, but, as he was good natured at heart, everybody was his friend. For more than forty years he was the crier in the Lancaster Courts. Prior to becoming such he had been a tipstaff, and, in consequence, he had been an officer of the Court for a full half century. He was rarely sick, and never absent from

was the property of William Bausman, Regis- ter and Recorder for the county of Lancaster from the year 1809 to 1818,1 and contains receipts to him from people of early Lancaster. Some of the names of those attached to these receipts are old and familiar, others are new, but the names contained in the

been! The story goes that not only did he ob- tain the rank of brigade fifer major but General Lafayette himself presented the soldier with a silver fife in honor of his heroic play- ing. �Thomas Montgomery, in the Lancaster County Historical Socie- ty Journal recounts that in 1825 when Lafayette was

Street was one contin- uous block, Lancaster Avenue being then unopened. The house in which I was born (437 West James Street, now the Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity House) was built about 1875 or 1876. My sister Helen and my brother John were not born there, but I think my brother Charlie was. He was born

Early Lancaster Playbills and Playhouses. Public shows and amusements are probably nearly as old as the human race itself. We know they have exist- ed among all civilized nations from their earliest history. In Greece, where they reached their highest early development, they were in existence five