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ment, has been employed by the
Northwestern Telephone company.
The position of superintendent of the
fire alarm system pays $1,000 per
year.
Joseph A. Rogers, president of the
st. Paul Fire Insurance Patrol and
Salvage Corps, Monday received a
check for $50 from Timothy Foley,
Summit avenue, accompanied with a
letter, in which Mr.. Foley explains
the gift to the salvage corps as "an
expression of gratitude for the eff
cient manner in which your men pro.
tected the furniture at my house dur
ing the recent fire." Mr. Foley adds:
Please thank them for me and as
sure them that appreciate what they
did"
Curtis n. Kelsey, 1889 Van Buren,
street, died Sunday night. He was a
veteran OF the Civil war, having serv.
ed for three years and six months in
Company ID, Marine regiment, United
States volunteers, and in Company G,
Twenty-first Wisconsin Volunteer in.
fantry.
The old Washington hand press,
which was the first printing press
brought into Minnesota, Iowa and
northwestern Wisconsin, and upon
which the first copy of the Minnesota
Pioneer was printed, April %, 1o49,
has been donated to the State Histor-
ical society, and will be placed near
the door of the newspaper room in
the historical society's rooms in the
new capital. Mr.. j. B. CLANCY, who
has had charge of the newspaper files
OF the society for the last eighteen
years, is among those who operated
the press nearly fifty years ago. The
press has gone through a number of
hands since it was used by the Pho
neer, and Mr.. CLANCY, when he heard
that the press was exhibited at the
fair grounds did not believe that it
was the original press, but he has ex-
amined it and positively identified it
as the one he operated when he was
printer.
The congregation of Assumption
Catholic church has taken steps to
prevent the remodeling of Mozart
hall as theater A meeting of the
governing committee of the parish
was held last Sunday evening, at
which petition to the city council
protesting against the proposed thea
ter, was drafted, to be circulated for
signatures. The first name signed
was that OF Rev. Jerome Heider, the
Assumption pastor. There are 400
members of the church, all of whom
are expected to sign the protest. The
petition recites as follows: "Believ-
ing such theater to be unnecessary
and a nuisance and injurious to the
, good morals of the young children
and worshippers, attending the AS
sumption school and church, respec-
lively, and against the will of the in
habitants in the neighborhood of the
proposed theater, we earnestly urge
that no license be granted for such
theater." f. A. Maron, who has been
active in the church movement, said
today that the proposed theater
would be within 200 feet of the win
dows of the parish school.
A mission began at the st. Johns
church, Rev. Gleason pastor, Fifth
and Forrest streets, last Sunday
night, which will continue for two
weeks. Fathers Busch and Arctan-
der are conducting the mission.
Mrs. Maria Connolly, aged 65 years,
widow of the late Mark Connolly, died
Saturday, Sept. 9, at St. Joseph's hos.
rital. The funeral took place from
her late residence, 625 Conway street,
Monday. Services were held at the
cathedral.
Mrs. B. w. McGrorty, widow Of
Capt. W. B. McGrorty, died on the 9th
inst. Her remains were taken from
her late home, 313 Somerset street,
Monday morning, to st. Mary's
church, where the funeral services
were held at 10 a. M. The body was
fOryua rdod to CoccoIfo,, W. -. s,4o,,