Society, as follows : "The managers of the Infant School Society of Lancaster feel it a duty incumbent on them, on the anniversary of their first meeting, to present to the Society and Christian public a condensed statement of the proceedings of the past year ; and in view of which, they would raise their

THE GERMAN SOCIETY OF LANCASTER By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER THE Lancaster Journal of Monday, December 30th, 1816, con- conontained an announcement that those favoring the organization of a German society, for the relief of distressed immigrants, were requested to attend a meeting at John Erben's

is the fourth marker erected in Lancaster county by the Historical Society as a memorial to the American Indians—our earliest inhabitants, presumably. The bronze tablet, from the studio of the James H. Matthews Company, Pittsburgh, was placed on the shaft by the Haldy Marble and Granite Works ; and

which, so far as known, has survived) instead of using local papers, so we have now no means of learning when or where the exercises took place, or the names of those who participated. In the Lancaster Journal of Friday, May 1st, 1812, appeared a statement, addressed to James Buchanan, Jasper Yeates

be independent of charity. All honor to these noble women whose kindly thought of others, more than a century ago, was destined for more than a generation to relieve want in many humble homes and to bring comfort to many sorely troubled hearts! "It is more blessed to give than to receive." LANCASTER

THE PRESBYTERIAN SABBATH-SCHOOL SOCIETY By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER N Vol. XXXIII, pp. 175-188, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster I County Historical Society, appears an article entitled "The Sun- day-School Society," which describes briefly the origin of the Sun- day-school movement in Lancaster

HORSE-RACING IN LANCASTER COUNTY By HERBERT H. BECK and WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The earliest recorded organized trials of speed with horses were the chariot-races at the Greek national festivals, of which the most notable were the Olympic games, held every fourth year. Greek sculpture frequently

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

SITE OF NANTICOKE INDIAN VILLAGE MARKED. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER On Sunday afternoon, October 16th, 1932, more than four hundred mem- bers and friends of The Lancaster County Historical Society braved the rain to attend the exercises incident to the unveiling of a handsome bronze tablet marking

The Lancaster Journal of Saturday, December 1st, 1810. The Ship Conestoga By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IT is not generally known, perhaps, that a ship named the "Con- estoga",, so-called, doubtless, in honor of the famous Indian tribe for which the river in Lancaster county was named, once sailed