Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-29

due to strenuous objection to the
editorials in the paper, later was
forced to have it printed in George
town. However. by July 26, 1912. the
publishing office was again opened
in Baltimore, the editor being accom-
panied from Georgetown to that city by
Gen. Lingan, Gen. Henry Lee c'Lght
Horse Harry'), Capt. Richard Crabb,
DR.. Philip Warf1eld, Charles J. Kill
gour. Otto Sprigg. Ephraim Gather
and John Howard Payne, author of
Home, Sweet Home"
In riot that took place in the
Monumental City. which began on
July 81, 1912, and was precipitated by
an editorial in Hanson's paper, Lingan
was brutally murdered by a mob the
following day.
OF his last moments 1t Is related
that: When the cry of Tory, traitor
first reached him hsthen tore open his
shirt, where the cash Of the Hessian
bayonet still glowed purple, and said:
Does this look as if was traitor?'"
In 1903 Capt. Lingan's remains were
removed from his private estate, Har-
lem, In Georgetown, to Arlington Ma
ton Cemetery.
In 1880 teachers at the Threlkeld
School were M. Josephine Good. Kate
Reyburnf Lizzie l.. Gray and Hadassah
Beall. and the first-erade honor schol-
ars for the year ending June 80, 1879,
were Emory Wilson, Myer Nordlinger,
John Musson. Barton Miller. Henry
Chamberlain, Frank Wisner, John
Shoemaker, Charles O'Connel, Wor-
then Johnson, BERTHE Chase, George
Weiss. George Strauss. Edward Som
mers. Frederick Kleinschmidt, John
w. Coon, Amy Chamberlain, Charles
Hess. Harry Hillery, Willie Martin,
Revere Rodgers, Ida Won Dachen-
hansen, Daisy Wilfong, Alfred Fisher,
Joseph Bernard, Charles Hoffman,
Albert Reynolds, Bonnie Grimes,
Charles Divine and Alfred Newman.
Grade also had some bright pupils
who received diplomas for some par
ticular study.
They included Eugene Rhodes, Mar
garet Brown, Maus Commach, Ada
Delzel, Cora Drury, Richard Frizzell,
Walter Hospital. Frederick Johnson.
Louis Lowe, Mary Mentally, Mary
Mitchell. Frederick Rick. Randolph
Simmons. Lulu Smith, Carl Shoe
maker, Annie Tenant, Maggie Ten
nant, Robert Beckham, Lula HUH,
Wesley Paxson, Cornelius Davis, Will
liam Mccormick and Lampkin Rob-
ertson.
Miss Goods fourth grade scholars,
who received certificates for excel
lence in studies are recorded as Maria
Raelker, Kate Parkhurst, Cornelia
Fuller, Ernest Shoemaker, Helen
Bailey, William Lowe. Jennie Allen,
Emma Allen, Mary Britt, Georgia
Cameron, Florence Dyer, Jesse DON
aldson, Mary English, Gertrude Kelley,
Bertha Kaiser, Minnie Knowles, Maud
Margaret Quackenbush,
Mildred Rocker, Anna Small, Octavia
Woodward, Hilton Carmichael. Fred
erick Won Dashenhausen, Clara
Grimes, Estelle Strauss, Mary Gurley,
Lucy Gowans, Fielding Lewis, Mar
garet Burdette, Lillian Collins. Bertha
Kaiser. Cora Mould, Helen Janney,
George Prodigy and Isaac Nordlinger.
A MOTHER old Georgetown Public
School. remembered. no doubt, by
many an early resident, was the
High Street School, located at the
junction Of what was once High and
Market streets, now Wisconsin avenue
and Thirty-third street. This build
ing was Of frame construction, SO by
80 feet, with basement and two stories.
The contract for its erection was
awarded to Mr.. Simms in May, 1860,
and the school was opened in Sep
temper, 1868. At the time the ground
was purchased 1t was occupied by q
residence owned by Mr.. Reintzell.
The site is now 0ccIInied l,v tha