The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-07-01
CITY IN BRIEF

The ladies of st. Lawrence parish
gave lawn social on the church
grounds corner OF 18th ave. and 7th
st. s. e. Thursday evening, June %.
A large number of the congregation
attended.
A meeting of the committee for
hearing the complaints of those who
consider their property assessed too
high will be held July 10. The COM
mittee will be in session for several
weeks.
Among candidates for the council,
M. P. McInerny and Patrick H. Hoy,
last election pointed with pride to the
size of their families. McInerny hav-
ing eight and Hoy six children. Mr..
Hoy now has seven, the latest being
a girl.
The Minneapolis Baseball club will
play the first game of its next series at
home at Lexington Park on the morn
ing of July 4th. In the afternoon the
st. Pauls will come over to Nicollet
Park for the second game of the great
national holiday.
Plans are being made by the city
council water committee to run a SO
or 60-inch main from the reservoir
down the city road to Central avenue
and thence parallel to the 30-inch
main now in Central avenue to a point
at the river, and later under the river
to the South Side. If 6O-inch main
is decided upon it will be the largest
in the city.
H. j. Arnoldy, 5037 Fourth avenue
south, holds the distinction of being
the first street car patron arrested and
fined under the strap-hanger ordin-
ance, prohibiting the overcrowding of
street cars. He boarded a car at
Seven Corners which was loaded to
its capacity. He was arrested and ar
raigned in police court and fined $40
with an option of ten days at the work
house.
Vandals and petty thieves who make
the vacant lot and back yard gardens
of Minneapolis the objects of their
depredations will have short shrift
from now on if arrested by the Min
neapolis police. The big heart of Po-
lice Chief Mealey has been touched
by the complaint of one of the city's
15-year-old girl gardeners. Her
flower and vegetable patch was Wis
tied Sunday by man who was not
satisfied with stealing vegetables, but
who tore up poppy beds and generally
left a trail of destruction behind.
After listening to the complaint Chief
Mealey said he would rather arrest
such man than a burglar.
A half holiday Friday, July Z, of
civic celebration week, will be gen.
orally observed throughout the city,
following a proclamation by Mayor
James G. Haynes, urging that en-
ployees of stores and factories be
given opportunity to witness the pa
rade, which is to be composed of
floats representing commercial and
manufacturing enterprise The Re
tail Dealers association of Minneapo-
lis, embracing in it's membership the
larger stores, has voted that it's mem
bers should close their places of bus
mess at 1 p. m. On behalf of the
civic celebration committee, President
A. w. Warnock requests that this ex-
ample be followed
Miss Constance Marie Day, daughter
of Frank A. Day, has chosen July 10
as the date for her wedding to Everett
r. Tawney, son of James A. Tawney
OF W1nona, former congressman. The
wedding will take place at the home of
the brides father in Missoula, Mont.
James Manahan, MINNEAPOLIS attor
ney, has been retained by % of the
largest magazine publishers in the
United State to oppose the movement
lnaugurated by Postmaster General
Hitchcock for raising the postal rates
on magazines in the United States.
The Model Clothing House will fur
nlsh new summer uniforms for the
police departments traffic squad, same
to be ready for use for civic celehra.
ton week.
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