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Show Tntermounin I : T j BUTTE, MONT. - The state council of the Catholic Knights of America met June 12 in Stationery Engineers' hall on Quartz street, and accomplished that for which the meeting was called, the election elec-tion of state officers and appointing a supreme delegate to the extraordinary council to be held at St. Louis next j August. ! The following officers were elected: President, William Steuwe, Helena; vice president. Colonel C. D. Curtis. Helena; treasurer, P. J. Sullivan. Butte; secretary, John T. Laws. Helena. Hel-ena. William Steuwe was chosen as delegate and John P. Smith as alternate alter-nate to the extraordinary council. Father Fa-ther Batens way selected as spiritual adviser for the ensuing term. The meeting was well attended by delegates, and soon after it was called to order the business of the day was considered and accomplished. The next annual state meeting will be j held one year from the present time in ( Helena. The matter to be considered by the extraordinary session is the readjustment re-adjustment of the rating of members. The regular biennial conference will be held in Ashviile, N. C, in May, 1905. f Mrs. P. J. Haggerty gave a pleasant house party at her home, 111 West Porphyry street, Wednesday evening of last week for her guest. Miss Mamie Harrington of Hamburg. la., who will . spend the summer here. The house 'was decorated with American Beauties and smilax. Instrumental and vocal music was the pleasant features of the evening. Miss Harrington is a talented pianist. During the latter part of the evening a photograph of the party was taken. Refreshments were served. Mrs. Jack Thomas Ta ' arranging to I give a choir festival soon at Sacred Heart church. Mrs. Thomas will be assisted in the presentation of the I r-Qihniic musical nroduction "Stabat i Mater" by the choir, and the affair promises to be a musical treat. v The Church of the Holy Savior, in Meaderville. was filled to the doors, and over 100, failing to get admission, were comoelled to stand outside of the church Sunday during the service of the first communion, administered to a large class of children. Father Giacalone, pastor of the church, addressed the class and congregation con-gregation in Italian, and Father De Siere of St. Patrick's church, in English. Eng-lish. With Father De Siere came the St. Patrick's choir to aid in the serv, ice. Both fathers spoke particularly to the new communicants, dwelling on the duty to the parents, and incidentally admonishing the parents to care well for the spiritual welfare of their children. chil-dren. Parents, friends and communicants contributed lavishly to the ornamentation ornamenta-tion of the building, profusely decorating decorat-ing the interior with garlands and wreathes and cut flowers, x atner uiu.-calone uiu.-calone has been Instructing the class for over two months, and is proud of the excellent results of his labors. The members of the class were: Gui-lia Gui-lia Guelfi, Mary Glovich, Luise Gui-doni. Gui-doni. Caroline Consoni, Jennie Blosco-vich, Blosco-vich, Lucia Negrett, Edith David, Fenny Fen-ny Girolami. Catherine Troglio, Ester Morello, Marguerita Bola, Maggie Strutzel, Marguerite and Joseph Dono-ven. Dono-ven. Ida Girolami, Eride Giammug-nani. Giammug-nani. Anna Soda, Duilla Mattiucci, Clementine Orso, Louis Guidonl, Giulio Girolami. Alfred Butari, H. B. Sritok-vich. Sritok-vich. Joseph Guidoni, Dominick David, Frank Consoni, Albert Bezet, Virgilie Orso. ' 4 Invitations are out for the annual reception re-ception and dance to be given by St. Patrick's alumni to the graduating class of 1904. The affair will be held in the pavilion at Columbia gardens, and promises to be one of the most handsomely appointed ever given by the association. The reception will begin at 8 o'clock and the dance at 9 o'clox. It i? to oe strictly an invitation affair, and a delightful de-lightful time is anticipated. The, entire alumni will serve on the reception committee. com-mittee. - , P. J. Shannon of . Hamilton was a guest at the ThornUm during the week. James Lappin, Hugh Mullen, James ICeefe and Joseph Murphy were among the Anaconda gentlemen who had .important .im-portant business to transact in this city Monday. Mrs. R. Gallagher of Lima i3 on a visit to Butte friend?. -- Miss Ruth Lowry has gone to Chicago. Chi-cago. James O'Grady of Great Falls has returned home after spending a few davs in this city. Senator Donlan of Missoula is at-the Finlen. . . ANACONDA, MONT. Hundreds of Anaconda residents, and many from Butte, went to Mountain View park Sunday to enjoy the picnic given under the auspices of the Catholic Catho-lic Order of Foresters, and they were not disappointed. Nothing was lacking to make the occasion a pleasant one. The weather was delightful and the park never showed to better advantage. advan-tage. At the lake, in the pavilion and at the ball game, those bent on recreation found sufficient to give them a good time. The benches under the trees and the shady spots on the grass were con- j stantly occupied by tired but happy picnickers. Everything connected, with the affair pased off R9 smoothly as j coufd have been desired. The committee commit-tee having charge of the picnic is de-serving de-serving of praise for the manner in which the different features were pre- i pared. J. H. Tolan was chairman of the committee, and the other ' members were: Frank Birdsell, John Dooly, Joseph Jo-seph McDonnell, Joseph Hughes, M. Walsh, W. H. Mahoney, Pat Monahan, P. F. O'Donnell and J. O'Mara. I Mra Theodore Ehret and daughter, Miss Bertha Ehret, left Wednesday for a month's visit at Seattle and "other towns on the coast. ' ' '' ; Miss Alice Kennedy arrived in the city Monday from Pittsburg,. Pav. '.and will be the: guest of her uncle.. John F. Bannon, -for the next few weeks.1 ; , f .