Interesting Lancaster Folks, Odd and Otherwise. by Abner McMichael Eyde as told to Miriam Eyde Bixler You know there were some real interesting and then again some mighty odd folks around Lancaster in my day. If I put my mind to it maybe I could recollect a few for you. Let's see. For one there was

crock of wine, vinegar, pickles, sauer kraut and preserved fruit to prevent them from spoiling."7 One hundred wounded Revolutionary War soldiers died at the hospital established at the Cloister during the war. The first were buried with honors of war, the funeral sermon preached by one of their own but

- panied two Civil War veterans to assigned school rooms. I can re- member those patriotic teams coming to my school and talking of the holiday, telling stories of the Civil War and reminding us to put flowers on the soldiers' graves. Even after the teachers discontin- ued our annual flower bearing march

A Lancaster City Boy of the Gay Nineties Part 2* by Abner McMichael Eyde with Miriam Eyde Bixler A boy really worked for his spending money in my day, none of this allowance business. You got a few pennies for Sunday School and church and mostly that was it, unless your older brothers and sisters