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Show " Diocese of Denver ELIZABETH KELLY, Correspondent, A. Ths Intermountain and Colorado Catholic Is placed on sale at the James Clarke church gcods house, 627 Fifteenth street, Denver. Colo. . " For the New Cathedral. The contract for the steel construction construc-tion work for the now Immaculate "onception cathedral on Colfax and Logan avenues was awarded last week to the Milwaukee Steel 'A Machinery company, whose bid was $31,720. When the ' building committee met to open bids the members were astonished at The number that were submitted by large eastern firms. The money is in the treasury to pay for this part of the work, and when it is completed a sufficient suf-ficient amount will have been laised to pay for the stone contract. James O'Connor Selected. Last Sunday the men of the parish hold a meeting in the school house for i he purpose of electing a successor to the late Dennis Murto on the building build-ing committee. The choice fell on lames O'Connor, who though a recent comer to the city, -has been much interested in-terested in church progress and has served the committee faithfully as secretary. - Rev. Father Donovan at Ouray. The following is from the Ouray Herald of Friday, Aug. 9: The Catholic communicants of Ouray are to be congratulated upon the assignment as-signment to their church of Rev. M. "V. Donovan, who has for a number of years been in charge of the cathedral Catholic school (4' pupils) at Denver. Father Donovan a native of And-over, And-over, Mass., an- i i: ad his education at the Baltinii - ' e. For many years he has ; n .. c-sident of the west. After 10:V m Sunday, there will be a meeting ; t . church of the men of the pati-"i I consider ways and means of 5r.;r rovjng the church property and bet'.eni'?nt of general conditions. No doubt ihe meeting will be largely attended and the Herald promises those who may be there that they will meet a courteous, educated gentleman, whose success as pastor seems fully assured. Father Donovan is delighted with his new charge, where the people have received him with open arms and have offered all the assistance in their power pow-er toward Improving the church property, prop-erty, which is in a poor condition partly part-ly owing to the protracted illness of the former pastor. Father Ferrari, who leaves soon for Italy in the hope of regaining his health. St. Vincent's Orphanage Picnic. All day Saturday and far into the night Manhattan Beach was crowded with gay picnickers bent on having a good time and contribute their mite to the Sisters of Charity who conduct St. Vincent's orphanage, where at present nearly 200 little ones are sheltered, fed and clothed, besides being taught everything ev-erything included in the curriculum of the best gran mar schools in the city. The orphanage was established in Denver nearly twenty-five years ago, and in that time the work of the sisters sis-ters has become so well and so favorably favor-ably known all over the state that their appeals for help always find a generous response. Saturday was no exception,' and though it is too soon to even approximate the amount made, it is safe to say that it was fully equal to the profits of last year's great outing. out-ing. The picnic was under the auspices aus-pices of St. Vincent's Aid society, of which Mrs. J. c. Martin is president. Much of the day's success was due to Mrs. Martin, who sacrificed her own personal interests and remained in the city in order to repeat the triumnh that was hers a year ago. Mr. P. R FUordan, without whom the orphans' picnic couid not be held, was here there and everywhere lending assistance assist-ance and encouragement. The Queen's Daughters and Knightss of Columbus had charge of concessions and worked -uh great zeal to contribute to the general good. Mrs. W. F. Hynes had charge of the cigars, and her patrons will never again be afraid of a picnic smoke when Mrs. Hynes has anything to do with the ueleetion of the material. ma-terial. The cafe, which proudly boasts of having broken all previous records was in charge of Mrs. E. G. Straub who .worked early and late for three weeks previous canvassing the citv for provisions. She was ably assisted by Mesdames Davis. Bayer, Carr. Butter-field. Butter-field. McLellan, Flynn, McCabe Martin Mar-tin and a host of others. Mrs. 'Fuller with her ice cream cones was voted yie enuoren. the most popular lady on the grounds. Excellent work was done in the various lemonade, ice cream and candy booths by Mesdames l.iordan. Denman, Kearns, Dunn, Pur-cell, Pur-cell, MeGovern, Savage, O'Neill, Benson, Ben-son, McCarthy. Mullen. Hubbard, Mer-ryweather, Mer-ryweather, and others too numerous to mention. A special meeting was held Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon, Aug. 14. at the home of Mrs. L,. G. Straub. 