New Ulm review., 1913-09-10
LOCAL NOTES

i Alois Gulden, formerly employed 81
electrician ct the municipal plant here
but more recently fireman on tn
Northwestern road. has purchased
the Firemen's Headquarters saloon
corner Of Broadway and Secont
North streets, of Joseph #. Groebner
and will take possession Of the bust
ness - soon as the city council grant,
the application for transfer Of The
liquor license.
VIM. Schsleben s. Co. report the
sale Of three big transactions In Lin
den Twp. this week. They sold the
25O acre Lars Lsrsonsiarm 10 Mr.. \,
F. Lodss Of Madelia, Shs 100 acre
farm of Louis jacobson TO Mr.. A. E.
Reid Of Le Mars, Iowa and the v. and
VIM. Schalebea $50 acre farm, known
as the P. A. Olson place, to Heike
Johnson Of LIE Mars, Iowa. .a
Madelia Times Messenger.
The hunting season opened Sunday
and several hundred nimrods of New
Ulm and vicinity went out to bag the
toothsome prairie chicken and wild
ducks. From reports received thus
far, both species of wild fowl are
plentiful and most of the hunters re-
turned with long strings of game
Sunday night. County Auditor Louis
G. Vogel states that about 40 hunting
lie enses we're ISSUED by him up to
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Fl. Fritz, of Tue
son, Ariz., who have been visiting the
latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. B.
Juni for few weeks on their honey
moon, departed for their home Sum
day afternoon, Mr.. Fritz being called
there on account of several large
contracts on which he will be employed
- construction engineer. They had
intended spending about i've weeks in
New Ulm, but their visit had to be
shortened on account Of work that 10
awaiting Mr.. Fritz's return.
It did not take very long to cool off
the ardor and the spirit of adventure
that seized two of our young men .
week ago and started them OF for the
wild and woody west. Carl Engelbert
returned hcme last Tuesday afternoon,
having been as far % Pierre South
Dakota. Otto Montgomery managed
to slip into town q week after they
had pnlled out, hungry and travel
worn, fully satisfied that there is no
place like home. .
Vincent Brunner of st. George re.
ports that someone attempted to poi.
son his flock of poultry one night last
week. Mr.. Brunner says that when be
went to feed his chickens the follow.
ing morning, be found two Of them
dead in the yard, and upon examining
some iced that had been strewn about,
he noticed that paris green had been
mixed with it. Mr.. Brunner 10 at .
loss to know who could be so mean %
to revenge himself for some real or
fancied wrong by poisoning his poultry.
Among those from New Ulm who
attended the state fair last week we're
The following: Captain and Mrs.
Baptiste Groebner, Prof. B. Gruenen-
|elde- and his two sons: Anton and
Alphonse, Mrs. William Ruenke and
laughter, Estella, D. G. Thilman,
3enry Ahrens, Ewsld Kuester, Fred
Schaefer, Frank Schaefer and Mr..
md Mrs. W. T. Eckstein. Mr.. Eek.
tein also attended the annual con-
'ention OF the state association of
district court reporters. Both the
Northwestern and the M. & St. L.
Dads had an unusually heavy traffic
practically all week.
A four-year-old girl, the daughter
# Mr.. and Mrs. William Hoffmann,
# the town of Milford, caused FIRE
t the home OF her parents a week ago
sunday but fortunately the damage
one was comparatively small. 1t
GEMS that the child in some manner
ecured q quantity of matches and
Tent upstairs where it is believed she
GIFTED lamp which then either was
Ipped over or exploded. The little
irl had presence of mind enough to
o down stairs and tell her parents of
hat she had done and Mr.. and Mrs.
[offmann with the assistance Of their
eighbor John Mack finallytsucceeded
! quenching the blaze. In order to
this, it was necessary to
ain access to the room in which the
re originated from the outside of the
ouse through. q window. /,
One of the most elaborate and pleas
e social gatherings of the summer
,ason was held at the Lutheran school