New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01
LOCAL NEWS.

| To-day we commence to write 1890.
For everyone the Review has a Happy
New Years greeting.
| A son and heir put in its appearance
at JOS Diepo]ders' last Saturday.
Mrs. l.. Glessman. of Lafayette, is
sick atsthe home of H. Lilly in This city.
| Bingham Bros. have supplied their
Office with a handsome new safe. 1t
is of Macnal & Urban make.
A new time table goes into effect on
the Northwestern next Sunday. Some
radical changes will be made.
The snow storm of last Saturday af-
ternoon was accompanied by thunder
and lightning-a strange and unusual
occurrence.
Fred Wiedemann and wife, of Vic.
tor, Iowa, are the guests of Conrad
Dirks, of Lafayette. Mrs. Wiedemann
is sister of Mr.. Dirks.
Gustave Fischer left for Chicago last
| Wednesday to spend the holidays
While there, he says, he will study a
few of the social problems of the day.
New arrivals in the homes of T..
Mueller and Ernst Aufderheide are
among the news items of this week.
| At the former place it is a girl, at the
latter a boy.
Company A will hold no drill on
Thursday evening of this week. The
next meeting will be the regular bust
ness meeting and will be held at Tur-
ner Hall, January 9TH.
VIM. Strassburg sold his farm in La
fayette last week to Hippolyte Klingler
for $1,000. Mr.. Strassburg expects to
locate in Brown County, somewhere
between Sleepy Eye and Springfield.
From all appearances bill will be
passed by the present Congress, giving
towns of four or five thousand people
the right to free delivery. If such a
bill should 60 through, then New Ulm
will 60 in for all there is in it.
! In every town around us, it is to be
noticed that merchants are organizing
for mutual protection. Why don't they
here? It would be to their advantage,
and at the same time would not act to
the detriment of the honest purchaser.
H. A. Subilia Jr. had the misfortune
to break his leg early last Thursday
morning in mpling over something
and falling to the floor. The fracture
is in one OF the bones of the ankle joint
of his right leg, and is bad one. DR..
Schoch is the attending surgeon.
The thanks of the working force Of
the Review office is due to Messrs. Au.
gust Schell and Franz Grebe. The for.
mer remembered us on Christmas with
an eighth of MS excellent beer and the
latter with a box of the bottled liquid.
The gifts of both were appreciated.
The social at the residence of j.
Newhart last Friday evening was Of
the incest kind. A goodly number
were present, just enough to have 8
| splendid time-and they did. Games
music and friendly groups Of converse
ton enlivened the gathering, and the
evening was one of pleasure to all.
| The Sons of Herman have elected of
tcers for the new year as follows
Pres. Wenzel Schotzko; Vice.pres.
Gustav .Goetsch; Recording Sec'y, Car
Rolloff; Financial Sec'y, Gottlieb Us
valid; Treas, John Belm; Trustee
Chas. Hauenstein; Delegates to Crane
Lodge, Julius Berndt, John Schmie
and John Hauenstein.
A. B. Blessing writes us from Spo
kane Falls, wishing us happy New
Year, and enclosing check for the Re
view to 81. He also says that he woulc
like to have a few of his New Ulm
friends come out to see him, but, as thai
is impossible, Anton ought to play the
act of Mahomet and come to New Ulm.
Wewould be glad to meet him.
During the storm of last Saturday, a
twelve year old son of Peter Dorm, a
well known farmer of Brighton, seven
miles from New Ulm, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed. Mr..
Dorm was also struck, but not seriously
His clothes were torn open on the right
side and his body severely schorched,
but medical aid will bring him out all
right. The accident is indeed a sad
one.
The American Building & Loan AS.
ISOLATION is said 20 be in a shaky con-
dition. It is quite probable that such
1 is the case and that a large number Of
New Ulm people will be money out be-
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