HORSE-RACING IN LANCASTER COUNTY By HERBERT H. BECK and WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The earliest recorded organized trials of speed with horses were the chariot-races at the Greek national festivals, of which the most notable were the Olympic games, held every fourth year. Greek sculpture frequently

II. JOSEPH BONAPARTE THE EX-KING OF SPAIN IN LANCASTER By William Frederic Worner Joseph Bonaparte, eldest brother of Napoleon, was born January 7, 1768, at Corte, on the island of Corsica. He was educated at the Colloge at Autun, in France. In 1785, he returned to Corsica, and, shortly thereafter

bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

The American Society of Lancaster County for the Promotion of Domestic Manufactures and National Industry. By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 28th, 1817, con- tained the following notice : "The citizens of the borough of Lancaster, and gentlemen from the country

and economy." The imme- diate effect of this appeal, after the case had been presented to the States of Holland and West Friesland, was the granting, by those states, of 2,000 guilders per annum, for five years from that date, for the instruction of the Germans and their children in Pennsylvania

of Distillers By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER A MEETING of distillers of Lancaster county was held at John Whiteside's tavern, in the borough of Lancaster, on Saturday, November 11th, 1815. Jacob Miller was appointed chairman, and John Rohrer secretary.' The distillers met for the purpose of preparing a

and adopted as the Constitution of the Lancaster County Temperance Society :1 "Whereas, it is now generally known and conceded that the habitual use of ardent spirits is neither necessary to health nor to the successful prosecu- tion of any business, trade or profession; but on the contrary, that it

inscription on the bronze tablet is as follows: "In memory of the Nanticoke Indian Tribe which was located on this tract between the years 1721 and 1748. Grant of 742 acres from the Penns to Henry Carpenter May 9, 1734. Marked by The Lancaster County Historical Society, 1932." The committee in charge of the

been claimed, and pos- sibly with truth, that a Sunday school was conducted by the monks of the Cloister at Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pa., as early as 1739,—forty-one years before the printer at Gloucester, England, gathered the waifs of his town into a similar school. It is also stated in the report