historic Lancaster county, who has painted a scene from a very early incident in the development of the capital town of our county. It represents the arrival of James Hamilton, who laid out this city of ours, in which nearly 70,000 people now reside. �"To create is one of the great satisfactions of life

Buchanan Made a Mason in Lodge No. 43 December 11, 1816 Worshipful Master 1822-1823 President of the United States 1857-1861 Born, Stony Batter, Franklin Co., Pa. April 23, 1791 Died, Wheatland, Lancaster Co., Pa. June 1, 1868. In the winter of 1816-17, Hon. James Buchanan, then but twenty-five years of

!" exclaimed Mr. Roosevelt, with a pleased smile, as Mrs. Ross presented to him the beautiful cluster of red roses, em- blematic of the house of Lancaster. Publications of The Lancaster County Historical Society, dealing with the life of James Buchanan and an engraving of Pennsylvania's only President, were

the James H. Matthews Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was erected on that part of the venerable building now owned and occupied by The Lan- caster County Historical Society. The exercises incident to the unveiling of the tablet, were in charge of Prof. Herbert H. Beck, president of The Lancaster County

adopted. 2 It was as fol- lows : CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER FOR THE PROMO- TION OF DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES AND NATIONAL INDUSTRY. ARTICLE I. This society is formed under the name and description of "The American Society of the County of Lancaster for the Promotion of

we change with them.") CENTENARY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BIRTH OBSERVED IN LANCASTER By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A LARGE and respectable meeting of citizens was held in the court house in Penn square, Lancaster city on Thursday eve- ning, February 9th, 1832, for the purpose of making provision for the

Epis- copal church, Lancaster, on Friday, March 27th, 1931. The tablet was erected by St. James's church school, with money obtained at Christmas, 1929, and represents the school's birthday gift to the King of kings. The tablet was designed by the James H. Matthews Company, Pittsburgh, Pa.; and the

least to the extent cited in connection with Mr. Smith's life in Lancaster. FLAG PRESENTED TO LANCASTER FENCIBLES IN 1841 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In Vol. XXXV, pp. 73-89, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society is an article entitled, "Flag Presented to Lancaster Fen- cibles in

to the gutter on each street front. It is not known when the first coffee house was established in Lancaster, but we learn from the following advertisement in The Intelligencer and Weekly Advertiser of Wednesday, May 27th, 1801, that in that year the town could boast of such a place of refreshment

influential citizen. In that article the statement is made that there is nothing on his tombstone in St. James's churchyard in Lancaster, to indicate that Mr. Chambers served as an officer in the Revolutionary War and as a delegate to the convention which ratified the Federal Constitution on the part of