Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-02
Halifax Filled With
Guests for Celebration


Halifax, Pa, Aug. 2.-william
Etzweiler and wife, of Penbrook,
spent Sunday at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. e. M. Etzweiler.-Mrs. Jacob
Aldinger and children, of West
Shore, are visiting at the home of
the Rev. E. F. Sipe.-A. S. Lyter at
tended the funeral of his cousin,
Thomas Lyter, at Harrisburg. on
Friday.-Mrs. Robert Whitaker visit
ed her father, the Rev. George
Whitaker, at Linglestown. on Sum-
day with friends at Millersburg.-
Ruth Lupold, of Selinsgrove, is visit
ing her brother, j. d. Lupold.-M.
o. Fisher and wife, of Philadelphia;
Mrs. Amos Mumma, of Harrisburg,
and Mrs. Mary Klinger, of Tower
City, are spending a few days at the
home of Mrs. Lydia Bowman
Pierce s. Holtzman is visiting friends
at Lykens.-The United Brethren
picnic of Fisherville, will be held
August 9 in Warfers Grove, near
| Endus.-Mrs. G. w. D. Endus, of
Lykens, was the guest of Mrs. Isaac
eighty-three years of age she is en-
joying good health.-Thomas j.
Hoffman was home from Lancas-
ter over Sunday.-Charles w. Rom
berger and wife and Miss Carrie
Romberger, of Harrisburg, spent
Sunday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Uriah Observation-Disclosures Lebo and
family spent Sunday with friends
at Lancaster.-C. c. Baker spent
several days camping with other
Shriners on the Isle of Que, near
Selinsgrove. - Joseph Chubb, of
Waynesville, spent Tuesday with
friends in town.-District President
H. S. Potter installed the officers of
the p. o. S. of A. at Berrysburg.-
Joseph d. Sponsler, of Waynesville,
spent Monday in town.-The festival
to have been held Saturday evening
in the Athletic Park by the Halifax
Boy Scouts had to be called off on
account of the inclement weather.
j. Irwin Hoffman has returned to
Washington, d. c., after two weeks
vacation spent with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Peter Hoffman.-Mrs.
Joseph NJ. Smith has returned from
New York city and will again take
up her residence in the c. E. Caslow
property on South Front street, this
place.-Oliver Hawk. of Millersburg,
visited Sunday at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. James F. Schwoyer.
A party of Millersburg young peo-
pie spent a few days camping at the
Harry Fairchilds bungalow, The
Sunny Side Camp.-L. w. Ryan, of
Harrisburg, spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Isaac Gilbert.-Mr. and
Mrs. Charles H. Hoffman, of Wash
ington, d. c., spent a few day visit
t,nap nf . 1,4 Nf l. &C.
and Mrs. Calvin o. Scholl, near
town.-Mrs. Emma Noblet is having
a cement pavement laid in front of
her property on South Second street.
Mrs. d. A. Shultz and children, of
Harrisburg, spent Sunday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Howard
Chubb.-Mrs. William Millard and
two sons, Abner and Daniel Millard,
of Plymouth, are spending the sum-
mer at the home of Miss Ellen Pike,
on North Second street.-Miss Sarah
Rutter, of Reading, is paying a visit
to her sister, Mrs. Albert Utz-
Mrs. Howard Miller and children, of
Williamstown, spent Sunday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Lid
dick and family-William Kennedy,
of Palmyra, visited friends in town
over Sunday and Monday.-Miss
Elizabeth Bethyman, of Atlantic
City, n. j., is the guest of Miss Esther
Brubaker for several days.-Miss
Anna Richter is home from Wash
ington, d. c., and is spending a
vacation with her mother, Mrs
Anna Richter.-Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Poffenberger and children, Daniel
and Lois Poffenberger, spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Luther
Poffenberger at Sunbury. - Mrs
a In IIof mil 80, Nf W
the guest of Misses Jane and Belle
Hamilton few days this week.
Mrs. William Kleopfer and Mrs.
Louisa Kline, of Harrisburg, are
guests of the formers daughter, Mrs
Mary Bierie. Mrs. Kloepfier is past
ninety years of age.-W. B. GRAY re-
mains seriously i'll of cancer at his
home on North Market street.-M.
w. Etter went to Philadelphia Sat-
urday to see his wife, who last week
underwent an operation.-A. w.
Leo spent Wednesday with friends at
Steelton.-Mable Enders is on a
visit to friends at Harrisburg and
Progress.-Luther c. Lehr has re-
turned to his home in town from the
Harrisburg Hospital on Monday eve
ming, where he underwent an opera
ton for the removal of a small bone
in his left arm.-Mrs. N. A. Steffer
has returned home on Wednesday
from a weeks sojourn at Atlantic
and Cape May.-Professor ]. Wesley
Potter, head of the academic de-
partment of the United States Cen
eral Hospital No. 3, at Railway. n.
j., and brother of H. S. Potter, of
town, has been elected principal of
the Carlisle schools.-Charity Lodge,
No. 81, l. o. o. F., went to New
Bufalo' Perry county on Satur-
day to confer the initiatory degree
on a class of candidates.-Miss
Elizabeth Lytre, of Dauphin, was a
guest at the home of Mrs. Emma
Dunkel.-A meeting of the Otter
bein Guild of the Halifax United
Brethren Church was held Tuesday
evening at the home of Miss Caro-
line Richter. An interesting fea-
ture was an address by Mrs. George
M. Richter, of Schuylkill Haven. a
returned missionary from Africa.