- tractive scenery than is to be found along its banks exists anywhere in the State. The more these old-timers thought the matter over the more they became persuaded of the feasibility of estab- lishing a place on our river that would not only provide an excellent place to go for themselves, whenever they

made �on a very extensive scale in this house, and the borough became noted for its production of that article. The first assault on the Conestoga Indians by the "Paxtang Boys" was made on December 14, 1763,when they unexpectedly put in their appearance at the Indian town of Conestoga, in Manor

wondrous birth was developed, that are the con- cern of history and philosophy. That the Quaker and German wave of settlement halted for a time at least at the Conestoga Creek, while the Scotch-Irish pressed forward and pre- empted the fair country lying between the Conestoga on the east and the Sus

who have been accustomed to handle the manu- scripts of the men who lived and wrote a hundred years ago. �The writer is indebted to Julius F. Sachse, Esq., of Philadelphia, Editor of the American Journal of Photography,for the use of the above note. �This is what is written on this time- stained piece

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

puzzle him. Indeed, I may almost say that we have more direct information concern- ing our ancient burg through the notes and journals of strangers who passed through the place or spent a few days here than we have from the men and women to the manner born. How satisfactory, for example, is the old

PAYING OF EAST KING STREET Although Lancaster was laid out in 1730, and a number of streets marked down on the city plan, these thorough- fares were for many years only ordi- nary dirt roads, and no effort seems to have been made to improve them be- yond that condition until 1771, or near- ly