New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1895-03-20
NOTES FROM LAKE HANSKA
The Reviews Entertaining Correspondent
Presents Lot of Them. -

Miss Nellie Paulson closed her school
last Friday with a more than usually
successful entertainments.
A one third interest in threshing rig
belonging to Peter Nundahl was sold at
Sheriff's sale last Tuesday. It was knocked
down to Mr.. Schneider for 500.
There was public sale on Amund
Aase's farm in Albin on the 10th.
A meeting of the Hanska-Li,den
creamery stockholders was held on the
9th, and it was then decided to erect. a
building for the manager at a cost of
about $500. At the same time those in
terested in the store concluded to extend
the store twenty feet, to increase the
salary of the head clerk SIS month, to
employ new clerk, Ole Olson Nide-
bruget, in place of Alfred Vestby and to
present Mr.. Hans Blossom with an inter-
est in the store in acknowledgements of
his presentation of the site.
A man from Michigan intends to start
store in the neighborhood of the Lin
den creamery. In meeting of the stock
holders of said creamery,it was resolved
that there could be no objection to his
doing so, and accordingly the man has
contracted for lot with Mr.. Jensen. On
former occasion, we availed ourselves
of the opportunity afforded by this paper
to emphasize the desirability of locating
the Linden creamery farther east in Or
der to evade interference with the Linden
and Hanska creamery, and now we begin
to see the truth of our remarks. A great
many of the shareholders in the Linden
Hanska creamery are Linden farmers,
but nevertheless stranger appears up
on the field and secures support in en-
rendering competition. Is that the way
for the Linden farmers to combine?
Some years ago, during, the chairman
ship of John Mo, Matthias Rowland and
Jacob Jeramo dag a ditch fer the town
ship of Lake Hanska, and the work was
performed under contract with the chair
man and under his especial supervision.
When the work was completed there was
not sufficient money in the town treasury
to pay for the same, and the new chair
man refused to sign an order. After
several futile attempts to collect their
paw, the workmen summoned the board
Of supervisors with whom the contract
had been made, but their case was dis
missed upon the ground that the board
had exceeded it's authority, and it was
given the workmen to understand that
they had no legal right to claim their
pay from any source. The work had
been performed and the town had the
benefit, but the work must be done for
nothing. It seems improb 1ble that such
stand could be taken, but what we
have statsd is a fact nevertheless. +.
At the town meeting last Tuesday a
motion was made and seconded that the
town should pay Tor the ditch. With
fervor, Thomas HovGe urged that a
workman was worthy of his pay, that it
was disgrace for. the town to refuse
and that the moral obligation would
continue in spite of any hair.sp litting on
points of law. He concluded by asking
the board to declare how it would act #
maj ority Of the voters were for pay pay.
ment. The chairman replied that he
would submit to the will Of the majority.
but Frank Lee kept insisting upon the
llegality Of payment in this case, and
when q vote was taken a maj ority were
found to be opposed to paying the debt.
We cannot sufficiently regret this action.
Maybe the law is a shield, but it must be
remembe that sonnet hing shines above
the law, and as long as these workmen
are unpaid, there will rest. a stain upon
the honor of the township Of Lake
I Hanska