KITTANNING. General John Armstrong Memorial. Tablet on the Court House erected by the Pennsylvania Daughters of the American Revolution and the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, placed on the Court House; unveiled May 11. General Armstrong was a Scottish Covenanter and a soldier in the American Revolution. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second Battalion Provincial troops, 1756; Brigadier General in the Continental Army, 1776; Major General Pennsylvania Militia from 1778 to the close of the War. He was in command of the Pennsylvania Militia at the Brandywine and in the battle of Germantown. He died in 1795.

KITTANNING. First Presbyterian Church. Ninety-fifth anniversary, September 2.

Beaver County

AMBRIDGE. Martin Luther Memorial. Tablet erected in the churchyard of St. John's German Lutheran Church dedicated October 7. The tablet is placed in a huge grindstone formerly used in the blacksmith shop of the Economites. It marks a linden tree planted in commemoration of the Martin Luther four hundredth anniversary.

AMBRIDGE. Bander Family Memorial. Cross for the roof of St. Matthias's P. E. Church, blessed January 28.

BEAVER FALLS. First Presbyterian Church. Fiftieth anniversary, November 18-21. Organized November 22, 1867, this congregation was incorporated by the courts September 7, 1868, as the Second Presbyterian Church of Beaver Falls. The name was changed to its present form March 6, 1893. The church building dedicated April 24, 1870, was greatly modified and enlarged in 1881. FREEDOM. Eighty-fifth anniversary. Founded in 1832 by Stephen Phillips and Jonathan Betz.

ROCHESTER. Homes for Epileptics. Ground broken for the chapel, October 4.

WOODLAWN. Elizabeth Hayes Girdler Memorial. Silver Chalice and Paten for All Saints' P. E. Church, blessed November 1.

Bedford County

BEDFORD. St. John's Reformed Church. One hundredth anniversary and dedication of new Sunday School rooms, December 9.

BEDFORD SPRINGS. Pennsylvania Bankers' Association. Twenty-third annual convention, June 7-8. Address of welcome by the Hon. Thomas J. Baldrige [Member of The Pennsylvania Society]. Presidential Address by J. W. B. Bausman [Member of the Pennsylvania Society]. Address by William A. Law [Member of The Pennsylvania Society].

COUNTY ANNIVERSARY. One hundred and sixty-fifth, March 11. Berks County was erected out of parts of Philadelphia, Chester and Lancaster Counties March 11, 1752. It was reduced to its present limits in 1811. It was named for Berkshire, England, where the Penn family had large estates. Area, 865 square miles; population (1910), 183,222. County seat, Reading (1748).

BOYERTOWN. Berks County Democrat. Sixtieth anniversary, June. Founded in June, 1858, by O. P. Zink. Originally published in the German language, it adopted English in 1877. The paper is published weekly.

EXETER TOWNSHIP. Schwarzwald Lutheran Congregation. One hundred and eightieth anniversary, July 28-August 1.

HAMBURG. First Reformed Church. Memorials of the dedication of the addition, January 10: Windows for Charles H. Diener, Luella S. Shomo, Leon Koller Heinly.

HAMBURG. Vaux Lodge No. 406, F. & A. M. Fiftieth anniversary, December 27. Warranted December 27, 1867. Commemoration postponed to 1918.

LEESPORT. Trinity Union Church. Fiftieth anniversary, November 11. Founded in 1867.

READING. Seventieth anniversary of incorporation as a city. Reading was laid out in 1748 by the agents of Richard and Thomas Penn, Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, and was named for the borough of Reading in Berkshire, England. It became the county seat of Berks County on its erection in 1752. It was incorporated as a borough in 1783 and as a city in 1847.

READING. Gen. David McMurtrie Gregg Memorial. Act appropriating $15,000 by the Commonwealth for the erection of a bronze statue, approved July 25.

READING. Rajah Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles Mystic Shrine. Dedication of new Mosque and twenty-fifth anniversary, December 3-4.

SINKING SPRING. Reformed Church, One hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary, November 29.

WOMELSDORF. Zion Union Church, now Zion Reformed Church. One hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary, 1917. The original Union Church was built in 1792. A new church building was consecrated November 25, 1917.

Blair County

ALTOONA. Pine Creek Declaration of Independence Memorial. Tablet unveiled July 4 in the home of Mrs. Mary Hamilton Washburn to perpetuate the names of the pioneers of the West Branch Valley, who assembled on the Plain of Pine Creek Township, Clinton County, Penn., July 4, 1776, then ignorant of the meeting in Philadelphia, and adopted a platform declaring themselves free from Great Britain's tyranny. The tablet was the gift of Mrs. Washburn, the great-great granddaughter of two of the signers of this Declaration.

ALTOONA. First Baptist Church. Seventy-fifth anniversary, May 24-27. Organized in May, 1842, as the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church. The present church edifice was dedicated February 6, 1916.

ALTOONA. White Cross Lodge No. 354, Knights of Pythias. Forty-fifth anniversary, May 4.

ALTOONA. Patriotic Demonstration and parade, May 12.

ALTOONA. Sutherland M. Prevost Memorial. Legacy of $50000 bequeathed to the Altoona Hospital by Mrs. Prevost in memory of her husband, announced December 26.

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ALTOONA. Blair County Historical Society organized March

ALTOONA. Blair County Chamber of Commerce organized April 27.

BLUEKNOB. Flag, the gift of Col. Henry W. Shoemaker [Member of The Pennsylvania Society], raised on the summit of Blue Knob, the loftiest mountain in Pennsylvania, June 2, under the auspices of Camp No. 643, Patriotic Order Sons of America. The exercises included an address by Judge Thomas J. Baldrige [Member of The Pennsylvania Society].

GAYPORT. (Hollidaysburg R. F. D.) Holliday Monument. Marker erected by the Blair County Historical Society to commemorate the graves of Patrick, Adam and Jane Holliday, children of William Holliday, the founder of Hollidaysburg, killed by Indians, dedicated June 14. Oration by the Hon. John M. Reynolds [Member of The Pennsylvania Society].

HOLLIDAYSBURG. Memorial Day Commemoration, May 30. Address by the Hon. Thomas J. Baldrige [Member of The Pennsylvania Society].

HOLLIDAYSBURG. Celebration in Honour of Drafted Men, September 2. Addresses by Hon. Thomas J. Baldrige, who presided at the meeting, and Marion D. Patterson [Members of The Pennsylvania Society].

ROARING SPRING. Nason Hospital, Nurses' Home, the gift of D. M. Bare, January 27.

TYRONE. Tyrone Herald. Fiftieth anniversary April 1. The first issue of this weekly newspaper was dated April 1, 1867. The Tyrone Daily Herald was founded April 1, 1887.

Bucks County

COUNTY ANNIVERSARY. Two hundred and thirty-fifth. One of the three original counties of 1682. Named for the county in England whence came a number of passengers by the "Welcome," with William Penn. Area, 608 square miles; population (1910), 76,530. County seat, Doylestown (1778).