Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-06-14
CORNERSTONE LAID.
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES At
NEW SCHOOL SITE SUNDAY
ELOQUENT ADDRESSES BY CLERGY
Many Church Dignataries Present
From Other Cities

Last Sunday was notable one
with ST. Marys congregation, as
we'll as for this city, for the corner
stone of the new school building was
laid.
The services were opened by Faith
er Bauman, o. S. NJ, prior OF S.
Mary's, at the church, by the saying
of the Rosary, followed by the Bene-
diction of the Blessed Sacrament.
Then with the altar boys leading,
carrying a large cross, the Very Rev.
c. Schmit d. D. of Rice Lake, dean
of the diocese, assisted by Rev. P.
Hartman, of Bruce, as deacon; Rev.
j. Duenn, of Winter, as arch-deacon;
the Very Rev. B. He'll, of Chicago,
provincial of the Servites of America;
and Father A. Bauman; followed by
the members of the congregation,
the procession marched to the site
Of the new building, where the sane
tuary was blessed, then the Corner
stone
At four O'Clock in the afternoon
the Very Rev. Schmit placed the
cornerstone in position with trow-
Ell of mortar. Following this, the
partially erected walls of the build
ing were blessed. The services were
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ual and were expressive and beauti
full.
Father Schmit then delivered an
Oration on the relation of the Cath
olic church to education. He pro-
ceeded to show that the church had
always been the foster parent OF in
tellectual learning, also proving that
to attain the end for which man was
created, he must have religious
education, and for this purpose the
Catholic church has it's schools. He
demonstrated that the Catholics were
patriotic to their country by records
of history and added they had new
er murmured at paying the tax for
ing their own. While he was speak
ing, the national colors and the papal
banner were carrying their message
of patriotism and Christianity above
on flag-poles.
The box in the cornerstone con-
tanned a document in Latin, transla-
ton of which is as follows:
For perpetual memory of this event
on June 8, A. d. 1912, in the reign
of our dearly beloved pope, Plus X,
ably ruling the Church of God, with
the most Reverend and illustrious
Bishop, F. A. Schinner, D. D., ruling
as the first bishop of Superior, the
Very Reverend B. He'll, of the Order
of the Servants of the Blessed Vir-
gin Mary, ruling as provincial, and
the Rev. A. Bauman, o. S. NJ, pas
tor of st. Mary's church, Hon VIM
Taft being president of the United
oLdtSS Ol America, non. FRANCIS II.
McGovern, Governor of the state of
Wisconsin. and Mr. D. H. Richards,
Mayor of this city of Ladysmith; this
cornerstone has been laid with sol.
emn ceremony, by the Very Rev. c.
f. Schmit, D. d., Dean of the Diocese
assisted by number of clergy and
a large assemblage of people.
Besides the above document. there
was in the box a copy of No. /, Vol
ume l, of the Messenger of Our
Lady of Sorrows" published at Gran
vile, Wis, q copy of No. II, Vol. IA,
of The Parish Monthly of Our La
dy of Sorrows Church." Chicago, both
Catholic magazines, and a copy OF
the Ladysmith News-Budget, of June
Z, 1912, the only paper in the coun
ty which last week published a pro
gram of the event
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