Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-22
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE,


OUR ssEGULAI; COHls EsroNuy:Ncr
Now, Tor the first time, We have tho
opportunities! reporting actual progress in
the telephone exchange, about which 50
much has recently been said in the papers,
especially in the iNrELLIGENCEE. True.
We spoke. 4 few days ago, OF Messrs. Bach
man and :'orry building all office, in 4. ID.
Reesc's billiard hall, for tho exchange and
We may n,W further say that the office is
very nearly completed. 1t is wa:nscoted
and presents Il very pretty appearance. but
its fittings have not yet been put in place.
The real work commenced this morning.
i force cf ten men, who nave been await
ing the arrival of the poles for severa, days.
commefrin. digging holes for their cree
tion 1T o'clock, and since that hour have
been going ahead. The first hole was dug
ut IL. Z. Bruncr's coal yard, and from
| there the men have been slowly making
their WAY down Front street until, on
reaching the alley between Locust and
cherry streets. they turned up towards
the exchange office. They will follow this
alley t" the Lancaster pike and out to-
wards the Shawnee furnaces. Returning
| they VII! 60 ont Third street to Chestnut,
UP Chcstnu: to the Chestnut Hill pike.
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Col. james Myers. The first pole will be
planted at Burners coal yard right after
| dinner to-day, and from there the route
| We have Just "ivcn will be followed MIR.
n. ID. Reese is experimenting the work.
Engineer William Bairht. who has been
runnin" between Philadelphia and Harris
burg for the past year and 4 hall, has been
| returned - his cid ''run.' between this
place and Philadelphia. Engine No. 295
has been putt in his charge.
The Thir,! ward Democratic club have
taken down their transparency. which has
been i'll position 1T their headquarters ut
the - Five Points for the past few
months am! the Hancock and English
pole, erected ut Mack's brewery during
the campaign. has also been removed The
pole at Fourth and Manor streets. and the
one on Third street, opposite the late Key
stone Democratic headquarters, still
1 stand.
! Samuel Filbert, of this place, has secured
a contract to furnish two Thousand tons Of
ice to the Pennsylvania railroad company.
lie will begin cuttin: tomorrow and will
make thc'hc$t time possible i'm iiiling the
o'der fhe :"c IS to he taken from the
river below the ridge, which. Mr.. Filbert
says, is about eight inches thick and Of
much better quality than that above the
bridge, where the ie, men have been busy
! for 4 weel. or more past. Already MIR.
| Filbert has Il large amount Of ice stored
away in his ice house.
The SHOW has stopped falling; bat i: fell
| to sufiicien depth rs to make slciyhinS
excellent. ai.;! as consequence. the ,jinglinS
of bells may 1t any time be- heard. The
track in the streets Of town is Thoroughly
beaten. but on the country roads it is not
SD good. 1t now looks rs We may have
| sleighin. for some days to come.
| Ethelind, the little daughter of Edward
Ross, died this mOrnin. Of diphthcria.
| Edward X. Black, road foreman Of ell
gines of the Philadelphia division, p. X.
| r.. was in town to-day.
| Engine No. 9', the crew of which were
called to leave here ut ) o'clock this morn
| in., got Off day ut 1915. seven and quar-
| ter hours late
The Parkcsburs contraction train was
doing work here this morning.
] An afternoon market on Friday next
no early Christmas rising.
| The Pennsylvania railroad freight en-
| cineers are now hauling thirty cars east.
The trains are fully heavy enough for
them.
The s,o:, is being taken from the plat
form in fr";t of the p. X. Il. depot and
loaded upon freight ears to be hauled
away.
| William F. iockard. superintendent OF
the Philadelphia division of the Penn
sylvania railroad, is in town to-day.
| Quite Il number of people from the sur
rount!in. towns took Il sleigh ride into
Columbia last evening.
| The Fifth street Presbyterian Sunday
school will hold its Christmas exercises TO-
morrow evening.
| Our streets arc in q very slippery cond;-
| ton.
| Engiu: 9iJ is again running, OH the Fred
| crick accommodation train.
| No one has yet ventured to cross the ice
with horse and sleish-tiEtt is, between
tue bri,!. &c ana the dam.
| Officer Fisher took :. vaSrant to l.ancas
ter ut l:Oj n'cl,ck this afternoon. lie was
very splrsci5 attired and in lieu Of cloth
ing hat! VII. rpcd himself in feed bags.
| a tEaw is iiov setting il.