could but read in its face the scenes that passed before it! The grandfathers' clocks, as we have them today, began first to take form in the countries beyond the sea, about one hundred years before they were made in Lancaster County. The clock that is run by a weight and gov- erned by a pendulum is not

north wall cut through the center of another trench. In a cess-pool excavation im- mediately northeast of the building, the bones of three individuals were found. Of the 110 buried thereabouts the remains of about twenty were uncovered. The remainder lie to the north, northeast and east of the house

course at the two taverns conducted by John Bender and John Sheaffer on the Horseshoe road in Earl township, Lancaster county. The race, three mile heats and repeat, was open to any horse, mare or gelding seven years of age and under. On the following day, a race of two mile heats and repeat, for a purse

other Congregations at 11 :45? But we found it good to leave it as it is." In 1935, the "dinner bell," the village voice pulled from the Moravian Church steeple by the sexton, still rings out each weekday at the same minute of 11:30 the Collegium held to one hundred and forty- seven years ago. * John

site along the Susquehanna. Of many marker events in which I have taken part in Lancaster and neighboring counties, there has been none whose purpose appeals to my per- sonal appetite for local historical facts as much as does this one marking Wright's Ferry. All of us interested in history have

1846, were fought with these crude and uncertain igniters. There is a curious chronological turn of Fate in the fact that certain and precise ignition of gunpowder was first used in warfare exactly five hundred years after men be- gan killing each other with the explosive mixture. Mercuric ful- minate

Lancaster County; he named Bohemia and the Bohemia River within that county in which he was an extensive landowner. He was the first naturalized citizen in America, and he seems to have been the man who started the tobacco industry. These facts, which are of deep local interest, have been col- lected