New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-05-24
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

E. J. McGuiggan has been appointed
postmaster at Winnebago.
Winnebago has voted $50, 900 bond
issue for new high school building.
Michael Carroll, long a resident of
Minneapolis, is dead, aged eighty
three.
|. Ben Morse, for twenty-five years a
member of the st. Paul police force,
is dead.
The fiftieth encampment of the Min
nesota G.. A. R. will be held in Mime
apolis June 8 and 9.
Peter Fasbender, sixty-eight years
old, former merchant of Hastings,
is dead in that city.
Mrs. Ralph Marcy of Window was
fatally burned when her home and its
contents we're destroyed by fire.
Cars handled at the Minnesota
Transfer during April showed an in
crease of 40 per cent over April, 1915.
Big Island, Lake Minnetonka, which
Is part of the Minnetonka game ref
uge, is to be stocked with rufled
grouse.
GAINESVILLE will vote May 29 on the
question of issuing bonds to aid in the
construction Of a municipality con-
trolled hospital.
George p Tawney Of W1nona has
withdrawn from the race for the Re-
publican congressional nomination IN
the First district.
B. F. Collins, president of Grinnell,
| Collins & Co. of Minneapolis and a
former president of the Rotary club,
is dead in the Mill City.
Ben Walser, eighteen years Of age,
residing with his parents on farm
near St. George, was accidentally shot
| and killed while shooting gophers.
Peter Meyer, twenty-five years old,
was instantly killed when the autono-
! over a ten-foot embankment near Al
bany.
The Southern Minnesota Teachers
association will hold it's next annual
meeting Oct. s, 6 and z. A referen-
| dunn vote will be taken to- decide the
place of meeting.
Raymond Clausius, sixteen years
old, and Wayne Anderson, fifteen
years old, Mankato high school soph-
emores, were drowned while canoeing:
on Blue Earth river:
An ordinance limiting the number
was passed by the city council of that
Place. Nineteen applications for Ii
censes have been made.
John Mechtel, the heaviest man in
Brown county, is dead. Until TEN
years ago he was a farmer at Linden:
Mr.: Mechte1 was sixty-seven years Of
age and weighed $50 pounds.
Norman A. Holan, a JUNIOR at the.
University of Minnesota, has BEEN
chosen by the student body to guide
the DAILY" the campus newspaper,
as managing editor for the year.
Mrs. Bridget Devery; aged eighty
eight, who reached ST. Anthony, now
J Minneapolis, in 1854, is; dead in the
! Mill City. Mrs. Devery' was born In
! County Gavin, Ireland, July IL, 1923.
Courtney w. Smith Of Minneapolis
was fatally burned when the lamp IN
an incubator exploded and set fire. to
his clothes He was rushed to- the
city hospital, but died in few hours.
F. c. Ramsey of Pfttsburg will be-
come director of the Minneapolis
School of Art about the middle of
July. Mr.. Ramsey has long been in
terested in the progress of art schools.
t Walter J. Smith, former state treas.
urer, who is serving sentence at
Saltwater prison, is rapidly recover.
ing his health and has gained eight
pounds in weight since his confne.
ment.
The new $4,000 armory at New
Ulm was dedicated with appropriate
exercises and addresses by Governor
Burnquist, Adjutant General F. b
Wood and Brigadier General A. w
Wright of Austin.
Announcement is made of the appli
cation to the, treasury department al
Washington for the incorporation Of
the Winona National bank with cap
ital stock of 100000 and a paid W
: surplus of $4,000.
J. S. Pomeroy, vice president of the
/ First and Security National bank, has
= been elected manager of the Minneap
oils clearinghouse association, sue
4 ceeding Perry Harrison, who had held
the position twenty Eight years.
4 Hogs hit the high spots at the South
!. St. Paul market Saturday when the
4 price scared to $500 hundred, the
highest point since April IL, 1910. The
I highest price ever paid at South St
= Paul was $1,000 in March, 1910.
Z East Grand Forks and Pennington
I champion debaters of the northern
and southern sections of the state, re
4 spectively, will meet for the debating
!. championship of the state at the Uni