The bulletin (Augusta, Ga.) 1920-1957, January 13, 1934, Image 8

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EIGHT THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA JANUARY 13, 1934 Minnesota Priest Dies in Florida Father Joseph P. Dohmen Pastor at Clara City, Minn. (Special to The Bulletin) PALATKA, Fla. — The Rev. Jo- sepr P. Dohmen, pastor of St. Clara Church, Clara City, Minn., who has been in Florida for his health, died here January 4. Father Dohmen was bom in Dusseldorf, Germany, and was connected with the parishes in Camby and Clara City, Minn., in the Archdiocese of St. Paul for the past eleven years. BUQUESNE TROUNCES MIAMI Pittsburgh Catholic University Plays Last Game Under Layden MIAMIA, Fla. — Duquesne Uni versity’s sensational football eleven, playing its last game under Coach Elmer Layden, who goes to Notre Dame to succeed Heartly Anderson, overwhelmed the previously unbeat en University of Miami team. 33 to 7, in a New Year's game at Miami. IF IT SWIMS YOU CAN GET IT HERE LINER SEA FOOD CO. Dealers in ANYTHING THAT SWIMS 13 N. Laurens Street. MEMBER OF PIONEER SAVANNAH FAMILY DIES Peter Louis Constantine Au thority on Savannah History SAVANNAH, Ga. — Peter Louis Constantine, the last survivor of eleven children of a French family which dates back to the time of La- fayette, died here in December at the age of 73. He was a descendant of a French grenadier who came wtih other Frenchmen to settle at Vernon - burg at the suggestion of Lafayette. Born in Savannah February 14, 1860, Mr. Constantine lived here^ all his life, making his home at White Bluff, the home of his family for genera tions. He was one of the best in formed men in Savannah on the city’s history. Having served as a justice of the peace, he was univer sally known as Judge Constantine. The funeral was held from Sacred Heart Church with a Requiem Mass, with interment in Bonaventure Cemetery. Surviving are his sister- in-law, Mrs. A. C Constantine; a nephew and two nieces. JAMES CHEVROLET CO. Greenville, S. C. Charleston Midnight Mass on Christmas Bishop Walsh Pontificates at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist There (Special to The Bulletin) CHARLESTON, S. C. — The cus tomary Midnight Mass Christmas was celebrated at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, the Most Rev. Em met M. Walsh, D. D., pontificating. The Very Vev. John J. Hughes and the Rev. Chris O’Sullivan were dea cons of honor, the Rev. Francis O. Ferri, deacon, the ReV. John P. Clancy, sub-deacon, and the Rev. John J. McCarthy, master of cere monies. Midnight Masses were the rule in the other churches in the diocese also save those without resi dent priests. BISHOP BLESSES STAINED GLASS WINDOWS Bishop Walsh blessed two stained glass windows at Our Lady of Mercy Church, the Rev. A. J. Westbury, pastor, recently. Bishop Walsh also blessed a new staue of St. Jude in the same ceremony. FATHER WOLFE ADDRESSES ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON The Rev. Henry F. Wolfe, pastor of Sacred Heart Church, delivered the address at the Christmas program meeting of the Charleston Rotary Club. Father Wolfe told his listen ers that the world today was on the verge of war and that the remedy for the disturbed conditions today was the wholehearted acceptance and application of the principles of the Prince of Peace, and not lip service to them. ELECTED DIRECTORS OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE M. A. Condon, James B. Mahoney and Albert Sottile were among the members of the board of directors of the chamber of commerce named at the annual meeting early in January. Mr. Condon, who is a past Grand Knight and past state deputy of the Knights of Columbus, is first vice- president. J. ALBERT VON DOHLEN COMMISSION CHAIRMAN Alderman J. Albert Von Dohlen, mayor pro-tem of Charleston and president of the Charleston Rotary Club, has been named chairman of the city swimming pool commission. Mr. Von Dohlen has been suffering from a severe illness, but recovered sufficiently to be out before Christ mas. CHARLESTON COUNCIL IN CHRISTMAS PROGRAM P. N. Lynch Council, Knights of Columbus, sponsored a Christmas program, Grand Knight John I. Cos grove presiding. At a recent meet ing Professor J. Harold Easterby of the College of Charleston, spoke on “The Purpose of the Fathers of the Constitution”, the first of a series of constitutional lectures. MRS. J. VINCENT PRICE ALUMNAE PRESIDENT Mrs. J. Vincent Price was elected president of the alumnae associa tion of the St. Francis Infirmary Training School for Nurses at a re cent meeting. Mrs. Daniel L. Ma guire was elected first vice-presi dent; Miss Leonie Burmester, second vice-president; Miss Helen Nimmer, treasurer; Miss Floride Lesesne, re cording secretary; Miss Frances Cheney, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Willyiam P. Cantwell, Jr., auditor, and Sister Mary Bemardine and Miss Agnes Coogan, directors. FR. ROCKLIFE, APOSTLE OF SEA, VISITS ATLANTA Travels 50,000 Miles a Year Ministering to Sailors (Special to The Bulletin) ATLANTA, Ga.