The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-29
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NEW WORLD ITEMS.
Bishop Gives lnvocatlon.-Bi Bishop
O'Reilly, of Baker City, Oregon, de-
livered the inyocatory, prayer at the
opening of the Cecilo Canal, on May
5.
New italian SchooI.-St. Michael's
parish Qtalian), Paterson, N. j., has
purchased the old Lee homestead at
the corner of Ward and Cross Streets,
which will be remodelled into a school
to accommodate about 500 children.
Or. O'Hagan's New Work-Dr
Thomas O'Hagan has completed his
researches at the Congressional Ii
brary, Washington, and will sojourn
for the present at Paisley, Ontario,
where he is preparing for the press a
new volume of essays.
Cardinal Protector Appointed.-The |
Society of st. Gregory, an organlza-
ton of American organists, choirmas-
tiers and other friends of the cause OF
sacred music, has received protector
in the person of His Eminence Car
dinal Bisleti.
Parochfal School Boys Win.-For
the past twenty-five years two-thlrds
of the scholarships for West Point
and Annapolis in Greater New York
have been won by graduates OF the
parochial schools, and seventy-five OF
the state scholarships.
Supervisor of Catholic Charities
The Rev. William A. Courtney. of st.
Brendan's, New York, has been ap-
pointed by Cardinal Farley, General
Supervisor of Catholic Charities sue
ceeding in that Office the late Mgr.
D. ]. Mcmahon.
Wins Jesuit Schools contest.-Jo-
seph Byrne, a member of the senior
class of st. Ignatius College, Loyola
University, Chicago, was awarded
first place in the intercollegiate Eng
lish contest held recently among the
Jesuit colleges of the Missouri Prov
ince.
Attempt to Kill Priest-The Rev.
Michael S. Ketka, pastor of the Po-
lish Catholic Church of Our Mother
of Consolation, Mount Carmel, Pa,
had narrow escape from death early
on the morning of May 6, when an
attempt was made by some miscreant
to blow up the rectory. The building
was badly damaged by the explosion
of five sticks of dynamite. The pas
tor escaped injury beyond few
slight bruises and shock.
1000 Miles to Visit Parish.-Bish-
OBJ McGovern of Cheyenne, Wyo.s re-
Gently visited the parish of Thermo-
polls, adjoining the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park on the east. He returned
to Cheyenne by way of Billings, Mont,
Sheridan, Wyo., and Denver, Colo,
making a trip of 1000 miles to visit,
one parish.
$685. for Charities.-Last year
the Archdiocese of St. Louis contribut-
ed total of $536,982 for charities.
In that city last Sunday week, at St.
Louis university, Archbishop Glennon
presided at the annual charity confer
ence. Of this sum, there went to
homes of afflicted, dependent and or
phans $184,146; hospitals, $4,000; in
situations working among the poor,
$47,519, and among the poor having no
homes, $42, 430.
Splendid Record for Extension So
ciety.-In it's nine years of work the
Catholic Church Extension society,
with headquarters in Chicago, has col
lected and disbursed for missions and
for the promotion of missions over
$1,500,000 in cash, and in property and
securities over 100000. .
A Whole Re g m n - Private
Mooney, Irish, aged so, now in Brit
ish convalescent hospital, has fifty
one relatives in the army, including
four of his nineteen children.
Father Ricklin's Estate.-Out of an
estate estimated to be worth close to
$4,000, Rev. Leo Alphonse Ricklin,
who died recently left $4,000 to St.
Johns Church, Green Bay, Wis.,, of
which he had been pastor of for the
last score of years. He left an addi-
tional $500 to the same church, and
another sum of $500, which will be
used by his brother, Rev. Isadore
Ricklin, in saying Masses.
Tribute TO Jesuit Education.-Gradu-
ates from the law department of st.
Ignatius University, San Francisco,
may engage in the practice of their
profession without the necessity of
passing O bar examination before the
Supreme or Appellate Courts, under
the provision of a senate bill which
has passed the assembly of California.
Catholic Roomers' Directory.-A di-
rectory has been compiled in Buffalo,
N. Y, of Catholic families that desire
to accommodate roomers or boarders.
1t is in directory form and gives loca-
ton, range Of prices, and nearest
church. Managers of rooming and
boarding houses are required to fur
nish a recommendation from their