Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-06
COLUMBIA NEWS.

OUR REGULAR CORREsfONDENCE.
Supplee engine manufact ,ry pushed with
orders aud run two successive nights last
week.
Shawnee mill overhauled and working
'on orders that will lun until next July.
Walter Swartz. once of Columbia
bOOkkeeper for A. Caldwell & Co., Leaven.
worth, Kansas, elected drummer of the
"Guards," crack company out there.
For November the justices and con.
stables Eerc drew from the county
treasury for dismissed cases as follows
Squire Gricr, slO1,S5 Young, $3.50 ;
Frank, Sl61.Sj. Officer Struck, s1O2. 80
Kcech, $4,000 Fihsr, sGS.5e.
Pleasant meeting Of Excelsior elocution
club at Miss Sallie PattOn's last evening !;
next Tuesday at Miss Mamie Bockius's !;
President Arthur elected an homo: . y
member Guitcau's nomination Missed.
John Patterson and jim Moore, "the
Heralds steam engine" drunk and dis
orderly at the colOred festival on Saturday
night, were heard by Squire Young last
night in the presence of a great company
of Tow Killers. Both discharged.
Fifteen men turned out at Co. G drill
planning his frequent enforced absences
and hoped to be able to attend better here
after. His proposal to advance the money
needed for the gymnasium, if not raised,
was accepted with cheers.
Three ltine rants billed the town to sell
their clothes wringers at % on the Install
ment plan. II. Wilson and w. H. Pfah
Ter, hard ware dealers, promptly met them
by issuing dodgers Offering to sell the
same wringcrs for 81 That will settle tho
operations of the peddlers and our citizens
had better promptly lay in a stock of cheap
wringers.
Shoemsker's piano repairec in town
M cGibeDy's Tomorrow night.-Chestnut
street lively with moonlight paraders.-
Councils and school board meet this week.
citizens" band practice in new room to-
morrow night.-ViSilant fire company
elects new officers tO-nis isht.-WillG Growers
Humpty Dumpty" to night criticism
on Lancaster performance elsewhere
Another number of Rev. II. G. Searing's
Parish Life Out.-Squire IOung's pave
mcnt is tixed.-Mrs. A. q Breneman, of
Lock Haven, has left here to visit Lancas-
ter friends.-Michael Hines lad, Lad
his right foot badly mashed while unload
ing rolls at the Susquehanna mill.-Trail s
from the east late to-day.
lsailrOxd News.
Day Dispatcher Heckler laid off for a
few days with a sore thumb. Coal dump
thrown from the track in front Of Blacks
hotel last evening, righted to day. OF
1,OSS cars standing in the vest yard at
noon yesterday all but 800 novel off by
q \. m. to-day. supervisor w. B. Stephen
son, of the G. & p. D. Il. r., has been
supplied with 4 th1ee-wheeled hand-car,
which he can make from IS to q miles an
hour.
MelOdious Music.
Last evening party of sercnaders, COZ
ssting Of Mrs. Samuel Filbert, Miss Het-
tie Vache, Mrs. Hecklcr, Mrs. Pence. Mrs.
Grsver, Mrs. Vein, Mrs. Rev. VIM. =.
Evans, Miss Lottie Smith, Miss Annie
Graver and Mrs. L. Feurgsrson, all mem
bers of tho E. +. Lutheran church, started
out in a large two-horse wagon, to sere =
made Mrs. Stephen Jones, recently mar
rcd, formerly Miss Emma .Sterline. All
were armed with some instrument Of
torture, and tho din they raised was terri
be.
Upon returning home they stopped and
serenadod Mr.. G. IIambright and. Mr.. Jas.
Gcbhart. AS they were serenading the
latter Mr.. L. B. Eckman and wife hap
pcned to pass and were also treated to some
hideous music. The ladies we're under
the care of Mcssrs. Samuel Filbert and
Jacob Pence. The majority are elderly,
bit have not fer gotten row to have their
iun. Tho party returned homo late, much
pleased with their evenings amusement.