Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-01
PUPILS PRESENT
PLAY AT MT. WOLF
entertainment For Benefit of
Library Is Largely
Patronized
JAMES RODES A VISITOR
Local Hero Returns After
Much Fighting
Overseas
JAMES RODES A VISITOR

MT. "oif, Pa. Feb. 1.-'The TOM
Ihumb. Wedding" was presentoa -
,he knights of Golden Eagle hon
iast evening by the pupils Of tha
."o lower grade schools. for AZ
peneht of the library fund M
ter'ainment was largely patronizod
v "aii being we'll filed. The uttIa
,oiNs acquitted themselves in oxoo,
n' s'yle. There were unwora
20 children between tho aro.
anu ten years in the cast of.cbarao
'A delegation of citizens 90
'nchester borough on Tbursao
Is h' came here in a BODY to ottonS
the eVangelistic services ~
woii United Brethren Church
special and stirring sermon wos a.
itsered by the pastor.-James posa
-, mem per of the aviation ooru
W. Snlted States army, stationc5 % %
d,,tf, ton returned to his nost 60
,uuty, atter spending a ten daIS, So 81, Vi
Isl Is win his parents, Mr.. ana NJ,
I ao1p Rodes.-A. II. Hess. n v
VIZ Sse II. A. Greiman and Henr,,
hoon5 lneHpers of the local school
tsnd,s adso, Wednesday and Thursday At
meetju me annual county directors
Mr. neIu at York.-Mr. and
MIS-; MIS- George Kunkel, Mr.. and NJ.
Wilbur Gentzler, of York we.o WI rs .
cent guests entertained at tbe row
od mr. and Mrs. J. G. Kunkel W
SIyde Bare has been discbargod
from the National Army. and is ,ss,,, CU
at the home of his father Jaoob
bare;-Miss Helen Farcht. daughte,.
OIL Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Farcbt bos
lecoNereu from a three weeks iii
lless'-Mrs. William Shearer and
son, Earl, spent the week at BaIti-
ltole' I' Hislting the formers brother
2onn I'm, buoo:-Mr. and Mrs. John
tnports, the latter who was for
ieiy ,iiaiy MISS Blanche Shearer this
CeSn %e9n started housekeeping in the
SSouorus apartments, at York. whore
Mt. hlnports is employed.-JohnW w
SleeSer of Baltimore, spent severai
Iays inns week with his cousin. Mrs
BENJAMIN Duering.-A number of
members of the Mt. Wolf AuxiIiar,,
OF the American Red Cross met IN
.helf HEADQUARTERS on "Wednesday
10 complete the January allotment
OF sewing.-Hazel, the seven-vear-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
nam M bloss, Is recovering from an
attack of pneumonia.-The Misses
Josephlne and Margaret Eich. of
Ia ncastef, and Mr.. and Mrs. Edwa rd
Mohf, of Holland, were recent guests
entertained at the home of Post
master and Mrs. c. NJ. Hummer
Six candidates for membership have
been received by Mt. Wolf castle
NO. 1874, K. G. T.. These will he
initiated on next Monday evening
The choir of st. Johns Lutheran
Church, is planning an oyster sun
per TO be given in the near future
TOR the benefit of the chorus. A
committee composed of the Misses
Ethel Arnold, Laura Kunkel and
Mrs. John Kinports has been named
10 arrange for the affair and to set
a date.-Mr. and Mr.. Adam Brenner
returned from Martinsburg, w, Va.
where they attended the funeral of
the formers mother.-Mr. and Mrs.
Calvin Rodes and son, Ernest, were
recent guests of friends at Steeltwh
Miss Meta Arnold spent the past
week at Lancaster, where she visit
ed her brother-in-law and sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Lease.-MYs.
Charles Diehl, who has been ill the
past week or more, is slowly con-
Valescing.-Harry Bare has return
ed to Lock Haven, after spending a
vacation here with his father, S. X.
Bare.-A number of members of the
Luther league society of st. Johns
Lutheran congregation, went to
York, on Thursday night, to attend
a musicale given under the auspices
of the county Luther league society.
Company K, One Hundred and
Twelfth Infantry, Twenty eighth
Division, which participated in some
of the hardest fighting of the
Worlds greatest war, suffered many
casualties, and the division was re-
plenished with requirements on
three occasions, according to Pri-
vate Arthur Miller, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Miles Miller, who is home from
the battle arena, and who was
wounded in action. Company X
was made up almost entirely of
York county boys, many of them
being from the upper end of the
county. Private Miller arrived at
Newport News, Va, on~January 10,
from which place he was transfer
red to a base hospital at Camp
Meade, Md. He arrived at his home
here for a five days furlough on
Tuesday night. The local hero is
the first Mt. Wolf boy to arrive home
from overseas. He was retired from
front line duty on October z, when
he was wounded in the right foot
by a German machine gun bullet.
lie continues to suffer from the
wound and his foot is badly swollen.
He has had long experience at the
front, serving in the trenches from
July 4, when the great American
offensive was started, until October
z, when he was wounded at Verdun.
Ray Knighton, the Shove boys, Pri-
Yates Buckmeyer and Gordon, all
York county boys, were among those
Private Miller saw fall and make
the supreme sacrifice.