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Ea (Eroaar $uitai| artbutirS^frtrnbrr S. 196320Rev. Chilicki Pastor Since Last SpringFIRST BUILDING—St. John’s parish purchased this public school building on the corner of Avon and St. James Streets, site of the present church, in 1887. It served the congregation as both church and school for five years.Rev. Constant Chilicki was appointed pastor of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in the springSt. John's Catholicxt^u^lMarks Diamond JubileeThomas Langer.Director of the Bishop’s Choris- St. John’s Catholic Church, i Pendleton, Mrs. William Niles and ters. Father Chilicki retains that j Avon and St. James Sts., will cel-1Spencer Schandorer, auct office as well as his duties as pas-jebrate its diamond jubilee with a|Darrel Linse auctioneer.do\ST. JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH Building Constructed In 1893CHURCH WAS FOUNDED IN SUMMER OF 1887two-day program Saturday andj Clyde Butterfield and Arnold, ^or He was born in Armstrong Sunday. Sept. 14 and 15. Krimelmeyer, dance and sound'00*Creek, attended minor seminaryj A social evening will be heldjsystems; Richard Koelbl, refresh-] ^ at the Salvatorian Seminary, St. Saturday at Crucifixion parishjment stand; Mrs. Ray Kotnour. na‘ Nazianz, and took his philosophy hall, La Crescent, Minn., and a publicity; Art Colgan, posters; I j011 and theology courses at St. Fran-Field Mass, turkey dinner, carni-jJoseph Lord and Julius Zander,;*™ jis Seminary. Milwaukee. He wasjval and open air dance will be maintenance; Chester Skiles, po- “el ordained in 1950 in St. Joseph’s held Sunday on St. John's Church licing; Mrs. Clayton Johnson,|fwlt; Cathedral by Bishop John P. grounds. ! white elephant sale; Victoria Besl ,nTreacy. j Mass Sunday is at 9:45 a.m.iand Mayme Ziementz, aprons and *After serving at SS Peter and Serving of the turkey dinner will fancy work. 00Paul parish, Independence, Father be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dur-J Mrs. Joseph Beranek and Mrs.ll0t Chilicki spent four years in Marsh-[ing the afternoon there will be Ed Miller, plant sale; Mr- War-111, i field as a teacher at Columbus j games, a bazaar, sale of homejren Fidlin and Mrs. Paul Muetze,;1111 High School and also as assistant [baking, a white elephant sale, auc- bake sale and country store; Jo- an' | at St. John's and Sacred HeartItion and snack bar on the school i sephine Ziementz, Lois Ann Loo- ®n' parishes. Later he was at St. Hed-jlot. Dancing will be from 8 p.m.'mis and Mrs. Larry Roth, cash-110* ; wig’s, Thorp. When he became an [to midnight. iers.1920-22;Assistant pastor at St. Joseph’s Thomas Coughlin is general]St. John the Baptist Catholic I Charles Rumpelhardt. r— «, ... d •„Church was founded in 1887 when I Rev Hilary Leuther. 1922-27; Rev. Cathedral in i960 he immediately jchairman and Francis Metcalt 4 Complete DOSIC a St Joseph’s Cathedral w as divid-|M. J Kelnhofer. 1927-38; Rev. J. iset about organizing the Bishop’s | ticket chairman. Assisting are Art I GREAT LAKES, Ill.-Four La fin ed into three parishes-St. John’s W. Pittz, 1938-43; Rev. Joseph I'Choristers, a choir of grade school Colgan and Jerry Besl, games; [Crosse men recently completedjhi: for the North Side, and St. Nicho-|Kundinger, 1943-45; Rev. Edmund1*0.'5 from La CroS5«- [Mrs. Arnold Krimelmeyer, Mrs.jbasic training at the Naval Train-|chlas. later Holy Trinity, for the Bettinger. 1945-46; Rev. Edwin . B®*01? assignment to St.[Arnold Holberg and Mrs. Jerryjing Center here South Side. jKnauf. 1946-49; Rev. Philip WeiMen responsible for organiza- ler, 1949-50; Rev. Hugo Koehler, tion of St. John’s were William 1950-62; Rev. Albert Roemer, Gohres, Hubert Dresen, Jacob 1962, until the coming of the pres-Hahn, John Schomers. John B. ent pastor in the spring of 1963. Weber. Mathew Osweiler. JohnFishbach, Leonard Roth, John M. It was Father Ritz who under Weber, Valentine Pfeiffer. John j took building the present church Wachter and John O’Neil. To make room for it. the oldFirst election of trustees was church-school building was movedJuly 29 of that year when Scho-lone lot south. All men of the par- Set To Beqinmers was made secretary aim ish who owned horses or could **John M. Weber, treasurer. Arti-juse a shovel volunteered for ex- The first meeting of the engi-j cles of incorporation were drawn eavating the basement. neering drawing class at La*up Aug. 8, 1887. and signed by Foundation for the present:Crosse State College under thelMost Rev. Killian Flasch. bishop church was finished in 1892. [University of Wisconsin extension] of La Crosse, president; Rev. Jo-i The new church was dedicated;division will meet at the college]seph Wiedman, vice president,[on Passion Sunday, 1893, the build- at 7 p.m. Thursday in Room 217,]and Schomers, secretary. ing accommodating 112 families. | Main Hall.In the early part of September, A new rectory was built in 1940j The course makes available to Bishop Flasch and Rev. Francis on the site of the old church- area students the first course in X. Wilms, then assistant to Father school south of the present church.