New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-06-02
Convention Week June 3 to Is

New Ulm will be called upon to take
care of two conventions next week.
They are the biennial convention of
the Catholic Order of Foresters and the
annual conference of the Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of the State of Mime
sofa. The convention first named will
be held Tuesday and Wednesday, June
9Th and 9th and the synod will be held
from June 10th to 18th.
Preparations for the first convention
are practically complete. Approximate
ly 200 delegates will meet in convention
here of whom 125 will reach the city
Monday evening on the S:45 train.
They will be met at the depot with a
band and escorted to the convention
hall.
The business sessions will commence
Tuesday at II o'clock A. M. The bust
ness meeting will be preceded by solemn
high mass which will be celebrated at
the Catholic Church at 9 o'clock A. M.
The entire day will be devoted to business
affairs and in the evening there will be
an initiation of class of 100. Thirty
of these candidates are from New Ulm
and 70 of them are from outside points.
After the initiation there will be ban
uuet at which Rev. Schlinkert will act
as POSTMASTER.
The entire day Wednesday will be
devoted to business sessions also and the
convention will close Wednesday even
ing. Thursday morning, according to the
program the delegates and their ladies
will be given an auto drive thru the city.
The committee in charge Of arrange
ments is J. P. Graft, Chairman, and
J. H. Forster, A. S. Dorm, J. A. Ochs,
P. Liesch, Ben. Amann and Christ
Filzen who is ex-officio member of the
committee. Eugene A. Pfefferle is chair
man of the committee on quarters; VIM.
J. julius, chairman Of the committee on
banquet; Henry ]. Berg, chairman OF
the committee on reception and Alex.
Henle, chairman of the decorating COM
mittee. Each Court will be represented
by one delegate and there are 200
Courts in the state and it is expected
that every Court will be represented at
this convention.
Arrangements for the Lutheran Min
nesota Synod are we'll under way and
nothing will be left undone to make the
stay of the delegates in New Ulm a very
pleasant one. Between 125 and $50
) delegates will take part in the conference
sessions. These delegates consist of
ministers and lay delegates from the
different Evangelical Lutheran congre-
cations of the synod. During the
sessions questions relating to the synod
together with the different Lutheran
institutions will be discussed and acted
upon. Some of the delegates are ex-
pected to arrive Tuesday evening, June
9Th, and will take part in the commence
ment exercises of the DR.. Martin Luther
College which will be held Wednesday
morning. The commencement exercises
will be preceded by the annual concert
of the DR.. Martin Luther College which
will be given at the Music Hall Tuesday
evening.
Rev. J. H. Naumann of Goodhue,
president of the synod will preside at
the Convention, the other officers of the
synod are Rev. Baumann of Red Wing,
vice president; Rev. w. C. Albrecht
of Sleepy Eye, secretary and John Book
of Gibbon, treasurer.
A mission festival will be held Sunday,
June 18th and on this occasion Rev.
Mueller of St. Clair will conduct the
services at ten o'clock A. NJ. in the
Lutheran Church, In the afternoon at
e2:30 open air meetings will be held on
the grounds of DR.. Martin Luther
College. At these open air meetings
Rev. O. Keller of Bowdell, S. D. and
Rev. w. Hinnenthal of Buffalo, MINI.
will deliver the addresses. 1t the weather
is good it is expected that hundreds of
visitors from nearby Lutheran congre-
cations will attend the afternoon open
air meetings. There will also be SER
vices in the evening at 1880 in the
Lutheran Church. At this meeting
Rev. w. Haar of Greenwood will preach
the sermon.