Strasburg township, Lancaster county, Pa., added the following interesting recollec- tions of primitive conditions prevailing when he was a boy on a farm. The extract from Mr. Bishop's letter has value in that it reveals the vast improvements that have been made in agricultural implements within the memory

Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. Part II—The Gas Industry in Lancaster County The first gas company to successfully operate in Lancaster County was The Lancaster Gas Company chartered April 7, 1849. A gas plant was built on land purchased in the southwestern part of the city of Lancaster near Hoffman's

Grandfathers' Clocks: Their Making and Their Makers in Lancaster County * By D. F. MAGEE, ESQ. Whilst Lancaster County is not the first or only home of the so-called "Grandfathers' Clock," yet the extent and the excellence of the clock industry in this type of clocks entitle our county to claim

TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF FARMING IN LANCASTER COUNTY By LEVI B. HUBER P ENNSYLVANIA'S farming has been diversified and fairly well balanced for two centuries. The first agricultural report of the Province was made in 1685 by William Penn himself. He re- ported the growing (in his colony) of wheat, rye

Wolf, Jr., David Summy, Lewis Becker, John Hershy, Jacob Summy, John Metz, Jacob Newcomer, Andrew Kemmerer, Jacob Snebely, Jr., and John Spickler, Sr. PUBLIC-HOUSE KEEPERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY IN 1772 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, there is preserved

HORSE-RACING IN LANCASTER COUNTY By HERBERT H. BECK and WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The earliest recorded organized trials of speed with horses were the chariot-races at the Greek national festivals, of which the most notable were the Olympic games, held every fourth year. Greek sculpture frequently

A HISTORY OF AVIATION IN LANCASTER COUNTY By HUGH W. NEVIN Aviation, we hear on every side, is in its infancy. Although our modern transport ships fly through the air with the greatest of ease, crossing the continent between dawn and dusk, joining the north and the south by hours, crossing the