theatrical amusements in Lancaster. It is meant as a methodical outline which attempts to show the important turning points in the development of the Lancaster theatre and to find the interrelation between amusement and cultural trends in the city and country at large.1 Social events are very complicated

Social Life in Lancaster Borough By ELIZABETH CLARKE KIEFFER It was Benjamin Rush writing in 1789 on the "Manners and Customs of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania," 1 who called attention to the fact that the description given by Tacitus of the German Village of the first cen- tury A.D

more rapidly. Many people moved to town. Trade began to flourish. The future looked hopeful. That is one of the reasons why the petition for a charter was made and granted at that time. �We know very little of the village life of early Lancaster from 1730 to 1742. We hardly know how the village was

of ordinary routine affairs, such as would happen in the lives of most women in a small Lancaster County community, and yet it was "high-lighted" by national affairs as they transpired in the memorable year of 1865. Miss Arndt in that year made two visits to the metropolis of Philadelphia, and when

triumphant notes ringing from the old organ which had often responded to her own fingers, that its words were very true : "The Lord of Life is risen, And love no longer grieves." BIBLIOGRAPHY Bachman, George Calvin—The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, 1942. (Pennsylvania German Society, vol. 49). Brand

, Thomas Cookson George Sanderson, Sebastian Graff Town Clk." There were many laws; many with severe penalties, and to us in these days the punishment for some crimes seems severe. But this paper deals not �with the life of wicked inhabitants, but with the religious life of the early community. Before the

. Root, Vice- President and Treasurer, of Allentown, Pa.; Mr. L. C. Pursell, Second Vice-President, of Allentown, Pa.; and to Mr. James Huebner, Vice-President, Lancaster Division, Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. Most of the material in this study has been secured from data and records owned by the

Early Coin and Private Scrip of Lancaster County By C. H. MARTIN In introducing the subject of this paper I wish to call your attention to the large variety of coin which circulated or was referred to in early Lan- caster County, and follow with brief reference to the origin and extent of issues of

town and County of Lancaster, which continued for decades. Miss Kieffer's fine paper on "Social Life in Lancaster Borough," appearing in Volume 45, No. 5, Proceedings of this Society, pointed out "that while the English were in very small minority in Lancaster, (which was true to a much larger extent

- tracting work in Western Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Peter McTague died March 8, 1910, aged eighty-five years. �Among the young civil engineers in the early days of railroad building was SAMUEL W. MIFFLIN, of the famous family in Columbia, Pa. He was em- ployed by the larger railroad companies in