The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-29
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Sing, N. Y, is making arrangements
for confirmation exercises in the pris-
on chapel some time this month. 1t
will be the first time class has been
confirmed there. Bishop Hays of ST.
Patrick Cathedral will confirm about
thirty.
Home for Aged.--The franciscan
Sisters, st. Anthony Hospital, Rock
Island, Ill.,, have decided to open a
home for the aged For the present
the intention is to use the brick resi-
dence on the north side of the hos
pital, where they can accommodate a
number of inmates.
Generous to Catholic Charities. 1t
is said of William r. Nelson, the great
Kansas editor who died recently, that
he was a generous friend of the Lit
tie Sisters of the Poor, ST. Joseph Or
phan Asylum and other Catholic char.
liable institutions. Mr.. Nelson was
not Catholic, although former stu
dent at Notre Dame university, but
before his death he made sincere act
of contrition in the presence of Father
Dalton, rector of Annunciation Church,
who had been his friend for many
years. 9>%
Priest on Prohibition Committee.
Father Mandelari, s. j., of Albuquer-
que, N. NJ, is a member of the. COM
mittee preparing Prohibition amend
ment for his state. He declares that
liquor is a great scourge and that his
people will be largely for prohibition.
Honors for ConVert-Wiliam Henry
Goodyear, curator of fine arts in the
Brooklyn museum, has been notified
of his election as honorary and cor
responding member of the Royal In
stitute of Architects of Ireland Mr..
Goodyear, who is a son of the founder
of the Goodyear Rubber company, is
graduate of Yale, and was received
into the Church by the Jesuits in
1880. He is the author of "Renais-
sance and Modern Art" and many
other works.
Double Honors for Musician.-Ed-
mund G. Hurley, organist of the Paul
list Fathers Church, New York, is the
recipient of double honors. He has
been knighted by the Pope and been
given the degree of Doctor of Music
by the st. Francis Xavier College,
Under his leadership he has fifty boys
and thirty-three men. The choir sings
nothing but Gregorian music.
| Bequest for Church Purposes
Catholic charities will benefit by over
100000 under the terms of the will
of Fred A. Doyle, prominent Catholic
layman who died on April 10 at At
/ lantic City, N. J. The sum of $500 is
bequeathed to the rector of the Cath
olic University at Ottawa, Ont, Can,
I without restriction. The estate is es-
timated at about $4,000 of which the
greater portion goes to Catholic char
itble institutions in which Mr.. Doyle
was much interested.
Wisconsin State Council, X. of c.
The fourteenth annual convention. of
the Wisconsin State Council of the
Knights of Columbus will be held at
Marinette, Wis, June l.
United Catholic Works Meet.-A
general meeting of the Chapter Theta
Pi Alpha, United Catholic Works, was
held on Sunday afternoon, May 16, at
Cathedral College, Madison Avenue,
New York City. Reports on the work
of the year included the provision for
catechism classes during school hours
under the Gary plan. Give such
classes are now in operation in the
Bronx, and the plans for the care OF
Catholic children during the summer,
in the city and in the country. AID.
dresses by the Very Rev. John P
Chadwick, D. d., president of st. 10.
seph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, N. Y,
and the Hon. w. Bourke Cochran
we're features of the meeting.
Orphans Home at Notre Dame.-A
movement for the establishment at
Notre Dame, Ind, of home for or
phans was one of the features taken
up at the annual meeting of the Indi-
ana knights of Columbus in South
Bend on Tuesday and Wednesday,
May Is and 10. Practically every No
ire Dame club in the middle west
sent delegates, as Notre Dame gradu.
ates will establish the institution.
New Dominican Through
the transfer of tract of land and a
large residence on Melrose avenue in
the heart of Cincinnati's residential
district, it has become known that
the property will be the site for a
convent of Dominican nuns, marking
the first entrance of this order into
that section and the fourth institution
of the order in the United States.
$4,000 Tertiaries in the U. S.-The
Friars Minor in the United States
have charge of 80 fraternities of secu
lar Tertiaries with. 33,71S members
This number added to the number OF
Tertiaries under the jurisdiction of the
Capuchin and Conventual Friars and
the many other Tertiaries affiliated
with one or, the other of the Fran
ciscan families, brings the sum, tota
: of the Tertiaries in the United
) States to at least $4,000.