The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-04-15
NEW WORLD ITEMS

lumbus of Notre Dame. have been in
corporated and board of trustees
named. The board viii represent the
stockholders of the corporation at all
times. The funds at hand form the
capital stock, a stipulated amount OF
the revenues will be annually turned
into capital stock, and all money rails
ed by entertainments, socials and the
like. will also be turned into the fund.
Chapel Destroyed by CycIone.-A
cyclone visited Grand Coteau, La,
Saturday night. The st. John Berch
mans chapel at Coulee Crochs near
there was blown down. The priests
room adjoining the chapel was twist
ed and blown about twenty feet from
the chapel. The pastor, Rev. P. J.
Philippe, S. j., had narrow escape.
He was tossed from side to side in
the room while the bed and other fur
nishings were flying around. How
ever, he was not injured. The statue
Of st. John Berchmans was not dam
aged Several other buildings were
Catholic Indian SeattIes.-Dying as
she had lived, a faithful Catholic, Mrs.
Mary Seattle, wife of John Seattle,
and niece of old Chief Seattle, passed
away Tuesday of last week III her
cabin home on the banks of the Green
river, Washington. The funeral was
held at the Holy Family church in
Auburn with Requiem Mass, which
was celebrated by Rev. Hugh Lynch.
The church was crowded with a color
full gathering of Indians from all parts
of the Sound country. With her hus-
band, Mrs. Seattle came to Auburn
twenty years ago. Previous to that
time, the couple had resided in Puyal-
Jup for a short time and earlier had
lived with the other members of the
Seattle family in the metropolis that
bears their name. The family have
been Catholics for many years. Old
Chief Seattle was one of the first con-
Verts of Father Chirouse, o. NJ. l., the
pioneer Oblate missionary.
A Hundred Thousand Students to
Aid Observation-Disclosures of one hun
dred thousand Catholic students Of
the New England states in the CathO-
lie Students Mission Crusade by June
is the aim of the New England divi-
sion Of the National Invitation Com
1uittee, which is now making prepare
tions for week of the most inten-
SiVe campaigning ever carried on in
any part of the United States. The
committee includes Anthony P. Law
erty of st. Johns seminary, Brighton;
James d. Vogel of Holy Cross college,
Boston. The period from April % to
April 20 has been designated Crusade
Week for the great drive, which will
be carried on by means of letter writ
ing and personal interviews. There
are now tWenty-three senior units. and
thirty-one junior units Of the Crusade
enrolled in the New England states
with a total membership Of approx
mately twenty thousand.
An Odd Mcclellan old colonial
meeting house-the First Congrega
tional church of Lyme, Conn, is tt
be reproduced at Area, H., thirty
miles from Chicago, as a Catholic
church. 1t is to be the chapel Of the
new Catholic university, st. Mary O.
the Lake. eve are not appropriatins
anything from the colonial architects
but are merely taking back our own,
Joseph w. Mccarthy, designer of The
university, said when asked to explain
the choice Of the Connecticut meetins
house as a, model for a Catholic
church. "The Adams brothers brough
the colonial, or strictly. speaking
Georgian style to England from Rome
and the Romans got it from the
Greeks Plans for the early colonia
churches were mainly drawn in Lon
don, and reflected the Adams craze
then the vogue there. The origina
plans for the Lyme meeting house
erected in 1S15-17, are supposed t.
have come from England"
"Sisters of Service"-A new ven
ture in the field Of Catholic Apostolat,
In Canada, inaugurated to protect ant
strengthen the faith of those in the
outlying districts of the west where
there are no resident priests, and t.
counteract in school and home the in
fluence of INSCRIPTIONS proselytizers
has been launched in Toronto. The
foundation is known as the Sisters
of Service" These Sisters will liv,
IN small groups, scattered here AM
there on the prairies and in mining
and numbering centers Although the,
viii wear no distinctive religious garb
their spiritual training and direction
and their mode of life and government
Will be in conformity with the usua
rules and practices laid down by tn,
Church for religious orders of WON
en-. After a years novitiate, they viii
make temporary VOWS of poverty
chastity and obedience These vow
they will renew annually, but after
certain number of years they will pre-
nounce final vows.
WorKngman Talks at CoIIege.-Un
common, if not unique, in universit.
history was the appearance for tn,
first time at Marquette university
Milwaukee, of workingman before
group of collegians. The worker wa
r. M. Ranells and the students he ad
dressed were members of the Mar