November 2017. Folder 2 Correspondence: Letters from boxers, congressmen, students thanking him for Christmas candy, several sympathy and thank you notes, letters relating to his approval to operate the newsstand on Post Office property. Folder 3 Newspaper clippings: Related to boxing and newsstand

authorizing the erection of the academy, the citizens will have the pleasure of seeing it in operation." Contrary to the announcement in the Lancaster Journal, the academy was not opened on the first of July; and the old Franklin College building, which at that time was in the fifth block of North Queen

BISHOP BOWMAN'S POEM* By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In view of the fact that Americans are celebrating, during the I year 1932, the bicentenary anniversary of the birth of General George Washington, the "Father of his Country," especial interest attaches to the publication of a bit of poetry written

association under the name of The Lancaster Jockey Club, for the purpose of establishing on a respectable footing, annual races to be held in the vicinity of Lancaster with the sole view of promoting the breed of fine and valuable horses. The notice in the local papers of the formation of the club was as

story will be completely finished, the lots fenced and other necessary buildings erected, before the cold season com- mences." How much money was obtained is not known. The Union Society of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Monday, July 4th, 1803, a birthday anniversary of American liberty, a

Janu- ary 9th5 and 3Oth,6 1815. The Washington Association held a banquet at Slough's tavern on Wednesday, February 22nd, 1815, at which time it celebrated the birthday of General George Washington. ? Eighty members sat down to an elaborate dinner. Eighteen toasts were drunk,— the fourteenth being as

time he uttered the first word till his lips closed on the last syllable. His manner, also, in speaking is pleasant. His gestures, which are few, are graceful but emphatic; he possesses a strong voice, and is very distinct in utterance. In fact, he combines all the qualities essential in a highly

object of the meeting having been stated to be the formation of a society for the protection and support of distressed widows, the principles upon which the association was to be established were discussed and agreed upon. Hugh Maxwell, Ebenezer Wright, George L. Mayer, Dr. F. A. Muhlenberg and William C

profane cursing and swearing and many other enormities—which most of the inhabitants witnessed with great pain, we wish and purpose to use our endeavors to prevent. We presume this inti- mation will be sufficient to prevent persons of character from assembling in this place in future, for the above