An Old Lancaster County Church To every true American citizen Pennsylvania will ever be of interest in view of the events that occurred on its soil in connection with the origin and development of our glorious re- public. Citizens of Pennsylvania rejoice in their Commonwealth in view of what it is

Earliest Reformed Church in Lancaster County. The early history of Lancaster county gathers around its ancient churches. In colonial days, far more than at pre- sent, the church was the centre of so- cial life; and those who would study that life in its more recent develop- ments should not fail to

- tion at that date. On December 17, 1855, Emanuel Shaeffer, the President of the Lancaster Saving Institution, sold to "The Wabank House on the banks of the Conestoga, in the county of Lancaster," "all the estate, right, title, interest, property claim and de- �mend whatsoever the party of the first

who came to Philadelphia settled in Dela- ware, Northeastern Maryland and Pennsylvania. Some located at Nesh- aminy, in Bucks county, others at the Gap, Donegal, Pequea and Southern Lancaster and Chester counties. In these localities they were in such num- bers that they formed congregations, built

made in some localities to grow flax for the seed alone. The crop was harvested with reapers, no value being attached to the fibre. But the enterprise was not remunerative, and,consequently, was soon abandoned. In conclusion, I desire to appeal to the citizens of our good old county of Lancaster who

THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER IN LANCASTER COUNTY. It will be generally conceded, I think, by those who have given the matter any attention or who are acquainted with the facts, that there is no city of equal size in the country more given to newspaper reading than Lancaster. It is to-day sup- porting