The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-28

N mediation is being shown by the telephone
company almost daily. rs sE
A kindly and benevolent gentleman, not much
acquainted with city ways and sorry to intrude on
your time has called on the Irving Avenue Improve
association and is willing, since his forest of
poles and tangle of wires had been ordered out OF
Mount Curve by the city, is perfectly willing
20 accommodate us by putting them on our lots
The telephone company is anxious to serve the
public to the best of it's ability and he felt that it
would be great accommodation to the association,
instead of the corporation buying its property, to
use ours
We were all anxious to know why the wires
should go under ground where they belonged, but
the corporations servant explained that it would
be quite expensive. 1t would be much simpler to
put them in flower beds. He had little paper
which he wanted all to sign g as mere FORM
Reading this-"petition I've found in considera-
ton of dollar the receipt |of which is hereby
pany perpetual right to property, we to pay
the taxes usual and submit to army Of telephone
employees running the petunia beds in per-
petuo. '--S.r -. ...-.--
The Improvement association made small
song about wanting the lots themselves having paid
money for them. The corporations servant was
quite indignant that could not way clear
to give the use of the property to the telephone COM
pany forever. .
We are now waiting for the iron works man to
around with paper for to sign by which
give the iron works the right to store their
on our giant aster beds, while Gudahy's packing
plant the other gardens for cattle pens while
the price of meat is being raised. IT, ~. =
If we had the nerve of that telephone company we
feel that would all be rich today Perhaps rich
as the corporation. AS it was, after reading the
paper giving the property away all felt like hust
ling out and voting the socialist ticket whether there
election not.
P S-We didn t sign.
Money is going to flow like water in California
shortly People who get $4,000 insurance are going
to put the $50 in the bank and spend the $4,000
aor o he .ood ad and the he like ad
fields is going to flow in the wealth Of the orient will
drift that way again and everything will go on as
before. Yet anmaterial thingsarwill perish again
if not by earthquake then the lapse cof time for
chance and change' in that realm are busy ever >,
Mark Twain recounts how the earthquake Of 1868
brought leading citizens out of the saloons
lard rooms with their in their hands to the
scandal Of of their friends but it does not re-
quire earthquake to what is going when
leading citizens dog stands eagerly in front of
saloon door shifting anxiously at every man who
comes out. At least it indicates the dogs opinion
OF his master 8 whereabouts The dog may be mis-
taken, but his sense of smell is remarkably acute
While We are on this saloon problem it may be well
to quote the thought >molder Of the Kelton, Wyo
Gazette. He says: '
One of delinquent subscribers got drunk
yesterday and paid So subscription. A few
orderly saloons are good things for town.
The Yarmouth, Mass, Messenger comes to the
front with this valuable and interesting news item
Mr.. G. P. Howes and Mr.. J. W. smaley of East
Dennis have been treating themselves to a new cow
Does this mean that Howes and Smalley have g
cow between them9 Is it apiece or COW ano
cow? "At5tf - i
A New York brewer who erected costly resi-
dence of 'strust Architectural style and wanted
everything different inside staggered at frs
when the telephone about to be nailed up agans
q Greek WALL but he finally solved the problem. by
having the statue of Greek goddess made Her heaS
and body contained the mechanisn of the instrument
One hand held to her mouth "a small trumpet which
trans
hand held concealed receiver arranged that whe1
speaker was talking thru the trumpet mouthpiec