this history: Amateur Papers of Lancaster County. A son of Judge Lewis edited and published the first amateur paper printed in Lancaster, so far as I have been able to trace. This was in the year 1849. In 1855 another paper was started by John H. Carmany, and continued for about a year. The office of

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

Amusements In Lancaster 1750-1940 By FELIX REICHMANN When I first discussed the topic of my paper with Dr. Herbert H. Beck I had in mind a very broad view of the intellectual pastime in Lancaster. But soon I realized that it was impossible to approach this problem without detailed preliminary