New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-10-26

Af. ana Mrs. L. WelbeN OF town
Cottonwood celebrated the tahth auasseess
versary of their marriages 81 d CIV and
were surprised at their hone in the
evening by a party of friends who
dropped in to help along with the fes-
tivities.
John Arhart and wife are back
from their trip to the worlds fair.
They report seeing while there Fred
Williams, who used to work in New
Ulm for Bastian & Bushard. Fred is
now collecting tickets for merry-go-
round on the Pike.
A. W. Case, the Sleepy Eye Standard
Oil man injured by the accidental dis
charge of a shotgun two weeks ago,
was taken to Minneapolis last week to
consult an eye specialist. There is no
hope of saving the optic, however, and
he will be totally blind.
Joseph Fecker and Miss Anna Lehne,
Springfield young people, were mar
ried by Judge George in his Office
Thursday morning. The bridegroom
is in the butcher business in Spring
field, and the bride is daughter of
Ferdinand Lehne, a farmer living near
that village.
Mrs. Anna Schmitt, widow of Henry
Schmitt, one of the settlers who came
to New Ulm in 1862, died at her home
in St. Paul Thursday, aged rs. AL
though coming to this city at the early
date, she moved to St. Paul with her
husband three years after the out
break and has lived there since.
A party of pleasure seekers left last
week for the worlds fair from Ridgely
township, Nicollet county. It included
Fred, Harvey and Alice La Frambois,
and Mrs. William La Frambois, Jr.,
Fred and Herman Julius, William
Pullin, Guy, Fannie, John and Harold
Mirtle, John Keinlen, Mable and
Richard Blake.
The marriage of W. A. Rogers and
Miss Viola Current, both of Cotton
wood township, is announced for
November 9Th. It will be quiet affair
and will take place in New Ulm, Judge
George being the one selected to per-
form the ceremony. The bridegroom
is a prosperous farmer and the bride
is favorite in Cottonwood society.
Rain, long continued, spoiled the
plans for an exhibition drill by the
Seventh battalion which was to have
taken place Thursday afternoon. The
horses are all smooth shod and, as
there are some sharp turns made at
full gallop, the officers feared an acct
| dent on account of the slippery
grounds.
Mrs. G. Fl. Sauter left yesterday for
Kansas City where she goes to the
national executive meeting of the
Women's Foreign Missionary society
of the Methodist church as delegate
from the Minneapolis branch of that
body. She was elected to the honor
| at the Tri-State convention held in
Fargo last week. The Minneapolis
branch has contributed during the
year to foreign missions the large
sum of $40, 944. From Kansas City
Mrs. Sauter will proceed to the ST.
Louis exposition and will be joined
there by Rev. Mr.. Sauter.
A number of fire insurance men,
among them, besides local representa-
tives, being j. H. Tenvoorde, secre-
tary of the Retail Merchants Mutual
Fire Insurance company of Minneap-
oils, and G. L. Thurber, secretary of
the Security Mutual Fire Insurance
company of Chatfield, met in the Off
ces of the Minnesota Mutual Fire In
surance company of this city Friday
afternoon and discussed matters per-
tanning to the insurance busin ess in
| Minnesota. The visitors praised the
methods of the new company and its
showing made so far.