Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-24
TO TAKE LEADING
PART IN |. c. B. A.
ANNUAL C0NCLAvE
Jersey Lodges Have Candidate
for Supreme President
of Order.

The coming third triennial and tenth
annual convention of the supreme body
of the Ladies' Catholic Benevolent As
ISOLATION, which will convene at the
Chamber of Commerce building, Cleve-
land. O., on July 10 and be in session
several days, will prove for the New
ark and New Jersey branches of the
order and the delegates one of the
most suspicious conclaves in the his
tory of the association.
Mrs. Miles f. Quinn, president of st.
Johns Branch No. 16S, of this city, and
a supreme trustee, will be a candidate
for the supreme presidency to succeed
the present incumbent of the office,
Mrs. e. b. MCGOWAN, of Buffalo, n. Y,
who has filled the chain for the last
twenty-five years, The boom for the
local candidate has spread through
out the State, and it is understood that
a winning majority of the 800 dele
gates, who will attend as representa-
tives of the 1,034 branches in the coun-
try, will supper the popular New Jer-
sey nominee.
The session will open on Tuesday
morning, July 10, at 8 O'clock with a
lllSH 1HdSS, dl Which, The very hlSill
Rev. John c. Farley, bishop of Cleve-
land, will oficiate. Following the
church service the delegates will be
accorded the freedom of the city by
the mayor. and the work of the execu-
tive and official program will be taken
up.
This city and the State will be rep
resented by thirty branches.
Among the delegates who will at
tend the session from this city and
Essex will be: st. James Branch, Mrs.
Margaret O'Brien, with alternate, Miss
Elizabeth Harmon; St. Columbia
Branch, Mrs. Mary J. McHugh. al
~ternate, Julia r. Mclaughlin; Father
Toomey Branch Mrs. Ann Blewitt,
alternate, Katherine Foye; Excelsior
Branch, Mrs. Donnelly, alternate,
Catherine Murphy; leonard Branch,
Catherine Brown, alternate, Anna Null
vihill; Doane Branch, Mrs. Ellen It.
Sinnott, alternate. Mrs. Ellen MCGUIRE;
st. Cecilia Branch, Mrs. Elizabeth M
Gibson. alternate, Mrs. Ann Nolan;
New Jersey Branch, Eva Studer, al
t~ernate, Maria Bouscher; Blessed
Sacrament Church Branch, Mrs. Eliza
Hogue, alternate, Mrs. Mary Cronin;
Holy Cross Branch, Mrs. Mary Nc
Clure. alternate, Mrs. Mary Walsh;
Father Fleming Branch, Kathryn
Toye, alternate, Mamie Gregory; ST
Johns Branch, Miss Anna Holtz, alter
nate, Miss Anna NJ. Ryan; st. Mar
garetha Branch, Margaret Nasher, al
t~ernate, Carolina Maier, and st. AIMS
Branch, Mrs. Frances Sebold, alter
nate, Miss Lena Hassfeld.
Supreme Trustee Mrs. Quinn is also
| president of the New Jersey advisory
senate of the association, and the Off
GERS of that body will meet next week
in the r. A. b.. Hall, at Hudson and
Hartford streets, this city, to consider
the transportation schedule in the in
terest of the delegates.
She is one of the most popular l.. G.
Is. A. associates in the East and ranks
high with the supreme official circle.
Since 1895 she has been the president of
st. Johns Church Branch. At the an
nual convention. held at st. Paul,
Mimi, in 1905, she was elected a SUI
preme trustee, and since 1897, mas
served as supreme marshal and has
officiated as the supreme vice-president.
She has also organized over forty
branches in this State, thus adding
several thousand members. The
branches of the dioceses of Newark and
Trenton have over $1e5,000 invested in
church property on bond and mort
gage.
1t is understood that the salary paid
the supreme president is about $4,000.
Mrs. Quinn is also affiliated with
Companion Court Woodside, |, O. F..
and Ben Lew Cour No, 8, of the Tribe
of Ben Hur. She is a member of st
Johns Church.