Brosius, Secretary. The object of the Needlework Guild of America is to collect and distribute new, plain and suitable garments, to meet the great need of hospitals, homes and other charities, and to ex- tend its usefulness by the organiza- tion of branches. The annual contri- bution of two or more

, but that is something not perti- nent to the matter of this short paper. Some of these—those who could afford it and some who could not—be- took themselves to the springs and the mountains when midsummer came along, and forgot at Saratoga and else- where the little worries that may have disturbed

of their origin, which was either in the thirteenth or fourteenth century, States and corporations, and even individuals, have in times of need resorted to this ready means of raising money. Flor- ence established a lottery in 1530 for the benefit of the State, during a great scarcity of money. They

which extended to only two numbers. Then came Christopher Sauer's paper, in 1739, published only once a month, and then there was no other paper published in the State, in the German tongue,until the bi-lingual sheet of Miller & Holland, in 1752. This city was, therefore, third in the field in the

of the borough is apparent, and the legend that accompanies it so states. Most probably it was from the most elevated part of what has long been known as "Dinah's Hill," so named after an ancient lady of color, who made the locality historical through a residence there during the early part of the

,' `High Plain,' 'Gib- son's Pasture,' "Sanderson's Pas- ture;' the other, 'Waving em- bosomed in wood, bounded by 'Roar- ing Brook,' on the west. Gibson re- sided near a fine spring with a large hickory tree before his door. This was the favorite tree of the lndian tribe who lived in the vicinity, and

-known road in our county and State at that period,* because it introduces a number other well-known historical charac- ters; because, if we accept its state- ments, it shows that the good men and true of that early day were sometimes capable of a little sharp practice when the occasion offered; because

says: "Their training in Ireland had kept the spirit of liberty alive." The same writer is authority for the statement that "the first public voice in America for dissolving all connection with Great Britain came not from the Puritans of New England, nor the Dutch of New York, nor the planters of