The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-01-19

1t is soft and tough when being worked
into pipe shape or any other curious or
fantastic design, and it gets as hard as
granite. The beautiful little city is
built of this material or hardy stone
of the same formation. 1t makes
Pipestone City metropolitan-like in
every way. Here is located the ia
nous Indian school that we have often
read about. 1t is large institution,
built of red pressed brick and red pipe
stone rock, very hard. 1t has 100 In
dian pupils learning every branch Of
education, especially farming. 1 saw
the Indians in Father Mangan's
church, as devout as angels out of
Heaven could be. God bless them, and
God bless their educators.
Speaking of Father Mangan's
church, of course it is the Catholic
church, and he is without doubt an
up-to-date priest. He has the distinc-
ton Of being one Of the youngest
priests in the diocese of Winona, and
in the eight months that he has had
charge of this church he has paid off
$1,000 of debts. Here are some of our
friends at this place: p. H. Powers,
w. L. Heffron, A. Minehan, J. s. MUIR
ply and the young Soggarth, Rev. Jos.
Mangan.
Elkton, South Dakota, is the name
Of the best town ever struck in that
state. The prince of laymen is q. J..
Murphy. His good brother, Matt Muir
ply, is president of the A. O. H. here
and he helped me out wonderfully in
getting acquainted in the town. Here
are the two Murphys, Rev. Thos.
O'Farrell, Rev. D. F: Desmond, and
the Very Rev. Geo. Sheehan, pastor
of Our Lady of Good Counsel, and his
assistant, Rev. Father Sullivan ian
old FRIEND, James Casey, Chas. Half
ferty, NJ. d. Donohue, NJ. NJ. Nc
Laughlin, ]. Lovett, John J. Lynch,
Mike Mccarthy, M. Murphy, Fred
Hafer, ]. A. Silvander, J. M. Barrett,
r. Gerlach and David Crowley.
l next visited the good town of Ellis
worth, MINI. The people about here
are all rich and paid money to me
like little stones. They are as fol-
lows: NJ. J. Murphy, Burk Bros, G.
Dillehay, J. O'Cennor, Ed Egan, M.
Halloran, w. Meagher, II. Whalen, Ed
Fogerty, G. A. Bird, Mrs. O'Hearn, ].
A: Fury, Nick LEM, P. Il. Fogerty,
John Crowley, J. G. Reddy, Geo. H.
Mohr, Michael Guinan, Thos. Burke
and b. s. Bassig.
Next is the big South Dakota town
Of Sioux Falls. Here met Jos. Kirby,
Esq, the attorney, NJ. Fahey, z. J.
Toohey, Mrs. NJ. J. Billion, b. G. Nc
Crossen, John Fitzsimmons, Sioux
Falls Daily Press people, and the good
pastor of the o-cathedral, Rev. w.
V. Nolan.
Next stop was Luverne, where 1
met Mr.. J. z. Byrne, fine gentleman,
Frank Kennedy, John Fitzgerald the
st. Paul great electrician, "Dan"
Neary, and 4. ]. McDermott, the pro-
prietor of the Luverne Hotel.
Last but not least, comes the good
city of Adrian. This place has the
finest Catholic church, just finished.
that [ have seen west of Chicago
There is none in the state of Mime
sofa as fine, and that is saying great
deal. Here 1 met John Sands, til,
finest of the fine; AID Timmons, real
gentleman; DIR. Sullivan, Frank Nc
Lean, j. Garvcy, M. Il. O'Brien, Ed
ward Finnegan, G. II. Shaw, J. G
Murphy, Hugh Magec, and John Mad
den, the old timer of Clerkenwell and
Catalpa fame, IL genuine Fclran.
This ends my rapidly written letter
and wishing The Irish Standard ana
all it's patrons u happy New Century
am, Mr.. Editor, yours and theirs re
spectfully, J. B. PEWTERS.