excellently the details may be given, leaves one with a feeling of having read unrelated anecdote, lacking the thread of intelligible motivation. Lancaster, Penna. EVELYN A. BENSON About The Reviewer Mrs. Benson has read most of the original Logan papers and letter books, as well as many other documents of

�have been Lancaster?) Its trip was successful, its fate sad — but useful. Family tradition tells us authorities at New Orleans seized the boat and rammed it into a breach of the levee at flood time. Never recompensed for the boat, Keller and his crew of seven reverted to "Shank's mare" on the return

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

- ducing plant in the world. Apr. 20. Reports showed that employment in Lancaster County for the month of March reached a total of 107,500 persons. Apr. 23. The earnings of the Armstrong Cork Company for the first quarter of this year, after taxes, were $3,698,000. Apr. 23. John H. McGinnis died, aged

GOING DOWN IN HISTORY: LANCASTER 1957 Compiled and Edited by M, Luther Heisey January 3. After ten years of research, development and testing, Hamilton Watch Com- pany placed on the market the world's first electric wrist watch, 15. A wave of arctic air hit Lancaster, sending the thermometers down

Graeff's Landing. It was a gala time in Lancaster in May 1844 when the new iron steamer Conestoga arrived from Philadelphia by way of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and attracted large crowds of citizens, many of whom took rides between Graeff's and Reigart's Landings and return aboard the new steamer