. James's Church, Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N Sunday evening, September 18th, 1825, after divine service, a number of ladies and gentlemen met in Saint James's Prot- estant Episcopal church, Lancaster, and formed an organiza- tion for the laudable purpose of affording medical relief to the

, 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

, "Jacob Albright, Esq., "Mayor of Lancaster, Pa." STANDARD PRESENTED TO WASHING- TON GRAYS By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 26th, 1830, con- tained the following : "The anniversary of the birth of our illustrious Washington, was celebrated [Monday, February 22nd] in

17th: "The vestry or board of trustees of the church which was the scene of the outrage in question, had previously (in October last, if we mistake not) stipulated with the Universalists (who are with- out a building of their own in Lancaster) for a certain pecuniary compensation, to have preaching by

. Jacob Slough's tavern on Fri- day evening, February 28th, 1817. Robert Coleman was appointed chairman, and Samuel Carpenter, Esq., secretary. A society was organized ; and a committee, consisting of Samuel White, Joseph Ogilby and James Humes, was appointed to prepare a constitution1. The Lancaster

An Early Threshing Machine in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER LATE in the summer of 1806, a threshing machine, invented in Scotland, was erected at David Witmer's mill in Lancaster county, Pa. The machine was capable of threshing 35 bushels of oats in an hour, of threshing and cleaning 100

that paper it is stated that Ann Moore served as postmistress of Lancaster, Pa., from July 1st, 1798, to April 11th, 1829, a period of 31 years. Since that paper was published, my attention has been called to the obituary of Mrs. Moore which appeared in the Lancaster Examiner and Democratic Herald of

county, Pa. All persons wishing to become members thereof, will please call on Abraham Gipple, secretary of the association, in order that their names may be entered." 1 Intelligencer & Weekly Advertiser, Saturday, November 16th, 1811. 2 Lancaster Journal, Friday, September 7th, 1821. �The officers were

those who have not yet subscribed, and may desire to become subscribers to such a beneficial establishment, will please to apply to the subscriber. "John Erben." Three years later, the Lancaster Journal of Monday, October 19th, 1818, contained an advertisement in which Mr. Erben offered the Lancaster