Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-17
COLUMBIA NEWS.


OUR KEGULAR CORRESPONDENCE
A new brick house is being built a
Third and Perry streets.
The windows of Company h armOr,
have been secured by, strong iron bar
which were put in place yesterday.
The Ladies' aid society of the NJ. E.
church will hold sociable in the churcl
pArlors tomorrow evening.
James Collins, Of Colerain township, Z
candidate on the Republican side fo,
county commissioner, was in town thi.
morning.
Miss Lou Davenport, Of Eric, Pa, j.
| visiting at Norwood, near Columbia, the
guest Of Miss Clara Myers.
A stated meeting Of General Welsh
post No. 11S, G.. A. r., will be held this
evening in Vigilant hall.
Miss Clara Myers, has returned from a
visit of couple of months to Cleveland
Ohio, and other places.
A special baggage car came up the
Columbia & Port DEPOSIT railroad this
morning. in which it is said there were
twenty millions of young shad procured
from d fish hatchery near Havre de Grace,
Nd, by the commissioners who went down
yesterday, and destined for the Juniata
and other tributai les of the Susquehanna,
as we'll as the head waters of the last
named river. The fish ought to be plenty
next spring.
A representative Of the Spawn & Den
nisOn manufacturing company, of Read
ing, is here making an examination of the
Columbia engine, in compliance with a
communication to that end addressed to
the firm by the fire committee of tie Dor
Ough council. The engi inc is said to be in
bad repair, and number Of members Of
the company think it needs a thorough
Overhauling. An estimate of the cost of
necessary repairs will probably be pre-
sented in day or two. The AmOskeag
manufacturing company New Hamp-
shire) are the builders of the engine, and
they would very likely be asked to put in
bid for repairing it were it not that the
cost would be SO great in sending the cn-
gine on and returning it.
Prof. 3. G. Amcs. superintendent of the
Columbia public schools, in speaking of
the oral examinations of the pupils, which
closed yesterday, said they were more sat
isfactory than hc had any reason to ex-
pect. The written examinations will
commence Old Monday next and whatever
promotions arc to be made will be from
among those who acquit themselves
creditably at the written exami-
nation to come: though distinction
i'm the examinations which have just taken
place will meet with its due reward.
Several reasons were in view when the oral
examinations were decided upon, chief
among which was the desire to show to
parents the progress their children were
making. which could not be SO well done
in a written examination. The attendance
of parents and others at the schools dur
ing the past couple Of weeks shows that
the provisions made for visitors met with
approval.
Edward Brooks, Phi. d., principal of
the state normal school, has consented to
deliver an address before the high school
graduating class at the commencement to
be held i'm the opera house on Friday
evening, May q. The exercises will con
sst of an address by Prof. Brooks, the
presentation Of diplomas and orchestra
music. No essays will be read ut the
commencement, but ut the exercises of the
high school during that day the graduates
will be given All Opportunity to deliver
their dissertations. The public will no
doubt. be thankful that the reading of cs-
says is to done away with. rs they are
generally chosen from subjects half the
people know nothing and care less about.
Then, too, their delivery is in such a sub
dued tone that one has to strain his ears
to catch o.le-half of what the cssayist has
prepared. The time of holding tho high
school exercises will he given later and all
persons wishing to hear the essays may at.
tend