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too served for a time as one of the pastors of St. Augustine.
It must not be thought that because sometimes priests do not remain long in one place that their removal was caused by anything personally unfavorable to them. Often this early removal is in line of promotion to some more important and responsible position. Often by their own request. Sometimes priests named as assistants are sojourning in a parish to rest from very arduous labors and to recuperate their health. Sometimes as a temporary supply. Rt. Rev. M. Domenec, then Bishop of Pittsburg, is named as an assistant at St. Michael's, Loretto, in 1862.
NOTES OF THE PARISH OF ST. AUGUSTINE.
Under this head are included several items which the writer deems of interest, the data for which were not at hand when he compiled the main body of the work, and the most important of which has been recently made available through the courtesy of Mrs. Mary A. Dunegan, widow of the late Lieut. Edward R. Dunegan, for many terms Justice of the Peace for Clearfield Township, and one of the most indefatigable collectors and preservers of old records of importance in Cambria County. Of the several important documents thus kindly loaned, the first to be noted is a list of subscriptions written on twelve pages of a little notebook, headed:
"July 19th, 1849.
"Loop Congregation Dr.
"To amount assessed by Committee for the purpose of paying off an old debt that stands against the Loop Church for Carpenter work, Plastering, Painting, furnishing materials, &C., of which the one-half is to be collected this church year 1849, and the remaining half to be collected against the 19th July, 1857. We wish Bernard McNeely to collect the within and (here two irrelevant lines are crossed out). Pay it over to Joseph Meyer, Treasurer."
The entire amount of the subscriptions was $298.50. Of the collections up to November 25, 1854, were, from Bernard McNeely, $66.89 1/2; Wm. Little, received $78.67; the amount assumed was $30; and a subsequent entry notes "Uncollected $22.14 1/2."
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