Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-08-25

and residence, a lightning rod placed
upon the church, new roofs LAID up
on all the buildings, two new bells
placed in tower, one of which was a
donation of Young Ladies' SOdality,
tower clock placed on tower at a
cost of 500, an addition bought to
cemetery at a cost of $3.50. The
Sacred Heart Statue was donated
by the married ladies, and the I'm
maculate Heart Statue by the
young ladies. st. Anthony's and
St Clements Statues were donated
by Mr. Leo Meysemburg, and the
two pedestals by Peter and jacob
Schuster. The new sanctuary
bench was bought for the sale of
devotional articles, it's cost being
$40. At present there are no debts
excepting small floating debt at
times incurred for the want of
ready cash when bills become dne.
1t may be of interest to make men
ton here of the names of the pio-
neer settlers Those of the Pigeon
settlement are: Math Adams,
Vincent Auel, Casper Buell., Mag
pus Buehl, John j. Ertz, Jacob Ertz,
Math. Ertz, Michael Pink, John
Pink, Henry Pink Math. Helnrichs,
VIM. Stitgeu, Peter Schuster, Henry
Schuster, Peter Schildgen, Anton
Wilhelm, Nicholas Wisbaum, John
Udelhofen, Math. Zenz, John Zenz.
Worthy of special mention is the
Math. Adams family. which gave
five daughters to the religious life
and two sons TO the Jesuit Order.
Those of the Lancaster settlement
are: John Carmody, James Car
mody, Thos. Carmody, Dan Doyle.
Patr. Finnegan, VIM. Frawley, John
FIesch, Bernard Fuerstenberg, Mr..
Creamy, Henry Gerlach, Peter Hoff-
man, Ed. Kiley, Patr. Kiley, VIM.
Murphy, James Mcnamara, John
Mccormick, VIM. Mccormick, Bar
bara Schloesser, John Pollock, Mich
ael Spaight, Thos. Spaight, Dan
Spaight, Anton Sweeney, Adam
Stoeber, Mr.. Schuchart, MIR. Tor
mey. Most of those names still sur
vive in the descendants. May the
good deeds Of these devoted people
long be remembered and bring LESS
ings upon their children and child
ren's children.
Whilst "brick and mortar" were
furnished by these good people, they
in no way forgot to foster the inter
ior life so necessary to a christian.
From time to time a revival" OF
the interior life was made IN the
form OF a mission. The first mission
was held at Lancaster IN 1874 by
the Rev. Father Corby, a member
OF the Congregation of the Holy
Cross. Another was held in 1876 by
the Passionist Fathers of New York,
the Revs. LANCE and Alphonsus.
Another was held in 1878 by the re-
nowned missionary, Father Wenln-
ger, s. j. and fourth in 1882 by a
Jesuit Father of Prairie du CHEN. A
fifth was given in 1886 by the Revs.
Schrageman and NIlur, German Re
demptorlsts of st. Louis A sixth
in 1895 by the Revs. Rosche and
Boorman The last mission was
given October Is To November 1 by
the Revs A. Schiller, S. =. and John
Often, 5. j of st. Louis. This mis-
sion was marked with special sue
cess.
Catholic societies, esta blished to
foster some special branch of Christ
ian good works have ALWAYS been
recognized by our people as most
helpful means of fostering the in
ternal christian life. Thus society
was established as early as 1857 for
the care of the sick and dying, by
the members of the Pigeon settle
ment. In 1870 an altar society was
established by the Rev Thos. P.
Hodnett which still exists as the
strongest society in the parish. Its
mem belship fees are, as from the
beginning, 10c month, the results
of which are applied for the keeping
of the sanctuary ornaments and
vestments This society was affilia-
! ted with the arch sOdality at Rome
under the title of The sBlessed Vir-
gin Mary of the Perpetual Help and
the secondary patron chosen was St.
Helen, in 1904 At present it has II
members
1.-The Young Ladies' Sodality was
organized by the Rev A Albers in
| 1896. Since its erection 80 members
were enrolled The same year a
! Young Mems Sodallty was organ