Codex Lethbridge
Transcription: 55
Transcription:
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July 13th 1897 [written in the top margin]
Yesterday were let the different contracts for the grading of the Crows Nest Pass R.R. There arrived in Lethbridge: Two special trains loaded with men, Horses and tools to start the work immediately.
The revd Father Lacombe is comming [sic] to Lethbridge at the end of the Week, for the purpose of preaching the retreat to the Sisters. Father VanTighem must go to Calgary to replace R.P. Lacombe during his abscence [sic]
After a week abscence [sic] in Calgary Father VanTighem July 22 [written in back/right margin]
returns Here, and R.P. Lacombe takes to road to McLeod and his own mission Calgary. There are very few Catholics in that place and the grand church presents a melancholic aspect with all its empty pews on Sundays and Holydays [sic].
Last Wednesday there arrived a Szlavonian [sic] or Greek Priest July 30t [written in back/right margin]
in Lethbridge. He has celebrated mass in the Sclavonian [sic] language according to ritual of that country … our Szlavonian [sic] were glad to see him and answerred [sic] his calls to church. Most of them came to Confession and received communion under both the elements of bread and wine. This Priest Nicholaus Seregelly from Streator. Ill. returns home to night – 30 July 1897.
A collection was made among the Szlavonians [sic] for him.
Aug.st 10 [written in back/right margin]
Our mines are closed since a few days…the strike is on…. the miners ask for an encrease [sic] of wages and many grievances must be removed before they will return to their labors. Aug.st 30 [written in back/right margin]
The miners are resuming their work in the mines, no advance in wages was granted by the Company, but mostly all the grievances complained of shall be removed in the futur [sic]. The strike lasted nearly a month.
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Aug.st 31 [written in front/left margin] We had no rain for about two months. It is really discouraging… it is no use to plant trees or make gardens unless we have a system of waterworks… and when shall this be?
Sep.t 6 [written in front/left margin] Many people are daily arriving to work on the new railway, the Crowsnest Pass… Many of these labourers unfortunately take to drink, so that our little town is not as quite as usual. The priest just returned now from a call, I dont [sic] know how I should call it, a sick call or a dead call…One the parisheners [sic] called about half an hour ago saying that a man was dying at the Queens and there was suspicion of poison… in haste the priest went there and found the man, a certain Flanagan, it appears, in the last pangs of agony… with haste the priest administered the extreme unction ; for although the man was unknown to the Father he learned that he had been at church and, of course, the name would have been sufficiant [sic]. Just as I administered the last unction the unfortunate man breathed his last. I learned that the man had been drinding [sic] for several days…. How terrible to appear, in that state, before the throne of God.
Oct. [written in front/left margin] His Lordship our Coadjutor Mgr. Legal has announced that He would come to Lethbridge for the 7th of next month.
16th [written in front/left margin] Scarlet fever is again in town; one of boys was removed to the Terras where two Sisters are nursing him. We expect the mother of the boy in a few days.
16th [written in front/left margin] To day Saturday the news came from france [sic] that our Very Reverend Father General Louis Soullier was seriously ill … certain prayers were ordered to be said by all the Members of Communities all over the world… But when, after having read the circular, I opened a
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July 13th 1897 [written in the top margin]
Yesterday were let the different contracts for the grading of the Crows Nest Pass R.R. There arrived in Lethbridge: Two special trains loaded with men, Horses and tools to start the work immediately.
The revd Father Lacombe is comming [sic] to Lethbridge at the end of the Week, for the purpose of preaching the retreat to the Sisters. Father VanTighem must go to Calgary to replace R.P. Lacombe during his abscence [sic]
After a week abscence [sic] in Calgary Father VanTighem July 22 [written in back/right margin]
returns Here, and R.P. Lacombe takes to road to McLeod and his own mission Calgary. There are very few Catholics in that place and the grand church presents a melancholic aspect with all its empty pews on Sundays and Holydays [sic].
Last Wednesday there arrived a Szlavonian [sic] or Greek Priest July 30t [written in back/right margin]
in Lethbridge. He has celebrated mass in the Sclavonian [sic] language according to ritual of that country … our Szlavonian [sic] were glad to see him and answerred [sic] his calls to church. Most of them came to Confession and received communion under both the elements of bread and wine. This Priest Nicholaus Seregelly from Streator. Ill. returns home to night – 30 July 1897.
A collection was made among the Szlavonians [sic] for him.
Aug.st 10 [written in back/right margin]
Our mines are closed since a few days…the strike is on…. the miners ask for an encrease [sic] of wages and many grievances must be removed before they will return to their labors. Aug.st 30 [written in back/right margin]
The miners are resuming their work in the mines, no advance in wages was granted by the Company, but mostly all the grievances complained of shall be removed in the futur [sic]. The strike lasted nearly a month.
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Aug.st 31 [written in front/left margin] We had no rain for about two months. It is really discouraging… it is no use to plant trees or make gardens unless we have a system of waterworks… and when shall this be?
Sep.t 6 [written in front/left margin] Many people are daily arriving to work on the new railway, the Crowsnest Pass… Many of these labourers unfortunately take to drink, so that our little town is not as quite as usual. The priest just returned now from a call, I dont [sic] know how I should call it, a sick call or a dead call…One the parisheners [sic] called about half an hour ago saying that a man was dying at the Queens and there was suspicion of poison… in haste the priest went there and found the man, a certain Flanagan, it appears, in the last pangs of agony… with haste the priest administered the extreme unction ; for although the man was unknown to the Father he learned that he had been at church and, of course, the name would have been sufficiant [sic]. Just as I administered the last unction the unfortunate man breathed his last. I learned that the man had been drinding [sic] for several days…. How terrible to appear, in that state, before the throne of God.
Oct. [written in front/left margin] His Lordship our Coadjutor Mgr. Legal has announced that He would come to Lethbridge for the 7th of next month.
16th [written in front/left margin] Scarlet fever is again in town; one of boys was removed to the Terras where two Sisters are nursing him. We expect the mother of the boy in a few days.
16th [written in front/left margin] To day Saturday the news came from france [sic] that our Very Reverend Father General Louis Soullier was seriously ill … certain prayers were ordered to be said by all the Members of Communities all over the world… But when, after having read the circular, I opened a
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