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

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

Zeitung and Anzeigs Nachrichten of Wednesday, August 22, 1792, which not only substantiates my statement regarding interest in literature and theatricals but also shows that the Lan- caster of 1792 was not unlike the Lancaster of this modern day in that it had that most detested of all parasites, the book

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

The Saint Patrick Benevolent Society of Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER N Thursday evening, August 22nd, 1816, a number of Irish- men, and descendants of Irishmen, met at the tavern of Arch- ibald McLenegan on East King street, in the borough of Lan- caster, and formed an association

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

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