. One such company was the Kreider Machine Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which made not one, but two, attempts to become an automobile producer. The Kreider Machine Company was organized on January 26, 1903, to "make, buy, and sell machinery and tools and other articles of wood or metal or both

Chester was manager. They also were the company's only employees.4 Carroll Aument wasted no time after the organization of the company. He made a business trip to York, Pennsylvania, on January 3, 1911, where he visited the factories of the B. C. K. Motor Car Company and the Hart-Kraft Motor Company

to January, 1889) between 1863 and 1915. They purchased Burnham's half interest �in January, 1889, and the firm remained under their control until they sold it to the Bond Foundry and Machine Company, Manheim, Pennsylvania, in 1915. In the early 1920's, the Christiana Machine Company became part of

History of the Mountwaybia Club Mrs. B. Frank Eshleman On the Western border of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania there functions a small literary club which has been enjoyed by a succession of women for almost fifty years. Known as the Mount- waybia Club, it was founded in 1924 on the principles of