The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-03
NEW WORLD ITEMS

NEW WORLD ITEMS
Father SuaVage.-Lieut. George w.
Savage, C. S. c., ranking officer
in the French Army, who has been
at Notre Dame University for several
months, has left for a conference
called by the French embassy al
Washington, D. c.
Golden Anniversary.-Rev. William
Iacobv. of West Point, Iowa, attained
his golden anniversary as a priest on
mlv 26. Father Jacoby is eighty-tof
years of age and strong and vigorous.
He has been pastor of the Church OF
the Annunciation of the Blessed Vlr-
gin Mary forty-one years.
Family of ConVerts.-Among those
whom Cardinal Gibbons ordained
Drieets in the Cathedral, Baltimore,
short time ago was Rev. Henry Byron
Sanderson. who is now in charge OIL
St. Margaret parish, Bellaire, Nd
Father Sandprson is a convert, was
formerly an Anglican minister and
was stationed at a church in Fond du
Lac Wis. He is the eighth member
of his family who has had the priv
lege of being received into the Church
within six years.
Teachers Found Scholarship.-The
teachers of the Catholic and pubic
schools of the diocese of Brooklyn,
handed together under the presidency
of the Bishop. Right Rev. Charles E..
Mcdonnell, D. D., have founded
scholarship in the Cathedral of the
Immaculate Conception College,
Brooklyn, a preparatory seminary for
clerical students.
Girl Appointed Lieutenant.-Miss
Katherine G. Common of st. Mary
parish, Winchendon, Mass, has been
honored by appointment as Lieuten-
ant Miss COnnor is at present serV-
ing as a nurse III France She is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Con-
nor of SO Ash Street. She was gradu-
ated from Worcester City Hospital
and was one of 16 out of a class Of
80 selected for service overseas.
Clergy Back Drive.-The support
of the Bishops and clergy throughout
the state of Missouri is to be sought
by Archbishop Glennon for the state
wide membership drive of the Knights
of Columbus in September, according
to DR.. T. z. Purcell, district deputy
Plans are being made to have every
council in the state receive Com
munion in a body on the third Sunday
of September.
Sisters Study AgricuIture.--Among
those who are taking the special
course in agriculture at Ontario Agri-
cultural College with the teachers are
more than twenty-five teaching Sisters
from the various Catholic converts in
western Ontario. They came from
Hamilton, London Windsor, Chatham
and other places, and are preparing
themselves to teach agriculture in the
converts. This is the first time the
Sisters have attended this school.
Brothers Plant Gardens.-The Mar
list Brothers at Lowell, Mass, have
set an example of thrift and wartime
planting that has attracted much at
tention. Extensive fields are at pres
ent under cultivation. The Brothers
rise at A. NJ and continue theil
work until long after sunset Many
throughout the city have followed the
lead of the Brothers with the result
that today Lowell boasts of war gar
dens second to those Of no other city
Chapains at Great Lakes.-There
are now six Catholic Chaplains sta
toned at the Great Lakes Naval Train
ing Station, near Chicago. They are:
Rev. |. E. Perius from st. Mary's, KY;
Rev. L. ]. Seiss, of Chicago; Rev.
B. She'll ST. Mers Parish, Chicago
the latest to arrive to aid Rev. Will
liam A. Murphy; Rev. Thomas C. Can
ty and Chaplain Joseph Perkins, the
first commissioned Catholic Chaplain
to arrive at the station. Temporary
headquarters have been established
in the new aviation unit headquarters
Mass Held in Open.-While telling
the story of the Battle of Verdun
Lieutenant J. DObell, a veteran of the
French army, who spoke at the Uni
versity Club in st. Paul last week
wildly recounted an incident of E
priest who was saying Mass in an
open field near the battle front, fol
the soldiers. I'VE all knelt there,
he said, land during all that terrible
Smelling, when not one second passed
without the burst of shell, not one
of us was hurt. The German airmer
had discovered US and their guns haC
singled us out, but we were kept from
harm"
Cardinal Has Narrow Escape
Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop O'Con
nell of Richmond, Va, had narrow es
capes from serious injury when tn,