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This booklet was compiled from: data filed in the official records of Sain t :.\ilatthew Parish, !\llouez, Green Bay. Wisconsin; data recorded in the officia l histo1ical fi les of the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay; brochures of the \Nisconsin H istorical Societv, '.\1adison, Wisconsin; · "H istoric Green Bay" by Neville-Manjn, published by the authors, Green Bay, Wisconsin. 'Wisconsin H istorical C.Ollections" by Drapcr Thwaites, published by State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; "History of Brown C.Ounty, Wisconsin," by Deborah B. Martin, published by S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois; The Green Bay Press-Gazette, Green Bay, Wisconsin; "Memoris," Father Mazzuchelli, published by W. F. Hall Printing Company, Chicago, Illinois; Catholic: Encyclopedia. i_
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6 THE MOST REVEREND STANISLAUS VINCENT BONA, PH . D., D. D. BISHOP OF GREEN BAY
The Most Re,·erend Bishop, Stanislaus Vincent Dona, was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October fi rst, 1888. He received his Bachelor's Degree from Saint Stanislaus Col lege, Chicago, in 1905, and the Doctorate in Philosophy and Theology. as well as the Licentiate in Canon Law from the American College in Rome, Italy in 191 3.
After his return to the United States, he became Professor of Languages in Quigley Seminary, Chicago. until 1922. In the same year he became Pastor of Saint Casimir's Parish in Chicago, and was elevated to the dignity of Right Reverend Monsignor in 1931 by Pope Pius XI.
In February, 1932, Mon sign~r Bona was consecraced Bishop of Grand Island, and in D ecember, )<}44, he was transferred to the Sec of Green Bay as co-adjutor to the Most Reverend Bishop Paul P. Rhode.
U p0n the death of Bishop Rho ,.. 8 THE RIGHT REVEREND MONSIGNOR JOSEPH A. MARX VICAR GENERAL, PROTONOTARY APOSTOLIC 1\lon signm Jos<1 ph 1\. i\ lax was horn in Menash :1. \V isrnnsin, on May 30, 1879. He attended ,<.;,1in 1 J\Li ry's Parish School. was enrolled in Saint Lawrence College; lVI ount Cakary and pu rsuC'd Theological stud ies at Saint Mary's Seminary, C incin nati, Ohio. 1-k \\·:1s ordained to the Priesthood on June 15, 1902, bv the M ost Rev erend Bishop Selxistian C . i\ lessmer arid was immedia tely appointed Secretary to Bishop Messmer. Mo nsignor Marx was Pastor at Sa int Mary's Pa rish, Hi lbert, fro m 1904-1908, a fter which he became C hancellor of 1he Green Bav Diocese. un ti l 19 14. In 191 4 he be came Rector of Sa int Francis Xavier C athedral.. Crcen Bav. ln 193 2. he was chosen by the Most Re 1'<:'. rend Bishop Pa ul P. Hhode as his Vicar General which ollke he contin ues to hold under Bishop Bona. In the s • - .. • .. - - J HISTORIC ALLOUEZ The year uf our Lord, 1947, marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of S t. Matthew's church in the t0wn of Allouez. Although St. Manhcw's today is the only Catholic parish in the township, nevertheless, 1947 is not the silver observance of Catholicity in the area now known as the Township of /\llouez, Brown County, \Vis consin. Nor is St. Matthew's the first Catholic church to have been established in Allouez. The whole Green Bay area has an imPortant and very interesting history, ~eaching bac~ more than 300 years. The fact becomes even more interestin'g when we realize that the history of our country goes back only 327 years. The Pilgrim fathers founded Jamestown in 1620,.and in 1634, only fourteen years later. Jean Nicholet sailed down the waterway that is how called Green Bay. The Catholic faith was planted on these shores by the Jesuit missionaries who fol lowed in t he footsteps of N icolet. T hey founded no parish church in the modern sense of the word. but the historic mission of St. Francis Xavier. which they established on the bank!> of the Fox River in the present city of D e Pere, served as headquarters for all the missionary act ivity carried on in th is entire norrhvt1est section. T he d•urch hist0ry of the county is not complete from those days to the present, but so far as the present Allouez section is concerned, there is a very definite and fas· c:inating story. It is the story of how our community had tvvo other names before it came finall y and permanently to be called Allouez. As colonization of the vast United States territory spread gradually west ward, the federal government set up military outposts at strategic: points to protect the white man's interests from plunder at the hands of the Indians. In the early 1800's such an outpost was established near the head of the Fox River, where the river empties into Green Bay. The camp was named Fort Howard. The same site, under earlier French occupation ,. was known as Fort Saint Francis. In 18 19, Colonel Joseph Lee Smith assumed command of the garrison at Fort Howa rd, and at once expressed dissatisfaction with the site selected for the fo rt by I l\ lajor G ra tiot. In 1820 he received pennission to remove the troops three miles farther up the river on the cast side, and half a mile from the shore, assigning as the reason for the change, the low, sandy situation of Fort H oward, whereas his own ne\>v choice .. would command a broader outlook and better means of defense. Colonel Smith de termined to bu ild permanent fortifications at this point, and soldiers were detailed to quarry stone for the purpose at Des Peres rapids. near the site of the old mission of St. Francis Xavier. T he removal was only temporary, howc\'er, for after two years of occupancy Camp Smith was condemned as undersirable for a military post. and its garrison returned to the old quarters at Fort Howard . 'v\/hile tht' troops were st:1tioncd at Camp Smith, 1820-1822, there had been drawn to the neigblxirlwod a ll the usual following of a rn mp. 13et.l'Cen the srockade and the rin~r a number of' log trading cabins \\'CIT built, hJlf in and half out of the bank, the logs smoothed oil on the inside and chinked \\·ith mud. which rendered them wam1 and comfortable during the long, sen·rl' winter. T hat part of the cabin devoted to fornily use, often not more than one room. \\'as furnished with primitive simplicity: Indian mats cO\'l'red the Hoor. and the scantv furniture \\'3~ put tooether bv the ,·illaoe • 0 • 0 carpenter. A slight partition cJi,·ided the lidng room from the shop. where was dis- played a heterogeneous assortment of dry goods, groceries, rude fa rming implements, and household utensils. Somewhere in the rear, always on tap, were barrels of rum and whiskey. The stock of merchandise \\'as not large. yet. from such as it was, the \'illagr belle and the o ffice r ·~ \\'ifc had to make selections. carrying home their pur chases tied in a bit of ca lico or a red cotton bandana purchased for the purpose, for wrapping papt'r was unknown. T hcsl' "shanties". as the\' \\'Cre called. utirnatel\' l!,a\'l: name to th e orou11 of houses • . ~ 0 rha t in time sprn ng up around the spot. and th t> historic soubriquet of SHANTY- TOWN $taycd with the place. ,,,. ( p. 165-167. ) J\ lail was received a t Shantvtown once en :·rv three months. deli vered from Detroit by a soldier. In 1824 a pri,·a.te mail route w:~s esrnblished between Green Bay and fort \1\/ayne. "(p. 169.) 1\no1her slant on the naming of Shantytown is obwined from the record of a lecture delin·rcd by the Honorable Henry S. Baird of Crccn Bay before the Green Bay Lyceum on January 19, 1859 : "The trade and business of the settll'rr.ent was principally carried on at what was then called by the unpretending and not very pleasing name of 'S hanty ToWll.' It was originally so named by the soldiers, who were then stationed at the can tonment immediately adjacent, and which was called Camp Smith. It is sup posed that the town was so nick-named because. when first founded, the place contained divers grog shops and liquor stores, and but little else; and as the term 'shanty' is generally applied by 'Uncle Sam's har cases,' to places kept for their special accommodation, they naturally gave to the respectable young town this name which it has borne, through good and evil report, from that time to the present. Three or four stores were located at this point, and together with the sutlP.r store at Fort Howard, and two or three at other places in the settlement, supplied the wants of the community. In addition to the 'regular merchants' were several fur-traders, who carried on a regular traffic with the Indians; but thc~se had no pennanent place of trade here." ..,,. (Vol. IV, p. 201) C l'llCl'al Ell is. in his "Rernllecrion s" nr the year 1821 , gi\·es us an in teresting account of life at Shantvtown: "The captain of the 'Superior' dropped anchor abreast Fort Howard, at that time unoccupied and in a state of delapidation; the troops having been removed two years befor'e by the colo nel commanding, - one Colonel Smith, - two and one ""· half miles up the river, to an eminence on the right bank, which he named Camp Smith. and where he had built a stockade, and indifferent barracks. But the location being half a mile from the river, which it failed of command1ng, was decided against by his superiors, as an unfit site for the garrison. Smith was sup ered in the command, and the troops moved back to Fort Howard that fall, under command of Colonel Pinkney. The Fort was fully repaired, and thenceforth made the rendezvous for all the troops and army operations of the Upper Country. During the two years that Colonel Smith had held the troops at Camp Smith, all the followers of the army of the Bav Country, amounting to some hundreds, had ensconced themselves along the river bank, just below and in front of the stockades, where they had erected numerous sheds, many of them half in, and half out of the bank, and in which they had gathered their various articles of commerce and trade. This little nondescript village had obtained the soubriquet of 'Shantytown,' and which the locality wears to the present time. The ruin of Camp Smith although greatly injuring ·Shantytown' did not quite destroy it, business had so strong a hold there. It had three of the principal traders, with their stocks of goods, and was fast being known as the business point for the whole vicinage. "ROBERT IRWIN, Jr., had built him a good residence, had his young wife, his father and mother, brothers and sister with him, and was engaged in trade. "DANIEL WHIT NEY the most enterpriS'lng trader in the Northwest, had e ; rected a good store. and filled it with merchandise. · "WILLIAM DICKINSON. another pushing trader, was building a store and dwelling house. "H. S. BAIRD built a house there, and occupied it with his young wife. "JUDGE DOTY, in another year, having anivc"Ci from Prairie du Chien, built a fine dwelling, just above the village, and procured the establishment of the seat of justice for Brown County, at this same 'Shantytown,' the name of whi<:h he ineffectually attempted to change t-0 Menominecville. A courthouse and jail, the first west of Lake Michigan, were erected here; and here the seat of justice con tmued, and courts were held, until some years aft!'rwards. Through an act of the Michigan legislature and a vote of the people, thf' Court was removed to DePere . The Indian Agency, under ::vlajor Brevoort, located the next year. The erection of a respectable church edifice, and school buildings by the Catholics soon fol lowed. The PQpulation increased until 1832, when the people slowly moved to Navarino and Astor (Green Bay), and De Pere." H (Vol. VI, p. 2'15-2'Hl.) From the days of Jean Nicolet and the early )l'SL1it missionaries to the early I830's, <.:onsiderable colonization had been done in the entirl' Creen Bay section. The settle ment at Shantytown counted more than just Indians and soldiers, for we read that "quite a number of French and half-breds lived in 'Shantytown.' ** (Vol. VIII, p. 309) . r\s a matter of fact, by 1832 Shantytown began to gi\'e way, as a li ving location. to a newer settlement directly across the river from fort Howard, eventually to be called city of Green Bay. Colonel Charles Whittlesey of Eagle Harbor, Lake Superior, in his recollections