The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-03
nioeese Of Denver.
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NTTR lJEN A-AS A~-@ = - ~---e'
,en days have brought rest
The pas, TO a number of the young
and 57Gany have been away at col
people ecbo6l and are rejoiced in get
lege OF !, abome for Christmas" Those
ting Unnamed at home have been
who j.. engaged in providing entertain
busl' for the visitors. Ie2chers, too,
menl liking home. and there is no
came y hem either. All the Cath
deartni Az y are poisoning into dignified
Ole si.,I,,ss Altogether Christmas was
pedas5o.73 lime for the young people.
Nan Moynahan. who is teaching
MIS- colo. spent the holidays in
st En- I'm. as the guest of her brothers.
,,,ss Alice Fulham has beer spend
AlS M. christmas holidays at her home
IN Denyer.
- Annie Longan and Miss May
MIS- ,ra have been teaching in the
Gli.if schools at Durango, spent the
luIg35o,.e al their respective homes in
hol' civ. They left On Friday evening
for Durango
,-,,,,ae hrcGovern. who is attending
,ilnga AT St Mary's, Kan, spent the
Clsffon with his parents at S4S Logan
.rlIe He returned TO school the end
nj the week
,,iss Hannah Leech of Loretto
,,oig5ts spent the holidays with her
r,,tber at l757 Lafayette street
Tho charity bah for the benefit of the
- Nincents orphanage, which
sbsId al Kassler hall on New Years
;,b, was an unqualified success. AL
.L7.,eb fGll returns have not yet been
- II is understood that a snug sum
,gs realized The proceeds will be de-
,ota5 10 the building fund for the new
.~nbar ASYLUM The decorations were
Vsl[ artistic and the attendance was
unusually large.
work on the new orphanage is pro-
messing r. nidly. and by the early
enrfng ii IS likely that it will be ready
for occupancy.
Tho naw church OF st. John the
Evangelist at Hartman will be formal
~ orened for services within the next
few weeks. It is pretty little struc-
ture. with a good seating capacity.
.
Miss Caroline c. Schlacter and DR..
miller Preston we're married Christmas
dsy at the St. Elizabeth's church, Fa-
tber Plus officiating.
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Miss Irene O'Connor and Mr. Will
liam Kennedy We're married at Pueblo
an Tuesday. Miss O'ConnOr is a well
known Denver girl She attended Lo-
can avenue school and later the Sacred
Heart school where she graduated.
Mr.. and Mrs Kennedy will make their
home in Pueblo.
The statement made by DR.. B. p.
TYLER. president of the International
Sunday school association and pastor
of the South Broadway Christian
church of this city. regarding the recent
religious census taken in New York
CITY. has aroused the Indignation of
Denver Catholics. He was answered
through the columns of the daily press
by Rev Father Ensebius. o. F. NJ, on
Sunday morning.
DR.. Tyler said that only 81 per cent
of the membership of the Catholic
church in New York attend mass. while
the non-Tatholia denominations claim
an average attendance of II per cent
on ILIrIi IILt-llllt-l @lll p HIS cAcLt-.lt1il
was proven utterly false by Father
Eusehius. as was also the remark that
only % uer cent of the men attend The
franciscan cited the recent experience
Of the census taking of the Chicago
Record-Herald. which showed that the
total Catholic popula ton is 207.760,
against $4,000 Catholics. OF these
IN the largest Catholic churches there
IS I'm average Sunday attendance of
p 1850 while in 179 churches Of other de-
rominatiOrS there were only 1000 In
cidentally Father Eneebius mentioned
that II would he far better to attemnt
a reform ut home than to nervert the
Catholic Filipinos by the efforts over
there
Trinity Memorial held midnight
service Christmas night, with full
choral communion. Gounod's "Naz-
areth' was sung by W. D. Russell and
chorus. which was repeated at the II
O'Clock service the following day. The
entire musical programme of the mid
night service was given. Saturday
night there was a Christmas party at
the Curtis street armory by the church
members and their families, when the
Minstrel show which was presented so
successfully one night at the Womans
lair was repeated.
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Petitions signed by 2S5 resident tax
Payers of Weld county have been re-
ceived at the Office of the Humane So
ceiy requesting relief from the herds
Of hungry and thirsty cattle, which
roam from the ranges into the farms
ana crowd the roads and lanes Food
% the range is scarce, as the pastur-
age was destroyed by the late rains
ana snow. and the condition in Weld
county is what may be expected in
"tner PARTS Of the state where there
open range land near farms.
some speculation over the movements
OF Michael J. Heferman. travelling en-
s,Aeer of the Chicago. Chincinnati,
Cleveland & st. Louis railroad COM
,aHN Was cleared up Christmas, when
Ne was married in this city to Mrs.
Mary Helen Brown. charming Young