this history: Amateur Papers of Lancaster County. A son of Judge Lewis edited and published the first amateur paper printed in Lancaster, so far as I have been able to trace. This was in the year 1849. In 1855 another paper was started by John H. Carmany, and continued for about a year. The office of

Mineral Deposits and Works of the Hempfields, Every one of the forty townships in Lancaster county has some earth de- posits, or mineral veins, of a more or less productive value. And these ores and minerals have a history. It is not generally known, and may even seem surprising, that our local

by them.* The Millerites at Landisville. And now I shall lead you to the most interesting part of this sketch— the story of the local meeting place of the Millerites, as the Second Advent- ists were called in Lancaster county. †Little does the growing generation of the people of our rural districts

E., thus became interested in voice culture; afterward a student at Millersville and one of the two first lady graduates from the Normal School. Miss Hartman subse- quently was first assistant teacher of the Girls' High School, Lancaster, and among the branches taught was music. The Bethel Church of

. Folks didn't drive in a natty �team to a minister then. They rode en horseback to Lancaster—men and women—and enjoyed it, coming home to a plain country abode, to begin life's hard work. Location of the First Musselman. Going surther on, the newer and more level road gradually winds around the hill to