monument to all of the peoples of Lancaster county and especially to the citizens of Conestoga township, and through you. Harry Fehl, to the family of George Fehl, we deliver its care and protection, and to his descendants and to all future possessors of the Postle- thwaite farm we deliver it in charge

ITEMS IN THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE CONCERNING LANCASTER COUNTY. In the October number of 1907, the December number of 1910, and the May number of 1913, of the proceedings of this Society, I gave installments in consecutive order of local Lancaster county news from 1719 to 1746 found in the American

The Grand Army of the Republic in Lancaster County by Glenn B. Knight It was early 1866 and the United States of America — now securely one nation again — was waking to the reality of recovery from war. In prior wars the care for the veteran warrior was the province of the family or the community

close.115 With the advent of the talkies, the movies' victory over vaudeville was assured. The battle for clients and their money had raged in Lancaster for over twenty years. In 1905, the Family Theatre was the most attractive and popular vaudeville theater in town. George Krupa's nickelodeon

home in Pennsylvania, largely in Lancaster county. 2. Who These Pioneers of Lancas- ter County Settlement Were; and Where They Came From. 3. When They Began the Settle- ment of Lancaster County; and, 4. With Exactness, Where They First Settled in This County. PART ONE. The European Historical

points a steady finger at Penn- sylvania when these early items come to light. A Spanish vessel, in 1703 brought slaves to Pennsylvania,' and the following year, 1704, Antonio Car- lea was decided not to be a slave,' al- though the same year the Sheriff sold Joseph Cloud's servant boy as a slave.' In

The First White Man In Pennsylvania and in Lancaster County. There are probably not a half-dozen persons in this audience who can name the first white man who set his feet on the soil that to-day constitutes the great State of Pennsylvania, And yet that comparatively unknown man had one of the most

possible that circus performances were held there at some point.' John Landis, who owned a tavern next door, was one of the proprietors of the theatre, for in a Lancaster Journaladvertisement of October 12, 1821, the theatre is referred to as "Mr. Landis's theatre." A local amateur theatrical organization

existence of older cemeteries. The Nissly and Musser family burial plots, for example, located in the northeast quadrant of Lancaster, had been displaced when the Pennsylvania Railroad laid tracks entering the city, as was the old Quaker Cemetery. A similar fate surely would befall other graveyards as urban

Jersey, employees were paid better than at Stehli Company. An editorial in the Intelligencer asserted that the wages for Lancaster silk workers were the lowest he had ever seen, being about half that paid by mills in other parts of Pennsylvania. Estimating from the editorial, wages at the Stehli mill