The Irish standard., 1900-04-21
CITY AND VICINITY.
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TERsHIY TOLD.

The Redemptionist Fathers will be-
gin a weeks mission Sunday, May 6, at
St. Charles church, Thirteenth avenue
S. and Fourth street.
Mayor Gray took away his license
from one Joseph Megal, a saloonkeeper
on the East side, for selling liquor to
minors last Saturday night.
The sermon by Father Mcintyre on
Easter Sunday at St. Stephens church
was considered one of the finest ever
delivered in that temple of worship.
The speech on Thomas Jefferson by
Hon. C. D. O'Brien at the West Hotel
banquet on Wednesday evening is CIV
en- elsewhere and makes splendid read
ing.
The Mississippi Valley Telephone
company has settled the dispute with
its construction crew. Hereafter it will
pay its employees promptly on the 10th
of each month.
The Young Ladies' Sodality of the
Immaculate Conception church meets
Sunday afternoon at $3.50. The society
receives holy communion at 8 o'clock
mass, Sunday.
Miss Ada ReTan, the actress, played
at the Metropolitan the Last three days
= of this week to crowded houses. She is
native of Limerick and an ornament
to the profession she has adopted.
Father Danelly, of St. Paul Seminary,
preached the sermon at Immaculate
Conception church on Easter Sunday
to the largest congregation ever assem-
bled in-tte sacred edifce. His pulpit
oratory was much admired. ~
The ordinance against winerooms
passed the city council at its last meet
ing by vote of 81 to a. 1t has been
signed by Mayor Gray. Let it now be
strictly enforced after July in accord
ance with the popular ordinance.
The church vestments stolen from the
House of the Good Shepherd have been
recovered by Detectives Howard and
Murphy in St. Paul Fred Myer is &C.
cused OF the theft as we'll as of having
robbed several Catholic institutions in
the latter city.
Wedding cards and invitations hand
somely printed at the Irish Standard OF
fee. We have choice line of sam
pies and can furnish this class of work
just as we'll and at half the price usually
charged by fancy stationers and engrav-
ers. 81 Fourth street S.
Louis F. Menage, OF Guaranty Loan
fame, has again entered commercial life
in this city. He has started in the real
estate and brokerage business with his
wife and daughter as partners. The
capital stock of the new corporation, of
which he is president, is placed at
$4,000. .r.
All the Catholic churches were filled
to overlooking at all the masses on
Easter Sunday. About 500 persons
failed to gain entrance into the Immac-
ulate Conception church at the last
mass. The services in all the churches
were of the most impressive character
and the music by the choirs was grandly
rendered.
E. B. Smith, better known in Mime
apolis newspaper circles as H. Tins,
the pseudonym which he daily attached
to the breezy column "Minor Chords"
in the Journal, left last Sunday evening
over the ST. Louis road for Omaha to
assume his duties as city editor of the
Omaha Bee. The best wishes of the
newspaper fraternity follow him to his
new field of labor.
Judge John F. MCGEE, of the district
court, i'll lengthy decision rendered
the other day day, holds that the Northwest
ern Telephone Exchange company has
no franchise in Minneapolis upon
which to base the operations of its lines.
He declares that the company is simply
conducting its business under license
from the city and that the ordinance Of
1888 lacks every essential element of a
contract The case is likely to go to the
supreme court.
Jennie O'Neill Potter, whose death
occurred in New York last Tuesday,
had many friends in Minneapolis, where
she was we'll known. Miss Potter really
began her career as an e1ocutionist in
this city. Her progress in her chosen
profession was watched with great in
terest, and it was believed she had a
brilliant future. Miss Potter's kindly
and sympathetic nature showed itself
many times, and she was always ready
and anxious to assist in entertainments
of charitable kind. The readers Of
the Irish Standard who knew her in
days gone by will be sorry to learn Of
her demise.