The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1917-11-24

THE IRIS II
Catholic News in Brief
New names are being received daily
to be added to our already excellent
list of subscribers. We want every
reputable Catholic family in the state
on our list, and we will have them, II
honest effort counts.
There is danger that the inmates
of the Good Shepherd Home, Denver
may go hungry. The finances of the
institution are in bad shape. This was
the report given at a meeting of the
Good Shepherd Aid Association.
Defense of the nation, church, home
and graves of the dead were pledged
for all loyal Catholics at the celebra'
ton of the centennial of st. Patrick's
Cathedral, New York City, on Oct
20. Cardinal Farley presided at the
services.
The 1918 seals for motor cars In
California will carry the design OF
an old mission bell. This seal has
been formally adopted by the motor
vehicle department because of the
fact that it is symbolic of the early
days of California.
For interned soldiers in Switzer.
land Cardinal Annette, Archbishop OF
Paris, and the organization Mission
Catholique Suisse, have established
many chapels with chaplains. In the
Bernese Overland, 81 chapels, and in
the Canton Vaud, ~ have been es.
tablished.
It was announced last week at the
loyalty dinner of the Catholic Order
of Foresters, that the Illinois juris'
diction had officially subscribed for
100000 of the second Liberty Loan,
while individual branches subscribed
as much again or more.
The library of st. Thomas Central
High School, Rockford, ILL.,, has re-
ceived the addition Of some six hun
dred valuable and highly appreciated
books, the gift of Rt. Rev. Bishop
Muldoon and Rev. j. j. Flanagan
pastor of St. William Church. The
library now has more than 1000
books.
In Philadelphia convent Of the
Poor Clares was dedicated recently
and economically instituted. The Poor
Clares in the United States dates from
the year 1875, with Mothers NADIA
lena and Constanza as founders, at
Evansville, Ind. One of them died in
the order of sanctity.
Rev. Joseph G. Linsmeier, pastor
of the Sacred Heart Church, Dun
kirk, N. Y, remembers the Catholic
press effectively while taking his pa
IRISH census. At each house he asks:
"Do you subscribe for Catholic pa
PERI" and if the answer is NO." he
recommends a paper and solicits the
subscription himself.
Another handsome church was dedi-
Gated to God in st. Louis last Sunday
st. Plus Church-by Archbishop
Glennon. The Bishop of Belleville,
ILL.,, celebrated the Mass, and Rev.
DR.. Lavery delivered the discourse.
The church is Romanesque, and cost
$125 900. It's campanile is 200 feet in
height.
The Catholic Truth Guild will send
it's autovan across country to San
Francisco, where David Goldstein, the
secretary of the guild accompanied by
Sergeant Arthur B. Corbett, will begin
three months work in California on
the first of January Then they will
make their way home to Boston, over
the Lincoln highway, speaking in the
leading cities en- route.
St. Louis University and Father
DUNES Newsboys' Home are made
requests in the will of Isaac S. Tay-
lor, filed for probate during the past
week. In consideration Of Kindness
shown him when student" st.
Louis University is bequeathed $4,000
and Father DUNES Newsboys' Home
receives $4,000.
Cardinal Gibbons dedicated the first
of three buildings to be occupied by
the knights of Columbus, at Camp
Meade, Md, and in talk to the thou
sands of Pennsylvania, Maryland and