The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-18
FEBRUARY

Second Reformed church of Har-
risburg celebrated the semi -centen.
nial of its organization.
Hershey Chocolate Co. paid nearly
100000 to employees as their
share of the profits of the preced-
ing year.
An Austrian, of 1905 North Sew
enth street, Harrisburg. killed at
Division street crossing. P. R. r.
Death at Rome, Bradford county.
Penna., of Andrew j. Whitney, for
twenty years resident of Harris
burg and prominent in its activi-
ties whilst he was the resident en-.
gineer of Penna. Canal Co.
ALLEN X. CuFples, of Enola, com
mitted suicide by shooting, diving
the following day.
4S.School secretaries of the State met
in Harrisburg and effected per-
manent organization.
4-Death, at 'Berrysburg, of ex-Coun.
ty Commissioner John w. Deibler.
5-School Directors Association of
pennsylvania began annual session
IN Harrisburg, Harry A. Bower.
lNNSAdNht VI iuC CtnOOl
Board, was elected president of the
State body.
Death of John Rathfon, 2231 I,o.
gan street, Harrisburg, aged 90
years.
5-Annual anniversary of Christian
Endeavor Societies of HARRISBURG
and vicinage held at Bethlehem
Lutheran church, with about
1000 in attendance.
o-Death of Miss Rachel Todd
Briggs, 324 North Second street.
Harrisburg.
samuel w. Meas. aged is wears,
of Fort Hunter, died from injuries
accidentally received whilst work
ing at Lalance -Grosjean works.
Harrisburg.
'--Schoolmasters Association of Cen.
tral pennsylvania opened its an.
nual session in Harrisburg.
$4,000 fire on Briggs street west
of Seventh, Harrisburg, in which
seven horses were burned to death.
death, at Harrisburg hospital, of
Louise Krouse, aged 90 years.
Adam 5. Rider, of Hummelstown.
90 years of age, committed sui
eide.
S-Postofice and hotel at the village
OF Dietrich, near Elizabethville
destroyed by fire.
S--Death of Charles w. Swartz. a
grocer at 344 Muench street. iHar.
risourg, from injuries received in
a fall few days before.
S-Death of James NJ. Christman. a
prominent citizen of Fort Hunter.
aged rs years.
9-Word received in Harrisburg of
the death of Mrs. d. c. Newton
Duos, for 13 years a prominent
missionary worker in China.
9-North Hinton, aged 50 years, killed
in an accident at Pennsylvania
Steel Company, Steelton.
s-Death of Mrs. Sarah Dougherty,
26O7 North Sixth street, Harris
burg, aged 80 years.
in Harrisburg of Pennsyl.
vania State Editorial Association
and its allied associations, repre-
senting, respectively, the dailies
and weeklies of the State.
lO-Cemetery officials of Pennsylvania
met in Harrisburg and effected a
State organization.
1O--Death of Mrs. Mary A. Shope. of
Oberlin, aged so years, from the
effects of fail.
of Amos j. Plummer, 1907
Regina street, Harrisburg, a teleg-
rapher, P. R. R.
at 1911 Logan street. Har.
risburg. of Mrs. Elizabeth Gruber,
of Dauphin, aged SS years.
in Philadelphia, of the wild.
ow of Simon Cameron Wilson, who
died in 1886, whilst Mayor Of
Harrisburg.
12-Death, at 43S North alley, Harris.
burg, of Mrs. Drusilla Caller, aged
81 years.
13-Martha Hoke, an 1S-year-old girl.
residing near Boiling Springs,
crushed to death by a freight train
whilst on her way to work.
1S-FolloWng several days of intense
cold, came a blizzard which pro-
duced the first heavy snow of the
winter.
14-John Waller, 22S Charles street,
Harrisburg, celebrated his ninety,
first birthday.
14-Death of John f. Miller, 500
Briggs street, Harrisburg aged SO
years, for so years an employee of
the P. r. r.
15-An unidentified man found dead
on a dump near the Harrisburg
Pipe and Pipe Bending Works.
death of Mrs. Margaret WaHick
Mccullough, 1902 North Second
street, Harrisburg, aged So years.
1o-Market Square Presbyterian Sun
day school, Harrisburg, celebrated
its ninety eighth anniversary.
1.-two men killed by gas explosion
in a Williamstown colliery.
17-Harrisburg lodges, Knights of
Pythias, celebrated the golden
jubilee of the order.
17-Death, at Harrisburg hospital. of
Brakeman Chester Meyer from in
juries received two days before in
the Rutherford yards whilst in the
line of duty.
l7-Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Free,