The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-11

Campion College Reunion.-The
sum of $6,413.7O has been contributed
so far to the new chapel for Campion
college. Prairie du Chen, Wis. Sun
day, May 81, and Monday, June 1,
have been determined as the dates
for the reunion of Campion Alumni.
Fox River League.-A league of all
the Holy Name societies in the Fox
River valley, Wis, may result from
the agitation which has been started
for big joint meeting of all mem
bers of these societies in the cities
of the valley. 1t has been proposed
that the joint meeting be held in one
of the valley cities next summer.
This may include all societies from
Green Bay to Oshkosh, or may ex-
tend to Fond du Lac. There is a
Holy Name society affiliated with al
most every Catholic parish in each
of the Fox River valley cities.
Federation Stops Play.-Upon COM
plant of the st. Louis Branch OF the
American Federation of Catholic So
cieties, 1.-THE Lure" an indecent play
was stopped by the police, on Tues
day, March "a.
Nun Dies at Post.-Sister Mary
Jerome, Order of Mercy, superin-
tendent of St. Robert hospital for
contagious diseases, in Davenport, Ia,
died Saturday morning, March Il, at
Mercy hospital after three days ill
ness resulting from severe cold.
Sister Mary Jerome was known and
honored in many Davenport homes.
For nearly twelve years she had Ia
bored at one of the most dangerous
and arduous posts of duty which could
come by assignment to the self-sacri-
ficing Sisters of Mercy. She had cared
with patience and devotion for hun
dreds stricken down by contagion,
She was born in Ireland in 1856 and |
became a nun in 1873. Bishop Davis
attended the funeral and pronounced
the absolution.
Wild Rumors of Priests Fortune
The estate of the late Reverend Maui
rice J. Dorney of Chicago, "the king
of the stock yards" has been estima-
ted at from 100000 to $75O,OO0. The
estimates are literally wild in view
of the fact that this charitable priests |
possessions at his death amounted to
about $4,000.
Built Up Texas Parish.-William
o%
10, had donated ninety per cent of
the parochial possessions, to the
church of the Assumption at Kerrville, |
Texas, where his son, Reverend II.
NJ Kemper, Phi. D., is pastor. With |
in the past three years his benefac-
lions exceeded $4,000. Two years
ago he founded the Notre Dame in
stitute, where more than half of the
hundred students now attending are
non-C Catholics. Mr.. Kemper was buried
from St. Michaels Church, Chicago,
March %.
"Sacramentine" Novitiate Begun
The actual inception of the "Sacra-
mentine" novitiate, the order for per-
petual alteration which has come from
France to Yonkers, N. Y, began Sun
day afternoon, March 20, when the
first English speaking recruits for the
order received the habit. Nora Cum
ningham from Ohio and Mary Power
from Galway, Ireland, are the first
novices in the American novitiate of
the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.
Princeton Students FIout Religion.
On a recent Sunday the Rev. w. G.
Thayer was preaching sermon to
the Princeton students. The preacher
had scarcely begun to speak when
coughing was heard in every part of
the chapel. 1t continued uninterrupt-
edly till the voice of the speaker
was rendered inaudible by it. Finally
the clergyman was obliged to stop
and leave the pulpit before conclud-
ing his sermon Then the students
filed out of the chapel, chuckling over
their success in putting an end to the
religious services.
Bishop Gives University Lecture
The Right Rev. ]. T. McNally, Bishop
of Calgary, Alberta, spoke in the Pub
lie Library recently in the University
of Calgary's lecture course on social
service. The subject of the Bishops
address was moral Expedients and
Their Value" He argued against the
proposed taxation of church property.
mo New PaIe."-More than 1000
daughters of Erin and half as many
sons of the Emerald Isle attended in
Carnegie Hall Monday, March %, a
meeting of protest against the parti-
ton of their native land. 1t was under
the auspices of the United Irish Wo-
men Of New York. The women adopt
ed resolutions of protest which have
been forwarded to the old country,
and announced that their slogan is
to be ireland, one and indivisible-
no new pale!"
A Distinguished Southerner.-Mr
Thomas Ignatius Semmes, a member
of one of the most distinguished FAM
lilies of the South, died in New Or
leans on Saturday, March 81. Mr.
Semmes was the oldest son of Thomas
]. Semmes who represented Louisiana
in tho H0nfodorofo Conofo OF