The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-14
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workingmen of Germany, published at
Muenchen-G ladbach, in the issue of
January 5, 1914, devotes four of it's col
Labor at the Seattle convention, to
the Militia of Christ and to Bishop
Carroll's address, which it quotes at
length.
Pope Honors Americans.-Pope
Plus has appointed James Shevlin of
Brooklyn, and Charles William Ham
ilton of Omaha, Knights of the Order
of ST. Gregory the Great
Wichita's New ConVent.-The Sis
tiers of st. Joseph of Wichita, Kansas,
will soon have a new convent to re-
place the one burned last year. Plans
are being drawn for a three-story
building with basement, which will
cost $4,000 and will be built of brick
and stone The architect expects to
complete his work this month.
K. of C. Lecture Bureau.-The Iowa
State Lecture Bureau of the Knights
of Columbus has secured Brother John
F. Doherty of La Crosse, Wis, to lee
ture in Cascade, Sunday evening, Feb
ruary Is. His subject will be "The
Flowers of Chivalry."
Business Men Aiding Nuns.-Plans
to raise $4,000 to wipe out the in
debtedness of the Palmer Memorial
Hospital, GAINESVILLE, Wis, conducted
by the Sisters of Mercy, were formu-
lated at a luncheon held on January
10, by $50 business men.
Sectarianism in Public Schools
Principal Edward Hamer of Fayette
City, Pa, suspended twenty Catholic
children when they refused to attend
chapel, where the exercises consisted
not only of reading verses from the
Bible, but of singing sectarian hymns.
After a protest by several of the
parents and Rev. P. H. Maher the
hymns we're abandoned and most OF
the children returned to school, The
president of the school board took the
matter up with the county superin-
tendent in Uniontown and he notified
the state authorities. The Fayette
City school enrolment is about 40
and almost two-thirds are Catholics.
Dominicans in Peru.-Bishop Tu-
beta, o. P, with six other Domin-
leans have gone from Spain to Peru.
They went at the request of the Peru
Wan Government to assist in the civil
ization of the Indians.
Catholic Heads Surgery School,
DR.. Charles J. Rowan, of Chicago, has
assumed the duties of head Of the de-
partment of surgery in the Univer-
sity of Iowa. A dinner in his honor
was given January II by his fellow
alumni of st. Patrick's Academy OF
Chicago. Among the speakers at the
dinner was DR.. John B. Murphy, who
said that DR.. Rowan is considered one
Of the best instructors in surgery in
this country.
Indiana's New District judge
Governor Ralstone of Indiana has ap-
pointed Captain James w. Fortune of
Jacksonville as Judge of the Fourth
Judicial District of Indiana, to fill the
unexpired term of the late Judge
Montgomery. Captain Fortune is
member of the Knights of Columbus,
a prominent member of the bar and
also a captain of the National Guard
and a veteran of the Spanish-Ameri-
can war.
Commend LoyoIa's Social Study
The Chicago Public Service League,
the Juvenile Court, the Court of
Morals, the Catholic Woman's Protec-
torate, and the Probation Department
of the Juvenile Court-in recent
meeting passed resolutions in which
the Social Study course at Loyola Uni
versity, Chicago, was commended as
of great educational value to those en-
gagged in social work, particularly in
the reform of children. 1t was in
dorsed as a necessary and worthy
phase Of social work in that city.
These resolutions were signed by the
presidents of the respective organiza-
tons, among whom were several
judges.
industrial Diseases" illustrated
indianapolis German Catholic Socie-
ties which recently conducted sue
cessful illustrated lecture on the
Housing Problem have decided to give
another illustrated lecture on the sub
ject of Industrial Diseases" at st.
Cecilia Hall adjoining Sacred Heart
Church on the evening on Monday,
February %. The lecture will be CIV
en- by representative of the Central
Bureau of the Central Verein and will
cover upward of fifty illustrated views
showing the results of diseases con-
tracted in factories, mines and other
working establishments.
Great Pageant Play at St. Louis
The history of the Middle West, be-
ginning with the arrival of De Soto
and Marquette, and closing with the
end of the Civil War, is to be shown
in dramatic form in st. Louis next
May. There will be more than $500
actors and actresses in the pageant
play and there is room for $4,000 spec
tators at each performance. The
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