New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11

81. B, Constans of St. Paul and Ernst
Herzog were the witnesses to the will of
the late August, Schell which was admit.
ted to probate last Thursday.
A double wedding is announced for
the 23rd OF this month. The parties
are VIM. Julius and Miss Lottie Blass
and Henry .Vedder and Miss Bertha
Julius.
The birth OF the eighteenth child was
recorded in the family. of Henry Erd-
mann in Milford last Thurday. Thir-
teen of them are still alive and healthy.
and the mother is only IS years of age.
Geo. Scherer, formerly of this city,
appeared before Mankato audience
on Friday evening as Emanuel strlese,
theater director in German comedy
presented by the Liedertafel Society of
that city.
A. D, Stewart, alliance candidate for
the legislature last fall, and j. R. Ian
kard, of Redwood Falls, formerly of
New Ulm, will hold series of public
debates during the winter. The meet
ing will be held in Redwood Falls.
While the threshing outfit of Engel-
bert & Go. was crossing the approach
to the Cottonwood bridge near Brust's
farm last Friday morning, the timbers
gave way and the engine fell partly
through. All of Friday and Saturday
was spent in an effort to remove the
engine without causing further dam
age. -
The Review has always been an ad-
vocate of trading at home,'' and can
not refrain, in justice to its patrons,
from lending its efforts to that end
whenever stress is brought upon the far.
mers to induce them to buy in New
York, Chicago and elsewhere instead of
at home. Not only is merchant in
your home town entitled to your trade,
but it is ten to one that he will give you
better satisfaction for your trouble.
Houses like Montgomery, Ward 6 Co.
may be responsible and may even be
backed up by the best of references as
to capital invested and ability to pay
dollar for dollar, but repeated expert
ence has shown that they are not will
ing to do as much by their patrons as
the local dealer who carrys accounts
from year to year and who, in others
word, is willing to help those who are
kind enough to help him. There are two
good reasons then why farmers should
avoid the foreign concerns that offer
such tempting bats for so little money.
The first of these is that they ought to
buy at home, for reciprocity is good
policy and can nowhere be practiced
with better effect than in ones every
day dealings. The second is that the
danger of being victimized is always abb
SSAo Ii VI cSu4uS Will ulcu VIC dll KNOW
and who have helped to give wealth
and standing tothe community in which
they live, and while strangers may be
willing, out Of their deep feelings Of
humanitarian nism, to be everybody s
benefactor, it isn't, to Judge from the
ordinary run Of affairs, at all probable.
The narrowness of his surroundings and
the absolute necessity of honesty IN his
dealings controls the local merchant
and renders the purchaser safe. The
wide territory covered BY these large
retail houses in New York and Chicago
affords them plenty of opportunity to
play upon the sucker, and out Of the
| eternal fitness Of things'' it is reason,
able to suppose that they take adYan.
tage Of their opportunities. Be on the
safe side therefore and at the same time
exercise neighbor's dnty by trading
with those who are Your friends.