1732 High street, to report on picnic returns. Though rather early to get a complete return, the result was very satisfactory. iSt. Clara's New Orphanage. Before many months the little inmates in-mates of St. Clara's orphanage will be installed in a magnificent new home costing in the neighborhood of J75 000 and. best of all. surrounded by acres of land on which they may plav to their hearts' content, and on which they may learn the elementary principles princi-ples of farming, there being ample room to grow most of the vegetables required for the home. The new tract of ground was purchased last week by 1e,SlfTS 0f St- Francis for the sum of JJ4.O00. and includes all the land "l"ppn -Newton and Osceola streets and West Twenty-sixth and Twenty-ninth Twenty-ninth avenues, and comprises about J0 city lots. The new building will be three stories in height, and have accommodations ac-commodations for 300 children St Clara's orphanage was established bv The Franciscan Sisters not many years n go, and has had a remarkable growth Its principal support comes from St! I Clara's Aid society, an organization composed for the most part of prominent prom-inent German women of the city regardless re-gardless of creed. At the present time St. lara s orphanage cares for ISO little lit-tle ones. It is the intention of the sisters sis-ters when they move into their new builamg to convert the old home into a boarding place for working girls I New St. Patrick's. The beautiful new St. Patrick's church is progressing favorably, and will soon be ready for the laying of the corner-ttone. Sacred Heart College. f , When studies are resumed in Sep tember the pupils of Sacred Heart college col-lege will note many improvements made during the summer. The mural I decoration of the college chapel has been greatly admired by all who have seen it. It is the work of Rev. Fathe McDonald. S. J., noted in the community commu-nity for his artistic skill. Good Shepherd Aid Society. The Good Shepherd Aid association met Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 13, with Mrs. Charles P. Allen, 2923 West Eighteenth avenue. Sacred Heart Aid Society. The next regular meeting of the Sacred Sa-cred Heart Ladies' Aid society will be held Thursday afternoon, Aug. 22, at the home of Mrs. F. W. Koch, 903 Jason Ja-son street. Queen of Heaven Aid Society. The Queen of Heaven Aid society will give a picnic at Elitch's Gardens on Saturday, Aug. 24, in aid of the missionary sisters of the Sacred Heart, who conduct the Kegina Coeli orphanage orphan-age for Italian children. Queen's Daughters. The Queen's Daughters are planning a lawn fete to be given in the near future for the purpose of replenishing their treasury before the winter's suffering suf-fering makes its usual demand upon their generosity. Personal. Miss Katherine Corbett left during the week for her home in Iowa. Miss Agnest. Roberts spent last ;ek as the guest 'of Mr. and Mrs. Osgood at their home in Redstone, Colo. Miss Katherine Kelty is enjoying life at Buffalo Park. Mr. Ramon Solis is spending his vacation va-cation at Glenwood Springs. Miss Florence Flynn and Miss May-Connelly May-Connelly are having a delightful time in the Gunnison country. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ryan and Miss Ryan of New Orleans are summering in Colorado. Miss May Daly and Miss Josephine Daly are visiting friends in Georgetown, George-town, Colo. Mrs. C. H. P.unte has a cottage at Grand Lake for the season and entertains enter-tains many house parties. A little son was born last week to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Dunn of 2076 Ogden street. Mrs. John Murphy has returned from Leadville. ij; 2fc The summer home of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Hynes at Dome Rock is. as in past seasons, the scene of many jolly house partias. Among the guests at present are Miss Mamie Eader of Denver Den-ver and Miss Margaret Bilton of Memphis. Thomas F. Dolan and family have moved into their beautiful new home on Stout and Thirty-second streets. Mrs. Patrick Higgins of St. Francis de Sales parish leaves this month for Salt Lake City to join Mr. Higgins. and will make her home there. Mrs. Higgins Hig-gins is one of the very earnest workers work-ers in that thriving young parish, and her loss will be keenly felt. if. if. it Mrs. Charles J. Reilly has returned from Los Angeles very much improved in health. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Haber and family fam-ily are summering in Middle Park. Miss Cecile , Young is in Boulder. During the past week Mrs. F. M. Davis entertained her brother, Bernard M. McAtee of Animas Forks, and her nephew, John S. McAtee of Council Bluffs. Ia., the latter a student at Creighton college, Omaha. Mrs. Daniel Sayer and son Eugene have -gone east for a long visit. John H. Reddin Honored. John H. Reddin, a prominent attorney attor-ney of Denver, and one of the delegates dele-gates to the national convention of Knights of Columbus at Norfolk early this month, has been signally honored by being elected to the board of directors direct-ors of that large and important body of Catholic men. It is the first time in the history of the order that a place on the board has been given to any one west of the Missouri river, so Mr. Red-din's Red-din's election is considerable of a triumph. tri-umph. Judge J. J. McFeeley and Mr. O. S. Sawkins were the other delegates from Denver, and it is due to their strenuous efforts that the entire western west-ern delegation united on Mr. Reddin, who is in every way qualified to act in any capacity in which brains and executive ex-ecutive ability count for anything. |