The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-11
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CONFER with the authorities or the K.
of G. Building Association, to consider
plans for the establishment of
a gymnasium as the first step in
launching a club for Denver Catho-
lie young men along the lines of the
Y. M. c. A.
First Catholic Circulating Library.
The first Catholic circulating library
in the United States was founded at
Buffalo forty-nine years ago by a
group of thirty Catholic young men.
Today the library contains $4,000 vol
umes and 500 pamphlets. There is
also special juvenile department
connected with it.
Bishop Issues Appeal for Poland
Bishop O'Connor of Newark, N. j.,
has issued an appeal for funds for war
sufferers in Poland, which was read
at Masses in the diocese of Newark.
Special collections will be taken up.
Request for Hospital.-The Hotel
Dieu Hospital at Windsor, Canada,
receives a bequest of $4,000 by the
will of E. c. Walker, late of Walker.
vile, filed for probate recently.
Visitation Nuns Jubilee.-Sistel
Mary Catherine Thornton celebrated
her golden jubilee as a religious OF
the Visitation Order on August Is al
Mt. de Chantal Convent near Wheel
ing, W. Va.
Addition to Sisters Hospital
Ground has been broken for a new
wing to St. Thomas Sanitarium, Nash
vile, Tenn, and work will be pushed
forward rapidly. The cost of the new
addition, made necessary by the great
demand for room at ST. Thomas
which is conducted by the Sisters o.
Charity of Nazareth, KY, will be
100000.
Fifty Years in ReIieion.-The nuns
of the Sisterhood of st. Joseph, il
New York, held a special celebration
on August 80 to mark the golden ami
versary of the entrance into their Or
der of Sister Mary Rose, Mother Su
perior of ST. Joseph's Home, Flushing
Heads BasiIian ColIeqe.-The Rev
H. Carr, c.. S. B., has been appointed
President of St. Michael's College
Toronto, Ont, Can.,, succeeding Rev
R. McBrady, G. S. B., whose term o.
office has expired.
Banquet for Archbishop.-On Sep
TENDER Z the citizens of San Fran
cisco, CAL, honored Archbishop Ham;
on his recent elevation to his presen
exalted Office by giving banquet il
the Palace Hotel.
Chance Sales Forbidden.-Righ
Rev. Bishop O'Connor of Newark, N
j., has forbidden the sale of chances
at fairs held by the churches in thu
Diocese. Though harmless in effec
when used as means of disposing o
articles to benefit worthy object, i
has been shown that such sale o
chances are unlawful, in New Jerse.
at least.
Two Families of ReIigious.-W hel
Sister Rose Theresa was professet
in the Order of st. Joseph week ag'
she was the fifth member of the Ole.
family of Syracuse to enter the Mas
ter's service. Sister Agnes Claire, 0
the same Order is a sister and he
brothers are the Revs. Charles N
Obey, George F. Obey and William H
Obey, priests in the Diocese of syria
cuse. Sister Patrick Joseph, pre-
fessed at the same time, is the thirt
member of the Boland family, also o
Syracuse, to enter the Order of ST
Joseph, Sister Adele and Sister Re
salita being her sisters.
Superintendent of Brooklyn Schools
The Brooklyn diocese mourns thu
loss sustained in. the death of Rev
Joseph d. A McKenna, diocesan su
perintendent of schools and curate a
the Church of Our Lady of Victory
Father McKenna, who was only thir
ty-six years of age, had won for him
self an enviable reputation, and hi
friends had predicted for him loni
and brilliant career. Rev. Joseph v
S. McClancy succeeds him as Super
intendent of Schools.
Model Club Formed City o
Albany, N Y, boasts of having al
excellent and thoroughly up-to-dat'
club for Catholic business women ant
girls. The clubrooms are located il
the Centennial Buildings where lunch
rest and sleeping rooms are provided
for the members of the club ant
transient guests.
Brother a Scientific Farmer.-Fou
thousand bushels of wheat from ~
acres, or an average of 1913 bushels
per acre, has just been harvested b!
Brother Leo, of the Notre Dame Uni
versity farm. The average yield foi