Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1855

pg 278       a priest at Laporte who understood nothing of the handling of a 
             congregation, things took a new shape.  The Sisters had been 
             somewhat languid.  A fair was announced to procure them a more 
             suitable house, by which they cleared $500 and made many friends.  
             They soon exchanged their house for one immediately joining the 
             church grounds.
                  From this time their school became prosperous, and the 
             Sisters continued to grow more popular day by day.  Eighty 
             children were soon entered on their register, one half Catholics, 
             the others Protestants or infidels.  The influence of the Sisters 
             was felt throughout the entire congregation, and now everything 
             leads to the belief that Laporte will be in every sense one of the 
             most important missions of Notre Dame.  It is a nice town located 
             in the centre of a vast and rich prairie, which cannot fail to 
             grow rapidly.