Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-24
MIDDLETOWN
1900 SCHOOL
CHILDREN HERE
Most Expected to Start Nine
Month School Term on
September 2

Thirteen hundred children of
school age, between six and sixteen
years, live in Middletown, the asses
Bofs' list shows. Practically all of
these are expected to be In attend
ance when the 181S-19 term opens
for nine months on September 2.
Superintendent II, j. Wickey has
announced that for the benefit of
those who failed to be promoted on
account of illness or other reasons
and have done special work during
the summer, a special examination
will be given IN the High school
building as followsE Grade below the
grammar school, Wednesday, August
rs, at $50 a. nj. Grammar and High
school grades, ThuiSday, August 20,
at $50 a. m, Pupils desiring to take
these examinations should notify the
superintendent not later than Mon
day, August 26,
Any childsen who have moved to
town since last term should report
at the superintendent's office, Friday
morning, August 30, between s and
10 o'clock, to be assigned to the
proper grade and building,
No person shall attend any school
in the borough Of Middletown unless
they have been successfully vacci-
mated or are pronounced immune
Children who become six years of
age prior to January 1, 1919, will be
admitted to school at the beginning
of the term, September 9 Children
becoming six years of age after
January l, 1919, and before the close
of the school term, will be admitted.
to the schools after the holidays
Mrs George Carr and three. chill
1N1,,,ss~laS s.e toI nc.
the guests of Mr. and Mrs Paul
Gerber
Mr., and Mrs, Peck Carver and
three children, Alice, Dorothy and
Richard, are camping at Clifton for
a week,
Miss Annie Heagy, of Chester, is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs,
Levi Heagy, State street.
Charles Smith, a military guard
on the New Jersey coast, is spending
few days in Royalton with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs, William Smith,
The following persons from town
picnicked at Boiling Springs on We'd
nesday; Mrs, Charles Dasher, Mrs
William Wagner Mrs, Barbara
Horst, Mrs, William Houser, Jr.,
Mrs, Joseph Ebersole, Mrs NJ, Espen-
shade, Mrs, George Selser, Mrs, F. 1.
Atkinson, Mrs Lydia Page, Mrs John
Baker, Mrs, Katharine Selser, Mrs.
Charles Wade, Miss Victoria Kavan-
augh, Miss Nellie Selser.
Many local boys and girls are en-
tered in the Shetland pony contest of
the Red Cross. The boy or girl turn
ing in the most money until Septem-
Der l will be awarded the pony.
Those in the contest are: Ruth Leg
gore, Evelyn Deimler, Anna Bates,
Meade Campbell, Hazel Rife, John
Brown, Harold Webb, Charles We'll
conner, Nelson Rife, Edgar Cryder,
Lybun Cobaugh, Marlin Eager, Will
liam Siler, George Rife, Hilda Shire
man, Esther Welsh, William Welsh,
John Hass, Walter Stoops, Claude
Green, Raymond Young, William
Young, Harry Longsdorf, Harold
Romberger, Earl Hench. Wilmer
Good, Chester Brown, Earl Cain and
Donald Hunter.
Robert sFornwalt has secured a
position as clerk at the Pennsylvania
freight station, succeeding Leroy
Hipple.
II. c. Lindemuth is attending the
fifty-first annual convention of the
Pennsylvania grand lodge Knights of
Pythias, at Bradford. this week,
representing lodge No. 26S.
A sacred concert in the form Of 4
union service Will De heio on the
lawn of the ST. Peters Lutheran
Church tomorrow evening. The
collection will be for the Red Cross
Edgar Nuskey, mail carrier, IS on
a two weeks vacation. b,
Miss Ethel Shelly, of Shenandoah,
is visiting Mrs John Groupe, Swatara
street
Harry Alle1nan. Jr., the 3-year-o old
son of Mr.. and Mrs Harry Alleman.V
died at his parents home in Royal
ton yesterday morning. Funeral SER
vices will be held from the home on
Sunday morning at $50 o'clock with
further services at 10 o'clock at
Goods Church. Burial will be in
the cemetery.
The. Rev. NJ L. Hooker, pastor of
st. Johns Lutheran Church, at West
Vile, N. J., will preach in the Church
of God Sunday morning at II a. m.
Howard Werlich has resigned as
president OF the Rescue Hose Com
pany because of being called in the
draft.
Mrs. Mary Mckee. Ann street, is
visiting in philadelphia. She was
accompanied by Miss Elizabeth Nc
Kee, who spent several weeks with
her grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs. H.
A. Mckee, Ann street.
Members OF Brownstone Castle,
No.'456. x, q. r.. will visit at Lam
caster this evening. They will go
by auto truck.
The Rev. B. r. Aileman. of Lam
caster, will preach in st, Peters
Lutheran Church tomorrow morn
ing at 1045