Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-18
COLUMBIA NEWS.
OUR REGULAR cuKhEs9OxDENCE

held between the hours of nine and on,
o'clock on Saturday. The opening exer
cises consisted of scriptural readings, sing.
ing, etc. Prof. B. G. Amcs, under tht
head of School Government. spoke a,
length, taking up first the opening exer
cises OF schools, which he thought should
be finished in one quarter of an hour, and
then speaking of the punishment Of schol
ars by detention after school hours for mis-
behavior or failure in their lessons the
manner in which such scholars should be
| treated while in the school room and
| finally, their dismissal in an orderly way.
The percentage Of attendance in the pub
lie schools was never SO good as it is now,
and the percentage in the lower primaries
| was never SO poor. The percentage Of at
tendance of the pupils indicates the infiu-
| ence the teacher has over her pupils and a
large percentage of attendance denotes the
ability of the teacher to interest the
pupils in their work and to interest the
parents of the pupils in such work, The
progress of pupils depends upon the inter
est they take III their work. The teachers
must bring some influence to bear on their
pupils to compel punctua!ity, as the pupils
are now and have been for some time past
very tardy. On Friday morning there
were about $50 pupils tardy in the Cherry
street school buildings.
The idea of teaching reading by class
was then illustrated. The lesson differcd d
from preceding lessons in bein. fable,
which is generally believed to have lesson
in il. This lesson was Iicked to pieces and
laid on shelf for future reference, when
the integral parts were taken up one by
one, put in place, and the lessons teach
ings were transparent. Miss Pfouts, in
criticisins the reading of pupils, said that
her pupils used 4 peculiar infection in let
ting the voice fall ut each comma and at
almost every third word, when as a gener-
al thing the voice should not he let fall at
a comma. Miss Welsh thought that
teachers make a very great mistake in
making a rule that the voice should be
kept up always at a comma, as it leads pu-
pills to read very unnaturally. Miss
Pfoutz continued her drill in drawing on
the board, illustrating her mode Of teach
ing. Prof Amcs believed that Miss Welsh
in her criticism on reading, and especially
at the intOnation of the voice at comma,
was exactly right. Miss Pfouts does not
think the real use of the comma is to give
expression to the reading as much as to
enable the reader to take breath, so, she
thinks, no rule could be made about the
tone of voice in reading or of keeping the
voice up at commas. An object lesson on
parts of the human body with
class by Mr.. Harry Zerscr q class
drill in calisthenics by Miss Paine and u
report by couple Of primary teachers on
the spelling of words by their classes then
took place, when Miss PfOuts made re-
port OH educational journals, from which
f. lnI hat Ia ;%,,ko
purchase the following works New Eng
land Journal so per annum Primary
Teacher at 81 per annum; and
SO per annum. Two copies Of each work
will he purchased and the expense to the
teachers will be s11. Miss Pfcuts was ap
pointed a committee to send on for these
books which will be kept in the library
room. Each teacher will be given an a.
lotted time in which to read the books.
The programme for the next intitute was
read by Prof. Ames, when the institute
adjourned.
Hancock Clubs Parade.
A parade of all the Hancock and English
organizations has been decided on as fol-
lows: Tuesday evening October 10Th,
Thursday evening October 2eth, and Mou-
day evening November 1st.
For the parade of Tuesday evening Oc-
tober 10Th, the companies will assemble
as follows Third ward battalion. on South
Fourth street, right on Locust. Company
A, Hancock veterans, Co. 3 and Co. G in the
order named. Oh South Third street, right
on Locust. Companies Z, F, G, and Han
cock Invincibles, Co. D. in order named on
North Third street, right on Locust. At
s o'clock, sharp. the line will form on
Locust street, Third ward battalion be-
tween Fourth and Fifth. right on Fifth.
The companies on South Third street will
form in the order named, on their left,
companies Oh North Third in same man
ncr, on their left. The column being
formed the following route will be gone
over: Up Locust to Sixth, across Sixth to
Chestnut, down Chestnut to Third, out
Third to Poplar, down Poplar to Second,
out Second to Cedar: countcrmarch to
Bridge, down Bridge to Front, down Front
to Mill, up Mill to Lawrence, up Lawrence
to Third. over third to club room and dis
miss. The route for October 2Sth and No
vember 1st will be published hereafter.
The Hancock Invincibles and Company
A of the Hancock and English battalion,
went to Maytown on Saturday evening to
the number of moro than one hundred and
participated in the parade at that place.
The men presented a fine appearance.
Tho Borough Budget.
Quite large audience went to the Re-
formed church last evening to hear Rev.
G. s. Gerhard's sermon on "The Chris
tian's duty in relation to the ballot box
Rev. J. w. Deshong, ex-pastor Of the
church of God of this place, officiated in
the Bethel at Mount Joy yesterday morn
ing and evening.
II. Townsend Grace and Geo. 3. Brene-
man, of Philadelphia, spent yesterday in
Columbia. the guests Of Alfred c. Bruner
Oliver Knipe, of Norristown, Pa, spent
yesterday at his home in this place.
Will Fl. Herr arrived at his home from
the West on Saturday evening.
Miss Saliie Mayer returned to her home,
from visit to New York, on Saturday
evening.
Mr.. Bert Galbraith, of Wrightsvillc, is
looking into tue feasibility of making a
telephone connection at Columbia a with
Marietta and other places.
A false alarm of fire, responded to by
the fire department., was sounded ON Sat-
urday night.
The Republican battalion marched at
Silver Springs on Saturday evening. 1t
left here by special train at about 7:15
p. N.
The Citizens band on Saturday evoning
the residences of Messrs. J.
B. Schlegelmilch and Amos Youtz. A
anniversary celebration in each |
case.
The son of a well-known business man
got on the special train to Silver Springs
Oh Saturday evening. When asked what |
he was doing on the train he replied. 81