Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1914-06-27
HIBERNIANS.
What They Have Been Doing
the Past Week-0enersi
News Notes.

Division 2 will meet next Thurs
day evening.
Members are invited to visit
Division 3's new home.
The newly organized division at
Bellaire, Ohio, will soon have a mem
bership of 100.
The Hibernians of Bridgeport,
Conn, are planning to build new
home in the near future.
From present indications the
County Board picnic will be the most
successful in recent years.
They can never give too much
work to Smiling Johnny Hession,
Division 3's Financial Secretary
A programme will be issued for
the County Board picnic to be given
at Phoenix Hill on Tuesday, July FL.
At a recent meeting of Division 6
at Wilmington, Del, the county de-
gree team initiated a class of six
teen.
The cornerstone laying OF Corpus
| Christi church tomorrow will be an
event of Philadelphia Hibernian
annals.
Mayor James NJ. Curley, of Boston,
will respond to the toast. "The Irish
Race" at the national convention
| banquet.
The Ladies Auxiliary meeting
will be held next Wednesday night at
Falls City Hall. A large attendance
is requested.
| State President Welsh and County
| President Connolly will leave for
the national convention on Sunday
morning, July 10.
| The Hibernians headed the parade
and made fine showing at the dedi-
cation of st. Patrick's church at
Erin Prairie, Wis
Ladies' Auxiliary so of Bridgeport,
| Conn, celebrated its third ami
versary by comforting the degrees on
a class of about 100.
The Hibernian Social Club are
working like Trojans for the success
of their moonlight excursion to be
given Tuesday, July IA.
Division / of Bridgeport, Conn,
recently initiated a class of forty
candidates as part celebration of the
passage of the home rule bill.
Nova Scotia Hibernians have been
very busy during the past few
months in an effort to push the or
| der into every town in the province
Many divisions have sent John
Redmond congratulatory messages
upon the passage of the Irish home
rule bill with pledges of continued
support.
The Hibernians of Dunkirk, ".
Y, will offer gold medals to the
| students of st. Mary's Academy hold
| ing the highest regents counts in the
study of history.
State President Sheehan, of Penn
sylvania. says "it is as much the
duty of Hibernians to participate in
the laying of cornerstone as it is
to unfurl an Irish flag"
Philip Farley, John Cassidy and
X. Fitzpatrick, delegates to the ma
tional convention from Dayton, Ohio
| will endeavor to secure the next
convention for their city.
Next Thursday night Division 2
will meet at its hall, Thirteenth and
Oak, the only one to be held next
week. President Con Ford asks that
every member be present.
The two Niagara Falls divisions
held a rousing meeting, at which
John S. Ormsby, who introduced the
order into Niagara county, delivered
a really heart to heart talk.
The Ancient Order is planning to
take prominent part in the National
Star Spangled Banner centennial
celebration to be held in Baltimore
during the week beginning Septem-
Der 6.
With State and county officers and
delegations from many parts of
California present. the advanced
degrees were conferred on a class
of thirty candidates by Division 1 of
San Mateo.
The Indiana State officers met
Tuesday in indianapolis to arrange
for their trip to the national conven-
ton at Norfolk. A programme for
the State convention at Gary was
also arranged.
San Francisco Hibernians have ar
ranged to celebrate in fitting man
ner the national holiday of our
glorious republic. They have Sc
cured Schuetzen Park, where there
will be patriotic exercises and
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