boys were reprimanded for their delinquency and given memory tasks of such selections as "The Village Blacksmith," "Breathes There a Man With Soul So Dead," or portions of the Constitution of the United States. Long will Dad Stamy be remembered for his severity and for his ability to cram a boy's mind

threatened Indian attacks on our town, but fortunately in all cases they proved false. A report reached Maryland that Lancaster had been invaded and burned to the ground. Marylanders were ready to march to the relief of our town as word reached them that the report was false. On December 1, 1755, Edward

of most of our youth, until to-day no one would think of making a trip afield or afloat, to here, there and everywhere, without a camera tucked into a coat pocket or slung over the shoulder. Time was when most youths had their own dark room, perhaps in an old shed, with walls covered with common tar

Baron " Stiegel and the Muhlenbergs By M. LUTHER HEISEY In February, 1762, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg visited Heidelberg, Tulpe- hocken, Lebanon (in dreadfully cold weather), Ephrata and Canestoge; all points within the early bounds of Lancaster County. He was engaged in visiting and consoling the

later in iron- mongery, with a store on North Queen Street. On April 2, 1778, Jasper Yeates as treasurer paid to Paul Zantzinger ten shillings "for two pounds of nails for boarding the windows and putting up new pales" at St. James's Church, when the rector was forced to close 1 Pennsylvania German

High.Constable; and George Sanderson to be Town-Clerk: To continue Burgesses, Assistants, High-Constable and Town-Clerk until the fifteenth Day of September which will be in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty-four, and from thence until others shall be duly elected or appointed in their

ranking among the most gigantic of all in the United States, and therefore in the whole world. Our story concerns only our own county. But let us take a glimpse or two into the dim past. One of the first references to the "post" or post office is found in the Bible. In the eighth chapter and tenth verse

Pennsylvania railroad. The lawyers now re- siding in this block are W. Hensel Brown, John A. Coyle, Roberts R. Appel and J. Andrew Frantz. Farther up the street were other lawyers. Edward Shippen, of colonial days, lived at the northwest corner of Orange street; and, later, Emanuel C. Reigart resided there. In

. In an entry for June 27, 1744, we read of informal festivities, wherein is noted that a young Indian danced a jig with Andrew Hamilton, town clerk of Philadelphia, in a most surprising manner. "The younger persons raised their jollity by dancing in the Indian dress, and after their manner." James