local college, and edited by young students; as is also the College Student, a monthly from the same institution. St. Paul's Record was an eight-page monthly distributed in this city, Octo- ber, 1891, by Rev. J. W. Meminger and John N. Hetrick. The High School News began its career ib Lancaster, in 1896

THE AMERICAN RIFLE. Upon various occasions in the pro- ceedings of the Lancaster County His- torical Society, attention has been called to the importance of the rifle in the early history of the country, and to the fact that the city of Lan- caster, and its suburban water powers, furnished a centre

Anderson sounded "Water- ford" in the fall os 1804. Ac- cording to the custom os the time the lots were disposed os by lottery, in ac- cordance with the following advertise- ment in the Lancaster Journal, pub- lished by William Hamilton, on March 16, 1804: �"Town of Waterford. "The subscriber has

historian appreciated the value of newspapers more than Macaulay, whose use of them in the preparation of his history os England was con- tinuous and effective. The first newspaper published in Lancaster that lived beyond what might be termed the experimental stage was the "Neue Unpartheyishe Lancaster

, the petitions for the laying out of roads in the Road Dock- et of the Court of Quarter sessions between 1740 and 1775 ask for these conveniences to enable the people to more easily reach "mill and market." But horses were not numerous in these early days, and mere bridle paths were sufficient for a

, 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

bright and fair; Gone is the dam sorever, Gone—they who toiled os yore! To us, who seek their story, A name—and nothing more! There is also on record (Book B, I, p. 433), the will os John Atkinson, Sr., os Lebanon township, Lancaster coun- ty. It was signed August 4, 1760, and proved October 1, 1767. It

, immediately west of what was then the banking house .of The Farmers' Bank of Lancaster,now Far- mers' Trust Company. In fact, it was the property lately purchased by Albert Hupper, confectioner. The dimen- sions of the lot were then as they are now, thirty-two feet two and one- quarter inches on East King

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

. Some day the whole of his notes will be found worth publishing—even if they never attain the classic eminence of Pepys or Evelyn. For my present purposes and your edification, I refer to them only to throw some light on a subject that should be of perennial interest to the Lancaster County Historical