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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
•L A. Lambert is now Grand Knight of the Atlanta
Council, Knights of Columbus, succeeding Winfield
P. Jones, who was forced to resign by press of per
sonal business. Mr. Lambert is one of the youngest
Grand Knights ever elected in the South, being now
26 years old.
C. F. Wolf was elected recording secretary, suc
ceeding Mr. Lambert, and Father Sullivan was
named chaplain.
After listening to a short exhortation on frequent
communion Sunday morning, July 10, twenty-one
men of the congregation of St. Joseph’s Church,
Waycross, asked Rev. J. M. Petit, S. M., pastor of
the Brunswick missions, to enroll them in the Holy
Name Society. Thus, for the first time in the his
tory of St. Joseph’s, there is to be a Holy Name
Society.
The men are much interested, and have elected
the following officials: President, Ed. Hagerty; vice-
president, A. W. Owens; secretary, J. C. McMullen;
treasurer, C. J. Fechtel; eonsultor, Dan W. Morgan.
The men will be enrolled the first Sunday in Au
gust at Benediction after the second mass. They
will receive communion in a body at the first mass.
Mrs. Edward Doris was elected president of the St.
Mary’s Parish, Augusta, branch of the Catholic
Missionary Society of Georgia at a recent meeting.
The other officials chosen were: Miss Emily Craig,
vice-president; Mrs. John J. Cohen, Jr., secretary
and treasurer; and Rev. James A. Kane, chaplain.
Several candidates for the Knights of Columbus
motored to Savannah from Brunswick Sunday, June
26, to receive the third degree. The party was head
ed by Grand Knight J. M. Jones of the Brunswick
Council. The Brunswick men who took the third
degree were John Metz, Jos. Ruttener, Jas. O’Con
nor, Jos. Owens, Emory Owens, Barney Nugent,
Wm. Dudley and John Eisenman. They were so
pleased with the initiation they plan to attend the
next one Savannah puts on.
The degrees were conferred by C. F. Linthicum
of Charlotte, N. C., assisted by the officers of the
Savannah Council and the well-known Columbia de
gree team. The class numbered about one hundred.
In the morning the candidates received communion
at St. Patrick’s Church. The ceremonies were
brought to a close in the evening with a banquet at
the De Soto Hotel. The speakers of the evening in
cluded Mr. Linthicum, John J. Bouhan and John C.
Hartfelder.
The Sacred Heart Benevolent Association is put
ting on something new in entertainments in the
shape of community games on the parish lawn. The
guests are the young people of the parish from high
school age up. It is planned to have a series of
entertainments, the first of which was a remarkable
success.
Mrs. E. J. O’Connor is general chairman of the
committee in charge of the series, and Miss May
Mahoney is chairman of the games committee. Mrs.
P. H. Rice is president of the Sacred Heart Benevo
lent Society, which is promoting the Augusta move
ment.
Mrs. Annie Bowles Vaughan, wife of Thomas J.
Vaughan, and one of the most widely known of the
Catholic women of Augusta, died suddenly at her
home June 20. Although ill for some time, her death
was unexpected. She was 55 years of age, and had
lived in Augusta all her life.
Mrs. Vaughan is survived by her husband, two
daughters, Mrs. Ben B. Boeckman and Mrs. T. P.
Danahey; one brother, Dan Bowles, and a sister,
Mrs. Kate Murphy. The funeral was held from
Sacred Heart Church June 22.
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Rev. Michael J. Byrne, chaplain at the Atlanta
Penitentiary, was in Norwich, Conn., June 26 for the
laying of a cornerstone of a new Catholic church in
his native town. He was celebrant of the Mass sung
on the occasion.
Miss Catherine Fix and James W. Mura, both of
Augusta, were married at Sacred Heart Church in
that city Monday, July 18, Rev. Father McReady
performing the ceremony. Miss Fix is the daughter
of the late Mr. George Fix, and Mr. Mura the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mura. They will live in Augusta
after their return from their wedding trip. Mr.
Mura is secretary of the Patrick Walsh Council,
Knights of Columbus.
Richard A. Magill, a member of the publicity com
mittee of the Laymen’s Association, saw a great part
of his flourishing printing business in Atlanta go up
in flames late in June. The loss was estimated at
between $40,000 and $50,000, covered by insurance.
Despite this handicap, he is still doing business at
the old stand.
Miss Elizabeth Kinchley, one of Augusta’s most
popular young women, and Dr. John Everett Mar
riott, of Latrobe, Pa., were united in marriage at St.
Patrick’s Church, Augusta, early in June. A cousin
of the bride, Father Dempsey of California, per
formed the ceremony, and celebrated the Nuptial
Mass which followed. Father Schonhardt, pastor of
St. Patrick’s, assisted at the ceremony and the Mass.
Dr. Marriott was stationed at Camp Hancock, Au
gusta, with the 28th Division previous to his depar
ture overseas in the early days of the war. While
in Augusta, he met Miss Kinchley. Dr. and Mrs.
Marriott will live in Latrobe, Pa.
CLERICAL LIFE—SOME OF ITS
SERIOUS AND HUMOROUS SIDES
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and which shows how true are dese words of the
Lord. Sometime we don’t git jist what we’s been
askin’ and den we’s got to change the wordin’ of our
prayer. Lemme show you what I mean. It was git-
tin’ nigh onto Christmas five years ago when my
wife, Belladonna, who weren’t no member then, asked
me what was I’se gwine to git for Chris’mas din
ner. And I say: We’se gwine to have a fat turkey,
and she allow whar it cornin’ from, and says I:
‘Don’t the Lord done say, Ask and you shall receive?’
While I’se gwine to ask for dat turkey, Belladonna
done say: ‘Well I dunno know about dat.’ Now
just remember Belladonna wasn’t no member then,
but this here _ answer to prayer done brought her
in. We also just prayed every night hard, but de
turkey don’t seem somehow to come, and Belladonna
commenced a jibbing and a jeering me. And so I
say: ‘Belladonna, the time done come for changin’
de wordin’ of this here prayer,’ and that night I say:
‘Lord, me and Belladonna’s bin prayin’ for dat turkey
and you ain’t seen fittin’ to send it. Now, Lord, you
send a dark night and no moon, and I’ll get dat tur
key myself.’
“And do you believe it, the very next night dere
wan’t no moon and I just went put and I cum back
with a fine big fat turkey, en’ as I laid it down on
the table, I say To Belladonna: ‘You ain’t believin’
the word of God, is yqu? Well, you unbelievin’
woman, don’t the Lord done j say: ‘Ask and you
git it? and I done asked and dar is the turkey.”
Well, next day Belladonna joined the Church.
Moses seemed to have many taking ways.