Codex Lethbridge
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The financial result was also satisfactory as the amount cleared up went to over $50.
19 Fath. Meyer goes to Diamond City, and once more he would have to hold the service in a new church for the first time, were he not prevented from doing so by a too cold weather, as a furnace has not yet been provided for, for the heating of the said church. Diamond City is now on the same level with Taber and Coutts. By the united efforts of the catholics and thanks to the generous help of the Extension society a Church has been raised up in that locality, new temple more worthy of being the habitation of God, and from where a never failing source of blessings will flow down incessantly, and bring prosperity and happiness to the extractors of black diamonds.
25 The Catholic Temperance union hold their first anniversary of the organisation [sic] in the school room of the Convent. The following is the report sent to Northwest review,, by the President Mr. Hart. There was a large attendance of both men and women and all enjoyed very much the programme [sic] given. The President gave the audience an hours talk on the cause of total abstinence from the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and also on the foundation of the C.T.U. in this city a year ago by Rev. Father Lewis parish priest of St. Mary’s Catholic Church of Calgary, and of the good results already accomplished by the society in this city. The audience was then treated to a song by Mr. William English.
The next address was given by the Rev. Father Rosenthal the Chaplain of the Society and was a master
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piece of argument as to why we need total abstinence societies, the great use and benefits that such total abstinence societies are to the home and to the individual as well as to the Church and community at large. He also dwelt on the great goods derived by each member in the practice of self denial and concluded by hoping to see a Ladies Auxiliary C.T.U. society organized in the parish in the near future and of the great benefits that would necessary be derived by a co-operation of the women with the men of the parish in the work of temperance. The next number of the programme [sic] was a song by Mrs. J.E. Kennedy who has a beautiful soprano voice, and her song was beautifully rendered and highly appreciated by the audience. Miss Katie Devine accompanied at the piano.
A. E. English, Recording secretary of the Society then gave the audience a talk on the organization and history of the Peterborough, Ont. T.A. Society, he being a member of said Society for many years before coming to Lethbridge.
Then there were remarks from the following members of the C.T.U. who were present: M.M. Cuthbert Mullins, Carrol, Kennedy, Gallian[?], and McNulty. The chair was ably filled by vice President J. E. Cuthbert who has been a constant and faithful worker in the Society ever since it is with regret that we have to loose [sic] Bro. Cuthbert he being transferred permanently in the Union Bank service to Gull Lake Sask.
At the conclusion of the programme [sic], the President
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The financial result was also satisfactory as the amount cleared up went to over $50.
19 Fath. Meyer goes to Diamond City, and once more he would have to hold the service in a new church for the first time, were he not prevented from doing so by a too cold weather, as a furnace has not yet been provided for, for the heating of the said church. Diamond City is now on the same level with Taber and Coutts. By the united efforts of the catholics and thanks to the generous help of the Extension society a Church has been raised up in that locality, new temple more worthy of being the habitation of God, and from where a never failing source of blessings will flow down incessantly, and bring prosperity and happiness to the extractors of black diamonds.
25 The Catholic Temperance union hold their first anniversary of the organisation [sic] in the school room of the Convent. The following is the report sent to Northwest review,, by the President Mr. Hart. There was a large attendance of both men and women and all enjoyed very much the programme [sic] given. The President gave the audience an hours talk on the cause of total abstinence from the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and also on the foundation of the C.T.U. in this city a year ago by Rev. Father Lewis parish priest of St. Mary’s Catholic Church of Calgary, and of the good results already accomplished by the society in this city. The audience was then treated to a song by Mr. William English.
The next address was given by the Rev. Father Rosenthal the Chaplain of the Society and was a master
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piece of argument as to why we need total abstinence societies, the great use and benefits that such total abstinence societies are to the home and to the individual as well as to the Church and community at large. He also dwelt on the great goods derived by each member in the practice of self denial and concluded by hoping to see a Ladies Auxiliary C.T.U. society organized in the parish in the near future and of the great benefits that would necessary be derived by a co-operation of the women with the men of the parish in the work of temperance. The next number of the programme [sic] was a song by Mrs. J.E. Kennedy who has a beautiful soprano voice, and her song was beautifully rendered and highly appreciated by the audience. Miss Katie Devine accompanied at the piano.
A. E. English, Recording secretary of the Society then gave the audience a talk on the organization and history of the Peterborough, Ont. T.A. Society, he being a member of said Society for many years before coming to Lethbridge.
Then there were remarks from the following members of the C.T.U. who were present: M.M. Cuthbert Mullins, Carrol, Kennedy, Gallian[?], and McNulty. The chair was ably filled by vice President J. E. Cuthbert who has been a constant and faithful worker in the Society ever since it is with regret that we have to loose [sic] Bro. Cuthbert he being transferred permanently in the Union Bank service to Gull Lake Sask.
At the conclusion of the programme [sic], the President
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