Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-06-08

inc daytime MIkaOO sung
Last Evening In the Auditorium,
Before a Large Audience-The
Commencement Exercises Proper
This Evening at 8 O'clock.
The fifty years which have passed
since the Inauguration of the Mont de
Chantal Academy of the Visitation have
left none of the marks of age upon the
institution whose renown extends not
only throughout the country, but far
beyond it boundaries.
The idea almost involuntarily asso-
ciated with the phrase golden jubilee"
is that the subject of the anniversary
has passed or is passing the point when
vigor of action, energy and ambition is
to be expected, and that in little time,
at best, there will be entrance upon
that season which, beginning with the
middle life of man, passes by easy
stages, yet rapidly, into serene and con-
tented old age, with it's accompanying
rest from labors we'll performed and
leisure to look back upon and contem-
plate that which has been accomplish
ed.
This idea comes, undoubtedly, from
the association of fiftieth anniversaries
with the individual. 1t most emphatic
ally does not apply in any degree to the
Mt. de Chantal school, for never in all
its long history, made glorious by edu-
cational work of the highest character,
has it been so well prepared and so
completely equipped to continue in the
good work it has been doing for half a
century. With it's isolated, yet con-
venient and delightful situation, Its
splendid and commodious buildings and
grounds, and it's thorough equipment
both in teachers and all the aids and
appliances which are essential to a
modern education, with its vast and
growing clientage OF friends and we'll
wishers, and with its most general ex-
cellent administration, the institution
enters upon the second half of the cen
fury unsurpassed in any of those things
which make school pre-eminent. Its
history has been one of which the en-
tire community in which it is located
may we'll be proud-its future is bright
with promise, and that the promise will
eventuate in fulfilment is not only the
hope but the firm belief of those who are
at all in touch with this splendid
agency for education or at all convers-
ant with methods employed or results
attained
The celebration of the golden jubilee
of the Mount was most auspiciously
commenced yesterday morning. To-
day the exercises will be continued, and
tomorrow will see the fitting close Of
programme not only elaborate in its
nature but carried out to perfection.
A special train left the city at 9:15
yesterday morning, bearing probably
two hundred and fifty patrons and
friends of the school, to reinforce the
large number of visitors who have been
cared for at the school itself. These
latter have been arriving ON every train
for week past and
A COMPLETE LIST
of the guests of the sisters is as fol-
lows:
Miss Amy Nash, Gallopolis, Ohio;
the Misses Sadie and Janet O'Bryan,
Pttsburg; Teresa Munhall Pittsburg:
Magdalene Anderson, Altoona; Misses
Margaret, Mamie and Annie Brennan,
New York; Misses Lille, Carrie and
Gertrude O'Brien, Toledo; Mrs. Breslin
Lancaster; Mrs Nevin Fannie Borland
ga, Dayton; Mrs Durben and daughter
Mrs. Warder Miss Rose McGraw, Miss
Ada Van Kirk and Mrs. Moran, Graf
| ton; Mrs. Connolly and nieces, Mont
| gomery, Ala; Mrs. Wells, St. Paul
| Mimi; Miss Eleanor McCracken, Fred
ericksburg, Va; Miss Celia Sullivan,
| Washington, D. c.; Miss Blandin,
Corinne Cherbonier, Baltimore; Mrs
Patterson, Florence Monkey, Washing
ton; Miss Genevieve Thomas, Leaven-
worth, Kan; Miss Celie Cannon, Nc
Keesport, Pa; Miss Annie Fitzgerald,
Savannah, Ga; Miss Mamie Curran
Washington, Pa; Mrs. Littleton, Mary
/ Brabson. Athens. Tenn; Mrs. Fountain
and daughter, Adele, Mrs. LESSEE Nc
phia; Mrs. Cecilia B. Bukey, 81, Wash
ington; Mrs. Eva Edwards and daugh-
ter, Weston; Mrs. Milton Kirk and
daughter, Chicago; Mrs. Margaret c.
pnic China Mrc Thnn,ncnra nd