New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-05-17

No meeting Of the Commercial Union
was held last Friday, no quorum being
present.
Acrewof bridge builders for the M. |
q St. Z. R. r. left here last week for
Rock Island, Ills, to load bridge mater
ial stored there by the Phoenix Bridge
Co. As soon as the material arrives
here, work on the bridges over the Min
nesota and Cottonwood rivers will be |
begun.
At recent meeting of the st. James
city council the salooon license was
raised from $500 to $1,000. The city
dads were doubtless afraid that during
the period of constructing the new rail
road, several temporary saloons would
be opened which would be run loosely
and would perhaps cause considerable
trouble, which no doubt would have
been the case.
"Down at Chaska they have very
novel way of managing their saloons"
says an exchange. "On Sunday the sa-
looms are closed for an hour and forty
five minutes during the religious servlc-
es in the churches, but at II 80 sharp
the marshal rings the fire bell as signal
for the saloons to open. Whether this
arrangement is out of respect for the
preachers is not stated" -.
Alfred Schumacher returned from Las
Vegas, N. M. last week. Some eight
months ago Schumacher accompanied by
bis uncle Frank Peuser left New Ulm,as
his health was somewhat impaired.
It was said that his lungs were danger
ously afflicted and the mild climate of
New Mexico seemed to be the best rem
edy Tor him. ALT. is now as healthy and
robust as ever besides having enjoyed a
glorious time.
A skeptical old gentleman, disbeliev-
ing that he could hear his wife talk if
teen miles by telephone, tested the mat
ter the other day. His wife went to a
distant city and he hunted up a tele-
phone exchange and started thus: "Hel-
10 Janet" At that instant lightning
struck the telephone wire and knocked
the old gentleman flat on the floor. AS
he scrambled to his feet he excitedly
cried, 'sThat's Jane, by gosh!"
| The editor of an exchange has this tc
say in regard to this years style of wo-
mems headgear. Perhaps he is best &C,
qualnted with the last part of it. "The
spring bonnet is a sumner. 1t has {
COW catcher in front, tail board behind
a flower garden on top, with bunch Of
grass on one side aud birds carcass or
the other: The whole IS deliberately
banded together with crushed ribbons
and topped off with very abundan
millinery bill"
| While the expansion of New Ulm re-
mains in the incipiency of al embryonic
state it branches out in an industry gen
orally found in large cities only. Fol
some time past the various stores of the
city have been visited by juvenile
band of shop lifters and although caught
in the act on several occasions no ar
rests were made, owing to the leniencJ
of the proprietors. This is wrong
principle, it only tends to encourage
the thieving proclivlties of these youth
full pilferers.
johnson Bros. & Taught have sub-let
contracts for the construcionof 81 miles
out of New Ulm on the M. & St. L
road to the following parties:
E. W. Barkus miles, Through the
blufs,) O.S. Stocker 10 miles, W. P
Phelps 5, Welch Bros. 8, G. O. Taught
7, S. A. Campbell S, Michael Tansey
5, D. R. Morris 5, A. G.. Brown 6 Co
Is, Jack Collins 2, W. W. Moore s.
A.M.spencer 10 and T.shwank 10 miles
The remainder was or will be sub-le1
during this week and work will be be.
gun at once.
The concert of the Frank Howard
Concert Co. at Turner Hall last Sunday
was one of the best ever heard in New
Ulm. 1t is to be regretted that a very
few people only attended and the aversi-
| ty of the weather cannot be taken as an
excuse for the lack of an audience. The
quartettes, trios and solos we've superb,
each number on the program was hearth
~ applauded and each one of the singers
gracefully responded to the call of an
encore. Frank Howard the noted bal
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