Excerpt from Proceedings and Addresses, 1907 At the threshold Of the I5th annual meeting Of the pennsylvania-german Society, it is my pleasant duty and my privilege on behalf Of the local membership to wel come you in our midst. It needs but few words to convey this cordial greeting. We are heartily glad to see you, and we trust that your brief stay among us may be as agreeable and profitable to you as it is sure to be to us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.