The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-02-21
NEW WORLD ITEMS.

Fourth Degree in Milwaukee,
Judge NJ. S. Sheridan, master of the
fourth degree for the district of Wis
consin, knights of Columbus, has COM
pleted arrangements for the exempli-
fication to be held at the Auditorium,
Milwaukee, on Monday, February 3d.
Among the distinguished visitors who
will attend are John H. Reddin, of Den
yer, Colo, supreme master of the
fourth degree, and Governor David l.
Walsh, of Massachusetts. Two hun
dred and fifty knights will receive
the fourth degree.
Non-CathoIics Honor Priest.-In the
recent election of officers in the st.
Louis Business Mems League, Rev.
Bernard J. Citing, president of st.
Louis University, was made chairman
of the department of education and
religion. AS there are only four or
five Catholics in that department, this
honor was received from Protestant
ministers, rabbis, secular educators,
etc.
Organizer for Wisconsin Federation.
The Wisconsin Federation of Cath
Ole societies, at the meeting of its
executive board Sunday, February II,
in the Hotel Wisconsin, Milwaukee, |
decided to place an organizer in the
field, to thoroughly organize the so
cieties in each city and county in the
state. Plans were also made for the
additional distribution of literature |
and to arrange for the convention to
be held in Chippewa Falls next Sep
TENDER.
Retreats for Laymen.-Four re-
treats for laymen will be given at st. |
Mary's College, st. Mary's, Kan, dur
ing the months of July and August. |
The first retreat introduces a unique
feature into the work, for the attend |
ance at this retreat will be limited to
Knights of Columbus from the state of
Kansas.
Catholic History of IoWa.-The Rev !
John F. Kempker, who has lived in
Iowa for half century, is engaged in
writing history of the Church in
that state Father Kempker is at |
present assistant pastor of st. Pat
rick's Church, Dubuque.
Chicago Catholic High SchooI.-The
new st. Elizabeth's High School, Chi
cago, was opened on Monday morning,
February 2, with an enrolment of
nearly six hundred pupils. 1t con-
tains eighteen rooms, is thoroughly
freproof and equipped with the very
latest improvements. This structure
was built at a cost of $4,000.
Newsboys' Home, st. Louis.-Rev.
P. J. Dunno of st. Louis on February
6, 1906, without any capital, opened
the Newsboys' Home in a small rent
ed house. Today the institution is
housed in building on Washington
Avenue, erected at cost of over
100000, in which two hundred boys |
are housed, clothed and educated.
Changes Among Dominicans.-The
Rev. John H. Healy, o. P, has been
appointed superior of the Eastern mis-
sionary bands, with headquarters in |
New York City. Rev. M. J. Ripple, o. |
P, has been transferred from New |
York to Louisville, KY, where he has
assumed charge of the Dominican mis-
sions of the Southern States.
Against AngIo-American Centenary.
Petitions are coming in to Congress
from all over the country, protesting |
against the appropriation of money for
the purpose of celebrating the coming |
centennial of peace among English
speaking nations. The petitions come |
for the most part from an organiza-
ton known as the Continental League |
of America, composed of Irish-Ameri |
cans, and state in the preface that |
the proposed celebration would result |
in exciting the ill feeling of many |
nations which were uniformly friendly |
to the United States when England |
was bitterly hostile.
ST. Patrick's Day Parade.-Among
the regulations issued by the st. Pat
rick's Day parade committee for New |
York one which emphasizes the re-
ligious note reads: "All divisions are
requested to notify band leaders to |
play 'Adeste Fideles when passing |
Catholic churches.
Chapel for Governors Island
Cardinal Farley is negotiating with
the War Department for a Catholic
chapel on Governors Island, New
York harbor, the headquarters of the
big Eastern military department, on
account of its isolated distance from
New York City and the inability of
soldiers to attend Mass. There is an
Episcopalian chapel already estab-
lished there.
American Tours to Lourdes-Mc-
Cranes Catholic Tours, in addition to
their other yearly pilgrimages and
tours, are to organize special low cost
pilgrimages to the coming Eucharistic
Congress at Lourdes. The time neces-
sary to make one of these pilgrimages
will be about thirty days, and the
cost less than $500.
Protestants Adopt Catholic Princi-
pIe.-The "Anti-Divorce League of