The Irish standard., 1909-01-30
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Tri.State phone 273.
CITY IN BRIEF.

Sim Fein society will be held Mon
day evening next in Columbus hall.
The mid-year examinations at st.
GATHERINGS College, Groveland Park,
began Friday, Jan. %.
The numerous friends of Rev. John
J. Cullinan were delighted at his re-
turn to Minneapolis last Tuesday, after
an absence in the east of several
months.
An important meeting Of Division
No. 8, A. o. H, will be held at A. o..
U. w. hail. 80 Central ave., Sunday
afternoon, Feb. Z. The finances oe che
division will be the chief topic for
consideration.
w. P. Devereux, president of the Dew
ereux Elevator Co., of this city, was
a passenger on the Inflated Republic
(which sank in the Atlantic last Sun
day evening. Fortunately he and his
wife escaped uninjured.
Days Hotel Hyser barber shop will
be closed tonight for all time and the
many patrons will find the new guar
tiers at 52s Nicollet, open for business
Monday. In his new location M. Da-
ly will have one Of the finest barber
shops in Minneapolis.
Persons who do not understand the
significance of the advertising of the
Twin City Rapid Transit company in
the pages of the daily papers of this
city are referred to the editorial col
unnns of today's issue of the Irish
Standard.
Sheridan Court Catholic Order of
Foresters will have public installa-
ton of officers and smoke social next
Wednesday evening at A. o. U. w. hall.
$40 Central ave. A fine program Of en-
tertainment has been prepared which
will include a lively boxing match be-
tween two clever local artists.
The Hennepin County Teachers as
sociation will meet Saturday morning
in the probate courtroom of the court
house. A program of music and read
ings has been arranged, and of talks
on school subjects of interest and aid
to teachers. H. I. Harter, the new sup
erintendent of county schools, has is
sued a call for the meeting.
A prospective deficit of $26,257.0s in
the finance of the state university for
the fiscal year ending July 81 is to
be used by the alumni of the instltu-
ton as an argument for the passage
-<st the university appropriation bill
now before the legislature, by which
a one-half mill tax is fixed for the
support Of the university.
DR.. C. M. Jordan has notified prin-
cipals of the public schools that Lin
coins birthday is to be especially OBJ
served this year, and that he desires
each school to prepare program
which will be given Feb. II. The high
schools will have programs at the
morning session that day and grade
schools in the afternoon. Speakers are
TO be invited from outside.
Hon. H. G.. Hansbrough, United
States senator from North Dakota, is
still at Asbury hospital, Minneapolis,
where he will remain for at least
week before leaving for his home. His
physicians are not willing to say that
he is we'll enough to stand active life
Of travelling at present. He is up and
about, but is meeting only close
friends.
Rev. M. Falk Gjertsen, pastor Of
Bethany church, and newly elected
member of the board of education, does
not seem to care for industrial train
ing in the high schools. He thinks
blacksmithing is a fad. If he takes a
trip to Germany he will find black
smithing taught in the schools Of that
country and diplomas granted for pro-
ficiency at the anvil And the German
system of education is the best in the
world.
Eastern dispatches state that the
Russian Greek Catholic theological
seminary may soon be removed from
Minneapolis to some point in the East
nearer the eye of Archbishop Platon,
head of the church in America. Arch
pishop Platon's headquarters are in
New York and the seminary may be
taken to that city, though it may go
no farther than Cleveland. which is
also a center Of Greek Catholicism in
the United States.
Property in the vicinity Of the Pro-
Cathedral is being sought after un-
der the impression that the completion
of the Cathedral will improve the
character Of the surrounding section
of the city. Hawthorne avenue es-
pecially is thought to have reached low
ebb, in the matter Of prices, and prop