New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1921-10-12
81 ANNIVERSARY
OF PIONEER DAYS
HUNDREDS ATTEND ANNUAL
BANQUET ATKTHE
TURNER HALL.
PLANS BEING MADE TO MAKE
NEXT YEARS CELEBRATION
BIGGEST EVER.

other factors that worked against the
success of the Annual Banquet of the
Junior Pioneers, there was the usual
rge attendance and the same enthu.
SIN as in days when the problem Of
re living was not so difficult to
live In other words, in spite of the
H. C. L. there was no diminution Of
the number of those who attended the
banquet last Thursday evening, near.
ly two hundred twenty-five guests
being present. A number of the olde,
people who were present last year were
not able, because of failing health, te
attend, and some of those who Joined
in the merry-making at the 66th ami
versary banquet, have gone on to their
last rest, leaving places vacant at the
banquet board of the 9th anniversary
A few Of the Junior Pioneers also were
unable to be present because of illness
in the family or some other reason OF
like seriousness, but in general it may
be said that everyone who could be
present was there.
The Guests of Honor.
The Pioneers who took part in the
festivities were: Peter Mack, the dean
of them all, John Schlumpberger, Gott-
lieb Oswald, Joseph Gilley, Richard
Pfefferle, Mr.. and Mrs. Christ.
Schlumpberger, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Gieseke, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Fischer,
Mr.. and Mrs VIM. Frank, Mrs. Mary
Baasen, Mrs. C. Dahl, Mrs. Henrietta
Hauenstein, Mrs. Regina Hauenstein,
Mrs. Margaretha Vogel, Mrs. Eleia
Brandt, Mrs. Cecilia Schilling, Mrs.
Barbara Baer, Mrs. Josephine Rolling,
Mrs. Anna Flor, Mrs. F. Strate, Mrs.
Pauline Spoerhase, Mrs. Mary Beuss-
mann, Mrs. Frances Bellm and Mrs.
Mary Meyer.
Arrived at the hall, Pioneers and
Junior Pioneers enjoyed themselves by
visiting with friends they had not seen
since the banquet Of 1920, and per-
haps even longer 4. than that. The
Junior Pioneer gathering is different
from any other that takes place here
for it brings together people from all
parts of the city and county, people
of all faiths, people o.. all nationalities
represented in this vicinity, people of
all pursuits. 1t is not a meeting OF
business men, nor of laboring men, nor
of men alone at all, for the women
have just as much part in the festivi-
ties as the men. Not only the older
people are represented but the younger
ones as we'll, and this will continue, to
be true as years go by and the Junior
Juniors take their places in helping to
commemorate the momentous occa-
sion. No one special interest is repre-
sented and the only requirement for
admission is that ones family took
some part in. the very early history OF
the community. This makes the
gathering cosmopolitan in its makeup
and the result is that formality is for.
gotten and every body becomes every
body's neighbor as in the : old days
of the pioneer times when everybody
knew every body else in the, settlement
One of the speakers at the banquet
commented on the fact that the ban
queters came from every walk OF life
and that this made the gathering es-
pecially pleasant to him so that he
gladly travelled many, many miles tc
be present. ss
The Banquet.
At six o'clock the banqueters wers
summoned to the tables spread fol
them by committee of the Ladies
Society of the Turnverein. So many
of the Turnverein ladies belong, to ths
Junior Pioneers that it is always 3
problem how to secure sufh com
mittee members to take the banque1
in charge and it is greatly to the credi
of those who do the work that the,
are able to handle it so splendidly will
a small working force. A most. pleas
ing menu was served without bit o
friction or delay and the hungry guest
did it full justice. At its close Toast
master Albert Pfaender took up tn
program OF toasts he had prepared.
s;9 The Toasts.
The speakers were, not confined t,
any particular topic and each wa
permitted to say out just what he ha.
nearest his heart. The first humble
on the program was 4 the nationa
anthem sung by the entire assembl!
standing. Mr.. Pfaender then Gale.
upon Professor Helm of the Publ
Schools to put the banqueters thru
course of exercises to wake them Vi
and relieve their WEAKNESS from. sittinj