The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-29
c. H. b|ERCENS OF
BISMARCK BECOMES
new K. c. DEPUTY
Wahpeton Chosen as 1895 Con.
vention City at Close Of
Two-Day Session Here

G. H. Mergens, member Of Bismarck
Council 1904, was elected state deputy
at the closing business session Of the
Knights Of Columbus convention,
which was in session here Sunday and
Monday. Mergens succeeds w. H.
Clemens, Fargo, who has held the Of
flee for two years.
Completing the new slate of officers
are: F. e. Mallick, jamestown, secre-
tary; Joseph H. Pass, Minot, treasur-
er: A. j. Lies, New Rockford, warden
and Jacob Krier, Dickinson, advocate
Mallick was reelected. Pass sue
ceeds M. ]. Raschko Of Dickinson
H. A Mahanna. Of Minot and Kriez
succeeds G. f. Peterson Of Grand
Forks. Rev. Father A. Feehan, Bis
marck. retired as state chaplain. APP
pointment Of the new chaplain and
also Of deputies for Districts l, 2 and
3 will be announced later.
Wahpet0n Is 1885 Host
The 1885 convention will be held at
Wahpeton, the convention having ac-
cepted the invitation of Council 2205
extended by its grand knight, F. A.
Rohrenbach.
Rohrenbach also issued an invita-
ton to the Knights Of Columbus to
be guests at the twenty fifth anniver-
sary celebration for Rev. Father F. A.
Meyer, pastor OF st. Johns church,
Wahpeton, which the council will
stage on Sunday, June 10. Rev.
Father Meyer formerly was pastor at
Cakes, Paramount and Reynolds.
Mergens Is the first member Of the
local council to be named state dep
uty since 1917, when the office was
held by Judge George M. McKenna,
Napoleon. George v. Cunningham,
who now lives at Mobridge, 8. D., was
state deputy during his residence here.
Mergens also is q member OF Fourth
Degree Assembly 1904 Of this city and
IS . past grand Knight Of the local K.
Of g. council.
The new state deputy has lived In
Bismarck for about 10 years and is
employed as q chemist by the state
regulatory department. He Is gradu-
ate Of st. Thomas University Of st.
Paul and also Of the North Dakota
Agricultural college, Fargo, where he
affiliated with Alpha Kappa Phi, now
. chapter Of Alpha Tau Omega social
fraternity. He commanded the co.
Of the l2oth Infantry, 33rd Division,
on the British, American and French
sector In the World War and Is affili-
ated with the American Legion.
Name National Delegate
MergenS as state deputy and Glenn
ems as past state deputy will repre-
sent the North Dakota council ct the
national convention ct Detroit, Mich,
in July. The convention named Roh-
renbach as alternate for Clemens and
p. J. Martin, Fargo, O. alternate for
Mergens.
Reports by the three district depu-
ties occupied prominent place in the
program. John g. Pfeffer, Fargo. re-
ported for District I, including the
Fargo. jamestown and Wahpeton
councils. Clyde Duffy, Devils Lake, is
deputy for District 2, including the
Grand Forks. Devils Lake. New Rock
ford and Langdon councils. r. p. Ho-
man, Mandan, Is deputy for District
3. comprising the Bismarck, Minot,
Williston and Dickinson councils.
Recommend Years Work
Among the recommendation adopt
ed for the coming years program
were . continuation Of support for
the Assumption Abbey scholarship
fund, condemnation Of certain radio
programs and Of obscene moving pic.
tures, building up Of Boy Scout work,
dissemination Of Catholic literature.
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