New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-09-12
4 THOUSAND AND FORTY PAY
Entertainment For Old Settler
Attracts Many.
Two Hundred Wear Badges q
Early Settlers Dates.
John Liebl Fractures Hip While
Dancing For Prize.

successful entertainment for the old
settlers of this county and vicinity was
held in Turner hall park Sunday af-
ternoon, when there we're in attendance
some 200 of the people who have lived
in the prescribed territory since 1868
and there were paid admissions to the
grounds of one thousand and forty
people. This does not include chill
dren and there were necessarily num-
Der who did not pay, SO it is safe to
say that there were more than a thous-
and and half of people who took adj
vantage of the afternoon to visit the
park either in the evening or during
the day.
It was an exceedingly warm after
noon and this fact made the carrying
out of the program little irksome,
but most of the arrangements were
worked out as announced, and the con-
tinuous entertainment afforded by the
band was in itself sufficient to attract
a large crowd.
Soon after dinner the Second Regi-
ment band in full uniform passed
through the city to the park and soon
thereafter people from all over the city
found their way to the place of enter
tainment. Here and there among the
crowd could be seen old people for
| whose pleasure the party was given
and later there passed up Minnesota
street farmers wagon having four
seats, which were plain boards with
no backs, such as were used in the
pioneer days, and each seat had two
pioneers on it. AS the party passed
through the city, Jos. J. Bier with his
famous doodlesack amused the watch
ers with some old-time aires
Preparations were made at the park
for the entertainment of the old people
and at noon they were given dinner,
as this annual entertainment is especi-
ally for them and none of the younger
generation have any part in it. The
singing and dancing was particularly
interesting, and the large number OF
people crowded about the place anxl-
Gus to hear the songs and witness the
dancing. j. j. Bier was the orches-
ira and his instrument the doc dlesack.
The dance was the old fashioned waltz,
which is continuous Whirl, and the
first couple to attempt it was John
Liebl and Mrs. J. J. Bier. Between
the heat and the dizziness Of the dance
Mr.. Liebl lost his balance and fell to
the floor. He was helped to chair
amid the railery of his partner and
the laugter of the crowd. Later be
became faint and it was discovered
that in the fall he had fractured his
hip joint, though he was not aware
that he was injured for sometime.
/ This accident, while it was altogeth.
or unavoidable marred the pleasure Of
the occasion to some extent, but die
not prevent the younger people from
returning in the evening and enjoying
the concert until its close late in the
night time.
| The prizes as they were awarded te
the old people who entered the contes,
are as follows:
Longest residence: Peter Simmet
settled in Nico1let County, 1858; Peter
Mack, Alsis Palmer and Mrs. Elisa.
beth Henle, settled in Brown County
1854.
| For the largest family: 1st John
Hoffman,, IA children; End Math. Sic.
benbrunner, 13 children; 3rd Xavier
zollner, 12::children.