The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-11


City will be the meeting-place of the
1916 Convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Catholic Societies.
New Foundations.-Sever Sisters
of Notre Dame leave Baltimore this
week to establish parochial school at
San Juan, Porto Rico; and colony of
Sisters of Charity from Maryland has
gone to Pensacola, Florida, to open a
hospital there.
Jesuit SchoIasticate.-The new
scholasticate of the Jesuits, three
miles northeast of FIillyard, Wash, is
to cost at least 100000. Nearly $780,
900 has been expended and most of the
first story brick work completed.
Catholic University opening.-The
next term of the Catholic University
at Washington begins on September
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New Canadian Church.-A new
structure is to be erected in place of
the old st. Ann Church at Crosse Isle,
Canada, which has been in service Tor
seventy-five years.
List of Catholic PIays.-The Rev.
John J. Wheeler, general secretary of
the Catholic Theatre Movement in
Philadelphia, announces that a cata-
logue of juvenile plays suitable for
presentation by parochial schools,
academies and colleges is now being
prepared and will be completed by next
autumn.
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New College BuiIding.-Plans are in
progress for a four-story pressed brick
and stone fireproof college building to
be constructed for St. Xavier's College,
Cincinnati, Ohio, to cost 100000. 1t
consists of main building, administra-
ton building, offices and one wing for
dormitory to accommodate $50 stu
dents, auditorium seating 1000, library,
college class rooms, academy and
laboratory.
Honor Inventor of Submarine.-If
the plans of those interested mature,
the city of Elizabeth, N. j., will be the
first municipality to honor the men,
ory of John P. Holland, inventor of the
submarine boat, which is now revolu-
tionizing naval warfare. 1t was while
a teacher in Paterson, N. j., that he
conceived the idea of the submarine
and worked it out during his leisure
time He died in Newark, N. J., a few
months ago. true to the last, a good,
practical Catholic.
"The Catholic Bookman." THE first
CODY of "The Catholic Bookman," pub
Iished by the Catholic Publishing Co.,
of Wheeling, w. Va, is being sent out
to some $4,000 institutions and indi-
viduals. The new publication, in addi-
ton to having some excellent articles
on Catholic books and Catholic read
ing, carries many announcements of
the splendid series of catechisms and
charts that have been compiled by the
literary pastor of the little parish at
Barton in the Columbus diocese.
Emmet's Statue.-A model of the
statue of Robert Emmett which Jerome
O'Connor, the Washington sculptor, is
commissioned to make, has been COM
pleted, and has been approved by a
committee of eminent sculptors, rep
resenting the officers of the National
Gallery of Art, and has been accepted
by the directors, which is condition
precedent to it's being placed in the
gallery.
Priests Total Abstinence League
At a meeting of the Priests Total
Abstinence League held in connection
with the national convention of the G.
T. A. U. of America in Pittsburgh the
following officers were chosen: Presi-
dent, Very Rev. M. A. Lambing, Scott
dale, Pa; Vice President, Rev. Henry
J. Reilly, G. S. P, New York; Secre-
tary and Treasurer, Rev. Joseph M.
O'Hara, Philadelphia.
Missions Among ItaIians.-Rev. DR..
Capra, of the Salesians, Us giving a
series of missions among the Italians
of the United States.
Sisters Golden JubiIee.-Mother M.
Gertrude Dougherty celebrated her
golden jubilee as a Sister of Mercy
on August Is at Jamestown, N. Y.
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New Catholic High SchooI.-The
Brothers of the Christian Schools are
negotiating for the purchase of a
large mansion in the city of Utica,
, N. Y, for the purpose of establishing a
Catholic high school.
C. x. of o. Convention.-The TWEEN
ty-fourth~ annual State Convention of
the Catholic Knights of Ohio will be
held in Crestline on September IL, ID,
IA and Is. Elaborate arrangements
are being made by the committee in
charge.
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Appointed Pastor.-Right Rev. Mgr.
M. d. Whelan, Chancellor of the Do
cese of Toronto, Ontario, Can, has
been appointed to the pastorate of
Our Lady of Lourdes' Church in To
ronto, vacant since the death of the
late lamented Father Canning.
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Community Of Male Nurses.-The
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