, �and made a tour of the county and some other parts of the state, continuing his business as an itinerant daguerreotypist for many years. When the war broke out in 1861, though fifty-one years of age, he enlisted as a private soldier in Company F, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, was hurt badly in a charge in

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

administrators of his estate, which was settled in 1761. She in the meantime had married again, to Robert Taylor, who died in 1762. Her third husband was Charles McCormick. January 12, 1744, marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the younger Paul. On October 19, 1769, "By Authority of a License

Ability, Know Ye That we have assigned you jointly .and severally Our Justices, Our Fathers, Our P�ce, in the County . Recorded the 27th of September, 1766. Ed. Shippen, Recorder." 13 He was a member of the Union Fire Company in 1760. On December 15, 1774, he was chosen a member of the La'll.caster County

— the airplane. So Lancaster, in marking the twentieth anniversary of the first air-mail flight in the United States, celebrated the event on Thursday, May 19, 1938, by dispatching by plane the first air mail ever flown from a Lan- caster airport. At 3:14 P. M., five planes, bearing as many pouches of

churches." Should another walk along some other street, he might be led to say it is a city of tap-rooms. We are reminded of the story of three blind men in India who were taken to "see" an elephant. The first one, touching the elephant's leg, likened the beast unto a tree trunk; the second touching the

importance to the little borough of 1744 that the Griest Building now bears to the city of 1944. There is no known print of this first courthouse, except the small repre- sentation found on the survey of November 8, 1753 (see facsimile on page 68. This drawing shows a central door with two windows on either

a distillery in East Cocalico Township, three miles north- west of Reamstown. It was about this time that Mishler's Herb Bitters was first concocted. Meeting with considerable success in the farming communi- ties, it was said "when you felt bad you got some Mishler's Bitters." The Bitters apparently

Chickies Creek. The business was continued by the son, John Gibble, Jr., until the turn of the century. Some of the clay for this pottery was taken from a meadow along the Chickies on the Hernley farm, three miles north of Manheim. This farm passed into the hands of the antiquarian, George H. Danner. The