This pamphlet was conceived in enthusiasm by men and women who are bristling with PEP to build a Beautiful Church in St. James Parish. They are impatiently waiting: they are clamoring for action. They want YOU to know what they propose doing. They hope you will be with them. Don't look for a seat in the Grand Stand-People who do things move-the disinterested sit and watch -- Our Parish Big Drum is beating a marching tune – “LET'S GO."
St. James New Church will be dedicated on Sunday, October 7th, the Feast of the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin, at 10 o'clock by Archbishop Glennon with his deacons of honor, Rev, M.S. Ryan C.M.D.D., ex-Pres: of Kenrick Seminary and Rev. Daniel J. Lavery, D.D. pastor of Holy Rosary church. Rev. John P. Spencer S.T.L. St. Rochs Church, will be master of ceremonies, assisted by Rev.R.E. McKeon; Rev. A. White, St. Paul's Church, Pine Lawn and Rev. Mark Carroll are the official chanters.
The clergy will march in procession from the school to the church preceded by the acrolytes carrying lighted candles and the cross, altar boys and chanters. followed by the Archbishop and his deacons.
The doors will be closed to the congregation who will remain on the streets whilst the archbishop goes around the church and blesses the exterior walls. On the return to the front door, the procession will enter the church chanting the Litany of the Saints and proceed to the Altar, which will be blessed. The congregation also enter at this time and noiselessly take their seats.
After the interior of the church is blessed the Archbishop will make a short address and Solemn High Mass will begin. Very Rev. John Lyons, pastor of St. Pius church will be celebrant. Deacon Rev, P.J. O'Rourke, pastor of St. Marks, Sub-deacon, Rev, J.J. Butler.
Right Rev, C.E. Byrne, Bishop of Galveston. will preach the dedication sermon and be present in the Sanctuary during mass with deacons of honor Rev, Jos. P. Newman P.R., pastor of St. Teresas and Rev. Michael 0'Leary pastor of St. Malachy's. A large body of clergy is also expected.
Confirmation
A banquet will be given the visiting clergy in the School Hall after Mass and a class of 200 will be confirmed by Bishop Byrne in the church at 2.30. All who are to receive this Sacrament will go to Communion at the 7.30 Mass and assemble in the old church at 1:30 P.M.
Sponsors for those to be confirmed will be selected from St. Ann's Sodality, Mothers Club and Holy Name Society, these will meet for instruction in the church Wednesdav evening.
Forty Hours
An immediate and beautiful preparation for Confirmation and dedication of the church will be the Forty Hours Devotion which will open at High Mass Friday morning, Oct. 5th. at 6:30 and close Sunday at 7:30 Mass. Confessions will be heard Thursday from 3:30 to 6 and 7.30 till 9. The customary Holy Hour preceding the first Friday will be deferred until 8 o'clock Friday night.
A Plenary Indulgence
A plenary indulgence can be gained by those who go to confession and communion one of these days and it is expected every member of the congregation will honor thts great historic and spiritual event in the life of the parish by going to communion.
Receipts
Carnival of 1928 - - - - $5,656.00
Mothers Club - - - - 350.00
Picnic, 1927 - - - - 627.27
Interest - - - - 37.63
Sale of old desks - - - - 152.50
Total ------- $6,823.40
Disbursements
Lumber, nails, etc., Mr. J. M. Crotty - $188.73
Millwork, Huttig Sash & Door Co. - $241.00
Carpenter labor, Huger &; Bueckner - $647.40
Plaster & lathing, Dunn & Campbell - $1,008.00
Wardrobes, Evans Wardrobe Co. - $600.00
Blackboards and cork bulletin boartls - $661.40
Brick work, windows, tuck-pointing
Banks - $64.20
Grading School Yard - - - - -- $80.00
Drainage pipes in school yard - $98.57
Concrete work, wall and walks - $290.00
Miscellaneous labor, cleaning rooms
making sewers, __ $366.65
Painting, labor and material, - $875.58
Radiators, St. L. Eng. & Htg. Co. - $89.62
Electric duster - $26.50
Gutters, John Newport, - $50.00
New desks for children. Amer. Seat. $1,711.02
New desks and; "Chairs for Sisters - $180.35
Kindergarten tables and chairs - $211.00
Empire Express, drayage on wardrobes - $6.00
Total -----------
Expenses $7.396.05
Paints Ret. Credit $9.30
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$7,386.75
It will be observed there is a deficit in the school improvement expenditure which amounts to $563.35, and this was deliberately contracted so that nothing would be wanting to complete the interior of the building and furnishings. The school was overhauled from ceiling to basement, and all the old desks, tables and wardrobes were discarded and new ones installed. The proposed improvement of the playgrounds and school yard has been delayed owing to the fact that Mr. Schollmeyer, who had been supplying free trucks to haul the rip rap rock donated by Mr. Cavanaugh, had a rush of orders in his own business which necessitated the use of all his trucks. These gentlemen have intimated a willingness to supply and haul rock sufficient to complete the driveway and will probably do so within a few weeks. Laying of this rock will involve a further expense. It may reasonably be presumed that a tnousand dollars will be required to complete the work originally planned and the Mothers Club have whole-heartedlv undertaken to raise this fund by a series of euchres to be given each Wednesday night until Christmas.
