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

Lancaster Journal of Friday, January 15th, 1830, contained a statement of donations received by Mayor Michael Carpen- ter from October 7th, 1847, to January 13th, 1849, for dis- tribution among the poor of the city of Lancaster. The statement is as follows : RECEIPTS. Received from Hon. James Buchanan, in

THE PROMOTION OF INDUSTRY AND PREVENTION OF PAUPERISM. We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, have entered into an association for the purpose of alleviat- ing the evils of poverty and mitigating the wants and sufferings of the poor in the city of

been received for the sufferers and deposited in the Branch Bank of Pennsylvania. Collections for the Sufferers from Fire in Lancaster in 1823 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, July 25th, 1823, near midnight, the inhabitants of Lancaster were awakened by the cry of fire. It originated in the

. Collections in Aid of the Poor By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER THE Lancaster Journal of Friday, January 8th, 1830, stated that the committee appointed in the south-east ward of Lancaster during the winter for the purchase and distribution of wood among the poor, had left an account at the office of that paper of

probable expense of introducing the waters of the Conestoga into the city of Lancaster." It was not, however, until Washington's birthday, February 22nd, 1837, that water from the Conestoga flowed for the first time into the reservoir on East King street. Collections in Aid of the Greeks By WILLIAM

, maintain and provide for, and employ all paupers, poor and destitute persons entitled to relief who are residents of the County of Lancaster. Abolition of Poor Directors The Pennsylvania Legislature enacted a law in 1937 under the adminis- tration of Governor George H. Earle, which provided for two drastic

reported a constitution for the government of the 'American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry', which was read, approved and unanimously adopted. Every inhabitant of the county of Lancaster who feels an individual interest in the encouragement of

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