Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1905-06-15
MT. st. Mary's Items.

AT the request OF Miss AgneSs Hemler,
few friends and relatives assembled at her
home. on Wednesday evening, to try their
skill at a most interesting game of progress
i've euchre. Those present were; Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh Roddy; MIR. aud Mrs. Vincent
Eckenrode; Mr.. Samuel Hemler; Messrs
Charles, George, John and Bernard Eckcn.
rode; Miss Annie and Louisa Eckenrode;
Messrs John, Charles and George Hemler;
Miss Stella and Mary Hemler. Owing to
the lnclemency of the weather others invited
did not arrive. These then, including Mich
ael O'Toole were the few to enjoy the hosp.
tally shown by Mr.. John aud Frank and
Miss Agness and Mary Hemler.
At the close of the thirteenth game Miss
Agness Hemler presented to the players four
prizes. The first, a large parlor lamp. to
Michael O'Toole; the second, gold gilt cup
and saucer, to Miss Annie Eckenrode; the
third, beautiful vase, to Miss Mary Hemler,
junior; and the last the joke prize, to John
Eckenrode. After which all were asked to
the dining room where large and well fill
cd table had been prepared. Here all forgot
their troubles and enjoyed the many delici.
GUS things. The strawberries were Mr. Sam.
uel Hemler's own raising and their flavor
excellent. After all had satisfied themselves
they repaired to the parlor where they in
dulged in singing and jokes. AS the time
for departing drew near Mr.. G. d. Hemler
favored his friends with very interesting
speech. The evening has passed but its
pleasures will live IN time to come.
The Commencement exercises at Mt. st.
Mary's which marks the close of the ninety
seventh scholastic year at MI. st. Mays
College began on Sunday, June II, with SOL
emn high mass at which Rev. DR.. McSween.
ey delivered the baccalaureate sermon. On
Tuesday morning solemn requiem mass was
sung in the College chapel for the reposc of
the souls of deceased students and benefac-
tors. Wednesday morning Rt. Rev. Edward
p. Allen d. d., Bishop of Mobile Ala, and
former president Of the College, conferred
Holy Orders on four students of the theolog'
Ala; Rev. Patrick Kitrick and Daniel Law
less, Pittsburg Pa; and Rev. Michael O'Con-
nor, Altoona Pa. Last evening the contest
in elocution took place and the premiums
distributed in the preparatory, commercial
and minim departments. The following
young men will participate: Linus Heating,
Thomas Gillooly, John Delaney, Patrick
Cawley, James Burke, John Moran, John
Starr and William Ferry. On Thursday at
0 a. m. the commencement exercises of the
College will take place. His Eminence Car
dinal Gibbons will preside. The address 70
the graduates will he delivered by Hon. Ed,
win Warfeld, governor of the State. The
valedictory will be delivered by Edward B.
Jordan, of Dunmore Pa. The other speakers
will be Leo P. Millgan, of Huntsville Ala,
who will deliver an excellent address on
1.-THE outlook of the South and Joseph A.
McNulty whose subject will be 1.-THE Catho-
lie Scientist"
The members of the graduating class are
as follows, Martin F. Corrgan, Hazelton, Pa,
Bernard ]. Eckenrode, Thurmont. Md, T.
Boyd Eckenrode, Lanca ster, Pa, William j.
Gibson, Scranton, Pa. Herman B Giles, Eas-
ton, Pa, James A. T. Gribbin, Trenton, N
j., Patrick A. Harkins; Philadelphia, Pa,
John A. Harris, New York, N. Y, Bernard
G. Hillen, Brooklyn, N. Y, Edward B. Jor'
dan, DunmoEe, Pa, John E. B. Kennedy,
Louisville, KY, William F. LAWN, Dunmore
Pa, James F. j.. McKeever, Pittsburg, Pa
Joseph A. McMulty, Hopbottom, Pa, Leo P.
Milligan, Huntsville, Ala, George L. Rice
McSherrystown, Pa, Mark E. Stock. Gettys'
burg, Pa. The brilliant showing that is
looked forward to will speak well for those
who are at present guiding the affairs of the
"Old Mountain" and there is every indlca
ton that there lies before the venerable in
stitution future as glorious, If not more &C
than has past.