New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-05-09

The Swedish Lutheran church Of the
town OF Bernadotte in Nicollet county.
celebrated the fortieth anniversary Of
its existence by a continuous jubilee
service lasting three days including
Sunday. very extensive program
with addresses by some Of the best
speakers of the state made the occa-
sion memorable one.
IN invitationwass semitic thechurches
OF this city to take part in the
work that is being conducted by the
evangelist at Mankato. Monday was
the day set apart for visiting churches
and pastors and many attended. Sew
eral people from this city went down
to the meetings Monday afternoon.
returning on the late train.
At the local conference held at the
M. b. church Monday afternoon, says
the Lafayette Ledger, it was decided to
LAY the cornerstone for the new M. e.
church in this village on Thursday
May 18th. Many prominent speakers,
among them Presiding Elder Farrell of
st. Paul will be there to speak and the
ceremonies all though will be very i'm
posing.
The first of the rifle shoots at Hun
ter's Rest took place Sunday forenoon
and the scores would indicate that
some OF the men have lost their skill.
No good records were made, the best
being that of Hugo Gebser, l35. The
balance are Armand Petry, 129: Geo.
Hauenstein, l20; VIM. E. Koch, 1O9;
Joqn Schrodt, SO; F. Brust, 73 and
Henry Petry So.
+ 1t seems that there was more fire
than smoke behind the conditions of
the American Reserve Bond Company.
The company has been stopped from
doing business in a number Of the
states and the affairs are now in the
hands of receiver. Some serious
charges are made against the concern.
which it is doubtful if they will be able
to explain away.
The Redwood Gazette saws that work
on the construction of the Christian
church for that city is under way, and
that to build the structure 1O, 900 cement
blocks will be required and that when
the building is completed it will be a
very handsome house of worship It
is for this building that the New Ulm
Stone company is furnishing large
supply of it's material.
Those who are interested in the crop
conditions and most of the people in
part of the state are, say that the past
week has been one of the best for wheat
that could be had. The grain has
grown strong and rapidly and to all
appearances the fields are we'll covered.
Indications throughout the state are
that the stand is good, but there is a
smaller acreage than last year.
| Between sixty-fve and seventy of the
ministers of the Evangelical denomi-
nation met in Sleepy Eye last week in
convention. This is the annual con-
ference of the ministers and lasted for
the entire week. Bishop Thos. Bow
man of Allentown, Pa, presided.
Rev. J. NJ. Baitinger and Rev. A.
Utzinger We're elected as presiding
elders. The meeting is considered to
! have been very successful one.
lt'was found necessary to send Gus
tav Book to the asylum at st. Peter
Monday to see if a cure might not be
effected for a malady with which he
appears to be afflicted. He was exam
ined by DR.. Stricken and Dr. Fritsche.
A strange hallucination has taken pos
session of him that local tire atment an
pears to have no power to relieve.
He has recently returned to this city
from Washington where he was in the
government employ when he was taken
sick.
John Simmet, an old and respected
citizen Of this city died at his home on
Washington and North Fifth streets,
Thursday morning and was buried
from the Catholic church Saturday.
He was born in Germany in 1910 and
came to this country while he was yet
child. For a number of years he
has made this city his home, having
moved to it from the farm from which
he retired some years ago. He leaves
large family ofchildren, all of whom
have reached the age of manhood and
are in business and have homes Of
their own
| At meeting of the Grand Army
post held Monday evening resolu-
ton was passed to the effect that Dec
Grafton day be observed this year as
has been the custom of the post and
all civic societies as we'll as military
organization are requested to partici-
pate in the exercises of the day. There
will be the parade and the services at