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

return to Philadelphia about the middle of June next, attend at the house of Matthias Slough, in Lancaster, sor the purpose os receiving the remaining Arrears, and all Persons who have not yet paid, are desired there to attend, and make an End of this Business. "ANTHONY BUTLER, "Attorney to John Penn

, 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