The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-05
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the people thereof to those devodt
! and noble women, who so fearlessly
rendered their services in nursing the
sick and dying patients"
| Colorado Legislature.-The Senate
resolution, asking the peace confer
ence to grant Ireland the right of self
determination, was adopted by the
house of representatives of the Colo
RADIO legislature on March II, by a
! viva voce vote, with an amendment
requesting President Wilson to Ecker
else his extraordinary and unlimited
powers and authority that the sent-
ments herein expressed may be incor-
porated in the constitution of the pro-
posed league of nations and further
be it resolved that a copy be for
warded to the president of the Irish
republic at the national capital of
Ireland, if the same can be located"
Reconstruction. - More than one
| thousand women of Toledo, Ohio,
pledged themselves to the support Of
a program of after-war reconstruction
work and to the support of Catholic
Women's League at a mass meeting
held in ST. Ursula auditorium in re-
Spouse to call issued by Bishop
Schrembs. Representative of the Ma
tional Catholic War Council added to
the enthusiasm of the meeting Mrs
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tary Of the women's committee of the
council, and Rev. John Cooper, d. D.,
Of Washington, general chairman of
| the committee, addressed the meet
ing. Bishop Schrembs, Mgr. ]. T.
| O'Connell and Rev. Karl J. Alter, do
other speakers. Officers were chosen
and two centers will be equipped by
the league without delay
| Spanish FREDERICKSBURG Library
of Congress has just put on exhibition
document signed by Ferdinand and
! Isabella, dated six years before the
discovery of America and bearing the
royal seal of the king and queen. 1t
is the gift of Dr. J. Alderman Colos
of New York, and is framed with a
number of interesting old portraits,
portrait prints of Columbus and the
king and queen of, CASTLE. With this
the library exhibits what is known
as the Columbus codex, a copy made
in 1902, under Columbus supervision
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viceroy, and his other powers, priv
leges and grants. The codex is on
parchment, and, like the Ferdinand
and Isabella documents, is a beautiful
specimen of Spanish writing of the
period
Iowa x. of C.-With $500 members
in the service, or about one-fifth OF
the entire membership in that state
Iowa Knights of Columbus claim to
have established record which is
perhaps unequaled by any other fra
ternal organization. Figures recently
compiled by Joe Mccormick, state sec
rotary, show that each of the 50 coun
ellis in Iowa furnished liberal quota
Of men as defenders of democracy
Des Moines, with membership oil
700 at the time the armistice was
signed, had 260 Knights in the serv
ice. Dubuque had 223, Carroll 200
Sioux City 1875, Cedar Rapids ITO, Gas
cade 112, Algona 10, LeMars 116, anG
some of the smaller places sent as
many as one-third of the membership
to the front.
New Church For immigrants
Through the generous assistance Of
donors who wish their names with
held, st. Stephen of Hungary congre
cation in Cincinnati, has been enabled
to purchase the st. Matthew German
Evangelical (Protestant) Church prop
erty, at Liberty and Elm streets, at {
bargain price, it has been announced
by Rev. Henry Meyer, pastor of the
local Hungarian parish. The newly
acquired building, after the necessary
remodeling, will be used as a place O.
worship by Catholic immigrants O.
the Slavic and other foreign-born ma
tionalities, and the church (Which al
ready contains a $4,000 organ ant
seats 700 persons), is admirably 10
Gated to serve as community cen
ter for the Cincinnati Austro-Hun
garians, Serbians, Roumanians, etc.
; who are Orthodox in faith.