of a tour through Wisconsin in I 832, wrote that ''opposite to Fort Howard rhe town of Navarino had been built on paper, and some good houses were actually completed. T he old village of Shanty Town, otherwise 'Menominee,' already showed symptoms of a decline, being two miles further up the river." **(Vol. I, p. 67. ) THE FIRST CATH OLIC C HURCI I The information 1mder this heading was summarized from a story which appeared in the Tercentennial Edition of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. In l 830 Bishop Fenwick of Cincinnati visited Green Bay, remaining only a few days. In 1831 he returned, bringing with him the Dominican Father Mazzuchelli. Together they conducted a mission, preached s1:vera l times a day, heard cnnl'cssions, and the Bishop administered the sacrament of Confirmation. During this visit they selected a site in Shantvtown where a church would be built. The site was in' the lower west portion of the present Allouez Catholic· cemetery. Contributions for the new church amounted to $300.00. Bishop Fenwick left after three weeks, and plans for the new church were made under the direction of Father i\ilazzuchelli who remained as pastor. The church, when !inishccl, was 30 by 80 ft:et. and 20 feet high. The total cost was $400.00. It was dedicated to St. John the Evangelist. The hrst trustees were Louis Grignon, Jacc1ues Porlier, H yatt BriS<1uc. The next vear, 1833. Father Theodore Vanden Broek. also a Dominican, succeeded Father i\1az~uchelli , and remained in charge of the ::ihantytown parish until 1838. Also in 1833. two .Sister·s came to Shant\'tO\\ n. Ch1ra and Theresa Bourdaluuc, of the O rder of St. Clare. T hey bought land fr;m Henry Bai i"d, near the church, and opened a schoc>I. Their zeal and true missionary spirit did much to help the social and edu cational features of Catholic parish life in Shantytown. Tribute is paid to them in the hist0ry of Green Bay, where we read that "m the meantime a Roman Catholic church and schoolhouse had been built in Shantytown on the property of Joseph Ducharme, who gave an acre of ground for !4is purpose. The buildi11gs were designed by the Dominican Father Mazzuchelli, and erected during his incumbency. With this cure came two nuns ui me 0rder or 'Poor Clai.res' who for two years superintended a flourish ing convent school. In the fearful cholera visitation of 1832-1834 the Lady Superior, Sister Clare, with her companion, rendered devoted service in nursing the sick, even assisting in the burial of the dead." •(p. 242-243). ln the days of Shantytown there was an old cemetery located near the present Green Bay Water W orks Pumping Station, extending northeast through Mason Street. ln 1835 the remains of the dead were transferrecl from that cemetery to the Shantytown ( now Allouez) Catholic cemetery, and buried in a long trench, since those remains had no markers. In 1932, Allouez cemetery was in need of grnvel for its roads, and the workmen were instructed to dig for gravel near the north line of the cemetery. After taking off the surface soil, 1hc men could lower their shovels full length into a pit fi lled with human bones. They continued the excavation, and a trench about twenty feet. long, filled with bones; was discovered. The trench is located in the alley east of the Ducham1e and C ryan lots, numbered. 312 and 313, Section AA. Three oak trees mark the north line of this section. fl),OAK TREf @) OAK 'TREE ~5' ,50 310 '" ~ti JOCQUET 'll w. '°' ..... JOI llJ I~- qOllf\L CRVAM ..... TRENCH I'.. ALLOUEZ CATIIOUC «M[TERY llli rc...,oi.tt• •' ..., .. de.ad ~,..c tron• tc,.cd fro.., otd G~n &.!:I c ,..,.,• hrj (Loea~ed nco,. ·~·th.e _,,. • ...,.,; G,...... &o:s Wo,. it .. Wo.-tc • t>..,"'pio_, Stoiio,, o ... d c•+•ndt"' 110r f h ~s t SECTIOI'{ AA th~..> g t> tfloJor\ Strc:aU +o t+>e: S"t>on•:s ••w,,, "'°""' Altot..>C.& Co'41-,olo'c C:: c.""'>c.f c.r-'j , o ..,,O bu,.;ed ;n 0 10,..9 · -t,..,.,ch !l•~C +ho•c r c "'o1"S hed ~ ,..,orkcrs. I~ '''' Allo 1.»1tl:. I ACR[. CO"c +u-'j ...,.a• .,.. ,,ce:d of '9, .. •.,,e:I to, \ t, r"OOd5 o..,d tt')~ i...ia,.k l"t""C,, We.re O"d In October of 1838, Father Florimond Bonduel assumed charge of St. John's parish, and bought additional land in Shantytown from B. F. Solomon and Paul and Joseph Ducharme. In 1843, Rev. P. C ara bin replaced Fat her lfonduel. and remained as pastor of the parish until August, 1847. In 1846, the church of St. John the Eva ngelist in Shantytown was destroyed by hre on Christmas day. T he church was never rebuilt on the Shantytown location. In stead, a new site was chosen in Green Bay which, during the past twenty years.had outgrown Shantytown in size, population, and impartance. The next church in Shantytown was not built until 1924. But by that time the name had been changed from Shantytown to Allouez, and inasmuch as the old parish had continued to exist unin teruptedly from the time of its foundation (though it had changed location, be ing today the parish of St. John the Evangelist in Green Bay), the new church in Allouez was made a new and separate parish, dedicated to the apostle, St. Matthew. So, in this year of 1947, we celebrate not only the twenty-fifth anniversary of our own present parish of St. i\1atthew, but also the one hundred fifteenth anniversary of 14 ME MOM INEEVILLE 18t9 A g,.o.n•e. nc..,..lc~cle marks s;t~. or ·~ Houselh• ,,., W1sc:ot)Stn.r;,s1.iCou•t l>OTOu>ATOMIE "1enom•nee utUc u>a5 we-s1 Of tt)e hit,ll>WO\j bd.u«., Green ?>a~ a"d "be"!>ere, -~~"':~. ,_~:.::; ;; oot --UJ-1N_N_f._B_A_G_O ___ __, ou,..,cd b~ t'>c ------. Stole ~rfonn• {'lJ o1o.-'i, fl po•ccl {)' to the. no,..th i~ 4.J po•t of tl>e ..) l'flu•ph~ Estate. ' A plot of Q' f'flcnon>•'l~e • I. uil1e wo!l T'f! • h Corded ·,,, 1829 ood 5 lnd.c.., namn CrCIPPtu>A DONATED for oll tl>c 'TO !lt... 15. l\"ijl>' COUNTY WQ~ 4f i• it~ t iQt +o the eo••· .SAUK :------: :-l.Ooll'lvt---- : r---->t.. --1 I I I I I I 1 1 I N.va... "I• I •a2 NJ ~ ~.c ,.. : ~?~~... t&lS I I I L ______; ;______; L ______J KE.t'..KAPOO !'>T. rb_-u ___ : 1 - ~~.,,.-1 I I ' I the estabishment of the First Catholic church in Allouez. As we look back today upon those ancestors of ours, we thank them, and thank God, for the gift of our Catholic faith which they handed down to us. And at the same time we beseech the Lord to grant that after an interval equal in length from that time to this, our posterity will look back to us with fedings of pride and gratitude as profound as are ours today toward our Shantytown forbears. Salvurn fac p<>pulum tuurn, Domine: et benedic hereditatituae. Save thy people, 0 Lord: and bless thine inheritance ( frorn the "Te De-um" the Church's Hymn of Thanksgiving J HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY, WISCONSIN. WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTION. by Deborah B. Martin, Chicago, 1913: Draper-Thwaites, Madison: S. J. Clark Pub. Co. State Historical Society, . ' '. It 15 ' FATHER CLAUDE ALLOUEZ ;\!any of us are under the impresion that Father Mar quette was the fi rst Jesuit missionary to labor in W is - consin and par~icularly in our own Green Bay area. But the fact is that Father Allouez was the real missionarv Allouez! \Vhat a great and glorious name in the his trail-blazer, and not only here but in the. Like Superio.r tory, not onlv of our state of \ Visconsin. but in the set· region as well, Father 11d arquette was the missionary suc tlir;g and co l ~niza t io n of the whole northwestern part of cessor to Allouez. the territory that is nmv the United States of l\mcrica. lt was in N ovember o f' 1669 that Father Allouez beonn;:, The township of /\llouez in Brown County, \;v'isconsin. his journey to the great "Bay of the Puans." as Green is named for Fa ther Claude 1\lloucz of the Socictv of Bay was then called. leaving his mission "La Pointe du Jesus, the intrepid Jesuit missionary who planted. the Saint Esprit.. on the shores of Chequameoon Bav. near b • Catholic faith among the nati,·e Indian nations inhabit r\shland. in charge of Father Jacques ;\ larquette. In ing the region about the Great Lakes. and ope ned the December of the same ,·car he landed near the mouth of way of colonization to the white men who later settled the Oconto River w h c~e the first Mass wns offered on here. these shores. T he next spring he passed through the head of thl: bav and down the Fox River. Lt was not until th e Father Al louez was born in F rarKe in 1620. the vear winter o( 1671 that he cstahlished the historic mission of the 1\fayRower sailed from England carrying the pilg;ims St. Fram·is XaYier at the present site of De Pere. This who founded Jamestown. As a member of the Societv of mission. the largest and most stable in this entire section. Jesus, he was sent to "New Frnncc" as Canada was tl1cn flourished for some sixty years under the care of the called, to join a band of French Jesuit missionaries work· Jesuits. It was, in fact, the headq uarters For the entire ing for the con\"ersion of the North American Indians. northwt;stern mission, and from here .. the priests wan· ... Catholic historians call him "founder of Catholict}' in dered in their work of e\·:ingelization from Lake Huron the \Vest," declaring that "none of the missionaries of his to the Sioux country." • (p. 9 1.) time dared more or traveled over a wider territorv th~111 did Allouez." His missionary travels brought him. as for Father Marq uette and his companion, Joliet, stopped as the western end of Lake Suprrior. The presen t city of at St. Francis Xavier mission in 1673 to visit Father Ashland is situated at the point of' his principal mission· /\ llouez on their way to explore the Misissippi waterway. ary center in the for northern area. and on their return journey in fall of the same year, Mar· quette remained ar the mission to rest with his Jesuit It was in 1634 that white men first ~et foot on the land companions, while Joliet returned to Canada with ne\\'s ... about Green Bay In that year Jean Nicolet made the of their great disco\'ery. journey by water From Quebec to Creen Bay, a distance of 1,000 miles. T he expedition was made by direction of Father Allouez was transferred to the Illinois m issions Samuel de Champlain, governor of Quebec, whose pur in the year 1676. I lis death occurred in 1689. But his. pose was to disco,·er another inland sea which the Indian memory will live on among those to whose forefathers he nations around Lake H uron believed to lie to the far hrought the Catholic faith nearl •v thret· centuries aoo.0 west. 13eyond that sea, the Indinns said. lav a wide sheet of water ( now known as Green Bav). on' whose shores In 1899 a b ronze ablct on a granite boulder was erected d welt a strange people who were ca lled "men of the sea." on the cast band of thc fox River at De Pere, which has In sending Nicolet on this expedition, Champlain's idea since been given a promrnent and permanent place on was to discover the route to this tcrriton-. and to culti\'ate the new bridge named the Claude Allouez 13ridge. span .1 f ur-trarung commerce "·ith its inhabit.ants. ning the ri\"er. The insniption reads: The purpose of Father Allouez was not to discnn:r new Neur this spot stood the Chapel of St. Francis Xa\'icr, land or new waterways. It '"'as rather to find paths into built in the winter or 1671 -72 bv Father Claude unexr)lorcd countrv, , so the oos0 1)cl of C hrist could he 1\lloucz. S. ]., a~ the center of his w:>rk in christiani z· brought to it s people. Thus. as he ach'anccd stcadilv ing 1hc Indians of Wi ~cnnsin. forward on the route of his conquc~l or new harvest·fi elci°s for Christ". he plan ted the Cross at each stopping-place. THE TOW N OF ALLOUEZ and after establishing a mission, he either left a priest 10 care for the new flock of unnurtmed souls or arranged for missionary help to come from the missi~n head 16 Camp Smith on the east bank of the Fox River. This Allouez. who rirst brought civilization to these shores." spot is near the present site of the sta te reformatory. The *( p. 312.) new fort encouraged settlers from New York and N ew England to emigrate here. The immigrants settled in a The Catholic pa ri sh of _Allouez today. S t. j\ latthew·s, group, building houses near Camp Smith. half way be embrat:cs nea rl y all the territory belonging to the town· tween the present cities of Green Bay and De Pere. ship. Only the small area north of the Chicago & N orth Their little hamlet came to be called-- Shantytown. Later western railway tracks is outside the parish boundaries. it also took on the name of Menominecville: because the Menominee Indian tribes inhabited the surrounding country. THE FIRST CHURCH IN ALLOUEZ Brovvn County was formally established by an Act of Congress on October 26, 1818. The offi ce of first pest· Catholic missionarv act1v1tv in the Sh 17 with oil paint to preserve it, and this also serves to "'.hich are entirely, or almost en tirely, rural areas, Allouez embellish it." has always had its own center of activity and focal point - of settlement. A stranger driving through Allouez today Du~ing this Yisi t .. the Bishop selected as the site for a ch llrch a tract of lnnd in ,\1cnominecville, between th(: would n ormally presume this center to be a village. This central settlement h arks hack to the l830's, the days of Cntholic CC'metery and the lowcr De Pere road." "' ( p. 252). The church was bcglln in 1\ugllst of 1841 and was Shantytown. rnmplcted the next year in July. This church was the When Bishop Rhode, of cherished and blessed memory. second erected in this region si nce the mission chapel of came to Green Bay in 191 5. the people of Allouez were St. Francis Xa,·ier had been demolished in 1687. "'(p. travelino to Green Ba)' or DePere for Mass each Sunday. 