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 a parade of floats and mummers, an ox roast, and public speaking.
Bands from Millersburg, Elizabethfille, Valley View, Greenbriar Grange, Berrysburg and Pillow were in the line of march and played in the afternoon for the speaking and general meerry-making.
The highway is 2.8 miles long. It connects Pillow with the outside world. At least that’s the way its citizens feel about it. They can drive anywhere now by the way of Millersburg or Elizabethville paved highways, and it’s no wonder they felt like celebrating.
Pillow is a little village of perhaps three or four hundred, but the celecration staged Saturday afternoon was worthy of a fair-sized city, say those who were there to see. Fully 3000 attended.
Prizes were awarded for the heat floats, the best decorated automobiles, the best groups, and the most comically costumed persons in the street parade. The first prize of $10 for the best float was awarded to the Berrysburg Vocational School; second prize, $5, to Miss Harris’ School of Dalmatia; first prize $10 for besst decorated automobile, Alvin Romberger, Berrysburg; second prize, $5, John Schreffler, Elizabethville; first prize, $10, best group, Darktown Band of Lykens; second prize, $5, a number of men dressed as Colonials; third prize, $2.50, Pillow Manufacturing Company.
The judges were: W. U. Jury, Shamokin; J. Clyde Myton, Harrisburg; and W. B. Boyer of Sunbury.
Among the speakers art the ox-roast were: Former Lieutenant Governor E. E. Beidleman; C. C. Cumbler, Dauphin County Commissioner, Highspire; Clyde Myton, Harrisburg; James E. Lentz, Elizabethville; and M. Eichelberger, of the State Highway Department.
Frank W. Boyer of Pillow was chairman of the committee on arrangements.
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News article from Lykens Standard, November 20, 1925, via Newspapers.com.
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