Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-05-06
HIBERNIANS.
What They Have Been Doing
the Past Week-0eneraI
News Notes.

udy.
The Ladies' Auxiliary will hold an
interesting meeting Sunday afternoon,
May IA.
Division s. of Washington, receiver
holy communion in a body at St. Pauls
church.
Company 1, Hibernian Rifles, of Wall
ingford, Conn, is having an armory
erected.
-Four hundred Hibernians received holy
communion in body in st. Joseph's
church, San Francisco.
A new Ladies' Auxiliary has been in
stituted in Norfork county, Mass. 1t is
affiliated with Division 20.
The Ladies' Auxiliary to Division OF
Middletown, Comp, recently organized,
starts with about 200 members
The hop of the Ladies' Auxiliary of
Division of ST. Paul last week was
the most successful ever given.
Division had well-attended meeting
Wednesday evening, at which some very
important business was transacted.
The Hibernians of Essex county, N. J.,
will hold their annual picnic in Shooting
Park, Newark, on the Fourth of July.
Division initiated Dan Dougherty and
Mike Luskin Wednesday evening They
are splendid additions to the membership.
The first county conventions of the
Ladies Auxiliary, Daughters of Erin, of
Providence county, R. l., will be held
early in May.
James Rodgers delivered a most elo-
quent and patriotic address before the
members of Division 3 this week, Gre
ating great enthusiasm.
Division l of Minneapolis received
holy communion Sunday morning at the
Church of the Immaculate Conception.
They were in full uniform.
The annual concert and ball of Divis-
ion 26 of Wakefield, Mass, was held in
the town hall, and it was one of the most
successful parties this division has held.
Thomas Farrell Chairman of the
standing committee oil Division 10, Bos-
ton, was presented with an elegant BAN
quet lamp at his home recently. A COLA
ton was served.
About 400 couples attended the fifth
annual concert and ball of Division "a,
held in Union Park Hall, Boston. The
march was led by President John Leary
and Miss Maggie Clanan.
The silver anniversary of Division 8
of Clinton, Mass, was celebrated with a
grand ball. The grand march was led by
President Patrick +. Cannon and Miss
B. A. Cannon, followed by 200 couples.
At meeting of Military Division l6,
of Boston, last week, two candidates were
initiated and four applications for men,
bership received. The division attended
St. Patrick's church Sunday morning in
a body.
Division l, of Kent county, is the BAN
ner division of the order in Michigan,
having membership of 402. Division l,
of Houghton, has the next largest men,
bership, 304. Division 2, of Houghton,
has 2S9 men on its rolls and Division l,
of Wayne, 246.
Recording Secretary Patrick Quincy
and John Lane are the committee of Mil
itary Division AZ, having charge of the
sale of tickets for the coming reunion
and ball of all the divisions of Suffolk
TO be held in Mechanics Hall,
Boston, May 20.
A very pleasant social event was the
joint entertainment by the members of
the Ladies' Auxiliary and Division l of |
last week. The programme
contained many excellent selections,
after the rendition of which dancing was
INDUCED in for few hours.
One of the features of this annual pa
rade of the Essex County Hibernians
at Hawesville, Mass, was the Working |
Boys Home band and drum corps of |
Boston, and the youthful musicians were
warmly greeted. The reception and ball
at night was the largest attended similar |
event ever held in that city.
Division 8 of Boston, Jerome c. Dolan |
President, held open house Patriots day
in Carroll Hall, to celebrate its twen-
tieth anniversary. There was dancing
from 8 O'Clock until 2, of which Mrs.
Martin F. Mcdonald. President of the
Ladies' Auxiliary attached to the divis-
ion had charge.
The "Donnybrook Fair" announced
for the Lenox Lyceum has aroused a
natural and commendable feeling of oppo-
sition among the Hibernians and men,
bers Of Irish societies in New. York City.
Resolutions denouncing the project were
signed by $50 representatives and for
warded to the proprietor of the Lyceum.
A large gathering attended the smoke
talk and entertainment given under the
auspices of Division so in ST. Rose Hall,
Boston. The lecturer was Col. Thomas F.
Doherty, of the Massachusetts Catholic
Order of Foresters, who spoke on 1.-THE
Soldiers Contribution to
he United States Army in the wars from
I775 to 1892"
Division of Terre Haute gave a
grand banquet recently in St. Joseph's
Academy to their fellow Hibernians of