Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-07
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR KEGuLAR cORisEsPoNDENCE

General Welsh post No. l1s, G. A. R.,
will meet this evening and elect officers.
The ice in the canal between here and
Chickies is reported as being full of holes.
The temperature to-day is decidedly
colder than yesterday. The mercury ip
these sudden turns is having things its
own way. i, .l. :
"Forty hours Devotion will commence
in St. Peters Catholic church on Sunday
next and will continue until Tuesday even
ing.
Miss Edith Denny, of Harrisburg. Pa,
is visiting Mrs Caddie Patton.
The Vigilant fire company, at its meet
ing this evening, will elect officers to serve
during the ensuing year.
A number of ladies and gentlemen will
meet at the residence Of A. j. Kaufman,
this evening. to form whist party-aper-
manent organization to meet weekly at
the residences of its several members. -
The school board at its meeting on
Thursday evening. will decide whether the
teachers of the public schools shall be al
lowed their pay, due on the 1st of anuary,
before the holidays or at the regular time
The Columbia fire company will hold its
annual ball in Odd Fellows hall, on New
Years eve, and the Shawnee fire company
will dance the same evening in the armory.
The teachers of the Columbia public
schools have received orders to forbid their
pupils drinking from any drinking cup
but their Own-this rule to remain in force
until abrosated. The rule is posted as a
precautionary measure against the spread
ing of diphtheria in the schools and is to
be commended. That it will have bcnefi-
cial results is almost certain.
:Messrs. Abram Brenner d Bro. are at
present busily engaged in piling up logs
and all loose rough lumber in the inlet just
below their saw mill. They wish to be
secure in case of an ice freshet.
The arms, uniforms and equipments of
Fl were subjected to the rigid
inspection last evening, and the
was given an old time lively drill
with Corp. L. w. Richards as acting first
sergeant. Three delinquent members we're
dropped from the rolls by the company
court martial
A fair will he held during the holiday
week commencing on Christmas day, for
the benefit Of the A. NJ. E. church Of this
place. Already books in possession Of
parties running for the different articles to
be voted for are being handed to our citi-
zeDs for subscriptions. A gold watch now
on exhibition in II. F. Yergey's store win
dow, will bc presented to the person max
ing the largest collection.
Between the bridge and the dam the
river is again clear Of ice. Yesterday the
steamboat 'Wrightsvillc plowed its
way through tho ice to this side Of the
river to open a channel to tow canal boats
from one shore to the other, and then,
after breaking up the ice ct the coal
chutes another channel was formed from
the outlet at the bridge to the raft chutes
in the dam, the latter to Garry away loose
and broken ice before it could reform.
The idea worked well, but during last
night the balance Of the magnificent stretch
Of ice, before the town, broke and by the
aid of the high winds which had sprung
up was carried away, over tho dam and
down the river.
The ice was not of sufficient thickness
to damage the dam to any extent and, We
judge, everything about there is all right.
There is a rise in the river Of about foot
since yesterday afternoon, and Oh this rise
ice could easily float away. This morning
a couple of canal boats arrived ut the
chutes, but it is thought they will not be
loaded and that they will remain here dur
ing the winter. A row boat which has
broken loose from somewhere is floating
amidst the broken ice in the clutes. Above
the bridge the ice remains solid and there
is now but little probability Of its break
ing.