William Woodrow “Bill” Hart was a major league baseball player and a minor league player and manager from 1935 to 1952. He was born in Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on […]
Rev. John C. Brumach was ordained on June 6, 1926, and began his ministry at the Christ Reformed Church, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the same day. An article from the […]
An undated photograph of a football team taken at Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, some time in the early 1900s. The photo was published on the front page of the Lykens […]
A column entitled “Quarter Century Back,” as published in the Elizabethville Echo, June19, 1903, refers to the predecessor of the Echo, published in 1878 at Washington Square by J. A. Ettinger, and known at the […]
And the Rains Came! WORST NATURAL DISASTER IN A LIFETIME Although Tower City and Porter Township, except for Sheridan, suffered less damage from water than many of the other surrounding […]
Some news briefs from 1903 tell the story of a father who went west to seek his fortune, made it well, and then died. In settling the estate, the attorney […]
BAGGAGEMASTER ARRESTED Charles Botteiger, baggage master on Day’s train on the Summit Branch road was arrested upon the arrival of the train at Lykens at 12:10 noon Thursday of last […]
GRATZ HAS BIG FIRE EARLY TUESDAY MORNING NO FIRE FIGHTING APPARATUS, FIVE TOWNS SENT HELP The whole town of Gratz, six hundred population was threatened by a fire on Tuesday […]