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StudyofTwo Distinct Periods Perio Ephrata (.,Coiner BY JACK WARD WILLSON LOOSE I. Mills of the Cloister The Ephrata Cloisters owed its founding, if not its raison d'etre to Johann Conrad Beissel, who was born in April, 1690, at Eberbach in the German Palatinate. Beissel's father was an intemperate

THE EPHRATA PAPER MILL. A paper was read a short time ago be- fore the Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania upon the subject of paper making and the different water marks used by the Willcox family, whose history the learned speaker traced through the several gen- erations down to the present time

Content Note: The Ephrata Cloister Collection contains items related to the Society of Seventh Day Baptists and Ephrata Cloister. Legal papers deal with a dispute concerning the election of trustees and mismanagement of the estate. There are brief histories of the Cloister, poems, publications, programs

members contented that the contract was legal and that it was the Council's duty to decide upon the matter of fire plugs. A motion by Mr. Mentzer, and seconded by Mr. Spangler, re- quired that the council take no further action until the Ephrata Water Com- pany comes with an agreement or proposition