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Show 44 THE INTERMOUNTAIN CATHOLIC Church of Notre Dame de Lourdes Price , Utah MISS E. BONNER The present parish of Notre Dame de Lourdes in Price, one hundred and twenty-fiv- e miles southeast of Salt Lake City, in the heart of the coal mining district, was established by the Rt. Rev. Joseph S. Glass in the summer of 1918. The parish embraces all of Carbon County and the counties south of Carbon as far as the state line of Utah. Among, the missions looked after by the pastor of Price are Helper, Castle Gate, Sunnyside, Hiawatha, Kenilworth, Standardville, Scofield, Green River and Monticello. Catholic services in Carbon County were held for the first time in 1873 by Father Scan-lawho came from Salt Lake City to Castle Gate, then a very important coal producing district. From that time until the year 1897 Father Scanlan visited Castle Gate at regular intervals. At the beginning of the year 1897 Father Scanlan asked the people of Castle Gate to assist him in the erection of a Church. They readily consented. A suitable site was donated by the coal company and in March 1897 grading for the new Church was commenced. The Church proper, a substantial frame building was begun a few weeks later and completed in the following September. Then for many years a priest from Salt Lake, notably the.Rev. Peter Bulfamonte, offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at Castle Gate once a month and on his visits administered to the spiritual needs of Catholics in surrounding coal camps that had gradually sprung up. In the early part of the second decade of the twentieth century the Church at Castle Gate was destroyed by fire and has never been rebuilt. In the year 1913 the Rev. Anthony Petillo was appointed by Bishop Scanlan as pastor of the coal camps in Carbon County. He moved his headquarters to the town of Helper about two miles from Castle Gate andj in the year following his arrival erected a Church at Helper which was dedicated to St. Anthony. The Rev. Alfred F. Giovannoni became pastor of Helper on February 2nd, 1917. For a year and a half he dwelt there and attended r ' Successor to Ann M. Sweeney Harper Scalp Treatment : 423 Continental Bank Building Shampooing, Manicuring, Curling, Facials Call Wasatch 3702 for Appointments n Triangle Electric Company Illuminating Engineers f t Electrical Construction and Repair Work Wiring, Supplies, Fixtures Hyland 26R J; T. Kelly 979 Lake St. C. J. Cronin Stop at the Cullen Hotel Fred J. Leonard, Manager B. 0. Yeamans, Asst. Mgr. Respectable and Reasonable Free Bus Meets All Trains First Class Garage Salt Lake City |