The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-08-31
NEW WORLD ITEMS


elect Walsh of Trenton with solid
gold pectoral cross and chain, splen-
didly carved and set with cluster OF
water-clear diamonds.
Scholastic is Drowned.--The Rev.
So. Phillip A. Commit, S. j., Jesuit
scholastic who was making his course
= in theology at Woodstock, Nd, was
drowned on Tuesday, Aug. IL. While
bathing a short distance from the col
lege.
Will Held VaIid.-The will of the
late Cornelius Kelly. who was com
monty known as Sergeant Kelly, was
held valid by the Kansas Supreme
Court in a recent decision. There
were some important requests to
: Catholic charities. Mr.. Kelly did not
forget the orphans of the diocese in
his will.
Newsboys' FIag-The roll of honor
of Father DUNES Newsboys Home
in St. Louis, now has 81 stars, two of
which are gold memorials for Andrew
McAlhster. killed in battle on Fland-
ers' field. and for Francis McGrath,
drowned while in military service.
Porto Rico CeIebrates.-In the Cath
Ollie churches of San Juan, Porto
Rico. special services were held re-
Gently in commemoratiOn of the 4O5th
anniversary of the creation Of the first
Catholic diocese in the New World.
y The diocese was created only twenty
years after the discovery of the
island by Columbus.
Unique Service Flag.-A unique and
beautiful banner, emblematic OF re-
hgion and patriotism, was blessed at
old st Peters Church in Barclay street
New York, on Sunday, August II, after
the last Mass The banner contains
200 stars made into a design which
combines the cross, the heart and the
anchor emblems of the virtues Of
faith, hope and charity in a religious
sense and also in a sense of devotion
TO country.
Soldiers Make Promise.-It must
have been an inspiring sight to see
5000 Catholic boys in Camp Meade
take a vow of clean and reverent
speech. They had just received Holy
Communion and Cardinal Gibbons and
Father Ignatius Smith, o. P, director
of the Holy Name Society, addressed
the boys, and after the addresses, the
Catholic women of Baltimore and
Washington served breakfast.
Forty-one rofessed.-Hundreds of
friends were at st. Mary -of-the-Woods,
'Terre Haute, Ind, the mOtherhouse OF
the Sisters of Providence, to witness
the reception of seven young postu-
lants and the profession of forty-one
noyices on August Is. Rt. Rev. Bishop
Chartrand presided at the solemn GER
emonies, and Rev. John NJ. Cunning
ham, S. j., Of Chicago, preached the
sermon.
Episcopal Ring.-The episcopal ring
worn by the successive bishops OF
the Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tria to Bishop Baraga, who assisted
at His Imperial Majesty's marriage in
1854. The ring is an amethyst of rare
beauty, encircled by an oval crown
Of small diamonds. The stone is en-.
graved with the name of Jesus"
Croix de Guerre.-The San Jose
Club of IS. Peter and Paul's church
Toledo, Ohio, that has sent more than
sixty of it's members into military
service of the country, has been sig
nally honored by the award that came
to one of its members, Sergeant John
B. Gremling, who died recently in
France. 1t has been learned that he
won that coveted honor, the Croix de
Guerre.
Diocese Gives HospitaI.-The Held
erberg Inn property, consisting of the
large hotel building fully equipped
two cottages and about seventy acres
near AltamOnt, recently acquired by
the Albany Catholic diocese, was Of
fered to the Government as a con
valescent hospital for 'gassed" sol
diers by the late Bishop Cusack OF
Albany. 1t is expected that a repre-.
sentative of the Secretary of War will
shortly inspect the property.
The Sierra Tablet.-The following
: inscription appears upon the Sierra
tablet, recently unveiled by Bishop
Cantwell at Los Angeles: Dedicated
to the memory of Fra Junipero Sierra
founder of the California Mission. The
world may and does forget much, but
it can never forget him, the gentle
great-souled Franciscan who brought
the light of Calvary to the darkness
of heather land. Erected by knights
of Columbus, 1918"
Largest ParochiaI SchooI.-SacreC
Heart School, New York, of which the
Right Rev. Mgr. Joseph f. Mooney
president of the school board, is the
founder and pastor, is the larges
school in the Eastern States, there
being only one larger school in tht
country Thoro orc two cohooL