The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-24


organization will be completed Jan. 26.
The annual dues will be five cents
per member for each society joining
the federation.
Jubilee of Noted Observation-Disclosures
Tobias, founder and director of the
select Academy for boys at Ammen-
dale, Md, celebrated on Sunday, JAN
4, the sixtieth anniversary of his
entrance into the order of the Chris
tian Brothers. Brother Tobias, Henry
Wall, was born in County Derry, Ire
land in 1929, and entered the noviti-
ate of the Christian Brothers in
Montreal. He has during his religi-
Gus life founded and directed several
institutions of learning among them
ST. Johns College, Washington, d. c.,
where he labored for nearly twenty
years. Another event of importance
in which he figured most prominently
was the retaining of the Church
lands in California. Through his ex-
ertions a law was enacted giving back
to the Church the one million or more
acres of land coded for religious pur-
poses by the Mexican Government be-
fore the Mexican war
Requests of Bishops Sister.-Under
the will of Miss Annie McGovern, of
Lancaster, Pa, sister of the late Bish-
op McGovern, of Harrisburg, many
Harrisburg charitable institutions are
remembered with requests. The will
provides for the following requests:
To the Sylvan Heights Orphanage
and St. Patrick's Cathedral, $1,000
each; Sisters of Mercy, $780,
A Holy Name Army.-Fifty-thousand
members of the Holy Name Society
in the Archdiocese of Boston received
Holy Communion in their respective
churches last Sunday, the feast of the
Holy Name.
Centennial Prize for Catholic Stu
dent.-Among the many features OF
the Perry centennial celebration in
Ohio last fall was prize essay con-
test provided for by the Ohio legis-
lature in it's last appropriation for
the Perry centennial. Arrangements
were made by the commissioners for
this contest, in which the students of
the Ohio universities, colleges and
normal schools we're invited to partici-
pate. Twenty-one institutions were
represented in the contestants. The
second prize of 500 was won by James
J. Loughlin, of st. Ignatius College,
Cleveland.
Texas Free CIinic-The manage
ment of St. Vincent's Sanitarium,
Sherman, Texas, celebrated the tenth
anniversary of that institution on JAN
uary by the opening of free clinic
at the institution. Hereafter every
afternoon from one o'clock to three,
all poor will be treated free of charge.
Daily Routine of Wireless Operation.
Twice daily the st. Louis university
station receives the time signal from
the United States Naval Station at
Arlington, Va, distance of 900 miles.
Messages are picked up each day
from Colon, Panama, Key West, Fla. !;
Havana, Cuba, and Sayvine, N. Y.
City of Incas DiscoVered.-A most
important ruin has been discovered
in South America-the city of Machu
Picchu, the cradle of the Inca empire,
on the top of the Peruvian Andes.
The National Geographic Society has
made public the preliminary report of
Prof Hiram Bingham, of Yale, di-
rector of the expedition. The ruins
show that the inhabitants of the city
were highly civilized people-artis-
tic, inventive and capable of sustained
endeavOr.
Catholic Textbook Commission
The work of the Catholic Textbook
Commission, which was appointed by
the Bishops of Ontario several years
ago, is now nearly completed, and it
is expected that a new series OF
readers and other books for use in
the Separate Schools of the Province
will shortly be forthcoming as a re-
suit of the Commissions labors.
Old Catholic Literary Society.-The
Catholic Philopatrian Literary Insti,
tute of Philadelphia, was sixty-three
years old on January 5, and observed
the anniversary with pleasant So
cial function at it's headquarters in
Arch street. The Philopatrian is
probably the oldest Catholic literary
society in America.
Holy Cross Banquets Governor
The General Alumni Association OF
Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass.
gave reception and banquet to Gov
ernor David l. Walsh, Monday evening
January IL, in the Bancroft Hotel, Wor
cester. The Governor is a member OF
the class of '93.
Catholic Papers in a Prison.-Rev
erend Thomas B. Dougherty, chaplain
of the Eastern Reformatory of Napa
mock, N. Y, distributes every week
Catholic papers donated for the pur
pose, among three hundred inmates
under his care.
Catholic Charities Win Contest
Two Catholic charities, the Good Shep
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