Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
EIGHTY BUSINESS PLACES
JOIN SATURDAY MOVE
CONTINUED From First PagG1

action of their respective employers in
making possible a day and a half holi-
day at each weekend during the op-
pressive heated period of summer. In
number of stores employees have
gotten together and taken formal ac-
ton in passing resolutions thanking
the management for their consid-
Grafton of the employees.
Margaret NJ. Hartman, nellie A.
First, M. Dunlap, Anna E. Krause, Jo-
sephine R. Howe. o. ]. Kelly, ]. D.
Wells, ]. S. Michael. S W. Shumaker,
H. B. Zigner, forming the committee
of the employees of Bowman & Co.,
express their appreciation of the early
Saturday closing, which they feel is
much more desirable 'chan the Fri
day afternoon, which has meant little
more than a recess before the longest
working day of the week. We trust
the public of Harrisburg will approve
of this new plan, as they have always
generously responded to all movements
that meant the advancement of better
working conditions"
The employees Of Burns & Co.,
through their committee, w. Ed Mil
Ter, H. G. Haertler and Hugh c. Stuart,
express appreciation to their firm "for
its unselfish interest in the employees
comfort during the hot summer
months, and especially for the early
Saturday closing, with the hope that
this change will not prove detrimental
to business and that the public CO.
operation may make it possible to con-
tinue the plan in succeeding years"
Five hundred and fifty employees of
Dives. Pomeroy & Stewart, through a
committee composed of George T.
Rouch, Regina c. Shillenn, Irma H.
Moore, NJ. Grace Long, Florence Reese,
F. H. Hoerner and D. w. Bollinger,
extend appreciation. to the firm for
the desirable and very beneficial
change for employees through the hot,
sweltering, summer season"
F. F. Goldsmith, F. V. Zug, Charles
F. Barbour, Catherine E. Wilhelm,
Jean f. Gambler and Sadie Crist rep
resenting 1877 employees of the Kauf-
man Underselling Store, express ZAP
probation to our employer and others
who have made possible the Saturday
early closing. and ask the kind indulg-
ence of the entire shopping public for
the change of shopping hours by shop
ping on Friday Friday evening and
Saturday morning during the month
of August.
Nineteen employees of the ]. H. Troup
Music House have affixed their sig
natures to a letter of appreciation of
the movement that has been brought
about among a representative number
of merchants in Harrisburg for early
Saturday closing and particularly to
their firm for its Identification with
that movement"
c. NJ. Sigler, president of the c. NJ.
Sigler Company, extends to the busi-
ness men who have banded together
in this movement commentator for
the activity which has brought about
the result, in which he is Joined by the
employees of his store.
Frank e. Wood, w. B. Eberly, How
ard Friedman, I. Rochman, NJ. w
Fernsler. Joseph Wlach, a committee
of the employees of the new store OF
William Strouse. extend to the man
agement of the store appreciation OF
the employees in a signed statement
which was published in the news
papers early in the week.
P. w. Weidler and Mary E. Tunis
| representing tho employees of Wilmer
| Bair & Wilmer, express appreciation
to the firm for its adoption of the
early Saturday closing movement and
| bespeak the cooperation of the shop
ping public that il may not only prove
beneficial to employees. but to the vari-
Gus business houses cooperating in
the movement"