The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-03-06

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the Catholics generally to cease send |
ing tributes of flowers to departed
friends.
Bishop o'connor on LouVain College
5oard.-Bishop O'Connor, of Newark,
N. j., succeeds the late Archbishop
Riordan as one of the governors of-l
the American College, I.ouvain, Bel
GUM.
Ohio Catholic Prohibitionists.--A
Catholic prohibition league has been
organized in Ohio.
On Visitation Tour.-Very Rev
Thomas Lorente, 0. p, Vice-ProVinclal
of the Spanish Dominicans of Amer
lea, has gone to Cuba, where he VIII
make the visitation of the various
houses of the Dominican order
K. of C. in Observation-Disclosures
has three councils of the Knights OF
Columbus.
Catholic Professional and Business
Club.-A movement to establish
Catholic professional and business
mems club in Essex County, New 1er-
sey, is now on foot in Newark. Right
Rev. Bishop O'Connor has given his
sanction to the movement.
First Woman ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Mary A. Williams, n Catholic woman
of st. Joseph, Mo, has been elected
public administrator of Buchanan
county. Missouri. She is the first
woman ever elected in that county.
An AGED Reiigious.-Mother Xavier,
SuperiOress of the College OF st. Eliza
beth. Madison, n. j., now in her nine
tieth year, had the pleasure OF seeing
for the first time recently a moving
nicture exhibition. Mother Xavier, de-
spite her age, has wonderfully keen
mind and takes a deep interest IN
present day affairs.
Catholic Editor of McClure's.-
Charles Hanson Towne has resigned
from the editorship of The Delinea-
tor to become editor OF Mcclure
Magazine. He is Catholic.
Addition to Catholic University
The contract for the new 100000 ad-
dition to the chemical laboratory OF
the Catholic University has been
awarded
New Building at campion College
Bids have been opened for a new
building to be erected at Campion
College, Prairie du Chen, Wis. The
structure is to cost about 100000.
Catholic Senators.-For the first
time there are six Catholics in the
United States Senate: Ashurst OF
Arizona, O'Gorman of New York
Walsh of Montana, Ransdell and
Broussard of Louisiana, Phelan OF
California.
New Boarding School.-Architect
Roth of La Crosse, Wis, is preparing
nlans for the erection OF a boarding
school for the Holy Rosary congrega
ton of Lima, Wis. 1t will be OF brlcf
and hollow tile construction, two stor
les high and will cost $4,000.
Heads Georgetown University
Rev. Alphonsus ]. Donlon, S. j., has
been re-appointed for another term o
three years as President of George
town University. Father Donlon il
the first graduate of the Universit!
to fill the Office of President.
Another "Extension" chapei.-Th'
playground department of the Catho
lie Columbian, of Columbus, Ohio, ha!
donated $500 to the Catholic Church
Extension Society with which a cha
pei has been built in a rural section
of Montana.
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Father Leibfritz Dead.-Rev. Johl
r. Leibfritz, widely known Redemr
torist priest, assistant rector of 81
Boniface Church, Philadelphia, Pa
died February Is from Brights dis
ease, He was born in Pittsburgh
seventy years ago, and served in Balti
more, New York, Boston, Toronto AM
other cities.
A Historic Chureh.-Old ST. Jo
seph's Church on Vikings Alley, nea
Fourth street, Philadelphia, celebrates
recently the seventy-sixth anniVersar!
of it's conservation. Later 1t cele
brated the one hundred eighty-secont
anniversary of it's establishment
Hidden on a small court, reached b!
narrow street, surrounded on al
sides by modern business houses ant
in the centre of the wholesale dis
trict, old st. Joseph's Church, re
mains as the last touch of the day
of William Penn in that section, ant
as a monument to the broad-mindet
religious tolerance of the founder o
Philadelphia.
Father o'Regan Heads Texas Paul
ists.-The Rev. p. l.. ORegan, G.
p, formerly of ST. AIary's (Paulist
Church, Chicago, ILL.,, has been ap
pointed Superior of the Paulist Fa
theirs at Austin, Texas.
For Relief of the Destitute.-Mos
Rev. Archbishop Bruchesi in lette
to the priests of Montreal dioces,