Woolworth Building the Roof Garden entertained patrons with choice vaudeville for a charge of 15 cents. Beyond the streets of Lancaster, at Conestoga Park Pavilion, light opera, such as Pinafore, Mikado, Fra Diavola, Oli- vette, etc., were played. Let us give you a sample of the jokes told by the company's

1807, before the use of steam, another Lancaster County inventive genius was working on the problem of better navigation. One Daniel Keller, of Hemp- field Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, took out a patent as early as 1795 for a design of boat, operating with paddle wheels, whose motive power

had a ride on the old Fall River Line, there was nothing in comparison for Lancaster County lads and lassies as a ride on the stern paddle wheel, double-decker, sea-worthy Lady Gay, which drew as much as two feet of water, and churned majestically from Witmer's Bridge to Peoples' Park and return

. Lancaster County reported a population increase for the first nine months of 1955 of 2,850 persons or an increase of 4.2 per cent, the largest gain nu- merically and percentage-wise of the five south-central Pennsylvania counties. Feb. 4. R. P. Howry, a butcher of Lancaster, R. D. 7, paid a new high price

; as usual the Lancaster delegation had the largest num- ber present for a county historical s0ciety, 12. Dr. Landis Tanger, former president of Millersville State Teachers College, died, aged eighty-two years. �16, The Lancaster County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution met

LOCAL NAMES ON AMERICAN SHIPS When Samuel M. Sener wrote in our papers, vol. 3, p. 14, about the USS Lancaster, as the oldest ship in the United States Navy, no doubt he had in mind the active ships; for lying in port, one at Newport, Rhode Island, the other at Bos- ton, Massachusetts, were the

highways for ever. SECT. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when the purchaser shall have made full payment of all the purchase monies of any such islands, it shall be lawful for the governor to grant him a patent, in the usual form of the land-office, vesting the same in him, his