THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER IN LANCASTER COUNTY. It will be generally conceded, I think, by those who have given the matter any attention or who are acquainted with the facts, that there is no city of equal size in the country more given to newspaper reading than Lancaster. It is to-day sup- porting

THE FEMALE SUNDAY-SCHOOL SOCIETY OF SAINT JAMES'S CHURCH, LANCASTER William Frederic Worner Mr. William A. B. Halbach, a member of one of Lancaster's oldest fami- lies, has kindly presented to the Lancaster County Historical Society a pam- phlet, 4 by 5 inches in size, that contains much of local

TWO NOTABLE MINING INDUSTRIES OF LANCASTER COUNTY By H. Luther Willig While the bounteous harvests of her fair fields have made Lancaster County as the "Garden Spot of Pennsylvania" her past mining industries have added additional luster to her name through the discovery of the rare minerals

means for the preservation of records incomplete, and also the turbu- lent and unsettled state of the country,the paucity of data becomes obvious. The aim of the historian should be to present facts, such as can be substantiated by documentary evidence, and such as have been derived from personal

THE EARLIEST KNOWN ADVERTISEMENT OF A THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner In Vol. 7, No. 2, of the Proceedings of the Lancaster County Historical Society, appears a very illuminating paper on the subject of "Early Lancas- ter Playbills and Playhouses." In this monograph

belonging to the Watt & Shand store and it was here that the newly invented auger was manufactured during the following six years. Mr. Henry was President of the Court of Common Pleas, Treasurer of the County of Lancaster, a member of Continental Congress and was other- wise prominent in public affairs. It