New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1921-10-12
CT ANNIVERSARY
OF JUNIOR PIONEERS
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so long. He excused the pioneers
from taking part with the exception
Of Richard Pfefferle who looks SO hale
and hearty for his years that the toast
master felt he should show the younger
generation how to keep young.
Major Pfaender then called upon the
president of the Junior Pioneers, Capt.
Albert Steinhauser, to talk in the Ger
man language as a special compliment
to the older people present, whose
native tongue it is. Mr.. Steinhauser
took up the matter of the exact date of
the corning of the first settlers, about
which there has been considerable
question. He did not undertake to
settle the question but left it open for
further discussion which came later in
the evening. Mr.. Steinhauser told the
assembly of the fund that is being
raised for the starving children of
Central Europe. The campaign to
raise $3,000,000 was launched on the
9th and he urged all to support it as
literally as they could and told the
Junior Pioneers that they should take
upon their shoulders the duty of raising
New Ulm's share of the fund. He also
reminded them that the Irish and the
Russians, who have been fighting for
liberty from their oppressors for years
against terrible odds, need help. Other
matters touched upon in his talk were
the Ku Klux Khan and the finjustices
done during the war. In closing he
called attentionto the fact that next
year will mark the Goth anniversary Of
the Indian Uprising and said he felt
the Junior Pioneers Should undertake
the celebration of the event On large
scale.
"reminiscences of Pioneers.
The next speaker called upon was
Benedict Juni who was asked to re
minisce" but Mr.. Juni told his auditors
that they had all heard the story of his
experiences with the Indians SO often
that he would use his privilege to bring
up a matter that had impressed him
very greatly the past year. He said
that the farmers are having a pretty
hard row to hoe these days and he
wondered if some of it were not due
to the fact that the old days of simple
plain living were so far past that all OF
US, farmers and verybody else, where
living beyond our means. He told
of some of the ways in which the
pioneers managed to do with or with
out and got along quite as happily as
their descendants who think they must
have the best of everything and plenty
| of it. He warned the Junior Pioneers
that we will have to go back to palmer
ways if we wish to arrive again at con-
tentment and peace such as the
Pioneers knew in the Good Old Days.
Another of the pioneers who had
som ething of interest to the banqueters
was Jacob Klossner, Jr., who told OF
the ways the pioneers managed to get
together enuf of worldly goods to keep
body and soul together and to lay the
foundation for the homes now held
by their descendants Mr.. Klossner's
talk was hum orous and put the guests
in good spirits for the rest of the pro-
gram. The only criticism heard was
that it was too short. Another lively
response to the toastnc aster's invita-
ton was that of A. j. Alvin of Mound
who told a story of one of the families
of the early days and gave the audience
a good laugh. Athenas Henle was
called upon as descendant of Milford
Pioneers whose presence in the outly-
ing district was the means of staying
the attack of the Indians in 1862 50
that the settlement of New Ulm had
time to prepare to resist them and thus
saved the little city from destruction.
Mr.. Henle responded very briefly.
Peter Mack was excused from giving a
talk altho he received tribute from
the T oastmaster as the survivor of the
first band who came here in 1854.
asI Miss Alice Haeberle read from an
old calendar giving the chronology of
early. days to show that neither the
6thenor the 7th is the exact date OF the
arrival Of the settlers here but that the
9th is really the date that should be
commemorated.
Another of the pioneer called upon
by Major Pfaender was Fred Fritsche
who gave most interesting account
in German of the Discrimination OF the
Indians to give up the beautiful valley
of the MINES ia and Cottonwood
Rivers. He related the story Ct the
building of the Jacob Brust house. on
on the Cottonwood and described the
dispute with the Indians over the boun-
Diary line between their possessions and
those of the whites. Mr.. Fritsche
said even in those early days the Rcd
Men resented the taking of the lands
that they called theirs. Later in the.
evening when Anton Leibold was
called upon by the Toastmaster he
added another tribute to the beauty
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