Church" is intended to serve as an update of Mr. McElwain's work. It is part of my work as a member of the Bicentennial and 250th Anni- versary Committee of Middle Octorara United Presbyterian Church. A few of you will remember our 200th anniversary in 1927. Many more will wish to know something about it

Government. A replica of Mount Vernon was reproduced at an exposition held in France during 1932 and was the United States' contribution celebrating the 200th Anniversary of a man the whole world honors. The two-cent stamp is printed and embossed on the envelope. It was the only denomination available to

. Captain Cock volun- teered to deliver the governor's message, and, to give further weight to the embassy, he was accompanied by fifteen Indians whose spokesmen were entrusted with messages from Tangoros and Seacoppy, chief men of the Delaware Indians then living on the Schuylkill River in present

of Ohio, who had been a member of the United States Supreme Court since 1839, although seventy- five years of age in 1860, still had a very definite ambition to reach the White House and in fact was the choice of Thaddeus Stevens, a delegate at large from Pennsylvania to the convention. Enroute to

the continued growth of the fame of Lincoln may I refer to the Drinkwater play, which toured the United States about fifteen years ago, after playing in all the principal cities of England; the many movies portraying his life or parts of it; and the "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" play running in the

Stevens, who represented Lancaster county in the congress of the United States from 1849 to 1853, and from 1859 to the date of his death in 1868, would in itself be an interesting study; likewise the conference with John W. Forney, born in Lancaster, newspaper editor, leader in Penn- sylvania Democratic

charge of other people's children being the only thing we were beginning to tire of.' �Beck's retirement from the teaching profession and the closing of the school marked the passing of an institution which had been the pride of the com- munity for thirty years. In a larger sense the closing was a part

of autumn," from Massachusetts to Georgia, among those who hated their religion, detested their country, derided their manners and mocked their language, " few comparatively remained to swell the numbers of the Catholic body in the United States. Landed on distant shores, those who had once known

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