The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-01-26
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eighty years. She had been men,
! Der of the Sisters of Charity for fifty
| seven years, and had taught in many
parts of the country. Among her pu-
pills while at the old Presentation
Academy, Louisville, was Mary Ander-
son, who was one of her favorite pu-
pills and with whom she corresponded
until the time of her death.
| A Mother in Israel.-Three brothers,
| all Catholic clergymen. officiated in the
sanctuary of the Church of Our Lady of
Sorrows at Corona, N. Y, recently.
They are Rev. William X. Dwyer, rec
tor of the church, who was the cele-
brant at the II o'clock Mass; Rev.
Robert V. Dwyer of st. Luke Church.
The Bronx, who wRa deacon, and Rev.
Daniel A. Dwyer of Corona. who was
sub-deacon. The celebration was the
Feast of the Epiphany, and the sol
emn High Mass was one of thanks
giving in honor of the SEVENTEEN
birthday of Mrs. Mary Dwyer, mother
of the three priests. The sermon was
preached by Rev. Robert Dwyer
The Schmidts Went.-AmOng the
many Catholic soldiers who have re.
Gently passed through Fort Logan,
were three brothers named Schmidt,
the sons of a Nebraska family.
/ 10 hor 70 fbof
they are of German blood. Every
one was of draft age, but every
one could have obtained exemp-
tion because ne was an agricul-
turist. Their father said to them:
| ANY one who claims exemption must
have one under my roof [ can hire
men to assist me on the farm You
boys are able to fight. Go and do it. .
They went. They did not even wait
| for the draft Last week their COM
pany was ordered away, to some point
unknown by their comrades at the
fort. The three Schmidts expect soon
to be among the American troopers
in France.
Praiseworthy Action.-A very gen.
| erous action was that of Major Win
che1 of the Salvation Army of Jersey
City on Christmas morning. At the
services at the Armys Industrial
Home a collection of nearly ten dol.
lars was taken up and Major Win.
chell said: Folks, have you any OBJ.
| lection if hand over this money to
st. Lucy Church, as our contribution
to the Christmas collection?" The
assemblage chorused Hand it over,
Major" and in a minute the money
was on its way to Father McLaugh-
| Inns Church. The donation coming
| from SO unusual a source touched
Father Mclaughlin, the pastor of ST.
| Lucy, and he uttered fervent bless
ing on the Major and those who con
| tributed to the donation.
Few Catholics and Much IlIiteracy.
There was held in Cincinnati, very
| recently a Church Congress, at which
the secretary of Church and Country
Life read a remarkable report about
parts of Ohio. Here is one item !:
The vital statistics of the state show
| AZ per cent of illiterate males of Vot-
| ing age in the state as a whole In
| Gallia, Vinton and Hooking Counties
this percentage of illiteracy is more
than doubled and in Pike and Law
| renee it is nearly trebled." The con-
ditiOn is the. worst where the old
American stock is purest. 1t may be
stated that in Gallia and Vinton Coun-
ties the Catholic population is very
meagre, and among the ''hillikins
as the people of these counties are
| often called, abounds huge amount
of bigotry and ignorance concerning
the Church, and all sorts of ludricous
! ideas prevail.
Early Educational Attempt.-The
| first successful attempt to establish
| secondary Catholic education in the
United States was that of the Jesuit
| College of Bohemia Manor, Md, open
ed by Father Thomas Poulton, S. j.,
in 1745 or 1746, says The Catholic
Historical Review. Schools had been
maintained by the Society of Jesus
from the time of Fathers White and
Rigby, and plans for the erection of
a college had been submitted to the
English provincial hundred years
before the opening of Bohemia Col
lege. The terms of annual tuition
were forty pounds for the classics and
thirty for those who took only English.
The best people of Maryland sent
their sons to the college. The es-
tablishment was closed in 1773, and
when the Society took up again the
work OF education about twelve years
later, it was at Georgetown College
that teachers and pupils were reunited.