already erected on part of the lots, a two- story brick building,—the same building as now stands here,—which in- cluded the building now owned by Dr. Theodore B. Appel, except the brick wing later built on the south side of the Appel property, the building of The Lancaster County Historical Society, and

in the states referred to. And what his difficulties were, especially in Ohio and Michigan, may readily be imagined when we remember the thirty years of Indian turmoil in this western region during the period of the French and Indian War, the Pontiac Conspiracy, and the American Revolution. We in the

from other cities. The unveiling of the marker was held in connection with the "Feast of Roses" Memorial service, and was specially honored by the presence and par- �ticipation in the exercise of the Honorable Owen J. Roberts, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Several hundred people

about the assembly room were displayed various articles unearthed by Mr. Fenstermaker in the fascinating work of discovery of these ancient things, such as Indian dolls, idols and animals in charm-form, and ceremonial masks of clay, wood and corn-husk. Arrow heads, spears and drills, made of native and

, in August, 1846, Sutter took the oath of allegiance to the United States of America. Throughout that year and the following year, he maintained his own troops and kept order in the vast reaches of northern California. He did not receive a cent for his services during the war, nor were his soldiers

quoted. Between 1846 and 1847 his son, Dr. F. E. Melsheimer, contributed seven papers describing new North American beetles. In 1853 there appeared a Catalogue of the Descriptions of the Coleoptera of the United States, revised by Haldeman and Leconte. Frederick Valentine Melsheimer should be given some

Signers And Ratifiers Of The Constitution Of The United States By MRS. CHARLES M. COLDREN Of the eight Pennsylvanians who attended the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and became signers of that immortal document, seven are shown on the plate opposite page 178. The upper four bear a direct

rain, the exercises out of doors were brief. After the tablet was unveiled by Milton Eberly and Kathryn Brubaker, children of two fam- ilies who have lived on the site for nearly two hundred years, the exercises were continued in the Indiantown Mennonite church, situated a few yards east of the boulder