the ice on the Conestoga, which * For 1936, the city of Reading, Pa., reports an average daily consump- tion of 12,900,000 gallons. THE WATER SUPPLY OF LANCASTER 17 .was, at some points: upstream, frozen to the bottom. Such a con- dition was not known to have existed previously, but by noon time the

bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

Journal of Monday, March 24th, 1817, con- tained the following: "At a meeting of the inhabitants of Lancaster county, friendly to the protection and promotion of domestic manufactures, convened at the court house on the 17th inst., pursuant to public notice, the committee appointed for that purpose