DID LOUIS XVI. OF FRANCE PRESENT A RUG TO GEORGE WASHINGTON? By William Frederic Worner. At a meeting of the Lancaster County Historical Society held in April, 1908, a booklet was received entitled: "An Illustrated Handbook of Mount Vernon; the Home of Washington," issued by the Mount Vernon Ladies

GEORGE WASHINGTON IN LANCASTER. By William Frederic Worner. In the "Proceedings" of the Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. XXVI, No. 10, for December, 1922, is a description of George Washington's visit to Lancaster borough in 1791, at which time he witnessed the celebra- tion of the

, dotted with sails, seen in the near distance. The Lancaster County Historical Society owns a number of por- traits painted by him. The Mrs. Armstrong who delivered the address at the time of the presentation of the standard to the Washington Grays, was his wife, who before marriage was Miss Harriet Groff

calculated to give new energy and increased action in arresting an evil, ruinous alike to body and soul. Following the address the choir sang a temperance hymn.19 A temperance meeting was advertised to be held in the Eng- lish Presbyterian church on Friday evening, January 1st, 1836.20 The Lancaster Union of

establishing a political society, to be styled 'The Washington Association of Lancaster.' "It is not our intention to conduct the business of this Asso- ciation in the dark, for we will be proud of declaring our prin- ciples and exhibiting our conduct to the world. It is not our in- tention to give personal