States. About 1910, he and two other men organized a subscription drive to purchase a permanent meeting place for the local chapter, Zeta,' and in September, 1919, a house on James Street was purchased for $7,500.12 Theta Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity was chartered at Franklin and Marshall in

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