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BUCKINGHAM. Trinity P. E. Church. Eightieth anniversary, May 27. Sermon by the Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Garland, Chaplain of The Pennsylvania Society.

DOYLESTOWN. Bucks County Express and Reform, originally the Bucks County Express, ninetieth anniversary, July 4. FARM SCHOOL. Morris Lasker Memorial Hall.

laid October 7.

Cornerstone

MORRISVILLE. Williamson Park, provided by the will of Henry S. Williamson [Member of The Pennsylvania Society] of Lancaster, probated May 29. Mr. Williamson was a native of Morrisville. The bequest provided $10,000 for the purchase of land, and an equal amount for maintenance.

SELLERSVILLE. Grand View Hospital, made possible by the gift of $12,000 by B. Frank Crossman and Allen R. Crossman, dedicated July 15.

SOUTH PERKASIE. St. Andrew's Union Church. Fiftieth anniversary, October 28. The cornerstone was laid June 11, 1867, and the building dedicated May 26, 1870. The tower and belfry were added in 1890.

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BUTLER. One hundredth anniversary of incorporation May 2. The town was laid out by John and Samuel J. Cunningham and Robert Graham, large land owners in the vicinity, and the sale of lots started August 10, 1803. It was planned as the county seat of Butler County, created by Act of March 12, 1800, and the proposals of the original owners were accepted by the commissioners. The Act of incorporation was passed by the Legislature February 26, 1817, and was approved by Governor Simon Snyder May 2, 1817. The first election was held May 30, 1817. The modern prosperity of Butler arose with the discovery of oil at Thorn Creek, seven miles southeast of the town in August, 1884. Letters Patent were issued by the Secretary of the Commonwealth on March 19, 1917, constituting the borough of Butler a city of the Third Class, the city

government to be organized and effective on the first Monday of January, 1918.

BUTLER. General Richard Butler Memorial. Tablet on the Court House erected by the Pennsylvania Historical Commission and the Pennsylvania Daughters of the American Revolution, dedicated May 30. General Butler was born in Ireland and was one of five brothers, soldiers distinguished for bravery and devoted service. He was Captain of the Second Pennsylvania Battalion, 1776; Colonel Ninth Pennsylania Regiment, 1777; Major General in the Army of the United States, 1791; killed in action against the Indians on the Miami, 1791. Butler County is named for him.

ZELIENOPLE. Lutheran Home for the Aged. Cornerstone laid May 1.

Cambria County

BLANDBURG. Community Building, the gift of the HarbisonWalker Refractories Co. to its employees and the people of the town and vicinity, dedicated March 12. The exercises included an address by Hamilton Stewart [Member of The Pennsylvania Society]. CRESSON. Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Grace Union Chapel dedicated October 2.

CRESSON. St. Mary's Home for Girls, a new orphanage of the Roman Catholic diocese of Altoona, opened September 24.

EBENSBURG. Cambria Freeman. Fiftieth anniversary January 31. The first issue of this newspaper appeared January 31, 1867. JOHNSTOWN. Workingmen's Red Cross Rally, September 30. Address by the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt.

Cameron County

EMPORIUM. Emporium Lodge No. 382, F. & A. M. Fiftieth anniversary, February 4. Warranted February 4, 1867.

LANSFORD.

Carbon County

Civil War Memorial. Tablet in the Public School, erected by the Eli T. Conner Post No. 177, G. A. R., dedicated February 22. It contains the names of the members of the Post, and of all who enlisted from this region in the Civil War. Address by W. G. Thomas [Member of The Pennsylvania Society]. LANSFORD. High School building dedicated May 30.

LEHIGHTON. Trinity Lutheran Church. Forty-fifth anniversary, December 2.

MAUCH CHUNK. L. F. Chapman Post, No. 61, G. A. R. Fiftieth anniversary, May 1. Organized May 1, 1867. No commemoration.

WEATHERLY. Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Fiftieth anniversary, June 24-26. The original constitution of this congregation appears to have been adopted in 1867. The first church was built in association with the Presbyterians. The cornerstone of an independent church was laid September 10, 1876. It was enlarged and remodelled and re-consecrated November 20, 1904.

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Centre County

BELLEFONTE. Methodist Episcopal Church. One hundredth anniversary, May 13-18. The church dates its origin from the formation of a Class in April, 1817. The first church building was begun in 1820 and completed in 1822. A second structure was erected in 1853. The church was incorporated March 4, 1862. The present building was dedicated August 13, 1876.

CENTRE HALL. The Centre Reporter. Ninetieth anniversary, August. This newspaper was founded by Ludwig Kurtz in August, 1827, at Aaronsburg. Originally printed in German, and then called Berichter.

PHILIPSBURG. Moshannon Lodge No. 391, F. & A. M. Fiftieth anniversary October 11. Warranted June 6, 1867.

Chester County

COUNTY ANNIVERSARY.

Two hundred and thirty-fifth. One

of the three original counties of 1682. Named at the request of William Penn for the city of Chester, England. Area, 777 square miles; population (1910), 109,213. County seat, West Chester (1786).

COATESVILLE. Fiftieth anniversary. Incorporated as a borough in 1867. Named in honour of the Coates family.

COATESVILLE. National Bank of Chester Valley. Sixtieth anniversary, May 9. Organized as the Bank of Chester Valley, May 9, 1857. The present name was assumed when the National charter was taken out October 31, 1864.

HONEY BROOK. Howell Lodge No. 405, F. & A. M. Fiftieth anniversary December 27. Warranted December 27, 1867.

PENN TOWNSHIP. One hundredth anniversary. Founded by a division of Londonderry township in 1817.

PHOENIXVILLE. Lieutenant Josiah White Post No. 45, G. A. R. Fiftieth anniversary, March 15. Organized March 15, 1867.

SPRING CITY. First Reformed Church. Thirty-fifth anniversary, April 25-29.

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