special interest is the use of both English and German in a brochure from the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., as well as in the soap-making directions from the Pennsylvania Salt Company. There are also a 1921 program from Lancaster’s Colonial Theatre and boxing programs that list Lancaster native, Leo

Two Distinct Periods of Ephrata Cloister History,” by John W. W. Loose. Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Vol. 55, no. 6, 1951. (photocopy) Folder 3 Historical Account of the Ephrata Cloister and the Seventh Day Baptist Society, by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr. The Aurand Press, Harrisburg

goods and a fine from the property of $96 or “a quantity of corn in the field” assessed by Pennsylvania on behalf of the U.S. government. Served 7 October 1818. (1 item, 2 pages to scan) Folder 15 The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held in London, a printed description of a Quaker meeting. (Two sheets

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real beginning of what I have been pleased to call the "contro- versial years." About two months later, April 18, 1892, the proposition of the Ephrata Water Company was first presented. Since it was already a going concern, its first interest was to ask for the privilege of extending its pipes. It

, brought about a cessa- 1 The Bowmans (Baumans), members of the Seventh Day Baptists, had a mill near the Ephrata Cloister. One of the family, Christian, followed the art of "millstone cutting," no doubt using the "Cocalico Stones," early in the history of the county, as proved by the following deeds in