Le Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, September 22, 1925

MANY PRIESTS AT CEREMONY

LARGE NUMBER ATTEND CORNER STONE LAYING OF NEW ELLENDALE CHURCH

The cornerstone for a new Catholic church building at Ellendale, was laid
Sunday. Fifteen clergymen officiated at the services, which were attended
by about 700 person.

The new building will be the fourth in the history of the Ellendale
congregation, two having been destroyed by cyclones and the third one
outgrown.

Rt. Rev. Msg. W. A. Pape, of Le Mars, laid the cornerstone and Rev. J. A.
Gerleman, of Granville, preached the sermon.

Other clergymen who attended included: Rev. F. J. Brune, Alta; Rev. H.
Rolfes, Oyens; Rev. J. H. Gelling, Sioux City; Rev. T. J. McCarty, Sioux
City; Rev. J. P. McGuire, Sioux City; Rev. N. T. Flanagan, Sioux City; Rev.
M. T. O’Connell, Sioux City; Rev. J. Kocher, Sioux City; Rev. J. Gretman,
Struble, Iowa; Rev. W. R. Gran, Oto; Rev. Joseph Strum, Granville; Rev. A.
J. Foerster, Merrill, and Rev. M. Marx, Kingsley.

The Ellendale church is a mission and is served from Merrill by Rev. A. J.
Foerster, who is pastor there. Rev. J. A. Gerleman, who preached the sermon,
served the charge from Sioux City at a time when the mission was attached to
the parish of the Cathedral of the Epiphany.