Chairman Har- rity and many other outsiders in this way have been introduced to, and have been made to especially feel, the beauties and resources of Lancaster county. But to a New Era reporter Mr. Hen- sel admitted the other day he had never joined so thoroughly apprecia- tive and intelligent a company

LANCASTER IN 1777-1780. In the recently published paper by W. U. Hensel on Major John Andre's Residence in Lancaster, 1775-76, refer- ence was made to the social life in Lancaster during the period of the American Revolution, It was pretty plainly intimated, and easily to be in- ferred, that during

, that his sor- tune—like that os most of us lawyers "came by wind and went by water." Others, however, carried sorward the waterway from Lancaster to Safe Harbor; so that while railroad plans were fomenting, dams and locks on the Conestoga were in course of con- struction and completion, packet and

preacher a hearty welcome and good dinner, and in the afternoon, the office of the day was �again performed by another minister of the established church. Notwith- standing two sermons in one day the traditional good cheer and hospitality of Lancaster seemed to date quite as far back as this period