far to visit churches and to hear ministers. After six months of earnestly seeking God's help the com- mittee chose Rev. Robert W. Tanguy, who was the Minister at Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania. Rev. Tanguy was born at Greenville, Pennsylvania on December 5, 1926, a son of Clair D. and Lillie May Baker

candidates of the Constitutional Union party— John Bell, once United States Senator from Tennessee and Secretary of War and his running mate Edward Everett, the peerless orator and edu- cator. This gathering too was held in front of the court house with Henry E. Slaymaker, Lancaster businesss man, in the

. Broadsides—rare documents, proclamations, special reports on famous Lincoln addresses. Manuscripts—including 1200 genealogical lists in the Hanks papers of Lincoln's Mother; the Haycraft collection of 2000 Kentucky manuscripts; Thompson collection Indiana contemporaries of Lincoln, 1500 items; and copies of

school. It was the educational vacuum which existed between the one-room school and the college during the greater part of the nineteenth century that the small private school attempted to fill. However, one should not assume that the private school of the nineteenth century was confined ex- clusively to

THE ACADIANS IN LANCASTER COUNTY. There is no history in which can be chronologically traced the struggles and changes within that small region known as Acadia, the confines of which were ex- pressly named by Henry IV. of France in his letters patent of November 3, 1603, over the country, territory

unopened West. All emigration from Port Phila- delphia and Port New York headed into the South and West had to come this way. We know Wright's Ferry first when John Wright, Quaker pioneer, pro- cured from the Crown a patent for his ferry project in 1730. He built his ferry house on the north side of Locust

until the society con- sisted of thirty-five members, a meeting was to be held each Wednesday evening at the house of Christian Smith. The book of the organization was to be kept open for subscriptions at the store of Messrs. J. and P. Long, North Queen street. Joseph Ehrenfried was the secretary. The

with the French Republic." Similar meetings were held elsewhere and popular indignation at the conduct of France was rapidly in- tensifying. Following the example of Philadelphia, "a large number of respectable inhabitants of the borough and county of Lancaster" met in the court house on Thursday

further violence. On the two following evenings, no recurrence of a similar disturbance was attempted. "We have heard various pretenses assigned for the commis- sion of this truly disgraceful outrage, an outrage which inflicts discredit on all concerned, but have understood that the principal

Airplanes, Automobiles and Commercial Photography: The Darmstaetter Collection, 1905-1941 By Robert Lowing when I moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, it surprised me to hear people say the American Depression was not bad here. Some people who had lived through the Depression said it was true, and I