St. Mary's Catholic Church
Neillsville, Clark Co., Wisconsin
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This above postcard (unk date) was contributed by Mike Warlum from the Peter Magnus Warlum (1878-1944) collection. The card was printed by G. & R. Brown Post Card Co., 324 Lake Street, Eau Claire, Wis. The flip side reads: St. Mary's Parish, 1803 Black River Road, Neillsville, Wisconsin. Masses 7:00 - 9:00 - 10:30. Sat. Confessions 3 - 4 - 5 on hour and 7:30 to 9:00 P.M. |
Celebrations
Remodeling
March 1939
Members of St. Mary’s Catholic Congregation have started razing the old
school building to make way for a new parochial school structure located on
the north side of their church.
Last week, when the cornerstone of the old school was removed, many mementos
were found; among the articles which had been sealed in the cornerstone
since the dedication of the two-story building, on May 5, 1887.
There were five coins, a copy of the Republican-Press, published preceding
the dedication ceremonies, containing a notice of the dedication, and a
manuscript written in Latin and preserved in a bottle.
Translated, the manuscript revealed the date, May 5, 1887, as the tenth year
of the Pontificate of Pope Leo XIII, Supreme pontiff, while that Most Rev.
Michael was reigning as Archbishop of the Metropolitan of Milwaukee; Rt.
Rev. Kilian Casper Flash, D. D. as Bishop of our Diocese of La Crosse;
Grover Cleveland as president of the United States of America; Jeremia Rusk,
governor of Wisconsin; James Hewett as mayor of the City of Neillsville,
county seat of Clark County.
Most interesting of the coins uncovered in the cornerstone was a three-cent
piece, dated 1868. Other coins found were an 1887 10-cent coin, and three
pennies, dated 1880, 1881 and 1886.
September 1948
The newly-remodeled basement of St. Mary’s Catholic Church will receive its first public inspection during the parish’s annual chicken dinner and picnic on Sunday.’