In the interest of the school the parishioners, especially the parents of pupils are expected to co-operate with those ladies and tnereby give an assurance to their pastor that his confidence in them is not misplaced, He has contracted a school debt whereby a tremendous advantage had been given tne children. Creditors are calling for payment of bills, there is no money in the treasury, he can, without embarrassment, defer full payment until the end of the year, but not longer. Successful euchres is the only way out of the difficulty.
A golden oak, roller top desk, by A.F. Hausmann, 1082 Fairmont avenue.
The St.Ann's Sodality Euchre Fund was increased $22.25 by Mrs. P.H. Murphy, who raffled a pair of fancy pillow cases that was won by Mrs. Shepherd Rose, and $22.00 by Mrs. Ed Nixon on the raffle of a quilt, won by Mrs. Killian. Mrs. Nixon also sold $40.00 worth of tickets. The total receipts amounted to $390.00.
Complaints have reached us frequently of the poor attendance of parishioners at the Forest Fark Improvement Association meetings. This is regretable as a lack of interest in the affairs of the association tends to an indifference to local improvements. A few parishioners have called our attention to the importance of having Wade Ave. opened to Louisville Ave. and some of the property owners have volunteered to dedicate a part of the ground on condition that Sanford Ave. also be opened. The improvement of Kraft St. connecting the constructed portions of Dale Ave. is also desirable. The opening of Plateau Ave. to Tamm Ave. and moving the alley north of Lloyd Ave. about 30 feet south might a1so be accomplished if the property owners near Lloyd avenue would be interested.
The above improvements would benefit the entire locality and encourage the building of better homes, whilst the opening of a thoroughfare from McCausland to Hampton Ave. almost midwav between Clayton and Manchester Ave. would connect the existing wilderness with the rest of the city and give it a suburban aspect and ambition.
These improvements can be had if a representative organization like our local association demand them of the city and is instructed to do so by the community.
At the regular monthly meeting of the South Forest Park Improvement Association held Thursday, September 20th, a plan submitted by Mr. James P. O'Gorman, chairman of the Streets and Sewers Committee of the Association, was unanimously adopted and the Association will endeavor to bring about the changes. This is a matter of street openings proposed for the proper development of the district between Manchester and Nashville avenues, from Trmm to Dale and Louisville Avenues. It includes the extension of Wade avenue to Louisville, or at least Sanford avenue and the extension of Sanford to Wade. The extension of Villa avenue to Tamm; Plateau avenue to Tamm, With a width of 40 feet; the improvement of Kraft street from Dale avenue east and also west, affording a highway through from Hampton avenue to the city limits by way of Llovd and Dale avenues. These changes will, it is believed, be of inestimable benefit to the neighborhood and the cost will be nominal. Many other subjects were taken up and disposed of for the improvement of the section.
Chief of Police Joseph A. Gerk, addressed the association, giving the members a fine talk on the policing of a great city and especially of the eternal battle of society against the criminal. The association voted, unanimously, an endorsement of Proposition No.2, relating to police pensions, which will he voted on next November. The South Forest Park Improvement Association will meet in the George Dewey public school kindergarten, Thursday, October 18. All are invited. Take your street alley, sidewalk and nuisance complaints to the association.
The Holy Name Society are deeply in earnest about staging a minstrel that will startle the parish and give their affairs a greater prominence than that enjoyed by the Mothers Club or any other parish organization. They appear to have an abundance of talent and enthusiasm. I was present at one of their rehearsals and enjoyed it immensely, perhaps it was because they were singing "The Side walks of New York" in a challenging exhuberant spirit, or possibly because Charley Hell's rich voice in solo and a full masculine chorus, which I did not expect, filled the hall with animated melodv and made me thrill with admiration for the possibilities of arousing interest in the Holy Name.