252 ) . 0 ' The older families, whose Forbt•ars h ad been members of Father Theodore Vanclen Brock in his diary states: "The Bishop elf Michigan sent me to Green Bay, to St. John's in Shantytown, still held membership at St. the so-called Goene Bay. I arrived there the 4th day John's in its G reen Bay location. Some, w ho li\-ed near· of July, 1834, and found not more than nine or ten er to De Pere, were now affiliated with one of the par houses, but many Indians. After I had finished my church and parsonage, the number of inhabitants ishes there. had increased to 1000 in the three new villages of Navarino, Astor and Rapides des Peres." "On the 6th of December, 1836, the Bishop spnt Allouez very early became dear to Bishop Rhode. not three Redem.ptorist Fathers in my place, (Fathers H. only for its Catholic history, and its deep-rooted foith Hatscher, Simon Sanderl, J ames Prost, C.SS.R.) now centuries old , but also because his own Episcopal Story of Father Van In 1847 the church in Shantytown was destroyed b y From his first years as shepherd of the Green Bay lire. In the meantime the settlement at Green Bav, near diocese. Bishop Rhode"s wish was that Alloue~ have :1 the newer military outpost, Fort J loward, had bee~ grow parish of its own. He planned its establishment wlwn ing and developing, so that Shantytown seemed n ow to the time would he ripe. - when Allouez became pop· be taking a secondary place in importance. ulously large enough to support its mrn parish. and l'CO nomic conditions would be favorable for building. BISHOP RHODE and the The Bishop's wish coincided with the h ope of \he - FOUNDING OF ST. MATTHEW'S people themselves, for the residents of Allouez had long been looking fonvard to the time when th.ey C'Ould /\!though the Catholic foith was planted in Allou e~ have their own church in the cen ter of their own Cath nearly 300 years ago, and a C1 tl1 olic parish and church olic community. The '"old timers" especially, during were firmly established in 183 1. still the people oF Allou('Z whose lifetime and under whose direction and spirit of were left without a church in thcir own eommunitv from progress the community h ad gradually taken shape. the: time St. John's of Shantytown was p hys icall~; trans· omitted no opportunity to develop and promote an inter· fe rrcd northward to Green 13ay in !847. The move w a~ est toward the e,·entual establishment of a parish whose made, of course, because the Green Ray location gave physical location would be in their own community. better p rom ise of a more steadily im:rcasing population and therefore. of a greater need for a church located T he year 1922 finally c:rysrnllized and united the nearby. Bishop's wish and the people's great hope. It was on May 5 of that year that St. Matthew's C HISTORY OF BRO\VN COUNTY, \VISCONSIN. M EMOIRS, Father Mazzuchelli . ... ,... 19 - ~ ~ REVEREND AMBROSE GRILL I I Father Ambrose Crill, the first pastor of St. l\ latthcw's pointed first chaplain of the newly-founded McCormick Catholic Congregation of Allouez. was horn at Girnam· Home for the Aged in the Town of Allouez. When St. wood, Wisconsin, March 3. 1886. I le began his studies Matthew's parish was established in Allouez in 1922, he for the priesthood in 1908 at St. Lawrence College. Mount was made its first pastor. Calvary, \Visconsin. After completing his classical and philosophical work at Cah-ary, he entered St. Francis In 1924 Father Crill resigned his pastorate at St. Mat· Seminary at Milwaukee m the fall of 1913 to begin thew's because of illness, and entered the sanitarium :it theology. H e was ofdained to the priesthood on June 16, Springfield , Illinois. He died there on May 8, 1930, and 1917, by the late Bishop Paul P. Rhode, at St. Francis was buried at Birnamwood, his birthplace. Xavier Cathedral in Green Gav, and offered his first holv Mass in St. Boniface Church' at Aniwa, vVisconsin. , Father Grill served as assistant pastor at St. John's He was loved by all, and his memory is deeply cher· Church, Antigo, from 191 7 to 1921. when he was ap- ished at St. Matthew's. May he rest in everlasting peace! 20 ,... THE Mc CORMICK HOME expressed in the form_ of material hel~ and physical _as sistance on every pro1ect and enterprise the struggling parish undertook. St. Matthew's will never ~ail in _its The McConnick Home for the Aged was established gratitude to the people and the Sisters at the Mc Corm1ck . in the year 1920 by Bishop Paul P. Rhode, through the Home. noble generosity of Sarah and Amelia l\'lc Connick who provided funds to purchase property and erect the state· ly and beautiful building which graces the crest of the THE FIRST BUILDING hill about midway between the upper and lower roads just north of Iroguois Street in Allouez. The very first, and the most important, task facing the new St. Matthew's parish was that of making plans The Home was founded in memory of Michael Joseph and preparations for the erection of an adequate church. McCormick and on the occasion of its dedication hv The site was already chosen, it had been acquired by the Bishop Rhode, on September 3, 1922, it was form a II)· diocese at the time the parish was founded. But before named "The Mc Cormick Memorial Home.'" The Rev a building could be erected. St. :\1atthew's needed a erend Ambrose Grill was appointed chaplain, and the parish treasury and building fund. On June 20, 1922, domestic work was placed in t~e care of six Franciscan Father Crill met with his trustees and parish consultors, sisters from the Bay Settlement motherhouse. Their and together they established an annual pew rent fee "family" at the opening of the Home numbered one man. of $20 a family and $IO for single wage-earners. t\ further assessment or' $10 annually for a building fund was a The Mc Cormick Home had its own chapel and greed upon. Thus the needed money for building began Father Grill celebrated Mass there daily for his flock, to accumulate. the residents of the Home. Because of its location in the heart of their little community, the people of Allou~ /\fter a vear and a half, Father Grill called ;1 special settlement frfquently made use of~ this conveni~nce. meetinot) of the trustees to study more rapid means of Through the friendliness of Father Grill and the S1ster·s, raising funds so that building could be started sooner. they could attend Mass at the Home chapel on week This was on December I I. 1923. It was decided to aban days, and occasionally even on Sundays _an~ days of spec don the building fund assessment previously established, ial functions. Thus, from the very begmmng a bond of and to set up an assessment table according to the ability friendship between the Home and the community took and willingness of each parishioner to pay. A survey of root and developed. the entire parish was made, and each member was plac- . ed in one of six pay categories. When Bishop Rhode decided. in 1922, to organize a parish for the Town of Allouez, he knew a temporary It was not until six months later that the first real "headquarters'' would be necessary until a church and step toward actual building was t~ken. C?n ~uly 23, 192~ , - rectory could be built. The spirit of friendliness between Father Grill called another mectmg, this tune to obtain the Mc Connick I Iome and the Allouez people proved the sentiment of his people as to their readiness to let a a happy circumstance. Father Grill, chaplain of th~ building contract. The ~ inancial status of the parish was Home, was appointed by His Exce llency to be pastor ol analyzed, and the income poten_tial was thoroughly con· the new St. Matthew's parish. As chaplain, Father Grill sidered in relation to a state of indebtedness and the ob resided at the I Jome. So his office there became the firs< ligation it would impose up~n all. ~e co~gregation St. Matthew's rectory office. numbered 97 fam ilies and 20 single paying units. At the same time it was decided that the parish Masses A motion was. carried to start the building program would be celebrated in the chapel of the Mc Cormick as soon as practi~ab l e. Plans were drawn by Mr. W. E. Home, and now not only neighbors and friends could Reynolds and accepted, and Bishop Rhode appr?v~d the attend Mass in the chapel, but all members of St. Mat· erection of a combination church-and-school bu1ldmg to thew's would come there for church services of all kinds cost approximately $35,000. Ground was broken in regularly. The arrangement was a most pleasant one October, and construction got under way. from both sides. St. Matthew's people were grateful for their first "church," and the residents of the Mc Connick Home were delighted over their expansion into a "parish," for thev too wanted to be considered members. And theirs • • • was n~t just the moral kind of suppart, for, from the very outset, their enthusiasm for the new parish was .... 21 EARLY PARISH SPIRIT Building is interesting, and visible progress is pleasant to behold. In b uilding a parish, a priest de rives pleasure and gratification from two kinds of progress. the material Twenty-five years is a relatively short period in the and the spiritual. history of a C atholic parish, but considered restrospectivc· ly in the lifetime of an indi\'idual. a guarter-c:entun· is Father Grill"s stav at St. Matthew's was so short that a rather long time. Those \\'ho were charter member~ of he was denied the j~y of erecting any of the parish build ings. I !is time was occupied in de\·eloping parish spirit. St. Matthew's in 1\ llouez are alreadv• beoi0 nnino0 to think of themselves as the "old timers" of the parish. Members and in organizing and promoting the countless fund of St. Matthew's first Confimrntion and Holv Commun· raising activities which eventually would make .possible ion classes now h ave children in our parish' school pre the breaking of ground for a church-and-school building paring for First Communion or Confirmation. Those who for St. Matthew's parish. were united in matrimony by the first past0r. Father Grill. now \\'atch their own sons and daughters approach Ne\'er ha\·e the pioneers of a pMish been more ener the altar to receive that same Sacrament. T he first names getic. more industrious. more aggressive, or more re· in our baptismal register are those of veterans of World sourceful than was that early parish-family of St. War II, now on our parish Honor Holl. Matthew's in Allouez. Less than a month after the in corporation of the parish. - it was on Decoration Day. But we han: not grown old! \Ve have but oro\\'n me!- 1932. - the ladies conducted an ice cream social near the . 