...7wo-hundredth Anniveriary of Lancasters incorporation -As a &rough By M. LUTHER HEISEY The first of May — a day usually associated with disorders and demon- strations in the cities of Europe; the First of May—here a day of rejoicing and rededication for the citizens of Lancaster, this year made

Lancaster 187o: Celebrated People Lectured in the City One Hundred Years Ago. A Compilation by George L. Heiges One hundred years ago the leaders in our nation had but one means apart from the medium of the press to contact their fellow citizens and present their views; and that was the American

Gilmore Day: Lancaster Musical Holiday Honoring Patrick S. Gilmore Mrs. Erwin H. Johnson Lancaster County once had its own musical holiday, GILMORE DAY, celebrated in the memory of Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore the great Irish-American bandmaster. First observed on June 12, 1905, being initiated by the

South Queen Street As I Knew It By THEODORE DILLER South Queen Street, Lancaster, begins in Center Square and runs directly south to the City line; and beyond this point the road is continued southward, although not in a direct line, through Willow Street, Quarryville and Buck to the Maryland line

was the property of William Bausman, Regis- ter and Recorder for the county of Lancaster from the year 1809 to 1818,1 and contains receipts to him from people of early Lancaster. Some of the names of those attached to these receipts are old and familiar, others are new, but the names contained in the

life in Lancaster, suggested by the passing of one of the most notable landmarks of house- hold life in our fair town. Notwithstanding the stability or Lancaster's population and the per- sistence in its citizenship of many families who have been of it for generations, there is a notable ab- sence of

, but, as he was good natured at heart, everybody was his friend. For more than forty years he was the crier in the Lancaster Courts. Prior to becoming such he had been a tipstaff, and, in consequence, he had been an officer of the Court for a full half century. He was rarely sick, and never absent from

Early Lancaster Playbills and Playhouses. Public shows and amusements are probably nearly as old as the human race itself. We know they have exist- ed among all civilized nations from their earliest history. In Greece, where they reached their highest early development, they were in existence five

Cooper's Hotel on many occasions. The late Alfred Sanderson some few years since stated in an article on �"Theatres in Lancaster," that he had witnessed the erection of the first building actually devoted to theatrical performances in this city. It was the Landis Theatre and Museum, on West Chestnut street

LANCASTER IN 1777-1780. In the recently published paper by W. U. Hensel on Major John Andre's Residence in Lancaster, 1775-76, refer- ence was made to the social life in Lancaster during the period of the American Revolution, It was pretty plainly intimated, and easily to be in- ferred, that during