People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1893 — Catholic Notes. [ARTICLE]

Catholic Notes.

The students of the college had a gala day last Wednesday. The program consisted of speeches recalling the heroic deeds of the great immortal Washington, the father of our country, and an entertainment by the Columbian Literary Society, concluding with enthusiastic singing of several national songs. The golden jubilee of the Pope was celebrated in a most appropriate manner last Sunday. The Rev. B. Boebner preached an impressive sermon on the papal dignity and its responsibility. The young ladies Sodality met last Sunday and elected the following officers: President, Miss Amzie Beck; Secretary, Miss Annie Meyer; Treasurer, Miss Annie Nagle. The officers deserve credit for their efforts in making the Sodality so prominent. The membership is larger than ever. It has been well said that a man who does not take a newspaper, because it will require an outlay of a dollar, has a poor idea of economy. He would probably be surprised if one should suggest that it is as much his duty to provide his family with food for the brain as with victuals and clothing for the body. The farmer who exacts from his children constant employment or drudgery on the farm, and does not take a newspaper, so that his family may pleasantly while away their leisure hours and acquire knowledge of county facts and events, should not be surprised if his children exhibit that uncouthness which comes from complete ignorance of thoughts and achievements.

The Indiana Senate has passed the bill appropriating $25,000 additional for the removal of the limestone ledge from the Kankakee river at Momence. A report submitted by the comissioners showed that the work could be let at 83 cents per cubic yard, or a total cost of about $57,000; that $34,000 of the original appropriation -was unexpended, and that Messrs. Shelby and Cass, large land owners along the Kankakee, had agreed to pay all cost for the improvement over the contract price. The work will be begun as early In the spring as possible. This would seem to indicate that the question had finally been decided for good, and that the rock will be moved. —Kentland Enterprise.