The Irish standard., 1909-06-19
CITY IN BRIEF.

No. 435, K. of c.. held last Wednesday
evening, $4,000 was raised to further
the work on the new home, located at
Eighth street and Fifth avenue south.
Since the ST. Paul Dispatch obtained
control Of the Pioneer Press, the lat
ter has no Minneapolis news in rs
columns. At least, it is not visible 10
the naked eye.
Lenora M. Barrie, a Minneapolis
milliner, who was injured by falling
into a coal hole in St. Paul last Jan
uary, has begun suit for $4,000 dam
ages against the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal company.
Congressman Frank M. Nye has re-
turned to Washington to vote for tho
Aldrich- Payne tariff bill when it IS
amended to his liking. The Irish
Standard had pleasant visit from
Mr.. Nye before his departure.
DR.. G. NJ. Jordan. superintendent q
schools has discovered a collection #
school photographs for the year 1882.
Large plates of the is buildings then
existing are shown, together with pic
lures of all the children enrolled.
There are now Sc buildings.
Justice C. B. Elliott has received his
commission as associate justice of the
supreme court of the Philippines.
President Taft wants Justice Elliott
to be on hand when the new term #
court opens July ~, but there is small
likelihood that he will leave before
August.
The county commissioners. or the
majority Of them, will not pay the SAL
aries of the poor farm superintendent.
morgue keeper and physician for the
two months they were out of Office,
pending the appeal of their case with
out an order from the court. Judge
Elliott, who rendered the decision, is
no longer on the supreme bench.
have been in Paris and Rome during
the past four years and have recently
made q tour of the world, arrived in
Minneapolis last Tuesday with their
daughter, Mamie, and a French maid,
and have taken apartments at the
Maryland hotel. Mr.. Blaine is neph-
-ew Of the great statesman whose name,
he bears. and Mrs. Blaine is a daugh-
ter Of the late Anthony Kelly.
Miss Helen scallen, daughter of J.
c. Scallen, was the honor guest st
a cleverly planned indoor picnic which
the Beta Kappa Phi sorority gave last
Saturday. There were "a guests and
the decorations were prettily carried
out in the sorority flower and the so--
GRITTY colors. The wedding of Miss
Scallen and James Vincent Coffey Of
Troy, N. Y, will be an event of this
month. The ceremony will be per-
formed at the Church of the Holy Ros-
airy on Wednesday morning June 81.
Rev. w. B. Riley is an orthodox
Baptist and has no use for his rev.
erend brother, Rev. G.. B. Foster, of
Chicago, to whom an editorial is de-
voted on the fourth page. Riley says
of Foster: "In my opinion Foster is
a more fragrant infdel than Ingers I'll
ever was, but Foster, unlike Ingersou,
is unable to make good living by
popular addresses against the Bible,
so he retains his position in skep-
teal university in the interest OF
living GALAXY" Riley is not much
astray in his estimate of Foster.
An informal reception was rendered
DR.. and Mrs. James K. Hosmer Of
Boston Tuesday afternoon in the di-
rectors' room Of the public library.
DR.. Hosmer was for years in charge
of the Minneapolis public library and
has recently come to st. Paul to spend
the summer with his daughter Mrs.
A. G. Eddy. DR.. Hosmer was quite
popular as librarian for he was very.
accommodating to all and willing 70
please all in the performance Of his
duties. He is a noted scholar and
recognized authority on American his
tory and literature.
The seventh annual convention of
Minnesota branch, National Associa-
ton of Post Office Clerks was held
in the circuit court room of the fed
eral building, st. Paul, Saturday, June
u. The officers elected for the COM
ing year were as follows: President,
J. E. Thomas, st. Paul. first vice pres.
ident, August Heoney, saltwater; Sec
ond vice president, ]. Samulson. Clo-
quet: secretary, Mr.. Geise. st. Paul;
treasurer, George Richards, Minneapo-
lis; M. J. Hoban, of Minneapolis, was
elected delegate to attend the national