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

British Public Records Office in London brings to light an earlier official visit to Conestoga by Pennsylvania provincial agents in 1696, and touches on the relations of the Indians there with groups farther west. It also under- scores the relative mobility of Indians, singly or in groups, during the

John Dickey of Beaver County who was a member of the 28th and 30th Congresses; and he became acquainted with Lincoln when the latter was also a member from Illinois of the 30th Congress. 0. J. Dickey came to Lancaster in 1846, was admitted to the bar and soon became a law partner of Thaddeus Stevens

day added to the comfort of the occasion as the large crowd assembled for the exercises. Accompanied by our daughter, Gladys, and Junior, I had the pleasure of spending the day chatting with a number of both Northern and Southern veterans, and listening to the President's address, following the

. and Mrs. Lincoln lived at a hotel in Springfield, kept by a Mrs. Beck, formerly of Lititz, Lancaster county, Pa. Mr. Lincoln was elected to congress in 1846 as a representa- tive of the 7th Congressional District of Illinois. Many members of congress at that time lived in boarding houses, and formed

" �origins always remained a mystery to Beck. "Sometimes I think that he never had a home of his own, and was given to wicked ways, and that at a convention, or rally, of cats, held in some Lititz barn, he was reformed and directed to go to the Beck's, where he'd have a good time." At first "What- ty" was

description left an undefined territory and a disputed frontier. In reference to the etymology of the word Acadia, it has been written in dif- ferent ways: La Cadie, La Cady, Accadie, Accadia, Arcadie, Arcadia, and Quoddy. The etymology of the word is not certain. It is certainly not from the Greek "Arcadia

street, near Front street, with Shawanese Indians as his neighbors. The rising tide of travel and traffic focussed toward Wright's Ferry. We can lend our imaginations to-day to these travel lines of man and beast. We can see herds of cattle wading and swimming after their lead-ox led from a canoe across

her husband shall have been a member thereof at least five years, and shall have paid his fines and contributions agreeably to the true intent and meaning of the articles and fundamental rules of the association. "The widow of every deceased member as aforesaid, shall have paid to her out of the funds

nation;" and "exhorting" Congress to prepare for war. The effect of this information upon public opinion was instantaneous and far-reaching. Marshall's disclosures in the dispatches "produced such a shock upon the Republican mind as had not been seen since our independence." Public meetings were held