property of the old company. In 1926, the Lancaster County Railway and Light Company acquired the stock of the Lititz Gas Company after unsuccessful attempts to purchase the company had also been made by Mr. John Ware, as well as by the Southern Gas and Power Company. In turn the Lehigh Power Security

Whitehill 223 John Allison 647 Blair McClenachan 342 This was the first election for representatives in the Congress under the Constitution of the United States. The Lancaster Federalist ticket it will be noted, was supported in Lancaster County by nearly two to one over the Anti-Federalist ticket. Returns

. This Thomas McGovern also was a builder of railroads and canals. Mrs. Reilly was first married to John McManus, and their second child, Thomas, was a railroad contractor, and resided in Lancaster. JACOB B. ROHRER was born at Middletown, Pa., August 31, 1857, son of the late Major Jeremiah and Mary

County to his son, John Musselman. He also owned one hundred and nine- teen acres of timberland in Hellam Township. As an ironmaster, he had acquired great wealth. His children were all educated according to the custom of the day. His two sons, Abram and Samuel, attended the John Beck Academy at Lititz

as German sources. Such a tree plays an important part in a recent novel, "River of Earth" by James Still, laid in the Kentucky mine-fields. Mr. and Mrs. John McQuate of R. 2, Denver, Pa., have kept up this custom for a number of years, and it is also being revived this year by the Berks County

History of St. John's (Center) Reformed Church, &tot Ear/ Township, Lancaster County By GLENN WEAVER Introduction About mid-way between the small towns of Terre Hill and Bowmansville, Pennsylvania, on a small hill overlooking the lovely valley of the Black Creek, stands a small country church—rich

issued notes at Pequea, Lancaster County, in 1863. The location was evidently the Pequea post office in Salisbury Township at the village of White Horse, as distinguished from the Pequea post office of more recent years along the Susquehanna. RAUB, John K. New Providence Merchant. Issued 5-10-15-25 and