Sullivan County

COUNTY ANNIVERSARY. Seventieth, March 15. Erected from a part of Lycoming County March 15, 1847. Named for General John Sullivan. Area, 458 square miles; population (1910), 11,293. County seat, Laporte (1850).

Susquehanna County

MONTROSE. Independent Republican. Ninetieth anniversary. This newspaper was founded in 1827 as the Susquehanna County Register. The present name was assumed in 1856.

Tioga County

WESTFIELD. Fiftieth anniversary of incorporation. Incoporated as a borough in January, 1867.

Union County

LEWISBURG. A. G. Tucker Post No. 52, G. A. R. Fiftieth anniversary, April 2. Organized April 2, 1867.

Venango County

FRANKLIN. First Presbyterian Church. One hundredth anniversary, November 11-18. Dedication of new Sunday School building, November 11.

FRANKLIN. Helen Hayward Lewis Memorial. Window in St. John's P. E. Church, the gift of her husband, Col. S. C. Lewis [Member of The Pennsylvania Society], and her daughter, Mrs. Anna Lewis Allen, dedicated April 22.

Warren County

WARREN. Eighty-fifth anniversary of incorporation. Incoporated as a borough in 1832.

Washington County

BEALLSVILLE, Sixty-fifth anniversary of incorporation, February 16. Laid out in August, 1819, it was incorporated as a borough February 16, 1852.

CANONSBURG. One hundred and fifteenth anniversary, February 22. Laid out by Col. John Canon, April 15, 1788, it was incorporated as a borough February 22, 1802.

CLAYSVILLE. Eighty-fifth anniversary of incorporation April 2. Incorporated as a borough April 2, 1832.

MONONGAHELA CITY. Eightieth anniversary, April 1. Originally called Parkinson's Ferry, and so known during the Whiskey Insurrection, the name was changed to Williamsport in 1833. The present name was assumed April 1, 1837.

WASHINGTON. Judge A. C. Thompson portrait, presented to Washington and Jefferson College, June 20. Judge Thompson was, for many years, a Federal judge in Cincinnati.

WEST BROWNSVILLE. Sixty-fifth anniversary of incorporation, April 2. Laid out in 1831, it was created a borough April 2, 1852.

GREENSBURG. One hundred and thirty-fifth anniversary. Laid out in 1782 on the lands of Christopher Truby. Incorporated as a borough in 1799.

GREENSBURG. Pennsylvania Argus. Eighty-fifth anniversary, 1917. Established as a weekly newspaper in 1832.

JEANNETTE. Fred Galer Memorial. Alms bason for the P. E. Church of the Advent, the gift of his mother, presented April 8.

LIGONIER. First Presbyterian Church. One hundredth anniversary, October 7-21. The early history of this Church is involved in obscurity, but the first recorded minutes of the Session begin with June 22, 1837. The name first appears in the records of Presbytery, October 22, 1817, and this year is regarded as the date of its beginning. The present church edifice, dedicated November 27, 1904, succeeds a building erected in 1847. The centennial exercises included two sermons by the Rev. Dr. Samuel Black McCormick [Member of The Pennsylvania Society], on October 7, and the unveiling of a memorial tablet on October 14.

MONESSEN. J. Wallace Page Memorial. Tablet erected by the employees of the Page Woven Wire Fence Company, dedicated September 19. Mr. Page was the founder of this company and the inventor of the woven wire fence. He died September 9, 1916.

PARNASSUS. Presbyterian Church. Seventy-fifth anniversary, May 29. The church was organized May 18, 1842.

SCOTTDALE. Lodge of Elk. Flag Day celebration June 14. Address by the Hon. Frank B. McClain, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and Member of The Pennsylvania Society.

YOUNGSTOWN. St. James Lutheran Church. Fiftieth anniversary of the erection of the second church building, September 16-23. The first pastor of this congregation, the Rev. John Michael Steck, served it from 1800 to 1827.

Wyoming County

COUNTY ANNIVERSARY. Seventy-fifth, April 4. Erected out of a part of Luzerne County, April 4, 1842. The name is corrupted from M'chenomi, an Indian word signifiying "extensive flats." Area, 97 square miles; population (1910), 15,509. County seat, Tunkhannock (1790).

York County

LEWISBERRY. Eighty-fifth anniversary of incorporation, April 2. Incorporated as a borough April 2, 1832.

YORK. Trinity First Reformed Sunday School. One hundredth anniversary, September 23. The origin of this school dates from 1817.

YORK. York County Sabbath School Association. One hundredth anniversary, September 27-28, commemorated in Trinity United Evangelical Church. The first session of this association was held in the Lancasterian School House (now destroyed) on August 17, 1817, with twenty-six scholars.

YORK. Sunday School Work in York. One hundredth anniversary commemorated in Trinity First Reformed Church, September 26.

YORK. Heidelberg Reformed Sunday School. Fiftieth anniversary, May 6.

Pennsylvania Patriotism Outside

the State

England

LONDON. Benjamin Franklin Anniversary. Commemoration early in July in the Botanical Gardens, now Mill Hill School, of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the visit of Benjamin Franklin, then Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James to Peter Collinson, F. R. S., a famous Quaker botanist, in July, 1767.

France

BETHELEMONT (near Nancy). Thomas Enright, Corporal James B. Gresham and Merle D. Hay Memorial. Monument proposed December 12, by Mr. L. Mirman, Prefect of the Department of Meurthe-et-Moselle in recognition of the first three American soldiers killed on the field of honour in France. Enright came from Pittsburgh.

PARIS. Dr. J. William White Memorial Ambulance, the gift of his wife to the American Ambulance for service in France, announced February 7.

PARIS. American flag from Philadelphia raised on the Hotel de Ville, September 6 in recognition of the one hundred and sixtieth birthday of the Marquis de Lafayette.

NEUILLY. Society of Pennsylvania Women in New York. Eight beds endowed for the year ending June, 1918, in the American Military Hospital No. 1. These beds include specific memorials for Frederick Huber Eaton [deceased Vice-President of The Pennsylvania Society], the gift of Mrs. Eaton; one for Miss Carrie M. Byers, the gift of her sister, Mrs. Joshua A. Hatfield (President of the Society of Pennsylvania Women); one endowed by Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury in honour of her son, Ensign James H. R. Cromwell, now serving with the U. S. Naval Reserve Force; one by Mrs. Rembrandt Peale in honour of her sons, Rembrandt Peale, Jr., and Van Horn Peale, both now in military service. In addition to these, Mrs. Charles M. Schwab has endowed two beds for the