Photographing on the Wane — Or Maybe Not

1910

Photographing on the Wane

It Is Reported That Amateurs Are Showing Decreased Interest in Societies and at Exhibitions

Complaints are rife of decreased interest in photographic societies and in photographic exhibitions. There are certainly fewer of the latter than there were six or eight years ago, and societies, if not actually less numerous, are on the whole weaker both in numbers and in enthusiasm.

In the United States their numbers have decreased 50 or 60 per cent, at least. It is easy to deduce from this a decay of interest in photography and a lessening of the number of amateur photographers, and, indeed, this easy operation has been performed.

Simple deductions on complex questions should always be regarded with suspicion, and in this case suspicion develops into incredulity when it is found that side by side with the degeneration of the photographic society an increased and ever-increasing business is being done in plates, films and papers.

Child Lost When Father Runs Errand

Pennsylvania, 1915

FORGOT HIS CHARGE

Child Lost when Father Goes on an Errand.

Ellis Hardman, 5 year old son of Charles Hardman, Liberty township, was lost for a time in Waynesboro on Saturday. His father took him along to that town and put him in the care of another man while he went on an errand. The other man forgot the child and walked away.

The little fellow wandered around in search of his father and when he could not find him he began to cry. Patrolman Rentzel found him near the public square, and after a hunt discovered his father.


UNIQUE SOCIETY

Meets Once a Year to Watch the Old Year Out.

Among the places at which "watch night" services will be held in this county is Arendtsville, where the exercises will be in charge of an organization formed in 1876 for this special purpose and meeting once every year thereafter. Since its organization 1168 persons have enrolled as members. It is known as the "Arendtsville Time Society". Its motto is "Watch and Pray".

—Adams County News, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, January 2, 1915, page 6.