over to work it out. This man Rinne owned and operated a mill near Roland's Church, Lancaster County. He was one of the Committee of Observation, the purpose of which was to seek out those persons who maintained a traffic in goods of foreign origin to the detriment of local products. Early in the

chief burgess in 1759-1760. He was county treasurer from 1756 to 1762, and for some time a commissioner of the county. Living in the town during its early development, he bought up much land from the Hamiltons and from Samuel Bethel. In 1758 he bought from Isaac Whitelock, the Quaker, land constituting

EARLY ARTS, CUSTOMS AND EXPERIENCES IN RURAL LANCASTER By D. B. LANDIS TO properly acquire some relative conception of the habits and occupations of old-time people in this county, one should have knowledge of its physical or topographical background, with a general idea of former places and early

, Researcher, of the Historical Society of York County, in a book store in York, Pa. In the Eby Family Bulletin, Number 4, edited by Franklin Stanton Aby, M.D., in 1924, we find the following statement on page 12, indicating the value the family historians placed upon this very Bible, and also showing the self

other archaeological specimens and minerals. In this regular manner, from week to week, traversing miles of local terri- tory, many discoveries were made. A number of these findings, with personal impressions, are here presented for permanent record in The Lancaster County Historical Society's

minister to England. I have always thought of Lan- caster county as one of the great agricultural counties of the Nation. �I hope to come in the daylight sometime ; and when I do, I hope to have more time to see you all." His brief address finished, the President received a basket of red roses from Mrs

referred to a committee where it evidently was successfully "pocketed." The proposed Conestoga county, for which erection the most persistent efforts were made, was to be formed from eastern Lan- caster, western Chester and southern Berks counties. The first effort to organize this area into a separate

gathered. An informative address on "Lafayette in Pennsylvania" was delivered by J. Bennett Nolan, Esq., of the Reading bar, a valued member of the His- torical Society of Berks County and an author who is said to be the fore- most authority on Lafayette in America. He called attention to "the un- selfish