The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-08-07
THE AMERICAN FEDERATION
OF CATHOLIC SOCIETIES
TO BE HELD IN TOLEDO, OHIO,
AUGUST IS, 10, II, 10,
1915.

The American Federation of Cath.
olic Societies will hold it's Fourteenth
Annual Convention in Toledo, Ohio
August Is, .16, II, 49, The local com.
mittee, headed by Rt Rev. Bishop
|Schrembs, DID,; Very Rev. J. T.
IO'Connell, LID, VG., and Mr..
Warren j. Duffey, is making great
preparations for the event.
The National Secretary announces
that all the leading national organiza-
tions will be represented by their
supreme officers: The Catholic Order
of Foresters will be represented by
Mr.. Thomas H. Cannon. Mr.. Thos. P.
Flynn and Hon. Julius Collier; the
German Central Verein will send
twelve delegates, headed by Sir JOS
eph Frey, National President; the
Catholic Knights of America will be
represented by Mr.. Joseph Berning,
of Cincinnati, and Mr.. Henry Stem
er, of st. Louis; the Knights of st.
John will be represented by Col. c.
w. Wallace; the Irish Catholic Benev-
olent Union will be represented by
Mr.. Daniel Duffy, of Pottsville, Pa,
the Western Catholic Union by Mr..
EF. w. Heckenkamp, Jr.; the Ancient
Order of Hiberians by Mr.. Joseph
Mclaughlin, of Philadelphia; the
Catholic Mutual Benefit Association
by Mr.. John Hynes and Mr.. J.. Ho-
ban: the Catholic Knights and Ladies
of America by Mr.. c. H. Mari; the
Women's Catholic Order of Foresters
by Mrs. Rose Rittman and others;
the Ladies Auxiliary of the Ancient
Order of Hiberians by Mrs. Ellen
Ryan Jolly; the Knights of st.
George by Mr.. Joseph Reiman. Other
societies of national Importance that
will be represented are: The Young
Mems Institute, the Young Mems
National Union, Bohemian Catholic
Union of Texas, South Slavonic
Union, Massachusetts Catholic Order
of Foresters, Catlgltc Church Exten-
sion Society, Catholic Indian Con-
,gress, Catholic Mutual Protective AS
sociation, Knights of Father Matthew,
Daughters of Columbia, Catholic
Press Association, Catholic Ladies of
Columbia, Catholic Association of
Porto Rico, the Bohemian Roman
Catholic First Central Union, the
Lithuanian Roman Catholic Alliance
of America.
The Program.
The Convention will be solemnly
opened on August 18th, at 10 A. M.
with Pontifical Mass at st. Francis
de Sales Cathedral. It is expected
that His Excellency Most Rev. John
Bonzano, DID, Apostolic Delegate,
will be in attendance.
Sunday evening there will be mon
ster mass-meeting at which prominent
prelates and laymen will deliver ad-
dresses on some of the burning ques-
tions of the day-"The School Cues
tion," Divorce" etc.
Another mass-meeting will be held
on Tuesday evening at which Rt. Rev.
p. J. Muldoon, DID,, Bishop of Rock
ford, ILL.,, will preside. Important So
cial Service Questions will be dis
cussed.
The business sessions will be held
in the Toledo Memorial Hall on Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday and will
be presided over by Hon. John
Whalen, LID, of New York. Several
interesting papers will be read dur
ing the business session and interest
ing reports of the activities of State
and County Federations will be sub
mitted.
Headquarters.
The Boody House has been des.
|ignated as the headquarters where
the National Secretary will have his
office to receive credentials of dele
gates, etc.
Special Summer railroad rates can
be had to Toledo, Detroit, Putin.
Bay.