Church" is intended to serve as an update of Mr. McElwain's work. It is part of my work as a member of the Bicentennial and 250th Anni- versary Committee of Middle Octorara United Presbyterian Church. A few of you will remember our 200th anniversary in 1927. Many more will wish to know something about it

from publications issued by the United States George Washington Bicentennial Com- mission. Bicentennial 1932 Comntemorative Issue In commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the birth of George Wash- ington, the Government issued a special group of postage stamps early in 1932. * Postage 50 years ago

. Record of Pastoral Acts at the Lutheran and Reformed Congregations of the Muddy Creek Church, E. Cocalico Twp., 1730-1790. (Book) 1981. Historic Preservation Trust of Lanc. Co. Preservation Education Project.(Book) 1981. Hohman, John George. The Long Lost Friend, Containing Arts and Remedies, For Man As

. M. Rauch in Lititz. A Warwick Township "Wide Awake Club" was organized. 6 Republican citizens of Conestoga Township met at the Mansion House of George H. Hess in Safe Harbor. A "Lincoln, Hamlin and Curtin Club" was organized with Samuel Wright as president. Speakers—Alexander H. Hood and W. W. Shenk

--Lancaster County. Lancaster County (Pa.)--Biography. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1912 Description: 247-250 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 16, no. 8 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.16 Location: LCHSJL -- Journal Article (reading room

, 614 Front Street, Marietta. Addison Hollinger, 106 W. Main Street, Ephrata. John Kahl, 186 Ridgefield Avenue, Bogota, N. J. Benj. Franklin Loney, 125 Church Street, Columbia. Jacob M. Fry, Rothsville. (Died since the 75th anniversary.) THEY SAW LINCOLN I have interviewed all of the veterans named, and

. and Mrs. Lincoln lived at a hotel in Springfield, kept by a Mrs. Beck, formerly of Lititz, Lancaster county, Pa. Mr. Lincoln was elected to congress in 1846 as a representa- tive of the 7th Congressional District of Illinois. Many members of congress at that time lived in boarding houses, and formed

graduation. Shortly after his father retired from the teaching profession in 1865, Abraham Beck opened the Beck Family School for Boys in Lititz. After he closed the school in 1895 he devoted much of his time to the study of Moravian history in his capacity as archivist of the Moravian Church in that village

10, 1818, in the seventieth year of his age. It is said that he was buried in the graveyard of Mellinger's Mennonite Church, on the Philadelphia turnpike. There is, however, no mention of his burial there in the church records, and no stone marks his grave. His will was proven July 28, 1818, and

, " a Anne Marie Villars, a French girl, an Acadian, who had a brother and sister residing near Lancaster." An early record of burials at St. Mary's church, this city, contains an entry under date of December 15, 1798, of the burial of Jean Algliso, born an Acadian. The marriage records of St. Joseph's