supplemented the painter's method of transmitting through time the lineaments of the loved and lost and of the honored dead, miniature and portrait painting and the silhou- ette, through nearly two centuries of this town's history, have always had exemplars here. I am disposed to think no form of historical

"bursting at the seams," and there would be no lodgings or places to conduct the business of government. The Pennsylvania state government had arrived earlier from Philadelphia, and had established its various offices in Lancaster. The county courthouse had been appropriated for the state legislature, and

something new on the subject of this annual festival. In his prayer- meeting on Wednesday evening he said, that "as with everything else in the great question of Christianity, there had been blood shed in disputes about Christmas, and the war was not settled until there was a general agreement that the 25th

Street was one contin- uous block, Lancaster Avenue being then unopened. The house in which I was born (437 West James Street, now the Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity House) was built about 1875 or 1876. My sister Helen and my brother John were not born there, but I think my brother Charlie was. He was born

, the officers, under restrictions, at Jordan's [tavern], the wagoners and some prisoners sent to prison, and the women to ramble about the town." And in the issue of January 28, 1778, of the Pennsylvania Packet and Gen- eral Advertiser, a newspaper published in Lancaster, appears the following notice

�CH. GUNZENHAUSE�S • Lancaster Vienna Model Bakery. - - -- ,_ �. - "' - . Plain and Fancy Cakes, Pastry, Etc., Constantly on Hand. p � · • ALL ORDERS GIVEN PROMPT ATTENTION. No. 231 We.st -King Street, Lancaster, Pa. • • • TELEPHONE 1623. • • • �L E. J. PHELPS, PUBLISHER

County, Pennsylvania indicates that lots were laid out only in the central portion ofthe present day city, roughly extending north as far as James Street, east to Plum Street, southeast to Chester Street and southwest to Strawberry Street. Houses are shown on about three-quarters ofthe lots