the New England Conference opened in convention on June sixteenth. After this meeting they fulfilled preaching appointments in Vermont, then crossed Lake Champlain, again rode south through New York and Pennsylvania to the Boehm homestead in Lancaster County. Writing of the incidents of his first trip

as it touched Lancaster County. The area at that time was served with four local dailies and it may be of interest to look at the political complexions of these newssheets. The oldest was the Intelligencer which had its beginning in 1799. During the years that James Buchanan was aspiring to the

County, with its gridiron plan of streets and a square in the center is a counterpart of many a German town. In Europe, the central square in any town was the setting for a great church or was the market place — the nucleus of urban community life. In Stiegel's plan for Manheim, he named the wide plaza