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Show A CATHOLIC MAYOR. John A. Garrett, the youngest man in Maryland to occupy such an office, was recently elected -mayor of Glen Echo. He has just passed his. 2i'd. year, and received every vote cast at thw election for the office. Mayor Garrett is now. as he has been for ten years, an altar boy at Trinity Catholic, church. Any Sunday he may be seen with cossack and surplice sur-plice with the other altar boys serving mass. Although Al-though the mayor of the town, he says he will continue con-tinue to be an altar boy until he is barred by age and beard. Mayor Garrett is chairman of the board of district dis-trict school trustees of Glen Echo, to which office he was appointed when V.). At the same time he. was made deputy clerk of the county commissioners. commission-ers. Glen Echo is the home of Miss Clara Barton, ex-president of the Xational Bed Cross society. 4- |