The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-02-01

/ President, Mrs. Mary Whalen; Vice
President, Mrs. Anna Leitschuh; Sec,
rotary, Mrs. Georgia Riedl; Treasurer,
Miss Emma Bertrand.
The object of the sewing circle is
to furnish funds for the laboratory
| equipment and maintenance of the
Catholic High School in order that
expenses ordinarily incurred in the
equipment of this department viii not
fall on the shoulders of the students
| themselves or on the parish
Since the high school was started
four and one-half years ago, it has
received substantial aid and encourage
ment from the Sewing Circle.
Through its efforts, it has been pos
sible for any child of the parish, even
those of the most meager means, to
avail himself or herself of the ben
efits of high school education, to-
gether with wholesome Catholic en-
vironment, and this without imposing
additional cost upon the parish that
supports the school, or the parents
of the students so benefited
The annual report, read by the secre-
tary, showed receipts Of the past year
of $4,000. This sum was secured
from monthly socials, meetings, card
parties and the play given on st. Pat
rick's Day. Expenses incurred during
the year in equipping the high school
with furniture, library books, chem
icals for the laboratory and service
flag for the church with seventy-five
stars, amounted to $363O7, leaving a
balance of $1324S
Individual activity of the members
of the Circle and the Circle as whole
in Red Cross work during the current
year was one of the commendable
features Of the secretary's report. Dur
ing the year the Circle affiliated itself
with the National Federation of Cath
Ollie Women. The Circle now has a
membership of seventy.
New Ulm: Sister Thaddea, who has
been in charge of the old people at
the st. Alexander Home for the Aged,
succumbed to a complication of dis
eases on January 90 She was born
in Chicago and was thirty-three years
of age. She had been ailing for some
two years, and had been confined to
her bed the greater part of the last
six months. She is survived by two
brothers and one sister, who reside in
Chicago. Her parents are dead De-
ceased had been at the home for The
aged during the past nine years. Flu
neral services were held Wednesday
morning, January %, at the hospital
chapel at nine o'clock. The remains
were inferred in the Catholic GENE
terry.
lie sueur Center: The Church of
ST. Mary, of which Rev. James j.
Woods is pastor, has recently placed
in it's sanctuary two additional
statues, life sized representations of
ST. Anthony and of Our Lady of Peace.
The former was donated by one of the
parishioners and the other by the
women of the parish. These two
statues serve to enhance the beauty
of sanctuary artistically decorated
and add to it's devotional aspect. The
statue of Our Lady of Peace will be
blessed next Sunday afternoon by the
Rev. Father Rickert of st. Paul. In
addition to these gifts the church has
been the recipient Of a magnificent
Benediction cope costing $110, the gift
of a woman of the parish who desires,
for the present at least, to remain I'M
known, and of humeral veil to match
donated by the Young Ladies' Sodality.
The parish is to be congratulated ON
this new evidence of piety and devo-
and it's individual members.