Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-21
SEVENTH VETS
ANNIVERSARY
Grand Army of Stevens Me-
mortal Methodist Church to
Celebrate Birthday

The grand army of the Rev. B. f.
Stevens Memorial Methodist Epis-
copal Church will hold its seventh
anniversary to-day. While this or
ganization is composed of none but
members and friends of the church
who have reached the age of sew
enty years, 1t is constantly increas-
ing its membership until there are
to-day fifty-siX members on the roll
with an additional honorary men,
bership of nine members. Mrs. Eliza
beth Smell is the oldest member and
if she lives until January 10 next,
she will celebrate her 92d birthday
anniversary. Mrs. Harriet Brady IS
but eight months younger and there
are seventeen members who are past
the age of four score. Three deaths
occurred among the membership in
the past year, namely, Mrs. Mary
Kerns. aged 76; Charles NJ. Wash
burn. aged rs, and e. b. Hartman,
aged 75.
To-day's celebration will consist of
an automobile ride followed by a
chicken and waffle dinner served by
some of the young ladies of the
ing. a photograph of the army Will
be taken and the guests later re-
turn to their homes by auto.
At the reunion last year there were
twenty-seven members present whose
combined ages were 2,039 years
or an average age of rs years.
While the Stevens Memorial
Grand Army is the oldest in exist
ence in this section which has got
ten to be quite a popular idea among
the various churches of Methodlsm
and similar organizations are now in
existence at Ridge Avenue. Camp
Hill, Duncannon, Newport, Wayhes-
boro, Altoona and Weatherly.
The members comprising the
Stevens Memorial Grand Army are as
follows:
Elizabeth Smell, Main and Cone
stoga streets, Steelton; Harriet
Brady. / . Linden street, Levi Potter,
1864 Vernon street, Mary j. Weltzel,
317 Crescent street, Margaret Sny-
der, 1922 Derry street, Martha j.
Compton, 42S South Thirteenth
street, Eliza J. Kent. 122 Evergreen
street. William NJ. Leedy, Duncan
non; Elizabeth Coleman, 14l4 Mar
ket street, Abbie Smith. 1908 Derry
street, Margaret S. Cooper, 1888 Re
gina street, David o. Ritter, All
South Thirteenth street, Anna Hott-
man, 7O4 North Front street, steel
ton: William II. Carpenter, 81
Crescent street, Matilda Frantz, 1918
Park street; Jacob Houser, Camp
Hill; Rachel Beeler, S17 Crescent
street, Harriet +. Geiger, 347 South
Thirteenth street, William r. SwartH,
1855 Mulberry street, John Sheesley,
47 North Eighteenth street, Mrs. ia
cob Houser, Camp Hill; Joseph ur-
ban, 434 South Sixteenth street,
Elizabeth Brubaker, 194l Market
street, George Chandler, New Cum
berland; Letitia Hartman, 431 south
Thirteenth street, Mary kerns, 1244
Bailey street, Fin. l. Thomas, Riv-
ington Terrace, Emma J. Carpenter,
S21 Crescent street, Nadel d. Gully,
25 South Thirteenth street, Mary A.
Hoffman, 1901 -,orth Second street,
Barbara Urban, 434 South Sixteenth
street, Charles NJ. Washburn, 1919
Park street, T.. b. Hartman, 43I
South Thirteenth street, Mrs. c. E.
Denmark, 80 Evergreen street, lsa-
belle Warner, 11S5 Bailey street
Susan Bumbaugh, 2S North Four
teenth street, Anna NJ. Moran, lOl2
North Nineteenth street, Jesse NJ.
Wales and wife, 29 South Fifteenth
street, George n. Shelter, lava
State street, Mary A. Henderson,, 337
South Fifteenth street, Maria Bacon,
1906 Green street, Lydia Smucker,
1911 Vernon street, Catherine Bell
man, 20 Evergreen street, Jacob +.
Gorgas, 1913 Vernon Street, Sarah
NJ. Black, 139 North Thirteenth
street. Eta L. Pearce, 1929 Berry
hill street, Sarah V. Hill, 1903 Mar
ket street, Hannah Crump, 322 South
Sixteenth street, Sarah Dougherty, Il
Linden street, Mary Gorgas, 1913
Vernon street, Maria L. Wilson, 4S1
South Sixteenth street, A. Wilson
Black, 139 North Thirteenth street,
Mary ]. Lyter, 232 North Fourteenth
street, ]. Griffith Kennedy and WIFE,
412 South Sixteenth street. Anna NJ.
Losch, 1433 Swatara street, John A.
Affleck, 32 North Sixteenth street.
Thomas B. Wilson, 437 South Six
teenth street, Mary NJ. Horting, 1S
South Fifteenth street, Reuben ii.
Gilman, 3OS Crescent street, Rebecca
Gilman, 3OS Crescent street.
Old Folks Day will be observed
in the church on Sunday at the
morning service and the Grand Army
will attend in a body. The sermon
will be delivered by the Rev. DR..
George f. Reed and there will be an
appropriate program. Owing to the
fact that Sunday is a gasless day,
the Grand Army veterans have re-
ouested that no automobiles be fur
nished to convey them to the service,
they rather feeling proud of the fact
that they can make this sacrifice in
their country's behalf.