the loiterer meets Some strange historic lore. "Thy sons in valor bore their part, And many a noble name Endeared unto the Nation's heart Lives on the rolls of Fame!" Prior to 1708 or 1709, there were no settlements in what is now known as Lancaster county, then forming a part of Chester. A few whites

. Columbia was divided into two wards in 1862. In 1863 the Newtown District, in Rapho township, was detached from the Strickler's School House District in the same township. The Newtown School House is the polling place. In 1867 Lancaster city was divided into nine wards and as many polls. Co- lumbia

Lancaster and begun its sittings here on September 27, of that year. Its stay here was of the briefest. Fear of molestation by the enemy induced an- other move, this time to York, where it began its sittings on October 2, 1777. About the same time the General Assembly of the State seems to have deemed a

"romance of Christian philanthropy.". And so the case has stood until this very hour. It is true that a custom somewhat similar was known to our provincial history. Even before Stiegel's time men and women in Penn's province had been doing charitable things along this line. Old deeds made more than one

HISTORICAL POINTS OF INTEREST ALONG THE STRASBURG TROLLEY ROAD. There is scarcely any portion of Lancaster county that does not afford valuable material for the student of local history. Almost any section can be taken up, and with the least pains towards accurate research it is sur- prising how