. In Charter Book 1, p. 34, in the Recorder's office, appears the following: Amendment to the Charter of the Society for the Promotion of Industry and Prevention of Pauperism. To the honorable the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county: The petition of Annie E. Henderson, Mary R. Patterson, Mary E

Philadelphia (excepting those in the city of Lancaster which pay specie when demanded) after the 14th day of November next." 5 Lancaster Journal, Wednesday, November 4th, 1818. The Lancaster County Society for the Encour- agement of American Manufactures By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of citizens of 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

as injurious to the general interest of the community in which the wrong is done. 4. "Resolved, That the committee appointed at the last meet- ing be a committee to prepare articles of association and rules for the government of the Mechanics' Society of the City and County of Lancaster, and make

passage apply to John Hemphill, 42 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa." Society for the Support and Protection of Indigent Orphans By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER 0N Friday, July 19th, 1822, a number of ladies met in the Sun- day-school house of Saint James's Protestant Episcopal church for the purpose of forming

by The Lancaster County Historical Society, not only to the city, but also to the county and to the state of Pennsylvania. The exercises were held Sunday afternoon, October 13, 1935, on South Lime Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and the tablet was placed on the property No. 46 South Lime Street

The Infant School Society of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER I N September, 1831, the Infant School Society of Lancaster was organized ; and a room for the sessions of the school was secured in the Lancaster County Academy building,' which stood on the east side of North Lime street, near

Lancaster that within �a little more than a year a society established for such purposes as this has grown to a membership approaching seventy. I fondly hope that it may long flourish and increase, and be an ornament to the German name in Lancaster. The benefits that have already arisen out of its existence

officers. The membership, which numbered sixty-eight, was increased to more than one hundred and thirty. This splendid result was achieved in Lancaster in about three months' time. Rev. W. Niles, agent of the American Temperance Society, delivered an able address for the cause of temperance in the court