The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-11-25
NEW WORLD ITEMS


set of chimes costing $4,000, gift of
Mrs Elizabeth A. Lippi to the Church
of st. Francis de Sales, Philadelphia,
was blessed by Right Reverend Bishop
McCort on october %.
Poles in America.-Catholic Poles
in the United States have'92S parishes
and 312 missions, 1,240 churches, 634
parish schools, 1S7.109 pupils, 1853
Catholic societies, 100000 population
and church property valued at $685.
1S9.
Honor to Chicaeoan.-A new honor
has lately been conferred upon the
president of st. Cyril's College, Chi
cago, the Very Reverend Hilary J.
Doswald o. c. C. BY a recent decree
from Rome Father Hilary has been ap-
pointed Titular Provincial of the Car
melite Province of the Holy Land. For
many years Father Hilary has labored
untiringly for the progress of the Car
melite Order in America.
Another K. of C. CIub.-The Knights
of Columbus in Dallas, Tex, have I'M
dertaken the task of providing club
for the Catholic boys of the city.
building will be erected which will
contain a gymnasium, bowling alley,
swimming pool, moving picture hall,
etc. The services of physical direc-
tor will be employed to look after the
boys at home and to take them out on
hikes
Catholic Requests.-The will of DR..
Thomas Fitzgibbon, prominent physi-
clan and surgeon OF Milwaukee, filed
for probate at Fond du Lac, Wis.,, gave
to the convent of st. Francis Assist,
Milwaukee County, the sum of $4,000;
to the Colleta Institute for the Feeble
Minded, Jefferson, Wis, $500; to st.
Johns School for the Deaf, st. Fran
els, Milwaukee County, 500; to the
Little Sisters Of the Poor, Milwaukee,
$1OO.
The Summer SchooI.-The sixth
Summer Session of the Catholic Sis
tiers College, conducted from June &c
to August 4, at the Catholic Univer-
sity, Washington, D. c., and Dubuque
College, Dubuque, Iowa, enrolled to-
tai registration of 600 students. The
Religious represented total of thir-
ty-one Orders and Congregations and
seventy-eight distinct Mother Houses
in the United States and Canada
They came from twenty-eight States
and forty-three Dioceses of this coun-
try and Canada.
New Monastery.-The contract was
be erected by the Carmelite Sisters at
Santa Clara California. The exact
contract price was not learned but it
runs to considerably over 100000.
Beginning the first of the week a
force of men was put to work remov-
ing fences and outbuildings to allow
excavation for the new monastery to
begin at once. The plans call for a
structure of Spanish Renaissance,
two story, of brick and concrete. The
drawings were inspired from the Car
melite Incarnation Monastery of Avila,
Spain. The building will be erected
along simple lines.
Venard Apostolic schooI.-The We.
nard Apostolic School, which opened
late in September, at Clark's Green,
near Scranton, Pa, announces a full
house. The school has been estab
lished by the Catholic Foreign Mis-
sion Society of America to prepare
youths for the Seminary at Maryknoll
1t occupies frame building that was
on the premises when purchased, and
that was enlarged during the past
summer to accommodate thirty stu
dents and a staff of professors. The
students come from many sections Of
the United States, and the home Of
one, a young Eurasion, is in Singapore
Straits Settlements. Nine of these
students will, it is expected, be ready
to enter upon the study of philosophy
at Maryknoll, next September. The
full roster of students at Maryknol
and at the Venard Apostolic Schoo
makes an interesting list as it repre-
sents a wide patronage for so young {
school.
Diamond Jubilee. = ST. Joseph's
Church, Rochester, n. Y, in charge
of the Redemptorist Fathers celebrat
ed its diamond jubilee on November
IL.
New Lithuanian Church. = GrounC
for the new $4,000 Holy Trinity
Lithuanian Church has been broken a.
Adams and Warwick Streets, Newark
N. ]. The rector is Rev. Joseph Do
buzinskas.
Catholic SettIement.-Plans are un
der way for the establishment of Z
Catholic Institutional Settlement il
East Lansdowne, Pa, on the former
DreXel estate, "Thurso.' for many
years the residence of Anthony J
DreTel.
New obIate CoIlege.-The Oblates
of Mary Immaculate, generally known
as the Oblate Fathers, opened formal
~ their new house of studies at the
Catholic University recently. Car
dinal Gibbons presided at the cere
mony, and blessed the beautiful edi
fee BiShOp Shalan rector of the