Cash book and scrapbook containing newspaper articles, engravings, invitations, tickets, and other items documenting the expenses, activities and interests of Charles Miller Howell.  The cash book records daily expenditures from June 4, 1858 to August 13, 1860 and includes transactions with many of Lancaster, Pennsylvania's most prominent citizens.  The scrapbook contains poems, short stories, news articles, and cartoons clipped from a variety of newspapers including The Olio, The Inquirer and Daily Courier, The Philadelphia Saturday Chronicle, and  Alexander's Weekly Messenger.  The scrapbook and its accompanying material also contain engravings of works of art and of illustrations to news stories, invitations and tickets to social events and meetings, a manuscript translation of a ballad by Friedrich Schiller, two handwritten poems, a drawing, memorabilia and a manuscript resolution of the Columbia Hose Company.  The newspaper articles and accompanying materials cover a wide variety of topics, but Howell's interest and involvement in firefighting and in the activities of fire companies is evident in the selection of some newspaper articles as well as in the invitations and tickets to events sponsored by the Columbia Hose Company and the Empire Hook and Ladder Company.