This is Part 3 of a multi-part series on a Country Auction that took place in Specktown, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 18 June 1977. The auction was for the purpose of disposing the personal and real property of William “Bill” Dietrich and Helen [Hoffman] Dietrich, who had owned the real property since 1920 when they purchased it from the estate of Helen’s grandmother, Hannah [Rickert] Riegle who died on 11 July 1919. Hannah had purchased the 6 acres and improvements early in the 20th century so at the time of the sale, it had been in the family for more than 70 years. It was also the home where Helen grew up and was her home prior to her marriage to Bill.
Today’s post features the complete list of all those who registered as bidders along with their post office addresses. Future posts will feature more than 40 photographs of the auction itself, and a listing of prices realized. For all published posts to date, click on A Country Auction in Specktown, 1977.
John R. Fetterhoff, Lykens; James L. Warfel, Lykens; Fayne L. Sallader, Valley View; Roy A. Wiest, Elizabethville; Elmer Shomper, Harrisburg; Carrie Snody, Lykens; Josephine Gonder, Lykens; Gerald Lenker, Pillow; Norman E. Sauridge, Hegins; George S. Hewes, Audubon, New Jersey; Sherry A. Rotharmel, Berrysburg; Tony Capolupo, Millersburg; Miles Barr, Spring Glen; Robert E. Wolfe, Halifax; John H. Fetterhoff, Harrisonville; Irvin Sheib, Berrysburg; John C. Novinger, Lykens.
Oliver Wolfgang, Lykens; Lloyd Nestler, Hummelstown; Guy Snyder, Gratz; Mark Kocher, Millersburg; Paul Dockey, Elizabethville; Scott Seltzer, Millersburg; Glenn Hepler, Gratz; Lee Reed, Gratz; Max Schlegel, Valley View; Harry Schreffler, Spring Glen; Earl R. Jury, Lykens; Darrell Howard, Harrisburg; John Tschopp, Lykens; Stella Herb, Hegins; Forrest Snyder, Dornsife; Alfred Sauridge, S. Temple; —- Noblix, Halifax; John Lucas, Lykens.
Mary Ender, Halifax; Earl Keifer, Lykens; Ron Savidge, Mechanicsburg; Roy Stupp, Richland; Rick Hawkins, Duncannon; Homer Daniel, Lykens; Shirley Roadcap, Millersburg; Norman Gasbarro Jr., Ventnor, New Jersey; Raymond W. Lahror, Lykens; Troy R. Deitrich, Halifax; Sue Lin Hoy, Millersburg; Ray E. Ferster, Lykens; Isaac Howard, Elizabethville; Gay Bixler, Valley View; Earl E. Engle, Elizabethville; Junior Enderman, Lykens.
Frank Meschlayn, Wiconisco; Dawn Carl, Tower City; Jim Peifer, Lykens; John Lettich; Marzette Hoffman, Gratz; Mary Straub, Klingerstown; Dallas Williams & Suzann Williams, Halifax; Wilbur R. Tiley, Ashland; Paul Buriak, Paxinos; Ethel M. Shomper, Lykens; W. E. Beck, Lykens; James T. Gasbarro, Atlantic City, New Jersey; Charles C. Weinrich, Harrisburg; Lauren R. Dietrich, Baltimore, Maryland; George Berger, Nomisville.
Austin Klinger, Hegins; Charles Brown Jr., Dalmatia; Leona Miller, Valley View; Melva Sitlinger, Lykens; Richard D. Hoffman, Halifax; Dorothy V. Hoffman; Halifax; Laura K. Sitlinger, Lykens; Martha Morgan, Lykens; Ed Davey & Ly Davey, Earlville, New York; Dale Hoffman, Gratz; Guy Leitzel, Hagerstown, Maryland; Raymond D. Miller, Lykens; Miles L. Wolf, Halifax; Elizabethville; Vicky Schaffner, Gratz.
Peter Olairt, Girardville; Susan Schoffstall, Gratz; Harvey Green, Ashland; Eugene Starr, Gratz; Paul John, Loyalton; J. Keister, Halifax; Millicent Laudenslager, Halifax; Stanley Engle, Lykens; Robert Jury, Millersburg; William Allman Jr., Millersburg; Robert Middaugh, Millersburg; Adam Smeltz, Fleetwood; Palmer Smeltz, Fleetwood; Susan Uhler, Williamstown; Marlin R. Dietrich, Millersburg; Judy Sitlinger, Lykens.
Paul Schade, Spring Glen; Tom Umholtz, Valley View; Arthur R. Miller, Lykens; Stephen Mehalko, Williamstown; Rudolph Bressler, Loyalton; Mac E. Barrick, Carlisle; Avery Broceios, Dornsife; Eleanore Hoffman, Williamstown; Albert Ebert, Gratz; Webster Ebert, Hegins; C. E. Bonawitz Jr., Halifax; —–?—–, Valley View; Ed Anderson, Lykens; Isaac Gonder, Williamstown; Thomas W. Pofe, Elizabethville; Claire H. Bush, Lykens.
Ralph Schwalm, Valley View; Tillie Schwalm, Klingerstown; Marlin F. Watmer, Lykens; Richard Jones, Williamstown; W. Kloch, Dornsife; Harry J. Conrad, Tower City; G. T. Steit, Lykens; Chris Bordner, Dornsife; John Paige, Steelton; Edward L. Novinger, Millersburg; Deborah Kappenheiffer, Dalmatia; Joyce Cooper, Lykens; Linda Bush, Lykens; Jim Lesher, Lykens; Betty Schreiffler, Elizabethville; Florence E. Bush, Lykens.
