The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-10-04
NEW WORLD ITEMS

priests of his diocese, as d Loheh VI
love and esteem from his faithful CO.
laborers on the fourth anniversary OF
his Episcopal conservation.
Boston lnstitutions.-The evening
school of the Young Mems Catholic
Association. Boston College, has reg
istration of about two thousand. Inc
Catholic Charitable Bureau OF Boston
had in it's Children's Vacation House
~ Stoney Beach, Hull, Mass, this sea-
son. PTS children from to II years
Of age.
Diocese Acquires Land.-Bishop
Iillis has purchased eighty acres OF
land two miles south OF the HllIcrest
Club. Kansas City, from Hughes Br9-
AM for $4,000, and another eighty
acre farm tract about two and nalI
miles further east is also under con-
tract and will be purchased for
$40. 900. II is not known just what
use the land will be put TO or whether
anv Catholic institution will be built
thereon.
Cross Donated to Cemetery.-A
large bronze cross weighing 5000
mounds has been donated by mem
Der of the Sacred Heart church at
Kickapoo, Kas., for the Kickapoo Gem
eterv. Father R. B. Groener, pastor
Of the Sacred Heart Church, expects
10 have the cross erected for the me-
mortal services, November 2.
Notre Dame X. of C.-With 42O
members in their council, the Notre
Dame Knights of Columbus are out
TO increase the membership to 700 be-
fore the end of the year. Officers for
the new year we're elected at re-
cent meeting, and plans for the con-
clusion of the Social Center building
fund campaign, which was repeatedly
interrupted last year, were outlined.
The Poor Handmaids.-The Poor
landmarks of Jesus Christ, of Dern-
bah in the diocese of Limburg in Mas
sau, Germany, have had large
growth in this country. We learn
that, expanding approximately a mil
lion dollars for new buildings, the
Poor landmarks in America will
transfer their Provincial mother-house
in America from Fort Wayne, Ind, to
near the village of Donaldson, on the
banks of Lake Gilbert, Marshall Coun-
", Indiana. The Poor Handmaids
have accomplished a wonderful work
in Indiana.
Growth of University.-With record
enrollments in every one of the TWEEN
weight college departments, Notre
Dame University began its 18th SEES
sion Friday morning, September 20.
Only once before in the history OF
the institution has the registration
approached the figures already on the
books this year. A year ago enroll
ments were abnormally high because
Of the S. A. T. c. course which the
university offered. This year, how.
ever fully four hundred more stu
dents have matriculated than ever
came to the university in ordinary
times.
Home for Giris.-The Catholic So
cietv for Befriending Girls will open
the St. Cecile hotel at Fell and Van
Ness Avenues, San Francisco, as a
model hostelry for business girls and
women earning small salaries, within
several weeks. The hotel, large
five-story building, admirably located
in the civic center, has bees leased
for a term of years by Most Rev
Archbishop Hanna, director-general OF
the society, and the work of remodel
ing and making it up-to-date is al
ready we'll under way. When com
pleted the ST. Cecile will accommodate
from eighty to one hundred girls, and
comforts of modern hotel at mod
crate cost, together with certain privi
leges which are keenly appreciated by
the business girl of small salary.
Increase in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
the religious look with optimism to
the overflow attendance in Holy Cross
Seminary at Notre Dame which has
necessitated the erection of a new
building that all studying for the
priesthood in the Congregation of the
Holy Cross might be accommodated
Forty more candidates are registered
at the seminary alone than ever be
fore, and the enrolment in Dujarie
Hall, where candidates for the Broth
erhood are received, is greater than il
any previous year. The new seminary
for students of the upper college
classes intending to join the order il
now being built. Twenty-Five sopho
mores and juniors have been sent t
ST. Joseph's Novitiate before complet
ing their college work, and on return
ig they will wear the cape, cassocl
and biretta of the priests of the order
Hitherto, candidates while residing a
Holy Cross Seminary have completes
their college courses before going t,
the novitiate. A new church law ha
changed the custom, and now all sem
inarians studying for religious order
must go to the novitiate year be
fore beginning their college work.
Pershing Thanks Club.-Genera
Pershing's car on its return from In
dependence Square, when he was ter
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