Cumberland
as guests of Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Good.
Mrs. Knaub and Miss Oaks of York,
were guests of Lewis Kllmore's family
IN THE DAYS WHEN BOATING ON THE SUSQUEHANNA HMS IN ITS INFANCY
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Doesn't this etching; recall to you. Mr. Older Boatman, some very famous days on the Susquehanna when river
sports were in the making;, as it were?
In that husky youth in the shell you'd scarcely recognize Charles Etter of to-day. would you? And in the upper
corner would you recognize "Captain" Edward C. Rauch, former commander of the old Harrisburg Boat Club?
These he stirring times on the Susquehanna, take it from the canoeist and motorboatman who is finishing liis
plans for the first Kipona, the regatta and water carnival that is to be held on Monday. Hut the youthful enthusiasts
of to-day aren t a bit more interested than the oarsmen of the old school who helped place the Susquehanna on the
map so far as equatic sports are concerned.
CITY'S OLDEST BOAT CAPTAIN
TELLS OF RIVER DA YS OF OLD
Echuard C. Rauch, Harrisburg's Champion Oarsman, Relates
the Stories of Distant Years When Shells
Skimmed the Susquehanna
How the youthful river enthusiasts.
of thirty years ago put the Susque- '
hanna on the map so far as aquatic 1
sports is concerned, was interesting- i
ly recalled by Edward C. Rauch, one
of the city's champion oarsmen and a
former captain of the old Harrisburg
boat club.
While the younger canoeists, motor
boatmen and others who frequent the
river are completing plans for the first'
annual Kipona, the big water carnival
and regatta to be held Monday under j;
the directorship of the "Greater Har- '
rlsburg Navy," the veterans of a score j
of famous battles of the late eighties
watch and wait with just as much, if
not more interest than their sons and j
grandsons.
And of all the old boatmen none
has watched the progress of the
Kipona plans more carefully than i
Captain Edward Rauch. He's got a
son, "Dick," by the way who's a lead
ing figure in the regatta program.
In Days of Old
As far back as 1879 the Harrisburg
boat club was formed when the orig- j
inal charter membership roster in
cluded T. T. Weirman, W. L. Gorgas, I
T. G. Calder, Dr. Cherrick West-1
brook, Frank R. Leib, John Maris 1
and William Stewart, of Dives, Pom- j
eroy and Stewart's. Later this was
augmented by these additional mem-1
bers:
W. R. Denehey, Charles C. Schriver, j
Owen M. Copelin, Charles C. Covert,
Domer Harris, Frank C. Sites. John I
D. Lemer, Charles E. Etter, Edward \
C. Rauch, E. R. Berg3tresser, J. New
ton Deeter. Lewis Cassldy Randall,
Henry Reist, Charles Longenecker,
Charles Metzger, John C. Smith,
James Warner, J. Herman Knisely,
Beverly G. Glover, Edward Wallace,
Charles Keller and Charles Chayne.
The First Race
When Captain Rauch modestly i
showed some of the medals he hail
won in the double scull events with |
Mr. Etter, he also produced the old 1
roster.
It was after Messrs. Rauch and
Etter had smashed records in their
first race at Sunbury as representa- i
tives of the Harrisburg boatmen that
the Harrisburg boat club got its in
itial boost. The splendid clubhouse
that stood just north of the Market I
street bridge on Hargest's island and
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which was washed away in the flood i
of 1889, was erected in the heydey j
of the Harrisburg boat club's prime. I
The First Clubhouse
The boatmen held a famous bazar I
to raise funds for that clubhouse and I
when the equipment, the furnishing, j
etc., had all been paid for, the young |
boatmen of Harrisburg had some- j
thing like a $5,000 investment in the j
island property.
Single shells, the old "duekboat" ]
style of rowboat and the double and 1
four-oared shells were the type of J
craft that made the river interesting |
in those days, take it from Captain j
Rauch.
The most popular type was a thirty- |
| four foot affair. And just here mark |
a little tale Mr. Rauch told of the way :
the sportsmen in those days handled |
their frail papier maiche craft:
j Few are there of the youthful can- j
oelsts of to-day who do not know of
j the trials and tribulations that con-
I fronts the boatman who shoots the
) "narrows" at Dauphin, the Rockville
I "fa 113," the Maclay etreet "riffles" or
j the raft channel at Clark's Ferry.
