course at the two taverns conducted by John Bender and John Sheaffer on the Horseshoe road in Earl township, Lancaster county. The race, three mile heats and repeat, was open to any horse, mare or gelding seven years of age and under. On the following day, a race of two mile heats and repeat, for a purse

of flagons,—one, a pure German piece ; the others, modeled after it by a German-American pewterer whose successive and ingenious copies of the original show progressively wider departures from the authentic German form with which he began. FARMING IN LANCASTER COUNTY IN 1864 By WILLIAM FREDERIC

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

Temperance Society recommended that simul- taneous meetings of all associations in the United States should be held on Tuesday, February 26th, 1833. In compliance with the request of the parent organization, a large and inspiring meeting of the Lancaster County Temperance Society was held in the court house

Lancaster County By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Wednesday, April 22nd, 1818, a tragic event occurred in the neighborhood of Washington Borough, Lancaster County, Pa., which placed the then prevailing custom of dueling even in a more criminal light than usual. A citizen of Columbia and another of Washington

-attended meeting of inhabitants of Lan- caster county was held in the court house in Lancaster on Wednes- day, August 22nd, 1827. John Lightner was appointed chairman, and Jacob Hibshman and N. W. Sample secretaries) A committee, consisting of G. B. Porter, John R. Montgomery, John Rohrer, John Hoover

Journal of Monday, March 24th, 1817, con- tained the following: "At a meeting of the inhabitants of Lancaster county, friendly to the protection and promotion of domestic manufactures, convened at the court house on the 17th inst., pursuant to public notice, the committee appointed for that purpose