The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-05-12

Ohio Catholic Women.-The present
enrolment in the Ohio Catholic
Women's Association is 1851.
House of Good Shepherd,-More
than 400 girls in the House of the
Good Shepherd. Chicago, are making
bandages and other hospital things,
for the armies.
Editor Appointed Chaplain. : The
Bishop of Alton, Right Rev. James
Ryan, has appointed Rev. M. j. Foley,
editor of The Western Catholic,
Quincy, Ill.,, as chaplain at the Illinois
Soldiers and Sailors Home.
Will Declared invaIid.-Two prOvi-
sions in the will of the late Mr. Bro
gan of Fort Smith, Ark, one deVising
a sum of $500 to the Sisters of the
Holy Family at Pine Bluff, and one of
$4,000 to establish a college at Fort
Smith, Ark, have been held invalid
by the Circuit Court.
LoyoIa Gets Fine Library.-Edward
Maher of Chicago has presented to
Rev. Henry S. Spalding, S. j., for
Loyoa University. his rare collection
of SUPERINTENDENT Revolution
books, as a special library, to be listed
as such.
City Founded by Monks.-lt is not
as well known as it should be, espe
cially by anti-Catholic bigOts, that
the old city of San Antonio, Texas,
was founded more than two hundred
years ago by the Franciscan Monks.
Coming up from Mexico, they claimed
the country for Spain, laboring to con-
vert the native Indians to Christianity.
National Federation.-At the annual
meeting Of the Diocesan Federation of
Holy Name Societies in Newark, n. j.,
on April l.. a committee was appoint
ed to start movement for the organ
ization of a National federation of do
cesar bodies On the committee are
Vicar General Mgr. John A. Shepard,
the Rev. NJ. p. Corcoran, spiritual di-
rector of the federation, and five dele
gates to the convention.
Mgr, Tappert.-Rev. Henry Tappert,
rector of Mother of God Church, Gov
ington, KY, has been honored with the
appointment of domestic prelate to
the Pope's household, with the title of
Monsignor He was born in Duren,
Rhineland, Germany, on April 8, 1855,
and was ordained at Covington, KY,
on May %, 1897 1t is in recognition
Of his work for church music that the
Holy Father has honored him.
The White List,-The Supplement
tary Bulletin of The Catholic Theatre
Movement, under date of April 20, has
been published. 1t contains the titles
of PSI plays which have been put on
the White List, from February, 1914,
to March Is, 1917.
Historic Site.-The site on which
stood the first log chapel erected by
the sanity Father Neumann in the
course of his early labors in Buffalo,
\. Y, is to be the site for the new
motherhouse of the Visitation Sisters
presently located at Frederick, Nd.
Father Neumann after years Of mis-
SiOnary labor as d Redemptorist be-
came Bishop Of Philadelphia.
Augustinan Visitator.-Very Rev.
DR.. Condor, O. S. A., of Dublin, Ire
land, was a guest of the Rt. Rev.
Bishop Brossart of CoyingtOn, Ky,
last week. He came to America some
time ago to make tour of inspection
of the houses of his order in the
United States and stopped for a visit
on his way from Chicago to Washing
ton.
First Bishop of BuffaIo.-The 5Oth
anniversary of the death of Bishop
Timon, first Bishop of Buffalo, was OBJ
served with Pontifcal Requiem in the
now Cathedral, and sermon by Mgr.
Cannon. When he was Father Timon.
OF the LaZarist Order, in 1888, Bishop
Timon preached at the conservation of
the first Bishop of Nashville, in st.
Joseph's Cathedral, BardstOwn, XIV,
Regular and Secular CIergy.-Some-
thing over one-fourth of the priests of
the United States belong to the regu-
lar clergy. 1t is interesting to note
that in the Archdiocese of Baltimore
the regular clergy are in the majority,
whereas in the Archdiocese of Du-
Duque there are but twelve of the
regular clergy out of total of 255
priests.
A Sane Observation-Disclosures guilty
of speeding, but allowed to go free on
a. suspended sentence was the decision
in the case of man brought before
the municipal court in Wilmington,
Del, on April 20. When he said he
was hurrying to summon a priest to
administer the last rites of the Cath
Ollie Church to a dying woman, Judge
Churchman said he would take the re-
spOnsibility of suspending sentence al
though the case did not come under
the exemptions of the law.
For War Relief Work.-The Catho-
lie War Fund association of Evanston