0 cemeterv grounds. As l\ lrs. I lenrv Zuidmueller huooed low m our value and usefulness. our spirit of enthusiasm, ; .._, . ~ our loyalty toward St. i\latthew's. The pristine \"igor that the box holding the SJ30 realized from this endea\'Or, she motivated the founders of our parish and insured its exclaimed with pride, "The first income of our new solid footing in our communi·ty, has ripened in us. We parish." had to mature before it could come into full bloom. And now it is with pride and deep joy that we look back It was an auspicious beginning, fo r, from that day upon our simple beginnings, our pioneering, and 1h o~e forward. not a week passed in which the enthusiastic first parish functions that so intimatelv affected our own men, women, and children of St. l\ latthew's were not seh-es _and our life history, and which now ha\·e special planning. preparing for. or conducting a social. a food place m our treasure of personal memories. sale, a card or keno party, a raffle, a bazaar, a play, or any other enterprise that would swell the fund that was Every lx:ginning is hard, but the start of so great an one day to be converted into a b uilding for the pari sh of u_ndertaking as a new Catholic parish is praticularly dif which they had already developed an enthusiastic pride. ficult. Father Grill often remarked that his natural d if ficulties were always offset, and his worries dissolved. bv The perseverance of th ose pioneers of St. Matthew's the splendid cooperation he could alwa\'s count on fro;, is the more remarkable when we recall that the parish his people, and the unusual parish - fa~ily spirit which had no place of its own in which to hold these social activities. T oday we are as grateful as they were then, to marked every parish endeavor in those oroanizationI::> al years. ~t. Joseph's O rphanage, the .Allouez Community House m G reen Bay and the McCormick Memorial Home for Along with that pleasant circumstance, the soun:c providing space and facilities that were so necessary to of deepest gratifica ti on to him was the depth and rich these early builders of our parish. ness of faith that dwelt in the hearts of his Allouez flock. It was their strong and genuine love for their holv re· ligion that generated external enthusiasm and material support for the center of their very C hristian life, their THE FIRST PARISH FUNCTIONS parish. Surely this was passed on to them throuoh the generations of the past centuries, from the very d;ys the the Catholic faith was firmly planted on our verv soil by the sainted Father Allouez. It is something for· us to Though Father Grill did not stay long enough to wit eonsi~er today, plagued as we are by a multitude of things ness the first physical building at St. M atthew's, the and circumstances that would re lax rather than strength· pleasure of conducting the first of each of the spiritual en our hold to religion. Let us proudly hold aloft the functions of rhe parish was all his own. banner of Christ. and, in allegiance to our noble forbears. keep our Faith and our Church always foremost in our The first Baptism at St. l\ latthew's took place on July li ves. 2, 1922. Rosalia Bushmaker has the honor of being first 22 in our parish Baptismal Register. T oday she is Mrs. Le\vis Jorgensen G eorgiana Verstegen \i\lilliam Steinfeldt, and still a member of St. lV!atthew's. Frederick Prust Beatrice Denis James Hoffman Leah Thomrose .... The first marriage took place on April 30, 1923. i\ 1arie Byron Shaw Agnes Donovan Van Ermen and Nicholas Adams were united in matri Adelaide Classon Florence Dionne mony by Father Grill in the chapel of the McCormick Home. They still reside in St. i\ latthe\\"'s parish. Each pa ri ~ h in a diocese has three clays set apart ever~ · year for the Forty Hours De,·otion. In chapels and small August 17, 1922, was a day of special joy for Father parished the devotion is held fo r one day only. and is then Grill and the ch ildren to whom he gave their First Holy called Thirteen Hours Devotion. St. Manhew's had its Communion. The day of First H oly Communion is al· first Thirteen Hours in September of 1923. and the de· ways one of special grace in every parish, and this. the votion was held at the Z.. lcCormick H ome. After the first of such occasions at St. i'vlatthew's, was one of spe parish had its own more adequate building, the combina cial significance for pastor, children, and parents. tion church-and-school. it was oivcn the 1)rivileoe of hav· ing the three da)• service, or Fort0 y Hours Dev"otio n. an· His Excellency, Bishop Rhode, watched with fa therly nually. eye the growth of St. i'vlatthcw's. His advice and help ing hand were never wanting. Only six months after the Father Grill was not in perfect health even at the time establishment of the parish, - on December 17, 1922. - of his fi rst coming to Allouez as superintendent of the he paid his first official visit to St. Matthew's, during McConnick I Iome. I !is work, first at the I lomc onh-. which he confirmed a class of thirty boys and girls. The and rhen as organizer of the new parish of St. :\.1atth e ,~·. names of this first Confirmation class follow: gradually consumed more of his strength than he rea l Theodore Verstcgen Mildred Kelly ized was being consumed. In late Lill, 1924, after onlv Leo Christensen Elizabeth Dionne t\\'O and a half years ns pastor of Sr. i\fatthe\\""s. he \\'a·s Ernest Bushmaker J\decia \Villets forced to take sick lenve. He went to St. John Sanitarium Ra phael H uguet Kathryn H eezen at Springfield, Illinois for care and treatment. After four Anton Vanderheiden Eleanore name unknown . months he foresaw that his recovery would not be rapid. H omer Christensen Cecilia Steinmetz and in the interest of the young and growing parish. he Al\\"vn Donovan Leona Blodget thought it best to resign his pastorship. A period of four Ray;noncl Dionne 1\nn McKeough months intervened between his departure and his resig· Marcel H uguet Marie Becker nation, and during that time Father Anthony Koerferl. Andrew Linssen Catherine Becker then secretary to Bishop Rhode, served St. Matthew's. 23 REV ER END JOSEPH VAN BOGART Father Joseph Van Bogart, the second past0r of St. Marion and \Vitten berg. In 1\i1a rch of 1925 he was ap Matthew·s parish, was born in De Pere on Noveinbcr 7. pointed second pastor of St. M atthew's in Allouez, with 1886. He attended St. Mary's parochial schcol in D(· the additional duties of superintending the McCormick Pere, and St. Norbert High School and College. 1-1 i~ Home for the Aged. In May, 1932, he was transferred philosophical and theological studies were made at St. to N eenah, to organize the new parish of St. Margaret Francis Seminary, M ilwaukee. He was ordained to the Mary. priesthood by Bishop Joseph J. Fox. on :\'larch JO. 19 12, and celebrated his First Solemn Mass at St. Mary's In January of 1938. Father Van Bogart became pastor church, D e Pere. · of Holy Cross church, Mishcot, where he served until his sudden death by heart attack, January ·9, 1946. During the years 19 12 to 1916. Father Van Bogart was assistant to the pastor of Holy Cross church in Kaukauna. H e is held in high esteem by all who knew him. May His first pastorate was at Tigerton with its missions at God grant him eternal rest! 1111. 24 THE SECOM D PASTOR Father Van Bogart. because uf his dual responsibility as pastor of Ma tthe ...v's church and superintendent of REvEREND JosBPH VAN BocART St. the McC orm ick I Jome, celebra ted one Mass each Sunclav at the Home and the ocher in the new St. Ma tth ew'~ building. T he pa rishioners continued to have the privi lege of attending the Mass in the H ome chapel \vhen Father Koeferl served the pcopk· of St. J\fatthew's until convenience so required. the appointment and arrival of their new pastor. Father Van Bogart's assignment to S!. M atthew's occurred on According to the records of the parish, the cost of the M arch 4, 1925. new building unfurnished .. was 534,783.67. In the four-month period which elapsed between Through the ~ummer mo nths of 1925. aft er the new Father G rill's leaving and his actual resigna ti on from the church was alreadv in use. work continued on the second parish, the duties of the substitute pastor were neither Aoor of the building. which was tO become the parish light nor si mple. Construction of the new ch urch-and school. school building had been started the previous October, and .the work was in progress only six weeks when Father T hings mate rialized according to plans and hopes. and G rill was obliged to enter a sanitarium. . Thinking hi ~ on September 8. 1925. school opened for its fi rst term. absence would be relati vely short, he requested the Father Van Bogart engaged the Franciscan Sisters of Bay Bishop to place the parish temporarily in the responsible Settlement to teach in the scho()l, and their residence was hands of his Chancellor, Father Koeferl. to he at the McCormick Home whe re six other sisters of· their community served the aged. U nder Father Koeferl the interests of the young parish were served as devotedly as if the pastor himself had re O nly t\\'o rooms of the s<:hool were opened the first mained on duty. T he new building suffered no set-back year, with four grades in each. Sister ~ l a ry Joseph was and in spite of the inconvenience which always accom the flrst principal. teaching the four upper grades. Sister panies winter construction , real progress was visible from Mary Dolores taught che four lowe.r grades. The tota l en clay to "" . ~- ---·--- Ji·~ . ~-::::..:. ..: _j. . . . . >.. :- .; ~i:i ·~· · ~ ...... ·i-!..4.1 '' . '! •• . - 26 ... REVEREND HERBERT LITTEL Father I lcrbcrt Littd, third pastor of St. 1\ lattlww". Two Rivt:rs. In 1926 lw was trnnsfcrrco to St . .\.fary\. parish. was born in the T o\rn of t\llouez. April 2 1. J: l9t, o~hkos h. \\'here he was assi~tant until l\lay of 1927, at I le began his studies for the prie~thood in 1911. taki ng \\'hich time lw hccamc pastor of St. Philomenc's parish at r his classical and philosophical cou rsL'S at Sc. Frarn.:is Sem· Birna1mvoocl. Jn 1932 Bishop Rhode appointed him third inary in Milwaukee. I le studi<:'d theology at St. Paul pas tor of St. Matthew's in Allouez. Seminary. St. Paul, iVlinnesota. and was ordained b)· Bishop Paul P. Rhode at the cathedral in Green Bay . Father Litre! spent fourteen )Cars at St . .\h1tthew's. In June 7, 1922. January of 1947. having resigned this pastorship, Bishop Stanislaus V. Bona assigned him to Sc. \1ary's d1urch at During the first fom years after his ordination, Father Bear Creek. where h<:' is presently scf\'ing as pastor. Littd served as assistant pastor at St. Luke's parish 1n .. ... I THE THIRD PASTOR of the total parish debt during his first year at St. Matthew's. REVEREND HERBERT LrrrEL Father Littel came to St. Matthew's, as its pastor, in The new parish house was the second step toward the May of 1932. He \.Vas the first pastor who did not have :lttainment of a complete unit of parish buildings for St. the additi:mal duty of managing the McCormick Home. Matthew's. In addition to its being a much-needed con for with the transfer of Father Van Bugart to Neenah, venience and sourc:e of operating efficiency for the pas St. Matthew's was given its first full-time pastor. Father t0r, its very presence, next to the church-and-school build Littel, and the McCormick Home its own superintendent ing, seemed to help tie the parish more closely together, in the person of Monsignor Joseph f\. Marx, the Vicar and give the people a feeling of better organization and General of the Green Bav diocese. parish unity. This change in arrangement did not mean a change in Meantime, the enrollment in the parish school had the bond of friendship between St. Matthews and the been increasing each year, so, with the opening of scho<'>l McCormick Home. It meant, rather, a strengthening of in September, I 933, Father Littel added a fourth class that tie. St. Matthew's now had two spiritual fathers in room and another teaching sister. The four rooms on the stead of one, for the kindly Vicar General placed St. top floor of the church-and-school building were now in Matthew's prominently in his personal interests. - sec