New Ulm review., 1907-01-16
SELL NOTES TO RAISE FUNDS
West Side Turnverein Of st. Paul
Would Raise $4,000.
Nen-negotiable Paper to be Sold
to Members and Others.

to Members and Others.
A New Society to be Organized as
Soon as New Building is Ready.
1t will interest the Turner's of New
elm to know that at a meeting of the
board of directors OF the West st.
Paul Turnverein, called to discuss
ways and means of securing the money
for a building, it was decided to be-
gin at once an active campaign for
funds SO that the building may be COM
pIeted by next summer.
After thorough discussion it was
decided to issue ten-dollar notes to the
members and whoever else may wish
to buy them. These notes are to be
non-interest bearing and are not to be
transferable except with the authority
OF the verein: this to eliminate the
possibility of any one person securing
control of the yerein.
Those buying the notes will be given
twenty months in which to pay up. At
the end of each year, if there is any
surplus in the treasury, the holders of
these notes will cast lots for the shares
until the money has eventually all
been paid back. In this way every
body subscribing to the building fund
will have chance TO get at least part
OF his money back again.
1t has been decided to erect a $780,
600 structure. 1t is thought that a
large part of this money can. be Sc
cared among the members of the. ver-
Elm, but, at any rate, it is thought that
it will not be necessary to solicit funds
except on the West Side
The members of the verein feel that
they must have the money and they are
going after it with a will. The lease
ON the present quarters, which have
been used many years, will run out in
October, and if the new building is not
ready by that time the verein will have
TO move anyway, as there will be no
heat in the building next winter. The
members are going to make heroic eff
forJs to have their own building ready
for occupancy then.
With the opening of the new build
ing the West Side verein will begin a
new epoch in its existence. A depar-
tpre will be made from the old Ger
man system of conducting such an in
stitution and it will be thoroughly
Americanized.
In speaking of this yesterday one Of
the members said:
1--WE realize that the turner's must
sssimilate many of the American ideas
and customs in order to prosper. With
the old system we always will have
the native German following, but we
must adopt the American ideas in or
der to secure the interest of the youn-
ger generations. We propose to have
thoroughly up-to-date gymnasium,
with a dance hall and the other neces-
sary rooms.
"The gymnasium is to be elaborate
ly equipped and conducted much after
the manner of the Y. M. C. A. We
will introduce all of the up-to-date in
door games and make it a big induce
ment for those who never have been
connected with the turner's to join.
We have doubled our membership
during the last year, and this has been
largely due to the introduction of bas-
ketball. When our new building is
occupied think we shall have little
difficulty in securing at least four
times cur present number of members. =
The newly elected officers of the local
Knights of Columbus were duly in
stalled under the direction of State
Deputy Nightingale Sunday evening.
On st. Patrick's Day, March 18th,
large number of new members will be
received into the order and the state
officers will be on hand to confer the
degrees. In this work they will be as
sisted by the ST. Paul and Minneapo-
lis councils, a special train having
heen provided to bring the visitors to
this city. 1t will be a gala day for
ST. Patrick's Council.