New Ulm review., 1901-07-17

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Complaint is quite general as to the
condition of the trees overhanging side
walks throughout the city. The branch
es having grown down SO as to interfere
with the headgear of passersby. This
will be particularly disagreeable when
necessity conpels one to carry an um-.
brella.
Robert Updyke son of Rev. and Mrs.
S. q. Updyke is here visiting his parents.
The young man is dentist and has re-
Gently been appointed to the army at
Ft. Leavenworth, Kas. The second best
position in the United States 1t was
the young mans ambition to go to the
Philippines but the government gave
him something better.
The St. Peter celebration cost $937.1
and the amount of collections was
S1161.50. The surplus remaining
amounting to $224.38 was turned over
| to the FAIR Association together with
| what fireworks they did not use. St.
Peter is fortunate. Most celebrations are
expense accounts for committees.
The advance in the price of wheat and
/ corn during the past week indicates that
grain men put little faith in the predic-
tions for big crop. Corn has reached
a price that is so high above its actual
| value that it is too valuable to feed.
This is due largely to the fact that crops
ID Kansas and Nebraska are almost to.
tai failure.
G. E. Roe returned on Friday from
his vacation at Rest Island. He is doing
the preliminary work in getting the
Minnesota Valley Commercial School
4 ready to open on the 22d. Upon the
arrival of Mr.. Bowling from his vaca-
tion Mr.. Roe will leave for Marshall to
open that school. Both schools give
promise OF good attendance.
Twenty years ago on Monday, being
the 18th of July, 1881, is the date of the
great cyclone which did such awful
damage to this city. Aside from the
great loss of property six people were
killed and half hundred injured. II
disasters move in cycles of twenty
years for this place it is about time
something was happening.
On Friday Lars Swenson was brought
to the hospital from Lamberton, sent by
/ the county commissioners of Cotton
wood county. He had been operated
on by DIR. Nelson of Westbrook some
| two weeks before but the result was not
satisfactory and he was sent here. he
was SO weakened by the trip that he
| died the following day.
Gotlieb schade, county pauper, died
on Wednesday morning at 2 o'clock OF
heart failure at the age of 79 years. He
was native of Germany. His wife
died about 10 years ago. He made his
home with Christ Schwer on Broadway
He leaves six children. The funeral
as held on Friday from the Lutheran
| church.
On Saturday while working at the
Hauenstein brewery, as he was about to
hardt was prostrated by the heat and for
a long time it was hard to tell whether
or not he would recover, by morning
however he appeared to be doing better
and will get we'll. He was similarly
afflicted some time ago and the intense
heat of the past week was to much for
him.
Quite a number of New Ulm people
/ went to the cities on the n. w. excur-
sion. Three sections of the excursion
passed through this city, SO that there
Illus. HaSo oeoh ehousouuS VI peopAt
from outside in the cities on Sunday
with no object in being there except to
have the ride and see the city with the
thermometer moving about the 100 mark
all Gay and nearly all night.
A telegram to the Pioneer Press an
nounces in No. 2 headlines that Miss
Helen Gould possesses night blooming
cereus which was in blossom the other
evening and hundreds of people went to
see it. In the barber shop next door to
the Review office the same kind of q
plant blossomed and not more than a
dozen people saw it. That's the differ
anrn in heino Halau GouId and Harry