The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-01-27
NEW WORLD ITEMS

land even the nuns go to the polls
and vote on election day.
Fenwick CIub.-In Cincinnati a
100000 Catholic Fenwick Club House
is in course of erection, in which,
when completed, there will be print
ing school.
Another Catholic Army Chaplain
Rev. Albert Babst, for seven years
chaplain of st. Vincent's orphanage
in Denver, Colo, has ben appointed
. chaplain in the United States army.
Old Mission Bell Found in Garden.
"A mission bell supposed to be more
that 800 years old, relic of mesa
mission now long gone, has been pre-
scented to thc city of Yuma, Arlz., by
Chester Dewey The bell apparently
is made of gold, silver, copper and
iron. 1t weighs $50 pounds. 1t was
found hidden in an orange grove.
Rites For Redmonds Daughter
Hundreds OF members of the munich
pal council of the United Irish league
went to New ork last week from many
cities in the eastern states to attend
the funeral OF Mrs. William I. Power,
eldest daughter of John L. Redmond,
Irish leader in the British parliament.
4 requiem Mass was celebrated in the
Church of the Blessed Sacrament.
st. Peter CIaver Society.-The re-
port of the second year of the st.
Peter Claver Society of the United
States, with headquarters in st. Louis,
shows a gain of over one hundred per
cent the first year. The donations re-
ceived this year are expected to total
$4,000. The funds are used in the
African missions work.
Priests Signed Argentina Declare
ton of Independence.-Of the twen-
ty-nine delegates who, on July g.,
1916, signed the Declaration of Ar
gentinas independence, sixteen were
Catholic priests. Hence it was,
says the Queens work, chat the
government of the republic could
find no more fitting commemoration OF
the centenary that solemn TIE Deum'
sung on July 8, 1916, in the Cathedral
of Buenos Aires, and that the Catholic
Church felt to be both her right and
her duty to take an official part in
the festivities
Bishop Offers Hospitality to Masons.
The total destruction by fire of the
Masonic Home, Wichita, Kans., involv-
ing the death of several of the inmates,
was one of the most disastrous in the
history of that city. All the inmates,
who escaped the fire were sheltered
from the bitter cold by kind neighbors.
Bishop Hennessy on returning to the
city from Omaha heard of the disaster
and Immediately called up by phone
some of the directors of the Home and
offered to take care of the orphans
and old people in Catholic institutions
until new home would be built.
Leaves Estate to Charity.-Seven
Catholic institutions were the bene-
ficiaries in the will of Ella NJ Griffin,
filed in the probate court of Kansas
City, Mo-, last week. In the order
named, they are: st. Joseph's Or
phan Asylum and st. Johns hospital,
Leavenworth, Kan; st. Joseph
Church, Trenton, Mo-; st. Anthony S
Home, The Little Sisters of the Poor,
Boys Orphan Home, and Girls
Orphan Home, Kansas City, Mo.
Two thousand dollars was given to
Father J. D. Fowler, pastor of the Holy
Name parish, for Masses for herself,
her mother and her brother. The es-
tate consisted Of about $4,000 in real
estate.
Stoles Recovered.-Two fine stoles,
one purple and the other gold, have
been recovered by the San Francisco
police of the paWnbroker detail.
Mail Once a Year.-Father Charlie.
vols, whose mission is the extreme
northern ATTITUDES, where the tempera-
ture gets as low as Sc degrees below
zero, gets mail from the outer world
only about once year.
religion of HelI."-In the Fiji
Islands, says the missionary Father
De Marian, S. j., is a cult, called the
Religion of He'll" The members be.
lieve in the existence of hell, which
must be populated, and they fit them.
selves for it by horrible orgies.
10000 Men Attend church.-One
hundred and fifty thousand men at.
tended special services arranged in
the Boston archdiocese to celebrate
the Feast of the Holy Name recently.
Cardinal O'Conne1l delivered the ad-
dress in the Cathedral.
f,
Orphanage Has U. S. Health Record.
st. Johns Home, an orphanage con-
Quoted in Brooklyn by the Sisters of
st. Joseph, is believed to be the health
lest spot in the United States. There
have been only two deaths among
1900 inmates in two years, and both
these have been from accidents.
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