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Show Catholic Union Jubilee. Quincy, Ills., Oct 15. The silver jubilee jubi-lee convention of the Western Catholic Catho-lic union commenced here today. Large delegations are present from Aurora, Joliet, Rock Island. Peoria, Springfield' and other cities. The Western Catholic union is a fraternal insurance society of the Catholic church, and now has a membership of 6,000 in Illinois, divided between sixty-nine branches. Joliet was awarded the banner for the greatest great-est increase in membership in the last year. This afternoon there was a parade pa-rade of all the delegates and the local branches. |