The cover of Gratz Memories, Volume 2, published by the Gratz Historical Society, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 1987.
Contributors:
Margaret Dowling, Leah Hollenbach, Lena Kessler, Luma Rothermel, Guy Schieb, Lois Schoffstall, Carolyn Schwalm, Marie Stine, Hannah [Clark] Seeger, Myrtle Koppenhaver, Hal Hepler, Harry Shiro Sr., Laura [Troutman] Reed, Frieda [Willier[ Koppenhaver, Emma [Willier] Wolfe, Ida [Koppenhaver] Wentzler, Richard Matter, Mary [Matter[ Bateman, Guy L. Kratzer, Charles A. Schoffstall, Hilda Rothermel , Robert Rothermel, Elaine [Schminky[ Portzline, Carrie Shiro, Warren Hassinger, Anna [Willier[ Schadle, Laura [Troutman] Reed, Hannah [Clark] Seeger, Forrest Hess, Allen Troutman, Marlin R. Deitrich.
The contents includes the following:
Memories of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Table of Contents: Introduction. Poem. The News (A Hundred Years Ago). Before Our Time (The Odd Fellows Hall at Gratz; The Past and Present; Land for Sale; An Interesting Obituary; Merchants in Gratz & Lykens Township in 1889; Evangelical Church Remodeled; A Destructive Storm; Harvest Home Celebration; A Buggy Accident; Almost Lykens County; Unwanted Cattle). Fire (Fire of 1924; Fire of May 1886). The Miller Store (Gratz Historical Society Building). In and Around Gratz (When I was a Kid; My Early Years in Gratz; The Covered Bridge on the Back Road; The Man with the Spirits; Putting Biology Into Practice; Gratz in the Forties; Lightning Strikes; Rumping in the Hay; Childhood Recollections of Soldiers and Things; Rothermel’s General Store; Eating Lozenges in Church; Sick Over Easter; Singing in School). Smiths’ Hall (Good Old days at Smiths; A Visit to Smitty’s Hall & Restaurant). The Tragic Side (Sick with Typhoid fever; The Troutman Murder; The Team Runs Away; Buried in His Wedding Suit). Down on the Farm (The Straying Feathered Friends; I Remember it Well; The Wandering Pigs; Playing House in the Apple Orchard; A Day With the Babysitter; Corn Husking). The Old Home Remedies (These Will Kill or Cure). The Military (The Gratz Family in the Revolutionary War; Adam Weise in the Revolutionary Army; Military Encampments in Gratz; Advertisement – Military Encampment; Encampment at Gratztown; After the Civil War; The Reunions; Oldest Living Dauphin County Veteran; Gratz in 1918).
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