The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-10-25
NEW WORLD ITEMS.

Golden Jubilee of UrsuIine College.
The golden jubilee celebration of
the Ursuline College, which continued
four days at the Ursuline Convent,
Toledo, began under very suspicious
circumstances in the convent chapel
at 8 a. M, October z. A Pontifical
High Mass, at which Rt. Rev. Joseph
Schrembs, d. D., Bishop of Toledo,
pontificated, signified the formal open
ing of the jubilee. Besides the nuns
of the community, many of the clergy
of the diocese were present. After
the eloquentlY delivered sermon by
Rev. Joseph Smith, of St. Philomen's
Church, Cleveland, the Papal blessing
was impaired by the Bishop at the con-
clusion of the Mass.
Famous German Priests Centenary.
On Sunday, Oct. IL, the German
American Catholics of New York City
observed the centenary of the birth of
a priest who is little known in the
United States; but whose name is a
household word at every German
Catholic freside-Father Adolph Kolp-
ing, a journeyman shoemaker in his
youth and in his mature manhood
the head of a mighty organization
which ever in his lifetime numbered
$4,000 members with 400 club-houses.
The Society of Catholic Journeymen
(Gesellenvereine) today extends over
the entire Christian world; with sev
eral club-houses in the United States.
The most fiourishing among the latter
is that in New York.
American P~arochiaI Schools
About five thousand Catholic parishes
in all America have parochial schools,
their number increasing about 400 each
year. In them are 10000 pupils.
AID Limina Year.-Next year, 1914,
will be the ad limina year for the
Bishops of the United States.
Priest on Park Commission.-Gov-
ernor Johnson, of California, has ap-
pointed Rev. Walter F. Thornton, S.
J., president of the University of San
ia Clara, to succeed his predecessor,
Rev. James Morrissey, S. j., rs a mem
Der of the Redwood Park Commission.
Catholic Colony in Idaho.-The Cath
Ollie Colonization Society of America
has applied to the State Land Board
of Idaho for permission to purchase
$4,000 acres of farm land in Clear
water county with a view to settling
100 Catholic families there.
Toledo Diocesan OfficiaIs.-Last
week the Rt. Rev. Bishop Schrembs
announced the appointments that com
pIete the organization of the Curia
for the Diocese of Toledo. These ap-
pointments are: Vicar General, the
Very Rev. John T. O'Connell, LII. D.,
pastor of the Cathedral parish; Chan
cellor, the Rev. A. j. S~chwertner, pas
tor of st. Johns Church, Lima; Secre-
tary, the Rev. George Barry O'Toole,
D. D., Phi. D.
Catholic Librarian.-Among the few
Catholics prominently identified with
public library work in this country is
William Stetson Merrill, assistant Ii
brarian of the famous Newberry Lii
brary, Chicago, Ill.
Gaelic in Chicago.-Beginning Wed
nesday, October s, the first of the
courses in the new College of Celtic
Culture opened in De Paul University,
Chicago and Sheffield avenues. Elk
tension classes also r held in ST.
Patrick's Academy.
Catholic Encyclopedia in Libraries.
America" states that there are now
in the Boston Public Library twenty
eight sets of the Catholic Encyclope-
dia, thirteen in the Public Library of
New York, five in that of Brooklyn,
six in Philadelphia; but only n in
that of Chicago.
Historic Graveyard Preserved
After thirteen years struggle in the
Canadian courts, the Irish of Mon
treal, led by the Ancient Order OF
Hibernians, have defeated the Grand
Trunk Railway in an effort of the lat
ter to take possession of a burial plot
at the end of Victoria Bridge, where
thousands of Irish emigrants are in
tered. A massive boulder, suitably
inscribed, had been erected there. 1t
was surreptitiously removed by the
railway company, but has been order.
ed restored by the court. The re-dedi.
cation of the monument was n of
the recent notable events in Montreal
C~athoIicity in Connecticut.-The
baptized Catholics of Connecticut
number over AGO, 900. This vast mum.
Der has grown and gathered within a
hundred years. Among them many
nations and tribes and people and
tongues are represented.
Opening Date of ST. Louis Cathedral
I'm his October monthly sermon in
the New Cathedral Chapel Archbishop
Glennon made announcement that
services in the new $2,000,O 900 Cathe-
dral at Lindell Boulevard and New.
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