New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-07-17

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The dreaded green bug is doing
damage to small grain in Cottonwood.
A daughter was horn to Mr.. and
Mrs. 4. Redlichner of Milford on SAT-
urday.
Miss Louise Dalsgaard of Spring
field visited with New Ulm friends
over Sunday.
Mrs. w. F. Heidrich came down
from st. Paul yesterday to spend a
few days with her mother, Mrs. Popp.
The Springfield and Mankato gun
clubs will hold a, friendly shoot at
Sibley Park in Mankato next Wednes-
day.
Miss Sadie Mckee, stenographer in
the Eagle mill Offices, is spending q
brief vacation with her parents in
Mankato.
Stephen Fast and wife, after weeks
visit with their parents and friends,
returned to their home in Sparta Mon
day afternoon.
Mrs. John Eichmann of Springfield
was the guest of Mrs. J. P. Graf dur
ing the week. On Sunday she was
joined by her husband, who is a
brother of Mrs. Graf.
r. w. Scherer, John Schrodt and
Herman Buessma m started up the river
in the ''Aquila" Saturday, intending
to go as far as Granite Falls. Rain
and mosquitoes forced them to return
after reaching Morton.
VIM. j. Herrian has gone to st.
Paul to purchase horses and wagons
for the Schumacher Brewing Co. The
brewery's first beer, under the new
management, will be placed on the
market August 5th.
Royal A. Stone, assistant attorney
general has rendered his resignation,
to take effect Aug. /. He leaves the
state service to practice law in st. Paul
Paul, and will form a partnership with
T. D. O'Brein, who will retire as state
insurance commissioner at the same
time. Mr. O'Brein's successor will be
=. A. Hartigan of St. Paul.
Mileage books, both /, 900 and 1900
miles, are to be sold again in Mime
sofa, the tickets to be sold at straight
two cents mile and good on all state
and interstate traffic. When the two
cent rate went into effect, the rail
roads claimed that they would never
issue the book, as it would prove
detrimental to them, except on purely
state traffic. A large proportion OF
travellers, however, have been paying
their fare on the trains at straight two
cents mile, and it was thought that
If the mileage book was re-established
it would save much trouble.
| The Crookston papers last week con.
tained lengthy writeups of start.
ling discovery" on the state expert.
mental farm. The 'sfndn was sma
anchor, unearthed several feet below
the surface Of the ground, and the
wide-awake Crookston people at once
announced to the world that they hai
found indisputable evidence that Lei
Erickson had several centuries ago
sailed over the Red River valley whel
it was part of Lake Winnipeg. Th'
antiquity of the resurrected ancho
was duly substantiated by the testi
mony of several old Norwegian sail
ors, who averred that the construction
of the anchor was the same as thos
handed down as types of the time {
Left Erickson. All this made yer,
interesting reading until the facts o
the case came out as follows in tt
Thief River Press: ''Never were PEG
pie more completely taken in. TIL
! anchor, upon Investigation, was foun,
to have been made in Crookston fe,
years ago and was used to secured,
fasten telephone poles that show sign
of lifting from the ground in we
weather. 1t is seldom that either news
papers or the general public ar
hoaxed to such an extent
NEW ORDER RELATIVE TO POSTAL
Department will Hereafter Permi
Writin8 on Both Sides.