INJURED DURING MILLERSBURG FIRE During the efforts of the Millersburg Fire Company to extinguish the fire which destroyed the Halifax Chair Seat Factory, located at Millersburg last Thursday morning, one […]
MILLERSBURG CHAIR SEAT FACTORY DESTROYED BY FIRE YESTERDAY MORNING; WATER PRESSURE HAMPERED FIREMEN Fire of unknown origin Thursday morning about ten o’clock destroyed the Halifax Chair Seat Company Factory at […]
FIRE WIPES OUT FACTORY HERE TODAY MILLERSBURG, December 23 [1926] — The Halifax Chair Seat Company’s factory here was destroyed by fire this morning. The building was burned to the […]
FIRE SPRINKLER AVERTS BLAZE An automatic fire sprinkler which spread a curtain of water over the paint department of the Halifax Chair Seat Company at Millersburg, Saturday evening, speedily quenched […]
WICONISCO MOTORIST FOUND GUILTY BY JURY Lester Rowe, 21, of Wiconisco was on trial this week in the Dauphin County Court, charged with being the driver of an automobile which […]
The following news briefs were published in the “Gratz News” section of a local newspaper, for the week of 20 October 1927: The stork has been busy visiting with a […]
GRATZ SUES CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Some contention has arisen between the Gratz Fire Company, and the Borough Council against the Lincoln Construction Company, over certain obstructions caused by the improvements being […]
Robert Lehr “Gummy” Rothermel was born in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 10 July 1916, the son of Ira “Boucher” Rothermel (1890-1967) and Sarah E. “Sallie” [Lehr] Rothermel (1890-1976). On 10 […]