The big event of September 1911 for the Lykens Valley Board of Trade and the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad, was the Labor Day picnic held at Hegins Grove, Hegins, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
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From the Harrisburg Patriot, 5 September 1911:
LYKENS VALLEY OUT FOR PICNIC
Hegins Grove Scene of Big Outpouring on Labor Day
RAILROAD PROGRESS
Special Dispatch to The Patriot
Hegins, 4 September [1911] – Hundreds of residents of this section attended the picnic held here today at Hegins Grove, under the auspices of the Lykens Valley Board of Trade. There was plenty of amusements during the day, with baseball and other outdoor games, and things were enlivened with several band concerts.
The excellent weather brought out a number of people from the western end of the valley. The monthly meeting of the board was held at 4 o’clock this afternoon, when the regular routine business was transacted.
Tonight a public meeting was held with addresses by Finley Acker, W. E. Harrington, officials of the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad; T. T. Phillipy, director of the demonstration farm, and a number of others. The speeches were interpreted with music and a literary program, arranged under the auspices of the Hegins Board of Trade, of which F. H. Miller was chairman of the special committee.
The people of the valley are now beginning to become interested in the construction of the railroad, which, it was said here today, will be ready by the latter part of next month between Gratz and Millersburg. Quite a number of additional men have been put to work during the past three weeks and the building of the road between those two points is being rushed to completion.
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