operate day and night when other rolling mills were trying to find enough work to keep one "turn" (shift) busy. 67 More congratulations were in order later in 1874 when the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia presented an award to the Susquehanna Iron Company for "excellence of quality" of its wrought iron

been applied to a local savings bank, a chapter of Phi Delta Kappa professional education fraternity, and the labels of a well-known beer brewed in Pottsville. This would be amusing and hardly worthy of serious notice if it were not accepted as fact by many students. From the days of the First

Catharine Sheridan and the young couple emigrated to the United States, settling in Lancaster among the likes of the Malones, McGoverns, McGranns and Reillys—all highly successful contractors. Young James knew a few things other than contracting and becom- ing wealthy—things such as social behavior and

number of other proper persons, not fewer than three, nor more than four, shall be appointed and commissioned Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for each and every of the counties of this commonwealth. . . ." 1 The president judge was to be "learned in the law," that is he must have read law