Excerpt from The German Newspapers of Lebanon County, Vol. 5: Read Before the Lebanon County Historical Society, April 15, 1910 But now conditions are changed. Many of the formerly prosperous German papers have ceased publication, and nearly all of those still issued are on the wane. The change was only natural, and its results could well be anticipated. Originally. The schools in eastern Pennsylvania were nearly all conducted in German. But German instruction was gradually diminished. 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.