Institute Committee Unanimous in Voting to Quit the Canonsburg Play House
MAY MEET IN COLLEGE CHAPEL
The farmers of the community will stand for no more meetings in Canonsburg Opera House as it is at present arranged. At a meeting of the Farmers' Institute committee Saturday afternoon, which was also attended by members of former committees, it was unanimously agreed to seek other quarters for the two days' meeting to be held next January.
There seemed to be only one sentiment expressed, and that was to stay away from the building where a panic crushed out the lives of 26 people. The farmers' meetings are always attended by packed houses and a panic during one of these meetings would be as fatal as the one which occurred a little over a week ago. For years the Farmers' Institute committee has debated the question of securing other quarters, and as one farmer expressed it a few days ago, there has always been a fight about holding the meetings in the Opera House.
The house committee of the farmers' organization was instructed to make arrangements, if possible, for holding next January's meeting in the College chapel. The meeting Saturday was a special one called by the president Joseph T. Ryburn.