The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-12
1900 CATHOLICS
EXPECTED TO BE
IN CAPE SUNDAY
Three Day Convention to be
Attended by Delegates
From all over State.
800 ARE COMING FROM
ST. LOUIS FOR MEET
Religious Services, Parade and
Banquet to be Features
of Conclave.

The preliminary program for the
convention of the Catholic Union of
Missouri, which will open its conclave
here next Sunday for a three day
meeting, was announced last evening
by the Rev. Father f. Pruente, pastor
of st. Mary's church.
Every German Catholic society in
Missouri will be represented. The
delegates are based on membership,
one delegate to every fifty members
being the ratio. 1t is predicted that
between 400 and 500 delegates will be
present. With these will come men,
bers of their families, which will bring
the grand total to more than 1900,
and it may go as high as 1900.
Col. John j. jenkins, a member of
the st. Louis Republic, writes that a
delegation of 300 are coming to the
Cape next Sunday from St. Louis
alone. 1t is probable that a special
train may be arranged to accommo-
date these Catholics. Col. jenkins,
who is an influential Catholic, will not
be able to make the trip.
The convention proper does not con-
vene until Sunday morning, but pre-
liminary meetings of the advance dele
gates will be held Saturday, according
to the program announced by Father
Pruente last evening. Saturday eve
ming at o'clock, q conference will BE-
held of the supreme officers and the
local arrangement committee.
The delegates will assemble in St.
Mary's school hall, on South Sprigg
street, at o'clock Sunday morning.
Addresses of welcome will be delivered
by Father Pruente, Mayor F. A. Rage
and John Vandeven. Solemn high
mass will be celebrated by Father
Pruente at 10 o'clock, followed by q
German lecture by the Rev. H. Aubry,
TV.D., of Techny, III.
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visitors with several hundred local
Catholics will form in line at st.
Mary's church, William and Sprigg
streets, and march around a part of
the city. The parade will march north
from the church to Broadway, then
east to Main, south on Main to indie
pendenee, west on independence to
Spanish south on independence to
Good Hope, west on Good Hope to FL
| lis, north on Ellis to William, thence
east to ire church.
Following the parade the delegates
and their families will assemble in the
Orpheum theater, on Good Hope
street, where Nicholas Conner of Du-
buque, Iowa, editor-in- chief of news
paper will deliver a German lecture
on Societies, Press and Politics" He
formerly was a resident of Cape Cir
ardeau and is still we'll remembered
here. Following his address, Father
James A. Murtaugh, of st. Vincent's
College, will deliver an address in
English on "Christian Womanhood."
A mass meeting of the ladies will
be held in st. Mary's school hall at
S D. m. Sunday evening, and the young
men will assemble in Haas hall, Good
Hope and Sprigg streets, at the same
hour.
Solemn high mass will mark the
opening ceremony of Mondays pro-
gram. This will be said at s a. M,
after which a business meeting will be
held in the school hall at 9 o'clock.
Sessions of the committees will be
held during the afternoon, after which
the visitors will be taken over the city
on a sightseeing tour. A business
meeting will be held at 7:30 p. NJ.
Tuesday morning at o'clock SOL
emn requiem for the departed will be
said, followed by a business meeting
at 9 o'clock. The election Of officers
will be held at II o'clock. The bust
ness meeting will be reconvened at 2
in the afternoon, after which the
meeting will adjourn until 8 p. M,
when the convention will be formally
adjourned after a banquet to be held
in the basement o: st. Mary's school
hall.