The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-04-19
NEW WORLD ITEMS

Club HELPS Seminary.-ln Cincinnati,
the Fenwick Club contributed So,00o
for the new Mt. ST. Mary's Seminary.
Influenza Hits Indians.-AmonS the
moor South Dakota Indians, the ln1u-
rnza ragged fearfully. Missionary
PRIESTS bore the Blessed Sacrament
around with them day and night.
Drive Is Deferred.-The Catholic
Community League of Columbus,
Chic. has postponed its Catholic drive
for $500. 900. because of a similar drive
or campaign Of the Y. NJ. {. A. and
that of the Fifth Victory Bond Cam
paign.
A K, of c. Honored.-1t is reported
that the governor of Kentucky has ap-
pointed Nh. Thomas ID. Cllnes, the
Grand knight of the Louisville Coun-
ell of the knights of Columbus, a col
0nel on his staff.
New CarmeIite House.-Bishop Gal
(agher, of Detroit, has given permls-
sion to the Carmelite community
whose headquarters are at Rocca di
Papa. Italy, to establish a home for
old people. The home will be estab-
Iished in a residential portion OF the
CITY before next fall.
VandaIism.-A vandal who is be-
loved to have secreted himself in the
Church of the Holy Trinity, in st.
Louis, during services on a recent ait
ernoon. wrecked the tabernacle and
altar with a Ratchet, destroyed two
communion vessels and stole two gold
crosses. The damage to the altar is
estimated at 500. A Ratchet used by
tho intruder was found at the base OF
the altar.
R~ernadette's Brother.-Rev. p. J.
Boyle, pastor of SIS. Joseph and Phlio-
mena Church, Hednesford, England,
has received a letter from Madame
SoubirOus, telling OF the death, on Feb
ruary 27. Of her husband, Jean Marie
SOuDlTOuS, DIUJlSt vi " luNCNI W
whom Our Lady Of Lourdes Vouch'
safed eighteen apparitiOns in 1858. NJ.
Soubirous was a child Of about seven
Years of age at the time the Blessed
Virgin appeared to his sister.
Large Jesuit Province.-Nery Rever
end F. X. McMenamy, S. j., President
of Creighton University, Omaha, who
has been appointed Provincial of the
Missouri Province of the Society oil
Jesus, succeeds Very Rev. \. Bur
rOwes, S. J. The Province embraces
more thar 420 Fathers, 337 scholastics
l67 lay brothers, II Indian missions
and a mission in British Honduras
also the st. Louis University.
Passion Play Forbidden.-The pres
entation of the Passion Drama, Yer
onica's Veil" is forbidden in the State
of New York on the ground OF a law
of the Empire State which prohib
its the i~mperSonation of Christ. The
play was to have been produced a
the Metropolitan Opera House for tn,
Founding Hospital. The Archbishop
and others do not deem it wise tt
have the State law amended for thi:
purpose
Robbers Attack Priest.-Father Der
nard Benten, of st. Cecilia church, st
Louis, Mo-, was held up and robbed il
his home last week by two men wear
ing the uniform OF soldiers. Fathe.
Benten said they entered his home
and, at the point of revOlvers
searched him. They got only IS cents
The men were arrested 500 after il
4 nearby grocery store eating sand
wiches.
New Catholic High SCHOOL, new
Catholic High School for girls in st
Louis is contemplated in tentative
plans to raise a fund of $4,000 fo1
such a building. The Rosetti-Kair
High School. the present girls school
has been sold, and the building a
Grand and Lucas must be vacated by
September 1.
Goes to Germany.-MiSS Carmelite
Welch, of Springfield, Ohio, d gradu
ate of st. Raphael School, sailed Apri
), on the Baltic, to take up oversee!
X. of c. secretarial work. Miss Welcl
is n of the very few women chosen
for this work and she expects to b.
stationed with the Army of Occupation
in Germany. She was secretary tt
Jas. l.. GeddeS, of the Springfield
Kelly Motor Truck Company. prior t,
taking up Government work in Wash
ingtOn.
Caruso's Bride a Convert-Signo
EnricO Caruso, the famous singer, wa
recently united in marriage in tn,
Lady Chapel of ST. Patrick's Cattle
dral, New York, to Mrs. Dorothy Par
ker Benjamin, by Rev. William B. Maj
tin, assistant rector. Besides the cor
tracing parties were present the sec
rotary of Mr.. Caruso, Mr.. Bruno Irato
and two ladies', mother n daughter
The bride, Mrs. Caruso, was baptize,
and received into the Church a few
days preceding the marriage.
Nuns of the BattiefieId.-The Ladies