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

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

and adopted as the Constitution of the Lancaster County Temperance Society :1 "Whereas, it is now generally known and conceded that the habitual use of ardent spirits is neither necessary to health nor to the successful prosecu- tion of any business, trade or profession; but on the contrary, that it

advertised to be run over the course at New Holland, Lancaster county, Pa., for a purse of sixty dollars. The race was to consist of two mile heats3 and repeat; it was open for any horse, mare or gelding; and each horse was required to carry 140 pounds. An entrance fee of three dollars was required, if

known, as subse- quent issues of the local papers contain no references to it. Address to John Adams by Militia of Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A T a meeting of one hundred and fifty officers of the militia of Lancaster county on June 21st, 1798, the following address was read and

Representatives of the Freemen of the said Pro- 1 Miscellaneous Papers, Lancaster County, 1724-1772, Vol. 1, p. 157. �vince, in General Assembly met : The Petition of the Burgesses, Assistants, and other Inhabitants of the Borough of Lancaster "Most humbly sheweth, "That your petitioners did, sometime in the

least to the extent cited in connection with Mr. Smith's life in Lancaster. FLAG PRESENTED TO LANCASTER FENCIBLES IN 1841 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In Vol. XXXV, pp. 73-89, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society is an article entitled, "Flag Presented to Lancaster Fen- cibles in

the county seat and the site upon which Lancaster city later was to be built) was formally unveiled and presented to the people of Lancaster by Milton Thomas Garvin, prominent merchant, philanthropist and civic leader, in recognition of the sixtieth anniversary of his entrance into business. At a

John Yungling. Matthias Zahm. Although the resolutions permitted the receiving of depre- ciated paper at a discount, the committee earnestly recommended to the citizens of Lancaster city and county to receive no bank paper whatever west of Chambersburg, Pa., as the greater part of it could not be