Pretty Pequea - Looking southeast across the creek. Reverse is ad for Teachers' Vacation Fund Contest for the three most popular teachers, one vote with each pound of coffee from Mack the Coffee Man, contest starts December 1st, 1908, closes June 30 1909.
Roll of Honor, Dillerville School, 1904 - 1905. W. Eugene Evans, teacher. Students listed: Mabel Baum, Enos Bowman, Pearl Bowman, Elizabeth Brackbill, George Brackbill, Mary Brackbill, John Copeland, Mary Ferguson, Anna Heagy, Mary Haas, Anna Kiehl, Benjamin Kiehl, Walter Kiehl, Chester Lanious, Edgar Lanious, Mary Lanious, Ross Lanious, Gertrude R. Leachey, Anna Marie Leed, Clair Leed, Jacob Leed, Kathryn P. Leed, Bessie Lowery, Hannah Rodman, John Sheaffer, Mary Sheaffer, Susan Sheaffer, Earl Stauffer, Maud Stauffer, John Westman, Harry Westman, Alice Welsh, Anna Welsh, Edna Wissler, Elizabeth Wissler, Jacob Wissler, and Mary Wissler. Real photo postcard.
View in Long's Park, Lancaster. This vista includes the beautiful artificial lake, a specimen of the carefully selected and highly cultivated floral preserves, and a promenade bordered with trees, that, coparatively still in infancy, give promise of much added beatuty in their maturity. The park was laid out by one of the most eminent landscape gardners of Philadelphia.
You did not write and let me know whether you got home all OK. It is fly killing hot here I suppose it is the same in Phila. Will came from his wedding trip last Thursday. We are all well.
Margaret
Do you recognize this bridge. We were down on the 4th. There was a terrible thunder storm on the 4th. Our boat was destroyed. M."
Landis Valley Museum, Lancaster County, Pa. Lancaster takes especial pride in the Landis Valley Museum. Here you may see over 200,000 items that, until recently, have never before been accessible to visitors. Spread before you is a complete picture of the life of the Pennsylvania German farmer from 1710 to 1900. Exhibits are housed in five buildings, typical of old-time country life. You will see furniture, farm and household tools, a large gun collection, beautiful grandfather clocks by Ford and Schreiner of Lancaster, Amish wagons and carts, a valuble collection of Family Bibles and old books - among them Benjamin Franklin's Almanac and volumes from the pre-Revolutionaly press of the Ephrata Cloisters.
Landis Valley Museum, Lancaster County, Pa. U.S. Route 222 - 2 miles north of Lancaster, Pa. Open to the public - Here-in on display are numerous tools, weapons, utensils, crafts, etc. which were used b y the fore-fathers of this area in by-gone days.
