WICONISCO DYEING COMPANY – FRITZ DYEING COMPANY
One of the essential adjuncts to the industrial activity of Wiconisco and Lykens, in fact one that contributes materially to the superior products of the knitting mills from Shamokin and Pottsville, to Harrisburg, is the enterprise of the Wiconisco Dyeing Company, of which Fritz Schott is manager. The company was organized in in 1896 with L. K. Diefenderfer as president and Isaac Mossop, treasurer, and in 1897 Fritz Schott was taken into partnership and made manager of the business. The concern’s specialty is dyers of fast black and fancy colors, and the product of all the hosiery mills throughout the Lykens and Williams Valley’s undergoes the dyeing process at the works of the Wiconisco Dyeing Company. By a special process the company produces fast black and fancy colors that are never known to run or crock, a feature that is invaluable in hosiery and has made the goods dyed at Wiconisco in popular demand all over the United States.
Mr. Diefenderfer and Mr. Mossop are identified with other enterprises of which mention is made elsewhere, and Mr. Schott has become well known throughout the Valley as a result of the excellent state of efficiency the dye works has achieved under his able management. He is highly regarded in the community as one of the town’s leading and most progressive citizens.
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Article from a special Souvenir Edition of the Lykens Standard, March 13, 1908, via Newspapers.com.
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