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Show Fifty-one ;Years a Priest. Muscatine, la., Dec. 1. A private ca- blegram brings the news that Father j Laurent, for fifty-one years pastor of St. Mathias' church in this city, is dying, dy-ing, at . Dijon. France, his old home, where he went for a visit of a month. Father Laurent, when ' he left for Faance, was the oldest Catholic priest in Iowa. -When he began h!s work in Iowa his parish extended across the state to. Council Bluffs. He visited the various settlements at least once a year, making the journey on horseback. |