The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-12-27
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Pro-cathedraI: With the election
of officers for the new year, the first
half of the winter program of the
Young Ladies' Sodality came to very
successful close. Miss Mary Mulcahy
was reelected president, while Edith
Barry was chosen vice president; Mel
lie Roach, financial secretary; Miner
va Sarazin, recording secretary, and
Mary Bealm, treasurer. Several lee
lures of instructive and interesting ap-
peal were given, and among these
were talks by Rev. Joseph Corrigan,
Rev. William Harrington, and Rev.
William Busch.
The sodality also entertained at par
ties during the past months, and at
one of these there was a candy shower
for the st. Charles Mission. Fifty
pounds of candy and fifty-fve dollars
in cash were contributed by members.
The first get-together of the young
people of the parish was occasioned
| by a dinner served in the school cafe
| terra. Two hundred guests were pres
ent, and an entertainment followed in
the hall which was concluded with an
encouraging address by the pastor,
Father Cullen
Plans are already completed for the
| continuance of the work of the So
dality next year. On January II, a
Twelfth Night: party will be held,
the first social function of the new
year. The series of lectures also
promises to be of equal interest.
st. Marys Hall: Mrs. Grace M.
Gum was unanimously elected chair
man of st. Marys Hall Department
of the league at the monthly meeting
Monday, December Is. Mrs. Gum has
been actively associated with the
been at different times chairman OF
Travellers Aid, chairman of the House
Committee, vice president and chair
man of the Cafeteria. She resigned
her Office as vice president to assume
the more arduous duties at st. Mary's
hall. During her three years as heaC
of the Cafeteria Department, her close
contact with the girls, and her inter
est in their material and spiritual wei
fare, qualities her as head of the st
: Mary's Hall Department, boarding
home for girls.
The home is situated at 10th stree
and Hawthorne avenue, and provide:
comfortable, we'll appointed home TO
working girls. Opportunities are at
forded girls for doing their laundr.
work and sewing, also the use of
piano for music. Teachers are pre-
/ vided for those desiring instruction il
:. any branch.
p st. Mary's Hall is not charitabl
. institution, for the girls pay for thei
!, board and lodging. They must be c
!, irreproachable character, are free t
: come and go, have their callers, an
are only subject to such restraint a
any prudent Catholic mother woul
require of her daughter. The rate
are very low, considering the hig
: cost of living, $500, $3.50, $500 IAN
$3.50 per week Girls earning sma
:. salaries are enabled to live at tn
: hall comfortably and respectfully {
:, small cost. Miss Hagerty is the ne
matron.
: The home has been newly decorate
q and is most inviting The food is we
Is cooked and nutritious
If Mrs. Gum, together with the pres
e dent, Mrs. John F. MCGEE, is plal
E. ming number of affairs for the ben
y fit of st. Mary's Hall, to be given afts
Of the first of the year.
A meeting of the department
t. called for the first Monday in Januar
is when board of directors will
II elected to assist the chairman.