New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-10-11

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Hans Aastronl Of Nicol let has secured
an increase Of pension from So 10 81
per month through A. Blanchard.
The young ladies Of the Holy Trinity
Church will give a dranlarlca entertain
ment at Caecilian Hall on Sunday, Oct.
18th. a drama of five acts will be pro-
duced.
Two agents Of the Peter Peterson Co.
have been stranded here siEce Friday.
The manager sent them hither without
money, and now refuses to answer their
letters or kilograms.
The readers Of the Review will notice
this week that we now have good cor
respondents in Sleepy Eye, Springfield,
Fairfax, Morgan and some of the coun-
try districts. They are all bright and
newsy,
Z The business men of the city met at
the German Park Building on Monday
evening and organized Business Mems
Union by eAecting the following officers
Pres, Geo: Jacobs; ice-president, J. F..
Neumann; secretary and treasurer, Geo.
Graft: executive committee, T. Crone
and JOHN F. Neumann. The Union is
established merely for the purpose of
protecting the business men against dead.
beats and for forcing the collection of
bad accounts. On this line it can have
only good effect, and the town will be
benefited as we'll as the merchants by the
Union.
A good one is told on young man OF
town who called at the home of his lady
friend one evening not many nights ago.
He had been accustomed to occu pying a
bench under the trees near :. house,
(whether alone or not it is ,. 4, ur bust
ness to say but upon this particular
evening the moon shone brightly through
the trees and cast phantom shadows
roundabout. When the young man en-
tered, he proceeded to seat himself upon
the accustomed bench, when 10 and be-
held! he came to the ground with dull
sickening thud. That which he sup
posed to be a bench was only the shadow
of the actual obj ect, which in his enthu.
siasm he had neglected to espy.
The Sacketts concluded their roper,
toire engagement at Union Hall on Sun.
day evening. During the week they
played White Slave, Barnes of New ork
the Fugitive and the German Dude. The
latter, while not so heavy as the others,
contained more fun and was better re-
ceived by the people. Both Mr.. Sackett
and his wife assumed roles that were
we'll suited to their gifts and to say thai
they acted naturally, intelligently ane
with ease, is merely praise which they
deserve. To he natural is true acting,
and on Sunday evening in the German
Dude and his innocent young loyeE these
two people ca me as near to it as4an O
The repertoire actors who have visite,
New Ulm. Mr.. Bailey also Won friend:
for himself during the weeks visit. The
scenery and costumes too were far above
those carried by the average troupes O.
this character.
The Fortschritt in its report of the
council proceedings refers to Mr.. Brandt
as appearing before the council and adj
vocating the laying of watermains this
fall in order to give the workingmen
labor way into the winter, and suggesting
that payment might be made in orders
payable next year, but which might be
used at the stores as cash. The paper
then says that the opinion of Mr.. Hag
berg as city attorney to the effect tina,
council had no right to make any con
tracts under the present financial con
dition, put stop to the scheme, wher
as a matter of fact the council hardly
considered it at all. Hagberg was mere
ly asked for his opinion as to the legality
of issuing such orders and he gave it.
but that was all. The Fortschritt should
give the whole of such discussions OF
none at all. 1t gives, by such meagrt
reports, the people chance to saddle
onto one man the blame for defeating &
measure which none of the council
deemed feasible under the present con.
ditiens. But we don't believe that even
Brandt himself was in earnest when he
proposed such an inadvisable scheme
and moreover we are of the opinion that