The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-28
GERMAN CATHOLIC.
SOCIETIES THRIVE
Rapid Growth Is Shown at the
Annual Meeting at New
UIm

Special to The Globe
NEW ULM, Mimi, Sept. 27.-The
State Federation of German Catholic
societies today closed a very success
full meeting. The most important res
oiution passed was the favoring the
distribution of the taxes levied for the
support of the public schools for the
use of the parochial schools in a pro-
portionate share. Nearly all the old
officers were reelected. They are:
President, P. M. Kerst, ST. Paul;
financial secretary, w. Eibner, New
Ulm; corresponding secretary, Anton
Anfang, ST. Paul; treasurer, Paul
Kemp, Winona. The executive COM
mittee will be composed of the presi-
dent. secretary. treasurer and Rev. J.
NJ. Solnce, ST. Paul; Rev. P. Wiesner,
Saltwater, Lorenz Mitsch, John S.
erode and George Gerlich, ST. Paul.
The vice president will be selected
from the place where the next annual
meeting is held, which is to be deter
mined later.
The delegates elected to the meet
ing of the central society of the
United States. which will be held in
Cincinnati next year are: P. M. Kerst,
Joseph Matt, John S. erode. George
Garlach, ST. Paul; Rev. H. B. Sand
meyer. w. Eibner, New Ulm; Rev. F..
jaeger, George Stelzle, Minneapolis.
The -thirty-third annual convention
of the German Catholic Aid Society
of Minnesota was called to order by
President Gerlach, of ST. Paul, this
afternoon. Pope Plus x. sent his
apostolic blessing and it was the first
time in the history of the society that
it was thus honored. The papal sec
rotary sent to Rev. Max Wurst. OF
Wabasha, an excellent likeness of the
pope, which was also presented to the
society. There are 206 directors pres
ent. representing 124 societies. Presi-
dent Garlach appointed committees.
Archbishop Ireland, which urged all
members of the Catholic faith to join
Catholic insurance companies, and
congratulated the society for adopting
a plan which has put it on a solid
financial basis The annual report of
Secretary John @. Juenemann showed
that during the past year $35,129.16
were put into the reserve fund. The
receipts for the year we're $83,267.3S.
At the present time S104, 318.70 is the
reserve fund. During the past ten
years the society has grown from
$500 members to 1894. The ladies'
auxiliary, which has the life insur-
dlCG tSdluIS, has Ilty-lOuT, societies,
with a membership of 1,480, eight So
cieties being organized during the
year.
The semi annual meeting, which
has heretofore been held regularly in
st. Paul, will be dispensed with in the
future. An attempt was made to
change the annual meeting from Sep-
TENDER to the first Tuesday in June,
but failed to carry. Rev. P. Wisner
of Saltwater, made a plea to the So
ciety to use its best efforts in prohib-
iting the decoration of saloons during
convention time with the emblem OF
the order.
Today the way of the cross of st.
Alexander hospital was fittingly ded-
icated by Rev. Edmund, of Jordan, as
sisted by Revs. Liborius, of Jordan
and Raimund of Chaska. Rev. Alex
ander Berghold, Of Newmarket. deliv-
cred the dedicatory address. The way
of the cross consists of fifteen sta
tons. grotto and chapel, which was
constructed at cost of 5000, and Is
the only one of it's kind in the United
States. People from far and near
make pilgrimages to this place.
French Want Our Dairy Cattle
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. 81
Louis Dupont, of Paris, France, is
here investigating the dairy industry