The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-01-26
Sister Margaret Clare to be In
stalled as Mother Superior
at Feast Of Publication
KEMPER HALL TO BE CONVENT
Elevation of the Sister Superior to the
Second Office of the Sisterhood is to
be Attended by Pomp and Cere-
mony Next Month.

/ INVITATIONS were sent out today Tor
the ceremonies attending the install
lation of Sister Margaret Clare, Sister
Superior of the order of the Sisters of
st. Mary in charge Of Kemper Hall,
as Mother Superior of the order,
which will take place at Kemper Hall
on February 3.
The event will be the feature of the
| celebration of the Feast of the Purifi-
cation, and it will be one of the great
est religious celebrations ever held by
the members of the Episcopa1ian
church in the west
| Sister Margaret Clare arrived in
New York from Europe this morn
ing and she will come at once to Ke-
! nosha to prepare herself to take the
vows of her solemn Office in the Sis
terhood.
| Never in the history of the Sister
hood has any such ceremony been
! held outside of the Mother House at
Peekskil1, New York, and for this
| reason the installation will be marked
with pomp and ceremony hitherto
/
| The services will be held at St.
Peters chapel in the Kemper Hall
grounds, and they will be under the
direction of the Right Rev. Isaac Lea
Nicholson, of Milwaukee. Assisting
him Ill the work of consecrating the
Mother Superior will be the Mother
General of the order from Peekskil1,
N. Y, the bishops of seven diocese
IN Wisconsin and the surrounding
states, forty priests of the Episcopal
church and many Of the other sisters
of the order from ali partsaof the
United States.
The services will last during the
entire day and it is expected that a
new sister Of the order will make her
profession during the day.
The music for the ceremonies will
be furnished by a surp1iced choir Of
one hundred young women selected
from the students at Kemper Hall.
The sermon will be preached by the
Right Rev. DR.. Theodore N. Morrison,
of Davenport, Iowa, bishop of the do
cese of Iowa. It is expected that more
than three hundred associate sisters
of the Sisters Of St. Mary will come
to Kenosha to attend the ceremonies.
The day will be observed as a holiday
at Kenper Hall and great feast will
be given III the evening in honor Of
the elevation of the Sister.
Sister Margaret Clare, who will be
the central figure in the great church
celebration, is one of the best known
of the members of the Sisterhood and
she was appointed to the office of
Mother Superior, an office second only
to that of Mother General
four months ago. She has been
member of the Sisterhood for the past
thirty years, and for more than TWEEN
ty-five years she has been the Sister
Superior in charge of Kemper Hall.
With her conservation as Mother
Superior the work of the leadership
of the Sisterhood will be divided, and
Sister Margaret Clare will have
charge Of all the institutions Of the
Sisterhood in the west.
al lAC SdIuC l1IuC DIS she is COnSG-
Grated as Mother Superior the com
munity room at Kemper Hall will be
blessed and Kemper Hall will become
the second convent of the Sisterhood,
and In the future all Of the noviti-
ates IN the western part of the coun-
try will receive their instruction at
the Kenosha convent.
AS soon as Sister Margaret Clare is
invested with the rig of the Mother
Superior she will have absolute
charge of the educational work of the
Sisters at Kemper Hall, Kenosha, St.
Catharine's Hall at Davenport, Iowa,
and ST. Mary's School at Memphis,
Tenn. She will also be in charge of
the great institutions of the Sisters of
ST. Mary in Chicago and other west
ern cities.