Brief Outline on the Care o the Poor, the Sick, and insane 0/ Lancaster County, /0a. BY HENRY A. SHOWALTER For more than fifty years after the erection of Lancaster County the poor were supported by the several townships. Two Overseers of the Poor were elected in each township. The constables and

of that width northward a like distance. This conveyance was in trust "for erecting, keeping or holding a market within the Town of Lancaster for the ease and conveniency of the inhabitants thereof and others having oc- casion to resort thither." Just when a market house was first built upon this

THE STORY OF CAERNARVON, The township of Caernarvon is the most easterly of the townships that collectively make Lancaster county the keystone in agricultural wealth in the United States. Settled in Colonial days, peopled in the beginning by a sturdy race of men, its history in the almost 200 years

little, in the shape of manuscript, prior to 1750 in our Court House. Practically all there is to be found there are the Quarter Sessions and road records,the Common Pleas dockets, the appoint- ment of constables, overseers of the poor and highways, the granting of Paper read before the Lancaster County

LANCASTER BIBLE SOCIETY, 4846-1915 From the fact that the Lancaster Bible Society was organized as an auxiliary to the Pennsylvania. Bible Society, but is now, as is also the Pennsylvania Society, auxiliary to the Atlantic Agency of the American Bible Society, it is but proper that we say a few