. York, like Lancaster, has a glorious heritage. It has played important roles in the history of our commonwealth and nation. Let all communities, large and small, ancient and new, take pride in their legitimate accomplishments without fabricating spurious monuments. John W. W. Loose is a retired high

nearby Mill- ersville. It, too, had a pair of debating societies: Page and Normal. In those �50 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY days teachers' minds were expected to be cultivated and suitably embellished with thoughts so elevated that their pupils would develop an insatiable love for

The Courts of Lancaster County: 1729-1791 By John Ward Willson Loose When Pennsylvania's Constitution of 1790 became effective in 1791, Lan- caster County, along with other counties of the Commonwealth, was provided with a new judicial system. An enabling Act of 13 April 1791 required among other

Eichholtz, 275 Northwest Ward Jacob Sherer, 315 �62 JOURNAL OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Ingham Wood, 263 George Musser, 285 John Weaver, 258 Southwest Ward George Brungard, 264 John Christ, 168 Jasper Yeates Smith, 250 When the councils convened they elected John Hubley as president and

accurate record of who was sinning and where. A large collection of his notebooks rests in the archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society. One must admire the persistence and tenacity of the Law and Order Society agents as they went about their unpopular business. With the arrival of Prohibition

for the Lancaster County Historical Society. In 1931 the Lancaster Trust Company became insolvent, and the funds intrusted to it were frozen. Wheatland eventually was acquired by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland with the support of the Junior League of Lancaster. Over

the name of Juliana Library Company, and Lt. Gov. James Hamilton, whom we recognize as the founder of Lancaster, signed the articles of incor- poration. When John Penn came to Pennsylvania in December 1763, the Secretary of the Library Company extolled the virtues of libraries by stating, "Knowledge