The Irish standard., 1899-12-23
CITY AND VICINITY.
! The telephone call of The Irish Standard
10 27S, Mississippi Valley Co.
THRSELY TOLD.

Div No 2, A. O. H., will meet Sun
day, Dec. 81, instead Of Jan. I, which is
the regular meeting night.
Ask your dealer for recreation stamps.
They are good in payment of subscrip-
ton to the Irish Standard and can be
obtained free.
Remember the 700 boys at the Catholic
Orphan Asylum and make it Merry
Christmas for them. The little fellows
will be glad to see Santa Claus visit the
institution with his annual presents.
Send us your pictures for framing
now. Prices low. A full line of Cath
! Ole pictures, casts, etc. Artists mate
rials. Regilding. ]. o. Braa, 500 Hen
nepin avenue, opposite West Hotel.
Before the 1st of January all of the
courts of Catholic Foresters throughout
the city will have elected oficers.~ In
the next issue of The Irish Standard
the names OF officers elected in the va
rious courts will appear.
/ At regular meeting of Ascension
i Court, No. $50, C. o. F., resolutions
were passed in condemnation of Great
Britain for going to war with the Beers
of South Africa. Sympathy was ex-
pressed with the cause of the Beers, and
also wish that they would achieve a
final victory over their British enemy.
Five hundred dollars was realized at
the benefit concert given Dec. II at
Olson's Big Store. T. ]. Gulbrandson,
chairman of the committee under whose
auspices the concert was given, has for
warded the money to the proper au-
thorities, and it will be distributed
among the victims of the tornado in
Norway.
In an address on the single tax de-
livered by Marshal w. H. Grimshaw,
in this city, last Sunday evening, he
referred to churches as chose places
of superstition Bill Grimstaw is the
representative of Bill Mckinley in
Minnesota and is an agnostic OF the
first water. He is blatant inperialist
n and that covers multitude of sins in
these days OF criminal aggression and
jingoisnl.
The Catholic Total Abstinence soci-
cites OF Henncpin county have chosen
P. Churchill president, and E. c. De-
tunqc secretary of the county organiza-
ton. For the new year the temperance
advocates are planning an active, Wig
orous campaign. New societies will be
organized, and those already existing
strengthened, until every parish in the
county has prosperous temperance as
ISOLATION.
The children OF St. Charles parish
are preparing a grand Christmas enter
tainnnent to be given on the evening OF
the Feast OF Holy Innocents, Thursday
Dec. rs, at the church assembly rooms,
corner OF Thirteenth avenue S. and
>. Fourth street. The entertainment will
n include choruses, vocal and instrumental
! solos, recitations, etc. The program be-
gins promptly at 8 o'clock. At the coll
clusion of the program Christmas pres
ents will be distributed to all the chill
' dren present.
A number of Hollanders and Boer
sympathizers residing in the Twin Cit
les have decided to raise funds for the
benefit. of the ambulance corps and the
Red Cross society Of the Transvaal and
Orange Free State. They will issue
souvenir buttons with the picture oil
Paul Kruger on one side and the motto
of the Transvaal, "Eendracht rnaakt
Macht," on the other The minimum
price of the button will be rs cents
but everyone is at liberty to make the
price as he desires, and contributions
of 81 or more will be accounted for in
the newspapers. The buttons can be
obtained in Minneapolis at S. E. o.
sons store and at Shiek's restaurant; in
St. Paul, Theodore F. Kock. 176 E.
Third street, and F. w. Burgmeier, pu-
Usher OF the Volkszeitung, will have
charge Of the buttons.