provisionally identified by Prof. Hinke as Zelten- reich, Reyers (now Brickerville) and Muddy Creek. They were mere preach- ing places, and the actual organization may have been effected at a later date. After this period the history of the Conestoga church becomes indistinct. No doubt it was greatly depleted

church stands. I n t h e s a m e y e a r J o h n G a l b r a i t h located along what was then called " Spring Creek," which had its source at the spring at Donegal Church. He se- lected the land at a point where a new road had been laid out, branching from the Peter's road, a short distance north- east

A RUNNING STORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY FROM HAZARD'S REGISTER (1613 to 1835) Compiled by H. FRANK ESHLEMAN, ESQ. Hazard's "Register of Pennsylvania" is a publication of sixteen volumes, containing about 400 pages each, published by Samuel Hazard of Philadelphia from Jan. 1828 to the end of December

THE RED ROSE QUESTION. --- One hundred and thirty years ago, Henry William Stiegel gave a piece of ground to a Lutheran congregation in the then hamlet of Manheim, in this county, for the sum of five shillings, to make the deed of gift lawful, and the further honorarium of one red rose to be ever

Exercises. Bishop N. B. Grubb, of the First Mennonite Church, of Germantown,of- fered prayer. This was followed by the old fa- miliar hymn, "How Firm a Founda- �tion," joined in by all and led by D. H. Gochenour, of East Petersburg, who generally leads the music at the Lancaster county Union Sunday- school

OUR FIRST CIVIL COURTS The first five terms of the Common Pleas Courts os Lancaster county were held at Conestogoe, at John Postlethwait's Tavern, now the Fehl property, on the Conestogoe and Phil- adelphia Great Road (now at this point called the "Long Lane"), near Rock Hill. This road was