Abraham Lincoln and the Seventy-Fifth Anniversaries By C. H. MARTIN Ere long the curtain will fall. All participating in the titanic struggle between the States, which may now be referred to as a great drama, will have passed. The Federal Government last July graciously invited all remaining of the

now between the Lancaster-Berks county line �and the Schuylkill river, in Berks county. The third son, Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of the President, was born July 16, 1739. In 1767 or 1768, John Lincoln moved to the Shenandoah Valley settling near the present site of Harrisonburg, Va. Thence- forward

fishing and wildfowl shooting. And always when I come here I visualize Columbia as the capital of the United States. Picking up one of the mysterious "ifs" of history (and the history of the individual as well as of the nation is deeply indented with "ifs") I visualize this river incline, and more

her husband shall have been a member thereof at least five years, and shall have paid his fines and contributions agreeably to the true intent and meaning of the articles and fundamental rules of the association. "The widow of every deceased member as aforesaid, shall have paid to her out of the funds

ground assumed of defense or exculpation is, that the charter of the church does not permit English preaching, and that as the in- troduction of a clergyman to deliver an English sermon was a viola- tion of the provisions of that instrument, the preventive proceed- ings resorted to were justifiable." A

ALLENTOWN FIRE By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER N Thursday, June 1st, 1848, a destructive fire visited Allentown, Pa., and left it in a deplorable condition. The fire started about three o'clock in the afternoon, and, owing to a south- easterly wind, the flames spread with rapidity. Three hours later, the

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

research. Consequently I had to narrow down my sub- ject. Instead of describing how people in Lancaster used their pastime, which still remains a challenge in my mind, I had to confine myself to one phase of this pastime, to theatre and movie. This paper does not intend to give a complete history of the

AN AMISH WEDDING THREE VIRTUES — FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY — EXEMPLIFIED BY SOLEMN CEREMONY High noon neared and a solemn hush fell upon the two hundred and fifty relatives and guests asembled in the home of Benjamin Esh, at Mascot, Lancaster county, Pa., to witness a solemn wedding ceremony. To

, shows the fol- lowing: List 246: November 10, 1764. Ship Boston, Master Matthew Carr, from Rotterdam, last from Cowes-203 passengers; among whom was Andreas Schneider. Arriving at Philadelphia, Snyder's passage money, amounting to $300 in gold, was paid by George Rinne, [Rhine], and Snyder was bound