good order and ready to do business. The wagon is as good as new. Those wishing to follow a pleasant business will please call on the under- signed, residing in New Holland, Lancaster County, Pa. HENRY RAEZER. H Daniel S. Von Neida, born December 23, 1844, son of Jacob and Catherine Swartz Von Neida

, and an upright citizen. The modern novelist who would defame or vilify such a character and would picture him a common philanderer, to make a book salable, deserves the condemnation of such or- ganizations as the Lancaster County Historical Society, and more, deserves a reproof, even a legal one, from

named as com- missioners for the Lancaster County section. For a score of years, 1773 to 1793, Zantzinger was a speculator in land, personally holding 3500 acres in eight different counties, and an additional 2500 acres in Northumberland County in the name of Paul Zantzinger and Company. His services as

, 111. 17 History of Chester County, Cope, 1881, p. 670. 18 Rupp's History of Lancaster and York Counties, p. 551. 19 Ellis and Evans' History, p. 363. �58 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOHN CHRISTOPHER DRAENKEL (TRINGLE) #38, 51 was a member of Trinity Church, and presented to the congregation in

, dur- ing the trying times when the British overran Chester County and threatened Philadelphia .2 There was no satisfactory post route to Harrisburg, for in March, 1777, Judge Jasper Yeates wrote to Mr. Burd, of Philadelphia, seeking his aid for 1 History of Cumberland County, I. Daniel Rupp, 1846, p

degrees north 66 feet, etc.; 4 the second lot, 120 feet square, was assigned for a town hall and market house; the third, 120 by 148 feet, was the prison lot. Is this a disturbing fact, to note that the prison lot was larger than either the town square or the market place? The town claimed 200 inhabitants

. HARTMAN was born two and a half miles east of Harrisburg, in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1830. His father, who was a �farmer, died when Samuel was a mere child leaving the mother penniless with eight children—five boys and three girls—looking to her for support. An uncle of the children brought

to be a fascinating charm about the pot- ter and his wheel, and his ability to give form to various objects from his crude equipment, working with his thumbs and fingers on a plastic mass of wet earth. The Swop es Early in the history of Lancaster County the trade of the potter was not unknown. The

wedges, which were loosened by the jolting of the cars.—Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 319. Last spring (1940), we saw two hundred of these sandstone blocks pulled out by a tractor from the original roadbed of the old Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, on the farm of Daniel F. King