GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

registered pharmacist. THESE three words — APOTHE- CARY, DRUGGIST and PHARMACIST are to-day synonymous, but when America was young, the person who prepared and mixed drugs for medication was definitely known and spoken of as an apothecary. For many years after the first settlement in present Lancaster County

Bishop Francis Asbury and The Reverend Henry Boehm George L. Heiges This account aims to be a brief record of the joint labors of two devout and zealous missionary preachers of the Protestant Church in America. One of them was Henry Boehm who was born in Lancaster County, scion of sturdy Swiss

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts provided the following information. "There are thirteen paintings, all portraits, in the Academy collection by Jacob Eichholtz, as listed below: Mrs. Elizabeth Wurtz and Three Children Edward Eichholtz Jacob Eichholtz (now believed not to be a self portrait) Mrs. Walter

in the same general area of the city of Lancaster where those early Lutherans met, their descendents and successors faithfully assemble Sun- day after Sunday. In 1729 the County of Lancaster was erected and in the following year the Borough of Lancaster had its beginning, and in that same year a

Sunday Schools, to establish new schools and to prepare the way for founding new congregations." In August, with the approval of Vestry the new society took steps toward establishing another branch Sunday School. It had its beginning in a rented room at 412 Manor street with Mr. John W. Hubley as

his wife and daughter were sojourning at the National Hotel, 43 left in their private conveyance yes- terday for Manheim, Lancaster County, the birthplace of the General, where they propose to spend some time. During their stay here, the old veteran, now 72 years of age, was called upon by a number of