—Atlanta had a noted visitor recently in the Rev. Joseph Rockliff, superior of a band of fifteen priests who minister to the wants of the Catholic sailors through the Apostleship of the Sea. Father Rockliff’s territory is world-wide, with headquarters in Rome; he travels an average of 50.000 miles a year, on the largest passenger liners and the lowliest freighters, super vising and assisting his associate priests in the world’s principal ports. He sails soon from New York for New Zealand. There are about 700,000 Catholic sailors, and Father Rockliffe and his associates have, in the few *hort years in which they have been at the work, made contact with about 200,- 000. A native of Liverpool, England, Father Rockliffe is one of a family of ten sons and four daughters. Two of his brothers are Jesuit priests and two of his sifters, nuns, lire provin cial of the Jesuit Fathers in California is his cousin. The Rockliffs have been staunch Catholics through the generations, their home a refuge for the persecuted priests of Elizabethan days. While in Atlanta Father Rockliffe was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. James Clayton Burke, and the recipient of many courtesies from the Marist Fathers and the pastors of Immaculate Conception, St. Anthony’s and Our Lady of Lourdes Churches. THE MOST REV. JOSEPH TS’OEL recently consecrated a Bishop in his native China, is a son of a martyr slain for the faith in the Boxer Re bellion, a Montreal mission magazine states, ,, MISS GAMBLE SPEAKS TO FLORIDA GROUPS Meetings in Georgia and Car olina Also Arranged (Special to The Bulletin) MIAMI, Fla.—Miss Anna Dill Gam ble, noted Catholic lav leader, <3f York, Pa., speaking in the Southeast under the auspices of the National Council of Catholic Women, is in the Miami and Southern Florida District this week in her lecture tour on in ternational peace. Miss Gamble ad dressed an open meeting Monday evening, January 8, in the auditorium of Gesu Church. While here Miss Gamble and Mrs. J. W. McCollum were guests of Mrs. Thos. E. Grady; Mrs. McCollum, Diocesan president of the N. C. C. W.. accompanied Miss Gamble through Florida. Miss Gamble attended the Geneva Peace Conference in 1931 as a rpe- resentative of the International Coun- the N. C. C. W. is a member, ap pearing on the program with such international personages as Madam Steinburg Engeringh of Holland, Miss May Dingman and others. Previously Miss Gamble addressed the American Association of Univer sity Women, University of Florida Chapter, at Gainesville, on Decem ber 15. In Gainesville she also at tended a conference tea with repre sentatives of the Institute of Inter- American Fairs, conferring also with its director. Dr. Rollin S. Atwood; gave the Christmas greeting at the Twentieth Century Club: was the Christmas guest-speaker of the Phil harmonic Society, and lectured before the Catholic Women’s Club. Miss Gamble also addressed the Jacksonville Catholic Women’s Club December 27; the St. Anthony’s Unit of the N. S. C. W.. San Antonio January 1; the Club of Catholic Women; Lake Wales; the Catholic Woman’s Club, Tampa: the Catholic Woman’s Club. Winter Haven; the Confraternity of Christian Mothers knd the Newman Club of the Florida State College for Women; the St. Augustine Court, Catholic Daughters of America and the Sodality of the Children of Mary; the Newman Club of the University of Florida, and other organization. Engagements subsequent to the Miami address are a meeting of the St. Augustine N. C. C. W., Miami District, at Fort Pierce, quar terly meeting of the-Diocesan Coun cil Coard at Sanford, and gatherings at Fcrt Meyers, Sarasota, Bradentown and elsewhere. Miss Gamble will follow her tour in Florida with lectures in. Georgia and elsewhere in the South, including Savannah, where she will appear be fore the Savannah Federation of Women’s Clubs, and the Savannah Rotary Club, then going to Atlanta to appear before the study club on Compliments of Blount Brothers Orangeburg, S. C. R. C. KING Complete House Furnishings Trunks and Bags a Specialty ORANGEBURG, S. C. Lowman Drug Company The Rexall Store Four W. 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