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

profitable crop, and on the basis of the yield in Lancaster County, asserted that an acre of ground would yield 33 to 36 pounds of Saffron. For a picture of the Heinitsh store in the 90's we have this description by Edward Page: I went to the store in 1891. At that time, the store had bulk windows with

Lancaster, he mistakenly said it was being held at Newtown. In part he wrote to Strahan as follows on July 4, 1744 "A treaty is now holding at Newtown in Lancaster County, a place sixty miles west of this city, between the governments of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania on one side, and the United Five

Bishop Francis Asbury and The Reverend Henry Boehm George L. Heiges This account aims to be a brief record of the joint labors of two devout and zealous missionary preachers of the Protestant Church in America. One of them was Henry Boehm who was born in Lancaster County, scion of sturdy Swiss

, for the gracious king and government, I Timothy 2:1-4 i) Muhlenberg closes with a brief prayer, all kneeling. j) The choir sings the last stanza of "Komm heil, Herre Gott." k) The pastor loci expresses thanks to all the benefactors, etc. 5. The entire congregation shall sing the fifth stanza of "Sey

the maintenance of the Constitution and the Union by the sword, we recognize an unavoidable necessity and a sacred duty which the government owes to the nation and to the world; and that, therefore we call upon our people to lift up holy hands in prayer to the God of battles, without personal wrath