New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-15
LOCAL NEWS.

The Monday morning freight, carry.
ing mail, was delayed for several hours
through a wreck at Kasota
The Rural Teachers Association will
hold their next meeting on the after.
noon of the first Saturday in February.
A little girl put in its appearance in
the family of W. Scheiderich last Fri.
day:
Orders for masquerade suits taken at
F. w. Hauenstein's. Call early and
make your selections.
The grippe is spreading and has
now taken hold of nearly everybody in
| New Ulm. There are LAT cases.
The Cecilian Society of the Catholic
church intend giving public concert
in the near future.
G. F. Struck, the Minneapolis archi-
tect and designer of the new court
house, was in the city during the week.
The appointment of M. Huiras to the
postofice at Springfield was announced
on Saturday.
The CORTLAND Amatuer Band have
rented room in the Pennsy lvania
House and will hereafter hold their reg
ular practices at that place.
Determined not to let the ''Stachel-
schwein'' go to the dogs, q new staff OF
writers have taken the paper in hand
and it will shortly be issued as usual.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. Behnke pleasant
ly and agreeably entertained a small
party of friends at their home on Mon
day evening. Cards and refreshments
whiled the hours away.
Peter j. Schultz moved into the jan.
itor's rooms of the new court house
yesterday. He will watch the new struc.
ture until the regular janitor can be ap.
pointed.
E. W. Baer, the tin and hardware
dealer, contemplates closing out his en-.
tire stock at once with the expectation
of running a tlnshop exclusively. See
notice in another column.
On the editorial page will be found
an account OF the Farmers Institute
for Monday. Next week, with more
room, we will give details of the sue
ceeding sessions. 49,
The attendance in the public schools
has fallen off considerably of late,
presumably through the influence of the
grippe. Many of the college students
are also down with it and several of the
professors.
Company A held their annual meet
ing last Tuesday evening and in addi-
ton to other business elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, 1t. Stein
hauser; Vice pres, 1t. John Buschers
Secretary, F. j. Buschard; Treas, Geo.
Book; and delegate to National Guard
Convention at St. Paul, It. John Busch.
ers, Capt. Rosskopf, alternate. .
John Torgremson, of Lake Hanska,
was a caller at the Review office yester-
day, and from him we learn that the
prospects of securing the establishment
of post office at Lake Hanska and a
mail route through that place from Ma.
della to Sleepy Eye are excellent. He
also says that caucus of citizens of
their town was held on Monday at
which it was decided that Peter Olstadt
be recommended as postmaster. a
To-day we publish notice in another
column to taxpayers. This gives the
percentage Of taxes paid by the differ
ent towns, cities and villages of the
county The village of Springfield
comes first with percentage of Ais
aud New Ulm next with 32.5. Sleepy
Eye follows with 80 per cent, so it will
be seen that the towns pay much
| higher percentage than the country dis
tricts.
With this issue we give our readers
list OF the personal property tax-pay-
ers of New Ulm which concludes the
| publication. In this connection we
mightsay in ordertocorrect wrong state
ments that have been made, that in
printing these lists the Review has had
no fat job It has not received a cent
for the task, but has given the matter
to its readers simply as matter OF
valuable news without payment.
The largest and at the same the most
pleasant card party of the season was
that held at the residence of M. Null
len last Saturday evening. Nearly
forty couple were present and half as
many tables were kept busy with the
interesting game of progressive euchre.
Several best prizes were awarded which
were won by Miss Vajen, Mrs. WmKoch