Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-10
EhPntng Of1at

As matter of fact, old Paxton
Presbyterian Church, which will hold
services on Sunday in commemoratIon
of the one hundred and seventy fifth
year of its religious activity goes back
still farther into the dim past and it
might be said that it is closer to the
TWO hundredth anniversary than the
one hundred and seventy-tifth. Well
authenticated records are that old
Derry, Church, which is just east of the
model town of Hershey, was es-
tablished in 1724 and it is generally
accepted as the pioneer church in
Dauphln county The belief is that
the building in which Derry congre-
cation was organized was built in 1920.
NOW as to old Paxton, no one seems to
Know just when its still beautiful grove
OF oak trees was first used for wor-
snip. The sturdy Scotch and Irish
Presbyterians who founded the church
held services in the woods in summer
time and it is of record that when the
Presbytery of Donegal, the ancestor of
the Presbytery of Carlisle was organ
lzed In 1882 there was standing in
FaNton grove log house of worship
showing signs of age and having near
py graves of pioneers. A gravestone
marked 1716 was found in the grave
yard about the time of the Civil War
ana another which bore in almost
obnterated figures what looked like
ltO2 or l112 was also discovered later.
VINO these stones were placed to keep
IN mind no one knows to-day, but it is
toleraDly certain that not long after
William Penn had made his visit to
the Susquehanna and the Swatara.
supposed to have been in the neigh
Dorhood of Middletown, that white
men were pushing to the West. Pos
siply the first worshipers at Paxton
were companions or retainerG of John
Harris, who came this way 200 years
ago and who is supposed to have been
the first settler in the present county.
although Frenchmen were known to
nave traded along the western shores
of the Susquehanna.
While poking through a desk drawer
| Just prior to his departure for Vir-
ginia the other evening Mayor-elect
Ezra 5. Meals found u pack of election
advertisement cards. He chuckled as
he opened the package. The card
game at election time is a great game"
he observed gravely. This pack of
unused cards for instance, might mean
much-or little. In this package, for
instance, is a lot of five hundred.
When | first started this campaign I
ordered 5000. During the campaign
Just $500 were given out, and this lot
| is what remains. When the official
count is compiled one may or may not
be able to judge whether it pays to
| ask your fellow-citizen to vote for you,
via such a card The official count
completed yesterday showed that
Mayor r-elect Meals. the unopposed can
| didate for the office of chief executive
( OF Harrisburg for the second time
had received 1928 votes.
Announcement of the proposed re-
sumption of operations at Marshall
furnace. at Newport, will be received
with interest here as the furnace iS
| the only one left in Perry county,
which fifty or sixty years ago was one
OF the big iron producers. The Mar
/ shall furnace was formerly called
Juniata furnace and was built in 1871
| 1t is the sole survivor of q number of
noted furnaces of which Duncannon.
Montebello, Oak Grove, Laura and
| Caroline are best remembered. The
stack of the latter furnace at Bailey's
is still standing.
The weather this week has caused
| big jump in the wheat sown by peoeie
| in this section of the State the last
month or so and by the time King
Winter comes along the grain will be
we'll under way and strong enough to
stand any blasts. From upper win
dows of the Capitol wheat fields can
be seen showing bright green in four
counties.
Attorney General Francis Skunk
Brown is not having a nice time this
week. He has to sit in court at the
trial of a big case in which he was
| interested before he became Attorney
General. AS a result he is looking
after State business at night, and his
office is a lively place after dark, the
| deputies being busy with the tele-
phones