Society, as follows : "The managers of the Infant School Society of Lancaster feel it a duty incumbent on them, on the anniversary of their first meeting, to present to the Society and Christian public a condensed statement of the proceedings of the past year ; and in view of which, they would raise their

THE GERMAN SOCIETY OF LANCASTER By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER THE Lancaster Journal of Monday, December 30th, 1816, con- conontained an announcement that those favoring the organization of a German society, for the relief of distressed immigrants, were requested to attend a meeting at John Erben's

CONTINENTAL STABLES IN LANCASTER By JACOB HILL BYRNE, ESQ. T HE lot of ground on which the building of The Lancaster County His- torical Society stands, 307 North Duke street, Lancaster, was part of an original tract of 500 acres. William Penn, Proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania, by deeds

is the fourth marker erected in Lancaster county by the Historical Society as a memorial to the American Indians—our earliest inhabitants, presumably. The bronze tablet, from the studio of the James H. Matthews Company, Pittsburgh, was placed on the shaft by the Haldy Marble and Granite Works ; and

which, so far as known, has survived) instead of using local papers, so we have now no means of learning when or where the exercises took place, or the names of those who participated. In the Lancaster Journal of Friday, May 1st, 1812, appeared a statement, addressed to James Buchanan, Jasper Yeates