use, each room having two grades. The sisters continue ~! ond only to his interest in his own charge, the !VkCor to live at the McCormick Home. mick Memorial Home. The past fifteen years have served but to strengthen and increase the affection of Monsignor Father Littel's first years at Allouez fell in the epoch of Marx for St. Matthew's, an affection which is returned a the great national economic depression. and that cntite hundred-fold by every member of St. Matthew's parish. period had a particularly disastrous and telling effect on a parish that was just able to hold its own even under But St. Matthew's still did not have a parish house of normal conditions. with its program of building and its own, and Father Littel's first residence was therefore parish expansion coupled with the obligation of liquidat at the McCormick Home where his predecessors resided. ing a sizeable debt. On July 12, 1938, Father Littel held Almost immediately upon his arrival in Allouez, however, a general parish meeting at which he told his people the new pastor went to work on promotion, plans, and frankly that the annual budget of the parish was $3,000 arrangements for a rectory, which had by this time be higher than its total income. Each year. he said, a small come a real necessity for the parish. On June 27, only a er portion of the parish debt was being paid off. H e ex month after his .arrival. he called the first parish meeting plained that the parish had 157 paying units, and asked to discuss the matter. A building committee was ap for discussion of a plan which would give the parish a pointed, an architect chosen , and specifications request - more solid financial footing and outlook. The parishion ed. es voted on a change in the envelope system of paying for the suprort of the church, and what amounted to a The ne\.v house, it was determined, was to be built doubling of the amount being paid by each member. adjacent to the church-and-school combination building, which would be at some distance from the future church By 194 3, both the school and the church were begin which, when built, would face Webster Avenue. The ning to be inadcguate for tl1e reguirements of the parish. 1 permanent rectory. therefore, would also properly face the The church could still be made to do, bv the addition avenue. of extra Masses on Sundays, but the cro.,,~ded condition of the four school rooms - had become a real problem. It was decided. then, that the edifice to be erected now. Many suggested solutions came to the fore, not the least west of the church-and-school building on Beaumont among which was that tbe parish begin thinking of Street, for use as a rectorv. would eventual!\· be used as erecting a church so that the lower floor of the school the permanent sisters' co~vent, and that fl;or plans for building could be converted into school use, according the new house should reflect that thought and plan. to the original plan and intention. The Bishop approved the erection of a building to cost But the parish was still in debt, and the cost of a in the neighborhood of $14,000. The total cost of the new church seemed prohibitive. Bishop Rhode advised · house and its furnishings, according to the parish finan Father Littel that he could not give his approval for cial report of September 30, 1933, was $15.943.82. The building a new church until the old debt would be parish indebtedness increased to $26,500, but that same liquidated. After many parish meetings and much dis financial report shows that Father Littel paid off $8,450 cussion concerning the method and means, plans were 28 made for a concentrated clri,·e Lo pay off the parish debt. In the meantime, persistent effort was being madl' At a meeting in Februa ry, 1944, Father Littel pointed toward disposi ng of the parish indebtedness. T he drive. ou t that St. Matthew's would observe the Silver Jubilee first discussed and proposed in February, 1944. to cb1r of its foundation in 1947, and that occasion might well the en tire debt before the Silver Jubilee, proved success· serve as a goal for a debt-free status for the parish, and ful. The financial report of September 30. 1946. lists a year in which definite pl - .. 29 30 REVEREND EDWARD J. WESTENBERGER, M.A., Ph.D. Father Westenberger was born at Sherwood, August In January. 1928. Either 'vVestenberger was appointed 7, 1898. He took his classical and philosophic'' I courses to organize and develop the Green Bay Diocesan De at St. Lawrence College, l\fount Calvary, Wisconsin. partment of Education. In 1934 he founded the dio· receiving his B. f\. degree there in 1919. He then cesan summer school at St. Norbert College, De Pere, spent a year at Marquette University studying Dramatic Wis. with the cooperation of the White Fathers, for the Art, English, and Psycnology, after which he entered training of sisters teaching in our parochial schools. St. Francis Seminary to · begin his theological studies. Starting with 200 the first summer, the school has grown He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Paul P. to an enrollment of 579 in the 1947 session. Its purpose Rhcxlc at the cathedral in Green Bay. on May 17, 1923. and effectiveness are nationally known, and in the field of Catholic elementary edi.1cation, the Green Bay dio His first assignment was that of assistant to the pastor cesan school system is recognized nation-wide as being of St. John's church in Green Bay. In the fall of 1924 second to none. Bishop Rhode directed him to enter the Ca tholic Uni· versity at v\lashington for graduate studies in Psychology Father Westenberger was appointed. fourth pastor of and Educa tion. He received his Master of Arts degree St. Matthew's on January 30, 1947. Although he faces in 1925 and his Doctorate in Philosophy in 1927. During a heavy program of building and expansion at the parish, two summers he worked at Columbia Universitv and his work of directing the diocesan school system must also took special courses in Medicine and Psychol~gy at also go on. Bishop Bona therefore wishes him to function the Cornell University Medical School, N. Y. and Johns in both capacities. Hopkins University, Baltimore. .,,.._ ""' Father Edward P. Kilsdonk Curate at St. Matthew·~ Former Curates at Saint Matthew's Father Leo J. Schmitt Father Ladislaus Lisowski Father Charles J. Duerr 32 THE FOURTH PASTOR for the making of these improvements. They were fi Reverend Edward J. W estenberger, Ph. D. nanced through private gifts of parishoners. ( by H. R.) But no relief was yet provided for the parish school. A new increase in enrollment \.Vas aoain in sioht for the b b Father Westenberger came to St. i.\1atthcw's in the coming September. ;111 cl the present quarters were already Silver Jubilee year of 1947. When he a rrived. on January fa r overcrowded. Father W esten berger knew that his 30, 1947. the t\\'enty·lifth birthday of the parish was school rnuld not function efficicntl v under such a strain. only three months away. Jn preparation For the e\'t'nt. the Accordingly, he arranged. after ~onsulta t ion with his parish indebtedness had been cleared through rhe hard trustees and parish advisors, to have the pipe organ re work of the former pastor, Father Littel, and the generos moved from the northwest corner of the church and to ity of the fi ne people of whom St. Matthews' is so proml. have a second temporary school room built in the space But the debt-clea ring dri,·e had been staged to clear the vacated by the organ. This change made the floor area way for a much-needed and long-desired parish building of the church still smaller, but there was no other alter program, which would be la unched on the occasion of native. T he organ was sold to St. Mary's congregation of the Silver Jubilee. East Wrights town, and a H ammond electronic instru ment, having all the latest H ammond improvements, was Fa tht.:r \•Vestenbcrger kne\\' of these parish plans before.: purchased for St.Matthew's. A new, though small , choir his coming to Allouez, and he came to St. Matthew's space enclosed by draperies, was provided at the front prepared to face and tackle the huge job. of the church, on the· epistle side. T he H ammond oroan . 0 WJll serve the parish effectively. and will satisfy our needs But this was the Sil\'er Jubilee year, and certain ren in the new church until funds are available for a pi pe ovations and improvement had already been needed ab~nt t organ commensurate, in size and dignity, with the state· St. M atthew's for some time. Even though a building ly colonial edifice St. Matthew's will have in the not too ... program and an organized drive toward the means for distant future. its realization would he la unched without dclav, ne,·er theless the eternal present in \\'hich we live must always The improvement pogram involved no costl y or major be provided for. T he new church building would not changes, and yet, both church and school arc now clean become a reality l'or two or th rec years, and therefore and attractive in appearance, and adequate for efficient the pn.·sent school building could not be given over to functioning until the erection of the new church. which school use entirclv. until chat time. The school. alread\' will relieve the situation premanently. enlarged to include one temporar) classroom. was crowd ed for beyond capacity and comfort. It was ohvious that Simultaneously wi th his \.vork of renovati ng fo r the at least some small improvements, not costl y or too ex· Silver Jubilee, Father Westenberger proceeded with the tensive, were immediately impcrati,·e for ellicienr parish greater task or organizing and planning the future build operation and progress. ing program. In the course of his early conversations about his hopes and plans concerning the m·w church. Father 'vVestenbcrgcr lost no time in analyzing thl· he was fortunate in receiving two large gifts, one of immediate needs and arranging . fo r their remedy. To $5,000 and one of $500. from personal friends who have commemorate the Sil ver Jubilee in a modest but practical asked to remain anonymous. May God reward their .... way, and at the same time to brighten and beautify God's generosity. House, he first arranged for a complete cleaning and re'1ecoration of the entire church quarters. Fresh paint. May 5, 1947, was the twenty-fifth birthday of the in ligh te r hues, the gift of a parishoner, was applied parish of St. Mattht.:w in the Town of Allouez. In line everywhere. New Stations of the Cross, the Feuerstein with the long-term plan of clearing all parish indebtedness paintings, Father \Vestenberger's own gift. in small size for the occasion, and then stepping forward with a pro and on laminated woo 33 bui ldings Lhar would become p.n1 of the parish unit. and the fi nal report was "mission accomplished.'' ~!l i e .... T hey engaged Foeller. Scholx:r. Bm 1ers, Safford & J Lhc future er;l, wha t the plam were recei,·ed another g T he firs t quan cr century in tlil· hist0ry \•f St. .\Im· H ats nil to the accomplishmen1s of the pa$t. the11 's had come ro a close. T lw pn.: ~l·nt era h:1d ended. C01\TS off. to tlt L' .11.:ornplishmcnts of the ru l'LIH E. - Key to the Shantytovvn Church , built in 183 1. The key was found 111 Allouez Catholic Cemetery, on the site of the old ch urch, in 1922. - 34 - THE FUTURE The Function of a Catholic Parish Today It is an essentia l pnrt of Cntholic beli ef, drnt the Never in the history of the world has there been great Church is a divine institution, founded bv Ch rist I lim er need for religion among men, than today. T he human ,... self. W e know, too, that the o.ne and only. rea lly import· race seems obsessed with a g reed fo r pm.-ver and all-ab ant th ing in our individual regard . is tha t we work out sorbing interest in the things of the ma terial order. Tem the sal\'ation of the s ~>UI. \\'ithin us, \Vhich God has poral artificialities arc taking the pbcc of spiritual values. created immortal. T hrough Faith ancl Heason we arc The things of time arc crowding out the things of eter· aware that we cannot hope to accomplish th is end, which nity. And with conditions growing steadily more h ope le.