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Show Diocese of Denver I ELIZABETH KELLY, Correspondent. I " The Intermountain and Colorado f Catholic is placed on sale at the i ' , James Clarke church goods house, 647 I California street. Denver, Colo. At Old St. Mary's. - . . Perhaps the last commencement ex- erclses to taJte j)lace in old St. Mary's 1 academy, the pioneer school of the middle west, were celebrated last I . ', Tuesday afternoon in the auditorium !of the convent, where three young wo- . men received their diplomas. The ! graduates were Misses Bernlce Kenne-ly, Kenne-ly, Veronia Keee.fe and Genevieve ; " Marj- Lyman. , , j The entire school enrollment, includ- ing 230 students, assisted in the mu- I sical program which supported the es- f f The old Si. Mary's property on Cali- I fornia street, hetween Fourteenth and ! Fifteenth, is offered for sale. The Si- I tfrs of Loretto. who have the school in I ' charge, have decided that it would be, I i better to move from the downtown dis- I ' trict, where they settled in 1864, and !the building of the auditorium two blocks away has so enhanced the value :. of real estate on Fourteenth street that they can get a sufficiently large figure for their holdings to insure the , erection of new and modern buildings I on Capitol hill. I , They have purchased ten lots at the I ! corner of Fourteenth and Pennsylva- I nia avenue, two blocks from the new I cathedral, and on these will build the new St. Mary's. 1 i ne Old Dunaing is noi aoie io ac- f " commodate the many who desire en- I rollment In the pchool. The music and I art classes have become so well estab- 4 llslied and are so well recognized that to secure these advantages a great J many Ftudents travel a goodly dis- tance, The Sisters of Loretto crossed the I plains In an. ox cart to make Denver In the early days, and on the site I "where they established their frame I , fcchool in 1864 they are still located. j , Church Notes. In the absence of Bishop Matz, Rev. I 83. L. McMenamin, temporary pastor pf the cathedral, awarded the diplomas &t Tuesday's exercises. i 1 iThe young women of St. Leo's parish fcave a very enjoyable dance Wednes- j day evening, June 17. at St. Leo's hall, Da ?o!fax avenue and Tenth street. ; At the memorial services for depart - I M railroad men held on Sunday after- j froon the principal address was deliv- ! ered by Rev. William O'Ryan, pastor I nf St. Leo's church, who likewise made I the opening prayer. Father O'Ryan pointed out that the man who gives his I life in defense of the passengers who 1 place their safety in his hands is as much a hero as the one who falls on I ' the field of battle. i The regular meeting of the Sacred Heart Aid society took place Thursday Thurs-day afternoon at the home of Mrs. I Frances Fisher, 1561 Emerson street. f I Mrs. Joseph Osner entertained the Queen of Heaven Aid society Tuesday afternoon, June 16. at her home, 357 J Broadway. J The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Rob- I - eri sorrow was buried Sunday from I the family home, 1623 East Thirty-first I ' Ftreet. Interment was in Mount Cal- vary cemetery. , j Obituary. 1 Mary.Zubal of 4672 Logan avenue was buried Saturday morning, June 13. I from St. Joseph's Polish Catholic ; church in Globeville, Rev. Father Ja- razynski officiating at requiem mass. I Interment was in Mount Calvary cem- I etery. I I Mrs Bridget Giblin. an old resident , of Denver, died on Thursday, June 11. f at her home, SS09 Blake street, after a ) lone illness. Her funeral took place Sunday afternoon from Annunciation j church. Burial was in Mount Olivet cemetery. Knights of Columbus. i : The fourth degree of the order of j Knights of Columbus will be exempli- i ! fid in Denver on the evening of Sun- I day, July 5, with an attendance picked i 5 from the highest ranking knights in . ; the order In America, The Democratic I . national convention will have brought J to Denver men of national reputation. I . and a number of these will be seated I Rt the bie banquet at El Kebel tem- F',e on Monday, July 6. The fourth I degree will be exemplified by John H. J Reddin, master of the fourth degree, I In the Knights of Columbus hall, in i Fraternal Union building. Only i ; knights who have been third degree 1 ' members for a period of tw6 years will ' be allowed to take the next rank. Ap- i plications have been received from candidates in Philadelphia, Titusville, . pa-: Chicago, Worcester, Mass.; St. Louis. Oklahoma, Shawnee, Okla.; pehkosh. Wis.; Parsons, Kan.; Quincy, i XH.; Vicksburg, Miss.; Denver, Colo- tado Springs, Leadville, Salida. Trini- I 6ad, Pueblo, Boulder, Canon City, La I Junta. Grand Junction Mnntm 1 Cheyenne. Albuquerque and Las Cru- I l ces, N. M. I At the banquet there will be 750 I plates. These will be furnished at an I estimate of $10 each, only $2.50 of I "which will be born by each of the guests, the balance being defrayed by council 539. Bishop N. C. Matz will I offer the invocation at the banquet, and among the speakers will be Right I Tlev. J- J- Keane. bishop of Chevenne, Former United