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Show Bioccse of Better ELIZABETH KELLY, Correspondent. The Intermountain and Colorado Catholic is placed on tale at the I James Clarke church gtjods house, 647 j California street. Denver. Colo. Knights of Columbus Elect Officers. : Denver Council 539. Knights of Co lumbus, elected officers for the ensuing ensu-ing year at the meeting held Friday evening. Dec. 13, in the council hail, TYaterna! Union building. Dr. IA-ward IA-ward Dolehanty, -who has proved one f the most popular officers the Denver Knights have ever had. was re-eienred grand knight, and the other officers are: Charles A. Nast, deputy grand I knight; John D. McGauran, cnancel- 1 lor; J. A. Gallaher. recorder; 11. T. 1 O'Reilly, financial secretary; Thomas I Collins, warden; Frank V. Barry, ad- I Micnte; James Clarke, inside guard; John Couneel. outside guard: J. P. ! Dunn, M. J. O Fallon and J. K. Mul- kn. trustees. The c.ffices of lecturer and chaplain .ire appointive and have not yet been nlled. The installation of officers is scheduled for the first meeting in January, Jan-uary, and will, a usual, be private, i he ritual of the order being used. Arrangements are now being made !'ir the ceremonies which will attend ilie exemplification of the third degree ! a large class some time in January. Christmas at the Orphanages. Christmas will, as usual, bo a gala 'ay in the Denver orphanages. It maks no difference about the other :ifi4 days of the year. Christmas in the orphans' homes is quite as much a day of merry-making as it could possibly ho in the home circle. Friends of St. Vincent', St. Clara's and the House of the Good Shepherd will see to it ihat quantities of good things are pro--Uded for the little charges, that the iay may be to them one long to be remembered. re-membered. Everything runs with the regularity of clockwork in the orphanages but i he Christmas program completely hanges the routine of affairs. For instance, in-stance, at St. Vincent's, in North Den- ver. there will be midnight mass, for I which the children's choir will furnish I ilie. music. The little ones will go I hack to the dormitories, but there will 1 not do many sleepy eyes, for the day is I ahead with all of the good things, j The orphanage is awake again at 8 o'clock, when the very little children and their stockings crammed with ?ood things to eat and to play with. For the older boys and girls there is a Christmas tree, its brances laden with sifts. Every little inmate gets something; some-thing; to help him remember that it is Christmas day. . Of course, there is the dinner of tur key, cranberry cause, potatoes, celery und mince pie, and everything else that belongs on the festive board. At St. Clara's, in West Denver, the Franciscan Fathers will have midnight mass, and there will be a second mass later in the day. Every child will have ri present off the big glittering i Christmas tree, and the dinner will be fit to set before a queen. The Sisters at St. Clara's will have a comfortable ijhristnias. but not an extravagant ore, being bent on saving for the erec- !tion of a new orphanage next year. The Christmas entertainment for St. Clara's children occurred on Friday afternoon. Dec. 20. some friends of the home being invited in for the occasion. On that day the orphans of the other institutions were guests at a specia.l "F.uter Brown" matinee at the Tabor onera house. . The House of the Good Shepherd will ; cfve its little charge the happiest ' Christinas in the history of the home. Queen's Daughters' Choir. Mrs. William P. Horan assisted the Quen's Daughters' choir in the music at the f:30 o'clock mass in Logan Avenue Ave-nue chapel last Sunday, singing an "Ave Maria Stella" in duet, with Mrs. Margaret Hayden. Miss Angela Scher- rer was a soloist on Sunday. Personal. . Miss Nora Brophy was one of the attractive young women of Denver who attended the "Junior Prous" at ; the School of Mines in Golden Friday night, Dec. 13. Miss Brophy was the e guest of friends at one of the pictur esque "fiat" houses and returned to j Denver on Saturday. 3p -Miss Alice Rohe of New York, a talented tal-ented young literateur. arrived in Denver last week to spend the winter. Prayers were requested at all the masses in Logan avenue chapel Sunday Sun-day for Mrs. Honora Buckley, who is seriously ill. Mrs. Buckley is the widow of Thomas Buckley, for thirty years a resident of Denver. The fourth dance of the season of the Catholic Young Men's club will occur Friday evening, Dec. 27. at Huston hall. Thcf-e dances are very popular j v it h the young people of Denver. Miss Ursula Forhan, daughter of Dr. mid Mrs. n. J. Forhan, entertained a few of her girl friends at luncheon Sat- : tirday. followed by a box party at the Orpheum. t Mrs. Frank W. Barry and children have returned from a two month's- visit with relatives in Nebraska. Miss Bessie Phillips, a pupil of St. Joseph's academy. St. Lcuis, will spend the holidays in Denver with her parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Phillips, 1770 Marion street. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Savage of ,1322 Downing avenue welcomed a little daughter into their home on Monday, Dec. P. 3 fc Mrs. Joseph O. Dostal has fully recovered re-covered from a very severe attack of la grippe. Count and Mrs. Pasquale Corte entertained enter-tained the Dante club Monday evening even-ing at their home, 3010 Pennsylvania avenue. sfc Miss Crocker of New York, who came to Denver last week with Miss Marie Sheedy to be her house guest, has been the inspiration of a number of delightful delight-ful social functions. On Monday even-I ing Miss Sheedy gave a dinner, fol lowed by a box party. Miss Sheedy's j friends have also taken occasion to extend ex-tend her a glad welcome after her year's sojourn abroad. Miss M. Maud Ryan and Miss Winifred Wini-fred McKinnon are among the Queen's Daughters who have generously contributed con-tributed dolls for the "doll auction" to be held at the Albany hotel Monday, Dec. 23, to help raise money for the Christmas tree for Denver's poor. |