GEORGE L. HEIGES 1860 - THE YEAR BEFORE THE WAR An exhaustive account of political ac- tivity in Lancaster County in 1860, the first year Countians elected a Repub- lican president, and the beginning of a tradition. One hundred years ago, with no TV or radio to report the national political

Apothecaries 0/ Lancaster County 1760 to 1900 By GEORGE L. HEIGES The business of mixing and preparing substances for purposes of medi- cation, which we are pleased to call the art of the apothecary, has a definite history of more than four thousand years. However, the art of the apothe- cary has

preach- ing of Thomas Ware, 9 Methodist presiding elder that Henry, son of Martin Boehm became a changed man. Henry wrote "There God restored to me the joy of salvation. Then I united with the Church, a duty I should have performed years before." At this time. Henry Boehm was twenty three years old and