The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-02-06
BY THE WAY.
Our Travelling Representative Visits
Points in Wisconsin & Minnesota.

Points in Wisconsin & Minnesota.
When visiting the good people of
Wisconsin recently your agent wrote
short letter from Hudson, which now
calls for another like note from this
thriving city.
New Richmond, as the world knows.
met with sad calamity few years
ago through cyclone, which came
near wiping it from the map together
with it's people. However, you can't
keep a good, honest industrious Amer
lean community down no more than
you can stop grass from growing or
water from running. New Richmond
is here. phoeniX-like, sure enough, and
built this time to stay of stone, iron
and brick, Il solid busness-like city,
With Il fine farming country about it,
Good crops. good cattle, plenty of
wood and lots of money is how we
found the people in their coZy homes
for miles around. And, by the way,
Mr.. Editor, 1 should have mentioned
the fact before, 1 suppose, in this
Wisconsin news. l visited Eau Claire
and Chippewa Falls recently for the
first time in behalf of the Irish Stand
ard, met such splendid type of men
as Nj. Miley, w. II. Currie, d. Dough.
erty, John Campbell, J. T. Toughey,
Ed. Loughrea, p. NIullijan, Il. G.
Woodland, Prof. NJ. S. Frawley, Nj.
Thornton, Peter Allard B. McHugh,
Rod Carroll, B. NIcAIahon, James La
vile, John McGuillan, 2. DAILY, John
Hogan and many others 1 can't recall
now.
At Cylon, too, it was a pleasure to
meet men like L. J. Lee, and his name
sake, the ardent priest and patriotic
Irishman, Rev. Father Lee, assistant
now to Father Reddin. Here you
will find Michael Mcnamara, from
near Bodyke, County Glare, and John
Mcnamara, NJ. J. Mcnamara, NJ.
Gleason, M. Henry, VIM. Gillen, James
Padden, J. Heffron, A. J. O'Donnell,
u.
Dunbar, T. f. Stevens, P. J. Hennes-
sy, and several more from about Jew
EFT Mills. l must mention a few of
the people personally met at New
Richmond. There is not man, wom-
an or child, think, in st. Croix coun-
ty who will not agree with me that
Charley Donahue is one of the best
fellows in the whole world. Then
there is Ed. O'NIalley, the hustling
hotel man and travelling mans friend;
NJ. J. Casey, the merchant; Mr.. Haley,
A. P. McAndrews, P. J. Gallagher
Phillip Ward, VIM. Walsh, J. P.
Walsh, S. N. Hawkins, G.. P. McCabe.
J. r. Meath, John Greedy, ]. G. Bar
| rett, and, Of course, Father Boyce, the
popular parish priest.
In our own state, at Saltwater, we
met many old friends of the Irish
Standard and it's agent in the persons
of John O'Shaughnessy, Thos. Scully,
Bob" McGary, Martin Murray, the
veteran Hibernian and the first state
treasurer of that order in Minnesota
and the present county president of
| Washington county. Mr.. Murray is
now one of the very oldest living en-
| ployes of the old st. Paul & Duluth
railroad, now the Northern Pacific.
He has raised splendid and highly
educated family. Mrs. Murray is the
sister of D. f. McDermott of Clontarf.
Then there is Phil Ryan, the practica
American Irishman and president of
one of the oldest a. o. H. lodges in the
state; D. Boyle, James O'Neill, e. J.
Burns, John Crotty, l.. Simonet, Gus
Sexton, NJ. Hughes, J. w. Quinlan,
!; NJ. Foran, and the priest of the parish
of ST. Michaers, the beloved Father
Corcoran. One of the finest churches
in the state Of Minnesota is that of
st. Michaels and the parochial resi-
dence is in keeping with it. Here we
attended the funeral and solemn re-
QUEEN high mass in memory of the
death and burial of Mr.. Daniel Bren-
nan, late insurance secretary of the
A. O. H. of Saltwater. Brother Bren-
nan was very evidently beloved by all
his brother lodge members, as we'll as
the entire people of saltwater, for the
great church was filled at the services
on that cold morning and the A. o. H.
turned out in full numbers, marching
in mourning regalia.
So ends this meagre description of
those places and people that we hap
pened to recently visit and see, and
which does neither full justice. An
other Minnesota letter will be due YOU
soon. j. b. p.
Casey-See here! thot dollar We lent
me Yesterday was counterfeit.