through December, Lancaster Daily Express and Lancaster Intelligencer. THE BIRTH of THE CENTENNIAL YEAR - APPROPRIATE CELE- BRATION - 1876. What a chapter of history is recalled in the writing of these figures— the glorious figures that tell of one hundred years of national freedom, and such freedom as

length and six feet, three inches across the wings and weighed a little over sixteen pounds." - April 1, 1876 The correct scientific name of the American or Whistling Swan is Olor columbianus. Dr. Herbert H. Beck writing in Klein's history of Lancaster County about this bird stated that usually these

to as Doctor John Piersol McCaskey. Born in Paradise Township, this county in 1837 he died at his home 126 N. Mulberry Street on the 19th day of September 1935 with burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Volume 67 of the journals of the Lancaster County Historical Society has a full account of the career of