Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-09-11
COLUMBIA NEWS.
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rvsnts Along tho susauchnnns-i,ems
Interest In and Around the borough
Picked up by the Intc,m-
genoer Reporter.
This morning at 10 o'clock tho select
castle Of Pennsy lvania OF the Knights oi
the Mystic Chain went into session here.
The occupants of the chairs are Selcc,
commander, j. X. Boyd, Jobnstown vice
select commander, Archie Wood, Pitts
burg select marshall, l. NJ. Davis, Pbila
delphia select recording scribe, j. j.
Davis, Pittsburg select treasurer, w. g.
Brown, Pittsburg select inside guard
Jacob Marsch, Harrisburg select outside
guard, George Craft. Turtle Creek
select chaplain, g. w. Lutz. Phila-
delphia. In addition to the bur.
mess organization to day, the mark aud
round degrees are to be conferred on all
past officers. The election Of officers for
the ensuing year will DO held on Wodnes
day afternoon or Thursday morning. The
select castle will end its sessions on Thurs.
day afternoon or Friday morning. No
parade was held to day.
Electric Light Iuvostigations.
Mossrs. John Swartz and l.. w. May
are In Reading examining tho Maxim and
Edison electric lights, with a Wow TO In
PRODUCING tho best here. 1t is to DO hoped
that this attemp, to introduce electric
light into Columbia will not DO a failure,
such az the last effort was. The Ponnsyl
vania railroad will subscribe for eight
lights ut least, IL the light is introduce
here.
Mr.. John Myers has returned to college
at Princeton, ". J.
Mrs. John Williams has returned from a
triy TO Clearileld, Pa
Mr.. Zach Hardy, Of tho Reading ,S
Columbia railroad Office, is taking his
summer vacation.
Mrs. J. w. Bochor is entertaining Mrs
Esther Norbc tx nd::iaughtor, Mrs. J. w.
Warner, of Washington, ID. &.
Mr.. James Ierger is home from bis trip
to Philadelphia. lIo will return to the
theological seminary at Gettysburg on the
Goth inst.
Mr.. 3. Frank Sauor, late typo of the
where he will fill a position in the depart
meut Of state printing.
Borougn Busf-
Putnam circle, b. L. (u. F. CA, meets
to night.
The Citizon's band has roorganized-fo
the opera house season only.
During 10 working hours yesterday
1900 tons Of coal were shipped from the
Reading Il Columbia CO ii schutes. This is
big shipment.
Two hundred books have Just been fur
nished TO York county Sabbath school
by Messrs. Geo. II and Allen Richards.
Extensive improvements are still going
on in the yards Of the shawnee furnaces,
under the supervision of Mr.. Boyer, tho
SUPERINTENDENT.
Jeanette Adams, coored. was sent 10
Jail for 10 days, this morning. for being
drunk aud disorderly on Fifth street
yesterday afternoon.
p. II. Il Officer James Kennedy, had a
deep cash cut in his head by falling
against stove when he jumped from a
moving train at Shocks station.
Abraham Menchey, employed on the
track now being laid into the new X. tS q.
depot, had his right foot crushed by rail
falliIg upon it yesterday afternoon.
Me.srs. Sharpless and Watts, Of Phila
delphia, are now laying the tile floors at
the X. Il &. depot, and doing the tile
work about the fire places of the building.
Ii will be handsome work when finished.
Mr.. G. G. Croft and Miss Name Hogen
togler, both of town, were united in
wedlock at st. Johns Lutheran chuI ca
by the pastor, Rev. Samuel ZlnglnF,
this morning. The wedding was a large
one.
The members Of Olive lodge of Odd
Fellows, who go to Carlisle tomorrow,
will give short street parade before leav
ing, starting from Williams hall at $50
a. M. The route will be along Fifth To
Cherry, down Cherry to Third, over Third
To Locust, down Locust to Front and up
Front to the z. Il. Il. depot.
Messrs. Thomas Fairer S Son, the
lately established boiler makers hero, have
30 many orders now on hand that they
are about increasing their force of work
men. An extension of their boiler shop
will DO the next requirement, if their
business continue TO increase much faster.