twenty-five cents of the retail price and two cents for each fifty cents or fraction thereof over a dollar. For example, a box of pills which sold for twenty-five cents had a lc stamp; a bottle of medicine priced at $1.50 had a 6c stamp and so on. Two citizens of Lancaster successively manufactured a

banners, the delegations made an impres- sive sight, showing the extent and diversity of activities in this fair Red Rose City. While the delegates came to their seats, the director of the program and narrator, Cameron Hawley, told of the part the organizations have played in the making of Lancaster. A

religiously-minded is proved by the records, which show, almost without exception, that they were members of the Lutheran, Reformed, Epis­ copal, Catholic, or Moravian congregation. Lancaster then was restricted· in amusements and social diversions, for complains Thomas Cookson, "wee have no Back Gammon

the Delaware Division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company at Clayton, Delaware. In December, 1892, he entered the construction department of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with offices at Mifflin, Pa. In September, 1893, he returned to Lancaster, and on the following February

County, can lay claim to a brief priority; the former by eight years, the second and third by one year. Early records show that Mary Prator, of Earl Township, in her will of April 11, 1741, bequeathed "to the Popish Church at Lancaster Borough the sum of two pounds, for the use and at the disposal of the

, Reamstown, Adamstown, 5 From Colonial and Revolutionary Posts, by Harry M. Konwiser, Dietz Press, Richmond, 1931. 5a The records of the post routes of 1809, 1810, 1825 and 1832 with other postal facts, were gathered in the library of the Post Office Department, at Washington, D. C. We hereby acknowledge the

Philadelphia (sometimes, as I have been informed, there being about one hundred in a company) carrying down the produce of the country, and return. ing with all kinds of stores and merchandise." 23 In 1772 Dr. David McClure passed through Lancaster on the way to Ohio, and wrote: "Lancaster is the largest

the northeastern part of this city has been bought for $3,500, for the purpose of erecting the proposed Locomotive Manufactory." In January, 1854, the stockholders of the Lancaster Locomotive Engine and Machine Manufacturing Company met and elected the following direc- tors: John Black, David Cockley

, 1845. Shepherd, William Robert. History of Proprietary Government in Pennsyl- vania. Columbia University Press, New York, 1896. Proceedings Lancaster County Historical Society, vol. 2, pp. 3-27, 223-237, vol. 11, p. 118. NOTE. This paper, abridged, was issued to the city and county schools as a service