wedges, which were loosened by the jolting of the cars.—Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 319. Last spring (1940), we saw two hundred of these sandstone blocks pulled out by a tractor from the original roadbed of the old Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, on the farm of Daniel F. King

there. No provisions had then been made for establishing post routes or for carrier service. So it was that enterprising men in many of the larger cities, and some in cities the size of Lancaster and Wilmington, started a receiving and delivery service under local management. The general public

. But ere the clocks had stopped their "tick-tock," or the billows of smoke had evaporated from the muzzles of her guns, Lancaster County artisans had turned to another field of enterprise to display their skill and to maintain the fame of the county. OF SUPERLATIVE QUALITY It is a fact well known to

offered by him, "a daguerreotype apparatus, and materials of the best kind, for sale." 5 If he used 4 Ellis and Evans' History o f Lancaster County, p. 593. 5 Advertisement appearing in the Columbia Spy from September 18 to �the outfit, he follows Fahnestock and Damant as the next oldest photographer in

Colonial Lancaster / was a Center / this tablet / is erected on the Bicen- tennial / of Lancaster's / Incorporation as a Borough / May 1, 1742/ by the / Lancaster County / Historical Society / May 1, 1942. "The Historical Society presents this tablet to the city with authentic assurance of the facts of

to be a fascinating charm about the pot- ter and his wheel, and his ability to give form to various objects from his crude equipment, working with his thumbs and fingers on a plastic mass of wet earth. The Swop es Early in the history of Lancaster County the trade of the potter was not unknown. The

County, can lay claim to a brief priority; the former by eight years, the second and third by one year. Early records show that Mary Prator, of Earl Township, in her will of April 11, 1741, bequeathed "to the Popish Church at Lancaster Borough the sum of two pounds, for the use and at the disposal of the

- ing to do no great oppertunity of hearing debates Pet[i]tions for Turnpikes, fisheries, and Pensions seem to be the order of the day. Friday 13 Jany Bot a horse after some troubl[e] Started from Sleymakers in Lancaster at one o'clock afternoon for Pittsburgh. (From the Pennsylvania Magazine of History