The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-10-24
NEW WORLD ITEMS.

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rick church, in Thompsonville, Conn,
has made a personal gift of forty-one
acres of land in the southern part of
Thompsonville township to be used as
d Catholic cemetery.
Priest Opens Peace Meeting.-A
Catholic priest, the Rev. DR.. F. X.
Morrison, pastor of st. Joseph's
Church, Berkeley, Cal, opened the
great Peace Meeting, which was held
there recently DR.. Morrison is
brother of the Right Reverend James
Morrison, Bishop of Antagonist, Nova
Scotia.
Catholic Publisher Dies,-Mr. Peter
Nugent, former publisher of the Cath
Ollie Tribune" in st. Joseph, Mo-, and
one of the pioneer residents of that
city, died at his home there recently.
He was born in County Leitrim, Ire
land, seventy-four years ago.
Converts in London, Ont.-In brief
statement Bishop Fallon says that in
the four years that he has been Bish-
op of London, Ont, Can, he has con-
firmed $3.50 souls, of whom 662 were
adult converts.
Waste Paper Crusade.-The st. Vim
cent de Paul Society of Milwaukee has
started waste paper collection cru
SADIE from the sale of which it hopes
to obtain funds which will enable it
to extend it's labors. The various
business houses of the city will pro-
vide wagons for the collection of the
waste paper, and in the course of time
the society hopes to have wagons of
it's own.
Catholic University Progress.-The
year has opened auspiciously for the
Catholic University 1t now has Is
instructors, 46 of whom are laymen.
it has 20 chairs endowed at $4,000,
4 fellowships at $4,000, and So schol-
arships at $4,000 each. 1t has more
students this year than ever before.
MEE'IN 10
Scholarships Won at Trinity College.
Scholarships have been awarded at
Trinity College to Miss Anna English
of Butte, Montana, full ten thou
sand dollar scholarship; to Pauline
Moore of Newport, r. l., the Rhode
Island Woman's Scholarship; and to
Miss Grace Mangan of PawtuCket, r.
l., the Margaret Dempsey Scholarship.
/. Death of Centenarans.-Mrs johann
ma Sullivan, a native of Ireland, died
at her home in Mt. Carbon, near Potts
vile, Pa, recently, at the age of 100
years.
A regular attendant at church for
more than one hundred years, Mrs.
Marie Esther Sturgeon of Muskegon,
Mich, was buried recently in ST.
Mary's cemetery there. March Is OF
this year she was 107 years old. AL
though she was slightly deaf, Mrs.
Surgeons sight was good and her
mind as clear as that of most women
of 60 until shortly before the time
she died.
Veteran Priest Dies.-Rev. Francis
X. Marseilles, the Oldest priest in the
London, Ont, diocese, died in Hotel
Dieu, Windsor, recently. The funeral
took place in the Canard River
Church, where he had been pastor for
43 years. Bishop Fallon, of London,
presided at the services. The dead
priest was 81 years of age and had
been 81 years in the priesthood.
Georuetown's OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
town University Law School opened
with the largest class in her history.
Over 1000 students registered, nearly
every State in the Union being repre-
scented, and the class is still increas-
ing in numbers.
Dean of Catholic ChapIains.-Rev.
William Henry Ironsides Reaney, the
dean of the Catholic chaplains of the
United States navy, who has been on
a status of waiting orders" and
previous to this, was on duty with the
battleship Utah of the Atlantic fleet,
has just been assigned to service at
the Navy Yard, New York. Father
Reaney is, perhaps, the most widely |
known of the Catholic chaplains, and
is said in the service to be ''the greatest |
sea going priest in the world" He
has been in the service for twenty
two years, is native of New |
York and was appointed to the navy |
from Maryland. AS the New York |
Navy Yard is one of the largest and |
busiest of the Navy, there will be a |
wider field for labor for him, as the |
personnel is constantly changing. Fa-
. Their Reaney will not reach the age of |
retirement until July q, 1895. He is
the only Catholic chaplain in the navy |
having the high rank of captain.
Kansas Pioneer Catholic Dies.-Mr. |
Edward Kelly, one of the pioneers of |
Kansas City. Mo-, recently died there at /
the age of Is years. He was born at |
Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, in 1886;
came to this country in 1856 and in
September, 1869, settled down in the |
spot where Kansas City now stands |
Mr.. Kelly was an exemplary Catholic |
and an active member of Catholic or
CARNATIONS.
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Fire Department Chaplain Dies
Rev. T. F. McGronen, chaplain of the
Rr0Oklyn Fire Den3rtmeDt and rector