quarter of a century, The Lancaster Gas Company operated without competition and with success. Among the records showing the attitudes of the public towards this new method of lighting the following is cited from the account books and consistory minutes of the German Reformed Church, now the First

Libraries in Lancaster By ELIZABETH CLARKE KIEFFER In 1760, when Lancaster was one of the most thriving inland cities of the colonies, and a point of interest to travellers who wished to understand America, a group of leading citizens met to form the "Lancaster Library Company." 1 This first board

from Pennsylvania to California, among them the first one here in Lancaster, the Adams & Perry Watch Manufac- turing Co., which was the first company of his promotion in which his own name appears. Its building formed the nucleus of the present great structure that houses the Hamilton Watch Company

on the new trolley line was commenced in the early fall of 1892 when the first surveys were made. The company hired fifty Hungarians as laborers. The contract for building the line was awarded to Edward McGovern of Lancaster, and called for completion of the line by December 31, 1892. Actual