is a popular tradition that some railroad company was paid a large bonus to bring the Pennsylvania tracks into the city, and that some obligation was thereby imposed upon the present company in control to run its trains through and stop them in Lancaster, and to maintain a passen- ger station in the

comprised in Lan- caster county, "Heidelberg" was one of the notable centres of the region. To this name its founder, Alexander Shaeffer, persistently adhered, but popular usage and regard for him overcame even his own modesty, and "Shaefferstown" it will remain. The first white footprints that pressed this

appointed Prosecuting Attorney for Dauphin county, Pa., and was elected three times from the same county to the Pennsylvania House of Representa- tives. In 1814 he was elected to Con- gress, but declined, having been ap- pointed President Judge of the Dau- phin-Lebanon-Schuylkill district. A little later he

more joyous pastoral note that she was amid the green pastures and by the still waters of Donegal; and one poem of this pe- riod proves by its title that she was detained on the further—I dare no longer say the York county—shore of the Susquehanna, February, 1807, by the breaking up of the rce. �It may

A CENTENNIAL EVENT One of the oldest families and widest connections in Eastern Lan- caster county are the Slaymakers Their ancestors bought of and settled on the famous "London lands," along the old Strasburg and Gap roads, and they have illustrated the tenacity of the Lancaster county land-owner

township ( £200). 1799. Moravian Church, Lancaster (£260). 1801. New Holland, Pa,, Reformed ( £200); used ever since, and of its size as good as the best, Madison, Va. 1804. York, Pa., Christ Lutheran (£355). Tannenberg's successor, John Philip Bachman, also built an organ for Hanover, Pa, (German Reformed

tribute to the many excellent traits of character of one of the most numerous of the various nationalities that settled Lancaster county and contributed so much to its development and pro- gress. Mr. Hensel said: Mr. Toastmaster: I do not know what "occurrence"* it was on your right to which you so