Collections for the Poor in 1795 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of the "Association for the Relief of the Poor," of the borough of Lancaster, was held at the house of Chris- topher Brenner on Monday, November 2nd, 1795. John Joseph Henry occupied the chair. The committees appointed to collect

executors, in trust, for them to give the same to such poor persons as they may think proper, or the value thereof, or any part thereof. "I likewise give and bequeath to my said executors, in trust, five hundred dollars, to mitigate the sufferings of poor people in the city of Lancaster, of good moral

was made from a species of grass never before used for that purpose. Soon women, and a great number of children at the public school in the city, mastered the art of plaiting the straw. The grass from which the hat was made grew abundantly, at that time, in Lancaster county. Joel Lightner, Jr., was