25 Years AgoFeb. 28, 1990 >> Aaron Williamson ended his career at Hamburg High with a total of 2,012 points, third best in the history of Berks County.
At last week’s meeting of the Hamburg Rotary Club, Harold Yoder, Jr., executive director of the Berks Historical Society, gave an audio-visual presentation to the club members on the Pennsylvania Indians.
Spec. Jody Heckman, graduate of Hamburg High School Class of 1988, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Heckman, Bernville, recently graduated first of 85, with highest honors from the Army’s Air Assault Training School. Heckman recently returned to the states from a six month tour of Panama and is currently stationed in Fort Ord California as a combat Medic.
50 Years AgoFeb. 25, 1965 >> The Kaercher Creek watershed area has been given the nod for a county park in the Hamburg area according to the report of the Park Board of Berks County. The proposal would create a 22-acre county park in Windsor Twp., around the area to be acquired by the State Fish Commission, for development of the third dam in the Kaercher Creek Watershed project; this is to be an all-purpose structure, for flood control and fishing and recreation purposes.
Twenty Hamburg Fire Company volunteers extinguished a field fire in Lenhartsville last Friday afternoon. The blaze was located behind the Peter’s residences at the east end of town.
The guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the Woman’s Club of Hamburg will be Miss Carol Ann Oberholtzer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Oberholtzer, who now resides in Wyomissing. Carol Ann is a graduate of Hamburg High School and of the Latin American Institute in New York City; she was at first employed as secretary in the president’s office of the Free Europe Committee, which is the parent organization of Radio Free Europe. When Carol heard there was to be an opening in Munich, she applied and was appointed. She had a two-year tour of duty in the Munich office.
75 Years AgoFeb. 22, 1940 >> David C. Oberholtzer piloted the Hamburg High Hawks to their first Northern Division Crown this season.
Following the success of a benefit dance in the former Moose auditorium last Friday evening, Mrs. Martha Brobst, North Hamburg, has filed an application with The Seeing Eye, Inc., of Morristown, New Jersey, to secure a “seeing eye” dog for her 19-year old blind son, Paul Brobst.
Robert Beckley, ministerial student at Dickinson College, Carlisle, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Beckley. He will preach in the Methodist Church at Hummelstown this Sunday.
“Judge Hardy & Son” with Mickey Rooney and Lewis Stone will be featured at the Hamburg Strand on February 24.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Hossler, a son at the Reading Hospital, last Thursday, Mrs. Hossler was formerly Miss Mildred Heim.
100 Years AgoFeb. 25, 1915 >> Hamburg’s prince of merchants, Mr. Nathan A. Confer, Sr., proprietor of the well-known Confer’s Varieties since its erection in 1885, thirty years ago, when the Pennsylvania Railroad was built through Hamburg, celebrated his 70th birthday last Friday evening with a family reunion and dinner at the Blue Mountain Club house for 27 children and their families and relatives.
John A. Balthaser, plumber, has just completed the installation of a complete new toilet outfit on the first floor of the Washington House. I.S. Schlenker, proprietor. It is of the latest pattern, and highly appreciated by the house’s many patrons.
Fred D. Shollenberger, of the Kandy Kitchen and postcard store, has issued an interesting set of post card views of the sanatorium that will undoubtedly become popular.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry P. Shomo, of Harrisburg, spent several days at their home on North Fourth Street, Hamburg. Their two new houses on Franklin Street, adjoining Salem United Evangelical Church, are very nearly ready for occupation.
The Early Files are compiled every week by Peggy Sterner for The Hamburg Area Item.