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

i Miss Eleanor Emmerich who is teach
ing near Comfrey is spending her Christ
mas vacation here.
Chas Baumgartz and VIM. Brust
1 from Sleepy Eye were business visitors
!. in our city the forepart of the week.
] Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Pechtel are
the parents of daughter born re-
Gently.
George Mages and son A1ois from
Morgan are in this city. The latter
t is receiving medical treatments here.
Capt. James Dougher is spending
Christmas at his home in this city.
He has been at Camp Dodge about a
year and half drilling rockies
Erwin Schmidt and John Schneider
are among the boys who have been dis
/ charged from the service. They have
returned home
| W. F. Mailer from Springfield was
in New Ilm several days during the
present week, attending to business
matters.
Miss Lillian Piltz has returned to
her home in Waconia after visit with
the Alvin Resoft family in West New
ton
Oscar Olsen Of LAFAYETTE appeared be-
fore the local justice this week and
was fined S. and costs for disorderly
conduct.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Bergstrom of
Brighton township have departed for
Long Beach, California, where they
will spend the coming winter.
! Mrs. F. Starr has returned to her
home in this city after spending several
days caring for her sister, Miss Martha
Starr, who is i'll in Tracy.
The following officers were elected by
the Commercial Club for the ensuing
year: G. A. Stolz, pres; J. A. Ochs,
vice pres; and VIM. Meile, sec-treas.
Mrs. Ida Klempel died at local
! hospital Thursday evening of influenza
She was thirty-two years Of age. The
remains were shipped to Winthrop for
burial
j The following officers were elected at
a recent meeting of the Aid society
of the Congregational church: Mrs.
Herman Held, pres; Mrs. R. C. Hennick,
| vice pres; Mrs. G. A. Zelle, treas; and
Mrs. Ed Veecl, sec'y.
/ General Fershing has cabled the war
department that practically complete
reports OF deaths in action among the
expedltlonary forces should reach the
department by December 20 and severely
wounded by December q.
An official summary OF the results Of
the influenza epidemic in the army
camps and military centers in the
/ United States shows that there are
33S,257 cases Of the disease. up to De-
.cenaber l, with approximately II 900
deaths
The first annual meeting Of the Brown
County Farm Bureau ASS n will be
held at the city building in Sleepy Eye
at ] o'clock P. NJ. on Saturday, De-
cember 28th, 1918. for the purpose Of
electing officers, together with the other
business which may properly come be-
ore the meeting.
Viola Hesse, thirteen year old daugh-
ter Of l1r and Mrs. F. II. Wiese Of
Stately township, enc mile south of
!! poison, caused some excitement in
and around that country LAST satur-.
day morning. She says that at five
O'Clock Saturday morning she went out.
doors and upon returning to the house
a blanket was thrown over her head
by an unseen man. Her mouth and
eyes were bound with long. cloth
wrapped several times about her head.
Her hands were tied with strips of
cloth and she was lifted bodily into a
buggy after being turned around several
times. After being driven about thirty
five miles from home in buggy she
says she jumped out Of The buggy and
made her getaway.