Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1892-06-23

Miss Gertrude Shaw of Creagerstown was
awarded the gold medal for penmanshlp Mt
the late Commencement Of New Windsor
Collcge.-Erami,aer.
We now have four secret orders in this
place, viz: Masonic, Odd Fellows, Knights
of Pythias and American Mechanics. The
membership probably numbers two hundred
and fifty.
On last Thursday evening, IN company
with several others, we INDUCED in "Moon-
light" excursion down the bay: everything
came off as advertised, save that our boat ev-
identity left It's astronomer ashore, as we
cru,sed around considerably but failed to find
the moon.
Mr.. Hamilton Lindsay, ex.1eegistcr OF
Wills, with whom Dr.J X. Waters arranged
to have him remain for period of six
months in that office rs clerk, retired on the
first of June DR.. Waters has not rs yet
made choice of his successor; we learn that
there are several applicants.
AccIDENr-We are not fully informed as
to the nature and extent of the injuries in
hcted, but learn that Mr.. Charles Shipley and
wife met with u carriage accident, both being
thrown out. Mr.. Shipley has not been able
to go to his office in the city since and will
probably not be able to come to his summer
residence in this place, for week or more,
WHAT'S TO BE DoNE.-Therc arc zoos
more women than men in this State some
of the men are idle now, 50, importation
would be suicidal and we DO not secpur way
clear in the matter of deportation Of the
girls, but on second thought, it is possible
that the II ,00S, are. not exercised as much
oyer the condition of unstable equilibrium
as we seem to be.
HIGH scl1oo1. CoMMENcEMENr.3- We, arc
IN, receipt of an invitation TO attend the
Graduating Exercises Of the. Glass Of 'o3,
F frederick Female High SCHOOL, this evening,
the 23rd, at s O'Clock. Following are the
names Of the sweet girl graduates Henriet-
ia Augusta Brust. Pearl Alberta Eadcr,
Chrissie Byrd Dell Flrestone, Blanche Cor
della I.ampc, Helen Elizabeth Newman,
Mary Castle OFT, Mary Rose Steiner, Emma
Fulton Weikert, Katharine Marie Wciner.
AN UNwAHRANTED Position We shall
give next week. our views and those of
others with whom we have spoken relative
to the matter of the salary of,he Principal of
the Public Schools, as ii may be effected by
the insituting OF y High School in the same
district. AS the law stands, the latter affects
the former and we will endeavor 10 point
out the injustice thus wrought, not any more
to the Principal than to the public school it.
self, d.,
The article would have appeared this
week. bad we been more fully informed as to
the action Gi any taken by the School Board
III this matter.
The GARRETT SANlrARIUM.-1his instr.
ton has been IN operation here for about five
years. and the purpose OF Its existence Is to
care for the sick little ones Of the city whose
parents aud friends are unable to provide
necessary medical treatment .:hcre, as well as
to restore to health The little puny waits that
have none to care for them. This is one OF
the few humane institutions that, without
cost extends its helping hand to the helpless,
and whose single builder and sus,aincr asks
no material a,n from an earthly land
Miss MaryC Packard is the matron in
charge, who, with several assistants secs to
the comfort of from 80 to 100 children dur.
ing the months OF June, July, August and
September Of each year. Dr. Ramsey OF
Johns Hopkins Hospital is the resident ply
sician. The protector and supporter Of tins
commendaDle work is MISS Mary Garrett, Of
Bal,imnre.--M Airy Weekly.
THE STATE TEACHERS, Ass ,cIArtoN -
The next meeting Of the State Teachers AS
ISOLATION will he at Blue Mountain House,
on the 5tl,, 9th and 18th Of July, beginning Il,
8 O'Clock on the evening of the 9Th. The
arrangements are in the hands of a commit
tee and everything promises an unusually
pleasant and profitable meeting. The pro-
gram embraces an address OF welcome by
Hon. Judge Stake, of lIagerstown, re-
Spouse by Calvin 3. Taylor, Examiner of
Worcester county, and the inaugural address
of the President, james \. Dtienbnugh for
Tuesday evening for Wednesday morning,
addresses on Excavations in the East by DR..
Christopher Johnston, Jr,, OF Johns
Hopkins University; Ilu 'rative teaching
by Miss Kate Hobbs, Prln .ipal of Preston
Academy; School Journals, by John I.
White, Principal of Allegany High School;
and Modern l. nguages DR.. julius Blume of
Johns Hopkins. Wednesday night there
will be an Illustrated lecture on CONSTANT
nople, City of the Golden Horn, by Rev.
Byron A Woods, of Philadelphia. Thursday
the exercises will consist of addresses on
University Extension by DR.. Bernard G.
Steiner of Enoch Pratt Library Eocution
i,y Miss L,ur. Skinner, of Plkesvillc Gram.
ma School; The Study of the Classics by G.
Manning Coombs, Of Leonardtown, Acadc-
NV. aut, Science in Mental and Moral
Growth, by. Prof Simpson of Western Mary
land College, The various exercises will be
;ptersperscI wiz, music by \ CHOIR Of boys
from Baltimore Ci..7 College.
Rates vt the Hotel will be 500 and 5? 30
per day, and railroad fac , cents m'le' TOR
oil ,,or,o,o v,Lo aoovp, or orders for tick