New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-21

| Peter Giefer has rented the rooms
in the Hummel block over Ochs Bros. !
store.
Mrs. Alfred Bigot of Springfield
spent Saturday and Sunday with her
parents, Judge and Mrs. Geo. Ross.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Frey of st. Paul
visited last Thursday and Friday with
the family of Fred Meyer on Centre
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. j. Winkelm ann
went to Mankato Wednesday to hear
Gov. Folks lecture on 'sThe Era of
Conscience. !"
Mrs. Simon, mother of Mrs. Ernst
Wicherski, left Friday morning for
her homestead near Bemidji. She had
been here since last September.
Fred Precht of Courtland has accep-
ted the position of buttermaker in the
St. George creamery. The place was
originally held by Ewert Peterson.
Thousands upon thousands of dead
fish are heaped up on the banks of
Clear Lake. It is feared that all eff
forts to stock the lake have been futile.
Miss Mathilde Johnson of this city
has applied for position as primary
teacher in the schools of Hanska.
At present she is teaching in Berna-
dotte.
Prof. W. F. Kunze of Omaha was
in the city Saturday settling up some
affairs in the probate court. He says
he intends shortly to change his
residence to Minneapolis.
The omnibus appropriation bill, re-
ported to the legislature Monday, in
cludes an item of 81, 900 for the Brown
County Agricultural society to aid in
the construction of a new horticultural
hall.
DR.. G. A. Hintz of Springfield was
elected secretary of the Southern
Minnesota Dental Association at the
annual meeting in Mankato last week.
DR.. Miller of this city was made a
member Of the committee on member
ship.
At the whist party given by Mrs. O.
NJ. Olsen and daughter Saturday
evening Mesdames Siegel and Beuss-
mann were the winners of the head
prizes and the Misses Hilmer and
| Hauenstein the winners of the second
prizes.
Next Saturday evening the Zoegling
Society of the Turnverein will cele-
brate the forty-third anniversary of
its founding with gymnastic exhibit
| ton at the theatre. Prof. Helm has
taken pains to prepare an excellent
program.
Representative PfaeIder's bill, in
creasing the cost of marriage licenses
from 81 to 1926, passed the house late
| yesterday. The increase represents
the statutory amount charged minis
tiers, who perform the ceremony, when
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they file the certificate of marriage for
record. If the senate passes the bill
the groom will have to pay this re-
cording fee when he receives his
| license.
The following knights Templar
from this city paid visit to the Man
kato Commandery last evening: A.
w. Bingham, Q. M. Olsen, DR.. Strick-
Ter, DR.. Weiser, H. L. Beecher, Paul
Lehman, Jos. A. Eckstein, J. II. Sic
gel, Rev. Wheeler, J. II. Edwards and
Jas. F. Garrow. E. G.. Hage of Hans
ka and Banker Dotson- of Madelia,
members of the local commandery
were also in attendance.
i Conrad Schweppe, former resident
Of this county, died at the home OF
his son in St. James on Monday OF
last week at the age Of eighty -four
years. The deceased, who was born
in Lippe Detmold in 1925, came tc
Brown county in 1867 and for more
than thirty years lived in the town Of
Sigel, rearing large family and in.
dustriously outstanding a reasonable
portion of this worlds wealth. In
1898 he removed to st. James and
since that time has lived with his sons
| of whom there are four. He also
| leaves two daughters, Mrs. John Dietz
OF Cottonwood township and Mrs. F.
/ w. Frank of Rice Lake, Wis.
The annual concert of the Second
Regiment band at the Opera House
Sunday evening was not accorded the
patronage it deserved. The program
was an excellent one, ranging from
waltz music to symphonies, from
march tunes to the difficult compost.
tons of LeoncavalIo and Saint-Saens
and throughout the Instrumentation m,