New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-21
NEW ULM AND VICINITY.

NEW ULM AND VICINITY.
In another week the harvest will he
fairly under way.
Lard and Machinery oil at the City
Drug store at bottom prices.
Let us organize a Garfield and Ar
thur club and make things lively.
The New Ulm Post is to be en-
larged to an eight column sheet.
~ ne population of Redwood Falls &C.
cor,ling to the late census is $50.
New Ulm ranks as the fifteenth city
- population in this State by the late
census.
Saturdays st. Paul papers and let
ters were received at this place on Mon
day morning, from the west.
The weather the past week has
been unexceptionally fine for grow
ing crops, especially wheat.
A picnic advertised by Jake Brust
will bring the rain every time. 1t has
been tried three times and not found to
fail.
The county commissioners met last
Monday as a board of equalization.
Next week they will meet to transact
business as a board of county commits.
sioners.
The auditorium of Union Hall was
crowded from early morn until late
at night last Sunday with people an
xious to hear and see the Orchestrion.
The Governors Guards picnic of
which we made brief mention last
week will be held in Turner Hall Park
on Sunday, August lst See the full
programme in another column.
A large number of the festive grass
hoppers were seen flying south one day
last week. Now and then an occasion
al straggler would drop to the ground
to remind our farmers of times gone
by.
Empire Mill is tho name of the
new Touring mill now being built in
this city. The building has just been
painted, and the machinery is being
placed in position by corps OF expert
enced workmen.
F. Pagenkoph and E. G. Pagenkoph,
of Faribault, Mimi, offer $500 reward
for information that will lead to the
conviction of the person or persons
who were instrumental in causing the
death of J. II. Pagenkoph and W. A.
Weeks, in Lincoln county, last spring.
We venture the assertion that Geo.
Scherer, of the town of Sigel, has the
incest field of growing corn in the
county. 1t stands at least 10 feet
high on an average and some of the
stocks on last Friday measured over
II feet,
On and after October LIST no cards
will be passed through the mails ex'
cept the Government postal cards.
This order is rendered necessary by
4 pratice which has grown up OF late
of sending advertising cards with
a one cent stamp attached through thu
postoflice.
During the thunder storm last Thurs
day night a man named Ludwick Ma
san, living near Amiret, Minn.. wa'
killed by lightning in the cellar of his
dwelling where he had gone with his
family for safety. Wife and children
uninjured.
BAYoNEr 1osT-On July Sd, 1880
one Of the members Of the Governor
Guards lost Springfield rifle (blued
bayonet, at Sleepy Eye, or on the roat
between Sleepy Eye and New Ulm
The finder will confer favor by send
ing the same to Jos. Bobleter, New
Ulm.
We are informed by Chas. Wagne
that Louis Sharon has bought the Man
kato ferry, advertised in these col
umns a short time since, with tn
intention of putting it into the Min
nesota River at Redstone. This will
bea great convenience to the farmers
of Courtland and the travelling public
generally.
The threatening weather and tn
slight rain fall about o'clock last Sur
day afternoon came very near spoilin
the old settlers picnic at the City Gal
den, but later in the day the sky agai
became clear and many of those tina
had gone home on the approach OF tn
rain returned, and the festivities wer
continued until late into the night.
Merit apparent to "cloud of wi