The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-04-29
NEW WORLD ITEMS

Five Hundred Thousand Dollars is
F. Goal of Women.-More than 10000
League of Catholic Women, Detroit
Mich, will undertake a campaign OF
solicitation from the members and
friends of the organization, May 81
%, inclusive, to raise 100000 to erect
and equip new administrative and
recreational building on d site recent
ly acquired.
Sister Took Veil 81 Years Ago.
Sister Vincent of the Sisters oil
Charity of st. Vincent de Paul, died
Monday at St. Eincent's Orphan
Asylum, Detroit, Mich. Sister Vincent
became widely known for her work
among the poor during the 30 years
she spent in Detroit. She was born
in Ireland. Her name was Katherine
Kelly. and at the age of 10 she en-
tered the convent. She had been a
Sister for 81 years.
Organist's Body is Found.-The
body of Joseph Kramer has been found
on the shores Of WhittemOre Pond
Spencer, Mass. He had been missing
since December The medical exam,
iner pronounced death due to &C,
Cidental drowning He was out for a
walk and it is thought broke through
thin ice. Mr.. Kramer was for 81 years
organi5t in the Holy Rosary church
and had been teacher in Spencer
schools IS years.
Golden Jubilee of Parish.-The St
anthony parish, Milwaukee, of which
the Rev. NJ. j. Graettin2er is pastor
is celebrating its golden jubilee from
April % to 30. The celebration began
with a pontifical high Mass celebrated
by Most Rev. Archbishop NessmeE \
bazaar is being held during the entire
week. The parish was founded by
the Rev A. J. Decker in 1872, who
took charge of the parish until his
death in 1910. Since then Father
Graettinger is pastor.
for Iowa Church.-The erection OF
the new high altar in the I'm
maculate Conception church in Cedar
Rapids, Ia, is nearing compilation
This altar will be the largest anC
the most beautiful in the state
when completed. An expert Italian
altar builder is engaged in its cree
ton. When completed the altar viii
cost $4,000. The altar will be testi
mony to the faith and the generosity
of the people of the local parish.
A Cholera Epidemic AngeI.-Sistel
Mary Clare of the Academy of the As
sumption, Wellesley, Mass, for sixty
six years member Of the community
and the oldest member, has just died
there in her eighty-third year. Sister
Mary Clare was one of the pioneer
sisters of the community. In 1856
she and a few other Sisters Of Charity
volunteered to care for shiplOad OF
Asatics stricken with cholera who ar
rived at Halifax on the steamship
America She served for several days
among the infected immigrants and
was credited with saving scores OF
lives by her unselfsh service. Sister
Mary Clare was sister of Sister
Mary Ann and Of the late Rev. J. Con
molly of the Jesuit order
A Franciscan JUbIee.-The COLDER
jubilee of the Rev. Pacific Kohren as {
member of the Franciscan order was
celebrated at st. Boniface Catholic
church, Sioux City, with High Mass
Rev. Father Pacific's service in the
church dates from March 5, 1872, ani
includes work in European mOnaster
les and in American churches. II
April, 1920, he retired from active
work and came to st. Boniface church
Il came to America in 1875 whe1
Bismarck, the iron chancellor, drove
all religious orders out of Germany,
said Rev. Father Pacific. soon al
ter | reached this country | took on
my first and second naturalization pa
pers and became citizen" Fathe
Pacific was born at Aachen, diocese 0
Cologne, Rhineland, Germany, Febru
airy 10, 1851. On March 5, 1872, h,
Joined the Order of Franciscan Fa
theirs and he studied philosophy at thu
Franciscan monastery at Dusseldorf
After his arrival in the United States
he studied at the Franciscan mon
aStery at ST. Louis, where he was OF
dained to the priesthood, June Is
1878, by the RI Rev. Bishop Patricl
Ryan, who afterward became arch
bishop of Philadelphia.