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duu UldIhS. ueTe is SAID 10 De noun
ing new in the mode of assessing this
year. except the application of the rul.
ing of the attorney general relating to
the exemption clause on personal prop
erty. If Il property owner fails to rem,
der signed statement of the amount
of his personal property within five
days after the deputy assessor has left
him the customary blank, he will be
deprived of the benefit of the $1O0 ex-
emption. The ruling was made since
the last assessment, and some question
is apt to arise as TO its application.
! A musicale was given Wednesday
evening by one of the senior divisions
of ST. Margarets academy music class.
The songs and readings which were in
terspersed among the instrumental
numbers, added color to a delightful
program. In the absence of Miss
Halliman her place on the program
was filled by Miss Mollie Gleason.
Those taking part were Adah Davis,
Margaret Flanagan, Marie Hawkins,
Nellie Donovan, Marie Shand. Lucille
Rabcock, Anna CARRIER, Celia Donovan.
Minnie Damn, Florence Tonerleau, Eve
lyn Vincent Mary lIannersley, Gather
inc Ticket, Nettie Jones. Inez Korth
Maud Spicer, Gertrude Frambach, En-
ma Hartman, BERTHE O'Rielly. Alice.
Leahy. Grace Kane and Lorrine Ser.
noyle.
Last Monday nights meeting of the
pro.cathedral cornerstone laying at
Donaldson resulted in the agreement
upon definite plans for the parade in
connection with the event on May 81.
All participants i'll the parade from
Minneapolis and St. Paul and from all
other points within the diocese will
march under their respective parish
banners, while all participants from
outside the diocese will march by So
cieties, except in those cases where
there is no society affiliation, and then
the order of the parish grouping will
be observed as within the diocese. In
this manner members of the various
Catholic orders, the Foresters, Hi
bernians, Knights of Columbus, and
others will march in the parish forma-
tion if within the diocese; and if from
without the diocese. they will be form
ed together, regardless of parishes,
and marched in solid column following
society banners. The societies and
parishes from outside the st. Paul, dio-
cese will have the place of honor in
the parade.
Simeon E. Hedding. the oldest pass
enger engineer on the Milwaukee road,
died Wednesday, at his home, 2O1O
James avenue S. leaving a record
which if not unequallcd in the annals
of railway engineering is so unusual as
to command attention. For forty years
he was continuously employed as an
engineer and in that long stretch of
years he never lost the company one
cent of property. He had many mar
row escapes, which he often related,
but no wreck even of the most trifling
character was ever laid at his door,
and it was his pride that he had never
been reprimanded by his superiors for
the manner in which he did his work.
He had the honor of pulling the first
train which ran out of Minneapolis
over the Milwaukee road. This was on
Christmas day, 1874. The conductor
of the train was the late Jerry Cough
lin. Mr.. Hedding was Ga years old,
and was born at Chazy, N. Y, May 5,
1874. The funeral services were con-
Quoted at st. Charles church Friday
morning, interment following at st.
Mary's cemetery.
The urgent protests of farmers and
produce men against the small size
and location of the present market
place, now owned privately by r. B.
Walker and others, and located on
Third avenue north. between Sixth and
Seventh streets, has led 10 investiga.
tive action, at least, on the part of
some Of the members of the common
council market committee, looking to
either the possible purchase of the
site by the city or it's improvement by
the present owners. Some members of
the council incline to the plan of m,l.
nioipal ownership of public market,
and the purchase of the site from Mr.
Walker, who has indicated, it is under.
stood. that he is ready to sell at an
equitable price and who alleges that
his profits from the enterprise in it's
present form are not material. The
alderman favoring public ownership of
the market place point to the expert.
ence of other cities in this regard, and
are urging an extensive Investigation
of the problem as it is worked out in
other municipalities of the rank of