. At least two other libraries were started in Philadel phia in these early days ; but, they, too, were finally absorbed by The Library Com- pany. In the latter part of 1759. a subscription library was started in Lancaster Borough, under the name of The Lancaster Library Company. It was the third

been claimed, and pos- sibly with truth, that a Sunday school was conducted by the monks of the Cloister at Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pa., as early as 1739,—forty-one years before the printer at Gloucester, England, gathered the waifs of his town into a similar school. It is also stated in the report

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

, William Frederic. Title: The earliest known advertisement of a theatrical performance in Lancaster / by William Frederic Worner. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Reitzel's Hall (Lancaster, Pa.) Playbills--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Theater--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Advertising--Pennsylvania--Lancaster

Report of Committee on Muhlenberg Tablet The tablet in memory of Henry E. Muhlenberg was placed on the Appel building, at the northeast corner of Duke and Grant Streets, on June 4th, 1929. The bronze tablet, 12 by 18 inches, from the Matthews Company, of Pittsburgh, cost $69. The bill was paid by

LANCASTER COUNTY MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY By William Frederic Worner. In 1727 or 28, when Benjamin Franklin was about twenty-two years of age, he influenced a number of well-informed men in Philadelphia to unite with with him in forming a club to be named the "Junto." He states

Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in States "in a state of rebellion." From 1817 to 1825 he was the Vice-President of the United States, under President James Monroe. While Mr. Tompkins was Governor of New York, he passed through Lancaster borough, according to an article that appeared in the

The Columbia Race Riots By William Frederic Worner Homer, 3OOO years ago, said : " Most sons are inferior to their fathers, a few are equal, and fewer still are superior to them." The history of Columbia occupies a unique place in the annals of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. From an early period