far to visit churches and to hear ministers. After six months of earnestly seeking God's help the com- mittee chose Rev. Robert W. Tanguy, who was the Minister at Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania. Rev. Tanguy was born at Greenville, Pennsylvania on December 5, 1926, a son of Clair D. and Lillie May Baker

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-Hamlin meeting at Columbia when George A. Coffey of Philadelphia gave the principal oration. He devoted much of his speech to recounting the history of the Constitution with especial reference to the question of slavery. He queried "Shall the virgin territories of the west become new Lancaster Counties

can be said of a great modern, short story writer, "He was the first to make vulgarity art," then we can surely say in speaking of Stuart: "He was the first to raise confectionaries into the realm of talented painting." All of Stuart's followers, from Eich- oltz to Eshleman, have copied his sur- faces

President came to make an address. He had a noble face." Addison Hollinger, aged 94 years "I saw Lincoln in his casket in Washington." �John Kahl Now living with his son, at Bogota, N. J., who writes: "My father saw Lincoln in Lancaster when he was running for the presidency. Got off the train at station

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S CONNECTIONS WITH LANCASTER AND ITS CITIZENS AN ADDRESS, DELIVERED AT A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, HELD ON FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9TH, 1934, TO COMMEMORATE THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF LINCOLN'S BIRTH BY C. H. MARTIN O N the recognition of the 125th

century. The vital statistics in Beck's case can be summed up briefly. He was born on December 16, 1833, the seventh of eight children born to John and Johanna Augusta (Reincke) Beck. He was educated at Nazareth Hall, one of the great Moravian academies, where he taught for a number of years following his

of bright yellow, with a wooden bucket underneath, and driven by their negro coachman, often came this way on their road to the capital, stopping frequently, over night, at �Gossler's Hotel, in Columbia. On one occasion, when the Chesapeake Bay and the lower river were impassable on account of the

this common termination to be the name of the country. Dawson is of the same opinion. Parkman adopts an entirely different etymology. At page 220 of his "Pioneers of France in the New World" he says in a note: "This name is not found in any earlier public document. It was afterwards restricted to the

known, as subse- quent issues of the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and