New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-11-22
COMMERCIAL CLUB
FOR IMPROVEMENT
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OLD DIRECTORS ARE ELECTED
} TO MANAGE AFFAIRS FOR
ANOTHER YEAR
MUCH ENTHUSIASM MANIFEST.
Ed AT ANNUAL MEETING OF
ORGANIZATION

The election of board of directors,
reports of officers, discussing plans for
improving New Ulm's many beauty
spots, including the improvement of a
bathing place in the Cottonwood river,
were features of the annual meeting of
the Commercial Club.
The directors elected were the same
as those serving last year, and were
chosen on the first ballot They are:
G. A. Ottomeyer, Charles Vogtel, J. F.
Armstrong, F. H. Behnke, J. A. Ochs,
H. N. Somsen and A. H. Stork.
A meeting of the Board of Directors
will be held within day or two, when it
is expected they will reflect President
G. A. Ottomeyer and Secretary Treasur-
er w. F. Meile for another year.
Make New Ulm More Beautiful
The matter of making New Ulm the
beauty spot of Southern Minnesota was
brought up in discussion started by H.
N. Somsen, relative to the long talked-of
improvement of the proposed bathing
place in the Cottonwood River, west of
the city, and evoked the most interest
of any part of the evenings proceedings.
Mr.. Somsen started the discussion
by calling attention to the fact that a
tract of land had been purchased by
three members of the club, and was being
held until such time as the city or the
club was ready to take it over and i'm
prove it. He said the matter should be
begun early enough that it might be in
shape when the season opened next
spring, and that now is none too early
TO begin making preparations. The work
of cleaning the river bottom, he said,
must be done while the water is low,
and it would never be lower than now. -
Albert Steinhauser proposed the ques-
ton to be left to the board of directors
with power to act, and offered motion
to that effect.
Would Copy From Madison.
Fred w. Johnson said he thought the
matter should be further considered than
that of merely the establishment of
bathing pool, and could be handled
far better by some different organization
than the club, or any other commercial
body. Mr.. Johnson then related the
experience of Madison, Wis, where a
plan was started few years ago to i'm
prove the parks, driveways and other
beauty places about that city, starting
with small popular subscriptions amount
ing to few hundred dollars the first year,
and reaching now in the neighborhood
of $4,000 year in subscriptions, and
that more than 100000 has been spent
on the work in that csy. Mr.. johnson
said he felt sure that similar organi-
cation could be formed here, outside of
the Commercial Club and work out like
plans for New Ulm.
Mr.. Johnson's talk created most
favorable impression, and Mr.. Stein
hauser changed his motion relative to the
bathing pool, to include also the con-
sideration of the Madison plan by the
board of directors. The motion was
carried by unanimous vote.
President Ottomeyer announced that
the matter OF Community singing" had
been brought to his attention with
request that it be brought before the
club.
A motion that the matter be referred
to q special committee of three, was
carried.
President Ottomeyer appointed the
following committee, who will act with
committee of the Current News Club,
to plan a Community Singing program:
w. G. Alvin, F. H. Krook and DR.. Rieke.
The committee from the Current News
Club is composed as follows: Mrs. c. G.
REIN and Mrs. C. w. Miller.
Chairman Ochs of the Good Roads
Committee, reported that the kuehnei
highway problem, referred to that body
at the last meeting, had been left I'M
touched until after election, owing to the
fact that some of the members were
unable to give the question the necessary
time, but election now being over, it
would be taken up and given the desired
attention.
Club is Growing.
Secretary Treasurer w. H. Meile read
his annual statement which showed that
notwithstanding number of members
have dropped out owing, in most cases,
to the fact that they have left town,
there are now ten more members than