The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-01-17
NEW WORLD ITEMS.

Des Moines' Year of Alteration
Rt Rev. Austin Bowling, Bishop of Des
Moines, Ia, has decreed that during
the year 1914 there shall be through
out the diocese perpetual alteration of
the Blessed Sacrament. He has so
arranged it that each parish may
enjoy that privilege. Forty Hours
Alteration began in st. Ambrose
Cathedral January 4, and full year
of devotion will close late in Deem
Der at Holy Trinity Church, Council
Bluffs.
Prizes for Catholic PupiIs.-In the
big story contest recently opened by
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat, to the
pupils of the public and parochlal
schools of the city, and brought to a
close Christmas morning, five of the
thirteen winners are students of Cath
olic schools.
Endows Free Bed in Hospital.-On
Friday, January 2, the Jerry Hunt
monument fund was turned over to
the Sisters at St. Johns Hospital, st.
Louis, Mo-, where room to be known
as the Jerry Hunt room will be en-
dowed. The fund, $853.2O, was raised
through the efforts of Lew Dockstader
and his friends.
LaureIs for LoyoIa Students.-The
st. Louis Republic has been conduct
ing contests in composition for some
weeks: the last week the competition
being open only to students of high
school grade. The subject was "Vien-
na," and about hundred papers were
handed in from students of the differ
ent public and private high schools OF
the city. The Loyola Academy boys
we're not a little elated when they
observed that among the names OF
the twenty-five winners sixteen names
we're those of Loyola students.
Woman Built Church.-The build
ing of the new church at Quanah,
Texas, was superintendent entirely by
a woman, Mrs. Michael Kerrigan. She
was on the job every day, checked up
all the work and paid all the bills
herself. She was largely instrument
tai in collecting the funds for the
building of the church. She is the
wife of the Mayor of Quanah.
canting immortality Exposed.-ln
the New York Supreme Court last
month Judge Gavegan denied the ap-
plication for an injunction restraining
the police from closing the Inside OF
the White Slave Traffic" film exh1b1-
ton at the Park Theatre by the So
Geological Research Film Company
To the contention that the pictures
contained a warning calculated to I'M
press parents with the dangers sur
rounding their children, the judge re-
plied: "The exhibition has not been
confined to fathers and mothers; there
is no evidence before me that the
owners thereof propose or desire to
so confine it, and the evidence shows
that they are conducting the enter
prise not for the uplift of public NOR
ais, but for private gain
Remember the Maine.-The six
teenth annual commemoration of the
sinking of the battleship Maine in
the harbor of Havana, will be held at
Arlington National cemetery on the
afternoon of February Is. An elabor
ate program is in preparation. Ad
miral Sigsbee, Rev. Father Chadwick
President Wilson and his cabinet, the
Cuban minister and others have beer
invited to be present.
Prize Winner Donates Prize.-Mrs
Healy, of Victoria, who won the golc
watch in the circulation contest OF the
B. C. Western Catholic, of Vancouver
forwarded the prize to Father Garon
Maillardville, to be raffled in aid O.
the fund to assist in the rebuilding O.
his church, totally destroyed by fire
at Christmas.
City to Hear Priests Composition
"The Call of the West" a concer
overture composed by Rev. Dominic
Waedenschwyler, o. S. B., rector o
st. Mary's parish, Mount Angel, Ore
gan, will be performed by the Port
land Symphony Orchestra of fifty-fv'
members. The overture is schedules
for performance at the last concert o
the Symphony Orchestra to be givel
early in April.
Mystery Play for Texas Orphans
The Mexican mystery play, "Los Pas
torres" was performed in the cour1
yard of the First Mission (Missio
Concepcion), San Antonio, Sunday at
ernoon, January 4. The company giN
ing the play devoted the proceeds
this performance to the orphans {
the Diocese of San Antonio, who hav
had no established refuge since tn
tragic destruction of their home f1ftee
months ago.
Catholics Buy ChapeI.-The Unto
Chapel, once a fashionable Protestar
church, at Lakewood on Chautauqu
Lake, New York, has been purchase
by the Catholic summer residents an
is now the Church of the Sacre
Heart. Bishop Cotton has placed
resident pastor there.
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