An Early Threshing Machine in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER LATE in the summer of 1806, a threshing machine, invented in Scotland, was erected at David Witmer's mill in Lancaster county, Pa. The machine was capable of threshing 35 bushels of oats in an hour, of threshing and cleaning 100

Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in States "in a state of rebellion." From 1817 to 1825 he was the Vice-President of the United States, under President James Monroe. While Mr. Tompkins was Governor of New York, he passed through Lancaster borough, according to an article that appeared in the

amusements that has ever been exhibited in this town will be presented," was satisfactory evidence that theatrical performances were known to the citizens of the staid old borough prior to the year 1800. Recently, while searching the files of an old German newspaper established in Lancaster more than one

Wolf, Jr., David Summy, Lewis Becker, John Hershy, Jacob Summy, John Metz, Jacob Newcomer, Andrew Kemmerer, Jacob Snebely, Jr., and John Spickler, Sr. PUBLIC-HOUSE KEEPERS IN LANCASTER COUNTY IN 1772 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, there is preserved

The Charity School Movement in Lancaster, 1755 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER In a population numbering less than a quarter of a million people in Pennsylvania in 1755, it is estimated that about 80,000 were Germans. In 1749 the number of German immigrants reached its maximum; the records show that

paper, or papers, for each individual sufferer, to afford to each �contributor an opportunity of distributing his or her donation as he or she may think proper, an estimate being first incorporated. by said committee in each paper of the amount of the loss of each sufferer." In the Lancaster Journal 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

. In modern running races each dash is a race. 4 The Lancaster Journal, Wednesday, September 9th, 1795. 5 The Lancaster Journal, Friday, September 30th, 1796. 6 The Lancaster Journal, Friday, April 21st, 1797. �Holland, for a purse of one hundred dollars; and on the following day, an- other for a purse

at the home of D. Witmer, Jr., on Saturday, December 18th, 1830. Whether or not the meeting was held as announced, is not known, as sub- sequent issues of local papers contain no references to it. Clerk in Presbyterian Church, Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IT is not generally known that at

better able to count the cost " Thomas Ashe in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the Library of Congress is an old and interesting book on travel in the I United States. The work, in three volumes, was printed in 1808, in Lon- don, for Richard Phillips, Bridge street, by John Abraham, Clement's