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THOUGHTS ON THE TROLLEY FROM LEBANON TO HERSHEY

IN 1935

 “A sunshiny day … conductor collect ten cents … boy thumbs ride … motorman grins … homes with gardens and limestone fences … Lebanon County fairgrounds … picket fence showing signs of wear and tear…stable in a state of decay … black-eyed Susan’s

… farms with street car at door … school house at crossroads … hills enclosed valley on both sides.

Lebanon Country Club … lovely limestone fence … tennis courts … club house looks inviting …course flat … nature of country … trolley leaves road and cuts through farms … stopping place at crossroad … power plant of Hershey Transit Company surrounded by gardens … bird … dog house … golden rye … growing wheat … alfalfa high enough to cut … suntanned boy in blue overalls farming … clover – nice odor.

Cans of milk awaiting freight car of the Hershey Chocolate Company … settlement with

Church near highway .. trolley close to forest of foothills … trolley meets highway … gasoline station … home … peonies and iris predominately gardens … railroad crossing … stop, look, listen … rail fences … grape arbor … .. red barn… cattle grazing … limestone church … horse shed … parsonage … cutting field of hay by machinery … cattle resting under trees … new-mown hay.. more golden rye.

Campbelltown … houses plumb with main street … trolley passes going to Lebanon … conductor collect a nickel … poster reads new Hotel Hershey … “Delightful Living.” … Campbelltown fire department …hotel … bank… post office … painted fences… brown

hay … Lebanon County-Dauphin County Line post … smoke stands of Hershey Chocolate Company plant in distance.

Hershey Industrial School home “Meno” … painted bulletin of new Hotel Hershey … four golf course … 54 holes … all sports … “Delightful Living” … big wood lot … Hotel Hershey on hi8ll top a distance … Hershey Industrial School … Kinderhaus … chicken farm … Hershey Industrial School home “ Green Acres” … bird house… Hershey Industrial School Hospital .

Hershey Industrial School headquarters … birthplace of Milton S. Hershey … row of widely separated Hershey Industrial School homes facing wide green lawns … on left Derry Township Schools … on right Hershey Chocolate Corporation … homes … garages in rear … Java Avenue … a street of fine homes …smell of chocolate … rather pleasant … tinge of hunger … Chocolate Avenue … ivy clad chocolate factory … new windowless office building of Hershey Chocolate Corporation in course of construction … limestone building … beautiful Community Building on left … fifteen mile ride … fifteen cents … Hershey Square.

The above article appeared in the June 29, 1935 issue of the Hotel Hershey High-Lights.

It was entitled  “ A columnists’ impression on the trolley between Lebanon and Hershey.”    Author unknown