New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-04-11

resa Fay, and Miss Emily Fay, her sis
ter. A cordial invitation to meet at
their residence number Of old friends
was accepted, and on Friday eveningthe
spacious parlor on Dolores Street was
crowded with as good -natured compa-
ny as it will hardly be my lot to meet
again. "Why we used to go to school
together;;" do you remember oldL.when
he was teaching;;" "How we'll Mr.. Boesch
and his wife look" and how many do
zen of different but similar exclamations
kept floating about it is impossible to
remember. There were first the hostess,
Mrs. Bardenhagen, then Miss Emily Fay,
who still cherishes her sisters compani-
onship and home, Mr.. Geo. Fay, their
brother, ''the same old George" as the
boys say, Mr.. and Mrs. Werner Boesoh,
who. while on their honeymoon. staid
here long enough to make US all like
them, Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph schel and
daughters, Mrs. Emily 6truckmann Of
Oakland, Mrs. Criss, nee Struckmann,
Miss Mollie Struckmann, Mrs. Kunigun-
de Peller and daughters, Mrs. Barbara
Ohme, Miss Emma and Herman Peller.
Miss Eva Manderfeld and DR.. Emil
Weschcke. a.v
10 say that the meeting was as happy
as extraordinary is evident and nothing
was left undone by the amiable hostess
and her sister to secure comfort and Joy
for all present. And to meet friends not
seen for years, to talk of old times, the
dear old place "back east" brought a
shy tear to more than one eye. Those
more, advanced in years could note the
resemblance the youngermembers of the
party bore to their parents, the COM
panions of their youth, and for a while
they were carried back to the old days
of the Indian outbreak. to the grasshop-
per times and to other interesting and
eventful periods in the towns history.
They recalled the day of the old doctors
marriage, of the time when Mrs. s, left
for the sunny west; in short there was
no period of their history or the history
of New Ulm that was not gone over and
dwelt upon. ~ .s....
To crown all, Miss Emily Fay, at re-
cent visit east, had secured group of
views of New Ulm and you ought to
have seen the interest they excited. "Why
there's Turner Hail." where the Misses
Fay had in jollier days so often and fav-
orably appeared as Thespians, and where
in fact, much that was good and bene-
| fetal for the town had emanated. "And
here is the old New Ulm Post building
on Centre Street and there is Broadway -
etc. Not once did the conversation lag
and before an hour was over, feeling of
kinship was established which will in
the future, whenever the participants of
that joyous occasion meet again, cause
their handshaking to be most eager
one. Matron Peller, in spite of advanc-
ing years and health not as robust as it
might be, looked at the familiar faces
| about her and remarked that it was in
deed a fortunate thing for herself that
she had come over from Oakland on a
night ferry, for, homesick as she was af-
ter the place where her children were
born and where her friends still lived,
the feast of that evening brought to her
a ray of sunshine that will pervade her
life for many days to come.
Not to forget the inner man, the host
ess had set bounteous table for all, and
German appetites paid homage to Ger
man viands. Do you know what that
means9 There were no sour, shrunken
faces around that board, I assure you, no
dyspepsia or collie, and hearty laughter
and jest passed with the courses and Just
as often too. All were young in heart
and none ladgllted heartier and felt bet
ter at the mirth around him than Mr..
Bardenhagen, who. spared enough of his
time to look in and greet his wife's
friends and guests.
Then at last departure came. The grip
given in farewell was an earnest one, and
long will that day be remembered. When
any community is governed by such laws
and costumes as will make its citizens,
after years of absence. during which i'm
portant changes have been wrought IN
their habits and conditions, greet each
othera as one Of the same family with love
for the old home, we have every reason
to respect that community as an honor
able one, its laws as wholesome, its lead