The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-05-23

Order of Hibernians of Colorado on
Saturday sent a message to President
Wilson offering to raise regiment |
among their members whenever he
gave the word.
Bishop Hanna Gives BIessing.-On
Thursday afternoon, May Z, ground
was broken for the.sState Building OF
California at the Panama-Pacific Elk
position. Governor Johnson, Mayor
Rolph and many notables, both mill
tary and civilian were present. Rt
Rev. Bishop Hanna gave the invoca-
ton.
Five Thousand Join c. o. F.-The
Illinois State Court of the Catholic
Order of Foresters will celebrate the
thirty-first anniversary of the organi-
cation in Chicago, with monster
celebration May "a. Although the
original intention was to initiate a
class of two thousand on that date
applications for membership came in
so fast that the mark has been set
at five thousand. This number will be
new record in fraternal circles.
About ten thousand spectators are eX-
pected.
Franciscan commissary General
Reverend Godfrey Schilling, o. F. M,
Commissary General of the Holy Land
tho TTnifo1 tot hos loft for
Rome and Jerusalem to attend to i'm
portant business. He will be absent
| for about three or four months.
The Devin-CIare BIessed.-Monsig-
nor Mooney off1ciated on Wednesday
afternoon, April 20, at the formal
opening of the Devin-Clare, hand
some residence for self-supporting
young girls, on West One Hundred
and Twentieth street, New York. 1t
was built and presented to the Sisters
of Mercy by Mrs. Susan Devin. The
new building, which is Is feet wide
by go feet deep and five stories high,
will accommodate about 200 girls.
The cost of the building was upwards
of $175,000. On the front wall at the
second story are two stone medallions
with the following inscriptions:
"Dulce Domum, MDCCCCXIV" and
Labor Omnia Vincit." Five Sisters
of Mercy are in charge.
Needs of Our Catholic Indians.-Ot
the 100000 Indians in this country a
hundred thousand are Catholics; and
these are scattered throughout many
reservations, most of them being
poor in this worlds goods, and in need
of priests, chapels, schools and teach
ers. In the ninety-seven Catholic In
dian mission schools, which are main
tanned at cost of $180,000 a year
there are over six thousand children
To the annual cost of maintaining
these schools our people contribute
only $4,000, the yearly deficit Of
$150,000 having thus far been met by
the noble generosity of Rev. Mother
Katherine Drexel, supplemented by
grants from the Tribal Funds. The
Marquette League has undertaken the
onerous task of raising 100000 {
year for these missions. The annua
fee for membership in the League is
two dollars; and it proposes to en-
deavor to secure fifty thousand new
members and to obtain special dona
tons to the fund.
Catholic Employment Bureau
large number of young women o.
Sioux City, Ia, have organized a Cath
Ollie working girls association, and {
committee has been appointed to sc
cure a suitable location for headquar
tiers. A reading room, with literar!
facilities, and a cafeteria will BIZ
opened. 1t is also planned to start al
employment bureau in connection
with the association. The new worl
has the approval of Bishop Carrigan
Pittsburg's Day Nursery. = The
Catholic Women's League of Pitts
burg has begun to establish a "Da!
Nursery" the first Catholic day nur
sery in the city, and Temporal.
; home for dependent women, who ar
in need of shelter and, on account o
age or other conditions, are not eligi
BILE for admission into the new ST. Re
; gis home for Working Girls.
Valuable Historical Collection
; The Merwin Sales Company of New
York, on May 5, sold the extensive ant
imDortant collection of Americana. be
: longing to Lucius L. Hubbard, o
Houghton, Mich. The collection i
said to be complete, particularly il
, writings of early French explorers il
, America.