New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1901-02-13

parents in New Ulm last Sunday.
81. H. Drill is handling the balance of
the flour left in the elevator by Jennison
Bros. & Co.
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Especial Correspondence,
Mr.. and Mrs. Filbrandt received tel
egram from Seaforthi Saturdav announc-
ing the illness of relatives. They took
the noon train at New Ulm for that
place.
Philip Wagner, who has been spend
ing the winter with his son-in- law, John
Roth, left Friday for his home in Carver
county.
Operator Imam, who has had charge
| of the Klossner station for some time
past, has been transferred to Montgom-
cry. A young man by the name of zeug-
Ter has taken his place.
Miss Sebel arrived here Friday from
Illinois to reside with her mother near
Klossner.
Aug. Schroeder visited his son -in-law
Aug. Schiffmann, last week.
John Globes is visiting relatives IN
Pierce county, Wis.
William Bischoff will erect a new
barn in the spring, 44xS8 feet in size
and 20 feet high. The contract has been
let to Paul Borchert of Klossner.
Mrs. Thomas Smith, of St. Paul, ar
| rived here Thursday and is visiting with
her mother Mrs. jacobson at Bernadotte.
William Daunheims shas been on tie
sick list the past two weeks.
A car load of coal was hauled to the
Oakland creamery Saturday.
Samuelson Bros. shipped several cars
of hogs from Lafayette Monday.
Our butter maker, Edwin He'd, spent
Sunday with :elativessat Bernadotte.
The board of supervisors will meet at
John Books on Thursday to hear a
road petition.
John Roth, of the firm of Roth & Co.,
has put in dray line at Klossner.
j. F. Swanson has been down with the
grippe the past week but is rapidly re-
covering.
A team of horses driven by young
man from Bernadotte INDUCED in run
away the other day at Lafayette station.
The young man, who had taken in lit
tie too much ''tangletcot," was found
about 80 rods from the village in a
senseless condition, but fortunately no
fatal injuries were sustained.
Maj. Thomas w. Symons, of the
corps of United States engineers, has
prepared an interesting paper for the
American Society of Civil Engineers
on the "Canals from the Lakes to
New York in which he says in part:
The decline in traffic on the Erie
canal is due to very many causes, the
principal ones being that it is not in
any manner up-to-date; that the tow
ing is still being done on it largely
by horses and mules, and business
has never been organized and con-
Quoted on modern lines. It has been
seriously Handicapped by the fact
that Improvements have been under
taken and discussed which would rem
der the old type and size OF boats
obsolete, rendering It inadvisable as q
business proposition for people 70 build
now boata for canal business or to re-
place those outworn, with the posi-
bility before them Of larger canal
in the near future.
| THAT the traffic on the Erie canal
has declined is true, but it would inn
mediately spring up and grow to
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barge canal were built in Its place;
if legislative restrictions on the cap
ital of operating transportation com
/ panies were removed, and if the bust
ness were organized in thoroughly
up-to-date manner. It must not be
forgotten that if the Erie canal has
stood still, or worse than still, for the
last 80 years, the competing railroads
have improved their transportation
facilities enormously in ways which
it is unnecessary to recount here"