Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
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churches in Capitol Park extensiI
has been started and in a week or -
the old Free Will Baptist ChursS-
lately the Kesher Israel Synagogu
will be a thing of the past. For
years this building has been known
as the church by the Capitol" as
| 1t stood close to the State House.
This church was established about
1852 by a branch of the Baptists who
had been here since 1880 and wor-
shipped in a church in Front street.
There was a division about the time
of the Civil War and the church
at Fourth and State streets was de-
dicated early in 1853, the same year
that the parent congregation occu-
pied its new edifice at Second and
Pine streets. Prior to that there had
J been a mission on the Fourth and
State streets lot. The Fourth Street
Baptist Church, as it was probably
known, stood sentinel at the head of
East State street for many years
and during the pastorate of the late
Rev. DR.. James Calder was an active
influence in the community. The
congregation gradually dwindled and
various religious bodies occupied 1t
until the Kesher Israel congrega-
ton bought it and replaced the
steeple with a dome and placed
golden Hebrew characters over the
doorway. This congregation has just
completed a very handsome addition
to the churches of the city in Capt.
tol street and it's former place of
worship is in the hands of the
wreckers.
When Eli N. Hershey, president of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club returned
lconvention of that organization, he
brought a weather story with him.
I'VE were in Kansas City during
the hottest period in the history of
that town." he told a little party
of friends who were lunching with
him down town on Tuesday.
The temperature was 101 in the
shade and the Kansas City people
told us they never had known such
weather"
Yes" responded John S. Musser.
la former president of the club. and
veteran of many international con-
lventions, that's what they told us
down in Texas"
It's the same story they gave us
in Buffalo," said Howard C. Fry,
the newly elected Rotary Club gov
ernor of this district, ''and believe
every club that entertains the inter-
! miserable excuse to make the visi-
itors feel more uncomfortable; that
tor they are so proud of their home
towns they won't admit that even
spell of hot weather can come along
more than once in a generation.
1t would appear that this weather
failing is not confined to conven-
ton cities, however, for on Tuesday
Lieutenant Hoover, speaking at the
L n ot., &c thA act of
Is Essick, in telling of his winter
spent in camp near Louisville re-
marked that the weather had been
frightfully cold, but that "old resi-
dents said there never had been any,
thing like it there before and prob
: ably never would be again." while
Lieutenant Sites, son of Postmaster
Frank c. Sites, speaking at the same
luncheon told the Rotarians that
|. when he went to Texas the natives
told him 1t never rained in that sec
ton and the weather was always
. pleasant, but that 'it started to pour
a few days after we got there and
kept it up for a week." =.
And even storm proof" Harry
burg loses a couple of roofs and
some hundreds of trees now and
then.
OF all the interesting recitals of
: those who have returned from the
: lighting zone of Europe none has
: made a greater impression than that
of the Rev. H. A. Riddle, Jr., a
tChambersburg boy, who has just re-
, turned after eight months in Y. NJ.
IC. A. work. He was at Cantigny and
speaks enthusiastically of the work
| of the American soldiers in that re-
markable engagement. He tells of
the enthusiasm of the French and
English soldiers over their American
iallies and the old theory that I'VE
are too proud to fight" no longer OBJ
Itains in Europe and France. Like
wise the message of Bessie Wynn,
the charming little singer who has
been at the Majestic this week, was
Ian inspiration. The ladies of the
Rotary Club will not soon forget her
wonderful story of American valor
land sacrifice.
Captain Charles R. Morris. of the
lprovost marshal generals office. who
was here to inspect the financial af-
fairs of the state draft headquarters,
was the officer who arranged the
drawing of the numbers of the draft
ed men at Washington and drew
Isome of them himself. Captain Nor
ris presented Adiutant General
Beary with a souvenir of that occa-
sion giving him numbers from the
two drafts. One of the numbers is
backed with black and the other
with red.
An interesting fact In connection
with the call issued late on Wednes-
day for statements of the condition
of state banks and trust companies
by Commissioner Daniel F. Lafean is
that 1t strikes the same day for maxi
ing statements as the national au-
thorities. This means that in short
time the federal and state author
tiles will have statements of the con-
dition of all trust companies. ma
tional and state banks, savings in
stitutions and other banking con-
;. Germs in Pennsylvania as of June 20.
). Hast Saturday. Commissioner Lafea"
laughed when asked about 1t and
said that it was "a coincidence"