New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-06-29
BIG CATHOLIC CONVENTION.
Aid Society and Staats-Verbund to
Meet Here.
City Must Entertain Large Crowd
in September.
Likely to Be 1000 People Here on
Catholic Day.

there will take place in New Ulm one
OF the largest meetings of Catholics
ever held in Minnesota. The occasion
will be the twenty-fourth annual meet
ing of the Catholic Benevolent Aid
Association of Minnesota and the
eighth meeting of its auxiliary, the
Stats erbund. or state federation.
The latter formerly convened only
once every two years but in future
will meet yearly. Few people outside
the church realize the Importance and
magnitude of this meeting but an idea
may be gained when it is stated that
New Ulm will be called upon to enter
tain several thousand people.
Dates for the convention are from
Sunday, September 25th, until We'd
nesday, the 2Sth, and there will be
heavy attendance on all of the four
days. The Catholic Aid association
has more than 5000 members in the
state and the basis of representation
at the convention is one director, or
delegate, for every twenty-five mem
bers. This indicates 275 or 300 dele
gates to the meetings of the older So
ciety and all will come, as their ex-
penses are betrayed by the organiza-
ton. Many will represent both the
aid association and the Staats-Ver-
bund, but the latter may be counted
upon to send at least 100 additional.
fSt. Joseph society of this city, the
largest in the state, has already ap-
pointed the various committees to take
charge of the air and they are made
up as follows:
Executive Committee -Wd. Eibner,
Athanas Henle, Andrew Amann, John
Wiltscheck, John Henle, Christ Spren-
ger, Alex Schwendinger, George Puch-
ner, Philip Liesch.
Finance Committee Amann.
J. J. Juenemann, ]. Dietz, VIM.
Rausch, Alex Schwendinger.
Committee on Entertainments ohm
Henle, Geo. Puchner, Jos. Schuster,
Alex Schwendinger, Jos. G. Lindmey-
er, Mich. Schuster.
Committee on Badges-Ath. Henle,
Christ Sprenger.
Program Committee Wd.. Eibner,
And. Amann, John Wiltscheck.
Railway Committee John Henle,
Philip Liesch.
Music Committee-Athanas Henle,
George Puchner, Anton Richartz.
Committee on Invitations to Clergy
Rev. Fl. B. Sandmeyer.
Committee on Hall j John Wilt
scheck, Christ Sprenger.
Committee on Decorations - Alex
Schwendinger, Theo. Schwendinger,
Adam Peters, John Wartha, Anton
Zupfer, Geo. Puchner.
Committee on Quarters-Joh Ohm Her
zog, Andrew Amann, John Floetl,
Alex Ranweiler, Vim. Fesenmeier,
Theo. Schwendinger, Mich. Schuster.
Andreas Amann is the chairman of
the reception committee but its mem
bers have not all been selected.
On friday Wd. Eibner received a
letter from P. M. Kerst of ST. Paul,
president Of the Stats Verbund. in
which he was notified that Mr.. Kerst
and the members of the executive
board would come TO New Ulm on
July lst TO confer with The local com
mittees and make the final arrange
ments as to topics, speakers, etc.
They will arrange for holding a
grand Catholic day on Sunday, Sep
TENDER 25th, and it is then that the big
crowd will visit New Ulm. Special
excursion trains from the north and
south on the St. Louis, and from the
east and west on the Northwestern are
expected to bring in about 1000
strangers. The Twin Cities, St. Cloud
and Saltwater will all send in large
delegations and crowds are sure to
come from Mankato, ST. Peter and LIE
Sueur, as we'll as points west. Many
of these places will bring their bands
and there should be Ten or a dozen
present.
All of Sunday morning will be de-
voted TO church services and during
this time Bishop Cotter of Winona,
will probably celebrate pontifcal high
mass. In the afternoon there will
be monster parade and this is to be
followed by speeches and other exer-
cises.
1 Monday morning the Staats-ver-
bund, which had its inception at the
convention held in New Ulm in 1892,
will open its sessions and an import.
| ant question to be decided is whether
or not it shall become affiliated with
the Catholic Union, Or national FEEDER.
!. alton. Tuesday afternoon the aid, OF
insurance section, will convene ane
the regulation of its affairs will con
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