The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-01-01
NEW WORLD ITEMS

Church and School Burn.-The st.
Joseph's, Church and School, two
story building erected in 1911, at Ben,
ton, H., burned down last week. Faith.
er c. Zeikowsky, the rector of the
parish, was in Chicago at the time.
Will Build New School.-A special
committee appointed by the Rev. Faith
er AREN'T, head of the St. Anthony OF
Padua Catholic congregation at High.
land, Wis, has approved plans drawn
up by architects for $4,000 paro-
chial school there. The new building
will becerected on the site now Occur
pied by frame structure being used
as a parochial school for the German
Catholic congregation.
X. C. to Erect Club House.-The
Knights of Columbus, Mendoza, ILL.,,
Council No. 2090, which was organized
hardly year ago, with membership
of 100 have decided to erect club
house of their own Fifty members Of
the Council have pledged $11 900 for
this purpose, a lot has been purchased,
and as soon as building prices have
reached level, building operations
will begin
Noted Mexican Priest.-The remains
of Canon Antonio Paroles, who during
the exile of Most Rev. Jose Mora Y
Del Rio, D. D., Archbishop of Mexico,
administered the affairs of the arch
diocese, were laid to rest December Fl
in the Spanish Pantheon, near the City
of Mexico. A large number of priests
and prelates and a concourse OF peo-
pie attended the solemn obsequies.
His Deed of Valor-The late Father
Victor Sommers who was buried in
Emporia, Kan, last week, was known
as a splendid tenor singer and an
athlete Many stories are told OF his
feats of daring and endurance. Once
during food in the Ohio River at
Cincinnati, a church had been sud-
denly surrounded by water, so that
entrance by the doors was impossible.
Father Victor swan for window,
through which he entered the church,
rescuing the Blessed Sacrament and
swimming with it to place of safety.
This exploit, however, injured his
health, and he never wholly recovered
from the effects of it.
Notable Convert.-A recent convert
to the Church in America is Miss Ell
len Gates Starr. Miss Starr is we'll
known as a social reformer, lecturer,
writer, philanthropist and one of the
first of living authorities on Italian
art. To study the art of book-bind-
ing she went to England and served
her apprenticeship under Golden San
derson, the greatest master of his
craft On her return to Chicago she
set up her bindery, which has become
famous throughout the country and
abroad for the beauty and thorough
ness of the work turned out. Miss
STAIRS collection of framed photo
graphs of famous paintings became
the nucleus of the Public School Art
Society of Chicago, of which she was
the first president.
A Canadian ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ZEN.
MacBrien has unveiled in st. Georges
Home, Ottawa, Canada, memorial to
the 70 old boys of that institution
who gave their lives during the war
After thanking Major-General Mac
Brien for his presence, Father Hudson
mentioned that the old boys Of the
Home were among the first to answer
their country's call in 1914, and some
1900 enlisted in the Canadian Forces
General MacBrien complimented Faith
err Hudson and the officials of St
Georges Home for their fine record
Nearly 5000 boys and girls had been
emigrated to Canada, passing through
the Home, and SO per cent had been
successful in their after carer. The
memorial is a brass panel on oak
bearing the names of the fallen.
Wreath to Ampere, Scientist.-Cen
tenary exercises in honor of the
French scientist, Andre Marie Am
pere, with the unwilling of bronze
memorial was held recently in Am,
pere, N. j. 1t was in 1920 that Am,
pere announced the laws governing
the effect upon magnet of wire
carrying a current, giving the basis
for the development of electric power
machinery. The Prince de Bearn ct
de Chalais, Charge d'Affaires and coun.
sellor of the French embassy in Wash
ington, made the principal addresses
and unveiled the tablet. Andre Marie
Ampere was as devoted to religion as
to science, an ideal Catholic and a
beautiful character. He was a native
of Lyons.
In Sympathy With Sim Fein.-One
who was adverse to the Sim Fein
movement could return from visit to
Ireland today only in sympathy with
the Sim Feiners, said John F. Mar
tin, Green Bay, Wis, in his talk to
the Knights of Columbus of the Uni
versity of Notre Dame; at the banauei
given following the disqualification Q:
the third degree to .eighty-three new
members. Mr.. Martin, who was q
member of : the committee Of seKer
who participated in the presentation
of the Lafayette statue at Metz tt
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