The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-08-03
A ST. LOUIS PRIEST IS
REAL MONEY GETTER
Masses, a Picnic and a Chance at
Big Prizes all for One
Dollar

ing plcnlcs, selling tickets TO pic Z
MICS and holding up prizes, such as
town lots and cash to the amount
of $3.50 to get the laity and q. q.
Mark Protestants to buy the tickets
It's lottery game pure and SIM
pie but it works and it gets by the
law as she gives the tickets to a
picnic as value received. In the
end well wager the church gets
many hundred dollars more than
her lots are worth with the picnic
all paid for by some Catholic or
ganization.
Such fete is billed for August
3rd, to be pulled oil. under the au-
spices of st. PauPs parish, st.
Louis. The reverend priest, J. H.,
Tettemer is the promoter Of the
scheme. Each ticket to the picnic
one of which lies before us now is,
to all intents and purposes, lot
terry ticket, and Protestants as we'll
as Catholics have been bilked out
of their money as a result. The
tickets are numbered in duphcatey
one end to be kept by the pur-
chaser and the other collected at
Normandy Grove. The prizes Of
fered are as follows:
First Prize-B Building lot, 25x130
in North Chicago Lawn, Chicago, or
building lot 30x1S0 in Edgewood park,
st. Louis, or $3.50 in cash. Second
prize-Another lot in North Chicago
Lawn, Chicago. Third Pri5e-$50 in
cash. Fourth Prize-Diamond ring,
Fifth Prize-Gold watch.
Some way Priest Tettemer got
the name of Protestant young
lady and, by mail, tried to put
across deal for four Of the tickets.
l, Here is how he did it:
He sent a little appeal to heI
{ Just as he has to many hundred
l Catholics, on semi-posteard, en-
closed in an envelope, which reads
as follows:
, CHURCH OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE
1901 Jennings Road, Pine Lawn
/, st. Louis, Mo.
A year ago you sent me a donation
, to help build much needed parish
school. ] am deeply grateful to you
for your kindness, and l hope All
3 mighty God has blessed you during
c the past year. I could not build the
8 school because the war has increased
! prices of building material away
above our estimates, and now the
), : school is just beyond our reach.
Could you kindly send me one mora
4 dollar? II will mean the building OF
! the school this summer. / shall
never forget your kindness and I
: shall not bother you any more. !
viii offer the Holy Sacrifice Of the
! mass every morning during Julys
= August and September, for you and
: your living and dead relatives, OF for
o your special intention (mention it
when you writel. The children for
3 whom you help build the school will
It pray for you every day in gratitude
e FOR your kindness. You viii not miss
II the dollar, but it will help to save
'e the souls of these little ones, who
7, need a Catholic school so much, and
n God win surely bless you and yours
: for your generosity.
!; Respectfully, IS
'e 'e J. II. TErTEMER, PASTOR
n P. S.--If you feel you cannot send
8. the dollar, just destroy all this and
n- say a little prayer for the success
NJ of our undertaking. Last year the
Al lot was won by Mrs. Frances Markuss
m Petersburg, Neb.
i'd Notice he doesn't say anything
about the picnic. He just enclosed
Id one dollars worth of tickets how-
" 70 ing that the last paragraph about
Te winning q lot and the corresponds
st ing dope about the picnic and lots
OF as contained ON the tickets would
doubtless get The dollar he crayed,
No he won't even bother her any
J. more. She never contributed to his
n st parochial school that he never built
he to start with. But she will con-
of tribute in the future if he can
a bring it about, which he can't.
OF course, this Protestant girl
h ought to gladly cough up dollar tC
Of get him to say the mass for hel
Z. 2. every morning during three months
nv ~ Of hot weather but in case that ISM
ith enough he offers to say it for botl
rs, her living and dead relatives. Truly
we no lottery ever offered more induce
Ia Ia ments and if she had been a Cath
me olic he would probably have receiye(
sse the money ere this, As it j
the young lady win probably Gus
he destroy all his STUFF and he'l know
aso ~ not TO say the mass and if her tick
ids cts pop up someone will find ou
gal who won the prize when he pull
tty the same stunt next year. It's
,ne ,'ae great game, this mass business, lot
vat tery business, ct al.and it's
wonderful money getter.