-. - . , Thomas Sullivan 'returned Monday from Butte, where he hns been attending attend-ing the meeting of the undertakers. ' ' Miftses Loretta and Nellie - Sullivan entertained last - Thursday evening, in honor of MissMayme.'Donahoe, who left for Idaho Friday. Mrs. J. S.' Dougherty left last week for a month's visit in Canada and New York. ' r- Miss Mayme Donahoc left June 10 for Mackey. Ida., where she will spend the summer with her brothers. GREAT FALLS, MONT. Father Shulak, an aged Polish priest of the Jesuit order and a linguist of no i mean attainments, was in this city June 9, on one of his trips through the state, and while here made arrangements arrange-ments for the holding of an extensive mission in St. Ann's Catholic chinch for the benefit of the foreign born communicant? com-municant? who are unable to fully comprehend the English language. Father Shulak is" a fluent speaker in a number of different languages. He will conduct mission services during his promised visit in three, different tongues. He left for Belt in company with Father Holtman of that place, and after conducting missions in Belt and Stockett he will return to Great Falls the latter part of this week and on Sunday, June 19, ;he will open a mission in the Polish language. Following Fol-lowing that he will conduct a mission in the Austrian language and will- close with a mission, in German. About ten days, will be devoted, to the three missions. mis-sions. ' ; . i .x ' ' " Father Shulak iai not entirely a stranger in '.Great .Falls, although his headquarters are in Chicago. He has visited the church here for similar purposes pur-poses in the past. MOSCOW,, IDA. (Special Correspondence.) Eternal punishment,' as proved from the Bible alone, was given as the first sertes of sermons at the last Mass on Sunday, which was lfetened to by a very large congregation; to the hardened hard-ened sinner it proved to be a meditative theme. Afjer Mass there was a general meeting meet-ing of the ladies at-the invitation of the pastor, when steps were taken to reorganize the Altar society, as also a keener interest in furthering that very laudable work the propagation of the faith. Membership cards were distributed distrib-uted and quite a number were willing to associate themselves, since the spiritual spir-itual advantages of both societies were practically demonstrated by the pastor in relation to the lioeese. Notwithstanding the pioneer day celebration cele-bration of last Friday, which attracted all the country visitors to town, the attendance at Mass in honor of the Sacred Heart was truly gratifying. In evening there was a beautiful discourse dis-course on the need of reparation toward , that Divine Heart, The beautiful pro-fusion pro-fusion of flowers was generously donated do-nated by M.esdames Humphrey and Deakin, and the high altar looked beautiful, beau-tiful, as if nature alsoliad to honor its Creator in the .words of the royal Psalmist. ' . -: 4 ' - The Senior choirhas now been fully organized, under the direction of Mr. Fitzgibbon. Rehearsals are held twice a week, until August, when they will render a new Mass, which was provided pro-vided for by their musical pastor. -f On his way to DeSmet mission last Wednesday. Bishop Glorieux made a pleasant call between trains. It was a pleasant surprise for some of the congregation con-gregation to have met him upon this visit. ' During the coming week the pastor : will visit the Catholic communities at , Troy, Volmer, American Ridge and Ju- I lietta. Mass will be celebrated at the j Holy Rosary, church at Julletta next Sunday. ' ' r- For the first communicants special jj classes are being held twice a'week, so t that all may be able to make up for lost time. . : -4 The itffant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ( Frederick Hoffman, was baptized last Sunday, receiving (tjhe name of Emma , Leonora. . , M) I ' Last Wednesday the late district at- 1 ;j torney, Mr. Crozier, was buried from g the M. E. church. The Suneral was the j largest that was ever witnessed in Mps- ;; cow. All the business stores In town !j were closed as a, mark of respect to 1 the bereaved famjljand the sympathi; 'I of the whole community is extended in thejr heavy hour Of affliction, for-Mr. ' Crozier was an ornament to his pro- U fegsion and a patriotic citizen for; our cj prosperous community. A I E . BOISE, IDAHO. I . Patrick . W. Seggelin and Miss Mar- n garet J. Charters -were' married last j Friday night, by Bishop Glorieux. The pjj young people are both residents of PS Garden Valley, and are quite' well Pi known in this city. They departed Saturday morning for their future II j home in Garden Valley. j |