School Opens With Seventy-Two Pupils Admitted
By S. Brownsberger
School opened this morning with prospects of a successful term’s work. The teachers are of good courage, and the best harmony and good feeling prevails. Seventy-two pupils presented themselves for admission. They are still coming. We expect before the term closes this number will be more than doubled. We hear from many that are detained at present, but will be here soon. We would say to such that it is highly important that you begin your work together. Join your classes, as nearly as possible, when they are first formed. You will lose too much if you do not. The fall term is the best of the year. We advise you to come immediately. Let nothing but impossibilities detain you longer. We have received some responses to our call for contributions to a proposed museum in our school. I would mention one sent from Oakland, Cal., by our dear brother, W. C. White. It is a rock taken from a bank seven thousand feet above the sea level, exhibiting beautiful fossils of fish, blood-suckers, and snails. Another was received from our friend, Wm. White, of Ceresco, Mich. This relic is a bill that entitles the bearer to receive of the United Colonies “thirty spanish milled dollars, or the value thereof in gold or silver, according to the resolutions of the Congress held at Philadelphia, May 10, 1775.” We trust our friends will not forget the museum, but send along their specimens. S. Brownsberger.