Gratz News – August 12, 1943
The following news briefs were published in the “Gratz News” section of a local newspaper, 12 August 1943: Mrs. S. O. Smeltz and Miss Hannah Clarke visited relatives in Philadelphia […]
The Great Flood of 1972 – Home of Leo Koppenhaver, Lykens
A June 1927 photograph showing damage done to the home of Leo Koppenhaver, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, by the flood. Situations such as this posed problems for those given the […]
Lykens – Short Mountain Slope
An undated photo post card view of the Short Mountain Slope, Bear Gap, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The card was published by Frank Wynn
Junior Ku Klux Klan Inaugurated at Lykens with Cross Burning, 1924
In mid-October 1924, Lykens residents were alerted by three blasts of the colliery horn to the igniting of a cross on the culm banks north of the town. This, along […]
Ida [Zeigler] Price (1861-1932) – Former Lykens Teacher & Wife of State Mine Inspector
WIFE OF MINE INSPECTOR BURIES SATURDAY Mrs. Ida Price, wife of State Mine inspector, Charles J. Price, died at their home in Lykens last Wednesday following a paralytic stoke she […]
Report on the Ku Klux Klan Demonstration at Millersburg, 1927
Although no actual attendance count was given, a news report praised the Ku Klux Klan demonstration that was held in Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in late June 1927. The anti-immigrant […]
Samuel S. Fear (1887-1926) – Lykens Bank Cashier
LYKENS CASHIER DIED WAS EMPLOYEE FOR TWENTY-TWO YEARS Samuel S. Fear, 39 years of age, cashier of the Miners’ Deposit Bank at Lykens died at his home there on Friday […]
The Lykens Standard, 1970
A 1970 advertising photograph showing the office of The Standard, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Newspaper – Commercial Printing Lynn E. Hand Jr. – Jeff Heintzelman Eugene Hoffman – Elaine Antes […]