Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-02
POST OFFICE BUNCH
HAS REAL TIME
Eat Roast Pig, Listen to
Speeches, Then Try to
Sing

When the post office bunch" get
together they always do have a regu-
lar time, but last night they out-did
themselves. Their annual banquet or.
as Toastmaster Charles H. Hoffman
put it, the ''pigroast" held in the
Chestnut street auditorium, was the
liveliest and biggest jollification ever
staged by the Post Office Athletic AS
sociation.
Over hundred employees and
FRIENDS enjoyed the pig, speeches,
songs and story telling. Four post Of
flee employees who are members of
the National Guard were guests of
on the Border. Pictures of the SOL
dier's life. taken by Second Lieuten-
ant j. I. Long, Jr., of Company D,
were passed around the tables.
Postmaster Sites Speaks
FRANK Z. Sites, postmaster, made
the address of welcome. Charles H.
HOFFMAN, superintendent of mails, was
toastmaster. H. R. Newcomer, of the
Maclay station, and a veteran of the
Spanish American war; w. C. McFar-
land, for AZ years a post office en-
ploye and q Civil War veteran; E. H,
Anderson, post office foreman and a
member of the Governors Troop, and
several others swung into the speech
making and storytelling
The post office quartet, composed
of Messrs. Bbersole, Reen, Jordan and
Blacksmith, sang a number of popular
songs during the evening, and George
II. Martin contributed two solos. Once
someone started Down on the
Swanee River" it was taken up with
a whoop, and the hall rang with the
familiar strains of the old Southern
song.
The officers of the P. o. A. A. are:
President, John E. Long; vice-presi-
dent, George r. Pritchard; record
ing secretary, Edward R. Gault;
financial secretary, w. S. Hackman;
treasurer, j. G. Lavertv.
This Is the Bunch
Those who took part in the big
time were:
George Award, E. II. Anderson.
James Beatty, w. C. Beidleman, w. 3.
Berry, w. A. Blacksmith, H. c. Brady.
w. w. Britch, c. B. Burlington, w. e.
Cassel, Thomas Cleckner, W. Ed. Cas-
sci, II. K. Cunkle, ], NJ. Daily, w. r.
Dunmoyer, w. R. Dougherty, w. w.
Dunn, T. F. Dunn, Harry Dibley, G.. L.
Ebersole, j. A. Feeman, George Fem
nical, H. M. Fitting, Elmer Flowers,
q. E. Fry, E. II. Gabreal, s. D. Gal
lagher, 2. r. Gault, H. Goldsmith,
II. K. Goodman, w. S. Hackman,
1LSSA iSOlSc I1dEpeT, III. "A.
Hartman, r. N. Hensel, G. L. Hepford,
G. H. Hoffman, Harry Houser, C. D.
Hines, Harry Jorden, C. H. Kirk, ]. H.
kurtz, j. G. Laverty, ]. E. Lenig, H. C.
Lenker, o. H. Lingle, j. T. Long, Jr.,
2; M. Longenecker, D, S. Ludlow,
w. s. McAllister, G. S. McCrone, w. C.
Mcfarland, c. E. Mingle, H. G.. Metz
ger, j. S. Miller, ]. G. Mohler, Smith
Mohler, r. G. Naylor, H. r. New
conner, G. r. Pritchard, Andrew Reese,
Robert Rupp, F. C. Sites, f. NJ. Slyder,
Paul Smith, ]. e. snavely, H. speese,
A. ]. Stoner, w. J. Stoner, Paul Stout
fer, Theodore Stouffer, William
Sweiler, w. S. Taylor. G. A. Tippett,
A. w. Wagner, r. II. Weaver, j. p.
Wilbar. George Young, H. C. Young,
D. E. Zimmerman. w. c. Irish, H. M.
Cocklin, Captain H. NJ. Slime, George
Martin, BENJAMIN Strouse, Captain
T, Bretz, Walter R. Manley, T. J.
Carpenter, ]. A. Geiger, F. N. Reen,
Fred Huston, j. NJ. Mumma, Charles
III. Keil, Walter Fissel, H. A. Plank,
Charles Kerns, Charles H. Baker, ]. G.
Popel and w. H. Bond.