People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1895 — Catholic Notes. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Catholic Notes.

The semi-monthly program of the Stanislaus Literary Society ■ in the Forester’s hall last Sunday evening proved to be quite an intellectual feast. These programs are becoming more popular and are creating great interest among the better portion of the congregation. Lovers of music are most pleasantly entertained by our accomplished musicians? Messrs. John and Jerry Healy and their sister, Miss Maggie. Lovers of literary work enjoyed and will enjoy an intellectual treat in the literary pioductions of Miss Annie Walters and Mr. William Beck through their society paper call,ed “The Gazette.” The declamations by the Misses Josie Bar- ■ lelle and Maggie Healy merited [and received enthusiastic applause. The select Reading byMr. William Donnelly will also prove very useful, bringing home to the mind the principal tenets of our holy religion. The society has all reason to glory in its achievements of the past, and will undoubtedly by its efforts and upon its own merits, increase its membership and its means of doing good. Those who considered it the work of a few months when it was organized, must acknowledge now that it will live and flourish, when they behold the attractive club room, the increasing volumes in the library, the good reading matter on the tables and the programs given semi-monthly in the Forester’s hall. There are so many societies in our days, some of them are good, some doubtful, others evidently bad. Why should not such a society as ours increase and multiply? Experience shows that this literary society meets a great want. It will educate, refine and keep the young people around the church, strengthen them in the profession and practice of their faith, render them proof against all sneers and taunts, create an esprit de corps which is so powerful in its influence for good, when then the object of the society is jjpod. as alas for evil, when it is the opposite. Next Sunday is the Feast of Pentecost or the Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles. Services will be conducted at 8 and 10 o’clock a. m. At the e irly service the members of the Altar Sodality will receive holy communion in a body. At 10 a. m. there will be solemn service. The Rev. Markus Hamburger will preach the sermon. The St. Augustine’s choir will reider La [laches’ Mass in honor of Sti Louise; the mass is an excellent arrangement and contains nicely chosen solos for the different v dees.

The choir itself glories in some splendid voices, especially jin the alto; also the soprano can | boast of a Miss Anna MeyeY, Miss I Amzie Beck, Mrs Owens, and Miss Harden. The alto is centered in the Misses Mary Meyer and Annie Nagel, while Mr. E. P. Honan's sonorous bass gives the whole musical structure a foundation. Then the Messrs. J no. and Jerry Healy do so tfueh in the way of excellent accompaniment that their absence would be sorely felt. Next Sunday they will give some orches4ral music as interludes.

Everybody is invited to attend a meeting in the court house park Friday night, (to-morrow), to discuss matters for a grand Fourth of July jubilee. The band will be out and give.a splendid free concert. Don’t let any citizens stay away. Grain will soon be ripe. Get a McCormick machine from C. A. Roberts, and cut it to satisfaction. Chas. Borntrager of Louisville. Ky., machine operator on the Commercial, has been visiting at his uncle’s, Chas. Borntrager, for several days. He called at the Pilot office before leaving Monday evening. Judson H. Perkins has taken the agency for the celebrated Osborne haying and harvesting machinery and in another place in this paper he has an advertisement of that excellent machinery. * , Buy your spring suits right at Fendig’s Fair. Acme harvesting goods, ?the finest haying tools on earth, sold by Robert Randle.'. For your cheapest up to date hats go to Meyer Sisters ; 6x4 chenille stand covers at 80c, chenille portieres cheap. Fendig's Fair. C. A. Roberts sells McCormick harvesting machines. They give satisfaction. Buy a McCormick harvesting machine of C. A. Roberts and save money.

Threshing outfits sold by C. A. Roberts. All kinds of farmer’s supplies. - Get prices.

Public Mass Meeting.