hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the permanent site for the capital at Washington, D. C. The City of Lancaster can claim a deep interest in the event due to the fact that a citizen, Andrew Ellicott, was the chief surveyor of the city on the Potomac. We know that you will hear loud

that Boardman, seeing the local usage and the hand-cutters plying their trade, determined to enter the field, but on a mechanical basis. During the early struggles of the Conestoga Cork Company, Jay Cadwell joined Boardman and in May of 1869, Robert J. Houston associated himself with the company. The

THE EARLIEST USE OF THE TERM C Conestoga �Early Source Material This interesting material for the first chapter in a history of the Conestoga Wagon is to be found in James Logan's Account Book 1712-1719 and James Logan's Ledger 1720-27. Both of these documents have been available to the public for

portions of this and Dauphin counties. While filling that position he learned of the activities of a group of men, then organizing a company to build the Union Canal. This artificial water- way was intended to connect the waters of the Schuylkill Canal and the Sus- quehanna River, by following the course

T.ive in County Officers Lancaster City, You Elect in Addition to the :t: Mayor Councilmen :j: Treasurer and Tax Collector :t: Controller School Directors Local Election Boards Alderman Constables (1949) 1 4 years 4 4 years I staggered) 1 4 years 1 4 ye.ars 9 6 years 3 each odd yr. 3 2 years Elected in

' High School in 1855 and continued until 1906. To many of "Jack's Boys" he was the high school. 65 Samuel W. Reigart, Principal of the Boy's High School, 1860-1865. 66 Emanuel served three years as a private in Company C of the 93rd Infantry. 67 Sam Rathvon was a corporal in Co. E, 2d Regiment Militia

or Department of Biology of Franklin and Marshall College. �natural science was an avocational interest; but to Barton it rep- resented his undivided interest and lifetime labors. The five nine- teenth century biologists—Jacob Stauffer, Simon S. Rathvon, Sam- uel S. Haldeman, Thomas C. Porter and

producing a sufficient quantity of goods to return a profit. Somehow, and at an undetermined date, the two brothers added two partners, who, between them, held one-third share in the Company. These men were William Bennet and Samuel Webb, both of Maryland. One sus- pects that both were induced to enter the

OPENED A NEW QUARRY .! ..0.01n Of Superior Quality at Reduced Rates, WARRANTED TO GIVE ATIITAGT/ON. i/W** ALSO_ SAND STONES OP ALL KINDS, HEARTH, CURB, COPE, HEAD, PAVING AND BUILDING STONES, &c. STONE TROUGHS, DOOR AND WINDOW SILLS, &c. LINCOLN, LANCASTER CO., -PA. S. P. A. WEIDMAN. BENJAMIN WISSLEE

Public Ephrata Borough With Interesting Sidelights By IRA S. FRANCK Ephrata began its life as a municipality in 1891 and with its advent as a borough began at once its two principal chronic headaches, "light" and "water." Prior to the incorporation the Ephrata Water Company 1 had attempted in a