succeeding issue of the Lancaster Journal, dated Friday, March 1st, 1822, contained an announcement that a meeting of the society would be held on Wednesday, March 6th, at the house of Christian Smith. How long the society continued to exist and who were the officers and members of it is not now definitely

, Lancaster boasted of a bathing establishment, operated for the benefit of the public, and had on sale "bathing machines," as is evident from the following advertisement, which appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 5th, 1833: "BATHING ROOMS. "The subscriber respectfully informs the public in

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

Independence Celebrated in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N June 20th, 1826, Select and Common Councils of the city of Lancaster passed a resolution recommending the mayor to call a town meeting for the purpose of making arrangements for the celebration of the semi-centennial of American Independence

Ann Moore, Postmistress of Lancaster, First Woman Appointed to Office Under the Federal Government By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XX XIV, pp. 62-3, of the Proceedings of The Lancaster County Historical Society, appeared an article entitled "Post- masters and Postmistresses of Lancaster." In

," the fifteenth President of the United States. The work was edited by John Bassett Moore, counsel of the Spanish American Peace Commission in 1898; and comprises Mr. Bu- chanan's speeches, state papers, private correspondence and a biography. Since this excellent publication was issued, I have

of the association. A meeting was called for Saturday, November 23rd, at which time rules and regulations for the government of the association were to be adopted.1 Ten years later, a meeting of inhabitants of East Hempfield township was held at John Hatz's tavern, in Lancaster city, for a similar

, plenty, importations and exporta- tions of goods and merchandise; particularly, there will be news of war and peace, of cultivating and improving arts and sciences, etc.,—in short, there will be plenty of matter for all classes to pass away agreeably and usefully the long and tiresome winter nights. "All

famous in its day, and which was attended by girls of the best families in Lancaster. Some of our older citizens will doubtless remember that this seminary stood on the site 42-44 West Orange street, now occupied by the American Seed company. Mr. Damant was a fine man, but being an Englishman, he could