The chorus at the rehearsal was extensive and more representative of the masculine members or the Parish than on any former occasion; men,- young and old - men from every section of the Parish; undoubtedly, there will be a tremendous sale of tickets, and with the exception of the Coliseum, there is not a hall in St. Louis big enough, I believe, to hold the crowd that might be expected
Read the list of names. William Koncen, Maurice Sullivan, Eddie Burke, Jr., Richard Phillips, Clyde Stiff, Frank Strathman, John Marquitz, Morgan Foley, Jimmy Pierce, C.L. Thompson, Walter Sauers, Ed Hence, George Jenneman, Louis Riegel, William Henne, Clarance Gesell, Edward Loyet, Joe Pieschcl, Henry Hugeback, George Wiber. These are the ones that were present at the rehearsal, and there are many others listed.
I wonder why all these gentlemen have not associated with the choir - their united voices are magnificent and they are fortunate in having a director, Mr. Purcell Peet of East St. Louis, who has lots of experience and splendid ability; he is a friend of Mr. Heil and a fine acquisition to The Minstrel.
Miss Angela Kollias is the accompanist. She seems to be enjoying the rehearsals.
The first wedding in the new church was contracted by Maxmilian Buchholz and Miss Mary W. Wolf, on September 5, 1928, at Nuptial Mass, and was a romantic and pretty affair.
The young couple were born in Germany and met on the boat that brought them to this country. The bride, a relative of the late Mrs. Heil, resided with the Heil family during the past two years since her arrival became a convert to Catholicity. She was instructed by Father O'Connor and is now a very earnest Catholic.
The marriage was contracted with the full ceremonial of a society affair. The bride was given awav by Mr. Charles Heil. There was a bridesmaid, Miss Ruth Heil, and a maid of honor, Miss Elsie Bielstein. Will Koncen was groomsman. Henry Wolf, a brother of the bride, was best man. Professor Diebels, organist at the St. Louis Cathedral, played the wedding march and accompanied Mr. Heil's solo selection during mass.
There was a large gathering of relatives and a brilliant display of attractive costumes among the ladies. Breakfast was served the wedding guests by Mrs. Charles Heil and was followed by a full-day entertainment and merry-making. We wish the young couple God's blessings and many years of happiness and prosperity.
Immediately after the first marriage there was another and less pretentious nuptial, when Joseph Whelan, a widower, was married to Mrs. Margaret Mason Bambrick, well known in Mothers' Club circles. Many members of this club were in attendance and extended, as did the Pastor, hearty good wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Whelan,
The Euchre given by St. Ann's Sodality in the school hall, Sept. 12th, was probably the most successful ever given in the parish. The attendance was extraordinary. Every hall up and down stairs in the school building was filled to capacity. There was a shortage of chairs and tables, and as those who gained admission was unwilling to leave, chairs and tables were commandeered from the neighbors and local undertakers up to 9 o'clock. The receipts it is believed will amount to $350 and will be more than enough to complete the fund of $1000 for the pulpit donated by St. Ann's Sodality.
It is difficult to assign a sufficient reason for the unusual attendance, but undoubtedly it was the result of exceptional activity on the part of the ladies who sponsored the event. Mrs. James Lawless, we are informed is especially given credit for the large attendance and the many beautiful prizes; she has a wide acquaintance in Tower Grove and other parts of the City, and her many friends responded to her invitation. The other members of the committee, Mrs. McDonnell, Mrs. Foley and Mrs. Reese also did their share and the sewing circle of which Mrs. Lawless is the chairman gave her splendid co-operation. Mrs. Pierce had charge of the Bridge Party and was given prizes and splendid backing by the parish bridge club, there were 60 bridge tables and provably there would have been more players if there was room. Mrs. McGann, Mrs. Lawless and Mrs. Pierce were apparently one in making preliminary arrangements and arousing enthusiasm, not only in their immediate neighborhood but in the entire parish. We regret we cannot give individual mention to many other ladies who helped to make this affair a success and thank them all sincerely. Miss Retty, a non-Catholic, gave a cash donation and many prizes.
The Archdiocesan Union of Holy Name Societies held their quarterly meeting in St. James Parish on Friday, Sept. 14th. There were present six delegates from each of 45 city parishes, many of the parochial chaplains, the diocesan spiritual director, Rev. Thos. J. Lloyd and the vicar general, Rt, Rev. P.P. Crane, as well as a considerable gathering of the members of St. James branch.
