Foreign Language Press Service

In the Lithuanian and the Polish parishes, the parish rector is the treasurer. Such an arrangement brings misunderstanding and dispute among the Lithuanian and Polish parishioners because the rectors refuse to give an account of their parish budgets. These disputes between the paris

The Chicago newspapers announced that there was incorporated a new Lithuanian society under the name of the Vytantas Building and Loan Society. The incorporators are Joseph Kuszleika, J. Zergys and S. Marcinkeviczius. The capital is $1,000,000 It looks that the millions ar

On Saturday, March 25, at 1:30 P. M., Pulaski Hall, 800 S. Ashland Avenue, the Lithuanian Republican Club of that 9th ward will hold its mass meeting. Alderman Joseph Crane, J. E. Bidwill and others will speak. We are inviting all Lithuanians to come to this meeting. The Committee .

Sunday, March 26, at 2 P. M. at the Landanskas Hall, 3301 S. Morgan Street, the Lithuanian Republicans will hold a mass meeting. Speakers will be the candidates for the city offices, and other good speakers. After the speeches we will have a meeting regarding our own Lithuanian national affai

And the second Lithuanian Republican mass meeting on the same day will be at 1144 S. Oakley Avenue, 6:30 P. M. We would like to see many Lithuanians at this mass meeting. After the meeting we will hold a special Lithuanian meeting with regard to the material conditions of our people

There was organized and incorporated a new Lithuanian Republican club. The incorporators are W. Wallace, B. Goldikas, and K. Robiski.

The new Lithuanian Theatrical Society of Saint Martin, in Chicago, has been organized and incorporated. The incorporators are Januszonis, Kadziauskas, and Nawieda.

We, Lithuanians in America, in the past, had had many propositions, but not one of them was fulfilled. Now we are talking and writing about the coming exhibition in Paris. We Lithuanians should have our own Lithuanian section, where we could exhibit our publications. We ought to print a small

Last Sunday Dr. Szliupas came to Chicago from Scranton, Pa. At a few meetings he delivered short lectures on Lithuanian history, explained the hardships and causes of it. He urged us to have unity, brotherly love, and the importance of getting enlightened by reading good books and newspapers.

Last week the trial against A. Olszewski's newspaper Lietuva, which published an article maligning personally Rev. M. Kraucunas, was held at the Criminal Court of Cook County. At this trial, the state's attorney acted as accuser against Olszewski for criminal maligning against Rev. M. Kraucun

Dr. Szliupas of Scranton, Pa. left Chicago last Tuesday. He was in Chicago over one week, to deliver lectures. Many people came to hear his lectures. The newspaper Katalikas says that on Easter Sunday many people came to church to hear the serman on "The Devil, the Toad and the Bat." <

As soon as we announced in the newspaper the collection of money in order to exhibit our publication at the exhibition in Paris, we heard the cry from our clergy that they were against the exhibit of our publication at the Paris exhibition. Tevyne (The Fatherland, the organ of the L

In regard to the Lithuanian parish of St. George, in Chicago, the Committee of Six Societies (St. Casimir, the Providence of God, Simonas Daukantas, St. John the Baptist, the King David, and St. Paul and Peter) is calling all the St. George parish members to a mass meeting to be held Sunday,

The trial, in which Rev. Krawczunas sued us for an article published in Lietuva, October, the last year, when we criticized the rector for not giving an honest account of the St. George Parish budget and his drunkenness, came to an end after five days, and we won the case. The court found the

The members of the societies of St. Casimir, the Providence of God, St. John the Baptist, Simonas Daukantas, the King David, and St. Paul and Peter, must come to the meeting, Laudanskas Hall, 3301 S. Morgan St. The meeting will start at 8:30 P.M. This meeting is very important. We have a repl

May 13, 1899, on Atlantic, there was organized a new Lithuanian society under the name of "The Duke Zygmonth." The incorporators are Vaitkus, Mike Urbonas and others. (Zygmonth was the duke of Lithuania and Poland. He was a Lithuanian).

We, the undersigned, of the Catholic church societies of Chicago, are appealing to the good wishes of our Lithuanian parishioners of St. George's parish, and urging all of you to sign your names on the petition to demand that the bishop give us a better priest in the place of Rev. Krawczunas.

A few godless people, under the leadership of the editor of Lietuva and traitor, called a special meeting to make a protest against the Lithuanian parish rector. How comical it is on their part to call such a meeting. Everyone can see the purpose of such a meeting. The article which was publi

Whereas the Rev. Krawczunas, the rector of our St. George's parish, Chicago, unjustly behaved with the parish budget and when the parishioners demanded an explanation about the money, the priest cursed them as infidels, pagans, excommunicated them from the parish, and refused to confess them,

In all parts of Chicago the Lithuanians are getting signatures for a petition to the bishop with regard to the removal of the Rev. Krawczunas. They have received many signatures and in a day or two the petition will be sent to the bishop. The priest's friends are also gathering signatures for