A newspaper story on the June 1925 Ku Klux Klan demonstration at Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, from the Pine Grove Press Herald, June 19, 1925:
Klan Demontration
The K. K. K. demonstration held here last Saturday evening was a fine affair and generally pronounced a grand success. Autos with klansmen and their wives and friends came pouring into town from all directions from early afternoon on until late in the evening, or until the park and every avenue and street seemed to be filled with cars from all parts of Schuylkill, Upper Dauphin, Lebanon and Berks Counties being represented.
The weather was ideal and into a more propitious evening could be selected for a parade and demonstration than last Saturday evening. Due to the large crowd attending who wished to parade, the parade did not get underway until a little after the hour selected, but once it got under way it swung along in lively fashion, in twos and fours. A rough estimate places the number of hooded men and women in line at from 1,300 to 1,500.
The pavement and those in the park numbered at least 7,500.
The Orwin band and the local band provided music which was entirely inadequate for so long a column. They did the best they could, the local band looking fine in their new uniforms recently procured. The men and women hooded looked weird in their outfits, and at the same time it was a novelty and the largest of its kind ever held in the county.
The lecture and ceremonies took place in the park and were interesting.
There was a big display of fireworks which were greatly admired.
Everything was quiet and orderly, and the well behaved members made an impression.
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