New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-08-13
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL N NEVVo
Mrs. Philip Gross is on the list Of
sick.
Editor johnson, of the Herald, was
up from St. Peter for few hours last
Friday. .-
George Wagner, Horace Newhart
and Hugo Kiesling will camp at Gran
ite Falls next week.
Hugo Fischer left on Friday for
Quincy, ILL.,, where he will resume
charge of the school of gymnastics.
The Van Dusen elevator, now owned
by the New Ulm Elevator Company, is
being used to clean flax for the Chicago
market.
Fred Stolz, prominent Nicollet
County farmer who was we'll known to
New Ulm business men, died last We'd
nesday of consumption.
James Devine, formerly of this coun-
ty, but at present a resident of Oak
Wood, Wisconsin, called on his New
Ulm friends last Saturday.
The Ladies Society of the Turn Ver-
Elm will hold "Summer Nights Festi-
val'' at Turner Hall Park on Wednes-
day evening, August Goth.
Packages are now being received in
New Ulm, labeled 'original PACKAGE
and containing information in regard
to Louisiana lottery tickets.
W. L. Breckenridge, the Rochester
land owner, called on his court house
friends last Thursday. He is still the
same jolly, genial fellow as ever.
This is the week of all weeks in which
the festive sportsmen says in quiet &C.
cent to himself, "Ay'skoll skoot prairie
cicken,' while to other people he al
ways says 'snipe.".
We would be glad to learn that our
population is 100 as the Dispatch says,
but we have it from pretty good au-
thoritY that it is only 1900 or 1508.-
Sleepy Eye Herald.
VIM. Schimmel, of St. Peter, was
visiting during the week with the fami-
ly of Mrs. Hanft. Mr.. Schimmel has
disposed of all his property in St. Peter
and intends to remove to West Superior.
Attorneys Thompson and Somerville
were in the city Saturday, arguing q
certiorari case concerning a road be-
tween the town of Mulligan in Brown
and town of Adrian in Cottonwood
County.
The Democratic Congressional Con-
vention will be held at Mankato, Sep
tember 18th. The Free Press says that
either Henry Poehler, of Henderson, or
E. G. PAIL, of New Ulm, will be the
nominee.
Daniel Hall, of Ridgely, took his de-
parture for Boston on Tuesday last
where he will attend the national en-
campment of the &. A. r. and revisit
his early home. He expects to return
the latter part of October.
A. Morritz, of the Winona Elevator
Company, and H. F. Brooks, formerly
manager of the Winona Mill Co.,
stopped off here last Thursday, while
on there way from Dakota, to look over
New Ulm's celebrated mills and eleva-
tors. ,-. ..
The Springfield Advance comments
upon the receipt of the annual fair
catalogue as follows: Liberal prem
iums are afforded IN the various de-
partments and there should be a gener-
al interest felt among people all over
the county to make the Fair success.
. Prof. A. S. Hobile gave musical and
stereopticon entertainment at Turner
Hall on Sunday evening. The former
consisted in renderings on the zithern
and French horn, and the latter in
splendid views of Switzerland and Ger
many and also scenes of the Johnstown
Hood.
The craze at present amongst the
young ladies of New Ulm is the s'friend-
ship ring and stranger indeed is
that person who is not bothered with a
modest (?) request for a penny. The
fad consists in collecting from friends
enough pennies to purchase ring,
which is worn as a remembrance.
The bonded Indebtedness of some Of
the smaller towns of the state as shown
bv the census returns is as follows:
Austin, $4,000; Faribault. S5o,0c0;
Hastings, s61,5ooi Red Wing, s161, 900;
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