Church" is intended to serve as an update of Mr. McElwain's work. It is part of my work as a member of the Bicentennial and 250th Anni- versary Committee of Middle Octorara United Presbyterian Church. A few of you will remember our 200th anniversary in 1927. Many more will wish to know something about it

at the i860 Republican conven- tion as far as the Lancaster reporter was concerned was Carl Schurz, thirty years old, a native of Germany and only recently naturalized as an American citizen, but universally acclaimed as a dynamic political orator. Lincoln himself declared that he believed Schurz was

Plymouth Theatre, West 46th Street, New York City, to "packed houses" since last October, and booked for months to come. He is one of the few men whose memory is destined to go down through the cen- turies; his contribution to humanity having made his name immortal. A FEW TRIBUTES BY NOTABLES H. G. Wells

Abraham Reincke Beck: Portrait of a Schoolmaster William W. Hummel As is true of most work of this nature, there are numerous debts which can in no way be repaid. In at least one instance, however, good faith de- mands that the debt be assumed. The study of Abraham Reincke Beck and the edition of

colony. Those sent to Virginia found a home, finally, in France. Those sent to Maryland seem in a great measure to have been left to do for themselves. Some of them got back again to Acadia; others went to the West Indies; others, finding themselves in new environments, started to work to begin the world

unopened West. All emigration from Port Phila- delphia and Port New York headed into the South and West had to come this way. We know Wright's Ferry first when John Wright, Quaker pioneer, pro- cured from the Crown a patent for his ferry project in 1730. He built his ferry house on the north side of Locust

with prudence, moderation and wisdom,—beg leave to assure you, Sir, that should the insolence and rapacity of the French Republic, or any other foreign power, render an appeal to arms the dernier resort, they will be always ready to support, to the utmost of their ability, the rights of the American

Lancaster." In that paper is described the unsuccessful attempt of the three American envoys, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Elbridge Gerry and John Marshall, to establish diplomatic relations with the French Republic. The first dispatches of the envoys, sent from Paris October 22nd, 1797, reached

. J. H. Longenecker, Lewis Haldy. 1 Lancaster Examiner and Herald, Wednesday, September 12th, 1855. �The Lancaster Examiner and Herald of Wednesday, Novem- ber 21st, 1855, contained the following statement of monies col- lected for the Virginia sufferers : From citizens in the north-west ward