Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-28

Watcr-st.
..Fredcrick will he $50 years old next year
and it proposes to let the world know it,
Ne,cs.
(The World is $50 million years old and Is
not yet rid Of Its cobble stones and 1t should
let Frederick know it.-ED. CLARION.
VACATION IN EURopE.--Rev. Henry Mann
pastor of the Methodist churches here and
In Emmitsburg will spend the summer IN
England, his native state. He left with his
family about ten days ago. His place will
be filled during his absence, by Rev. E. l..
carp, divinity student at Dickinson Col
lege.
New DwELlJNG.-Mr. Geo. Foslcs new
dwelling on--strect, east end. Is well
under way. 1t will he a roomy, we'll laid of
house on good lot in the section of town
now coming to the front. The street lies
outside tue taxable limits and has not yet
been named, although there are four prop
critics built thereon.
Julia Ann johnson, cOlored, died Mt her
home in this place, on June 23Id 1894. She
was native Of this State and was slave for
many years, and was, tor a long time IN the
employ of the family Of cx Mayor Chapman
of Baltimore. Her daughter, Mrs. Mary
Smothcrs Of Baltimore, kindly cared for her
IN her last days of afflic,lon and suffering.
Her age was not certainly known but 1t ia
believed that she had attained to fully four
score years. She was worthy member OF
the NJ. E. church. 1ntcrment in the U. b.
cemetery on Monday at 4p. III. In the ah.
scncc Of the pastor, the funeral services were
conducted by Rev. w l.. Martin.
SECOND GRowTH-Mr. Isaac Z. Forrest,
a prominent farmer, residing near Stone
Chapel, Carroll county, whose wheat was
cut down nearly TO the ground by the great
hailstorm en- May 9th, says it has sprou'cd
and thrown up new stalks from the root,
which are beginning to head. 1t stands very
thick on the ground, but II is third shorter
in length than ordinary wheat. 1t is two or
three weeks later than wheat that natures
without accident, and Mr. Forrest expresses
doubts as to weather it will fill and ripen.
Should it do so, 1t will largely discount the
damage wrought by the hail, which it was
supposed was total. In any case it will not
he ready to harvest before the middle Of July.
GRAND FREE OPEN AIR CoNCEETs-The
Hot Spring Medicine Co. of Arkansas will
locate their advertising company at Thur
mont for two weeks beginning Tuesday June
10. The program rendered by this company
Is strictly moral and instructive consisting
of vocal and inst rumen tai muse, songs and
dances, funny and laughable iarces by black
faced comedians, fcats in Ventriloqulsm,
Slight Of hand performances. Royal mario.
Nets, banjo solos. musical acts,wirc walking,
contortion acts, etc.
DR.. Leon Smith, the manager, will deliver
a short lecture explaining the medical virtues
of the celebrated Hot Springs medicines.
Remember the entertainment is free to
everybody. Come one, come ALL
OUR HIGH SCnooL. The Commencement
exercises of our High School last week fur
nished evidence of its great merit and there
can be no longer any question as to the pro.
priety, no, to say necessity, of conserving
this splendid educational feature and Of the
right of our people here to ask at the hands
of the county every facility that may be &C.
corded us under the school regulations.
We hayc referred more than once to the
lack of room and other decidedly objection
able conditions Under which the High School
has laborcd here during two years and on
Commencement night Rev. ]. II. Barb
pointedlv referred to the matter.
We need building specially built and
adapted 10 the purpose; environment is an
element that enters largely and decidedly
into shaping of our lives and with none to q
greater degree than with the young. To set
up before the public school pupi! as a goal,
the entrance upon school life in wel-ap.
pointed and more or less pretentious building
becomes of itself m incentive not to be left
unconsiicrcd, while the nctua! need for better
facilities must appeal to the matul ejudgment
of those in whose hands the education OF
our youth lies.
We insist upon 1t further. that s,parate
building from that Of the Public School is a
sine qua non; a separate building and on
separate grounds. For very many good and
sufficient reasons. the High School should be
set apart. If for no other, for that already
referred to: yiz.-that the public school pupil
may look forward to the time when lie will
enter another school, not another grade OF
the same school and this point must be viewed
as the pupil views it. The officers. teachers
and parents realize that the High School In
a wing attached to our public school building
would, in the same hands, be the same school
as in detached building but the pupil would
come to look upon it simply as the highest
grade and the moral effect of a promotion to
q distinct school would be IN large measure
lost We are led to the expression of these
views by the rumor that 1t has been suggested
that an addition be built to our public school
building for the accommodation of the High
School. As reported to US, this for econo.
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