The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-09-25
NEW WORLD ITEMS.

Memorial Church.-Mrs. William
Lanahan of Baltimore, Md, is erect
ing a $150.OOO church in memory of
her husband.
Leaves Jewels to Sisters.-The late
Mrs. Rebecca Mclaughlin, of Wash
ington, beqHeathed all her jewelry to
the DOMINICAN Sisters, sinsinawa,
Wis.
Church Reopened After 80 Years
After being closed for a period Of
thirty years, the Church of st. Mary
at Hamburg, Pa, remodeled and re-
decorated has been again opened for
divine services Rev. Scott A. Fasig
of st. Pauls Church, Reading, has
been appointed rector.
Laymen's Retreat.-The second
of this years retreats for Catholic
laymen at the Seminary of st. Charles
Borromeo, Overlook, Pa, ended on
September 6. There were over 4O0
men in attendance at these two re-
treats from various sections of the
country. It was the largest number
since the retreats began at Overlook,
in August, 1913.
Fund for Industrial school.-ln
Baltimore a campaign to collect
fund of $15O,O00 to erect an armory
at st. Mary's Industrial School, in
charge of the Xaverian Brothers, will
be started in a few weeks.
Represents the Laity.-Hon. John
Whalen, LII. D., president of the
American Federation of Catholic So
cieties, by appointment of Cardinal
Farley, represents the Catholic lalty
in the organization recently formed
for the purpose of having religious
instruction in the public schools.
A Prominent Convert.-Francis
Chapman Leete, of Guilford, Conn.,, a
member of the historic Leete family,
was on August 16 received in to the
Church in St. Francis Xavier's, New
York City, by the Rev. Vincenzo M
Dente, S. j.
BrookIyn's School system-The re,
port of the diocesan director OF
schools of Brooklyn shows that about
10000 pupils are educated every year
in the parishes of that diocese. The
system is so far advanced that it is
nossible to send children from kinder
garten time until after the receipt OF
a college degree.
Provincial Superior.-At the Chap
ter of the Dominican province held
at the motherhouse in st. Hyacinthe
p. O., Can, Very Rev Emile Langlais
o. P, prior of the st. John Baptist
Convent of Dominicans, at Ottawa
Ont. was selected to succeed Very
Rev. Henry Hage, o. p, as provincial
superior of the Order of Canada.
Chaplain Returns.-Chaplain 10
seph H. Kangley, coast artillery
corps, at Fort Mills, near Manila, t
l., has been ordered home to the
United States on October Is. On ar
rival he will proceed to Portland
Maine. for duty on the coast defenses
Major O'Hern a Catholic.-Majo
Edward p O'Hern, of the Unite'
States army, whose paper on explo
sives was recently issued by thu
Smithsonian Institution, Washington
D. c., is a brother of the well-knowl
Paulist, the Rev. l.. P. O'Hern, OF 81
PauPs College, and is an authority o.
explosives in the ordnance depart
ment of the United States army.
Catholic AIumnae Federation.-Th
second annual meeting of the Inter
national Federation of Catholl
Alumnae will be held in Chicago o.
November 26, q and %. The frs
meeting in New York was very large
ly, attended, and it is expected tina
the second reunion of convent wome
will be even greater. One hundre
and two alumnae associations hav
Joined the Federation and many other
will enter at the coming convention
This Federation was formed in June
1914, at st. Joseph's College, En-
mitsburg, Nd, by the alumnae.
5. Columbus Monument.-A handsom
monument of Christopher Columbus
executed in Italy of pure white Italia
marble, at "a cost of several thousan
dollars, will be officially dedicated /
Forest Hill Park, Camden, N. j., o
Columbus Day, October IL. The sit
on which the monument rests is i
the central part of the park and wa
donated to the Italian Catholic Societ
by the city of Camden.
Catholic Appointed Warden.-M
chael thinner of Chicago has bee
appointed warden of the state pen
Tertiary of Illinois at Joliet by tn
commissioners of the prison in SUI
cession to Edmund Allen, who r,
signed.
Norfolk Priest Dies.--Rey. EdwaT
J. Walsh, 81 years old, died Septen
Der 5 at st. Vincent Hospital, Norfoll
Va. He was one of the best-know
Catholic priests in the State, and wa
the founder of the Young Mems ASS
citation in this CITY for Catholics an