Darwin Daniels, Gratz; Raymond Shaffer, Dalmatia; George Baumont, Dalmatia; Hannah Williard, Gratz; Don Clouser, Lemoyne; Ivan Bingaman, Spring Glen; Frank Filasen, Sacramento; Lila Heim, Klingerstown; Irene Wiest, Klingerstown; Lyle C. Miller, Valley View; John Harner, Sacramento; Sandra Segebart, Millersburg; Robert L. Savidge, Millersburg; Sandra I. Stahler, Spring Glen; Haven M. Schoffner, Gratz; Duane Snell, Pillow.
George Luther, Lykens; Lawrence Maurer, Klingerstown & Venice, Florida; George E. Luther Jr., Silver Springs, Maryland; Donna Snyder, Lykens; Harold Dietrich, Daytona Beach, Florida; Marlin Schreffler, Dalmatia; Sara Bressler, Hegins; Dorothy Koppenhaver, Millersburg; Albert Evitts & Sara Evitts, Clifton Heights; Eugene Matter, Lykens; William Meckler, Millersburg; Jay L. Sponser, Halifax; Ray A. Klenger, Elizabethville; G. Jorpe Beckor, Lance; Helen Scheib, Gratz; Mito Sheck, Spring Glen.
Carl O. Labe, Robesonia; Arland Scheib, Lykens; Albert Hoke, Millersburg; Charles Kauffman, Hegins; Joyce Harner, Camp Hill; Walter Cook, Sacramento; Clayton Frey Jr., Duncannon; Esther Strohecker, Lykens; Barbara Long, Lykens; Miles Kahlu, Lykens; James Koons, Hegins; Rev. James H. Knorr, Williamstown; Dorothy Shaffer, Wyoming, New York; Raymond E. Witmer, Halifax; Gloria J. Rode, Halifax.
Daniel Lebo, Wiconisco; Thomas Shade, Lykens; Charles Kissinger, Klingerstown; Larry Dellinski, Shamokin; Mark J. Doncheski, Shamokin; Harry T. Deitrich, Valley View; Dennis Sitlinger, Lykens; Lynn A. Otto, Hegins; Florence Savidge, Spring Glen; Marie Mortenses, Lykens; Warren Silade, Harrisburg; Daniel H. Riegle, Palmyra; Eva Koppenhaver, Valley View; Annie Miller, Valley View; Thomas A. Scheib, Millersburg.
K. W. Wheaton, Lakecalis; Blair Keefer, Leola; — L. Gunderman, Elizabethville; Douglas Klock, Herndon; Ronald E. Enders, Halifax; Raymond Krouch, Mechanicsburg; Jim Klinger, Hegins; Beatrice Bonawitz, Lykens; Fred Markel, Lykens; William C. Grosser, Lykens; Keith L. Francis, Dillsburg; Craig Wyant, Charleston, South Carolina; Dwight Meredith, Herper, Kansas; Mary Weaver, Williamstown; John Deffler Jr., Millersburg.
Candi Lesher, Lykens; Helen Koppenhaver, Lykens; Connie Joplin, Spring Glen; Robert Lehr, Hernon; Alvin Williard, Gratz; John Leitzel ,Gratz; Stan Knight, Harrisburg; Robert Butler, Williamstown; Victor Clark, Millersburg; Stanley Sauvlker, Kulpmart; Richard Moyer, Enola; Carolyn Sims, Lykens; Leon Leitzel, Klingerstown; Jim Bush, Tremont; Mark Heckon, Berrysburg.
Clare B. Karchuer, Selinsgrove; Shirley Kuster, Selinsgrove; Helen Laudenslager, Lykens; Dali Hassinger, Elizabethville; Ralph Sheesly, Halifax; Miriam Snyder, Elizabethville; Betty Jury, Halifax; Marlin A. Troutman, Lykens; Roy Peifer, Dalmatia; Cyune Baker, Millersburg; George P. Hirtili, Steelton; Ray S. Boby, Millersburg; H. William Koch, Milton; Susan Wesley, Lewisberry; Mary C. Hobbs, Steelton; Mary Gartwich, Oberlin.
Russell Lebo, Eirele; Leon Sandge, Millersburg; John Maurer, Gratz; Jay Lakeski, Halifax; Josephine Drumm, Muir; Glenda Miller, Hegins; Lester Wilker, Lykens; Paul Byle, Gratz; Julie Keim, Dornsife; Kay E. Rei, Lykens; Herman D. Beers, Millersburg; Ken Deibler, Elizabethville; Erma Kerstetter, Harrisburg; Gene Headdings, Gratz; Sandra Adams, Williamstown.
Rosalie Strat, Millersburg; William D. Brown, Harrisburg; Ray Dietrich, Sacramento; Ruth Sitlinger, Gratz; Lillian Sitlinger, Lykens; Herbert R. Hoffman, Williamstown; Clair A. —?–, Tower City; Zella Leese, Tower City.
The above names were transcribed from handwritten registration sheets provided by the auctioneer. In some cases, the names were difficult to read and were transcribed as close as possible to what appears to be the name in the record. Note also that many of the post office addresses are for “R. D.”, or rural delivery, Examples of this are Lykens, which included Loyalton and parts of Lykens Township; Millersburg, which includes parts of Upper Paxton Township; etc.
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