~ s Christ ca lled, "the one thing necessary," except thro ugh in the social and economic oder. even the most dose affilia tion with, and the constnnt g uidance nf. l lis optimistic among us are at least occasionally confronted Church. with vision of total chaos as the only possible outcome. Thus there exists between the Ca tholic and his Yet, we know that there IS an a lternative. There IS a C hurch, the very closest [!nd most. intimate of all possible way out. T here IS a means of ch;tnging what now might relationships on earth, ror this ls a relationship that car seem to be the inevitable course of events. /\nd that ries over into eternity. His membership in the C hurch means is the Church. of Christ is, to the Catholic, the central fact of life itself. T he more man concentrates on material things. the less It is the focal point of his very existence. It is the hub time does he have fo r God. But if man can be.shown the of the wheel that propels his en ti re life-s pan. lt is the wisdom of keeping Cod in first place, then the other side standard by which everything he is and does must: be of h is existence· will always be regu lated with <1 view measured and directed. - tO\ovard that "one thing necessa ry." his soul's salvation. But it is important ro remember that the relationship Yes, the Church is the one and only answer, for the of which we speak is a mutual one, between the Catholic Church has the only possible solution to the problem. , and his Maker. For Cod deals with us throu~h I !is I ~· Only by tightening our hold on the truths of our Faith . Church. i\nd just as we are dutifully bound to place and the morals they point out to us, can we hope to avert '·our total dependence on God's C hurch fo r the ri ght both spiritual and temporal self-clcstrucLio n. ordering of our lives to ti1<1 t one great end, so do we a ls:> have the right to look 10 the Church and her ministers Our Holy ~!o t her. the Church. deals with us through for the helps we need tO reach heaven through a good the instrument of our own particular parish and the life on earth. priests appointed to serve that parish. T hus our parish be comes, - to us, as individuals, - T l IE CH UHCI I, and T he matter of making herself the focal point cF man's hence the most important consideration in our li\'cs . life on earth has always been the C hurch's aim. In the early ages of Christiani ty. the ;\'lass was the central action But, calling to mind rhe 1111111111/ side of the rela tionshi p of the dav, and to be a C hristian meant to live in dost' that must exist between a Catholic and his paris h church. commu n i ~n with the C hurch. lts members were so in we ca n readily see that a parish cannot fulfill its all timately united that they possessed their earthly goods in important function of being the a ll-embracing factor in common. - a trulv C hristian communism. Tocbv. with the li ves of its memhcrs, unless it fim receive From those the forces of a thei s~ic communism stri vi ng for world dom members an unreserved physical, moral. and financial ination, how fa r haw we not d rifted From that proto-typc support. A parish cannot become a spiritua l influence of real C hristian living! unless it fi rst have physical existence: and even stature. 35 orear land die free. Snrclv we could not be better prc- .. t\nd in a sense. i1s spiritual reach is measured by the ex 0 or • tent of its physical fac ility for exercising influence and pared or conditioned to proceed with our parish develop- prestige among its members. ment program. \Ve can build on the foundation of our llrst twcnty-li1·c. and creditahk. yei:l rs. \Ve can proceed In the American world of todav. the two dominant foe· with plans already formulated. And in 1his. om Siker t0rs in the spreading of Christ's .cause are Catholic edu Jubilee yl'ar. \\"t' ~ h all proceed1 cation and Cuholic social life. In this age of acti\·ity. edu cation and social life are taking a steadily greater share of men's time ;1nd interest. Unless they art· indulged in Our New Parish Church under the influence and direction of i\ lo1hl'r Church. their pursuit cannot possibly escape the sn:ircs of god lessness and fal se philosophy. The pri 1wi 1)al. and appropri;11cly the most hcautifu 1 lt follows. 1hen, that the Church must 1ake the lead and 111ost rn~ily. building that will be part of our parish in edurntion and leisure-time activitv. if her children i:rc unit. will be 1he new St. .\1a11hew church. It is also the 10 become whole Chfistians. The Catholic family is cht· first in our huilding program. Of colonial archi1ecture. bulwark.of our entire social order. The chi ldren r;f Cath and \\'ith ib front entrance toll'ard the \l'l'SI. thi~ imp o~ ,.. olic families have 11 right and 1i ilc to the \ ·e r~· best in cdu ino structure wi ll ~ tand facino \ \'chster Bouk1"<1rd. and 0 ~ c The St. Matthew's of Tomorrow The intl·rnal furnishing~ and .ippointmcnls of the church \1 ill lw in decorou~ harmony with 1he architec - tural stvlt· and design of the huildino', in accordance with ~ - ~ St. l\llatthcw s aim is to be i-he "ideal" Catholic pari~h liturgirn I ;111cl ;in istic prescri pl ions. a ncl in keeping with mentioned abO\ 'C. lt is both Forr unmc and unfortun 36 interested in the religious and material progrc~s of hi~ cation for our Catholic children through their en tire pari sh not so much from thc: standpoint of his own ad elementary and h igh school training. van·rage. as from a motil'e of provid ing benefit and oppor In keeping with this Diocesan plan, St. :\·latthcw's tunitv for his children. The welfare of h is chilclrc: n, - school of tomorrow will h ave suH1cient classrooms, to the ~nrichment thev derive spiritually, int ~ ll ec1uall y . provide for kindergarten, elcmcnary school, and junior morall)' • and sociallv, ·, - is the motivatino0 cause rm hi ~ high school rnurses. \Ve can be certain that our parish backing of parish policy, support of its program, and man school will lack none of the attributes req uired to make it ifestation of an a<:t i\'C parish sp irit. He knows that hi:: the outsrnnding parish school in the Diocese, or beyond. sharing of the parish burclen enables h is ch ildren to be Catholic school training is the thing, and St. l\1atthe\\' s come a credit to h im, to their Cod . their parish. and thei r is determined to have it at its best. The most recent in community. sound cdw.;atinn developments, the most ad va nced In our plans at S t. J\·latthcw·s. the welfare of our chil methods, rh c finest in recreational facilities, rhe most dren has been placed second only to the consideration or modern eq uipment, - these will join to spell opportunity Almigh ty God H imself. Our school is next in im portanct•. for the children of St. Matthew's school. on our program, to ou r new parish church. It is trne that we do have a school building now. By the ·time we occupy our ne. w church, however. and assign The Rectory and Convent the entire present school building to school use. the cvc r increasing student enrollment wi ll ha,·e already ca used a condition of overcrowdedness and in adequan. It is nnh The new parish rectory viill be joined to the ch urch on goo If Catholic education is truly the ideal, then it should St. M atthew's is a growing parish, just as Allouez is a go a ll the way. ,..\ Catholic elementary school gives the progressive and steadily growing community. The new child ohly a start. T hat scan can easily be nullificcl if St. ~ lauhew church will greatly enhance the value of conditions and circumstances mili ta te suffic i en t! ~· against property and the attractiveness of residence in Allouez, it after the child transfers to a non-C atholic high sc hool and the plans of all parish buildings have consequently and passes on to a college or university. But the C hurch been drawn with proper consideration for this anticipated has developed and maintaned h er parish elementary growth. Hence the new rectory will be large enough to s<:hool system only th ro ugh great and heroic sacrifices on provide comfortable living space for the number of priests the part of our Catholic people, and the establishment of that will he needed for serving the parish in itS full Catholic high schools on a la rge scale has been irnpo~iblc development. because of the insupportahle costs in volved. The present rectory will eventually be used for its ori God has blessed our efforts. howt',·cr. and gradtxdlv we ginally intended purpose , the sisters's convent Built of \'CT)' are realizinoO ' at least to a limited extent, thi~ wiwle· stone, it is a sturdy and beautiful structure, but even at some desire and ideal. Yet, in most instances the cost ol' present it would be too small to accommodate the number maintaining individual pari sh h igh schools is still pro of sisters teaching in our sch ool. As the school grows, h ibitive. But in our own d iocese of Green Ua v. the more sisters will be needed, and an enlargement of the Diocesan Department of Education proPoses a pla;1 that convent will be required. The arcbitect will plan the e n is both judicious and possible of accomplishment. The largement and n:modeling in such way that the com plan is that each parish operate its own j1111ior high pleted con ve nt will conform to the other parish buildings school, and that central Catholic high schools be estab in general style and colonial design. lished in urban localities "'here se\'eral parishes can joi nt· ly share d)e support of the central school. The junior h igh school idea will organize the educa Our Parish Social Center tional program in to th ree parts : an elementary school, in· c'ucling grades one through six; a junior high school com prising grades seven, eight, and nine; and a senior hig h \Ve live in an age of intense activity. Everyone young school h aving grades ten, eleven, and twelve. Once cstab· and old. has a program of pursuits and occupations of lished in full, this a rrangement will provide Catholic cdu· almost every type. outside h is regular \\'Ork. for the pur- post: or using his leisure time pleasurably and profitably. cluh purposes. musical or erlucational projects, card socials. or wlrntc,·er acti,·ities may be a part or parish social and The Church. in her capacity as our \!other. is inter religious !ife. ested in n/I the acti\'ities of her chi ldren. Just as she deems it indispensable tO direct our ed ucation in th(' The soci;il center will complete the program th ro ugh proper channels to\1·ard the proper ends. so does she con which t'hc members of St. l\·latthcw's c m lin' a full and sider it necessa ry to guide us in our social acti1·ities so trul y Cathol ic li fe under the guidance of Mother that our who.le life will be safelv directed toward our fmal Church. with their own parish as the center of that li fe , end. and the center ol: their community. In the life of hurry and bustle which we lead today. both yo ung nnd old need the recreation and relaxation which social acti\'ity prO\·ides. Such acti1·i t)' takes nn an The Next Twenty-F ive Years added worth •lnd ll'holesomeness when a parish social center is the place of its enactm e;: nt. \Vhcn we plan great things. we must plan als:) for the In due time. and in proper seg uencc. St. \latthe\\··s perse1'Cra ncc·needcd to ar.(omplish them . Nothing worth will ]i;11·c "'"' - The Present St. Matthew1 s - PRIESTS AND BROTHERS FROM ST. MATTHEW PARISH Becker - Father' Simon Becker, 0. Praem. Parents: Mr. and Mrs". Joseph Becker Becmster - Father John Matthew Beemstcr, 0. Praem. Parents : i\1r. and l\1rs. Simon Beemstcr Bccmster - Brorher \ Villebrord Beemster, Society of Divine Word Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Simon Beemster Dionne - f ather Luke Dionne, 0. Praem. Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Napoleon Dionne Littel - Rev. Herbert A. Littel (Born in Allouez) Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Littel McKeough - Hev. Francis McKeough Parents: l\'lr. and Mrs. l\'lichael McKeough McKeough - Dr. i\1. J. McKeough Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Michael McKeough Peters - Father Blaise Peters, 0. Praem . .... Parents: Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Peters Riess - Brother Gerlac Riess, 0. Pream. Parents: i\ lr. and Mrs. T. Thompson Schumacher - Rev. Mr. Paul Schumacher (to be ordained in 1948) Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Urban Schumacher Steinmetz - Father Mark A. Steinmetz, 0. Pream. Parents: Mr. and Mrs. George Steinmetz SISTERS FROM SAINT MATTHEW PARISH Becker - Sr. Angelia Marie, S.S.J., St. Louis Parents: Mr. and M rs. Joseph Becker Beemster - Sr. M. Agatha, School Sisters of Notre Dame Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Simon Beemster 39 Beemster - Sr. M. Simina, School Sisters of Notre Dame Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Simon Beemster Dantine - Sr. M. Elaine, Franciscan, Bay Settlemenr Parents: l\h. and l\1rs. Joseph Dan tine Fabry - Sr. !Vl. Luke, Franciscan, Bay Settlement Parents: Mr. and Mrs. John Fabry Forsythe - Sr. M. Andre, Franciscan, Bay Settlement Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Forsythe Manthy - Sr. M. Camilla, St. Francis of Assisi, Milwaukee Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Herman A. Manthy McKeough - Sr. M. Norberta, S.S.J., St. Louis Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Michael McKeough McKeough - Sr. Rosalita Marie, S.S.J .. St. Louis (died 12-9-36) Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Michael McKeough McKeough - Sr. Teresa Mary, S.S.J .. St. Louis Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Michael McKeough Mongin- Candidate Mary Ann, S.S.J., St. Louis Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mongin Pauls - Sr. Henry Michael, Franciscan, Alverno Parents: Mr. ;md Mrs. Henrv, Pauls Schumacher - Sr. M. Urban, Franciscan, Bay Settlement Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Urban Schumacher Steinmetz - Sr. M . Lort:!tta, Franciscan, Bay Settlement Parents: Mr. and Mrs. George Steinmetz Vercauteren - Candidate Jeanne, Franciscan, Bay Settlement Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Leo Vercauteran RECORD OF SISTERS TEACHING IN ST. MATTHEW SCHOOL ,.. Sister M. Agatha, 1935 - 1938 Sister M Cletus, 1945 - Sis~er M. Louis, 1927 - 1934 Sister M. Agnes, 1946 - Sister M. Denise, 1940 · 1941 Sister M Joseph, 1925 - 1929 Sister M. Alberta, 1940 - 1945 Sister M. Dolores: 1925 - 1927 Sister M. Mildred, 1936 - 1941 and 1947 Sister M. Anita, 1933 - 1947 Sister M. Eleanor, 1942 - Sister M. Norbert, 1933 - 1937 Sister M. Benigna, 1941 - 1943 Sister M. Florence, 1937 - 1946 Sister M. Odile, 1947 - Sister M. Bertilla, 1934 - 1936 Sister M. Gabriel, 1932 - 1935 Sister M. Patricia, 1927 - 1933 Sister M. Bonaventure, 1944 - Sister M . Germaine, 1938 - 1940 Sister M. Rosella, 1943 - Sister M. Cannella, 1929 - 1932 Miss Patricia LonglieJd, 1931 - 1932 SAINT MATTHEW PARISH OFFICERS Agternkamp, Clem Finance Com. 20 years Golueke, N icholas Consultor 8 Advisory Com. 2 Advisory Com. 2 Auchter, Martin J. Secretary I Hasseler, John J. Consultor 4 Becker, J. Building C:Om. I I lockers, Charles Advisory Com. 2 Beemster, Simon Advisory C:Om. 2 Consultor 4 Burke, Raymond E. Treasurer l Huguet, Arsene Finance Com. 9 Consultor l Jorgensen, L. C. Treasurer 8 Busch, Robert Secretary 3 Kavanaugh, James Finan~e Com. IO Consultor l Kelliher, John Consuitor 4 Bushmaker, John Consul tor 4 Kiefer, Ray Building Com. I Coenen, James Consultor 4 Kwitek, Ed. Treasurer l Dantine, Joseph Treasurer 8 Linssen, George V. Consuitor 4 Consultor 4 Manthey, B. G . Advisory Com. 2 DeBroux, Antone Advisory Com. 2 McGahey, E. P. Consultor 1 Denessen, Dominic Consultor 4 McKeough, C. Building Com. I Denissen, C. F. Treasurer 3 Mongin, Frank J. Secretary 3 Denissen, John Consultor 3 Moran, F. E. Secretary 8 40 Building Com. 1 Neufeld, A. C. Treasurer 2 Steinmetz, George Finance Com. 18 Schaefer, Clem Secretary 4 Building Com. 1 Shepro, Maurice Consultor 7 Treml, Carl Secretary 4 Steinmetz, Georg Consultor 3 Vanden Heuvcl, G. R. Con suitor 4 MEMBERSHIP OF SAINT MATTHEW PARISH 1922 - 24 117 members: 65 children in school. ... 1947 - 48 383 members; 240 children in school. The first tJolv Mass cclebrnted in Saint Mauhew Church was served by two boys, who roday are Fath<'r Maurice J. Windt, O.Praem .. and Father John Matthew fleemster. O.Praem. The first graduate of St. Matthew School w~s Miss Agatha Bccmster, (now Mrs. Norbert Hau, Buffalo, N. Y.) The total numher of Baptisms - 440. The total number of Confirmations - 342. The total number oF Marriages - 121. - T he total number of Deaths - 118. Organists serving Saint Matthew's from 1922 to 1947 Mr. Charles Wieber .... Mrs. Ralph Mead (Anna McKeough) Mrs. George Steinmetz Mrs. Bcrnard Gueinzius HONOR ROLL OF SA INT MATTHEW'S - Men and Women Serving in World War II Richard Bienzcn Stephen Dionne Herbert Krueger Urban Steinmetz Herman Blodgett Paul Ou Charme Leland Lallement Olaf Taft Kathleen Bunker James Dunn Donald Lambeau James Tennies Beverly Burckle Harold Dupuis Omer Lancelle Joseph Tennies .... Edwa rd Burckle Edward Duquaine Norman Lciterman Lawrence Testavin Cvril Bushmaker Robert Everson Chester Libal Maurice Testavin Jt;lrn Bushmaker Jack Fitzgerald Dominic Loonsfoot L1wrence Tiwmas Louis Bushmaker John l lcintzkill Anthony Manders Leland Thomas 1\nthonv Bushman Carl Hetrick Vincent McKeough Carl Schmidt Richard. Calliari Francis Hollowav Ernest Mianecki Donald Schmidt Myron Cappelle Glenn Holloway' Bernard ~ longin John Schumacher Leo Christiansen John l lolloway John Mongin Winford Thom:is vVilliam Christiansen Lawrence I lollowa v Francis Moran John S. Toppins Jerry Coffey Patrick Holloway Patrick Murphy Lawrence Vanden Elzen Robert Couvillion Donald Huguet Joseph Neufeld Robert Van Deuren Donald Dantine Clenn Huguet Hichard Orton Dr. A. Van Handle r\lf red Denissen Merlin Huguet Ciayton Peters Richard Vercaueren f-!arold Denissen Francis Jonet Norbert Peters Oavid Vernosh Maurice Denissen Or. P. Jorgensen Robert Rankin R. G. Walker Robert Denissen l\·licbael Kac-Lmarek lJonald Schlaefer Eired Wetli Vernon Denissen Orville Keup Peter Schumacher Jerome Wctli Kenneth Derouin John Kiefer Joseph Stathas ..... Harry Dionne Thomas Kolocheski George Srein ~ :"'I 41 PERROT SILVER OSTENSORIUM Presented to the St. Francis Xavier Jesuit Mission :rt De Pere in 1686, by N icolas Perrot, French Commandant of the \Vest. The contemporary French inscription on the rim of the base is the following: 'This Sole.ii was donated by Mr. Nicholas Perrot to the Mission of St. Francis Xavier in the Bay of the Punnts- 1686." /\hout a year after th is benefaction of Perrot, the De Pt:rc Mission Church was burned by pagan Indians. It is natural to suppose that the ostcnsorium was buried in the earth by its guardi.:i ns. who sought to save it from sacrilegious hands. and who suc ceeded so well that they themselves were never able to recover it. ln 1802, about 115 years later, vvorkmen digging a fou ndation for a bark-house in Green Bay dashed against a silver vessel which proved to be Perren's present. The finding had been made on tire old Langlade-Grignon est.:ite. It was used fnr Divine services in the Grignon home and kept in the custody of J\.ifr. Grignon. It was used in the first church in 1823. Later it was takt·n to Detroit hv Father Bonduel in 1838. In June, 1941, the Perrot Ostensorium was exhibited during the Eucharistic Con gress in Saint Paul, I\ linnesota. It was actually used during Benediction with the Most Blessed Sacrament at the St. Paul Eucharistic Congress, on the 23rd of June, 1941. 42 - PUBLICATION OF THE ANNAL HAS BEEN MADE POSSIBL E LARGELY THROUGH THE ASSISTANCE GIVEN US BY OUH PATRONS LISTED ON THE FOL· LOWING PAGES. WE Jlf.Tff.RY GHATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THEIH HELP AND FR/Ef\IDSJ/JP, !\ND SINCERELY I/OPE Tl/AT THEIR SUPPOHT OF US W ILL BE RECIPROCATED. Saint Matthew Pa risl1 .... .... e~ I.a. ST. MATTHEW PARISH ON THEIR SILVER JUBILEE ~ · ,..., ***** - ***** ,.., ***** ***** ,..., ***** .... JOSEPH VAN DRISSE ~ I CATHEDRAL PARISH Rev. John B. Gehl, Pastor Rev. Earl Schuh, Assistant Rev. 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WASHINGTON ST. ADAMS 1611 GREEN BAY, WIS. J MICHAAL & ANSORGE ""' !~ Compliments of CHARLES TITUS, Owner 110 N. W ASlilNGTON ST. F. HURLBUT co. Phone ADAMS 988 t~ ~ede/u I«, ELGIN HAMILTON WATCHES WATCHES Phone ADAMS 23 BLUEBIRD GORHAM PERFECT STERLING DIAMONDS SILVER GREEN BAY ABSTRACT CO. ABSTRACTS OF TinEs IN BROWN COUNTY 102 COLUMBUS BLDG. GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN KAFTAN, RAHR &KAFTAN Phone ADAMS 262 FLORENCE K. CORNEUSEN. Secretary Attorneys at Law e~~ DOllLD W. GLEASOI EDWARD M . DUQUAINE MunicipQI Judge of Brown County Circuit Judge e~~ J. IORMAI BASTEI MERL STRECKENBACH District Attorney of Brown County Sheriff of Brown County GILLESPIE &WOUTERS .... Investment Securities Suite 210 Northern Building Our Sincere Congratulations Green Bay, Wisconsin to TELEPHONE ADAMS 355.355 ST. MATTHEW'S TELETYPE GREEN BAY 112 on it's SILVER JUBILEE WISCONSIN PUBLIC* SERVICE CORP. NORTH SIDE RECREATION GREEN BAY. WIS. 14 Bowling Lanes Restaurant J. WILLARD DEBAUCHE. Owner e0-mpiifneuu a.J JOSEPH DO NOV AN Brown County Superintendent of Schools WISCONSIN CONCRETE PRODUCTS COMPANY ANNE E. WANEK Brown County Treasurer CONCRETE SEWER PIPE REINFORCED CONCRETE SEWER PIPE REINFORCED CULVERTS CONCRETE BLOCK E. P. EVANS VICE PRESIDENT LEO RUEL Clerk of Court 844 ACME ST. TEL. ADAMS 802 of Circuit House of Brown County HICKORY RIDGE DAIRY High Quality Pasteurized Dairy Products OUR CASH A ND CARRY PLAN SAVES MONEY 1214 SOUTH BAIRD STREET e0-mpknenh a./- JAMEs N. KAVANAUGH County Agricultural Agent Brown County JOHN HOLLOWAY County Clerk of Brown County HAROLD LOCK Register of Deeds of Brown County Nora F. Hogan Establishea 1850 Capital S25.000 BROWN COUNTY ABSTRACT CO. 122 E. WALNUT ST. Tel. ADAMS 663 1 GREEN BAY SOAP COMPANY - HAWTHORN GARDENS Growers of Quality Glads BEEMSTER WHOLESALE ONLY ELECTRIC CO. t~eo~ SUPPLIES e WIRING WETLI -1au~ $~ 127 N. BROADWAY ADAMS 1429W GREEN BAY. WIS. GREEN BAY. WIS. DESIGNING NURSERY STOCK P.O. Box 380 Cherry 18 RI JOHN MIANECKE OAKWOOD NURSERY DEGROOT-ALLEN INC. 1234 Main Street Phone Adams 1216 SCHROEDER'S i~e~~eai~ HOUSE OF FLOWERS 119 N. ADAMS ST. Call for Any Electrical• Trouble Choice Cut Flowers and Pot Plants for All Accessories See Our Display of Lighting Fixtures ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES RABIDEAU KNOELLER ELECTRIC COMPANY HARDWARE CO. INC. 215 N. WASHINGTON ST. GREEN BAY WIS. 316·326 MAIN AVE. WEST DE PERE. WIS. PHONE 157 HARDWARE e PLUMBING FIXTURES e PLUMBING RADIOS RANGES ea-m~o/ REFRIGERATORS WASHERS ANDERSON RADIO & ELECTRICAL SERVICE Electrical Contractor 114 S. Broadway. De Pere Phone 2201 JANSSEN & ROBERTSON ELECTRIC G. E. Mayor Appliances ZENITH RADIOS 317 Main St. Phone 73 West De Pere 1"11, SALES SERVICE General Electric Appliances RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT EASTMAN SUPPLY CO. GREEN BAY. WIS. RELIANCE PRINTING COMPANY GREEN AVENUE ALLOUEZ John Deere Quality Farm Equipment Printing and• Publishing Books and Annuals GREEN BAY IMPLEMENT CO. 827-829 MAIN ST. GREEN BAY. WIS. PHONE ADAMS 5207 ... Phone ADAMS 2727 ... GREEN BAY SHOE REPAIR CO . ... e~ot BOGDA 214 CHERRY ST. ADAMS 524 MOTOR e~ot .... COMPANY BAUM'S DEPARTMENT STORE CORNER ADAMS LAYETTE AT PINE ARNDORFER BROS. - GREEN BAY. WJS. Salu r.uul. Se/Ulic.e SERVICE * ADAMS 1345 DE SOTO PLYMOUTH e~ot PHONE AD. 47 132 S. ADAMS ST. H. L. GREEN CO. GREEN BAY. WIS. ll& N. Washinqton Street Green Bay BERENDSEN'S 1018 WILLOW STREET ADAMS 2765 Pictures - Picture Framing Prints - Art Goods 311 North Adams Howard 4335 Opp. Northland Hotel Green Bay, W is. D. BETTEN and COMPANY Iron and Steel Scrap Waste Materials GREEN BAY. WISCONSIN MITZI SHOP e~ot 117 North Washington St. MARLEE SHOP NEWMAN'S 124 North Washington St. DIXON'S e~ot FASHION CORNER PIONEER CLOTHING CO. 300 Main Street 318 N. WASHINGTON ST. GREEN BAY. WIS. E. A . MACK FASHION SHOPS e~ot ETHYL'S Oppo1lte Hotel Northland e DRESSES e ACCESSORIES • SPORT WEAli ,.. ADAffiSATPmE NORTHERN SHEFFER STUDIO TRUCK SERVICE QUALITY PR INT SHOP Printers Rulers Binders 2121/: Pine Street Green Bay. Wis. F. £. MORAN Prop. 6 1 0 M A I N S T R E E T Green Bay, Wis. e~ot 1ARSCff£1D SIGNS Dealer