New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-01-18

the big chimney from Books wagon
shop.
Do not forget the masked ball at rur-
ner Hall Saturday. The tableaux alone
are worth the price of admission.
E. E. Setter came down from Spring.
field yesterday. He reports everything
as being lovely in his town.
VIM. Peterman left for Minnehaha
yesterday. He will enter the Soldiers
home.
A patent has been granted to Otto G.
Setter, for sash cord fastener. The
invention is a good one and we hope
that Otto will realize a fortune ont of it..
We understand that Mr.. F. Keller
will open up a butcher shop in the
building formerly occupied by c. H.
Hornburg.
L. HaeberIe has sold his tin shop and
store to Ed. Baehr. Mr.. Baehr is a
promising young man and will do all in
MS power to please the public.
Frank Kuetzing is busy ordering suits
for parties who wish to attend the
masked ball at Turner Hall next Satur-
day.
Dr.. \. Marden represented Charity
Lodge No. 50 \. F. and A. NJ. at the
Grand Lodge held in St. Paul last
week.
Treasurer Kyser, Ex-Sheriff Mol, NJ.
Klein, M. Anderegg and Mrs. Baber1ch
of st. Peter, Chas. Hille, of Winona
and VIM. Iheobald, of St. Paul, were
snowbound here during the week.
Messrs. w. Bosch, J. Pfenninger,
Geo. Doehne, r. Fischer and M. J..
Rosskopf waited in St. Paul last week
until the Northwestern blockade was
raised.
Mrs. Anna. M. Serr, mother of Mrs.
Jos. Vogel, died in this city Friday
last at the age of rs years. Mrs. Serr
was one of the pioneers of this county.
She settled in town Milford in 1854.
Julius Melges of Redwood Falls made
visit to his parents and friends last
week. Owing tc the snowblockade he
stayed few days longer than he had
intended to. Henry Vedder attended
to Julius customers during the latters
visit.
The employees of the New Ulm mills
and large number of their friends had
an enjoyable dance at Turner Hall Sat-
urday evening. The cold weather did
not damp their ardor and they kept
up the fire until q. NJ.
Sheriff Schmid, Fred Behnke. Theo.
Crone jr. and Geo. Vogel walked down
from SleepyEyeSaturday. The frst'three
made the trip in five hours, but Vogel
took it easy and rested at farm house
for several hours. He arrived here
safely in the evening.
Last weeks snow storm was the most
disastrous since the storm of Jan. 5,
and 10 1873. The storm ragged in Min
nesota, Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska and
Montana. AS far as heard from, seven
tY-tive persons were frozen to death,
two OF these in Minnesota.
Treasurer Kayser, of Nicollet county
came up here Wednesday evening, in.
tending to start for Fort Ridgely Thurs
day. Too much snow and blizzardv
weather prevented him from doing SO
and the tax payers of upper Nicollet
county will have to pay at q later date.
Last month one of our merchants
sent a statement of account, with po-
lite request to remit, to a delinquent
customer who lives near Springfield.
In reply he received the following:
Dear Sir. Your letter was received
some time ago. It contained no news
would have answered it sooner but ]
know nothing new. IhaVe no money
but as this is nothing new I will close.
Yours truly N. NJ
In his report to the State Board ot
Charities and Correction Sheriff Schmid
mentions the following items of inter
est: Prisoners in jail during the year
1887, IS. Thirteen Of these from
Brown, two from Lyon and one from
Redwood Counties. Thirteen prisoner
were discharges during the year. Two
of them, Anton Fischer and Garre
DeWinkle, were sentenced tol and Il
years hard labor, respectively, il the
States prison. The expenses Of keep
ing prisoners were: to Blown County
1886; to outside counties SPA. TO thu
city of New Ulm $12.