candidates of the Constitutional Union party— John Bell, once United States Senator from Tennessee and Secretary of War and his running mate Edward Everett, the peerless orator and edu- cator. This gathering too was held in front of the court house with Henry E. Slaymaker, Lancaster businesss man, in the

. These two men, although never actually elected to the office of bishop, carried the title through the rest of their lives and are so called in Methodist history. Therefore on Asbury's second visit to Lancaster County he was factually a bishop of the church. On this visit he made some calls on ministers

the church is of utmost importance for if Mr. and Mrs. Stiegel had not deeded to this congregation a lot of ground on which to build a church, the Festival of the Red Rose would never have been instituted. �When the earliest history of Lancaster County was published by Daniel Rupp in 1844, a few short

Eichholtz, Lancaster's most famous artist of all time. Recently I visited the National Gallery and saw these three Eichholtz portraits: "James F. Smith," Mellon Collection; "The Ragan Sisters," presented by Mrs. Cooper Drewry; "William Clark Frazer," Mellon Col- lection. After I returned home, I wrote to

of absence several weeks. I visited the Philadelphia Navy Yard — saw the largest vessel of war owned by the United States, on the stocks. Lieutenant Heintzelman's tour of duty took him first to Bellefontaine in Missouri and then to the army posts of Fort Machinac and Fort Gra- tiot, both in Michigan