frigates Constellation and the Constitution, both con- structed as early as 1797. The Lancaster has now gone into the limbo of missing vessels, while the ancient frigates were put in "full commission" again on August 24, 1940. As new facts have been gathered, and as pictures of the old Lancaster and its

�have been Lancaster?) Its trip was successful, its fate sad — but useful. Family tradition tells us authorities at New Orleans seized the boat and rammed it into a breach of the levee at flood time. Never recompensed for the boat, Keller and his crew of seven reverted to "Shank's mare" on the return

added the search for Indian arrow heads, arti- facts, etc., which abounded in the fields of Lancaster County. There is no envy for the advantages which the boys of the later years of the twentieth century enjoy. We had the more primitive, less developed conditions which never palled upon us. Lancaster

Rev. Dr, James E. Wagner. March 4, Lancaster newspapers increased in price from five cents to seven cents a copy. 19. The plant of the Lancaster Brick Company, northwest of School Lane Hills, was damaged severely by fire, entailing a loss of $300,000. 29, City water rates were increased; the average

for a double stand at the Central Market House, with a bid of $4,025. Feb. 4. Bound newspaper volumes for the years 1900 through 1937, formerly on loan to the Historical Society by Lancaster Newspapers, Inc., were recalled and placed in the basement stacks of the Lancaster Free Public Library. Mar. 7

and Juniata, Rockland and Locust, New and Prince, and Rodney and Third streets, but to the youngster of those days it appeared to be an immense affair. With them Pro- fessor Harry Mohn of Lancaster had a good troupe of trained dogs. At times on these same lots you would find a mountebank peddling

; for sale by James Galbraith, for the estate of Samuel Galbraith. (Lancaster Journal, April 4, 1812.) Offered for sale, Galbraith's Is.,between Bainbridge and York Haven, 125 acres, with two-story log house, 36 x 40 feet, "well finished, with a well of never-failing water near the door. This island