could but read in its face the scenes that passed before it! The grandfathers' clocks, as we have them today, began first to take form in the countries beyond the sea, about one hundred years before they were made in Lancaster County. The clock that is run by a weight and gov- erned by a pendulum is not

contents — self-government under the law — and because it has become the rallying point for the united effort of the whole city and county of Lancaster in meeting the great emer- gency of 1942, and in helping us to win the eighth war — as we have won the other seven wars — since the days when the charter

, and who died in the County In- sane Asylum, was yet a law student. and likewise Washington Hopkins and Emanuel C. Reigart. The leader of the Bar was James Hopkins, and one of its brightest ornaments was his brilliant pupil, William Jenkins, �who was then in the fourth of his six successive three-year

is a popular tradition that some railroad company was paid a large bonus to bring the Pennsylvania tracks into the city, and that some obligation was thereby imposed upon the present company in control to run its trains through and stop them in Lancaster, and to maintain a passen- ger station in the

comprised in Lan- caster county, "Heidelberg" was one of the notable centres of the region. To this name its founder, Alexander Shaeffer, persistently adhered, but popular usage and regard for him overcame even his own modesty, and "Shaefferstown" it will remain. The first white footprints that pressed this