New Ulm review., 1921-06-01

Tom Collins spent Sunday with
Sleepy Eye friends.
| Miss Myrtle Schaefer Of Sleepy Eye
spent Wednesday visiting friends here.
Miss Mary Sauter visited Mankato
friends recently.
/ J. M. Crowley of Lamberton at
tended the session of the district court
here, last Tuesday.
/ August Paul and family are leaving
for Browns Valley, where Mr.. Paul has
a position as Manager Of the creamery
Mrs. Joseph schloegl of Sleepy Eye
was the guest of local relatives. last
i Tuesday.
Gust. Windhorn is back from visit
at the G. A. Messerschmidt home in
Sleepy Eye.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Crane spent
Sunday at the home of the latter's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Crane.
! Some of the "early BIRDS among
/! the local auto owners are already
flashing their new license tags, received
the latter part of last week from the
secretary of state.
Miss Amelia Hedlicka of Bismarck
township, Sibley county, is convalesc-
ing nicely from the effects of an opera
tion for appendicitis and gallstones,
which she underwent at the Loretto
Hospital here, last Tuesday.
Governor Lynn J. Frazier of North
Dakota will deliver an address at a
farmers picnic to be held near Clark
field, Yellow Medicine county, next
Wednesday, June 8. Plans are being
made for the biggest picnic ever held
in that county.
C. L. Nelson, who was recently
operated upon at a New Ulm hospital,
was able to leave the hospital, Wednes-
day. He is at present staying with
relatives in Mankato, and is expected
to return here in about four weeks
Lafayette Ledger.
The town board of Home township
is advertising for bids, returnable not
later than Saturday, June rs, at p.
M, for the construction of reinforced
concrete bridge and excavating site
for same on Big Spring Creek, between
sections 21 and %, in that township.
Bids are to be filed with Town Clerk
William Dey, Route 6, Sleepy Eye.
The local decorating firm of Schwen-
dinger & Schuster has secured the con-
tract for decorating the Office rooms
of the German Roman Catholic Aid
Association of Minneapolis at St. Paul.
M. E. Schuster, junior member of the
firm, and crew of decorators left for
the Sanity City last week to conf
mence work on the job.
Twenty-Five years ago, wheat was
selling at So cents a bushel, corn at
20 cents, oats at 13 cents, flax at, rs
cents and rye at % cents in Sleepy
Eye. At the same time, raisins were
selling for four cents a pound, dried
apricots for II cents, rice for three
cents, two pounds of navy beans for
five cents, and chewing tobacco at
from % to 38 cents per pound plug.
Miss Elsie Forster, daughter of Mrs.
Emile Foster of this city, is a member
of the class of "a young ladies, which
will graduate from the nurses training
department of the Minneapolis General
Hospital, Friday of this week. Prior
to taking up this course, Miss Forster
was employed as office girl for Drs.
Otto j. and A. V. Seifert, when they
occupied a suite of office rooms in the
Ottomeyer Block some years ago.
r. L. Miller of Watertown, S. d.,
who came to New Ulm recently for a
try-out on the local baseball team, was
arraigned before City Justice George
Hogen, last Tuesday, on complaint
of having imbibed too much moon
shine" the previous day. When al
lowed permission to attempt to raise
the necessary coin of the realm to pay
the SIS fine and costs, Miller disap-
I Epeared and has not been seen here
abouts since.
r.. III. Behnke and his mother,
Mrs. Esther Behnke, entertained the
. following out-of-town relatives and
friends on Decoration day: Mrs
Helen George Mo, of Minneapolis
4 Attorney and Mrs. Albert G. Loo
mis-, Springfield; Mrs. and Mr.
Frank Tuttle and Mr.. and Mrs
Louis Strate and family, Hon,
township, and William and Mis-
Elizabeth Newton, West Newton
township.
According to the Sleepy Eye Herald
1f Mo-, 1OO1 &Lo C4o4a Dell !.