ones passed on to their reward. But joy also came with the birth of many babies who through the years have grown up with the church and have given their lives to the service of God. �I wish we had space to name and to talk about the great numbers, both men and women, who were pillars of the church and

. Interiors and Exteriors of the Farmers Trust Company of Lancaster County, Lancaster, Pa. Pichler's Restaurant(Railroad Hotel, Manheim) about 1905. Picture of the Lancaster High School Orchestra.n.d. �Seller's Mill near Lancaster Junction, 1910-1912. Students attending Pa. Business College, Lancaster, Pa.6

as it touched Lancaster County. The area at that time was served with four local dailies and it may be of interest to look at the political complexions of these newssheets. The oldest was the Intelligencer which had its beginning in 1799. During the years that James Buchanan was aspiring to the

early life was spent in Lancaster. His father was proprietor of "The Fountain Inn." Aaron was born in the year 1827, and, after his remaining canvases, one landscape learned of his early life—he kept an inn of his own, called "The Cross Keys." His wife's name was Sarah Demuth. These few facts and three

a few years later. At sharp contrast with a train speeding today across the county, from Conewago to Christiana in about 40 minutes, stands the passing of the funeral train, April 22, 1865, on the following schedule: Conewago siding A M. 11.56 Lancaster 1.19 Elizabethtown P M. 12.07 Gap 2.23 Mt. Joy

the following statement: "To whom it may concern : "About 2 P. M., on February 22, 1861, I saw President-elect Abraham Lincoln at the Pennsylvania railroad station, Mt. Joy, Pa. He had made a short address at Lancaster and was en route to Harrisburg, where he addressed the Legislature. The telegraph

and York, Pennsyl- vania. Three children, John, Benigna Louise and Johanna Elizabeth, were born to the couple. John Beck, the father of Abraham Reinke Beck, was born on June 16, 1791, at Graceham, Maryland. In 1797, when he was six years of age, his parents moved to Mt. Joy where they remained for two

leading from Lancaster to the city of Philadelphia. Then they adjourned until to morrow. "August 10.—The Commissioners and Assessors met according to ad- journment and allowed orders from No. 1 to No. 10, page 110. Then they went to Conestoga Creek to view same in order to make a plan of a bridge

exiles were brought into Lancaster county through the passage of an Act of the Provincial Assembly. On February 20, 1756, a bill entitled " An Act for dis- persing the inhabitants of Nova Scotia imported into this Province into the sev- eral counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester and Lancaster, and the