Pennsylvania until the Constitution of 1968 revised the judiciary. Those elected to that office now are called "district justices," and they are required to undergo special training and to demonstrate competence prior to being elected. Presidents of the Lancaster County Courts Lancaster County was served well

free from the cancer of vice and sin, the records of the Lancaster County Court state otherwise. Upright gentlemen of Lancaster could visit the towns along the Susquehanna River, but bawdyhouses were to be found scattered throughout the county. During the 1880s an effort was made in Lancaster to form a

not his sonnets measure up to world- class standards is open to question, but Mifflin certainly was the best Lancaster County produced. We have quite a few prominent authors of the past century but they are beyond our purview. The Ephrata Cloister press was kept busy turning out religious publications

visitor was introduced to THE BOOK, the Holy Writ from the inspired hands of Saints Samuel Evans and Franklin W. Ellis, also known as the authors and �12 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY editors of the Ellis and Evans History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, published in 1883. It was

. Clio was saddened this year by the death of its 87-year-old president, Dr. Emanuel V. Gerhart. �Clio's third president, W. Uhler Hensel, Esquire (1905-1915) Clio's fourth president, Dr. George W. Richards (1915-1939) 58 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1904-1905 W. U. Hensel, Esq. was