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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The dedication of an Elizabethville flag pole by the American Legion in 1926, was shortened because the members had to conduct rites for a Civil War veteran, Henry Rissinger (1845-1926), […]