The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-04-15


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CHURCH NOTICE.
Services in the Prison Chapel clock every Sun
dav morning Catholic service alternate
Sunday. Rev. c. E. Benson and Rev. Fr Corcoran Chap
ains.
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The Senate bill providing for the sale of the
old prison was passed last Friday.
The American Association opens today. 1t is
said that the Indianapolis pitching staff is one of
the best and strongest il the association.
There will be no baseball in Trenton, N. j.
The House of Representatives defeated a bill de-
signed to permit Sunday baseball and other recre-
atoms in public playing grounds.
Many of the ''old timers will remember Mr..
Clark Chambers, who was at one time parole agent
of this prison, the place now occupied by Mr.. f.
A. Whittier Mr.. Chambers is seriously i'll at his
home in Owatonna of typhoid pneumonia.
We have been informed that arrangements for
a thirty piece orchestra are being made by the
management of the institution. 1t takes time to
do things We will say in regard to this
later. In the meantime, watch and wait.
A wilderness embracing more than five thou
sand acres in Pocanhantas and Randolph counties,
w. Va, is to converted into greatgame preserve
by the Allegheny Sportsmen's association. This is
the only way it is thought to conserve the game
for the sportsmen.
The St. Paul and Minneapolis ball team will
clash on the latter's diamond April %. Moving
pictures will be taken of the ceremonies and game
This will be the opening game of the season between
the two cities, provided of course that the weather.
man does not interfere.
DIR. H. c. Swearingen, pastor of the House of
Hope Presbyterian church, St. Paul. has been ap-
pointed member of the parole board to succeed
the late Dr. Samuel G.. Smith. The appointment
is Tor six years. The law provides that every new
appointment shall be for the full term.
group of women under the leadership of
Mrs C. L. Atwood visited the prison and gave
special attention to the ward for women The
visitors are interested in the proposed state
formatory for women. The bill which before
the legislature for the erection of reformatOry,
has been passed; but as yet site has been chosen
for the buildings.
Very few people realize the enormous expense
for the support f the state charges that is, to
feed. clothe minister to in sickness and for in
every respect the 10 900 or more wards which have
its special charge. For to provide for the state
charges properly the same as heretofore, it is
estimated that it will require approximately
$4,000 900, for two years.
By drinking glass of buttermilk an inmate
of the county infrmary at Warsaw, Ind, just end
ed fast that stands worlds record. The
buttermilk the first nourshment taken in fifty
seven days. Medical science claim that fifty-fve
days is the limit of mans endurance to go without
food. Because of the lack of nutritious food the
faster" tipped the scales one hundred pounds short
of his original weight before the fast was begun.
Word has come to us that the steamship,
Northern Pacific, on which General Office Mana
ger, Mr.. Bourne, and Cashier, w. A. Mcclellan,
took passage while their way to the Panama
Pacific Exposition, may be quarantined on it's
arrival at San Francisco.
One of the passengers on the ship is suffering
from smallpox; when the case was first discovered
all passengers were Immediately vaccinated. It is
thought the government will insist on fumigation.