Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1909 — COLLEGEVILLE. [ARTICLE]

COLLEGEVILLE.

C. Nouri had the fingers of his left hand severely crushed while bowling. The injury is fast healing. C. Hughes had the pleasure of entertaining his mother and sister a few days last weiek. Two new students were added to the list during the last week, J. Rilley, of Botkins, Ohio, and Cyrill Bidell, of Belleville, 111. Ed Sudhoff and brother, Herbert, were called to their home at Padua, Ohio, on account of their father's death. Rev. Basil Didier, formerly teacher of French at the college, now chaplain of the Alexian Brother’s Hospital, Chicago, renewed old acquaintances here last Tuesday. The C. L. S. are preparing to render the three-act tragedy-comedy, “The People’s Money,” by H. Hale, on Thanksgiving evening. In the last foot ball encounter between the Rensselaer and College Juniors, the score stood 24 to 0 in favor of the latter at the end of the “third twenty minute half.”. At last Sunday’s services Father Kramer delivered the sermon, taking for his theme the “Evils of Profanity”. The discourse was interestingly interspersed with incidents of his western trip. The tryout games for the representative basket ball team are now engaging athletic attention. Much interest is manifested, and apparently the team will be stronger than had been expected. In spite of the lowering temperature thq college premises were becoming uncomfortably warm for one of tbe unruly Chicago lads, whose forte was not bver-work, »■ for on Wednesday morning he had betaken himself to other parts. Rev. D, Newschwanger, .’Ol, now a missionary among the Kafirs, southwest Africa, still remembers St. Joseph’s college. A large box filled with interesting curiosities was lately received from him. It included, ten specimens of African snakes, one of which measures fifteen feet; a giant bat, eighteen inches from tip to tip of wings; a huge African crab; a large collection of different Bisects, add native curiosities. The donation is valuable and highly appreciated. The objects will be on exhibition in the C. L. S. museum.