New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-02-07
.FOURHuNDRED AND EIGHTEEN
ST. Joseph Society Marches Steadl.
ly Onward.
Thirty-Nine Additions is Record
of Past Year.
Annual Meeting Held Friday Had
Large Attendance.

st. Joseph society Of this city, one
of the Catholic fraternal insurance
order of the state, held it's annual meet
ing Friday afternoon and elected Off
GERS for the coming year. Most Of the
official board was reelected, the only
change being made in the trustees.
The meeting was one Of the best ever
held There was representation
present of $50 members out of the 41S
which comprise the strength of the
society in this city.
The annual meeting was called to
order by President Eibner soon after
II O'Clock and the secretary and treas
urer made their reports, and these re-
ports show that the order in this city
is in excellent condition. There is a
membership of 41S active members,
four adaptive and seventeen honorary,
which number includes those who were
admitted to membership at the meeting
Friday.
Scattered over the United States are
fifty-one members who have left this
city and settled in various parts of the
land but who still continue their mem
bership with this court. The report
of the treasurer shows that there is on
hand the handsome sum of 81, 769 %,
| which statement must be gratifying to
| the members of the order
| At the conclusion Of the business
part Of the convention Geo. Stelzel,
state organizer for the order in this
state was introduced by President
Eibner and delivered an excellent ad-
dress on Catholic Insurance, portray
the benefits derived from insurance
and the good to be derived from fra
| ternal orders such as the one to which
they belonged. In reviewing the work
of the order for the past forty years in
the state he said that the reserve funG
of the order had then some $40, 200 tc
its credit while at the present time il
had some $40. 900, and the society was
still apparently in its infancy.
At the conclusion Of his address anl
the thanks Of the president, Father
| Sandmeyer was called for and asked
to address the assembly. He took W
only sufficient amount of the time te
thank the order for the interest its
members were showing in it which was
proven by the large attendance, ant
at the conclusion of his address the
election Of officers for the coming year
was held, resulting as follows:
President, Wd. Eibner: vice plesi
dent, j ohm Wiltscheck; secretary, Ale,
Ranweiler; vice secretary, Andrew
Satfert; treasurer, Christ Sprenger
trustees, John Wiltscheck, John Henle
Andrew Amann, secretary Life Insur
| ance, John Henle; directors, Rev
Father Sandmeyer, Jacob Haubrich
Anton Henle
In the evening the ST. Elizabet
Society entertained the members {
: ST. Joseph's society with a warm lunc
and a comical play entitled "The Aur
OF the Province" both of which wei
ably rendered and enjoyed. The re
mainder of the evening was spent
= card playing singing and short tall
Noteworthy was the speech of Gee
:, Stelzel on 1.-The Prestige of Papacy
. the Goth Century in which he foun
: himself perfectly at home. Capt. Ho
meister's Orchestra also contribute
: at seasonable times to the pleasul
and amusement of those present. r.
freshments and cigars were served ;
all times and everybody enjoyed then
selves.