The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-03-26

Denver for the treatment of consump-
| tive patients.
A Catholic colonization scheme which
is in its way decidedly unique has beer
! launched, and eastern Colorado with its
limitless possibilities will benefit
Eastern Colorado is just beginning tc
find itself, and Stratton, a new town in
! Kit Carson county, is to be a Catholic
| center before very long.
! The Rock Island railroad, which is
I pushing the develo pment of the new
| country, is enthusiastic over the ef-
/ forts of the Catholic Colony society.
| The directors of the society are: Bishop
! n. c. Matz; Jean Mignolet, Belgian
consul at Denver; Rev. G. Raber of
/ Colorado Springs; Rev. w. J. Hewlett
of Loveland, and DR.. c. L. Loffler OF
Colorado Springs. They are working
under the auspices of the Hibernian
national, colonization bureau, and ex-
pect to bring a score of families into
the county this year and even more
next year. Two Catholic churches will
be built. Stratton subscribed $1,000 in
one day for the rearing of Catholic
church WITHIN its precincts.
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With Father Kuhlman, S. j., of St.
Mary's, Kansas, directing it, a retreat
was opened for the students of the
College of the Sacred Heart last Sun
day evening. 1t continued Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday closing Holy
Thursday. On that day the college
closed for Easter vacation which will
last until Tuesday of next week. The
students have begun preparation for
their annual cratorical contest which
will take place in May.
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est for the news of seismic disturb
ances which the seismograph at the
Sacred Heart college records. A dis
tinct shock was noted last Friday aft
ernoon and the disturbance continued
for seven minutes. The wave seemed
TO come from the southwest along the
Pacific coast. It is the first time for
six months that the seismograph wrote
a record in day time.
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The sunrise mass, or the Mass of the
Resurrection, which will be sung
Easter morning at o'clock at Logan
avenue chapel, will be celebrated by
Right Rev. Bishop Matz. The sermon
on that occasion will also be by the
bishop.
Dorothy Mary Speenberg, the infant
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. r. A. Speen-
burg. was baptized in Logan avenue
chapel by Father McMenamin last
Sunday.
John Lymp is seriously i'll of tubercu-
losis at st. Luke's hospital. His child
was baptized in Logan avenue chapel a
few days ago,
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Eighty young men, members of the
Holy Name society, worked on the
parish census for the cathedral on Sat
urday, Sunday and Monday, meeting
with excellent results in making a
complete roster of names of parishion-
ers. The returns show $50 families, or
a, 400 individuals, of whom $50 are
school-going children.
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A feature of the Palm Sunday serv-
ices at the pro-cathedral was the sing
ing of the Lenten anthem, "The Story
Of the Cross" at the 11:3O O'Clock mass.
The anthem is the work. Of Joseph A.
Michel, the organist and choirmaster,
and although it had been heard before
in Logan avenue chapel. it was never
so impressively rendered as on Palm
of this year.
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Orchestral accompaniment viii add
to the attractiveness- of the Easter mu-
steal program for Logan avenue chapel
Professor j. A. Michel will direct the
MUSIC, and Hummel's Mass in B fat
has been rehearsed for the occasion. |