Bethlen Naptár, 1949 (Ligonier)
To our second generation
BETHLEN NAPTAR 67 and Christianity. For the Bethlen Home, the Kecskemethy’s are a splendid investment. Third, the very fact that the Bethlen Home cares for its aged and its children wins a place in the hearts of Christian people in Ligonier. All over the world, the burden of caring for those who need care is the increasing problem of the age in which we live. The great task in every sector will be properly completed when we each meet the problems of need as they come to us. No world “ism” will ever do for the needy what each group, such as the Bethlen Home, does for those placed within its care. Finally, the esteem of the Ligonier Community for the Bethlen Home arises from the hearts of Christian people in Ligonier and will be maintained through the years as the Bethlen Home continues in the Christian character of its work. MRS. JAMES C. STORMONT, wife of the Pastor of the United Presbyterian Church in Ligonier. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF LIGONIER, PA. As early as 1727, before Fort Ligonier was erected, there flourished, where Ligonier now stands, on the banks of the sparkling Loyalhanna, a village of Delaware Indians, called “Loyalhanning” which means “Town — on-the-Middle-Stream”, that is, the stream that is midway between the Ohio and Juniata Rivers. Even before this, the Allegewi roamed the Laurel Mountains, the Chestnut Ridge, and the beautiful Ligonier Valley. In 1748, following Virginia’s purchasing from the Six nations of Iroquois the lands of the Ohio and its tributaries in Western Pennsylvania, the Ohio Company in which were George Washington’s half-brothers, Lawrence and Augustine, set out to settle lands in the northern part of the Ohio Valley. The French, however, also laid claim to this territory through explorer Robert Chevalier de la Salle’s having discovered the Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers, and having laid claim for France to all regions drained by these rivers and their tributaries. In 1753, the French entered the upper valley of the Ohio with armed forces, and being dealers in furs, French beads, and blankets allied themselves with the Indians more easily than did the plain, farm-minded English who cut away the red-man’s forests and hunting grounds to clear fields for agricultural purposes. The Delawares and Shawnees, by 1755, were definitely