States Senator John M. f ' Guerin of Portland. Ore.; Judge M. J. Wade of Iowa City. la.; Thomas D. f O'Brien of St. Taul. Morgan J. O'Brien ' of Xew York. Judge Victor J. Dowling i of the New York supreme court. John J. Pelaney. father of the Knights of j Columbus in Xew York; Daniel F. Co- I halan of Xew York, and Go-ernor I wfi 11 . liiggms or Khode Island. I , The committee in charge of arrange- t ments consists of Dr. Kdward Dele- I hanty. A. H. Seip, J. K. Mullen, Jo- peph Newman, Dr. T. J. Carlin. Wil- I liam T. Horan and John H. P.eddin. I I Mission at Pro-Cathedral. One fruit of the mission which cov- red two weeks at the pro-cathedral j closing last Sunday was the reception ? r,f twenty-two young men into the Holy Name society. The formal re- ception occurred on last Sunday even- I ; I , ,ns and swells the membership con- I , i siderably. The society, although new I in the parish, is decidedly nourishing. '! This fact is larpely due to the zeal and .: enthusiasm of Father Belzer, the spir- f Itual director. i ; I - The closing of the mission on Sunday i was very Impressive. At practically ! i every hour of the day some exercise 'as in progress, and services for the j men, the women and the children were I largely attended. I Fathers Shaw and Hanley. the mis- Pionaries of the Yincentian order who I visited Denver for two weeks with Fa- I lhPr Fealy of the St. Thomas semi- I Car-, who assisted the others in con- t iuhuu.hjhiw- Wl.llWl IIWII lll'li ducting the mission, were escorted over the city on Monday by priests connected connect-ed with the pro-cathedral. A large touring tour-ing car was run over the entire city to give the visiting priests an idea of its magnitude and flourishing appearance. Father Shaw was impressed with the contrast between Denver of today and Denver of twenty-five years ago. At that time he conducted a mission in the old St. Mary's cathedral. The St. Thomas Theological seminary on Myrtle hill, south of Denver, will have the services of four or five additional ad-ditional priests in the near future. A few of these ministers have just been ordained. Miss Minnie Waldo was received Into the Catholic church in Logan Avenue chapel last Sunday after a course of religious instruction by Father H. L. McMenamin, who performed the baptismal baptis-mal ceremony. Requiem high mass for the repose of the soul of Mrs. Modesta Mott, who died two weeks ago, was sung by Father Fa-ther McMenamin on Tuesday of this week. The' mass was offered by the St. Vincent's Orphans' Aid society, of which organization Mrs. Mott had been an honorary life member. After a brief illness Joseph Fulham. fourth son of Mrs. Richard Fulham of 1345 Pennsylvania avenue, passed away last week. The death of Mr. Fulham was rendered doubly sad by reason of Its following within seven weeks that of his younger sister, Miss Alice Fulham. Ful-ham. Mr. Fulham went to Pueblo a couple of weeks ago to accept a responsible re-sponsible position. He contracted pneu- ciiui iij aitei ins a.rrivai ana uie most skillful attention failed to save his life. Miss Minnie Fulham, a sister, went down from Denver when the news was telephoned to this city. Mrs. Fulham, Ful-ham, the wife of the young man, and his two little daughters, aged 2 ind 4 years, were with him when the end came. Mr. Fulham was well known "in Denver by reason of the long period of time covered by the residence of his family in this city. The funeral, held on Thursday morning at Logan Avenue chapel, was largely attended. Reaiulom mass was offered by Father McMenamin. The wedding of Miss Coyle to Thomas' Thom-as' Hines was an event of Wednesday of this week. The ceremony was in Logan Lo-gan Avenue chapel, with Father McMenamin Mc-Menamin officiating. c ff Rev. John Belzer, assistant pastor of the pro-cathedral, has gone to Georgetown George-town to look after the Catholic church there, while the regular pastor. Father Sasse, takes a well earned vacation abroad. Father Sasse will be absent about two months. Out of respect to the memory of Miss Alice Fulham, a charter member of the Denver council of Queen's Daughters, Daugh-ters, members of that society received holy communion in a body at the 7 o'clock mass In Logan Avenue chapel. Miss Estelle Younger became the bride of Edward Kurry of Covington, Ky., at nuptial mass in Logan Avenue chapel last Tuesday, Rev. Father J. F. McDonough officiating. The ceremony was performed at 7 o'clock in the morning, morn-ing, z First holy communion was given to a class of 50 boys and girls in St. Elizabeth's Eliz-abeth's rhurch last Rnnoir rvnOTin.r The ceremony was not without a tinge of sadness, for it was to witness this service that the late Father Leo. O. F. M., pastor of St. Elizabeth's postponed his trip to the Fatherland after permission permis-sion from his provincial had been obtained. ob-tained. He had seen the preparation of the class launched, and it being the first under his pastorate, he was anxious anx-ious to mark the occasion with unwonted un-wonted ceremony. 