In 1913, the Gratz Piano Fund Association reported that it had raised a sufficient amount of money to purchase a piano for the Gratz High School, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
As reported in the Elizabethville Echo of 10 April 1913:
The Gratz Piano Fund Association, by its recent rendition of Ten Nights in a Bar Room, realized sufficient funds, which, with the fund previously in the hands of its treasurer, Darius J. Wiest, Esq., enabled Prof. Charles Boyer to purchase and install into the high school, a fine piano. The piano was purchased from our townsman, Mr. Charles Zerfing. It was placed into the school room on Thursday last and Prof. Boyer expects to have proper dedicatory services, at which a musical program together with an address by Prof. Smith, former principal, who originated and promoted the plan for the creation of the fund will be rendered. Indeed the efforts of the few who gave their time and talent to this worthy cause should be appreciated by all. Gratz High School is one of the few high schools of the “Upper End” that can boast of having its own piano.
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News clipping from Newspapers.com.
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