The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-10-11
ARCHDIOCESE OF ST. PAUL.

give two concerts, matinee and an
evening performance, in the Audi
forum, st. Paul, on Friday, November
%, under the auspices of the Cathedral
parish. 1t will be the first appearance
of this noted boys choir in this city
and, no doubt, it will prove a great
attraction to the music-loving public.
The choir is made up of $50 singers,
three-fifths of whom are boys between
the ages of nine and forteen years,
under the direction of Rev. W. j. Finn,
c.. S. P. This choir is a unique organl-
cation in the musical world 1t was
founded some years ago in Chicago,
and has been heard in practically all
the large cities of America. year
ago last May it took part in an inter-
national music festival in Paris where
it won first prize in competition with
the best trained choirs of Europe. 1t
was received by Pope Plus x who con-
graduated it's members and their
director, Father Finn, very warmly on
the notable success which they had
achieved.
October Is, the anniversary of the
dedication of St. Mary's Chapel will ne
commemorated by the faculty, stu
dents and alumni of the Seminary. A
Solemn High Mass will be celebrated
at ten o'clock by the Reverend James
E. DOYLE of Green Isle, assisted by the
students, and the sermon will be
preached by the Reverend Thomas F.
Gleason. pastor of the Church of st.
John, st. Paul Immediately after
Mass the annual meeting of the
Alumni Society will be called to order
by the president, Father Gleason, and
matters of Importance to the welfare
of the organization will be discussed.
At the close of the meeting, dinner
will be served to the guests.
Catholic Historical Society: A spe-
cial meeting of the Catholic Historical
Society of st. Paul was held at the
residence of the Most Reverend Arch
bishop on Tuesday evening, October Z
The following officers of the society
were present: President, the Most
Reverend Archbishop Ireland; First
Vice President, Right Reverend Bishop
Lawler; Second Vice President, Rev.
j. NJ Reardon; Treasurer, Very Rev
erend F. J. Schaefer; Secretary and
Librarian, Rev. John Seliskar. After
the transaction of the general business
of the society arrangements were
made for issuing another volume OF
the "Acta ct Dicta," the official publ
cation of the society, next July. At
the January meeting of the society the
final selection of articles to be in
cluded in this volume will be made.
ST. paul Council, X. of c.: The an
nual election of officers of the st. Paul
Council, Knights of Columbus, took
place last Tuesday evening and re-
suited as follows: Grand Knight,
George T. Redington; Deputy Grand
Knight, T. P. O'Regan; Chancellor,
C. F. McNally; Recorder, T. w. Henry;
Financial Secretary, M. ]. Mulligan;
Treasurer, H. M. Kalscheuer; War
den, P. ]. Hand; Inside Guard, g..
Koehler; Outside Guard, J. Mean
drews; Trustee, G. P. Payne; Advo-
cate, F. Brown. These officers will be
installed at the first regular meeting
in November.
The United Italian Societies: Mem
bers of the Italian churches of the
Twin Cities will take part in parade
through the streets of st. Paul on Oc-
tober IL to commemorate the 421st
anniversary of Christopher Columbus
discovery of America Two thousand
Italian-Americans will participate in
the parade which will be followed by
a meeting in the Armory, where adj
dresses will be delivered by prominent
state and city officials and members
of the organization. In the evening a
banquet will be served at the st. Paul
Hotel at which number of addresses
will be given.
COLLEGE of St. Thomas: The second
meeting of the Commercial club, the
representative organization of the st.
Thomas commercial department, was
held last week. The meeting was feat
ured by a talk on "Thoroughness,
by w. D. Dwyer, attorney, OF ST. Paul,
who spoke of the need of a CONNER
cial education among young men today
and said that the one great fault bust
ness men and employers had to find
with the younger generation was it's
apparent lack of proper scholastic
training. Weekly talks of this charac-
ter will be made feature of the club.
The organization now has 140 active
members.
The following officers of the st.
Thomas Commercial Club for the year
1884 were recently elected: Presi-
dent, Thomas Morrin, Green Isle,
Mimi; Vice-President, James Malone,
Minneapolis, Mimi; Secretary Treas
urer, Albert Meyer, Carroll, Iowa;
Executive Committee, James Mullaney
Sioux City, Iowa; Clarence McRae
Ironwood, Mich; John Donlin, Airing
ton, Mimi; Frank Lane, Kansas City
Kansas.
Church of ST. Vincent: st. Rev
Bishop Lawler administered Conirma
ton at the Church of St. Vincent, st
Paul, Sunday afternoon, October 5. 4
class of 225 children and 80 adults
were confirmed A cheque for $1OC
was presented to the Cathedral Fund