The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-09-23
CITY IN BRIEF

o1ls and Toledo, and tomorrow ,ft.,
noon the same clubs will play the
regular Sunday game at D. m.
An important meeting of Division
NO. o. "A. o. H., will be held SUNDAY
afternoon, Oct. LIST, at the hall a1o
central avenue. A choice program of
entertainment is being arranged for
the occasion. All members are nrpan+
~ requested to be present.
Minneapolis has the largest orodo
school building west of Chicago The
Seward at Twenty fourth street and
IWenty-eighth avenue south. is NOT
only a model up-to-date building, b,t
Is the largest grade school in the
Northwest with % regular classrooms
and an enrolment exceeding LOO.
Inc board of education will not give
school children individual towels and
soap this year because it is financially
embarrassed. AS a result, the school
children are to choose, as they have in
the past, between the common roller
towel or no towel at all. Past expert
ence indicates the children would rath-
er not wash under these circumstance
es. for some schools have entirely
abandoned the roller towel.
Manager leighton of the Minneap-
oils Symphony orchestra is in receipt
of a telegram from Emil Oberhoffer in
New York, saying he has engaged
Willy Lamping for solo 'cellist to sue
coed Carlo Fischer, now associate
manager of the orchestra. Mr.. Lamp
ing sailed from Europe Sept. 2, for the
sole object of meeting Mr.. Oberhoffer
and playing for him.
Christopher Eaton of the State Tu-
berculosis society reports the tubercu-
losis death rate in Minneapolis for
1910 as 1877 to 100000 persons. The
average death rate in the state was
1OS in 100000 population. In st. Paul
it was 1876. Murray county showed
the lowest death rate, with only 25,
and Otter Tail county the largest, with
1870.
The public affairs committee of the
Commercial club will choose a repre-
sentative to attend the sessions of the
tax levy board. The committee meets
for the first regular session of the
year and will discuss tax estimates
submitted by the various city depart
nents and the work of the tax levy
board. The aim of the public affairs
committee is to secure as low tax
rates as are consistent with the needs
of the city.
A committee composed of four for
mer members of the Hennepin county
grand jury called on Governor Eber-
hart Monday and recommended that
appointments to the university board
of regents hereafter be made ION basis
Of personal fitness rather than on basis
of interchange of political courteses."
The committee asked that the state
auditor be designated as member of
the board SO university funds might
come under closer supervision of state
officials.
The state railroad and warehouse
commission has announced the APP
pointment of E. o. Sather, formerly
sealer of weights and measures in
Minneapolis, as one of the nine deputy
inspectors under the new state de-
partment of weights and measures.
Two other Minneapolis men, Thomas
V. Malone and James r. Methver,
were also appointed. Other appoint
ments are r. M. Rogers and Orlando
J, Reynolds of st. Paul; Charles
Holmstrom, Lakeland; ]. H. Nordby
of Duluth and Soren Jetson and D. S.
Evans Of Mankato.
A proposition for an intercity boule-
ward to extend from Central avenue
across East Minneapolis on Division
street. thence to st. Paul in the vi
cinity of the agricultural college,
Como park and the state fair grounds
came before the park board Monday
afternoon with James T. Elwell as
spokesman in its behalf. Superin-
tendent Wirth presented plans for the
boulevard. The drawings show 1t 2oo
feet wide, with two traffic roads and a
drive to extend on Division street.
from stinson boulevard east to the city
limits The estimated cost is $114,O00.
Articles of Incorporation OF Minne-
sota's first aeroplane company have
been filed with the secretary OF state
II is the International Aeroplane COM
pany of Minneapolis. The factory Is
tn he located at 104 Second avenue
south. The incorporators are William
v. Bloomfield, Gustav H. Sachs and
sigvard Guam, all of Minneapolis. Inc