. Whether you can believe it or not, the story is told of a sled going down Dinah's at such speed that it was impossible to stop or turn aside as a freight train approached on the Water Street tracks directly in their path. They lived to tell the tale because their helmsman directed the "modoc" under the

John Harnly (Hernly) of Lancaster County, and he in turn grants the same to John Cryder, of Huntingdon, Pa. Cryder gives to any applicant the right to construct arks of the Keller pattern for the sum of eleven dollars. Article of Agreement with John Harnly "An Article of Agreement, made this twenty

had a ride on the old Fall River Line, there was nothing in comparison for Lancaster County lads and lassies as a ride on the stern paddle wheel, double-decker, sea-worthy Lady Gay, which drew as much as two feet of water, and churned majestically from Witmer's Bridge to Peoples' Park and return

GOING DOWN IN HISTORY: LANCASTER 1956 Compiled and Edited by M. Luther Heisey Jan. 1. With the Byrd Expedition to McMurdo Sound in the Antarctic are two Lancaster sailors—Russell H. Rineer and Roland M. Campbell. Jan. 4. A loan of $7,670,000 was secured by the City of Lancaster Authority to be used

her as a prize of war. In 1867 she was sold and renamed. In the spring of 1884 the former Harriet Lane was abandoned after grounding off the coast of Brazil. �WARSHIPS NAMED FULTON Robert Fulton, American inventor, was born in Little Britain, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1765. At the age of 13 he

!Robert Blair Risk BY JAMES I. PYLE Robert Blair Risk, son of Samuel M. and Francina Blair Risk, was born February 20, 1848, on a small farm in East Drumore Township, Lancaster County. He passed from life after six weeks' illness in the Lancaster General Hospital of pneumonia and complications

Union except Washington Camp No. 61 of Reading, Pa., most of whom were rejected for military service and thereby kept the fraternity alive through the Civil War years. Previous to the Civil War three Camps were instituted in Lan- caster County. Camp No. 13, Lancaster, June 16, 1854. Camp No. 27