Brief Outline on the Care o the Poor, the Sick, and insane 0/ Lancaster County, /0a. BY HENRY A. SHOWALTER For more than fifty years after the erection of Lancaster County the poor were supported by the several townships. Two Overseers of the Poor were elected in each township. The constables and

T.ive in County Officers Lancaster City, You Elect in Addition to the :t: Mayor Councilmen :j: Treasurer and Tax Collector :t: Controller School Directors Local Election Boards Alderman Constables (1949) 1 4 years 4 4 years I staggered) 1 4 years 1 4 ye.ars 9 6 years 3 each odd yr. 3 2 years Elected in

the above note told me little. My continuing curiosity sent me to the Lancaster Library where I found Wallace Nutting's "Clock Book" and Eckhardt's "Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers." The former told me little that I did not already know but the latter had the following entry — "Godschalk, Jacob

LOCAL NAMES ON AMERICAN SHIPS When Samuel M. Sener wrote in our papers, vol. 3, p. 14, about the USS Lancaster, as the oldest ship in the United States Navy, no doubt he had in mind the active ships; for lying in port, one at Newport, Rhode Island, the other at Bos- ton, Massachusetts, were the