dissenting, that the Lancaster County Historical Society— if not the State Association—should see to it that time and decay work no further ravages upon these most mem- orable sites, monuments of the early �history of Pennsylvania and the his- tory of printing and literature in the United States. They noted

that rather gloomy period of our national history there were two very distinct elements in Lancaster society—the one pro-Eng- lish, sympathizing rather with the British cause, and the other, less notable socially, in accord with the Revolutionary movement (scarcely then more than a rebellion). While it

by the proud memorial raised within those venerable walls to a boy, who, for a brief period of our Revolutionary history, was a resident, if pot a citizen, of Lancaster and dwelt across the street from my own home. In an Illustrious Group. I forgot for a time the monarchs and statesmen, soldiers and

How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster. The casual purchase of a basketful of old books at a recent public sale threw into my possession three small manuscript volumes of rare local in- terest. They relate to an incident in the history of Lancaster city and os the public works of the

Scotch-Irish of lower Lancaster county, was born Dr. David Ramsey— for forty years a distinguished citizen of South Carolina, whose career from his birth in a Drumore cabin, as or- ator, physician, historian and presi- dent of Congress, to the date of his tragic death from the bullet of a maniac, offers

recorded memorials of a Lancaster County woman who wrote and wrought one hundred years ago, when Iris clubs—and even Hamilton Clubs—for better or for worse—were scarcer than they are now, and "books were books!" My tale had been longer were the literary remains os Sally Hastings' life in Western