The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-26
NEW WORLD ITEMS

Archbishop Of Quito. Ecuador, mas
Just passed away He Was seventy
two years of age and had occupied
the See since 1905.
Appointed Papal Knight Hor-
ton late United States consul at
Smyrna, has been appointed knight
of the Order of ST. Gregory the Great,
civil class.
Soldiers Join Third order.-Forty-
two soldiers stationed at the barracks
in Columbus, Ohio, were received into
the Third Order of ST Dominic, last
Sunday evening, at St Patrick Church,
by Rev. +. \. Gaffney, Q. p.
Golden JubiIee.--nev August
Young. the venerable pastor of SIS.
Peter and Paul Church of Garrett,
Ind, celebrated the fiftieth anniver-
sary of his ordination on New Years
day. In the evening a reception was
rendered the reverend jubilarian and
purse of gold was presented him.
Priest Dies Suddeny.-Rev. Henry
c. Stommel. rector of st. Alphonsus
Church of Philadelphia, Pa, and the
first priest of that diocese ordained
at the American College Of Louvaln,
died suddenly of heart disease, Sun
day.
Charity Concert.-On Sunday even
ing, January 20, a great Catholic Char
ity concert was given at the Hippo
drome in New York under auspices of
the United Catholic Charity Works.
Cardinal Farley, as president of the
Works. made an address.
Catholic Buenos Aires. - Buenos
Aires, the capital of the Argentine Re-
public. is a beautiful city of about
100000 inhabitants. It's Cathedral
is a Grecian edifice fronted by twelve
Corinthian columns. The archdiocese
dates from 1920. The city has TWEEN
ty-two canonical parishes and fifty
other churches.
The Sisters City.-On the Catholic
University grounds, Washington, a
handsome and stately building has
been completed 'for the Milwaukee
School Sisters of ST. Francis. The
present group of Sisters buildings
verifes the vision of the holy Pope
Plus X and his exclamation, The Sis
ters' City"
A Diocesan Museum.-The Diocese
of Denver, Colorado. is about to estab-
fish a museum for the collection and
preservation of objects and documents
of historic interest to the Charch in
Colorado, the whole of which State
is included in the diocese.
Gift to Sisters.-A picturesque
estate of three and half acres of
ground with beautiful colonial man
sion al Laurel, Md, has been pur-
chased by a group of friends and pre-
scented through Cardinal Gibbons to
The Sisters of Mercy. of st. Mildred's
Academy, Laurel.
Excellent Campaign. - The many
friends of Rev. Valentine Casey, as
sistant at ST. Raphael Cathedral, Du-
buque, for several years, will be
pleased to learn that the campaign
for the endowment of Dubuque col
lege, which he conducted in his par
ishes of Strawberry Point, Cox Creek
and missions of Edgewood and Gree
ley, was exceedingly gratifying AL
though not more than fifty families
belong TO these parishes, he received
the splendid sum of $13,S1150 from
his parishioners, Cox Creek contri-
luting $3.50, and Strawberry Point
$5,201.50
Army and Navy Men.-Among the
great concOurse of Holy Name Society
members attending the annual New
Years Mass of Thanksgiving at st.
Patrick Cathedral, N. Y, were con-
aiderably more than 1000 soldiers and
sailors. Father Waring, chaplain at
Governors Island, headed delegation
of 900 Regular Army men. About
thousand members Of the Police and
Fire Departments were also present.
PauIist Choir.-In a burst of martial
music that drowned for the moment
the changing bells and shrill whistles
of departing trains, the Paulist Choir
listers, Chicago's famous boy choir, ur-
der the direction of the Rev. William
]. Finn, left that city the other day
on six months tour of the United
States in the interest of the fund for
the restoration of towns in the de-
,astated areas of France.
Cincinnati charities.-In reponse to
a call from Rev. Francis A. Gressle.
director Of the Bureau of Catholic
Charities, approximately $50 promi-
nent clergymen and laymen of Cincin-
natl, met at the bureaus headquar.
ters in Holy Trinity school and
planned the organization of the Cath
Ollie Charities League, to assist all
local Catholic charitable activities
It is proposed to enroll ten thousand
members in the new league, which
will strive to raise $4,000 during 1918
to finance IT'S yarious institutions