down to that date from the four "Source Books" above mentioned; and also from the other several series of the Pennsylvania Archives, now published, seven or eight series in all. This local history lies hidden in a mass of our Pennsylvania History generally, as it is found in the several thousand of

of our county's history-1729, 1730, 1733 and 1734. This year was one of many troubles in our county. In 1731 the Palatines began settling across the Susque- hanna (1 A. 483). By 1736 there were many families on the west side and a plot to drive out sixty families was discovered (3 V. 288). Many of

THE FIRST WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN LANCASTER CITY: A COM- PARISON WITH THE MALE VOTE; YOUTHFUL AND AGED VOTERS COMPARED By H. Frank Eshleman The local history which I present to you, herein, is only six years old. It is valuable, however, because of what it records generally, and also because it

uncorrelated history of a locality, that it is not so difficult a matter to write that history, as it is to find the data from which to write it. With this thought in view I desire to set forth in chronological order, and in outline, the items of our county's history found in the four principal source books or

- many and in Switzerland until the middle of the fifteenth century. But in 1452, says Ezra Eby in his history of the Eby family, page five, the whole valley of Luzerne, Switzer- land, was laid under an interdict against the Waldenses by the Church of Rome. In the fifteenth century, also, religious

entered into each family. It was not a long train. About two dozen of her neighbors were there with her, she says, to see it; the train went pretty fast, but did not whistle and everything was sol- emn. She thinks every man, woman and child in the crowd was affected by it and all wept as it passed. Mr