debating �clubs or lyceums. These were organ- ized early in the public school history and known to exist from about 1840. Landisville's first public school shelter- ed some of these debating societies prior to the war; and their influence in making public speakers and useful citizens can yet be recalled by

genealogy and private life to show his public career in its true niche and to give it inter- pretation. I took the advice of a senior mem- ber of this society and inquired of Mr. B. F. Owen, of Reading, who is an authority on Thomas Edwards and on that section of early Lancaster county generally. Mr. Owen

. His son, John, sold the sarm to C. Graybill and moved to Adams county. I am sorry my health will not permit a more extended sketch of Donegal township and its early settlers, who took the text-oath besore James Bayly, which is on record in the Recorder's office. Rev. Colin McFarquhar's name is not

, at Lancaster, and at Anderson's Ferry. The drawing of the lottery, it is expected, will commence in the month of February, or early in the month of March next. Tickets at $60 each may be had os Hugh Wilson and William Ferree, in Lancaster; of John Pedan, Chickeys; of John Greer, Yorktown; and the

exhibit in charge of H. Frank Eshleman, Esq., across from the speakers' stand, the chief features of which are mentioned below. This exhibit was mounted on manila paper twenty-four feet long and forty inches wide, on a frame nailed to the trees. It contained �pictures and much of the history of Fulton's

, Andrew Graff, John Whit- man, Jr., and Jacob Krug. CASPER SINGER, JR. Casper Singer, Jr., who was promi- nently identified with the early history of the town of Lancaster, was born October 6, 1738. The father of Casper Singer, who bore the same name, and his wife, Anna Margaretha, came to America from

SOME EARLY INDIAN TRADERS, Samuel Evans, Esq., has contribut- ed the following notes on some of the more prominent Indian traders living in the early part of the eighteenth century in Conoy, Donegal and the adjacebt townships: I noticed by the papers that the President is about to appoibt Charles J

and Evans' History of Lancaster County, page 374). He was also in charge of the fire engine, for, on May 22, 1776, he was paid "for tak- ing care of and repairing the fire en- gine in this borough for two years and six months, the sum of £7 10s." (Same, page 381.) �.ge/siwir, , /, 49,„„_4 e/t716 „Ze