New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-05-03
TWO HUNDRED GUESTS GATHER
ABOUT FESTIVE BOARD FOR
ANNUAL FEAST. 49, -.
MANY OF JESTS HAVE POINT
APPLICABLE TO LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.


least for several hours, last Wednesday
evening when the members Of the Com.
merical Club and their invited guests
gathered for the third annual banquet
of the organization at Turner Hall
Nearly two hundred business and pro-
fessional men of the city sat down to the
tables and did full justice to the viands
served in five courses by nattily dressed
pretty young ladies. While the supper
in itself was feast, the intellectual gems
served the gathering by the speakers,
both resident and imported, must be
regarded as even more so, as they brought
those attending to a realization that
there is higher ideal to work for in the
turmoil of business life than just the
coin of the. realm or the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of ones particular little self. Business
men who for years have worked for the
one end Of gaining a competence saw
themselves, even if only in q >jocular
way, as others see them. Many of the
witty sayings and pointed jokes had a
local and personal application even
greater than was apparent at the moment.
Music was furnished during the even
ing by YOUNGSTERS orchestra and other
musical numbers were rendered by A.
P. Book, Albert Flor, Fred j. Backer
and Paul Hackbarth in 4 saxaphone
quartet and Ed. Stoll in vocal solo.
Following the disposal of the solids
and after the fragrant Havanas had been
put into commission, President Otto
meyer opened the second section of the
program by introcduing as POSTMASTER
Fred W. Johnson, than whom there is
none who can more artisically tickle
the palate of the after-dinner guest.
The first speaker of the evening was
Rev. Holm, who had for his subject
"The Commercial Club as an Evan
gelistic Force" He pointed out that the
Commercial Club as body should be
the evangelist to lead in the work OF
beautifying and bettering conditions in
city. The organization should take
up the field of sanitary conditions and
aim to make more homelike the places
of abode. Another field for the evan
gelist is that of changing the attitude
of citizens generally towards the OBJ
servance of quarantine in the case OF
CONTAGIOUS disease or an epidemic OF
some sort. People should feel that the
quarantine is not matter OF punish
ment but protection OF society ITSELF
Another field needing the attention OF
the evangelist is the matter OF public
Fairgrounds, something which has been
sadly neglected in the past and in
reality is one of the inportent problems
any growing city is calls upon to solve,
as it is the duty Of the community to
protect it's youth from undesirable forms
of amusement. Rev. Holm laid out
enough food for thought for the members
of the club to keep them busy thinking
for many a day, and acting for even
longer.
To Senator Henry NJ Benson of St.
Peter was allotted the subject OF '"The
Possibilities of Southern Minnesota"
and he handled his topic from the stand
point that in the bettern1ent OF rural
school conditions in the way OF consoll-
dation and added educational facilities
lies the future of this section OF the
state, The lure for city life has in past
years depopulated to a degree the
rural sections of the southern part of the
state and young men and women have
been drifting to the cities because OF the
better educational advantages offered
them there. Since the early sixties a
great development has taken place in
this section of the state, but the develop
ment of the next fifty years will be even
greater than that of the past half cen
tury if present advanced ideas which
have taken root are carried out by future
generations. The speaker urged closer
utilization of the Commercial Club with
the farmers organizations which have
sprung up all over and are dong a great
work for the residents of the rural Sec
lions. Better schools and better roads
are two problems no commercial OF
farmers organization can afford to LOST
sight of. Senator Benson called atten
ton to the fact that Nicollet county
has done her share in helping build uI
New Ulm and this part of Brown count!
as it has furnished some of our mos
prominent men, among them Mayo
Fritsche, Judge l. M. Olsen, Ole M
Olsen, Albert Olsen and the toastmaste
of the evening, Fred W. Johnson:
;: While Hon. Albert Hauser of Sleep.
. Eye had for his topic talk on 'Eficienc.
!, and Economy" he found it broad enough
to swerve into the field of the question
!, of the day, among them preparedness