land in America which was at once named Pennsylvania and forty six years before the Declaration of Independence was formulated and signed in Philadelphia, devout German Lutherans were worshipping and receiv- ing the Sacraments in a new town in Pennsylvania with the name LANCASTER. At the present time

thousands of people who thronged the pews and aisles and even vestibules in the church. It was a musical triumph; one that predicts magnificent things for the future. Decorations also had never been brought to such perfection in our city. This can hardly be said to promise greater things for the future

which he made during 1749-1751 were the basis of his book, "Travels," which was published in Sweden on his return, and reprinted in the United States in 1937. �In June, 1750, he visited Lancaster County. Concerning the city of Lan- caster, he made this one observation, "The Town Hall is located in the

through December, Lancaster Daily Express and Lancaster Intelligencer. THE BIRTH of THE CENTENNIAL YEAR - APPROPRIATE CELE- BRATION - 1876. What a chapter of history is recalled in the writing of these figures— the glorious figures that tell of one hundred years of national freedom, and such freedom as

Lititz Mill, now owned by Benjamin Ritter and up- wards of one hundred years ago by the Moravian Society. It was then leased to a man by the name of Klaus Klein who made and sent cargoes of his flour to Jamaica." "The machinery in mills at that time was very clumsy and compli- cated. After the wheat was

Revolu- tion and the successful struggle against the first power of earth one hundred years ago." —July 4, 1876 "THE GREAT CENTENNIAL - In this city the celebration was on a scale and was accomplished with a degree of success beyond popular expectation. Around the square the main buildings were heavily