New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-01-27
NEW ULM, BROWN COUNTY. MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, JAN D

no other offer was heard and the accept
ance OF the invitation was unanimous.
A question box brought up the matter
OF legal rates and the printing Of the
financial statement of the county in
three issues of the official paper. The
Review is this year the official paper of
Brown County and is Of the opinion that
if the people want to cut down on cost of |
county administration they might begin
cutting out publications that would
appear superauous to an unbiased OBJ
server. No action was taken by the
newspaper fraternity in the matter as
the time for discussion was cut short by
other parts of the program. The cleo
ton OF officers took place and Fred
Hadley of the Winnegabo Enterprise
was chosen president. At this moment,
Sinclair Bagpipe Players of Minneapolis
marched into the editorial hall to the
piercing strains of the Scottish national
music. The election of officers then
proceeded. Miss Harriet Payne of the
New Ulm Review was elected Vice
President, Robert Forrest of the Lake
Wilson Pilot, Secretary and w. F.
Mailer Of the Springfield Advance,
Treasurer. A. M. Welles of Worthing-
ton was appointed chairman Of an execu-
tive committee to be appointed by him
to prepare for the midsummer meeting.
1t was the intention of the Mapleton
people to let the editors and their ladies
visit the curling Kinks where the Burns
Club members were playing but the
business session occupied so much of
the afternoon that the games were all
over and there was barely time to get
ready to attend the Burns Club Banquet.
Here also there was an abundance of
wonderful things to eat and most
enjoyable feature of the evening was the
address to the Haggis" delivered by a
real Scotchman, A. j. Ellis, The Haggis
is sort of pudding composed of the
national dish, oatmeal porridge, and
garnished with onions. It is bonnie into
the feast on the shoulders of two stout
Scotchmen and the speaker addresses it,
as the source of all the rugged strength
of the Scotch nation. After the address
it was cut and served to the banqueters,
and it proved quite a novelty to many
OF the editors, most of whom found a
second helping quite to their liking.
The evening program was literary in.
character and lasted for fully three
hours. DR.. Walter Aitken of Blooming
ton, ILL.,, gave the address on Burns, and
wonderful it was, full of understanding
and appreciation and quite lacking in the
ususal criticism of the Plow Boy poets
'frailties" as so many call them. Robert
Burns was pictured as a real human
being, with the ordinary human beings
failings, no more, no less, but with a
heart that understood and loved and felt
for all creation, animate and inanimate.
Many of the old Scotch airs were sung
in chorus and solo, the Sinclair Musicians
and Dancers, father, two sons and
daughter, danced the Highland Fling,
the Sailors Hornpipe and the Sword
Dance. Their Scotch costumes were
very attractive and the dancing novelty
to us. Alexander Russell delivered a
Scotch selection, which, if we are not
wrongly informed, was of his own COM
position. 1t was exceedingly good.
To while away the hours following the
program until the special train left for
Mankato at 3 o'clock, the. Commercial
Club invited the editors to a smoker
held at the Theatre and hearty lunch
was served to them there The ladies
were taken care of at the Masonic Hall
where the older people gathered to tell
stories and sing songs Of "Auld Lang
Syne" and the younger people danced
at the opera house. That town of
1900 people could plan for and prepare
so many gems of entertainment at once
shows their versatility. Here's hoping
that sometime again the editors will be
invited to Mapleton when there is not
such thick blanket of snow so that we
may better do justice to the charms of !
one of the most enterprising cities in the
state, the only one of it's size, in fact, to
have the push necessary to carry thru
such projects as that of the library and
the three blocks of paving which changed
their main business street from gumbo
stick-tight to modern city street. /