The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-04-06
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dered by the choirs of all the Catholic
churches Oh Easter Sunday.
That popular organization, the John
. Mitchell club of Anoka, will give it's
Twelfth annual ball in that city next
"Wednesday evening.
Div. No. 8, Ladies' Auxiliary, A. o.
H., will give social dance Tuesday
evening, April %, at their hall, Wash
ington and Tenth avenues n.
A shirt waist party by the ladies of
Div. No. 6, l.. A. of A. o. H., will be
2 given ut DANA hall, Fifth street mad
j Cedar avenue, Thursday evening,
April IS.
The members of Div. No. 2. L. a.,
III o. H., are requested to be all pres
ent at the next meeting, Thursday
evening, April II, as important bust
ness will be transacted.
8 Fred Conner, the colored man with
the Irish name who acted as the valet
or "bodyguard" of Mayor Ames until
his return from West Baden, is now
doing duty as bicycle inspector.
Three other officers Of the police
force received stroke of the official
i a& last Saturday on the pretext that
sowing to the shortness in the police
funds" their services We're no longer
necessary.
! The Women's Temperance society of
st. Anthony parish will hold a regular
meeting OH Sunday at 2:3O p. III. in St.
Anthony hall. Every member is re-
quested to be present, and also all
women interested in the temperance
cause.
From April to October the curfew
bells in the city will ring at Q o'clock
The boys and girls can legally remain
1 on the streets till that hour OF later,
I if they like, for no attempt has been
snade to enforce the law since its pas
Usage two years ago.
Y aTwenty out of the twenty-five flour
IL
this week. and the -four output prom
Uses to be 100000 barrels. in the judg-
ment of the Northwestern Miller. The
quantity ground last week was 305.240
barrels, as against 335,790 barrels
ground in the corresponding week last
year.
Senator Stockwell says the school
board has no right to withhold the 1
per cent which was taken from teach
ssers' salaries and which was intended
as a pension fund. The money so col
Cected already amounts to about $780,
1t is said a suit will be instituted to
compel the school board to return the
? money to the teachers.
The robin redbreast, the harbinger
sf spring, is back from the sunny
south on his annual visit. For three
weeks he has been singing his sweet
roundelays for the boys of the Catholic
2 Orphan Asylum on Chicago avenue
near the city limits. The other migra-
tory songsters are also heard in the
grove of the institution.
e. s. Corser, the surveyor general
for the Minneapolis district under Gov
/ ernor Lind, will retire April Is in IA
! kSr of his successor, A. B. Robbins.
Mr.. Robbins was appointed by Gov.
Van SAINT Feb. 1, but MI. Corser re-
fused to relinquish the office. The
delay has been due to a difference of
opinion as to the time of expiration of
his term.
< President Northrop, of the state uni
i versity, has received the appointment
of delegate to the international con-
ference of American states from Presi-
Gent Mckinley but he cares nothing
for it and may not accept the honor
If it interferes with his duties as head
of the university. DR.. Northrop is q
F levelheaded man and has no ambition
to serve on commissions in Mexico or
elsewhere.
Henry j. Altnow, chief deputy clerk
Of courts for many years, will be seen
ne more in his usual place during
Clerk Dickey's incumbency. He was
guilty Of the high crime Of running for
the office held by Dickey and that is
why his services are nolonger needed.
He knew his business thoroughly, but
that made no difference to the little
Mellow whose place he sought at the
primary election.
Doc Ames' heart is overlooking with
the milk of canine kindness. Being q
reader of dumb Animals" his SYM
pathies go out to the brute creation.
II shall appoint kind-hearted man
to have charge of the dog-catching
business" says his honor. "There are
lots of humane, levelheaded men on
the police force who are competent to
do that work." he says. OF course
there are, but they may not like the
occupation. Any cop Of ordinary self
respect will not become dog-catcher,
no matter how kind-hearted he may
be:
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In reply to a paragraph which ap-
peared in this column q few weeks
ago, Mr.. E. A. Twitchell, editor of The
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