The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-09

AAAS SOSAA5 ANulCS VI NJ. OlC)lCu
church will give card party next
Tuesday evening at the church hall,
Twenty-second street and Clinton ave-
nue.. Handsome prizes will be distrib-
uted to the winners and after the
games are concluded dainty luncheon
will be served by the ladies in charge
Next Tuesday will be the anniversary
of Lincoln's birthday, and there should
be good turnout of the parishioners
and many others on this occasion.
There will be small admission fee.
There are fourteen men in Minneap-
oils at the present time who are not
earning their bread in the sweat of
their brow, as they should be, accord
ing to the ancient mandate. The cause
for this is the fact that the workhouse
is under quarantine for smallpox. The
men have been sentenced to the work.
house since the institution was quaran-
tined, but as they cannot be removed
to that place and put to the rock pile.
they are sojourning in comfortable
cells in the county Jail, and serving
their time at ease.
The annual entertainment of the To-
cal lodge of Elks will be given at the
Lyceum on Friday Of next week. l..
N. Scott has donated the use of the
theater and through Theodore L. Hays,
manager of the Bijou, it has been pos
sible to secure the presence of Frede-
rick Warde and his company of play
ers. Among those who will take part
in the program are Harry Corson
Clarke, Eugene Cowles and other men,
bers of the Alice Nelson Opera COM
pany, members of Fulgora's European
and American Vaudeville company
and members of the Belle Of New York
company.
| The board of education will elect a
superintendent Of schools OH Feb. 2G,
and as there is no opposition to DR..
Charles NJ. Jordan he will be his own
successor by unanimous vote of the
members. DR.. Jordan is now finishing
lie schools and has given eminent sat
isfaction in the discharge of his Oler-
GUS duties. He has been identified With
the city schools as principal and super
intendent for nearly twenty years, and
is recognized by the educator Of the
country as an adept in the pedagogic
profession. The Minneapolis schools
have become famous under his juris-
diction.
Michael Coughlin, whose foot WAS
amputated above the ankle as result
of injuries received in the Great North
ern yards Oh Nov. 81, was able to leave
the hospital on Saturday last A dele
cation of his fellow railway employees
called at his house, go Fremont ave-
nue. n, last Tuesday night and pre-
sented him with Il substantial purse.
The presentation address was made by
Michael Brierty. Mr.. Coughlin and all
the members of his family are exceed
ingly grateful to the generous donors
for their kind and totally unexpected
action, and take this opportunity of
publicly expressing their thanks to
these warm-hearted friends.
The st. Paul Globe uses hammers
and tongs OH Doc Ames for patroniz-
ing the Ryan-Judge prize fight on
Thursday evening Of last week in this
city. 1t says in part: During the two
years in which Minnesota has had
Democratic governor and the Twin
Cities have had Democratic mayors
there has not been a prize fight within
the boundaries of Minnesota. Within
thirty days of the Inauguration of Van
SAINT and Ames, prize fight with all
the usual accomplishments is pulled off
before a large crowd in Minneapolis,
with apparently the direct aid and pro-
lection of Mayor Ames and with not
the slightest intimation of opposition
on the part of Governor Van SAINT.