The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-12-04

BISHOP Ol sioux City.
Mission Building Restored.-For the
last two months workmen have been
engaged in restoring the exterior of |
he Mission San Jose buildings, by re-
'oofing the Mission and by closing it
md covering the walls so as to pro-
,ect them from the elements. The new |
lie roof is replica of that which was |
put in place by the Padres. |
Great credit is due to the Alameda |
County Parlors of the Order Of the |
Native Sons and Daughters, who, I'M |
der the direction of committee head
ed by Hon. Jos. Knowland, have raised |
the money for and supervised the
work on the Mission.
A Colossal Project.-Gutzon Borg
lum, the sculptor, student at st.
Mary College, st. Mary's Kan, back
in the early SOS has been enlisted by
the Daughters of the Confederacy in
a colossal project. The perpendicular
face of Stone Mount, near Atlanta,
Ca, 1000 feet high and thought by
biologists to comprise one single huge
boulder, is to be carved into the SEM
blance Of the great struggle made by
the South. Mr.. Borglum has esti-
mated the cost of the undertaking at
$2,000,000. This new work of the IA
nous sculptor, whose art in the past
has ben unrivaled, will be watched
with interest by st. Mary's.
Presentation to Bishop Garrigan.-
Recognition of the achievements of
Bishop Garrigan during the thirteen
years he has been at the head of the
Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa, was the
keynote of banquet which was held
at the West hotel in that city recently
by the men of Epiphany parish. Bish-
op Garrigan was the guest of honor.
An incidental feature was the presen-
tation to the Bishop of a check for
$1,250.
Green Bay Diocese.-Bishop Paul P.
Rhode of the Green Bay Diocese,
Green Bay, Wis, has named Rev.
Frank J. Ramps of st. Mary's Church
at Appleton as chancellor of the do
cese to succeed Rev. Joseph A. Marx
who has been appointed pastor of
ST. Francis Xavier Cathedral.
PreIate Leaves Estate to Charity
The estate of the late Mgr. Phelan of
Charlottetown, P. r. l., Can. consisted
of personal property amounting to
$20,213.28. The deceased bequeathed
this amount to the Roman Catholic
Episcopal Corporation upon trust, to
invest the same and pay the yearly
interest to the Charlottetown Confer
ence of st. Vincent de Paul's Society
for the benefit of the poor, to be dis
tributed in the same manner as the
society has been accustomed to dis
tribute. In the event of the societys
ceasing to exist or ceasing to distri-
butte money for this purpose, the re-
mainder is to be invested and the
yearly interest distributed among the
poor of Charlottetown at the discre-
ton of the above Corporation.
Succeeds Late Father PheIan.-Fa-
Their Phelans place as pastor of Our
Lady of Mount Carmel Church in
Baden, Mo-, is to be filled by former
assistant, Rev. John Dillon of Mexico,
who served under Father Phelan in
1883, following his ordination at st.
Francis Seminary in Milwaukee, Wis.
He was next appointed to organize st.
Marks parish about twenty years
ago. In 1895, the late Archbishop
Kahn transferred him to Byrnesville,
whence he went to Mexico, Mo. Fa-
Their Dillon's vacated pastorate will be
taken by Rev. Joseph Casey, of Des-
lloge, Mo.
Grant of Land to Diocese.-Bishop
Schinner of the Diocese of Spokane
last week received deed from M. E.
Fitzgerald and his wife, of Cotton
| Wash, granting to the Catholic Bishop
of Spokane, a corporation, tract OF
$50 acres at Meadow Lake, Wash
Bishop Schinner announced that the
grant could be used for the seminary
buildings or the property disposed OF
and the proceeds used for that pur
Ipose.
Honorary Membership Conferred
At the recent session of the Dante
Society of the Catholic University
Washington, D. c., Cardinal Falconio
Archbishop Bonzano, Archbishop
Kennedy, of Rome, and Mgr. Henry
Brann, of New York, were elected
honorary members.
theirs and Brothers of Mary, of Dayton
o., has established their house o
studies on site of 10 acres adioin
ing the Catholic University, Washing
ton, d. G. Later on this site will bl
Improved by the erection of suit
able building to serve as novitiate o
the Community in the United States
II New ObIate Novitiate.-The new
House of Studies of the Oblate Fa
theirs is making rapid progress. I
rises at the entrance to the UniveT
sity and when finished will be quit,
as large as the Gibbons Memeria
Hall, which it greatly resembles il
i general appearance. This splendid ney
edif1ce will house about 100 fathers
| Brothers and novices.