Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-10
COLUMBIA NEWS.

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Dog tax (Bockius collector). .......... $40
Total Receipt. ....... ...................si, $3.50
EXPENDITURES.
Orders paid since last report. ,372s
Balance Or hand. $50 I
The road committee reported the macad
amiZing Of Second street from Union tt
alley" L. and the repair of several other
streets and alleys the repair of 4 bridge
crossing Shawnee run. and the neglect OF
the Chestnut Till iron ore company to
properly build foot. bridge crossing
Shawnee run, and the building of the
road cOnncc:ing Barber and Florence
streets, said road only being ten or twelve
feet wide in some places, whereas thirty.
four feet is the required width.
Mr. Geo. W. Schroeder addressed coun-
ellis as a member Ola committee from the
VigiIant fire company, stating that Mr..
Itainey, as agent for tie Clapp Il Jones
manufacturing: company, had offered to
supply new and lighter engine to the
company for the old one and s., 800. The
company wanted council to pay 81. 800 of
tho amount and the company would pay
the 81 900.
The contract for furnishing coal to tho
borough was awarded 80 Mr. II. +. Bru-
ner.
The tax duplicates for 1SiG-I17, which
were ordered to bc settled at this meeting,
were continued for one month.
Mr.. V. =. Keller. superintendent Of the
Shawnee rolling mill, addressed a cOmmu-
nication to council asking the privilege of
laying another siding from the main track
to the mill, crossin" Mill street near the
track scales, and promising to keep the
street in rs goMi repair rs it now is. The
privilege was granted, the work to be done
under the road committees rules.
$1,5eO were appropriated to the Nigilant
for the purpose cofcxcliangiNg their eng inc.
Mr. Abram Erunerexplessedt the cOmpany's
thanks.
In recognizing tho ciliciuacy of Mr.. John
Shenbergcr, chief director of the fire dc
partment, MIR. Pfal,ler moved that Il hat,
belt and shirt, or the value thereof, be
furnished him as a present from the
borough. So ordered.
The board OF health lep.rtcd Insufficient
drainage in some quarters. the difficulty of
having cutters property cleaned, requiring
more work than they expected, and hay
ing notified property holders t" clean up
their premises They asked for compen
sation for their secretary. lc was resolved
that the supervisor he instructed to have
all Cutters, pavcments and streets re-
ported 10 him by the board of health
thoroughly cleaned.
The paving committee was instructed to
look after Severa! I'avcments i'm bad re-
pair.
Chief Burgess Sheath was offered
room for an Office in the opera house build
ing
Ellis amounting TO $?l7.19 were read
and orders granted for their payment.
Adjourned.
Tho borough budget.
Columbia had 1 good ten minutes rain
this morning.
Rev. w. i. Evans having returned from
his tri last evening regular service will bc
held in the +. L. Lutheran church to.
morrow morning and evening.
Luther sichrocder returned home last
evening from his Philadelphia trip Misses
Kato and Lizzie Fry returned TO their home
in Philadelphia to day.
A number of our merchants have bought
tho fashion plate Of President Garfield and
cabinet. and have handsomely framed
them and placed them in conspicuous
places in their stores.
The blowing oi the Susquehanna rolling
mill whistle startled Il number Of our
citizens this morning about one o'clock.
They thought it was III alarm of fire.
Two men for being dunk and disordcrly
had hearing before Squire Grier this
and were committed to Jail, one
for days and Tie other for Is. Sent
down at noon.
This morning :, fight with stones occur
red at the market hOusc. between Chris.
tian Fisher and Il butcher from Kitchen
town. Fisher, who is about half simple,
united the horse of the butcher and made
him 60 up the alley. Fisher came out
second best.
A report is current that We are to have
a dancing school this winter. 1t is needed
among our young folks, and if the right
man takes it in charge it can be made q
success. Whoever gets it ur should not |
be influenced by any member of the class. |
Yesterday afternoon the graduates Of
the Columbia high school formed an al
umni association. Miss Lille Welsh,
and graduate of the high school,
was elected president. Twenty three
ladies and four gentlemen enrolled them
selves. a number of others are expected |
10 join at the next meeting.
Fire Matters.
One oI the shafts OF the Columbia cE-
ginc. having been found to be bent, it was
sent back To Reading. The new Nigilant |
engine will he Il luurth-clasS improved |
Jones' & Clapp, lighter and more powerful
than the Shawnee. The committee Or
1ered it this morning. alarm at Il |
D. m. To day brought out the whole de-
partmcnt and the Visics beat the Columbia |
in a race false alarm.-The Nigilant's |
secretary, Geo. W. Shredder. will repre-
sent it in the Reading convention, for
which go companies are enrolled. The |
Shawnee and Columbia should select their |
delegates.
A Snowman I'm tho Square,
This afternoon an itinerant tricks;cr of
.he Gucrnella order set mp his stand in !
Centre square on the east side of the mon
lment and soon had crowd around him.
He was dressed in tights and spaE.led |
bands like 4 circus actcr and offered to |
slip through any knOtting or combinations |
Of cords with which he was tied to his |
chair. the crowd Of spectators around |
lim rapidly increased. Hay ladders, mar
ket and express wagons passing were halted |
md soon crowded with lookers-on. To a
,hrong of several hundred he exhibited his
lexterity, and from those whom lie |
he collected the shekels. |
IN the large crowd that witnessed the per-
,ormance there were many queer specimens
IF humanity and the remarks which they I
made drew smiles on the statues at each |