THE CAMP GROUNDS Original copy owned by Mrs. Anna Hean, Lebanon, Pa. �July 14, 1868 The Harrisburg papers state that a large number of citizens of that city have already left, and many more will leave to-day for the great camp meeting at Manheim, which probably will be the largest religious

The Mount J oy Soldiers Orphan School By GEORGE L. HEIGES The story of the Mount Joy Soldier's Orphan School cannot be told with- out including a good bit of history which goes beyond the confines of Lan- caster County. All of it is Pennsylvania history, but includes great names of our own county

Isaac Long's barn near Neffsville, Manheim Township. It is a choice bit of church history that at this assembly Martin Boehm preached in such a passionate manner that Philip William Otter- bein,4 then pastor of the German Reformed Church in Reading, feeling then a spiritual kinship with Boehm, embraced

by the Swedes on the Delaware. The speaker was George L. Heiges, of Manheim, Pa., member of the Marker Committee and an author- ity on "Baron" Stiegel and Lutheran Church history. During the course of the meeting, recitations were given in the Swedish language by Elaine John- son, who appeared in

midst of the campaign with its scores of political parades, there was a procession of a different sort at Manheim on October twenty- seventh. It was battalion day for the First Regiment, Second Brigade, Third Division of the Pennsylvania Militia, which meant a parade, a re- view by Brigadier General

November 1765 to November 1774 the glassworks in Manheim was a "going concern" with all that those words denote, at times as many as one hundred men. Stiegel glassware was for sale in the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore as well as in the growing towns of eastern Pennsylvania. Henry

attitude the assembly united in singing several stanzas of the favorite German hymn "Sey lob und Ehr dem Hoeschsten Gut." (All praise and thanks to God most high,) Pastor Gerock then read a prepared document telling of the history of Trinity church up to that time, after which the historical narrative was

Sunday Schools, to establish new schools and to prepare the way for founding new congregations." In August, with the approval of Vestry the new society took steps toward establishing another branch Sunday School. It had its beginning in a rented room at 412 Manor street with Mr. John W. Hubley as

gave a brief history of the origin of the Christian Association and also stated the objects to be accom- plished. A collection was lifted to defray the expense incurred for printing and for the use of the room (in the Court House)." —April 1, 1870 In the long history of the Y. M. C. A. in the United

Gen. S. P. Heintzelman Visits His Hometown of Manheim George L. Heiges Recently it was a privilege in a three day period to peruse the daily journals of Samuel Peter Heintzelman which he faithfully kept without a break from 1825 until 1872. Covering as it does Heintzelman's long and brilliant