5fc Charles Thurin and Mrs. Ella E. Harper Har-per were united in marriage quietly last Saturday morning by Rev. Father McMenamin Mc-Menamin in Logan Avenue chapel. An innovation in class day exercises made the program carried out by the class of 1908 of Immaculate Conception high school last Monday evening exceptionally ex-ceptionally enjoyable. Instead of the threadworn essays which often make commencements tiresome, the young ladies la-dies gave "Evangeline," accompanying beautiful colored slides with readings from Longfellow's masterpiece. Those participating were the seven graduates. The musical selections which were interspersed in-terspersed with other features of the program were especially entertaining. On Tuesday evening the graduating honors were conferred on Misses Ho-nora Ho-nora Genevieve Ahern, Anna Honora Akolt, Irma Lucile Dillon. Florence Geraldine Flynn. Katheryn E. Dorothea Kelty, Jennie Elizabeth Mulcahy, Sara Katheryn Mulrooney. In the absence of Bishop Matz. Father Fa-ther McMenamin awarded the diplomas. diplo-mas. The program opened with an "Ave Maria" sung by Miss Mary Mulrooney. Mul-rooney. Attorney Daniel B. Carey made the principal address. The exercises were followed by benediction. Miss Dillon, the valedictorian of her class, was awarded the scholarship in Mt. St. Joseph's academy, outside Cin cinnati, ior general excellence during the four years of the high school course. On Wednesday evening the class of I90S was received into the alumni association asso-ciation of the school at a banquet given giv-en in their honor at the Shirley hotel. Maurice Hickey, class '06, officiated as toastmaster, and bright and interesting were the responses to the toasts. During the summer months high mass will be eliminated in Logan Avenue chapel. For the hot season the hours of mass on Sunday will remain unchanged, un-changed, but the last mass will be a low one, with a short instruction In place of the usual sermon. The babies and young children of the pro-cathedral were colemnly invested invest-ed With the Immaculate rnnrpntlnn medal at a pretty service last Sunday afternoon. Mothera from all parts cf the city brought their little ones to be blessed by the mission fathers. : The feast of Corpus Christi on Thursday Thurs-day of this week drew a goodly throng to all the churches, in most of which special services were held. Personal. Mr. and Mrs. C. Fitgerald of 1620 Clarkson street, accompanied by their daughter, Marian Fitzgerald, have gone east for a three months' visit. They will spend the summer in New York and various points in New England. Eng-land. If. if Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Hynes and family fami-ly have opened their artistic summetf home at Dome Rock, for the season As in years past, the cabin will be the scene of many delightful house parties par-ties this summer. Miss Elsie Sullivan is at her home in Denver for the summer vacation after a successful year of teaching at Wray, Colo. Mrs. Daniel Paul of Washington. D. C, who has been visiting her sister. Mrs. P. J. Mclntyre, returned last week to her home. Mrs. Mclntyre accompanied ac-companied her sister and will spend the summer along the Atlantic coast.- . A little daughter was born to Mrs. E. G. Straub of 1732 High street Sunday, Sun-day, June 14. Cards have been received by Denver friends announcing the wedding in Seattle Se-attle last month of Miss May Belle Sullivan and James E. Frank. The bride is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sullivan, former residents resi-dents of Denver, where Mrs. Frank was very popular. j Miss Margaret Goodwin of the Cathedral Ca-thedral parish was a member of a house party that spent a few delightful delight-ful days at Rollinsville recently. fe A wedding, the announcement of which came as a great surprise to her many Denver friends, was that . of Miss May Frances Freeman and George F. Clarence Coaking. which occurred oc-curred at San Diego, Cal., on June 10. Mrs. Coaking is the daughter of Mr. Thomas Freeman of 2220 East Colfax avenue, and here last September to spend the winter with her brother, J. W. Freeman, in California. The wedding wed-ding took place at his home. Mrs. Coaking was one of the charter members mem-bers of the Denver branch of Queen's Daughters. Six young women were graduated from Loretto Heights academy Monday Mon-day afternoon, June 15. The musical and literary program was an interesting interest-ing one and well carried out. The following fol-lowing received diplomas upon the completion of the academic course: miss aieivma em ityron, Miss Marie Clyde Murphy, Miss Marie Rebecca Henriques. Miss Dora Belle McCoy. Miss Irene Isabelle Hartford and Miss Salena Agnes Casey. 3jC 3f( Alephian hall was the scene of the commencement exercises of Sacred Heart parochial school on Wednesday evening, June 10. The program was an unique one and was made up of recitations, reci-tations, drills and short one-act sketches, the whole interspersed with musical numbers, vocal and instrumental. instru-mental. afe afc s)e Miss Nellie Burke of St. Joseph, Mo., is the house guest of Mrs. Dennis Shee-dy. Shee-dy. Much entertaining is being done for her. |