This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners' Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.
System of Arrangement
The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.
Students at Calumet School, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Taken September 20, 1924. First row: Earnest Swank, William Swank, Eugene Lehman, Ralph Harman, Jack Brinker, Sherman Reagon, John Puskar. Second row: William Criss, James Barr, Raymond Finley, Tom Hagerty, Walter Godzinsky, Bernard McCaffrey, Stanley Dume, Frank Franes, Ryamond Shefko, Peter Adams, George Betters. Third row: Mildred myers, Lillian Swank, Isabel Burkosky, Lucinda Swank, Leon Keitz, Sara Betters, Helen Lesko, Virginia Albright, Edith Worry, Nora Reagon, Mary Staschak ("Little Mary Canary"). Fourth row: Margaret Kaslosky, Helen Bunyan, Dorothy Little, Bertha Little, Lizzie Golscak, Virginia Brown, Stella Dublinsky, Florence Hagerty, Mary Adams, Clara Godzinsky, Martha Heley, Betty Byers.
This scrapbook consists of photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings and other ephemera glued to pages of a 6.5 x 8.25 inch composition notebook with lined pages. Not all pages are used. Cover is grey and is labeled "Roberts & Meck's Seaboard Composition Book, 36 Leaves Writing Paper, Roberts & Meck, Harrisburg, Pa."
Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
