New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-12-25

JOS. Binder of the S. A. T. C.. at the
University Of Minnesota is visiting al
| his home in Gibbon.
Arn1ln Tauer who has been in train
| ing at Camp Dodge has received dis
| charge and has returned to New Ulm. s
Relatives in Lamberton have re.
celved the information that Ben Aplitt
OF that city has been killed in action.
Mrs. Louisa Prahl has returned to heI
home in New Ulm after pleasant visit
at the home of Mrs. Edward Prahl in
Springfield.
Benjamin Williams who left here with
the last group of drafted men for Camp
Forrest, Georgia, has. received dis
charge from the service and returned
60 his home in this city Saturday.
The citizens of Mapleton are planning
to have -four mill in their city. Maple
ton IS an enterprizing town and I'M
doubtedly they will be successful in the
new undertaking.
The Redwood Falls public schools are
running full six days per week. This
is being done to make up for lost time,
occasioned by the enforced vacation be-
cause Of the epidemic.
L. P. johnson of Ivanhoe transacted
business here during the week. He
was enroute to North Dakota to attend
to business matters. Mr.. Johnson is
County Attorney of Lincoln County.
Kasson Setter writes from Hoquoiam,
Washington, that the flu is raging again
lin Washington and everything is shut
down. He says the soldiers are still
! held at Camp altho the logging machinery
has been pretty much all torn out.
Herbert Dittbenner wrote to relatives
| from France. He says that they are
keeping right on with their work as
| they did when the war was raging.
He is working with crew of mechanics
and he says it looks very much as if
they will be there a long period OF time
In a recent letter from Richard A.
| Pfefferle who is located at Monroe,
| = n bo o,cIoeoc q ol;,,;nrr fro,,,, ~, =
Parker Press, of Parker, S. d. in which
the Red Cross Roll Call Drive is written
up. Mr.. Pfeferle is the chairman of
the Monroe branch and due to his good
work he has now been appointed as
chairman of the Turner County drive.
1t had been planned to have women
suffrage drive in New Ulrn commencing
last Monday. A house to house can
vass had keen planned but because there
are still large number of eases of in
huenza those in charge Of the matter
deemed it unWise to do this. The
matter has been taken up with the state
headquarters and it is not expected
athorough canvass Of the local situation
will be made in this city.
The annual meeting of the Arbeiter
Verein was held last week and most of
the old officers were reelected as follows:
pres, Carl Lindemann; Sr., vice pres,
August Muske; Fin. Sec, Carl P. Man
derfeld; rec. sec, Otto Tape; treas,
Fred Ffaender; flag bearer, Mich. Ran
weller; sick wardelas, first ward, Louis
Guemn1er; second ward, Theo. Wies;
third ward, Werner Juenemann. ,chis
is the twentieth consecutive time that
Mr.. I1indemann has been elected presi-
dent Of the society. The organization
has membership Of 264 at this time.
The holiday vacation will be a short
one for the school children this year.
Or. account Of the Influenza epidemic
the schools Of the city We're closed for
seven weeks, thus the present vacation
period must be shortened perceptibly.
The public schools closed Friday and
viii reopen again next Monday. The
DR. Martin Luther College closed yester-
day afternoon and opens again Friday
morning. The Lutheran school viii
close only for the Christmas and New
Years holidays. It has not been de-
cided definitely how long the. Catholic
school will close but it will also be, a