taking her by the hand, led her to the place where his sons Ebenezer and Robert had been for some time engaged in felling the tree. The tree stood upon a bank, and it was supposed would fall down the side of it. Mr. Henderson and his daughter approached toward it on higher ground, where it was thought

, and were it not for the serious side of the mischief they performed, the whole affair could be viewed now as one of the most humorous and grotesque comic operas ever put on the stage in American history. The "Knights of the Golden Circle" was a secret society, first established in the United States in

SKETCHES OF SOME LANCASTER COUNTY CHARACTERS FROM THE GODCHARLES BIOGRAPHIES. Hon. A. G. Seyfert. At the regular meeting on Friday evening, June 5, 1925, no original paper was ready to be read. Hon A. G. Seyfert, volunteered to fill in by reading several sketches written by Frederick Godcharles of

COMMENTS ON THE DEATH OF ISRAEL SMITH CLARE (Historian) By Hon. A. G. Seifert It seems to me proper and fitting that we devote a few minutes of to- night's meeting to the character and writings of Lancaster County's foremost world historian whose remains were laid to rest in the narrow tenement of

by others and infringed upon and patents obtained, they who had no moral right to the invention reaped the benefit of the patent law. Mr. Shirk was a skilled marksman with the rifle and many a chicken lost it's head when a bullet was aimed at it. In 1845 when he was twenty-five years of age, a cousin

I. MIGRATION OF LANCASTER COUNTY MENNONITES TO WATERLOO COUNTY, ONTARIO, CANADA, FROM 1800 TO 1825. By Hon. A. G. Seyfert. And Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society, Friday Evening, March 5th, 1926. The religious revolution of the 16th Century, known as the Reformation, is the

schools. This was an outrage to the tax-payer, and an intolerable condition of affairs! Even the majority of teachers were up in arms and bitterly opposed to being examined by this "Czar", as many of them called the new official. Notwithstanding the law defining the duties of the Superintendent, mak- in

HISTORY OF CEDAR GROVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN EAST EARL TOWNSHIP By Hon. A. G. Seyfert In the midst of the monuments and tombstones in the cemetery around the Pequea Presbyterian Church down in Salisbury Township, stands a gigantic White Oak tree. Between the church and the Session House is a Black