outstanding characteristic of corporate development in the United States. This is especially true in the growth of public utilities. Practically all the many gas companies, as well as the electric lighting companies, which were formed in Lancaster County be- ginning with the gas industry in 1849, and the

ranking among the most gigantic of all in the United States, and therefore in the whole world. Our story concerns only our own county. But let us take a glimpse or two into the dim past. One of the first references to the "post" or post office is found in the Bible. In the eighth chapter and tenth verse

The Army Heart A War Incident tin Lancaster County By H. M. J. KLEIN I HAVE lying on the desk before me all available documents relating to a very interesting and important series of events which occurred in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, shortly after the United States entered the Second World

. Some of these have figured prominently in the civic, political, and religious life of the community. 1. OF THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY Robert Barber, born in England, came to Chester in the latter part of �the seventeenth century. For a while he followed a seafaring life, but after being taken by

were in circulation in Lancaster County. Spanish Milled Dollars were recognized as legal tender in the United States until 1857. Between 1800 and the passage of the National Banking Act in 1863, large amounts of currency were issued by private banks. This was issued without specific security, and the

Constitution for the United States was put into operation and leaders of the realist type, such as Benjamin Franklin, began to express new views on education of the people in a country where the people are the sovereigns, there were many who realized that a change was impending, but no one could foresee what

authentic account should be recorded in the annals of our Society. The Reformed Mennonite Church today has spread through- out the greater part of the United States and through some prov- inces in Canada. It adheres strictly to the doctrine of Menno Simon (who was a contemporary of Luther, Zwingli and

Tuesday, but fastnachts should be eaten. On Ash Wednesday the ashes of the fastnacht fire should be sprinkled on the cattle and horses to rid them of lice. Mrs. Gibbons tells of a friend who visited a cattle auction on Ash Wednesday in Lancaster County and noticed that all the cattle offered for sale had

post office, established in 1906, in Armstrong County, was not named for Bernard J. McGrann, but for Philip R. McGrann, the postmaster, no relative of Bernard. RICHARD J. MCGRANN, a cousin of Bernard J. McGrann, was born in New York City in 1837, and died at his Prince Street home in Lancaster

the first president of the United States, under the provision of Article II, of the then recently adopted Constitution, Lancaster County had already existed as a body politic and civil unit for sixty years, was one of the largest, and as before stated, among the most populous counties in the thirteen