The cover of Gratz Memories, Volume 4, published by the Gratz Historical Society, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 1990.
Conributors:
Lena [Klinger] Kessler, Samuel Riegel, Guy C. Schieb, Ellen Shade, Clayton Umholtz, Helen [Bowers] Dietrich, Ruth Stutzman, Robert Ramsey, Steve Troutman, Marion [Romberger] Troutman, Helen [Brosius] Knohr, Louis Knohr, John Leitzel, Elwood R. Witmer, L. E. H., Irwin R. Klinger, Mamie [Haag] Almond, Daniel Louis Knohr, Elsie [Schminky] Portzline, Linda [Matter] Bush, Selin Klinger, Marie [Umholtz] Stine, Charles A. Schoffstall, Ray Geist, Arland Lebo, Bennie Schoffstall, Freda Koppenhaver, Allen Troutman, Guy Smeltz, Leah [Kessler] Hollenbach, Harry Smeltz, Hilda Daniels, “Tooter” Rothermel, Lena [Klinger] Kessler, Carrie [Miller] Matter, Raymond E. Kissinger, Margaret [Hoffman] Williard, Lottie [Hoffman] Kissinger.
The contents includes the following:
Introduction. Cover photo of miners: John Umholtz, Elias Shade, Harry Knohr, Harry Wise, and Daniel Wiest.
Table of Contents. The News 100 Years Ago.
Mining: Some History; A Look at Mining Close Up; Tunnel Completed; Steam Whistle for Colliery; Coal Mine Workers from Gratz; Short Mountain Mine Fire; Gasoline Engine Explodes; The Unfinished Tunnel; Walking the Trail to Work; Horrible Disaster; Working in the Coal Mines; Youthful Miner Killed; Killed a Mule by Dynamite; Coming Home from Work to Celebrate; A Walk from Lykens to Gratz; The Miners from Klingerstown and Erdman; The Troutmans and the Mines; Almost a Tragedy; Lost in the Mines; Bodies of Bootleg Mine Victims Recovered; My Mining Incident; Working in Tommy Hall’s Tunnel; The Loud Explosion; A Target Shot at Tommy Hall’s Tunnel; From Here and There – Related to Mining.
School Days: The New Rule is Not Applied; Going to School at Kessler’s; Going to School with My Sister.
In Good Old Gratz: Huckleberry Picking; The Friday Night Auction; A Slick Way to Get a Ticket; I Remember When; The Hullabeera Whistle; Playing a Trick on Gertie; Good Reason to Move; Hepler Brothers Home Made Jelly; The Brick Pavements; Our Wayward Frolic to the Mountain; Flying Our Kites; Ready for Spring Gardening; When I Lived in Gratz; Origin of Gratz Baseball Diamond; Gratz Community Center Opens; Jobs for the Youngsters in the 1920s; Educations for the Youngsters; An Honor to Help; The Years I lived in Gratz; When the Lights Went Out; A Car Comes to Gratz; Al Klinger Shoots a Buck; Working on the Farms in the 1940s; Pandemonium in Church; The Gratz “Spooners”; Had a Runaway Horse.
Gratz Fair: An Outing with My Grandparents; The Sulky Accident; School Day at Gratz Fair in 1936; Gratz Fair in 1900.
Life on the Farm: Too Many for Dinner; Going for Pow-Wow Help; Catching a Thief; Visiting the Relatives Near Gratz; Getting Ready for the Dance; Walking Home from Church; Doing Chores on the Farm; The Butchering Day.
In Our Leisure Time: A Narrow Escape; Frightened at the Picnic; Swimming Fun in the Forties.
The People We Never Forget: De Glae Lowise Remembered; The German Lady Next Door; Remembering Stephen Hoffman.
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