The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-06-27

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day, June 2, for new hospital build
ing at Beaumont to cost, when COM
pleted, about $4,000.
Knights Of ST. John. Much business
came before the big international
convention of the Knights of st. John,
held in Cincinnati June 21-25. About
10000 delegates and visitors were
In attendance from not only the
United States, but Canada, jamaica
and Trinidad On June 81 Pontifi-
cal Mass was celebrated in ST. Peters
Cathedral by Archbishop Moeller.
First Degrees of Commercial
Scence.-The annual commencement
exercises of the School of Commerce
and Finance was held Wednesday
evening, June 10, at the st. Louis Uni
versity auditorium. The school was
one of the first in the West to inau-
gurate department for the exclusive
training of young business men in the
science of modern trade and industry.
Three graduates received the de-
gree Master of Commercial Science.
Business men of experience direct the
courses in the new school.
Reaina's New Catholic SchooI.-The
contract has been signed for the cree
nf "a cnh0nl in Do
gina, Canada. The building will cost
in the neighborhood of $4,000. Pro-
vision will be made for the addition of
four more rooms as soon as the at
tendance at the school demands it.
This is the third separate school to be
erected in the city in response to the
rapidly increasing Catholic population
1t is little more than a year ago that
st. Joseph's School, in the east end
of the city, was completed.
NEGRO Catholics in AtIanta.-Seven
years ago there was one church, two
priests, one school, three teachers
and thirty practical colored Catholics
in Atlanta, Georgia. Today there are
six churches, eight priests, six schools,
thirteen teachers, six hundred chill
dren in school and over one thousand
Catholics. This is progress, indeed,
when we realize the racial antipathy
and religious prejudice of the South.
Seven years ago Bishop Kelley gave
Father Lissner, Provincial of the So
A Ill
of the colored people comprising about
one-half the population of Georgia.
They met opposition on every side,
sometimes in quarters where it should
least be expected. But their methods
have changed the spirit and some who
opposed them have become devoted
friends.
For Girls Home in Vancouver
Reverend Father Jan, o. NJ. l., of Van
couver, B. c., has announced that two
gifts, one of $1,000 and the other of
$500, have been received for the resi-
dental home for Catholic business
girls which he hopes soon to begin
in that city. He calculates that there
must be at least another $500 in the
fund before the enterprise will be
started.
Summer School at Creiahton,-The
| Summer Session at Creighton Univer
sity, Omaha, opened on June 10th and
closes on August 1st. Applications
have been received from a large ter
ritory, extending as far west as
Wyoming and Colorado, south tC
Texas and Oklahoma, and east to Ohio
and Indiana. Housing accommodations
are being provided for the visiting
members of religious communities
Sixty courses will be offered this year
Returns Purse With Interest.-The
Rev. Joseph c. Allard, pastor of ST
Joseph's Church at Worcester, Mass.
celebrated on May 80 the silver jubilee
of his ordination to the priesthood
and during the exercises the mem
bers of his parish presented to him a
purse of $4,000. After accepting the
gift, Father Allard turned it back tc
the parish, with personal savings oil
$3,457, toward fund for the erection
of new parochial school.
Creighton NEEDLES Rank High.-The
| American Medical Association, through
| it's council on Medical Education
makes a compilation each year oil
statistics showing the results of the
various state medical board examina
tons throughout the United States
This compilation for 1913 was pub
lished May %. This report shows that
during the year fifty-three Creighton
men were examined in eleven states
with only four failures or percentage
of rs. The average percentage Of
| failures is 1876.
OLD WORLD NEWS.