walls of this dining room. The Lancaster was built in the days of "wooden ships and iron men," and served well her country for fifty-seven years. On February 10, 1948, the battleship Pennsylvania, of 33,000 tons, flagship of the U. S. fleet, dear to all hearts in this Commonwealth, was scuttled near

, at Hotel Wallace, in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, which bears on its face a plate marked "Made in London, 1674." This clock is an eight-day, shows the seconds, minutes, hours and days of the month, but not the moon movements. It is difficult to determine definitely just what date the first clocks were made

to each Pennsylvania regiment as it passes into service, and on their return the battles in which they participated are to be marked on the flags, which will be filed forever in the archives of the state." This promise was faithfully kept, and the flag of the Seventy-ninth Regiment, with the names of

1807, before the use of steam, another Lancaster County inventive genius was working on the problem of better navigation. One Daniel Keller, of Hemp- field Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, took out a patent as early as 1795 for a design of boat, operating with paddle wheels, whose motive power

hours at the furtherest after the receipt of knowledge thereof, to the next sheriff or constable, and so for- wards as the letters direct, upon the penalty of 20 shillings for every hour's delay. And in such cases, all justices of the peace, sheriffs, or constables are herewith empowered to press either

basins over the hill in Lebanon Township. This situa- tion was brought to the attention of the local court, but no legal action was ever taken against the city of Lebanon. The flow from Hammer Creek was especially desirable as it was a "soft" water, which tended to modify the "hard" water flowing down

that ter- ritory. From the year 1853 until the panic of 1857, John Brandt, Sr., with his sons, Abe and John, Jr., conducted the Works, and manufactured the fol- lowing twenty-seven engines for the State Railroad, which later came into the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. This list

, "whose influence has carried on through the years in the splendid public school system we now have in Pennsylvania and the fine old coloniaI College of Franklin and Marshall." Dr. Schaeffer related how Rev. Mel- sheimer personally raised funds for the school building, which was erected on a plot of

genuine legal sense. The nineteenth section of the charter em- powered him, "his heirs and alienees, to erect manors, with a court baron and view of frank pledge [or court leet], to be held by themselves, or lords of other manors, and every person erecting such manor, shall grant lands to any person in

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