The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-09-16
CITY IN BRIEF.

at the Standard Catholic Book Store,
81 Fourth street south, second floor.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Gleason and Mr..
and Mrs. NJ. E. Smith have returned
from their visit to Colorado and the
Rocky Mountains. Denver, Manitou
and Pixies Peak were not forgotten.
Julius j. Heinrich has been elected
director of the Germania bank. He
succeeds the late John c. Oswald as
director. The bank is charging it's
quarters to accommodate increasing
business.
Standard Catholic Book Store, 81
Fourth street south. Headquarters for
religious articles, including prayer
books. rosaries, bibles, scapulars. can
dies and pictures. Choice line of
books by best authors.
The ladies of the Rosary society of
St. Anthony parish will give the first
cf series of card parties Wednesday
evening, Sept. q, in St. Anthony hall.
Prizes will be given to winners.
Every ticket holder will also be en-
titled to a chance on several valuable
prizes.
Thos. O'Rourke and wife of Beech
wood, Ontario, are visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. L. Dugan,
1889 Bryant; avenue north. Mr.. and
Mrs. O'Rourke, who are the respected
parents of Mrs. Dugan, are in Mime
apolis for the first time and are much
impressed with the city and It's sur
roundings.
Theodore Wirth, superintendent OF
parks of Hartford, Conn.,, is the man
who will in all probability be chosen
for city superintendent OF parks at
the election to be held next January.
Although Mr.. Berry's resignation has
not yet been handed in there is an
understanding chat he will step aside
at the first of the year and take the
OmSC VI superintendent VI Aoooo
which will be created for him.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the A. o.
H., will inaugurate a season of active
work next Monday evening when the
first of a series of wheel meetings
will be given by Division No. 2, at A.
O. U. w. hall, 1923 Central avenue.
Members throughout the city are in
vited to attend. Members of Division
No. 3, A. o. H., have been invited to
participate and the division has &C.
cepted the invitation. The ladies are
preparing number of good things for
the event.
All Minneapolis flour mills are now
grinding, and the prosperous season
and good wheat crop are beginning to
make strong showing on other Min
neapolis industries. Daily bank clear
ings of over $3,OOO,OUO, the increased
activity in the chamber OF commerce
and the greatly augmented railroad
LOAAd6S0 Oil opCoh VIGIL AOAf Cu4o SACJ
as grain and particularly wheat cen
ter. The wheat receipts this weey
were almost double those of last week
and are increasing daily.
The board of appraisers appointed
by the park commissioners handed in
their report Tuesday condemning
land appraised at $3.50 for the pur-
pose of the Riverside driveway. The
land condemned comprises forty-four
blocks in Dorman's First addition to
Minneapolis and the awards are made
to Mary D. Greer and Dorance B.
Dorman, owners of the property. The
approval or rejection of the apprais-
ers' awards will come up before the
park board at it's next meeting.
The regular budgets of the work
house, city hospital and poor depart
ments were approved Tuesday after.
noon by the! board of correction and
charities. The expenses of the poor
department for the month were
$1,3S396, as against $1,S1O.86 last
year this time. The workhouse bills
totaled $934.24. The city hospital
cost $4,248.5S, compared with $685.
IS for the corresponding month last
year. The appointment of Frank A.
Scoby to be night engineer at the
workhouse. was confirmed.
Millers must mark their bags with
tndelible ink. Orders have been re-
ceived by the local customs officers
that in the future all bags used in ex
port and claiming drawback must
be plainly marked in indelible ink
Collectors are instructed to refuse
liquidation on. all bags not properly
marked. Heretofore exporters have
used any ink at hand. Now the inl
will from time to time be carefully
tested by the customs officials and
will have to come up to the required
standard for indelible ink.
Several Central avenue business
men, dissatisfied with the quality Of
the creosote blocks now being laid or
that thoroughfare, will, it. is said, en-
deavor to secure an injunction re
straining City Engineer Rinker from
continuing the work. The men who
are contemplating this step contend
that Georgia pine should be used in