New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-02-16
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Brandes of CORTLAND last Sunday.

A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Brandes Of CORTLAND last Sunday.
The Misses Margaret Rausch and
Prisca Zischka were in Sleepy Eye last
Saturday, visiting at the home of friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Siebenbrunner
entertained party of friends and rela-
tives at dinner Sunday evening.
A marriage license was issued Monday
to Wallace w. Warren and Miss Margaret
A. Wagner both young Springfield people.
DR.. T. F.. Hammermeister was called
to Morgan Thursday of last week on
professional business.
August and Miss Johanna Stork have
returned from trip to Tyler, Mimi,
where they visited with their brother,
William.
Sleighride parties are the order of the
day now and the merry jingle of bells
and laughter of the participants may be
heard nearly every evening.
Albert Pfaender and family leave to-
day for Florida points, where they ex-
pect to remain for the balance of the
winter.
Mrs. M. A. Bearfield of Ollie, Mon
tana, has been visiting with her sister,
Mrs. Cook, on Center Street for the past
week.
According to the census recently taken
at Gibbon that village has a population
of 581, an increase of 48 since the federal
census of 1910.
Drs. c. A. Hintz and H. w. Rieke of
this city attended the meeting of the state
dental association at Minneapolis last
week.
A prize masquerade is dated for the
Armory for next Tuesday evening, Feb.
%. A number of prizes for individual
masks and groups will be distributed.
Mrs. "A. N. Rinke left Thursday for
St. Paul, Chicago and Milwaukee to
buy her spring stock of millinery. She
expects to visit her brother, John x.
Neumann at Madison before her return.
Herman Setter of Tracy was in the
city several days last week, returning
home Friday accompanied by his sister,
Hedwig, who has been ill for the last few
weeks.
Otto Hummel, who left three weeks
ago for trip through the East, writes
from New York City that he is enjoying
the sights of Gotham and will be full of
stories of the Bowery upon his return.
The annual banquet of the Sleepy Eye
Commercial Club will take place Thurs
day evening Of next week. DR.. Gray of
the state university will be the principal
speaker.
The Misses Lucille Buschers, Gretchen
Ruth Olsen and Stonia
kunze gave a Valentine Party at Wood
men Hall Thursday evening for forty
Of their schoolmates: The rooms: were
decorated in red and white and the
young folks spent the evening in dane
ing to the music of Victrola.
Tlose from other cities who attended
the annual ball of the K. of c.. last
Wednesday evening were the following:
L. E. Wheeler and Geo. A. Glotzbach of
Sleepy Eye, Chas. Pietsch, Isidor Krei-
finger and William J. Thomas of Spring.
field and Joseph Smith of St. Paul. The
affair was attended by nearly forty
couples.
A meeting OF the stockholders of the
Farmers Elevator company at Lamber-
ton, whose elevator was recently de-
stroyed by fire, will meet Friday of this
week for the purpose of taking action
regarding the rebuilding of the elevator.
It seems the unanimous desire of the
stockholders to replace the elevator with
a hre-prOOt structure.
Now that the cold spell seems to have
been broken, it is feared that warm
weather will set in too fast and result in
extremely high water. Those who re-
member the floods of the early eighties
say that similar conditions obtained dur
ing the winters preceding the high
water. There is more snow on the
ground at the present time than there
has been in any winter for the past ten
years.
The holding of an automobile show
here was agitated a few days ago, but
the dealers evidently came to the con-
clusion that such a venture could not be
successfully carried out except on the
larger scale which the Twin Cities a.
dopted, where great crowds of outsiders
were attracted. Mankato will have an