describe garbage furnaces for cities, hotels and families and cremation furnaces for human bodies. He also manufactured antiseptic cuspidors. The Lancaster Crematorium and Funeral Reform Society published a monthly journal, The Modern Crematist, said to be the first of its kind in the nation. The 16-page

Society's first venture in original publications. The 1883 Ellis and Evans History of Lancaster County and the 1875 Everts and Stewart Atlas of Lancaster County have been reprinted by the Society. A. Hunter Rineer's magnum opus, Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County, Pa., published posthumously in

Seventy-Five Years of Publishing Lancaster County History by John Ward Willson Loose As the Journalof the Lancaster County Historical Society cele- brates its seventy-fifth anniversary, we are reminded it may be well to pause and to reflect on the history of that venerable publication. The

Evolution of the Government of Lancaster: Village, Borough, City By John W" W" Loose, F"L.C"H"S" For the first dozen years of its existence Lancaster did not have a governing body of its own. Lancaster County's original townships were defined by the magistrates and citizens 9 June 1729, and were