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

there in a big barn of a structure dubbed the "Wigwam," Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was nominated for the office of President and Hannibal Hamlin of Maine for the office of Vice-president. From Lancaster newspaper items of 1860 we have attempted in this paper to piece together the campaign of that year

Eshleman. These men, our lo- cal portrait painters, from Eicholtz on, could no more get away from the influence of Gilbert Stuart than can those so called •ones now, in our own time, rise above that of John Sargent —Sargent who now holds in the world of painting that place which was once Stuart's. If it

, have a part, which duty appears a more solemn one while Dictators shout challenges to Democracy. Toward this end a Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania was organized at Gettysburg, November 19, 1938, having as its purposes, "To observe as a Holy day each anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, to

, he was referred to as "Virginia John," to distinguish him from a first cousin of the same name in Pennsylvania. His son, Abraham, accompanied the family to Virginia, where he purchased land in 1773 and sold it in 1780, when incited by narratives of his kinsman, Daniel Boone, whom he followed to the

Abraham Witmer' s Bridge At the period immediately succeed- ing the RevolutionaryWar, there was no bridge along the King's Highway over the Conestoga River. There was, how- ever, a public fording. A fording still exists, though now partly cover- ed over by the tracks of the Lancaster and Eastern

Pennsylvania. On November 18, 1775, a vessel as- cended the Delaware river bearing several hundred of these persecuted people, many of them being sickly and feeble, and on November 19 and 20 two more vessels as- cended the same river, bearing, all told, 454 A cadians. The ships which brought them were the

ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE UNVEILING OF A BRONZE TABLET TO JOHN WRIGHT, PIONEER FERRYMAN By PROF. HERBERT H. BECK MADAME PRESIDENT, MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: I consider it a distinct privilege to represent the older of the two coun- ties, Lancaster and York, at this well

"Every person wishing to join this society, shall, on subscrib- ing to the constitution, pay the sum of three dollars. "At each stated monthly meeting, each member shall pay a contribution of 371/2 cents. "No widow of any deceased member shall be entitled to the benefits of this association, unless

nation;" and "exhorting" Congress to prepare for war. The effect of this information upon public opinion was instantaneous and far-reaching. Marshall's disclosures in the dispatches "produced such a shock upon the Republican mind as had not been seen since our independence." Public meetings were held