feels like his luckier brother who came over two hundred years before, that the attitude toward the rights of the neighbor is basically different from the one he was accustomed to in Europe. All you have to do is to stay five minutes in the waiting line in front of a cinema in Lancaster and in Berlin

registered pharmacist. THESE three words — APOTHE- CARY, DRUGGIST and PHARMACIST are to-day synonymous, but when America was young, the person who prepared and mixed drugs for medication was definitely known and spoken of as an apothecary. For many years after the first settlement in present Lancaster County

informed on the family traditions and agricultural history of the region. Mr. Nissly belongs to one of the oldest and most honored families in Lancaster County, its progenitors having come from Switzerland in 1716. They settled in that section of Pennsylvania now known as the Donegal region, before

a few years, how odd the costumes seemed. On looking at old pictures a child re- marked, "Grandpa, why did people dress so funny then?" The �elder one replied, "My child, in another thirty years people will be saying the same thing about our pictures." From the simple box camera of former years, and

valleys of the Pequea and Conestoga. It is recorded in Rupp's "History of Lancaster County" that Martin Meylin erected a boring mill near the Big Spring, in 1719. These pioneers brought with them their ideas on the art of riflemaking and soon, necessity — their own protection — compelled them to invent

Baron " Stiegel and the Muhlenbergs By M. LUTHER HEISEY In February, 1762, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg visited Heidelberg, Tulpe- hocken, Lebanon (in dreadfully cold weather), Ephrata and Canestoge; all points within the early bounds of Lancaster County. He was engaged in visiting and consoling the

, one of the founders of Columbia, Pa. All that Mrs. Barton has to say of Miss Wright is an accurate and fair appraisal of her character. Her biography in Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 584, seems to be drawn from just such a letter. �travel this way, at this advanced age she has all

, about five hundred and fifty coats, two hundred waistcoats, three hundred and eighty pair of breeches, and an equal number of stockings, about one hundred pair if shoes, and several hundred hats; these have been distributed among nine regiments, and has only in part clothed about one fourth of thorn."4

left all she had, money and goods, by will to the Lutheran Church, out of Religious Zeal. 63 years old." ROGER HUNT #69, 128, 129, 227 was county treasurer in 1738-39, and an appraiser in 1759. Possibly he was an inn keeper. Lot #128 became the site of the White Swan ·inn, kept by Matthias Slough. John

state of Pennsyl- 4 History of Chester County, by J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope, 1881, �vania, by the route of Lancaster, Yorktown, Carlisle, Chamberstown and Bed- ford; and that the mail be dispatched once in each fortnight from the post offices respectively."5 Five years later mail continues to go