The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-10-14
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ClOutler, OF IDree Rivers, Odnduo' AoS
ordained that the Third Order of st.
Francis be established in all the par
ishes of that diocese.
Two More Negress Nuns.-Miss
Mary Warmack and Miss Emelne Mat
thews are the first colored girls of In
dianapolis to enter a convent. They
have gone to Baltimore to enter the
novitiate of the Oblate Sisters of Prov
idence.
Death Of Or. j. H. Haarcn.-Dr. John
II. Haarcn, an associate superlntend-
ent of schools of New York in charge
of the cooperative plan for high
schools. one of the founders of the
Catholic Summer School at Cliff Ha-
ven, n. Y, a cofounder of h peda-
gogical department of the Brooklyn
Institute and twice president OF the
Brooklyn Teachers Association, died
suddenly Sept. %, in his home, S016
Fort Hamilton avenue, Brooklyn.
Descendant of Polk.-Hilliard Polk,
of Monrovia, Cal, great-great-grandson
of Col. William Polk of he Revolution,
who was a brother of Ezekiah POLK,
grandfather of President Polk, a
been appointed a cadet at West Point.
He is a Catholic and a great-nepheW
of Major General Leonidias Polk, OF
Civil War fame, who resigned the
Protestant Episcopalian bishopric OF
Louisiana to fight for the C~onfederacy.
Canadian MISUNDERSTANDING to the
anti-EngIish tone of he A. o. ii. Ma
tional convention, held in Boston in
July, a committee of Canadian H1ber-
mans prepared and submitted a re-
port to the provincial convention at.
Toronto recommending secession from
the order in the United States. The
convention unanimously tabled the re-
port.
Priest Dies While Praying.-While
at evening prayers with his brother
priests in the parish house of the Sac
red Heart Church, Chicago, last week,
the Rev. Hugh J. Erley, S. j., n OF
the assistant pastors, uttered a cry
and fell dead in the arms of Rev. J. b.
Murphy. He had suffered from heart
trouble for some time.
Catholics in the White House.-Much
ado has been made of the fact that
President Wilson has a Catholic Irish
secretary. Washington had these
Catholic Irishmen around him in the
Revolutionary war: General Stephen
Moylan, secretary and aide-de-camp;
Colonel John Fitzgerald, who filled
Moylan's place after 1776 to the end
of the war; DR.. O'Fallon, surgeon; Cap
tain John Barry, devoted friend; DAILY,
Dougherty, Hennessey, Kenny, McCar-
thy, Moriarity, O'Neill, Reilly, personal
guards.
Noble Response.-At the last quar-
terly conference of the clergy of Chi
cage the Most Reverend Archbishop
Mundelein announced that 135 new stu
dents had entered the Quigley Prepa-
ratory Seminary this year, that over
one hundred scholarships had been
founded or were in the process of foun-
dation, and that nearly one-half of the
amount; over one hundred thousand
dollars, had been actually paid in.
Catholic Students at Iowa State IT,
Father VIM. p. Shannahan, former
president of st. Ambrose College, Dav-
export, who was transferred last year
to Iowa City, Ia, and given charge of
the spiritual welfare of the four hun
dred Catholic students attending the
Iowa State University, is having great
success in his new field. He has or
ganized a choir of fifty of the boys, and
the 9 o'clock Mass is read especially
for the students.
Chinese Sunday School.-The Sun
day school of the Boston Catholic Chi.
nese Mission has begun it's autumn
sessions in it's quarters at 90 Harvard
street, South End. The lay instructors
have resumed their duties, replacing
the students in st. Johns Seminary,
Brighton, who have so generously as
sisted in the work Of the mission dur
ing the summer months. This mission
has been carried on for some years
with gratifying results, there being a
constant increase in the number of reg
ular attendants and many conversions
of Orientals.
Example of Faith.-A big luncheon
had been arranged for a convention OF
sorority girls in Pueblo, Colo, and
Friday had been chosen for the ban
Quet. Many visiting girls were Catho
lies and quietly asked the committee
on arrangements to have something
else served them in place of meat. On
entering the hall small pieces of rib
bon were noticed on some chairs. The
committee had kept it's secret. The
walters served fish to the ribboned
chairs and meat to the others. This
expression of loyalty to their faith
i(there. were 16 Catholic girls in the
group of 70), made such an impression
on one Protestant that she is now un
der instructions in the Catholic re
ligion.
Nun and Jesuit Win Prizes.-At tht
annual Las Animas county fair, which
was held last week in Trinidad, Colo.
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