This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners' Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.
System of Arrangement
The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.
This record group contains canceled orders that were issued by the county commissioners for payment to be made by the county treasurer. The orders show date, order number, amount, name of payee, purpose, and signatures of the county commissioners. In the case of "poor children," teachers were reimbursed by the county for tuition and/or the supplies purchased for students whose parents were unable to pay. Orders include: Poor Children, Almshouse, Bridges, Coroners' Inquests, Prisons, Roads, Court House, and Tax Exonerations.
System of Arrangement
The record group is organized chronologically, then arranged by order number within each year.
The P. & R.'s through freight from Reading to Lancaster came to grief on April 21, 1896 when it collided with a run-away box car just north of Manheim. The Reading's Number 1093 was thrown on its side killing the front breakman. Possibly a budding railroadiana collector, the lad closest to the locomotive may have been considering the prudency of making off with the locomotive's bell bu the locomotive was reassembled and operated until 1920.
A Philadelphia & Reading box car stands on the "house track," in this old view of the station maintained by both the Reading and the Cornwall at Mt. Hope, where the two lines connected. Photo, Henry Westenberger, Lebanon, Pa.