The meeting opened with vespers, which were chanted by members of St. James branch followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
At the request of the Archdiocesan spiritual director Father O'Connor spoke and gave an explanation of the plan of decorations and the architecture or the new church. He was listened to with rapt attention and later in the hall the vicar general and archdiocesan officers were very fulsome in expressing their admiration of what they termed the unusually artistic and beautiful parish church.
The question of the annual parade was discussed and the delegates were informed that it was the wish of the Archbishop that the societies should assemble at the Municipal Theatre on the Feast of Christ the King on the last Sunday of October and, as a preparation for the event, the Tridium, or three days devotion, in the form of a retreat, might be held in each parish,
At the close of the meeting Mr. Ed Pierce, president of St. James branch No.1. thanked the delegates for the honor they conferred on the parish by their presence. Refreshments were served and the meeting adjourned with prayer.
A club is being organized among the young men of the parish that will be known as The Young Men's Holy Name Club. It is already a going organization and has held several meetings, at one of which the following officers were elected: Eddie Burke, President; Walter Sauer, Vice-President; John Murquitz Secretary and Treasurer.
The old church is being availed of as a meeting place, and will be open to members every night. There will be no supervision or interference by the Pastors. Absolute confidence is being placed in the young folks and the directors are determined to confine membership to the cleanest and best boys in the parish.
The club intends organing an orchestra, basketball, baseball and football teams. There will be no dancing, as this is forbidden in parish halls by papal decree, but the young folks may be depended upon to find many other forms of amusement to while away the long Winter nights.
Information pertaining to the club can be obtained from anyone of the officers, or at the meetings that will be held in the hall each Wednesday night, opening at 8o'clock. An invitation is extended to all desiring membership. A raffle to raise funds is planned.
Mrs. James Harris returned in time for the Mission from a visit to her relatives in Chcago.
Since the Euchre given by St. Ann's two succesful Euchres have been given on the succeeding Wednesday evenings by the Benton Sewing Circle under the direction of Mrs. Oates and the South Tamm Ave. Circle, directed bv Mrs. Wack, Mrs. McCauley and Mrs. Jerry McGrath.
It could not be expected that the attendance would be as large, or that the receipts would be as great as in the affair given by St. Ann's but the clubs were well represented and there was generous co-operation. Were each Circle to raise only $50 a night the debt on the school would be easily met before Christmas. It has been reported that some confusion has been caused by ladies who are to give Euchres a few weeks hence collecting prizes and selling tickets on the week assigned to other clubs, we would suggest that those ladies who have charge of the weekly euchre be given in future their entire week for the sale of tickets and collecting of prizes without interference from other Circles, this order will bring better results to the whole organization.
The October Euchres will he given on October 3th, Mrs. Wagner in charge; October lOth, Mrs. P.H. Murphy; October 17th, Mrs. La Garce; October 24th, Mrs. I. Larson; Oct. 31st Mrs Joseph Houlihan.
It has been decided that the selling of tickets and the collecting of prizes outside the patish would not be considered an interference.
On Monday, October 15, Most Rev. John J. Glennon D.D., will celebrate his Silver Anniversary, as Archbishop of St. Louis at a Pontifical High Mass at the Cathedral Church at 10.30 to which St. James parishoners are invited.
A Spiritual Boquet is requested of each parish to be forwarded by the Secretary of the Executive Committee to his Grace, and made up not later than October 8.
We suggest that thc parishoniers offer their Communions for the Archbishop on the day of the dedication of St. James Church, and offer a Holy Hour, which can be easilv made for the same purpose, during the 40 hours devotion.
There will be a Spiritual Boquet book on the table in back of church in which each contributor should make a record of their good works, and the children also will register all pious offerings reported to them.
His Grace is much beloved by the priests and people of St. Louis. We wish him many more happy years as Pastor of the Archdiocese.
Melvin Harry Mataya, 1927 Kraft avenue.
Viatori Bofara, 5740 West Park avenue.
John Joseph Milligan, 6709 Manchester avenue.
Mrs. Ina Theresa Shaffery, 6320 West Park avenue.
Charles Robert Nesbit, 1916 Knox avenue.
Violet Rose Stillman, 5327 Manchester avenue.
