1788, by direction of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, Major Ellicott made a survey of the islands in the rivers Allegheny and Ohio, within the bounds of that state. In the following year, he moved with his family to Philadelphia, residing at 16 North Sixth Street, and also during the

artificial ice cubes! �You would have to be almost a centenarian to recall any rides on the horse cars along these streets and to the school at Millersville, but in our time the trolley came into and has gone out of existence. Can you hear the cabbies, endeavoring to boost their trade, calling out at the

Lancaster Girls team won the Pennsylvania Women's State Soft Ball Championship. Later in the year they gave a good account of themselves in the National Playoff at St. Petersburg, Florida. Aug. 17. It was reported that for the first three months of this year the birth rate of Lancaster County was 25.1 per

; as usual the Lancaster delegation had the largest num- ber present for a county historical s0ciety, 12. Dr. Landis Tanger, former president of Millersville State Teachers College, died, aged eighty-two years. �16, The Lancaster County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution met

Representative for nine Pennsylvania and Maryland counties. His two sons are Dr. Claude Alvin Villee, Jr., of the Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, and Donald Richard Villee of Los Angeles, California. Dr. Villee is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, class of 1937, and of the class of 1941

, carved by John Haley Bellamy of Kittery Point, Maine. This was placed on the warship in 1880 at the time a ram prow was added. This figurehead now dominates the exhibits of The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Courtesy, The Mariners' Museum From 1869 to 1875 the vessel served as flagship of the

Christian Huber, another resident of Lancaster County. The agreement reads : "Know All Men by these Presents that We John Cryder of Huntingdon County in the State of Pennsylvania and John Hernly of the County of Lancaster in the said State for a valuable Con sideration to us and each of us at or before the