The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-08-23
MONSTER CATHOLIC
GATHERING SUNDAY
Fifty Societies of Diocese Will
Parade at St. Cloud in the
Afternoon
ST. PAUL'S TO BE In LINE
Special Great Northern Train
Will Leave Sank Centre at
1000 A. NJ.

st. Cloud is prepared to greet
25, 900 Catholic visitors Sunday
on the occasion of the seventy-fifth
annual national convention of the
Central Verein of America, an as
ISOLATION of German Catholic soci-
ties from every state. Meeting in
conjunction with the Central Ver-
Elm will be the Catholic Women's
Union. =
While the convention will open
Friday evening with the meeting
of the first committee, the official
opening is scheduled for Sunday.
when a mammoth mass meeting
will be conducted on the Technical
high school athletic field. Seating
arrangements for $4,000 have
been planned, and carpenters are
at work Transforming the athletic
field into huge open stadium.
A parade, in which so societies
from various towns, villages and
cities Of Minnesota will march,
will start at 2 p. M, file through
the main streets of the city and
then to the athletic field for the
program. AT least Is bands will
be in the line of march. A review
ing stand will be built on st. Ger
main street, from where Most Rev.
Pietro Fumasoni4Biondi, papal del
egate at Washington, will review
the line of march. Accompanying
the papal delegate on the stand
will be Rt. Rev. Joseph F. Busch,
bishop of the diocese of ST. Cloud,
and 10 visiting bishops.
A program of band music and
sacred songs has been prepared for
the mass meeting and there will be
addresses of welcome by Bishop
Busch of st. Cloud and Governor
Theodore Christensen. Rev. DR.. A.
Muench of st. Francis, Wis, will
speak on the subject, "The Farm
er and Farming, or Forgotten
Fundamentals" Henry Dielman,
of San Antonio, Texas, will speak
on 'Hmemahng in its Natural
and Supernatural Aspects. There
will also be an address by the pap
al delegate.
/ Committee sessions will be re-
sumed Sunday evening and there
will be convention business sess-
ions three days following. The
convention will close Wednesday,
August 20, with the election of of
ficers. ': -.,1,'ss.,.
Officers of the Central Verein
are Charles Korz, Of Butler, N. j.,
president, and Frank J. Docken-
dorf of La Crosse, Wis, secretary.
The president of the Minnesota
state association is Willibald Eib-
ner of New Ulm. The president
of the st. Joseph Society of st.
! Cloud, the host unit, is Paul All
lies. County Superintendent Will
liam A. Boerger, of st. Cloud, is
the Fest (convention) President.
The welcome of official ST. Cloud
will be extended to the delegates
at joint meeting Sunday at $3.50
a. m. in the St. Cloud Institute.
There John A. Roeser, judge Of
District Court, and Mayor James
H. Murphy will speak as officials.
Rev. Luke Fink, o. S. B., will ex-
ftend the welcome of st. Mary's
parish, with which is affiliated the
st. Joseph's society, a member Of
the Central Verein.
| The papal delegate will cele-
brate pontifical high mass at the
I cathedral at 10 a. m. and Bishop
Busch will deliver the sermon.
Five Catholic parishes in st.
Cloud and the Catholic parishes Of
Waite Park and Sank Rapids, have
Joined in the arrangements for the
entertainment of this big conven-
ton. 1t will be the largest con-
vention st. Cloud has ever enter
tanned, and St. Cloud is the small
lest city thus far to entertain the
Central Verein.
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