Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-20
VETERAN OUT FOR
SCHOOL DIRECTOR
Patriotic Instructor, Post SO,
G. A. r., Files Petition For
City Board

e. B. Hoffman, 1928 Green street,
Patriotic Instructo rof Post SIS,
Grand Army fthe Republic, to-day
filed Republican party nominating
petitions with the County Commits
sioners for County School Director.
Mr.. Hoffman is widely known in the
city because of his activity in con-
nection with the veterans parades
and Memorial Day oVerservances.
For a number of years he has had
charge of the assigning of the Civil
War Veterans to the various public
school buildings of the county to
participate in Memorial Day pro-
grams. He also held other offices
in Post 5S.
Other petitions filed to-day include
the following:
d. E. BrightbiIl, d., Judge, Third
precinct, Tenth ward: j. Geary
Church r., judge, and w, l.. Pagan.
II. inspector, Fifth precinct, Seventh
ward; r. Monroe Leonard, r., judge,
and William H. Lingle, r.. inspector,
Second precinct, Eleventh ward {;
Ross d. Saul, r., assessor, First pre-
cinct, Second ward, Steelton; David
c. Devlin, r., assessor, Second ward,
Steelton.
Washington Township
The following Washington town
ship Republicans filed: George Hart
man, school director; George d.
Kissinger, tax collector; Michael D.
Ronawitz, assessor; Ariel D. Good,
auditor; Philip Heller, inspector; A.
II. Rome, school director; Samuel H.
Shade, supervisor; George A. Bona
witt, auditor; Oscar o. Zimmerman,
auditor.
Berrysburg
Berrysburg Republicans filed these:
A. n. Romberger, judge; George
Dockey, school director; Robert w.
Deibler, G.. f. Warner, A. NJ. Weaver
and Daniel NJ. Bahney, council;
Henry n. Wilmer, assessor; John
A. Kampell, burgess Boyd S. Miller,
inspector; j. H. Howe, tax collector;
Mark Keboch, auditor.
Halifax Township
These We're filed by Halifax town.
ship candidates: Democrats, Charles
Keefer, supervisor; Harry r. Matter,
auditor; Peter Enders, judge; Cor
nelius Bowman, auditor; Daniel A.
Shultz, inspector; Republicans, Jacob
+. Etzweiler, judges George r. Hoff-
man, inspector; Ross l.. Scholl, audi
tor; Harry w. Hoffman, supervisor
c. C. Sweigard. assessor; George NJ.
Cooper. tax collector; John w. Row,
school director.
IykenS
Lykens Socialists have a full ticket
in the field and filed the following G
petitions to-day: John w. Schaff-
stall, council, East ward; Isaac Zerby
and George w. Cook, council, West
ward; William II. Daniels. Elijah
Page and Charles L. Baum. school
directors; George w. TroXell, bur-
CESS; Andrew II. Snyder, Judge and
John Yeger, inspector, East ward
Ross L. Bowman. assessor. West
ward; Charles Page, assessor. East
ward; Fred w. Paul and John w
Zigner, auditor; Charles Boeckler
tax collector: Charles w. Mucher
Judge, and Charles H. Becher, in
spector. West ward. Other Lykens
candidates include: Republicans
Harry E. Blyler, Judge, West ward;
| Charles A. Hoff and John H. Eby
Republican and Democrat. school di-
rector: william L. Wilmer, Demo
crat, judge.
Other petitions included: J. A
. Hoffman, r., school director, Eliza
bethville; Russell B. Stoner, Samuel
Zerfoss, r., council. Humm elstown
Jerome Embick and Howard f. My
ers. Democrat, council. First ward
Middletown; James Pearl, r.. judge,
Fourth precinct. Swatara township;
Vernon G. Snyder, D.. inspector,
Penbrook; Francis NJ. Alexander, r.,
auditor, South Hanover township.