"Often," remarked Mr. Rauch
! casually, "we would take out shells i
1 and a little lunch and slip up the
I river to Duncannon for a day's out-
I ing."
"How'd you get those 34-t'oot shells
| through the 'falls'?" asked an aston- i
I ished listener. "Or did you carry them j
around ?"
"Carry them around, nothing," I
. easily replied the oldest captain. "We
: used to pick our way through them." ]
The "duekboat" operations weren't
anything to be sneezed at either ac- !
cording to Mr. Rauch. Here's a final j
little story to illustrate that:
"One evening W. O. Hickok, father ]
of the present heads of the Hickok |
Manufacturing company and Wallace I
DeWitt, were discussing the probable i
time one could row to Middletown;
| and back and young Etter and I de
j eided to show how quickly it could be
! done. We started about 5 o'clock the
following morning in our duckboats.
"Well, we made quite a record I
guess. We left the pumping station
here, rowed to Middletown, carried
I our boats to the old Pennsylvania
| canal, rowed up from Middletown,
| past the city, and on to Rockville in
| the canal, carried our boats from the
I canal to the river again and rowed
down the river to the pumping sta
tion!"
"And in what time?"
"Why, 1 ' said the oldest captain, "six
hours and twenty-five minutes!"
MACCABEE PICNIC
Marysville, Pa., Sept. 1. Marys
ville Hive, No. 263, Ladies of Macca
bees, held a picnic on the lawn of Mrs.
W. H. Hornberger, in Maple avenue
yesterday.
!News Items of Interest
in Central Pennsylvania
Ilazleton.—After keeping the secret
that they were man and wife for the
past four years, Augustus A. Schmies
cors and Miss Myrtle R. Brehm, both
of Hazleton. announced to-day that
they were married August 28, 1912, at
the Central Presbyterian Church. Wil
mington, Del., by the Rev. Josiah
Crawford.
'Hazleton. One Hazletonian lace
j rated his jaw by biting on a large tack
in a raisin pie and another found a
| safety pin in a bread roll.
I Coaltlalc. —The 800 men employed
at the No. 10 colliery of the Lehigh
Coal and Navigation Company, who
i went on strike Tuesday morning, are
j still idle.
l.t«istown.—Mrs. Ralph Gilbert has
I a bullet in her right arm above the
| elbow as the result of the careless
handling of a target rifle by 8-year-old
I Harry Mowery.
Rinding.—Frank Butler, a 1916 high
| school graduate, won the eating cham-
I pionship of Gouglersville by eating
j thirty waffles at a sitting.
j LANCASTER COUNTY DEATHS
Marietta, Pa., Sept. 1. Mrs. Jacob
I Leedom, aged 68, died at Bossier's
church from a complication of dis
eases. Besides her husband, nine
children, and three brothers survive.
Mrs. Anna Schrader, aged 69, died
at her home at Lancaster. She was
a member of St. Joseph's Church.
Five children and a number of grand
| children survive.
SACRED CONCERT BY BAND
New Cumberland, Pa., Sept. 1. —The
New Cumberland band is arranging to
| held a sacred concert at Liverpool,
j Perry county, Sunday, September 10.
It will be held on the public square.
I The band will make the trip in auto
| mobiles.
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SEPTEMBER 1, 1916.
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GENERA I; STORE ROBBED
Special to the Telegraph
Waynesboro, Pa., Sept. I.—The gen
eral merchandise store of J. H. Bare,
at Cress Station, a few miles south of
■MB/ a • re^ect a c ' car '^ Bmoot^. c °^ n *\ L.
Jbk I 88 m ' rrors OrientaUjeautiesV
ply regularly for a ehort time the won- \ Ywj
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Another Free Band Concert
To=Morrow Night
At 3rd and Broad Sts.
THE MUNICIPAL BAND
will give a concert under the auspices of the Up
town Stores that will
Remain Open Saturdays and Saturday Evenings
here, was broken into Monday night.
Cigars, chewing gum and tobacco were
stolen. A spring wagon belonging to
John Minnich was stolen Monday
night.