-great uncle. John Paxton's life work for the church can be found on page 146 of Faith and Works. It is well worth reading. In April of 1970 construction started on an addition to the educa- tional building. This project was undertaken after a committee appoint- ed by the Congregation reported a need for

Government. A replica of Mount Vernon was reproduced at an exposition held in France during 1932 and was the United States' contribution celebrating the 200th Anniversary of a man the whole world honors. The two-cent stamp is printed and embossed on the envelope. It was the only denomination available to

as it touched Lancaster County. The area at that time was served with four local dailies and it may be of interest to look at the political complexions of these newssheets. The oldest was the Intelligencer which had its beginning in 1799. During the years that James Buchanan was aspiring to the

Abraham Lincoln and the Seventy-Fifth Anniversaries By C. H. MARTIN Ere long the curtain will fall. All participating in the titanic struggle between the States, which may now be referred to as a great drama, will have passed. The Federal Government last July graciously invited all remaining of the

Chester county, Pa., with some additional facts rela- tive to Mr. Lincoln's political history and it became the basis of well written articles which practically all of the Pennsylvania papers published in January 1860. When the convention convened, among the names presented for the Presidency, was that of

American political, economic and social life, one important fact cannot be ignored. The small private school of the nineteenth century was the great training ground for American leadership — religious, professional, political and industrial. The fact that a small private school such as Franklin Academy at

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

site along the Susquehanna. Of many marker events in which I have taken part in Lancaster and neighboring counties, there has been none whose purpose appeals to my per- sonal appetite for local historical facts as much as does this one marking Wright's Ferry. All of us interested in history have