The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-06-24

, their first citizen. In his seventy
fourth year. Father Kussman is better
preserved than many a man much his
junior. He is the Oldest in point of
service in the Kansas City Diocese.
A. o. II. Convention.-The Nation
al A. o. H. convention will meet in
Boston, Mass, July 1922. The Com
mittee on Ways and Means, Francis
J. Horgan, chairman, is already at
work preparing for the big gathering.
Minister Joins the Church.-In st.
Francis de Sales Church, Lamar,
Colo, on May 20, Mr.. Walter w. De-
Witt, his wife and three children were
received into the Catholic Church by
Father Bastien. From December,
1912, to January, 1915, Mr. Dewitt had
been pastor of the Christian Church
of Lamar
Catholic University Closing.-The
degrees of the Catholic University for
this years final course were con-
ferred on June 13 at 10000 a. m. in
the New National theatre in Washing
ton, D. c..
New College Started.-Ground has
been broken for the new $4,000 gym
nasium for st. Bonaventure College,
conducted by the Franciscan Fathers
at Allegheny, N. Y. The building,
modelled after the Spanish Monastery
style, will be completely equipped
with exercising hall, running track,
swimming pool, shower baths, locker
rooms, billiard rooms, physical eX-
animation room, club room, athletic
association room, trophy room, etc.
Brothers Pupils Win Trophy.-Fif-
teen Brooklyn boys upheld Brooklyn
traditions in a contest in which nearly
all the schools of Manhattan, Brook
Ign, Bronx, Richmond and part of New
| Jersey participated some days ago,
defeated the entire field, and won the
| 1916 school championship of the New
York Metropolitan District for type
writing. Incidentally, the individual
members of the team won for them
selves several gold and silver medals.
The team represents ST. Leonard's
Academy, at South Fourth Street and
Bedford Avenue, of which Brother
Gerard, o. S. B., is principal.
Gift for Gibbons HaII.-The main
reception room of Gibbons Hall at the
Catholic University, Washington, D..
c., has been recently presented with
heavy bronze andirons and sixteen
shield-shaped tablets bearing the
names of donors to the hall.
New York PreIates.-Two prominent
New York clergymen have been de-
signated as Monsignors: the Rev.
Edward j. Sweeney of the Church of
| the Ascension, and the Rev. William
L. Penny of the Church of the Annun-
citation. Both have been made domes-
tic prelates to His Holiness Pope
Benedict XIV.
Roger Sullivan on Diocesan Board
The Chancery Office of the Archdio'
cese of Chicago has announced that
Mr.. Roger Sullivan has been appointed
to the Board of Governors of the St
Mary Training School for Boys and
the Chicago Industrial School for
Girls, both archdiocesan institutions
and both located at Des PLANES, Ill.
Order of Isabella Wins Legal Fight
United States District Judge Ray
has just delivered an opinion denying
the application of the National Circles
of the Daughters of Isabella to re
strain the National Order of the
Daughters of Isabella from using its
name. The complainant is an or
ganization with headquarters in Con
necticut, while the National Order OF
the Daughters of Isabella had head
quarters in Utica, n. Y, where the
first court was formed in 1902. If the
injunction became operative, 27S sub
ordinate branches and $4,000 women
would be affected. The court finds
that aside from Connecticut, the Ma
tional Order has been the predecessor
in the field.
Propagation of the Faith.-Mgr
Freri, the United States National
Director of the Society for the Propa
cation of the Faith, reports a grand
total of receipts $5O3, 619.0S in 1915
OF this sum, diocesan collections re.
ceived amounted to $60,15192; mem
bership offerings, $137,447.77; personal
offerings of $40 or over, $107,512 -;
special donations and Mass intentions
l$153,45S.S9, and legacies received
$42, 1854.
Notre Dame Treasure.-The Uni
Iversity of Notre Dame has secured as
the beginning of great collection OF
lcurosities to be housed in its beauti
full new library, a large inscribed
burned clay cylinder from Nebuchad
: nezzar, King of Babylon. The cylin
der which has 145 lines written by
| Nebuchadnezzar himself, gives an &C
: count of his building the walls oil
Babylon, which were one of the won
) ders of the ancient world, of the
temples, which Herodotus describes
SO elegantly, and of the reconstruction
} of the great tower of Birs which many
: scholars have identified with the
: Biblical Tower nf RahylOn