The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-15

SILVER JUBILEE
OF LUXEMBURCERS
st. Paul Society EntertaIns
Representatives of the State
at Celebration.

Luxemburgers Of this city generally
and from many other portions of the
state Joined yesterday with the mem
bers of the Luxemburger Unterstut-
zungs Verein Of st. Paul in celebrating
the twenty-fifth anniversary Of the or
ganization of that society.
The entire day was devoted to this
silver jubilee, and the exercises were
of varied character Beside the society
which played the part of host at this
gathering there are two other organi-
cations of Luxemburgers in this city
and six in other portions Of the state
and all of these were we'll represented
Among the guests present was Nicho-
las Conner Of Dubuque, Iowa, editor
of the Luxemburger Gazette and the
Northwestern Catholic Herald, and
former president of the German Cath
olic Central society of the United
States.
In the morning the Luxember-
ger UnterstutZungs Verein and 9TH
er societies participating in the
demonstration attended special serv-
ice at st. Agnes church, cor
ner of Thomas and Kent streets.
1t was expected that Bishop Schwe-
bach, of La Crosse, would conduct this
service, but he was unable to be pres
ent, and Father SOlnce, pastor of the
church, celebrated high mass, assisted
by Father Funke and Father Schulze.
The Luxemburgers assembled at
Weiler's hall, Dale and University, and
marched to the church, where they
were joined by the st. Anthony Of Pa
Qua Society of st. Agnes parish, Cath
ollc Foresters No. $50, the Faith of the
Good Shepherd society, and the Young
Mems Society of st. Agnes parish.
Entertain Visitors.
In the afternoon the local Luxembur-
gers entertained their visitors inform
ally in one Of the small rooms of Mo-
Zart hall.
The festival entertainment took place
In the evening, and varied and elab-
crate programme was prepared for the
occasion. The chief feature was an
address by Nicholas Conner of Du-
buque, who spoke in the native tongue
OF Luxembourg. In felicitating the I'm
terstutzungs verein upon its quarter
century of existence, he discussed the
Luxemburger immigrants in this coun-
try in general way
The LuXemburgerS, Mr.. Conner said
have always made good American cfti-
zens, or good citizens wherever they
have happened to be. They are indus
tr1ous and self-supporting and contrib
ute to the best interests of a commun-
ity in which they live.
The remainder of the programme
was chiefly musical, consisting of cho-
ruses by the LuXemburger Independent
club and the Arion society and solos by
Henry Schumacher, William Lorang,
John Thlll, Henry Knaff, M. F. Gardner,
Jacob Gerlach, Peter Scheiber and the
Misses Anna and Gertrude Thill.
The LuXemburger Unterstutzungs
verein was founded on st. Valentines
day, 1879, by twelve immigrants who
had settled in this city. They were
Charles Engel, John Thill, Peter Thin,
William PETER, Theodore Jams, John
Neu, John H. Them. John Heber, John
Lorang, Theodore Daman, Fritz Schu-
macher and J. B. Fandel. There are
now more than 100 members.
OF the twelve charter members, only
John Thil and William PETER are now
living. One of the features of the an
niversary celebration was the presen-
tation of a silver badge or medal to
each of these surviving charter mem
berS.