Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-07-23
: rIsOsfo TEMPLE roR CoLUMsIA.
vortv-Oue Hundred Dollars to Re Expended
for the Site of the Ediice.

wortv-Oue Hundred DOilnfr to Re EXPENDED
for the site os the EdiRce.
Regular Correspondence of the ISrKLLIGEScER.
COLUMBIA, July 2s.-Messrs. Milton wike.
Samuel Filbert and John Forrey were re-
Gently appointed committee by Columbia
lodge, +. & A. NJ, to select a site on which to
erect Masonic temple. The committee was
not instructed to purchase, but yesterday the
property Of John Lockard, at Fourth and
Locust streets, was bought tor the sum OF
81 100, As the site is q most desirable one
the lodge will probably endorse their action.
A "positiye sale" of the Metropolitan rink
will be held at the Franklin house, this
evening.
Bicyclers en- Route for New York.
On Wednesday morning, July 2lst, Messrs.
Harry B. Irwin, r. B. NJ. Reno, and Geo.
f. Stoner, members of the Hagcrstown, Nd,
| Bicycle club started on their wheels for New
| York city. At noon yesterday they reached
Columbia, and took dinner at the Franklin
house, after which they resumed their jour
| ney via Philadelphia, Trenton, Newark, etc.
| They expect to arrive in New York by next
| Sunday. at IL m. Mr.. Stoner is consul of the
l.. A. W., at Hsgerstown.
| Campmeeting and Summer sporta
Twenty cars were required to carry the
excursionists TO the picuics OF ST John S
Lutheran Sunday school and the United
Brethren congregation at Mountville, which
are being held at Penryn park to-day.
The Moravian church of York are picnick-
| ing at Lititz to-day, and this morning thir.
teen cars, well-tilled, passed through Colum.
| bia via the Reading Il Columbia railroad.
| Landisville campmeeting begins next
Tuesday. Several Columbia families are al
| ready on the grounds
Trinity Reformed Sunday school will pic
| mic at Penryn park on Wednesday, July IS
A number of our young men, attacked
| with the camping fever, will organize
| club this evening. If they can make suita
BILE arrangements they Will go into CAM
| some time next month.
Officer Lewis Hartman spent n day an,
| night in Camp Wilson " this week. Ii
bad pleasant visit and is loud in hi
praise OF the hospitality OF the Forest ant
Stream boys.
the field tomorrow afternoon, and san
Fields Reading club will have hard work
win the game.
The party of Miss Lulu Smith at her home
| No. $40 Locust street, last evening was al
| enjoyable event, and the ladies and gentle
men present appreciated their hostess warn
hospitality.
Miss Bessie Bruner, daughter of Mr.. Cyru
Bruner, last evening pleasantly entertalne
eighteen Of her young friends at her home o
| South Second street.
Crowds of persons assemble nightly in til
, | yard of the Third Ward hotel to enjoy rid
on the flying horses, which have there bee
| erected.
Miss Name Pfahler, of Philadelphia, is i
| town, the guest OF her parents.
News Around Town.
: Mrs. John Rowe, aged q years, residin
4 | on Lancaster avenue, died OF dropsy Las
= | night at IL o'clock. She leaves a busban
a | and three children to mourn her loss. Fu
; neral on Monday hour not yet designated
Lynn Barefoot while working in field
: | had his left hand caught between the cogs {
] | a reaper, and his third d nger so badly mashe
| as to render smputation necessary.
The iron pipes leading to the old reservoir
} | when in use, situated along alley Ii, betwee
| Fifth and Sixth streets, are being dug up b
Walnut street property holders and sold.
Alltbrough passenger trains passed throug
Columbia last night. owing to the wreck o
| the Dillervllle branch.
The delegate election of the First war
, Democrats will be held at Armory hall, n,
at the Black Horse hotel