another envelope addressed to sixty-eight towns and cities, accompanied by a letter requesting that the con- tents be mailed back to the sender on George Washington's birthday. Every one of the sixty-eight Postmasters complied and every card and envelope was re- turned to Lancaster. All were received in

) 1981. Heiges, George L., comp. 125th Anniversary of Hope Fire Engine and Hose Company Man- heim, Pa. and 17th Annual Convention of Lancaster Co. Firemen's Assoc. (Booklet) 1937. Hess, Larry E. Martic Township 1705-1980; 275 Y ears of History. (Book) 1980. Hinke, William J. and Frederick S. Weiser

GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

of the smaller of the "little masters." His followers, those we are considering, with the probable exception of Eicholtz, were not art- ists, for the word artist, when applied to those who have painted, should call up in our minds the names Monet, Goya, and our own Americans—John Twachtman and George

fast-thinning ranks of the Blue and the Gray to Gettysburg in final reunion. H. G. Wells, noted authority, classes Abraham Lincoln, the central figure of that great drama, among the first six men of the world's history. If that be true, no excuse need be offered to record in the annals of this Society

, Colonel John M. Royer, General B. A. Shaef- fer, Reuben Shenk, M. Shirk, Colonel S. Shoch, George H. Shuler, Samuel Slocum, F. H. Stauffer, General George M. Steinman, T. Stevens, Jr., J. M. Warfel, Mr. Whitson and H. Wilson. This was by far the largest group of Pennsylvanians attending the convention

of Schuylkill, George Nace, of the county of York, and John Ritchey, of the county of Dauphin, were appointed Commis- sioners on the part of the Common- wealth, who in conjunction with such Commissioners, not being of Lancaster county, as should be named by Abraham Witmer, should proceed to estimate

THE ACADIANS IN LANCASTER COUNTY. There is no history in which can be chronologically traced the struggles and changes within that small region known as Acadia, the confines of which were ex- pressly named by Henry IV. of France in his letters patent of November 3, 1603, over the country, territory