New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-07-31
LOCAL u DA 1

LOCAL DASHEs.
By next Saturday evening, the wealth
e. 7 emaining favorable, the grain will
mostly all be cut.
The Curry Pioneer says that a new
paper will soon be started at Tracy, by
a gentleman from Mankato.
VIM. Witthoff has just sold 100000
bricks to the Railroad Co. for round
house at Sleepy Eye.
The weather Monday afternoon was
nice and clear, and everybody was out
with smoked glasses viewing the
eclipse.
Special telegr ans to tho st. Paul pa.
pers say that the crops in northern To-
wa are even in q worse condition than
in Minnesota.
Our machine men are expert encing
considerable difficulty to make the self:
binders work satisfactorily, on account
Of SO much grain being lodged.
On account Of the repairs which the
Central school house is undergoing, our
public schools will not open until a
week from next Monday.
Work on the, pontoon bridge is so
far advanced that teams can cross by
tomorrow or Friday. l.. Buenger sup
erintends the work.
Still they come! Henry Nagle and
his brother-in-law will arrive from Gin
cinnati next Friday evening, and will
open hardware and tinware store in
Lehman S building, on 3. North street.
The people Of Owatoni}a evidently
do not mean to be taken by the tramps.
They have organized a rife company,
q shot gun company and are talking ST |
a pistol company.
The Lafayette correspondent of the
St. Peter Tribune says that three
sdorgs'' were killed; by lightning in
that town lately. Pretty rough on the
canine race.
z, The Austin Register has a better Pc
medy than "Allan's Anti-Fat'' for
corpulent people lean. Itsays:
'sTal1e a newspaper account, to collect, !
on the first Of each week, and the re-
suit will be an astonisher.'
The Des Moines & Minneapolis mar
row gauge railroad is slowly but surely
working this way. Webster City last
W Wednesday voted a tax for the benefit
OF the road, which assures it's compile
ton to that point this summer.
The st. Peter Tribune says that Geo.
II. Noble, formerly with A. j. Lam
berton, has concluded to go. into the
business at Fort Rigely,
and that he will open up a general
stock of merchandise on the 18th Of
The last number of the Post, the
first in the second half Of its fifteenth
year, appeared III an entirely new dress
and enlarged form. The paper now
neat appearance and the i'm
will no doubt be appreciat.
ed by its numerous readers.
The unsettled state of the weather.
the greater part Of last week greatly|
retarded harvesting. The grain is in
a pitiable condition and many wheat
fields will not be cut at all, while some
are being moved and others cut one
way. The kernels are very small and
shrunken and badly blighted. The best
will not yield moro than 10 bushels per
acre, The wheat has already be.
come SO dry that great difficulty is ex-
perienced in binding.
B.. June who is accompanying Prof.
of the State University, on a
geological survey of the Lake Superior
region; favors the readers of the Re.
view in this weeks issue with a dis
cription of that part of Minnesota. His
commune cation appears on fourth page.
and is we'll worth a perusal.
Quite impressive services will be
held at our Catholic church TODAY.
Rev. Bernhart Sandmeyer, who has
Just graduated at St. Johns College,
IN Stearns county, and who has been
assigned to this parish to assist Father
Berghold, will say. his first mass. A
large number Of priests from neigh
boring towns will be present to assist
in the ceremony. AS this is the first
opportunity our citizens have ever had
Of witnessing the conservation of a
priest, and may not soon present itself {!
again, a large number Of people will
no doubt witness the ceremony. /;