, as the purpose of the organiza- tion was a most worthy one. The Lancaster County Society for Promoting Agriculture, Manufactures and the Useful Arts By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser of Wednesday, March 25th, 1800, states that a large and respectable number of citizens

Ward 217.85 South-east Ward 99.83 South-west Ward 106.25 At Lititz, Pa. 39.04 $748.25 Relief of the Sick and Poor By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Wednesday, September 10th, 1823, a meeting was held in the court house for the purpose of adopting measures for the relief of the sick and the afflicted poor

public worship both morning and evening." Collections in Aid of the Poor in Lancaster in 1829 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Monday, February 23rd, 1829, citizens of Lancaster city held a meeting at Parker's hotel for the purpose of taking into con- sideration the necessitous condition of the poor during

former President of the Lancaster County Historical Society, examined this paper on September 3rd, 1907. He made a note on it at that time that all the members were dead; that he had known, in his early boyhood, ten of them; and that twenty out of the twenty- three signers were of German descent. Another

-east Ward. North-west Ward. Jacob Etter, William Russell, P. G. Eberman, George Krause. William Ihling, Philip Metzger, C. Freeman, Jr., Martin Foltz. Henry Flick, Jacob Dorwart, George Kuhns, Jacob King. The committee of the south-west ward collected the sum of $42.45. The money was used to purchase