Mrs. Maud Evelyn Lutz, wife of Herbert V. Lutz, Buck Ave., died at St. John's Hospital on August 31, after a lingering illness. She was born in England, and before coming to the United States, had a minor career on the stage. She was a member of the Episcopalian Church until a few years ago, when she became a convert to Catholicity in St. James Parish.
For many years she was a member of the Old Cathedral Choir, her associates sang her requiem. She was a practical Catholic, and the sympathy of the pastors and congregation is extended to her husband and bereaved family. May she rest in peace.
The Mission conducted by the two Jesuit Fathers, Rev. John M. Cunningham and Rev. Robt. Tallmadge, closed on October 9th at evening devotions and apparently did a great deal of good. The weather was ideal and though the attendance the first few days was diminished by the absence of those who went on Labor Day outings, it improved considerably during the week and on the closing night the church was filled. Undoubtedly because of the mission being for men and women, many adults had to remain home with the children. It is evident the church is plenty large for the present congregation. The seating capacity is approximately 750 and there is ample space in the ambulatories for an overflow crowd. The good wishes of the parishioners go with the missionaries, their sermons were eloquent, interesting and instructive. The number of confessions that were heard were considerable and during the week 2200 communions were received.
Beginning- on Sundav, October 14th the 10 o'clock Mass will be changed to 11 o'clock and this schedule will be continued until last Sunday in April. The other Masses will be as usual.
Margaret Moulden Harrison was the victim of all automobile accident on Aug, 5, which resulted in her death. She foresaw her condition was critical and prepared to meet her God with great confidence. She received the last sacrament piously and peacefully passed into eternity. May she rest in peace.
The quilt donated by Mrs. Gittens, Sr. and raffled by Mrs. P.H. Murphy, 6216 Victoria Ave. was won by Mrs. T.E. Donlon, 5344 Vernon avenue.
Proceed $40 went to Carnival fund.
The Florence Subdivision 6548 Dale Ave., have now on the market several four and five room Bungalows, which they will sell on easy terms.
Mr, Morgun Foley, 2063 Knox Ave. is local organizer for the Squires of Junior Knights of Columbus and wishes to inform boys of St. James parish that those over 14 1-2 and under 18 years are elgible. Initiation fee $5.; dues 25c a month,
John J. Noonan. 1414 Sulphur Ave., who had been suffering from cancer of the throat. died at his home, Sept. 1st, and was buried from Church, September 4. He showed admirable patience and fortitude during his long and painful illness, and was not apparently irritable or despondent, he received Holy Communion frequently and placed great confidence in God.
He was an honest, respectable man and was an employee at the City Stables for many years. May he rest in peace.
There are many thoughts hidden in the heart of this edifice which though evident to the initiated, cannot be fully appreciated by the casual visitor unless he is given a key to the alphabet in which the message is conveyed or the symbol or picture which was designed by the artist to give expression to truths and tradtions that have been for centuries a part of our Christian inheritance, or to less distant associations of persons who have been zealous in the cause of Christianity not only in other times and other lands and who are numbered among the great Saints of God, but also to local events and individuals whose good deeds are gradually slipping into the oblivion that is in the rear of present times and youthful memories.
This building is primarily a Christian Temple and its outstanding characteristics pertain to Christ, His teaching and the life of His Church. The story begins at the southeast door. On the lintel is cut into stone "Blessed be Jesus Christ," and over the door directly north is a continuation of the verse of divine praise, "True God and True Man." This is an affirmation of Christian belief, a confession of faith and a rebuke to all who in modern times blasphemously maintain Christ was merely a symbol, a myth foisted before the dawn of scientific research, upon a supposedly superstitious world.
These words have also a local association, They are the ones on the monument at the grave of the late Rev. E.A. Casey in Calvary Cemetery, who was pastor of this parish until 1916 and much beloved by the flock. He arranged for the erection of a monument bofore his death, a figure of Christ which he intended should perpetuate his homage and be a profession of the faith in which He died, "Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man."
To obtain a good view of the interior of the church the best place to stand is directly in front of the gate entering the Sanctuary, from this place the visitor will be impressed with the elegance of the architecture and the harmony and beauty of the color scheme.
The architecture is 11th Centurv Gothic, a period when decorations were introduced into this style of architecture in England and Ireland, and craftsmanship in glass, wood, iron, stone was more emphasized than it was in the preceding period when perfection in engineering, massiveness of towers and solidity in buttresses were the aim Of the architect, examples of the latter style may be seen in the churches recently erected at Our Lady of Lourdes, and Holy Rosary parishes and in the one now under construction in St. Lukes parish.
