houses remain- ing throughout the county. The oldest native stone structure yet standing is the Christian Herr dwelling, between Willow Street and Beaver Valley pike, not far from Big Spring and the Mennonite graveyard. It was built in 1719. A great wide chimney, with open fire-place, strengthens its

as found by me in central Lancaster county, have some of the shapes and general contour of such implements when gathered from old caves of Europe and primitive parts of Africa and Australia. Flint cutters are common in many lands in both hemispheres, reaching back to the earliest life of man. �As a

the opinion that it was his grandfather and not his father who served in this capacity. In �order to determine this matter, the librarian of The Lancaster County' Historical Society wrote to the President, as follows: "Lancaster, Pa. "October 26th, 1934. "Dear Mr. Roosevelt : "On the evening of May

referred to a committee where it evidently was successfully "pocketed." The proposed Conestoga county, for which erection the most persistent efforts were made, was to be formed from eastern Lan- caster, western Chester and southern Berks counties. The first effort to organize this area into a separate

gathered. An informative address on "Lafayette in Pennsylvania" was delivered by J. Bennett Nolan, Esq., of the Reading bar, a valued member of the His- torical Society of Berks County and an author who is said to be the fore- most authority on Lafayette in America. He called attention to "the un- selfish