Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1912 — Collegeville Items. [ARTICLE]

Collegeville Items.

The C. L. S. held their regular meeting Sunday morning, the principal feature of it was the installation of the newly elected officers. Mr. E. P. Honan was also pre ent and delivered, his first parliamentary law lecture. On October 13 the college juniors played their first football game of the season with .the Rensselaer juniors and won from them by a score of 16 to 0. The game was fast and sanppy. The teams were well matched, both in wits and weight. It was particularly agreeabte to notice that the scrapping and quarreling formerly indulged in as absent. A. Cavanagh put up the best game and to his efforts especially the victory of the college boys was due. These visitors were with i?s during the week: Mr. and Mrs. F. X. Kreutzer, Peru; Mrs. M. J. Dermedy, Mrs. M. J. Cunningham, Joliet; Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Maschek, Mrs. Katie Maschek, Miss Mary Maschek, Earl Maschek, Mrs. T. C. Monahan, Miss Marie Maschek, Miss M. C. McMahon Chicago; Mrs. J. P. Murphy, Mrs. L Carroll, Crawfordsville; Mrs, E. J., and Miss Florence Vecque, Terre Haute.

Columbus Day is the first college free day of the year and the students spend it mostly by rambling about the country. On the lf eve of the day the C, L. S. presented their first public entertainment, Otto Mueller, the new-ly elected president, delivered his inaugural address on the subject of ‘‘Catholic Societies.” His effort was very successful and his speech both pleasing and instructive. Michael Petzold next recited “The Breaking of The Ice,” with great dramatic force, and well deserved the applause he received. With Lis splendid, though comic harangue on “Woman Suffrage,’'’ Anthony

ii: hearers ample occassion for a hearty laugh, and at the same time spoke some kernels of truth and information. Thomas Harrington and Charles Bueche debated the question: “That Intercollegiate Athletics Should Be Abolished.*’ The first speaker succeeding in-convincing the judges that his views were the better -ones. The “Dutchman's Picnic,” a farce enacted by Eugene 01mar, Leo Gnau and Aloys Cook was a well-rendered conclusion to the evening’s program. The musical numbers were in charge of the band, and they gave unmistakable evidence that they will be heard from before the last Sunday evening concert in June will have been played. The rendi-, tion of the performance was under the direction of the Rev. I. J. Rapp.