The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-01-11
SOME BRIGHT TOWNS
Along the Lines Of the Omaha, Bur-
lington, Cedar Rapids & Northern.
Special Correspondence Irish Standard.

Special Correspondence Irish Standard.
In the Minnesota Valley are a num-
Der of bright cities and towns Of over
1000 inhabitants. The Irish Standard
has mentioned them before; it will not
be amiss to speak of one or more of
them now, though briefly. There's
Belle Plaine, in Scott county. Scott
is one of the richest farming counties
in the state. This is one of the rea-
sons why Belle Plaine is prosperous
and thriving, With it's fine churches
good school facilities and the Herald
one of the best country papers in the
state, of course Belle Plaine is all
right and has a good future before, it,
Beyond Belle Plaine are such cities
us lie Sueur, st. Peter and Mankato,
all OH the line of the Chicago, St.
Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha road and
all prosperous and progressive.
Further on, about 200 miles from
Minneapolis, on a branch line of the
c.. st. p, NJ. & o., is Adrian with its
1900 people or thereabouts. 1t is
located in Mobiles county, has electric
light and water plants, six grain ele-
vators, two newspapers, the Demo-
crat and Guardian, and has preten-
sions not often held by cities of twice
or thrice it's population.
Not far from Adrian and in the same
county is the village of Ellsworth, on
the line of the B., G. r. & N. Like
Adrian, Ellsworth has pretensions and
is forging ahead at good pace. About
700 people reside here. Two banks,
four elevators, creamery and a
brewery, the latter recently estab-
lished. All do business here with n
good degree of success. A goodly
share of the people in and about Ellis
worth are Catholics and neat Catho-
lie church is located here. Two news
papers are now published in the vii
lage.
In Murray county such towns as
Slayton, Avoca and Currie seem to be
progressing favorably. These, too,
are OH branch lines of the Omaha.
A splendid division of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians exists at Belle
Plaine. This is DR.. Moloney's home
He is president Of the divisional
man who never misses an opportunity
to advance the interests of the organ
iZation. What has been said of the
doctor will apply to that Minneapol-
itan, p. Kenney, now president Of the
division in Mankato, where he has
been residing for some time. Nor
should J. II. Mahoney, Of Avoca, be
overlooked. In him Murray county
has an excellent county president.
The president of the Currie division,
]. z. Keary, is still another. There are
many more, Of whom we have but
limited knowledge, all faithful in the
work. And this again reminds us of
Ellsworth, where Thos. Burke is
county president and M. Holleran is
president of the division. 1t would be
hard to find men better fitted for the
work in hand. And the vice-presi-
dent, T. ]. Pagan, is in no wise lack
ing.
In this brief letter we are able to
give but partial list Of those whom
we met in the various towns visited.
Some of them are old, others are new
friends of the Irish Standard.
Belle Planned. Callahan, II. B.
Conlon, J. P. Courtney, Mrs. VIM.
Fitzgerald, J. j.. Moriarty, DR.. Mo-
loney, John st. John, D. w. Sullivan,
NJ. G. Mccarthy, Thos. Murphy, P. w.
Condor, +. N. Austin, J. II. Conlon,
NJ. Flynn, B. O'Connor, John Bailey,
Joseph Green.
Adrian-Dr. Sullivan, Il. Mclean,
NJ. T. O'Brien, Hugh Magee, J.
Sands.
Avoca-J. II. Mahoney, ]. N. Rivers,
P. p. Flynn, John Osborne.
Currie-Rev. Father Cavanagh,
VIM. Donnelly, G. Mccormick, Jas.
Calvin, Mrs. Chas. Mccormick, James
Keary, NJ. J. Rigby, VIM. O'Neil, Phil
O'Brien, p. O'Brien, John Cavanaugh.
Ellsworth-Burke Bros, Edward
Togarty, Mrs. O'Hcarn, M. Holloran,
Ed Egan, J. O'Connor, ]. A. Fury, N.
Leutz, J. G. Reddy, M. Guinan, L.
Esser, Matt Gerardy, VIM. Maher,
John Kenny, N. Fischemsh, DR. G. A.
Gill, p. O'Connor, G. II. Mohr, T. J.
Pagan, NJ. Calvin.
Slayton-John Ahern, G. McSherry,
Con Casey, D. Mcnamara.