continuous service, this is the oldest drug store in the United States. This same Dr. Otto of Bethlehem was also the first apothecary in Lan- caster County. On October 16, 1760, he arrived at the Moravian Community of Lititz to take up his duties as physician and apothecary. He brought with him a long letter

burden should be lifted from them and placed on others. Perhaps this was to be a disguised blessing. At least they were resigned to the Will of the Lord at this pivotal experience in their history. Then they sang 'Faith of Our Fathers' and went home." Some one, not of the group and without their

behooves us to encourage what is emphatically native talent." 3 Dr. William Baker Fahnestock was born in Lancaster, Octo- ber 13, 1804, and exactly twenty-five years later was married in St. James' Episcopal Church to Maria, daughter of Henry M. and 3 From the Lancaster Intelligencer and Journalof Tuesday

in our great need, to this type of men. Congress lost no time and issued a call on June 14, 1775, for six companies of expert riflemen to be raised immediately in Pennsylvania. These troops, bringing their own rifles with them, under the command of such men as General Edward Hand, Captains James Ross

preached. This Conestoga refers to the Berg- strasse Lutheran Church of Ephrata Township, for it is the only one that could be found about three miles from Ephrata. The Rev. John Samuel Schwertfeger was a clerical delegate to the Ministerium in 1762 from Cones- toga, representing New Holland, Bergstrasse

the Committee of Safety in the War of the Revolution, a warden of St. James' Church from 1762 until his death; a Justice of the first Supreme Court of this Commonwealth; chief burgess, 1770-1773. Interred in St. James' Cemetery. His home was probably located at Duke and Orange streets, northwest

, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Barton, rector of St. James's Epis- copal Church. There were eighteen children born to these unions. Zantzinger was a prominent churchman, a prosperous merchant, a pro- moter of numerous enterprises, a loyal soldier, and a civic leader. He was a generous contributor to and an

, though his gravestone in St. James's Episcopal Church records him as "late of Richmond in Yorkshire." His short life (he died at 43) covers a career than which none in the Southern Susquehanna Valley was more notable. He seemed to have been connected with all of the leading changes and events in thi,s

ranking among the most gigantic of all in the United States, and therefore in the whole world. Our story concerns only our own county. But let us take a glimpse or two into the dim past. One of the first references to the "post" or post office is found in the Bible. In the eighth chapter and tenth verse

life. During the summer of 1939 Mr. Haines and the writer made history in the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. According to the forest rangers there we were the first horsemen to ride the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, from Front Royal to Swift Run Gap, as it passes through the National