member of FINE FURNITURE the Grand Rapids furniture male era FORA Guild • • . by lnTI· talion. We take pride in being able ~ · to offer tastefUl, distinctive furniture . furniture that was ... desgned to conform to the fashion of both to-day and - to-morrow for Beauty . . . Quality . . . and Comfort ·""' Our staff of interior decorators are at ... your service . . . ever ready to assist you in planning ... and at no charge, of course. ,.. WALNUT AT ADAMS Green Bay's Finest Home Furnishings Store VERIFINE DAIRY PRODUCTS CORP. MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN BUTTER MILK CREAM ICE CREAM 520 Cedar Street Phone Howard 60 GREEN BAY. WIS. e~~~ e~o1 AMERICAN R£NN£T CO. ATLAS GREEN BAY. WIS. WAREHOUSE BllR£Sff SIGNS and MODERN SIGN ADVERTISING Truck Lettering a Specialty COLD STORAGE GREEN BAY HOWARD 2659 CANDID AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY 1£f£8VR£ 1U£8K£ 319 N. ADAMS ... ,., i NORTHWEST OFFICE SUPPLY CO. 212 PINE ST. GREEN BAY. WIS. GREEN BAY WAREHOUSES' INC. 203 COLUMBUS BLDG. GREEN BAY. WIS. W. F. KERWIN, President e(#Jtt~ o:/ CENTURY BOWLING ALLEYS DE PERE, WIS. MOTOR PARTS AND MACHINE CO. 409-411 N. ROOSEVELT ~ eomp/imenU of. SCHMITZ MOTORS e~o1 RYAN BROADWAY GARAGE FUNERAL HOME 230 N. Broodwoy De Pere, Wis. CHEVROLET and OLDSMOBILE ,... De Pere, Wisconsin c: COAD FUNERAL HOME 509 W. Walnut St. Ph. ADAMS 1447 Green Bay, W is. C. A. LAWTON CO. Van Gernert Memorials MONUMENTS AND WORKS 300 Main St. West De Pere, W~. ALLOUEZ MEMORIAL WORKS ENGEBRETSEN'S PETER P. JELINSKI. Prop. AUTO REBUILDERS Monume nts, Ma rke rs a nd Cemetery Work 1420 S. Webster Ave. Green Boy. Wis.. "If we can't fix it .... . give it away" GREEN BAY. WIS. Phone Howard 3413 823·25·27 S. Broodwoy WRECKS REBUILT - FENDER, BODY, FRAME ·and AXLE STRAIGHTENING - AUTO REFINISHING MILLER SCRAP IRON & STEEL CO. IU9 Cedor St. Phone ADAMS 397 ... - ALLEN LOCKER SERVICE GREEN AVENUE GREEN BAY. WISCONSIN - ...., _. (Jo;n~ of MORGAN'S SERVICE Van Drisse Motors 601 Main and Monroe (J~enla, of AMERICAN SOFT WATER SERVICE REIMER TRANSFER & STORAGE 521 E. WALNUT ADAMS 2446 640 ELIZABETH STREET - SOFT WATER GIVES - Green Bay. Wis. Tel ADAMS 2288 Whiter Clothes • Bubble &:iths Lustrous Shampoos • Better Living GENER.Al. TRUCKING AND MOVINC'! CULLIGAN SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF CHARITY SOFT WATER SERVICE Owners of Sisters Laundry 315 N. Monroe Avenue Howard 5043 Howard 23 17 172!> Morrow St. J . N. FOELLER & SONS CO. LLOYD CHAMPEAU General Contractors Plastering Contractor BUILDING CONSTRUCTION SINCE 1900 PLAIN * TEXTURE * STUCCO SIDIN3 * DURA STONE GREE;N BAY. WIS. ~ ~ I . •' JACOB C. BASTEN "'I I ~ General Contractors I "Contributed OFFICE - 1329 MAIN ST. ~ • by a Friend" ~ ' 2nd noor in Rahr Brewery Office Bldg. • Telephone• ADAMS 6259 ~iYl.CE'l.E Congrntufation6. on GREEN BAY DROP FORGE e~o/ e~o/ FREEMAN NORCOR MFG. CO. Compliments of PAPER COMPANY DIANA MANUFACTURING CO. A. E. BIEBEL e~o/ GREEN BAY BOX CO. 112 S. Vlashinqton St. - MANUFACTURER Of CORRUGATED SHIPPING CONTAINERS AND FOLDING CARTONS CHAPEL & AMUNDSON FOX RIVER BOAT WORKS. INC. Weit De Pere, Wl1. e~o/ TAPE INCORPORATED LOCAL FULLER BRUSH AND CELLU MOP DEALER A1~a/ EDWARD cHRisTENSEN Route 6. Green Bay GUMMED SEALING TAPE ProlllJ)t Sernce Dally Howard 653J) e~uat PETEISOI MUSIC CO. THE STILLER COMPANY 129 Main St. Green Bay, Wis. KODAKS e PHOTO SUPPLIES SOUND & SILENT MO VIE EQUIPMENT POPULAR & CLASSICAL RECORDS M USICAL IN STRUMENTS Plan Your Llfe Insurance Carefully .. STJLLEll BLDG. 210-212 CHERRY ST. SAVINGS ANN UNITIES S.M. HELF Green Bay, Wis. 109 E. Walnut Howard 190 - Albert C. Neut eld 'k/~.f~:b~ NEUFELD LUMBER COMPANY 413 MINAHAN BLDG . GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN Louis J. Rukamp PAINTING & PAPER HANGING . e~o!J INTERIOR DECO RA TOR 214 E. MISSION ROAD GREEN BAY. WIS. SCHUSTER CONSTRUCTION CO. Wallpaper and Paint ZUMMACH & O'BRIEN PAINTS • FLOOR COVERINGS DENMARK . W ISCON SIN BALDWIN & CO. 311 MAIN ST. VERCAUTEREN BUILDING & SUPPLY CO . 351 Main Ave . Phone 782 West De Pere PETERS WELDERS LUMBER * MILL WORK LOWE BROS. and MAUTZ PAINTS SUPPLY CO. Authorized Dealer AIRCO Producis MILLER - RASMUSSEN Phone HOW ARD 4979 ICE FURNACES 445 S. JACKSON ST .. GREEN BAY. WIS. COAL OIL BURNERS REFRIGERATORS STOKERS 1 1 05 N . BROADWAY Hoffer Glass Co., Inc. g~ GREEN BAY. WIS. {jiw.u ~ tlle/Uf Pwzpode PIANO SHOP {jl e~o!J CCPmpliment.i o/ DAANEN LLOYD KISP£RT aJ, e()ffl~(j.I JANSSEN EARL'S AWNING CO. FORMERLY GREEN BAY AUTO TOP SHOP FACE BRICK COMMON BRICK GLAZED BRICK & TILE FIRE BRICK DRAIN TILE P. C. GLASS BLOCK SEWER PIPE AND FLUE LINING THE GAGNON CLAY PRODUCTS CO. 526 S. BROADWAY HOWARD 78 GREEN BAY. WISCONSIN THE LEADING MASONRY CEMENT RETA I L OFFICE MAIN WAREHOUSE ADAMS 508-509 ADAMS 552·5S3 PERMA-WOOL INSULATION CO. H.DANZ Fire Resistant * Vermin Proof * Rot Proof "The Paint and Roofing Man,, • GREEN BAY,·-· -WISCONSIN 1525 WILL OW STREET GREEN BAY. WIS. PREBLE MATERIAL SUPPLY CO. DUCK CREEK BRICK CO. 172S MORROW ST. GREEN BAY, WIS. Green Bay, Wisconsin TEL. HOWARD 2317 MANUFACTURERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF ,. VENETIAN PORTLAND CEMENT PAINT BRICK AND OTHER CLAY PRODUCTS ea~~~ GREEN BAY AWNING H£1G£RSON P1BG. CO. AND TENT COMPANY RELIABtE PLUMBING & HEATING 1106 MAIN ST. ADAMS 620-W 1306 MAIN ST. PH. ADAMS 530 Green Bay, Wis. ANDY'S NORTHERN METAL Be ROOFING CO. SHEET METAL & ROOFING CO. 510 NORTH WEBSTER AVE. M. L. VAN LANNEN. Mqr. 418 Cherry Street ~ · e~~ e~~ - STAIDAID LUMBER KNAUS CONSTRUCTION RO~ERT SCHA£T% COMPANY e~ and !JudJei ~ di~ thai P!ew.w PHONE HOWARO 5145-J """ .. OAK HILL DRIVE DE COSTER FOTH & PORATH Inc. CONSTRUCTION COMPANY GREEN BAY. WISCONSIN - Leo Vercauteren Norbert Hackers ""' rH HOCKE RS l"'I COAL 8: SUPPLY CO. Phone Howard 43 ~ 1£/(JW/, q~ tJJ-ueL 137 James Street CLEAN DELIVERIES ""' GREEN BAY, WIS. Phone 279 DE PERE , WIS. , I' WELLS COAL AND DOCK CO. CASH & CARRY 11 1/ie Plt(JO.I u m the /Jwuumt" LUMBER & SUPPLY CO. and KOS HATERIES 1276 MAIN ST. GREEN BAY. WIS. e~o1 "When Your Children Love and Marry THE CLEVELAND-CLIFFS IRON CO. Build Their Homes with Cash and Carry" GREEN BAY, WIS. HOIDA LUMBER AND COAL CO., INC. GREG EllGEBOS & SOllS MILL WORK e BUILDING MATERIAL 1300 Velp Avenue Phone Adams 779 1553 Willow St. GREEN BAY. WISCONSIN GREEN BAY. WIS. Phone HOW ARD 4930 Heating Engineers • Sheet Metal Works KROUTH HARDWARE Home Construction Builders Supplies HARDWARE • PAINTS • GLASS Retail Hardware • Sporting Goods Electrical and Hotpoint Home Appliances 1304 S. WEBSTER A VE. GREEN BAY. WIS. ... ' BADGER SHEET METAL WORKS 420 S. BROADWAY GREEN BAY, WIS. JOHNS·MANVILLE ROOFING. ASBESTOS SIDING & -.. BLOWN·IN JOHNS·MANVILLE ROCK WOOL FOR WALLS AND CEILINGS LENNOX AND MUELLER FURNACES VAN'S L HARDWARE, Inc. *HARDWARE* CALL ADAMS 30 PAINTS * STOVES CHECKER YELLOW CAB HOME APPLIANCES (}et.I, 1/,/(#,£ 1/wlie in $# FIND£1S£N & "i GREISER CO. i ~ 1 I ~ 1 . ..r l ~ 1 1 The Sign of Friendly Food Service e TOP QUALITY FOODS I I e LOW PRICES DAILY e COURTEOUS SERVICE . I e CONVENIENTLY LOCATED -1 e FIRST WITH THE FINEST , RED OWL FOOD STORES, INC. . EASTERN DIVISION HEADQUARTERSS e 801-837 CEDAR ST .. GREEN BAY. WIS. STOKELY FOODS, INC. GENERAL OFFICES INDIANAPOLIS 7. INDIANA Carry We PRODUCERS OF HIGH QUALITY FOOD A Complete Line of GREEN BAY DIETETIC FOOD REIM ER'S BIEBEL'S FOOD STORE MEAT PRODUCTS, INC. MEATS GROCERIES SAUSAGE MANUFACTURERS DRY GOODS · WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS l•O EAST MASON GREEN BAY. WIS. 1 GREEN BAY. WISCONSIN ADAMS 1022-1023 ' -1 h ZIMONICK BROS. CANNERY Sincere Congratulations On Your e~u~ Silver Jubilee A. &A. SUPER MARKET 730 MAIN STREET GREEN BAY FOOD CO. eompli~ o/- • 11 EB MANN CO. GREEN BAY. WISCONSIN e()m~d-{J.I BOHEMIAN BAKING COMPANY eo~~ e~ot - ' ALLOUEZ FOOD MARKET DELWICHE FARMS, INC. (J~liom! ~...lrJ.. ' FORD PURITY B'AKERY •HI Ill 1111 ..... ~~ .... 522 GEORGE ST. DE PERE. WIS. - (J~tl,om/ UGISTEUD GUlllNSIY CATTLI BOB HENDRICKS PIDIGBllD 8110 GRA IN S ALLOUEZ P.O. BOX487 Fish Fry Friday Nights GRUN BAY, WIS. THE CHATTERBOX DINING ROOM 814 G•orqe St, DE PERE. WIS. Phono 882 Frank Guerta. Prop. ~ 3e1u,u Bed 'WulteJ. q.'UUH, ,..., SERVICE STATJON BUR WHOLESALE CO. "2~ q.(JJ/, 70 Zje,a/J,d.,, REST A URA NT AND CABINS 722 ·QUINCY STREET HOWARD 40 and 306 ,- l"'I Demand ... LOY-IT BRAND aunER e~~ - - FAIRMONT ·I""! Made from Va<}reated Cream FOODS COMPANY ""I lov-lt Creamery - GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN WE SOLVE YOUR REAL ESTATE PROBLEMS ELMER DENESSEN COMPANY .. NEUFELD COLUMBUS BLDG. ADAMS 67 REALTY COMPANY MINAHAN McCORMICK BLDG. Compliments of £. A. Neufeld Walter E. NeuJeld THE SCHWARTZ REALTY COMPANY TEL. HOWARD 684 110 S. W ASIDNGTON ST. BAY BEAUTY SHOP 115 S. WASHINGTON ST. SEE OUR NEW ELECTRON WAVE CHRISTINE BEAUTY SHOP 308 MAIN STREET - BARNARD CORPORATION GREEN BAY. WISCONSIN Building Owners and Managers Chain Store Leasing General Real Estate Appraisals • BARNARD CORPORATION GREEN BAY. WISCONSIN HOWARD 6 W I S C 0 N S I N'S . e~ot VANDEUREN AGENCY LARGEST FURRIERS REAL ESTATE e INSURANCE MORTGAGE LOANS 311 E. WALNUT GREEN BAY. WIS. Stores in GREEN BAY BERLIN MILWAUKEE Ph. ADAMS 128 STEVENS POINT MADISON WAUSAU ARTHUR NORGAARD W.G. & R. FURNITURE CO. "Complete Furnishings For The Home" e~~~ 1237 MAIN STREET •.. ON GREEN BAY'S NORTH SIDE • • . WHERE LOWER RENT AND LOWER 216 CHERRY ST. OVERHEAD MEAN LOWER PRICES TO YOU GREEN BAY. WIS. "A mile from down town 'tis true, AD. 1655 But a mile from high orices tool" .... SHOES CLOTHING ~ 1-f:C.~e f!n iJtJU!Dn4 .... I .... SUCCESSOR TO HOMER MAES I 113 N. W ASHINGTON JN GREEN BAY Reliability. in Merchandise for Jj d'.d. a JACOBS $b;le 60 years Ji~ a $"';fe IJtJCYJik IJ1Jhde GREEN BA Y"S. LARGEST DEPARTMENT STORE JACOBS GREEN BAY !!Ill e~ot Marqaret's Shop LADIES FINE ACCESSORIES BLO USES e SWEATERS MILLER LINGERIE • 308 PINE STREET Acroas from Northland Hotel FURNITURE COMPANY MARI NETT£ 518 MAIN STREET KNITTING MILLS ~ ' !""( ~ . ' ' ..., ! I ,.., e~ot I I Foeller, Schober, Berners, Safford & Jahn Architects e~o1 L MONGIN. INSURANCE AGENCY ' GR££N BAY .fije!J~ aJ PRESS q~!J~ GAZ£TT£ • 209 MINAHAN BLDG .. GREEN BAY, WIS. PHONE ADAMS 254 e~of THOMAs DRUG STORE "t~ the $~ !Vedd- " - CONGRESS ,.. CIGAR STORE IERSTEfl'S 122 N. WASHINGTON ST. GREEN BAY. WIS. PROFESSIONAL DRUG STORE S. M. KERSTEN, PH. G. R. PH. LISON DRUG STORE LE ROY 2307 S. WEBSTER - IN ALLOUEZ TEL. ADAMS 677 GREEN BAY. WlS. HEALTH CENTER Vapor Baths · Swedish Massage 119 N. MONROE .AVE. GREEN BAY &tn~~. WAS"lllliTD"', u WAL"U T. GREEN BAY . W IS. "',.' Drink e~ot ALLOUEZ BEVER.AGES - " MRS. THERESA DUPUIS 1701 S. WEBSTER AD. 4985 GREEN BAY - ,..,. - '""' - ,... - "" - ,... - .... - l""I - "" - ,... - ..,,. HOCBGREVE .. - ,.. '""' - BREWING - '""' - ,... - COMPANY .... - ... . '""' . ... . • /A; - """ l""I - - , I GREEN BAY CONTRIBUTORS Allouez Beauty Shop Porter's Al Bouchard's Standard Service A Friend American Plumbing and Supply Schriver, Wolter Brehme's Restaurant Soquet Barber Supply Chili John's Restaurant Stewart Smart Shop Denis Sport Shop Swanstrom Book Shop Denissen Auto Parts A Friend Don's Ice Cream Shop Walker's Cleaners & Tailors Forstner Auto Service Will, Fred, Attorney Gift House Woody, C. E. Green Bay Glass Co. Zoll, Carl. Contractors Green Bay Planing Mill Co. - Gross Co. Hearden Wall Paper & Paint Co. DE PERE CONTRIBUTORS Knuth, W ilbert Vault Works Bonk of West De Pere Lindpark Clothes Beavers Luick Ice Cream Co. De Pere Cold Storage Maloney-Man l£: y Co. De Pere Journal Democrat Martell, H. J. Francken Drug Store Mc Comb, Judge A. Fuller Goodmon Co. Neufeld, El izabeth Goemon's Radio & Appliance Neufeld, Emma Lee Bros. Groceries Neufeld, Joseph Lenz, Ralph, M. D. Neufeld. Mrs. Louise Smi th & Smith, Attorneys Neufeld, Mory Ellen Smits Clothes Shop ~ Oliver's Ice Cream Steckert's Meat Market ' DENMARK CONTRIBUTORS ' Steve's Cheese .. *** 1 ... .fTctE ET I- ri ... PLAY Gtt.o UNO ..· I ~ .. ;. ., I f:-- ~ J: "1 II.I _1 % ... ~ ... J ~ 1 I- z • ~ j ~ l J UE~ ..!. -- • -~ "'•· • • ... ._.;:_ ""4-t;;,-::. ,_.., 1 F ou ui, sc;._~ au, ~UNfi'.1-, 1A.~ 'o&D f ·JAM N._Aa.c~' lTfCTs ~- :: • 0 c. ,., 2.l ''."J_c,47 .