Strict Vaccination Rules for 1925-1926 School Year
The campaign to eradicate smallpox continued in 1925 with strict vaccination rules issued to schools in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Heading up the County Board of Health was Dr. D. E. […]
Lykens – State Trooper Hit By Ice Cream Truck, 1925
STATE TROOPER HURT Tuesday evening, as State Trooper Verbecken was returning to Lykens from Elizabethville, he was struck by a Burdan ice cream truck and received minor injuries. Verbecken sounded […]
Lykens Township – Reigle Barn Fire, 1925
A fire of unknown origin broke out in a barn in rural Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The lack of a phone to call in the alarm significanly delayed a […]
Harrisburg Gang Confesses to Lykens Valley Robberies, 1925
A tale of how a gang of thieves was caught and were held responsible for four robberies in the Lykens Valley area in 1925. The robberies occurred at the following […]
Concrete Highway Puts Pillow “On the Map”, 1925
PILLOW HOLDS PARADE ON NEW ROAD OPENING Pillow wrote itself in large letters on the map Saturday afternoon. The new concrete highway between Pillow and Berrysburg was formally dedicated with […]
Lykens – Toddler Inhales Peanut & Dies, 1925
The danger of allowing a small child to play while eating peanuts was brought home to the Samuel Pell family of Lykens in early May 1925, when young Carl Pell […]
Millersburg Lineman Electrocuted Near Herndon, 1925
LIVE WIRE KILLS MAN AT HERNDON Herndon, May 4 [1925] — Ernest Harner, residing in South Race Street, Millersburg, an employee of the Juniata Public Service Company, was killed instantly […]
Lykens Valley Hit Hard By Central Pennsylvania Storms, 1926
This November 1926 storm that hit Central Pennsylvania caused flood and wind damage in the Lykens Valley. The locations and quick response to restore transportation, electricity and telephone service, were […]