Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-06-14
COLUMBIA NEWS.


Ooh hEOULAh CORRESPONDENCE
Events Along the experimentation O
Interest In and Around the Borough
| Picked Up by the Intelii-
| gencer's Reporter.
The stove works are being pushed for.
ward. The foundation work is now beinI
done.
Tobacco planting has commenced in thil
neighborhood. The crop will be late one
this year.
Mr.. Max Hanauer will leave town to-
| morrow to visit different parts Of the
| state.
A new show window is being placed in
Beck's shoe window On Front street.
Sunday-school picnics are now being
talked about. 1t will soo1 he time to
hold them.
Mr.. Drew Better, of Philadelphia, hs &
been spending few days in town.
Preparations for a big picnic are being
made by the Chicasalunga tribe, No. II, Of
Red Men.
A show window of Jesse,'s opera house
bazaar is trimmed in handsome and
novel manner with many colored ribbons.
To-day Mr.. F. X. Ziegler celebrates the
44th anniversary of his marriage.
The rafting business on the river is
about finished. Only about $50 RATS came
down to Marietta this spring. 1tis getting
worse every year.
Many residences are being improved and
bcautitied, all over town. Numbers of
them have fine yards connected, which
are planted with flowers.
The water plug on Locust street, below
4th, which has burst, is now being fixed
Mr.. George Datz last evening, presented.
1nrr IL: Id.
lunga tribe of Red Men.
MIR. j. A. RapettO will open his ice
cream parlor and consectlonery, next to
the postcffice, tomorrow, He will also
continue his fruit stand, on Front street.
Mr.. p. S. Brugh and family returned
home yesterday. They have been making
quito an extended trip in a carriage, and
enjoy this mode of travelling very much.
More of our business men need rest also.
Squire Frank sent a woman down to the
county Jail yesterday by Officer Struck for
10 days for being drunk and disorderly.
Passage on the steamer Scotia has been
engaged by w. B. Given, esq.,, who will
leave on a pleasure trip the latter part of |
this month or the beginning of next.
The diocesan convention Of the Protest. |
ant Episcopal church of Pennsylvania is |
attended by the Rev. r. c. Soaring, of St. |
Paul's P. +. church. DR.. d. 1. Bruner !
md Messrs. Geo. Richards and S. 8. Det-
Wiler are the lay delegates from this
)lace.
At the examination for teachers for tho
public schools by Prof. Ames, the follow
ng ladies formed the class Misses Straw
bridge, Marley, Dinan, Nolan, Williams,
Ackerman, Hinkle, Skcen, Leaman, Hof-
er. Hogentugler and Smith.
Tho new president of the Marietta
chool board is Mr.. John Croll, ticket
gent of the Pennsylvania road, at Watts
tatiOn. His host of friends are much
'leased at the honor conferred upon him,
specially rs he is one of tho most efficient
members of the board.
Tomorrow the 5 per cent. reduction in
he payment of taxes CEASES Those who
si,h to save that much had better 90 to
he tax collector, DIR. BOckius, on Locust
treet, and pay before it is too late.
There has just been completed at the ,
arriage works of Houser & Myers, fire
usness wagon, for Mr.. Charles Bitner,
Philadelphia cigar manufacturer. The 1
ainting which is of the most beautiful |
nd elaborate description, was done BY s
lr. James Shredder, of town. The sc-Gi!
'ork and lettering of tho owners name
nd place of business are especially fine. G
Yesterday several countrymen were G
sken up to the bell room of the opcIa {
ouse clock, in the tower. All unsuspi- ,
ous of anything, they wero looking out
window, when the pondcrous hammer
III, striking the hour. Their eyes almost
;arted from their sockets with terror at
he unexpected and deafening thunder of
le strokes. 1t was show to those who
ook them up,expecting something of this
ind to occur.