[engineering. It is open to any col-Wiedman at the cathedral, met A convent for the teaching staff]lege freshman or high school with members of the new parish was purchased at 909 Avon St. in [graduate. However, any college at the school room on the corner 11952. i student taking the course mustof Avon and St. James Streets, | Succeeding pastors shouldered | reduce his regular college load to where the Franciscan Sisters of j the work of paying off the debt, | no more than 14 credits. TuitionJohn’s in May, 1963. he served a [Besl, lunch; John Garihee, Field | They are: Dennis D. Ender, 17. short time as chaplain at St.|Mass; Mrs. Thomas Coughlin,[son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. En-no Mary’s Hospital, Sparta. jMrs. Julius Zander and Mrs. Vic-jder, 622 Avon St.. Clyde W.ior[tor Rieber. noon dinner. |Strong, 18, son of Mrs. Nellie A. 1I Richard Graff and Mrs. Robert [Grogan, 1618 Hayes St., Tommy jse Hanson, carnival of games; Mrs.|L. Nicholson, 17, son of Mr. and ar Lansing Ellis, Mrs. Harold Larkin I Mrs. R. G. Nicholson, 1702 Wood se and Mrs. Robert Scoville, food I St.. and Michael A. English. 17. It concessions; Arnold Holberg, Jo-[son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin G. Eng-seph Lord. Robert Bott, Joseph'lish, 829 Gould St. anEngineering Drawing Classbe paid at the first meeting, The course carries three credits which are recorded at the University of Wisconsin extension di vision. Later meetings of the class will be on Mondays and Wednes days from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. in Room 115, Main Hall.Ferd Ritter of the Dairyland Power Company will be the structor.Perpetual Adoration were con-[but it was not until the coming of ducting classes. This was a frame j Fr. Rumpelhardt in 1920 that the building that had been a public I church debt was wiped out. Then school and was purchased by [came the need for a new school North Side Catholics. On that Sep-and the contract was let in 1928. tember day definite plans were1 The building is east of the church, made for providing a place to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. I Priestly vocations from the parish were those of Rt. Rev. Msgr.It was decided to install pillars j Paschal Hirt, Rev. Joseph Udu-in the lower school room and have | lutch, Rev. Bernard Neumann, the ceiling painted and the walls jSVD, Rev. Donald Halaska and painted in preparation for MassjRev. David Dresen. Steven Flott Airman Reassiqned in October. Schomers built an al- meyer is now at Mt. Calvary.tar, Sister M. Mechtild solicited! Vocations to the sisterhood dur- LACKLAND AFB, Tex. Air linens and vestments from St.[ing the 75 years were Sisters Isa- ™an Danel J Calloway, son o Rose Convent. A silver chalice'bel Zensen, M. Flavia O’Neil, M,|Mr- and Mrs- fw as purchased and many supplies j Leonilla Neumann, Theresa Roth,were donated. Pearl Neumann, Mary CelesteIn October the first Mass was [Gohres, Mary James Flottmeier, celebrated in the new parish with Drucilla Ziementz, Josile Zie-three women forming the choir. Imentz. and Mary Lisa Nagle. An-About 180 persons made up the other young woman, Pauline Hirt,charter list. died as a postulant.Besides the Sunday services,] -Holy Mass was offered on week 3 En|jsf |n |s|avy2140Blvd., is being reassigned to Cha-nute AFB, for t e c h r training as Force aircraftl maintenance specialist.Calloway 1963 graduate of Aquinas High School,days occasionally with the _ . .lance of Revs. James Schwebach. Two J”™ m™b«rs °( lhc Wiedman and Wilms. Father Naval Reserve m La Crosse are Wilms was appointed first pastor. !«™ng 'hr« rePor‘i‘d CallawayA small house at 712 Wall St was * day * «»-* Navy Branch Re-remcd foV ryo.7 and MaryServes On Destroyer, Norris, Navy machinist’s mate, David F. Heilman, son of Mr First hazsar was held in the fall and Mrs- Vernon Heilman and] USS JAMES C. OWENS-Larry •m2 £1JJS.VVtL nn John S. Boltick Jr.. son of Mr. E. Norris, Navy machinist’s mate Street The first hantism was thatiand Mrs- ,,0*in S- b°th of,third class, son ot Mr. and Mrs,n Marv Ri^ nn^oT iw Sparta, were enlisted Wednesday!Clair J. Norris, 321 N. 9th St.. ktL,W ^rVwa^hat of Hm Milwaukee. ,serving aboard the destroyerWnenecke 36 Jan 9 1888 Randolph A. Lokken, son of Mr. j USS James C. Owenswuenecne, 36, Jan. p^ and Mrs Ervin West sa-'months’ deployment with the 6thFirst weddingruai wcuuuig wwmi v* I |nmKieselbach and Amelia Teiml.j ?alsoThe Fleet in the Mediterraneanw-v . . nol_, nrip.f three enlisted through provisions The Owens visited Naples, Italyoffered hv Rev PhiliD Kremer of the hif!h scho01 8raduate train-[in August on the first leg of theI Mediterranean tour.the school, the little bride for theoccasion.Father Wilms was pastor forj three years, after which he went to Germany to visit, became ill and remained until his death.Succeeding priests were Rev. 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