The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-04-18
COL ORADO SPRINGS.
Especial Correspondence.


Wishing our readers and friends a
glorious Eastertide
Easter Sunday services: Low mass
at $50; low mass and sermon at s
o'clock, singing by the Young Ladies
st. Cecilia choir: children's mass at 9
o'clock, singing by the pupils of St.
Mary's school
Solemn high mass and sermon musio
promises to be of a very high order
under the competent director. Carl Zit-
tel
The children of the parish who have
been receiving instructions for the sa-
crament of Holy Eucharist for the past
two months will receive their First
Holy Communion on Low Sunday"
first Sunday after Easter, at the
o'clock. mass.
Rev. Edward Clark. chaplain at the
Glochner sanitaTium, delivered a most
eloquent Lenten sermon at the vesper
services on Sunday evening at st.
Mary's church.
The Lenten services were all attend
ed by big congregations at st. Mary S
church.
The Easter collection will go towards
the Indebtedness of the church i'm
provements. You are urged to do the
best you can in order to liquidate this
amount on Easter Sunday at all the
services.
Rev. p. j. Haurahan of Peoria. ILL.,.
was caller at the rectOry on Tues
day. Father Haurahan is en- route to
Pasadena, Cal.
Mr.. Norbert w. Haas of the n. w.
Haas Plumbing & Heating company,
who has gone to Detroit, Mich, on ac-
count of the death of his brother at
that city, returned home on last Fri
day.
In all parts of the city much i'm
prOvement is on in preparation for the
tourist trade, which is expected earlier
than usual.
DIR. c. A Hartung. wife and daugh-
ter, Miss Mary Agnes. of Washington
D. c., arrived here on Saturday morn
ing. They attended high mass at St.
Mary's church. The doctor. his wife
and daughter were delighted with the
singing. They left on Monday for
Frisco.
Messrs. Albert and Louis Buchtel of
St. Philomena's parish, Pittsburg, Pa,
arrived here from Kansas City. Mo.
on Tuesday. and left here for Denver
on Friday morning. They were much
pleased with what they had seen, and
had much to praise for our churches.
Construction of the new 100000 adj
ditiOn to Glockner hospital and sani-
tarium will enter upon its its final
stages today. The finishing lumber
the arrival of which was delayed sew
eral weeks because of strike in New
Orleans lumber yards. has reached the
city, and the contractors will put ~
extra force of men to work today TO
ruch the completion of the buildings
as rapidly as possible. The tile is being
l.,
is nearing completion.
The large brick addition. which has
been in course of construction for sew
eral weeks, will not be completed until
the latter part of une, according to
present estimates.
Miss Ella Zimmerman, who has been
i'll at st. Francis hospital for the past
two weeks, is fast convalescing, much
to the delight of her host IF friends
Mrs Mary B. Kerr. a pioneer of Col
orado Springs died last night at 9.15
o'clock at the Glockner of q severe at
tack of pneumonia, following an OPERA
ton. She was 40 years of age and had
been resident of Colorado Springs for
the last thirty years She was the wife
OF George 3. Kerr, engineer I0r the
Colorado Springs Electric company.
and lived at 720 West Cucharas street.
by two daughters, Helen and Frances.
She has two sisters in this city. Mrs.
James McCabe and Miss Fannie Nc
Greer another sister in Saginaw.
Mich. Mrs. Kate Murphy, and a sis
ter and three brothers in Denver. Mrs
Jennie Betridge and Thomas, Edward
and John McCreer.
There is sorrow throughout ST
Mary's parish for the untimely death
Of Mrs. Mary Kerr, a most popular
of our parish, and therefore
the sad news was a severe shock The
people of the parish fully comprehend
the worth and social position of this
Christian woman. In tne
death of Mrs Kerr the parish and city
has lost a woman who possessed
friendship that was real in it's extent
and character, for she was we'll known
and esteemed Her best qualities IF
mind and heart were displayed il. he
untiring devotion to her family. she
developed those amiable qualities that
endear virtuous woman to al, and
exemplified by her very action an in
born Gentleness that was characteris-
lie of her whole life. Her faithful
Christian life was such as to lead us
20 the firm conviction that she is Sc fe
and happy. She is our ideal of =
Christian wife and mother Her use
'ul life is a greater eulogy than the
pest human tribute.
We will not say that she is dead but |
hat she has. just begun to live.
Her memory should inspire us to !
greater effort to profit by the lively |
aith which she practiced and which |
vas one of her pre-eminent traits |
Kindly say prayer for the repose of
Ter soul. j. F. r.
We will give an account of the flu
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