A laudible effort to reproduce a parish church of ancient times induced the architect to use Chestnut that is perforated with worm holes, electric fixtures that are mottled, limestone that is stained and Mankatoe rock that shows ravelled depressions and shrivelled features. The effort to be antique has its disadvantages as well as its aesthetic worth and it takes more than a minute to educate a community into the artistic value of a wormhole or a revelled stone surface; to plain people a hole is a sign of deterioration and a stain, an unwelcome intrusion of foreign matter; one observer has been heard to remark, "Father O'Connor sure' got jipped in that wood," and many others have expressed a hope that the stain would in time bleach out of the stone; the criticism may not be entirely unmerited, an accurate resemblance to an ancient grandfather is not always an attraction, though from an artist's standpoint, a perfect reproduction of the venerable man is title to fame.
(To be continued next month )
UNCLE HENRY'S LETTER
October 1, 1928.
dear Charlie:
the naborhood out hear is busseling with activity since the church is finished, an sum of the natives is talking about trying to get the city to put a lot of lights on Tamm ave. an make it a "white way", on acount of they is so many peeple around each evening, that it remind you of Grand an Olive. the Pastor is the cause of it on acount of he divide the parish up into sections an appont the ladies of each section to give a card party each Wednesday evenin to raise funds to complete the school, when he anounce the scheme, everybody started in to profisying that it would be a "grand flop", and was a crazy idear, on acount of "the peeple would not attend so many functions", and "he was trying to work the overybody to death and run a good thing in the ground", and after talking it over among themselves an deciding that the sceme was bound to be a failure, they all showed up because they wanted to be on hand to see the "disaster', an as a rezult it was a big success, an it is just another proof of the wisdom of the Pastor's foolishness. i bet he is the only one that realized that the whole-hearted knockin the idear was gettin, was just the finest kind of advertising.
the pastor is enjoyin the card parties on acount of they give him a chance to have a nice little pincohle session with sum of the "boys" like ed Cody and henry Mccauley an charlie Klasek and several others, an he has added quite a number to his coterie of entertainers for the long, cold evenings this winter. so he wont have to depend entirely on the old stand-bys like Newport and Dolan and Pahl and martin Coad.
i run into a fine jam at one of the card parties on acount of one of the ladies couldn't get her car started an i undertook to fix it. an after about an hour i was convinced that i didnt no nuthin about a automobile, an thoroughly agreed with me. as she had to walk home, i walked with her, an now her husband is gunning for me on acount of he thinks i kept her out on purpose.
we had a very good Mission early in the month, and father O'Connor an father Pohl didnt have much to do during the week only stand around an check up on the ones that didn't attend, an one evening i was standing in the front entrance of the church when tom Banks come in, an the pastor said "tom, i didn't see you at the mission last night", an tom give me a wink and said "will father, you must of been standing at the wrong door", and the next day all of the doors was locked except the one that the pastor was watchin. when i first seen the plans for the church, i knowed that the four entrances was a mistake in architecture, an i figgered it was only a question of time when three of them would be closed.
wel charlie, you dont want to miss the show that the Holy Name Society is planing for the last of Oct., on acount of it is going to be just about the best thing that ever took place in the parish. of course the men realize that they have got to go sum to beat the Mothers club, not having so many reel stars as the wimen has got, but they are workin hard, an are planning sum big surprises. they have lined up charlie Heil an bill Koncen to help out the singin, and they got a experienced director by name of Petie who is peping things up.
they also have got several of the young fellows like frank Strathman and red Corbett an johnnie Marquis, and Burke and Walter Sauers, and i understand the kids is working hard to put the show over big, so try to be on hand.
we are certainly proud of the school since it has been fixed up, an you never seen such a happy bunch of voungsters. in there new surroundings, why, i understand they don't even scratch the desks or mark up the walls, su you can see that a reel change has took place. they are taking there studies serious too, but sum of them is finding the work pretty hard, like i herd about mike Scherzingers little girl. mike come home kinda late 1 nite and she was still poring over her catechism lesson, an she ask mike to help her with it. but his answer was not very satisfactory and after awhile she said "daddy did you have to study catechism when you was little?" an mike said "oh yes, I had to study hard, just like you are doine." an after a little wile she closed her book with disgust and said "yes, an bet it wont do me any good neither."
Your perticler friend an uncle,
HENRY
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Mrs. Schollmever spent three weeks recently in New York and was present when her niece received the Dominican habit at Sparkill.
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