New Ulm review., 1908-12-02

Frank 3. Baasen will arrive home
from Norfolk, Va, today.
Jacob Brust spent Sunday with his
sons family at Sleepy Eye.
Robert swetland, former resident
OF this city now living in Minneapolis,
may return to New Ulm and engage
in the Insurance business.
The contract for the New Ulm post
Office building was awarded Yesterday
to Stewart & Hayes of GAINESVILLE.
Wis, for a trif1e less than S42.O
Mr.. and Mrs. JOS. Epple received a
very pleasant visit last Thursd ay
from their old friends, Mr.. and Mrs.
F j. Arnoldy and Mrs. n. C. Warnke
of Clements.
The Eagle Roller Mill Co. made an
enormous purchase of wheat in Min
neapolis yesterday-20O, 900 bushels
for December delivery. Add to this
$4,000 bushels purchased in the
country and you have grand total
for one day of $50, 900 bushels, repre-
senting almost an equal amount in
dollars.
The fish car of the Minnesota Game
and Fish Commission arrived in the
city yesterday and ten large cans of
bass, crappies and pike were turned
over to local parties to be placed in
Clear Lake. The bass and crappies
were about the size of minnows while
some of the pike were at least five
inches in length.
The Ramsey county grand jury
failed to return an indictment against
Roman Krueger, the Sleepy Eye po-
liceman who was arrested at the in
stance of his father-in-law, Mr.. Cum
n1ngham, on the charge of committing
perjury in his statements to the Ram
sey county clerk of court when he ap-
piled fora license to marry Mr.. Cum
ningham's daughter.
Among the rabbits bagged by the
Turner hunting party Sunday after
noon was one with five horns, all
shaped like goats horn and three
of them nearly three inches in length.
Any attempt on the part of Theo.
Roosevelt to pronounce the find q
nature fake will be emphatically
disputed. Moreover the pelt of the
animal is being mounted by Taxider-
mist Berndt and will be abe to speak
for itself to all doubling Thomases.
John Reddick, a farm hand from
Tracy, stopped off in Mankato Friday
while on his way to Chicago and was
robbed of about $50 in a saloon where
he slept Friday night James Kelly,
said to be an ex-convict, was arrested
on the testimony of two men who said
they saw him pick Reddick's pocket,
and S48.60 was found upon him. He
was locked up in default Of bail and
will have his hearing on December
18th on the charge Of larceny in the
second degree.
The formal opening of the Com
mercial Club rooms Monday evening
was most successful affair. Nearly
one hundred of the members were
present and they spent the hours till
midnight pleasantly at cards, billiards
and other games and in listening to a
number of selections by male quar-.
tette. Coffee and lunch were served
and another nice feature was the
presentation to everyone present by
the Burg Cigar Co. of neat leather
card case containing a half dozen
neatly printed cards with the owners
name.
Hon. Christian Ahlness of Hanska
delivered an address at the Friday
morning nesting of the State Butte,
and Cheesemakers' Association in St.
Paul on Creamery Management. ,
His chief point was that creamery
ought to be in charge Of an indepen
dent superintendent or manager choser
on a business basis alone regardless
of whether he was director or stock
holder or not. He cited one or two
instances where the ignoring of this
rule had led to disaster. It was es
sential, of course, to have a gooc
buttermaker and the manager ough
not to interfere with him in his work
One often hears the remark: ''Yor
must go to New York or Chicago tc
see the original productions or else
you hear quite a different thing under
the same name.' This does not az
ply however to "The District Leader J
the brilliant musical comedy which is
to have it's first rendering at the Tur
ner Theatre in this city on the evening
of December 20th. The chorus in the
company which is to appear here il