The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-06
WILL FOUND ST. GATHERINGS
Hospital Comes to This City as Result
Of the Requests of Miss Kate Kaiser
and Mr.. anG Mrs. Frank Oberst-
Temporarily at Madison House.

In sombre garb of black and white,
| Mother Mary Catherine, Sister Mary
Angela, and Sister Mary Theresa,
| Dominican Sisters from Ontario, Ore
gon, are now in Kenosha in the in
terests of hospital soon to be estab-
| lished in this city for the sick of all
ages, all creeds and all nationalities
| The institution will be known as St.
| Catherine s and will be situated about
mile and half from Kenosha on a
fourteen acre tract recently trans
ferred to the sisterhood by requests
| from Miss Kate Kaiser and Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Oberst. For the present
! the sisters will reside at the Madison
House on the corner of Prairie avenue
and Rowland avenue, where they will
open a temporary sanitorium not later
| than October 1st.
The new health resort will be as per-
feet and efficient as science and love
can make it. Built in accordance with
the latest ideas for hospital structure,
st. Catherine IS will be equipped to
handle patients in all stages Of all
maladies. 1t will provide especially
for operative eases. An operating
room complete in every detail will be
the sanctum Of surgeons, drawn from
the medical professions of Milwaukee,
Chicago and Kenosha The sisters
themselves will supervise the nursing.
knowingly, tenderly, they will care
for the needs Of the sufferers with all
the kindness and efficiency for which
the nuns are noted. The combination
insures success. With trained physi-
cias to diagnose and treat and nurses
that are unexcelled to supplement their
work the institution will bring life and
light to those who need them most,
the weary and the weak.
st. Catherine s comes to Kenosha
through the charity Of Miss Kate
Kaiser and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Oberst, who donated the land on which
the health resort will stand. The gift
was made originally to the Dominican
Sisters at Racine and referred by them
to their colleagues in the western state.
Five years was allowed the sisterhood
in which to take advantage of the gift
and the present action is we'll within
the limits Of this discreet provision.
The site for the hospital is ideal.
Sufficiently removed from the city to
be absolutely quiet and yet sufficiently
near TO employ it's best physi-
clans, st. GATHERINGS will furnish
an admirable sanitorium for those
who need it's services.
The Dominican Sisters, who will
conduct the hospital, come to Kenosha
from Ontario, Oregon, where they have
been engaged in similar work for al
most ten years. Natives of Portugal,
they left their fatherland a decade ago
as a result of religious troubles at
tendant on the revolution. In the
United States they have rapidly ac-
quired reputation for effective social
service. Kind and competent, they
have endeared themselves to a wide
public by their numerous charities and
real efficiency. Never discriminating
in the subjects of their benefactions
they have taken all mankind a; their
especial province and have left their
patients healthier and happier by
reason of their tender care and
loving eympathy.
The sisters of mercy are living for
the present at the Madison House on
4
Prairie avenue and Rowland avenue.
In these quarters they are planning
to begin their work before month
has passed. With equipment brought
from Oregon they will maintain
temporary sanitorium until st. Cath
crime s is built and ready for their per-
manent occupancy. Here they will
make small beginning of larger
| movement and so establish a limited
| following before their home IS done.
Anxious for service and open to friend
ship, the sWeet-voiced sisters extend a
cordial invitation to all who care to
call or aid their enterprise. Feeling
the majesty o. their mission, they are
eager to share its benefits with those.
who, like themselves, are glad to sacri-
fee in order that others ".may have
life and have it more abundantly. =
DR.. W. K. Murphy, superintendent OF
the hospital division of the Chicago
Board OF Health, very strongly praised
the plans which were submitted to him
for the construction of an isolation
hospital in Kenosha. That the city
would be the mecca for people interest
ed in the construction of such buildings
due to the excellence of the local struc-
ture was the prediction of the Chicago
expert. The meeting of the board was
held Friday evening at the home of
Mrs. James Cavanaugh.