Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-16
PUPILS INSPECT
NATIONAL BANK
Gettysburg School Children
Are Shown Workings of
Financial Institution
SEE ALL KINDS OF MONEY
Double Wedding Ceremony
Performed By Pastor of
Arendtsville Church
SEE ALL KINDS OF MONEY

Gettysburg, Pa. Feb. 16.-Under
the course of community civics in
the public schools the Gettysburg
National Bank had as its guests
during the past week the school
children. They were shown the
rooms in the building and told for
what use they were intended. A
full explanation of the adding ma
chine was given, as we'll as the meth
of of locking the safes and vaults.
The various sorts of money were
shown, and the work done at each
window is told the trip taking in
the more intricate features of bank
ing for the pupils of the high school
and the grammar grades and the
more simple forms for those in the
lower grades.-A double wedding
was performed at the parsonage of
the Reformed Church in Arendts-
Vile by the. pastor, the Rev. 4. G.
Hesson, when he united in marriage
L.. Merl Culp and Miss n. Blanche
knouse, both of Biglerville, and
Francis Il. Culp, of Biglerville, and
Miss Sara a. Toot, of Gettysburg
The grooms are brothers.-Park
Gardner, of Huntingdon township,
L. T. Gardner and son, c. NJ. Gard
ner, of Uriah, expect to leave early
in the spring for Edmonton, Cana
da' where they will engage in wheat
farming The three men have pur-
chased large ranch there.-Accord-
ing to the record kept by Joseph
Myers, of near BonneauVille, this
winter has broken all records for
continuous sleighing. Mr.. Myers has
Kept record of the number OF
days sleighing each winter since he
was boy. According to his record,
during the winter of 1861-62 there
were tifty-siX days of sleighing. This
was just fifty-siX years ago. The
present winter is the first in over
half a century that any number of
days sleighing has approached the
winter of the sixties. Up to the
present time this winter there have
been SiXty-siX days of sleighing in
one stretch and the old record is
smashed.-Only two alien enemies
registered here last week and one
Of these has been trying for some
time to get his citizenship papers,
NJ. A. GarVln, conductor on the Read
ing between Gettysburg and Harris
burg, is again on duty after an alb
sence of several months, during
which time he underwent a success
full operation for cataract.-William
III. Emmert, eX-postmaster of New
Oxford has received an appointment
as shoe inspector for the United
States Government and has resort
ed at Philadelphia to begin his du-
ties.-Although listed from Phila-
| delphia, Albert r. Jacobs, one of the
men on the ill-fated Tuscania, is
| from Adams county, living at York
| Springs until the time of his enlist
ment. He is reported safe.-Charles
A. Robinson, a Gettysburg young
man, who left here last summer with
a United States Army Bakery COM
| pany, has been returned to this
/ country from France because of i'll
health. He is now at an Atlantic
| port and expects to reach his home
| here in a short time. he has in
formed his folks that the trip back
required ten days more than going
| over. He was in the same company
with Horace e. Smiley, Gettysburg
| chief of police.-The Sons, of Vet
Grams celebrated Lincoln's birthday
with a program and banquet at Their
hall in the Post Room.-The pub
| lie schools at Littlestown are CLOSED
because of a shortage. of coal.