The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-11-22
NEW WORLD ITEMS

The X. of C. Drive.-The knights OF
Columbus are conducting drive Tor
S125 600 in Yonkers, n. Y, to erect
large central building. So FAR SSo'ooo
has been collected, $4,000 being SUD-
scribed by K. of c.. members. Mgr
chadwick president of st. Joseph,s
Seminary. is the honorary chairman
for the campaign. Archbishop Hayes
subscribed $3.50 to the fund,
Arnny Men at Georgetown.-Gen
William H. Arthur, Col. Williams ".
owen and William G. Irving nave
heeu amounted TO the faculty OF the
Medical school of Georgetown ohl-
,.ersitv as announced by Rev. John d.
Croadon s J.. President of the Uni
yersitv. General Arthur, VINO VIII
have the chair of military hygiene
,,os President of the Army Medlcal
school during the war, Col. owen
,,,as IN charge of the Army Medical
museum.
MN Saves Chiidren.--Twenty chill
dran were saved from death oy hie
aarly IN November by the bravery
nj Sister Charles of the Mission OF
the Immaculate Virgin at Mount 10
ratto on Staten Island. n. Y. me
children were asleep in a quarantine
hospital near the mission when the
frame building caught lire. SISTER
charles. in charge, was awakened
when almost overcome by smoke. she
cave alarm, rushed to the second
floor, where the children slept, canned
rbeir fears and led them out OF the
building.
Cardinal at Piano.-When the &C
companist of John OSullivan, the chi
capo opera tenor, failed to appear IN
BOSTON at concert given before the
1eague of Catholic Women at Notre
Dame Academy, Cardinal OConneli
astounded the audience by volunteer
ing as accompanied His playing dis
nlayed remarkable musiclanshlp,
Since we are all friends" the Cardl-
nal said, Just a family party, VIII
Try to make the transposition for
O'SulHyan,
Deuree at ST. Vincent's.-St. Vim
cent ecclesiastical seminary, Beatty,
Pa. mother house of the Colorado
Benedictine Fathers, recently for the
first time conferred the degree DOC
TOR of Sacred Theology. 1t was given
10 Rev. Anthony Benedik. Bishop
Canevin, Archabbot Leander and Ah-
bot Aurelius we're present. A hcen-
tate in sacred theology and seVeral
baccalaureates were also conferred.
Home Priests Help Foreign Mis-
sioners.-At its recent annual meet
ing. The Alumni of St Joseph,S Sem
mary. DunwOodie, the Diocesan Sem
mary for New York, voted to assist
the students in raising the DunWoodle
Burse for the American Foreign Mis-
sion Seminary, at Maryknoll, Ossln
ing. n Y. Dunwoodie is not many
miles away from Maryknoll, and there
is a strong affection between the two
seminaries.
Bishops sister.-The death of ven
cradle Sister John Francis, for over
sixty wears a member of the Sisters OF
Providence at ST. Mary -of-the-Woods
removed one of the pioneer nuns OF
Indiana. She entered the community
lust in time to endure many of the
DF ha
were no modern conyeniences at st
Mary, nor in any of the missions IT
those days, and the younger genera
lion of Sisters can never realize the
rugged road over which Sister John
Francis and the older Sisters have
travelled. In the world she was Miss
O'Donaghue, sister of Rt. Reverend
Dennis ODonaghue, Bishop of Louis
Vile. and Rev. Timothy O'Donaghue
of NincenneS.
ST. Mary's College, Maine.-The
senior dormitory Of st. Marys Col
lege, Van Buren,, Me-, was totally de
stroyed by fire which occurred there
on November g. while the students
were taking the afternoon recreation
The alarm was sounded by a student
and the priests organized the football
players into a fire brigade, and aided
by the local fire department, they sue
ceeded in saving the college. Several
of the students were overcome with
smoke, but they were quickly res
cued and revived. The Van Buren,
people kindly offered the hospitality
of their homes to the boys, and did all
in their power to assist the college
authorities. The loss is estimated at
$4,000, which is covered by insurance
ST Mary's is one New England'S pop
ular colleges, and is under the direc
ton of the Marist Fathers.
Glockner improvements. - Improve
ments costing approximately $4,000
are soon to be made at the Glockne1
Sanatorium, Colorado Springs, con
Quoted by the Sisters of Charity oil
Cincinnati. Work on three new apart
ments of twelve rooms each, to cost
$4,000, have begun. Part of the prof
ect consists OF tearing down the ole
tent colony which has stood for years
on the grounds, and replacing it with
new apartments which are to be the
last word in sanatoria for tuberculosis
A new wing and laboratory, to cost an