Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-27
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE

| OUR REGULAR COSflESl'ONDI.SS1
SPECIAL Meeting OF Councii-Things Abou
TowE.
A special meeting Of council was heit
las evening. All the members were pre-
sent except Messrs. Smith, Filbert, Kist
Ter and Llewellyn. The president stated
that the meeting had been called at the
instance Of the property committee. Mr.,
Glover, lessee under Benjamin Barr, 0:
store room No.3, Third street side of opera
house building, asked for reduction in
his rent, stating that he had lost money
and would be unable to continue. After
discussing the matter council instructed
the property committee to inform Mr..
Glover that under the circumstances they
were unable to grant him the relief asked
for. 1t will be remembered that about
Il year ago Messrs. Barr and Dc Arman
rented their store room for the purpose OF
opening restaurant. This business did not
pay and the lessees removed their stock and
fixtures and asked council to relieve them
Of their rent. This council refused to do,
and the room lay idle for some months.
| During the summer Mr Glover rented
the room from Messrs. Barr and De
Armar, opened drug store and has since
carried on the drug business there, with
results as above stated.l Mr.. Barr pro-
posed to council to pay forty dollars and
give a note will, interest for balance of
rent, payable On April 1, 1881, being rent
for four months-January, February,
March and April. On motion the pro-
posal Of MIR. Barr was accepted and the
finance committee SO instructed. In
the matter of painting the market
house roof and portion of the opera
house roof, proposals for doing
tie work were read from Messrs Grove
& Henry, of Columbia, whose bids
ranged, according to material to bc used,
from fifty t" siXty-tiEe dollars, or with best
white lead and oil, any tint or shade de-
sired. for one half cent per square foot; and
from II. +. Bruce, of Lancaster,
who offered t" pu: on the
Excelsior elastic roof paint at
the rate of four:y-four cents per
square of one hundred square feet,
OF according to the measurement made by
Mr.. Bruce, for SGG.11. On motion the
painting Gf roofs was given to Mr.. Bruce
at forty-iour cents per hundred square
feet by 4 vote Of two to one.
During the discussion upon this matter
Mr.. Pfahler stated that by az estimate OF
iliC nun VI uStC lSSC ii' viz lcOl UuC
proposal OF Grove & Henry TO paint the
Roof with oxide of iron was lower in price,
and from all that he could hear was a
much better article than that offered by
Mr. Bruce, and moved that The contract
be awarded to Grove & IIenIy. The mo-
ton was not seconded The acceptance
of the bid of Messrs. Grove & Henry to
paint roof with oxide Of iron would have
cost the borough 500, just Sill less than
the bid Of Mr.. Bruce. The vote on the
question stood as follows
Aye-Mcssrs. Eeacham, Hershey, Mus
ser and Witmcr-l. No--Mr. Plahlcr.
The trustees OF The "old Columbia pub
lie ground c,lnpany' asked permission to
put a crossing on Sixth street, at Mr. 4.
lIaldcman's house.
On motion permission asked for was
granted.
The telephon" exchange asked lermis-
sion to plant poles through town. No ar
ton was taken. Adjourned.
Horough I,udger.
T.J. McGuirc Of Lancaster, Pa, Will open
dancing school liz Shuler $ hall, this place,
ON Tuesday evening, November 9th. Two
or three lessons il week will bc given il a
large class can he formed.
The Frederick accommodate train west
due here at 2:4j p. m. came in forty-tivC
minutes late yesterday afternoon.
Rev. +. w. Sta!cy will lecture this eve
ming in the lecture room OF the <. f. Lutll-
aran church on '.Pi!grim's Progress
The Republican battalion III parade
in town tonight.
The official orders have not yet been
published for the parade Of the Hancock
and English battalion tomorrow evening.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
have. up to this date, sold but four tickets
from Columbia to th;, Frederick fair
4 great deal OF lumber is now being
shipped through here Oh the Pennsylvania
railroad.
1t raincd yesterday afternoon, cleared
in tie evening, and is again cloudy to-
day.
Miss Name Black OF Lancaster. Pa, is
visiting in Columbia, the gi:est of Miss
'.'a Becker.
4 rattlcsl:akC, :: little over ti.iity-iiin,
inches long. was killed this morning at
the stone pnarc;es near The Henry Clay
furnace.
Sheriff s;:;.:e was in t,,ai, ti.s n,oru-
ing.
\ couple ci companies Of the Hancock
aH;; English battalion will go to Mount
Joy this evening. Wagons will be the
nj ode ui transportation, and enough of !
these have been engaged to haul one hum
drcd !.icn or more. 4 SrCciai train will
also lie run.
A couple OF nc'i residing somewhere Oh
the Reading read came here on the Fred |,
erick accommodation train at 1906 to-day
and left Oh the one O'Clock train bound for |
Reading. The party had been cunning !
down near the Maryland line and baegc,l |
1GG paltrilccs and IL dozen rabbits. They !
got on the train at Jacob mills near Ham,
over. and VIC presume ii was near there
they received their came. They attracted
no little attention as they walked down :
Front street
Gar E.:y-. |
Prof II. ii. Clark, an clocu!;on;st, Gu
'c.tained quite 4 large audience in Gap
hall, Oh Monday evening, with humorous,
pathetic and dramatic readings and rccita-
lions. Half the proceeds were given 10
ihc Gap school to buy books ard prizes
|or The schGol children. Mr.. Clark recited
!: selection lvcn, g People We Meet" and
anc Of falnagc's lectures most successful
y initiating the reverend gentleman in
' oicc, gesture and expression.
Politi cs arc moving along hriskly. Po
litical meetings are held in ali directions.
Many soldiers in this section o: the coun-
ry vino fought under Hancock, and who
.ave heretofore been Republicans intend
o vote foT Hancock and the whole Demo
ratio ticket on November I'd.
On "Wednesday evening, October 20, two
peddlers-man and wife-wcll known in
his section of the country Ev the names