Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-05-21
HARR|SBURCERS ARE
HAVING FINE TIME ON
NE|CHBORLY VISITS
Towns and Cities Roundabout
Lavish With Their Enter
tainment
YORK, LANCASTER, LEBANON
Hospitality and GoodfelIowship
Mark Journey of Chamber
of Commerce Party
YORK, LANCASTER, LEBANON
From p Staff Correspondent

Lancaster, Pa, May Il. - Seventy
members of the Harrisburg Chamber
of Commerce went calling on their
|neighbors yesterday and not only
found the latch string out in York
Haven, York, Wrigntsville, Columbia
land Lancaster, but reception commit
tees on hand to extend the glad hand
|of welcome. The Harrisburgers left
their cards and were invited to come
Iagain." To-day the party will visit
points throughout northern Lancaster
county and will stop at Lebanon for
lunch and later pay visit to Hershey
Iwhere the chocolate factory Will be in
ISpected.
1t has been a delightful and profit
Iable trip so far-abounding in pleasant
|companionship, good fellowship, hos
|pitality almost to the point of embar-
basement and neighborliness of kind
that ought to be more and more cul-
|tivated among the cities and towns of
Central Pennsylvania.
Indeed that has been the keynote
.of every speech made during the two
lays journey - and there was more
fpratory developed than many Harris
burgers might have believed the old
Fown could produce. Friendly rivalry
.hnd neighborly feeling should mark
he relations of York. Lancaster, Leb-
ftnon and Reading. with the smaller
Towns that lie clustered about them
he speakers one and all decided and
t is likely that the Harrisburg vista
ion will be followed by others of the
sort in the no distant future.
II anybody nurses the notion that
Harrisburg is not we'll thought of or
han any OF the neighboring towns en-
Itertain any but the most friendly feel
5T-sy toward us as a community let him
axe such a little journey as did the
members of the Harrisburg Chamber
yesterday. The demonstration was
luite sufficient to warm the hearts of
oval Harrisburgers who believe that
he Capital City is a good place in
which to live and who are jealous of
,ur fair reputation in the eyes of the
olks of neighboring towns.
To York Haven
Under the guidance of President
ieorge r. Tripp and Secretary Wads-
worth, the party left Harrisburg early
yesterday morning aboard a special
rain and the first stop was at York
Iaven, where the big paper mills and
he power plant were visited and
where hospitable fruit Vender hoist
I'd aboard a cargo of bananas, the
kins of which creased the ways and
litlt CldNtIIS IdDlu anu easy down
he aisles after the cars got under way
|gain.
The party was escorted over the pa
|er plant by officials and the members
ere much interested in the process of
transforming hemlock logs into fine
-hite paper. The method of transmit
ing electric energy from York Haven
o Harrisburg and York was explained
or the benefit of the visitors, after
Which they took train for York.
"Nix' on Nixon
ON the way down William Fl. Benne-
hum. Jr., of Dives. Pomeroy e Stew
rts store, almost broke tooth trying
bite into a stick of imitation chew
1g gum that the facetious w. II.
iNon, agent for the PENNSYLVANIA
abroad Company, so kindly dis
'ibuted among the guests. Nixon had
awful lot of fun out of that chew
g gum joke. 1t was that funny he
ughed all the way down to York.
ears ran down his cheeks and he
ha- ha- ed everytime he thought of il
ut the fellows who ran Splinters into
heir gums trying to get away with II
ad their innings when another Joker
the party sWore out a mock war
ant against Nixon on the charge of
olating the pure food laws. The
GSest policeman on the York force
as detailed tu the Job and he GOT
way with it after near-riot.
The time necessary to make eypIana.
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