The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-02-26


severely afflicted this winter. Mrs. Cary
was prostrated and very low with typhoid
fever and their little daughter for long
time lay at deaths door without hope of
recovery from the same disease. A change
for the better was affected through good
care and nursing rs much as by medical
skill. They are now both hopefully con-
valescing.
Many good men were running for the
various township officers. No less tn IN
seven candidates for Supervisor and about
that many, or more, for School Director.
Various theories exist in regard to the
meaning and intent of the school law re-
lative to the subject of temperance physi-
ology, and in the heat of excitement Of
school troubles on account of it, men who
put certain constructions on the law, were
thought TO be the proper persons for its
custodians.
The greatest generals of the day are gen
rails cold and sore throat. Captain Meas
les has not been promoted to colonelcy
yet.
Through seeming uncomfortable crcum-
stances the Dodson school met, with
serious drawbacks which led to an un-
pleasant rupture and fiual dissolution be-
tween the patrons, pupils and teacher.
The Beard of Directors were called last
Wednesday week to settle the difficulty.
We deeply deplore school troubles from
., g., 81 A.
and rpen into grudges that tester into
sores that hardly ever heal over. There
seems to be y great deal of dissatisfaction
with our public schools this winter. In
our school district (Forks) there has been
no trouble. Mr.. Frank McMichae gives
very good satisfaction.
Mrs. Benjamin Rozell was relieved from
her suiferings by death on last Monday a
week and buried on the following Thurs.
day in the Hamlin cemetery, aged about
n years. She had been blind for some
years.
Miss Rhoda Laubach of Benton and
Mr.. Learn of Briarcreek was married last
Wednesday week.
The COLUMBIAN agrees with the Catawissa
Ne,os Item that Columbia county ought to
| have the Senatorship for the next term, but
says the Senatorial bee doesn't buzz in the
senior editors bonnet and modestly de-
clines with the question ''Who shall it be?"
4 still small voice whispers the answer,
George +. Elwell. The bee can be caught
and pnt in the bonnet and it will buzz
A thought strikes us that is worthy of
some consideration. From all the cores
po ndents in the county who write for their
| respective localities to the different news
papers of the county, there has been but
little said in reference To the subject of
Temperance Physiology. Whether the
various boards of directors introduce this
subject as discretionary branch, left to
the judgment of parents and pupils, or
whether parents and pupils quietly acqui-
esce in its universal introduction, is a
thought of more interest than the subject
of physiology itself. A certain class of
people in our township and also in Sugar
loaf would prefer forfeiture of the state
appropriation rather than submit to what
they deem a tyranny" But there is still
another class who would hold the Board
of Directors responsiblei for its forfeiture,
as it is quite an item in the sum total of
the exhorbtant taxes that are yearly levied
upon our people which seems to be about
all the load they can carry. We doubt
whether any board!of directors win agree tc
forfeit the state appropriation dpon their
own responsibility for non compliance with
the law. We presume that directors
| would sooner resign their office and not
| attempt to administer a compulsory law
than be charged with neglect and forfeit
ure of the state appropriation through
partial obedience to it, Whether there is
anything "rotten in Denmark" we know
not, but the thing does not seem to 60
| down well with the people. Directors are
oftentimes charged with being mere tools
for publishing companies and furniture
establishments through which they are en-
abled to reach a good share of the public
funds by furnishing the schools with book s
apparatus &c. through gifts and bribcs.
| All considered, the Office of school director
is the most critical and important to whch h
any man may be called Ia local affairs.