New Ulm review., 1901-09-18
A PUBLIC MEETING,
A Meeting of the Citizens of New Ulm to
s6 be Held at the Court House on
Thursday, Sept. 1o.
TRIBUTES TO THE DEAD PRESIDENT
Mayor Weschcke issues a Proclamation
Calling on all Citizens to do Hon
or to his Memory.

Mayor Wescllcke, in accordance with
the proclamation of the state, has issued
a proclamation to the people Of this city
asking them, in honor of the president
who is to be buried on Thursday. to
close their places of business and for; q
time rest while the body Of the president
is being laid in the grave, Following
the customs of other times and other
cities, some of the public spirited men
of this place have gone ahead and ar
ranged for public meeting which is to
be held at the court house Thursday af-
ternoon at Q: 80 o'clock. This meeting
is to be most informal in character and
to it all the cltizeus of the state, at least
all who are near enough to come, are
invited. The courthouse room should
be too small to hold all who attend that
meeting. There will be appropriate
music and addresses both in English and
German by leading speakers of this city.
This will be New Ulm's tribute to the
memory of a slain president and the
people of New Ulm will not be miserly
in their tokens of respect.
Complete arrangements are to the
effect that there will be q military pa
rade, with the I'd Regiment Band.
Speakers have been announced as fol-
lows: Col. VIM. Pfaender, Rev. Stephen
g. Updyke, Einar Hoidale and Rev.
Father SandmeYer. Two of the familiar
and favorite hymns of the president will
be sung BY the Methodist choir. Judge
Webber Will preside over the meeting.
The management of Turner hail very
kindly offered to open the hall for the
memorial service but it was thought
by the committee that the court house
would be large enough to hold all who
would go. The z. of P. lodge and the
Knights Templar of which organizations
the president was member should at
tend In body and if possible be in the
parade.
MAYORS PROCLAMATION.
VIM. Mckinley, President of the
United States of America died at
Buffalo, NJ Y, September 14th, 1901, at
2:15 q. m. from the effects of bullet
wound at the hand of, an assassin. The
nation mourns at the bier of it's chief
magistrate and the whole civilized
world joins with us in expressions of
the deepest regret for the untimeIy
death Of the illustrious and feerless
soldier, statesman and patriot who just
ly stood at the head of the republic.
As an evidence of the fond respect for
the illustlious dead it is but meet and
proper and therefore earnestly recon-
mend that on Thursday, September 19,
1901, the day fixed for consigning the
mortal remains OF our beloved President
in their last resting place at Canton,
Ohio, the people of this city assemble at
their respective places of worship, or
such union services as may be arranged
for the occasion, and appropriately pay
tribute to the memory and virtue OF our
martyred president in this our national
bereavement.
l also earnestly request that on said
day all places of business be closed be-
tween the hours of one o'clock and four
O'clock IN the afternoon and the day be
observed as day of public mourning.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
City, this 18th day of September, A. D.,
1901.
Attest: G. WEscHcKE,
LoUIs ScHILLING. Mayor.
City Clerk.
On Sunday will occur the great picnic
of the Sons of Herman when from both
Minneapolis and st. Paul the members
of this great society will assemble in
this city to celebrate Hermann's day.