The Irish standard., 1888-05-05
HOSPITAL FAIR,
Committees .Busily at Work,

Committees Buslly at Work.
Last Tuesday the ladies selected b
the pastors of the various parishes t
take charge of tables and attend to mat
tiers connected with the coming fair TO
St. Joseph's Hospital met at Catholi
Association hall, where Bishop Irelant
and all the pastors were present to Of
fer suggestions and encourage the ladie!
| i'll their laudable work. After an in
| teresting and animated discussion tbs
following committees were appointed
| Immaculate Conception: The Fanc,
! table for this parish will be in charge o
the Blessed Virgin Sodality, represented
by the following young ladies: The
Misses Mary and Nellie Prendergast
Addie Owens. Lizzie Tracy, Mary Ryan
and Annie Sullivan. The refreshment
department. will be under the superin-
tendence Of the following ladies: Mrs
VIM. McArdle, Mrs. 7. W. McGrath
Mrs Mccain, Mrs. Dunn, Mrs. Moore
MIS-. King, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Lyons.
St. Anthony Of Padua: The following
ladies comprise the committee az
pointed for the fancy table: Mrs
Minogue, Mrs. Kelly, Mrs, Lawrence,
Mrs. Gray, Mrs. Malone, Mrs. Brett
Mrs. Fleethau, Mrs. White, Mrs. Len
non and Mrs. Leonard.
The candy tabla will be attended to
by Miss Ring, Miss Lynott. the Misses
Corey, Miss Rem, Miss White, Miss
Kennedy, Miss Nugent, Miss Hoy and
Miss Norton,
Notre Dame de Lourdes: The fancy
table of this parish will be in charge of
Mrs. Belaire, Mrs. Emord, Mrs. Mead
and Mrs. Armeau.
st. Stephens: The following ladies
were assigned to duty OIL the fancy table
for this parish: Mrs. Lyons, Mrs. King,
Mrs. Donelson, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs.
Sunwald, Mrs. Kelly. the Misses Nc
Ferly, the Misses Scaulan and Miss
Higgins, who though last Oh the list is
enc OF. the raost active workers in the
whole lot.
The STANDARD, to it's great regret,
has been unable to ascertain the names
eff the ladies appointed to represent the
other parishes but it hopes to have them
fer The next issue.
On Tuesday evening She gentlemen Of
the several committees held a meeting
in the same hall with Bishop Ireland
presiding. the chairman Of the re-
spective committees reported progress.
By a majority vote the committee on
hall was authorized to procure Har-
monia, where the last orphan fair was
held, Owing to it's central location and
the facilities afforded for conducting
business therein it WAS considered the
best that could be procured, notwith~
standing its small size compared
with 0 hers mentioned. The committee
on hall was also instructed to engage an
orchestra and the Crusaders Drum
Corps generously offered their services
in the open air.
The choirs OF the various churches
will give concerts every evening Of the
first week az follows: On Monday, the
Immaculate Conception choir; Tuesday,
ST. Anthony's; Wednesday, Holy
Rosary's; Thursday, st, Clotilde's; Fri
day, Notre Dances; Saturday st.
Stephens.
The following were appointed com .
mite on prizes: Messrs. Vail. Con-
molly, LaBrash, Swift and Mousse.
BY unanimous consent it WAS a greed
that each parish should be credited with
the sum realized from votes cast for
any candidate who completes for any
p1ize, as for instance, A, 3 and G from
the Immaculate Conception, Holy
Rosary and st. Anthony, respectively,
are competing for a gold-headed cane.
The sum voted to each candidate will
go to the parish to which he belongs
and the amount realized will be 1n-
cluded in the entire receipts from that
parish,
The committee on tickets reported
they had printed 5000 tickets for the
grand prize Of $500 in cash, contributed
by Bishop ireland, and also sufficient
number Of admission tickets to the fair.
1t was moved aud carried that a COM
mittee be appointed to wait on the diff
ferent Catholic organizations to secure
their cooperation in making the fair a
success, The committee is as follows:
Messrs. Lennon, Poss, Hubert, Kelly,
LeSage, ?. J. Moran, Bowman. Win
theiser, Berzinski and j. A. Schroeder.
a general meeting of the committees
will occur on Monday evening next at
Father McGolrick's residence, and the
executive committee will meet on Tues
day at $50 p. m. at the same place.
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