weather was cool and cloudy. The event was delightful to everyone and a success in every respect. The chairmen presiding at the rendition of the program were Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, chairman of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, and Professor Herbert H. Beck, president of the Lancaster County

THE STORY OF SH ULTZ'S MILL ON BEAVER CREEK By Herbert H. Beck The artificial structure of an inhabited region like Lancaster County is primarily determined by its natural topography and its drainage—by surface conditions chiseled out by the geological hand of long past centuries. Thus it is that

president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, read a brief paper before the Lancaster County Historical Society on his great-great-grandfather, William Henry. In 1910 John W. Jordan's brother, Francis Jordan, Jr., published "The Life of William Henry," 1 which is the most comprehensive and the best

. R. L. R. Snyder Mrs. Sara Kuhns Mr. George M. Myers and some others. And to the following: Davis' "History Of Clarion County" Caldwell's "Atlas Of Clarion County" �Device for supplying air blast to primitive iron Air-blast engine of Lancaster County Type, introduced into Clarion County by Christian

and government--1775-1783. Lancaster (Pa.)--History--18th century. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1927 Description: 101-103 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 31, no. 7 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.31 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal

young Englishman, doubtless with foxhunting ex- perience, was taking the Lancaster County fences. And those two Pennsylvania Dutch meals evidently impressed him ; and with "cyder, toddy and beer"! "July 3. The prospect of the ensuing harvest is very prom- ising. Rye is already fit for cutting ; currants

he became General Manager of the Northern Central Railroad, its vice-president in 1861, and its president in 1864.65 As a leading officer of that important railroad, which his father had won over to Pennsylvania interests, Don did much during the Civil War to keep communications open between

I. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF RURAL FIELD SPORTS IN LANCASTER COUNTY By Herbert H. Beck A consideration of the purposes and value of history requires that the historian be properly qualified as a witness before the bar of posterity. In cases such as the one at hand this qualification should reach the

the Indians goes down as an out- standing figure in the history of the colonies in general and of early Penn- sylvania in particular. He was a younger brother of Pastor Johann Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, who was a major-general in the Revolutionary War, Vice-President of Pennsylvania, a member of the