Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1911 — COLLEGEVILLE ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

COLLEGEVILLE ITEMS.

Rev. Clement Schuette, C. PP. S., is at present in St. Elizabeth's hospital, Lafayette, ' suffering from a severe attack of tvphoid fever. A very large number of visitors was with us during the last week: Gilbert La Mair, Paterson, X. J.; Misses Viola and Margarite Bradley, Elwood; Carroll, Misses May and Kennedy, Templeton; Michael Smith, Huntington; W. C. Murphy, Crawfordsville; Leo, Ivan and Miss Nellie Freeland, Freeland Park: Emmet McGuire. Joseph Woodstock. Paris Blackman, Misses Lucy and Eva Murray, Fowler; Alice Hupe, Lafavette; M rs. Williams, South Bend; Geo. Kussmaul, Hamfnond; Stanley Laibe. Miss Irine Comnoe, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Murphy, Peter Rotering, Chicago. Rev. Sylvester Hartman. C. PP. S. left last Wednesday for a three months trip in Europe. He will visit his old home in Bavaria, tour Italy, ramble in scenic Switzerland, study industrial conditions in Germany, take a brief look at France and Spain, visit England and Ireland before his return in September. While abroad he will add his little mite to give to those people correct notions about American conditions, and he will return prepared to tell us of European affairs in grand comparisons with our fwn, all of which tends to make for a better understanding between the nations and for the larger brotherhood -of mankind.

The Minstrel Show last Sunday night was a. grand series of unadulterated successes. All the participants acted their parts acceptably from the solemn Interlocutor down the lines, both sides to the end coons whd at times were a little overstrained in their frivolities. The chorus of the first part was, no doubt, the best selection. It was a medley of sixteen songs and musical compositions taken from many nations and embodying many varied sentiments from the very comic to the sedately sad. The music was well played, and the singing also, abstracting from an over-hurry at times, was very creditable. L. Dufrane and C-

Staib as soloists called forth the greatest applause. The three orations, rather monologs, in the second part were comic-humorous mosiacs and captivating. W. Reinock. the fresh college lad, discoursed of foot ball and saw everything through red glasses. R. Carmody, the Irish ‘Test king” scattered genuine blarney to the diverging cardinal points; C. O’Leary, as the wholesouled, undisturbedable Yankee, gave a disquisition on Vaudeville, every word of which was tinged with the color of the fields and the woods; there was no mistake in the work of any of these three. The farce in the third part was weak, but the impersonators made the best of it. The precisely rendered Finale, “Good Night,” by the chorus sent home a perfectly satisfied audience, and only one wish ascended from the smiling lips of every one to the, pale stars that the R. J. S. C. may favor the students with many more of these laughterburdened hours.