Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-12
MIDDLETOWN
OF
BOROUGH BODIES
Council and School Board
Hold Regular Monthly
Sessions

The school board session last even
ing elected Miss Emily X FORE, sub
stitute teacher The schools will
close Friday, March 30. Good Friday;
the HAITI oratorical contest will be
held in the High School Friday even
ing, April IL; Grammar school en-
tertainment, Friday. May "a; the bac-
calaureate sermon will be preached
in the Presbyterian Church, Sunday.
May %, by the Rev. T. c. McCar-
relli the High School Glass Day exer-
cises will be held Tuesday, May rs;
High School commencement exercises,
Thursday evening, May 80, in the
realty Theater the board announced.
Inc borough council met last
evening. The highway committee
fixed the following rates for en-
ployes; Supervisors, 35 cents per
hour; labor, 25 cents per hour; two
carts, 80 cents per hour The repaV-
ing OF the council chamber was plac-
ed in the hands of the committee. A
communication was received from the
american La France Truck Company
that the new fire truck would arrive
IN about two weeks and be placed
at the Union Hose Company A IL.
Luckenbill, chairman of the highway
committee, was given permission to
secure a surveyor. Burgess 5. b.
Gingrich notified the Traction Com
lines run on. Borough Solicitor ]. r.
6eyer VIII file a protest before the
Public Service Commission in regard
to rates of the York Haven Power
A birthday party was held last
evening in honor of Miss Helen Bres-
tle, who has just passed her sixth
Dlrthday. The affair was a surprise
ana was held at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Brestle
IN North Spring street The guests
Tbdn rTTbc6n1ed ,AAnnabelle Kern, Hyacinth
EDNA Smith, Violet Kennard, Ethel
Welsh, Gertrude Moore, Helen Good,
felen George, Evelyn Brinser, Jean
Brestle and Helen Brestle
Ihe Wednesday evening PRAYER
meeting. services of the local Presby-
terian Church will be held at the
nome of Mr.. and Mrs. A. J.. Etter,
North Union street, tomorrow even
,,,T, The Woman's Home and Foreign
Missionary. Society, of the United
Brethren Church, will be held at the
no nome otR of Mrs. Anna Fetrow, North
catherine street, this evening.
The Sunday School class of the
SShurch OF Sod and taught by Mrs. o..
M. kraybill, will hold its regular
monthly meeting at the home of Mrs.
William Floyd. East Emaus street,
this evening
At a recent meeting of the officers
ana directors of the Middletown I'm
stockholders were elected to fill the
vacancies of four directors: C. IL.
Schadt' IL; II. Kline, William Scheutz
The Rev. T. c. McCarren. pastor of
the local Presbyterian Church, enter
tanned the following elders and trus-
tees; DR.. II: w. George, Ira SPRING
den and II. y. Graver, trustees a. l..
Ltter, r. i. Shireman, Christian F'laig,
). II. Frank, b. II. Longenecker, j. j.
Landis, Fred Haesler.
The monthly meeting of the Sun
day School class of J. NJ. Martin. of
and Pine streets, this evening.
ID. L: Boyer, who is employed in
the freight depot of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. and II. A. NICK ee,
shipping clerk in the local shoe fac
Cleveland;s Ohio, where they were
kreider Shoe Company, which firm
lost several crates of shoes that were
shipped to its warehouse in CIeve-
land, Ohio, last July.
Morris Nipple, Ann and Wood
streets, sustained a broken arm SAT-
urday evening at Luna Ring. Emaus
street
The membership of the Junior Red
Cross has reached the 1900 mark. At
a meeting of the executive board GER
tihcates We're issued to the following
Junior Red Cross organizations (:
High School building, Grammar
school building, Wood street building,
Coble and Geyer schools The pas
tors Aid Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church donated $500 TO the
Red Cross chapter.