New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-07-26
CAMBRIA

! The rain fell in torrents in this vi
entity week ago Friday night. Several
bridges and culverts were badly damag-
ed making some of the roads impass-
able. There was wash-out on the
C. & N. w. about one mile east of
Cambria and crew OF men were re-
pairing it during the night and the
next morning. No trains were run
on this track for about Is hours. Crops
were not much damaged other than
it made some corn fields too wet to
cultivate.
There were some heated discussions
in the school meeting Of District 70
a week ago Saturday evening. This
is joint district between Cambria
and Butternut Valley townships but
the school house is located in the latter.
There has been bad feeling in the dis
trict since the erection of the new
school and the hiring of the teacher.
At the school meeting, the district
was about evenly divided into two
factions and both men and women
attended. w. D. Harris was reelected
a member of the board by majority
of but one vote The other two mem
bers of the board are Tudor Jones,
and John Williams.
The school meeting in District II
was quiet affair." Evan L. Harris was
reelected as treasurer of the board
and D. Chas. Price as clerk to fill the
vacancy made by the resignation of
Rev. E. w. Grifiths. Rev. Griffiths
felt that owing to his being a pastor
he preferred not to be on the school
board. The president of the board
is Chas Espenson.
| Mrs. McCan of Minneapolis is now
housekeeper for Harry E. Mathews.
| Ray Thomas of Lake Crystal is
a guest Of his Uncle Abe Thomas and
family.
Thomas Bros. are disposing of a
good deal of farm machinery to the
farmers lately.
W. M. Lewis who was ill is much i'm
proved at this writing.
Last Wednesday morning two freights
and one passenger train were standing
on the tracks at Cambria, waiting for
the track to be repaired where it was
washed out the night before between
Cambria and New Ulm. The village
had the appearance of a city as the pas
sengers from the trains were walking
about for an airing. The stores were
kept busy selling lunches.
Lorenz Hunziker and crew of Court
land are building a large corn crib for
Abe Thomas.
Miss Dora Walters of Garvin has re-
turned home accompanied by her
cousin Evan Evans who will help her
father through harvesting.
John L. Harris is having his farm tiled.
He has purchased two carloads of til
ing from w. J. Evans & Sons.
Henry Nichols is digging cellar and
is getting ready to build a new resi-
dence in Cambria.
There are a couple Of bad mud holes
between Cambria and CORTLAND, the
one between Reeds and Williams
being particularly dangerous as a car
might easily slide over the embank-
ment. The only machines (?) that can
pull through are the Fords.
| Art Walters and Eddie Evans are busy
fixing and cleaning Owen Evans thresh-
ing machine ready for the falls work.
Relatives who have heard from Owen
Evans say that he was writing from
Missouri and that he had not then
reached the border of Mexico with
Company A.
Mrs. Ursula Morris of Northern
Minnesota and Mrs. Lizzie A. Williams
OF Butternut were guests of relatives
here last Thursday.
Mrs. David Thomas who recently
heard from her sister, Mrs Alice It'd
land in Pasadena reports that Mrs.
John Williams health is failing due to
a general breakdown. Mrs. Williams
used to reside here.
A large crowd attended the Literary
at Evan Prices last Friday evening.
A nice lunch was served.
Farmers are harvesting barley and
rye. The crops are good but some
parts of the fields are too wet to drive
into and the farmers are earnestly
wishing for spell of dry weather.
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