Civic Club backs camp plan for German Park Autocamp
The Commercial Club in New Ulm backs a tourist park project near German Park with a preferred site at North German Park proper. The group plans to ask the City Council to support the Autocamp plan and to seek hard surfaced roads on state trunkways No. 18 and No. 7 with costs limited to surface width up to 20 feet. Dr. William Fritsche improves from quarantine while Andrew Boehm of Sleepy Eye dies after appendectomy. funeral at St Marys Sleepy Eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Club
New Ulm
Jirview
P. Liesch
Herman's Heights
Herman Park
Grand Council
Herman Sons
Hermen Heights
H. Behnke
C. A. Stolz
August Beyer
A. O. Olson
W. GC. Muesing
F. D. Minium
German Park
Minn. St
State Highway Commission
Sun North
Highway Commission
Good Roads Committee
Cr. N. Cosgrove
Veteran's Vocational Bureau
Cosgrove
Veteran’s Bureau
Andrew Boehm
Sleepy Eye
Loretto Hospital
Andrew Weisner
Buehm
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Bsehm
Invention put on market plans New Ulm calendar device
Fairfax businessmen with Dr A V Seifert announce a perpetual calendar device that shows any date by turning a wheel. Inventors Wim P Skinner and W C Mangel hold patent claims. a $100000 company forms to promote manufacturing, possibly locating a New Ulm factory to employ 20 to 30 workers and sell nationwide.
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Fairfax
Dr. A. V. Seifert
Fairfax Men
Wim. P. Skinner
W. C. Mangel
Citizens Bank
Canada
Europe
C. H. Heimann
W. GC. Mangel
Chicago
New Ulm
Chautauqua Man to Lead Sleepy Eye Band
Charles E. Keller will direct the Sleepy Eye Band with 25 musicians enrolled and more to join. The effort aims to surpass any northwest band, with summer concerts planned each Saturday on Main street. Keller, a noted Chau tauqua Circuit director, brings strong musical credentials.
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Chautauqua Man
Sleepy Eye
Charles E. Keller
Northwest
Keller
Main Street
Queer sparks in wiring at Motor Inn alarm
Reported electrical disturbances shut down a Sunday night into Monday morning near the Motor Inn and a nearby residence on Minnesota Street. Fire crews found no blaze after investigating blown fuse blocks and a blackened ceiling rosette. Electricians warned of high voltage and worn wires, urging owners to inspect and repair weak points.
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Motor Inn
John Schneider
Minnesota Street
Maryshall Forster
Huergelmann
South
German Street
L. G. Vogel
Minnesota
Huevelmann
Tomesbere
Enn
Hoffmann
Many Bidders For City Work On Sewer Project
Fourteen firms bid on the new city construction work opened by the city council last week. Bids were often far below estimates, with the sewer project expected to employ about forty men after frost ends. Rahr & Pratt of Pipestone bid $28,569 for the sewer work, below the $38,000 engineer’s estimate, while Feven Construction Co. won the water main job at $5,818.20. The project covers sixteen blocks of sewers and several water mains between Eighth and Twelfth South on Minnesota, with work to start soon.
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Minium
Minnesota
Washington
State
Broadway
North
South
State Street
Center Street
St. Paul
Feven Construction Co
Rahr & Pratt
Pipestone
Ulm
North Minnesota
Eighth North
South Minnesota
Teachers Wage Cuts Weighed by New Ulm Board
Monday night the New Ulm Board of Education discussed cutting teachers salaries for 1922 23 with no final action. Supt Gloor was re elected at the same pay, and a special meeting will set the salary basis. The Minnesota School Board Association called for broad cuts statewide, while state education commissioner McConnell urged economies other than teacher pay reductions.
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Supt
Gloor
Board of Education
Supt. Gloor
New Ulm
Minnesota School Board Association
St. Paul
Department of Education
McConnell
J M. McConnell
Court News Chishes Ditch Reports and Trials
Court convened to dispose of December term cases and heard final engineer’s report on Judicial Ditch No. 7 showing completion and payment due. Trial opened on injunction against County Ditch No. 49 over Rose Lake drainage. bids failed, project may cost less than planned. Several cases listed for disposition this week.
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Judicial Ditch No. 7
Brown
Watonwan
Mud Lake
Rose Lake
Home
Lorenz Flen Vy
Chartick
Martha Neidl
Frank Meidl
Lampert’ Lumber Cove
St. Haugen
Lampert Lumber Go
Edward C. Sperstad
S. Hage Gumber Co
Va. U
Local Store Announces Liquidation Sale This Week
Fred Engelbert and Meta Nelson cases cited with additional parties. The Fair Store announces a stock sale to be held Saturday as they go out of business. The building will be occupied by another firm after the end of May. See the ad for sale details in this issue.
Home Towns Lead In Birth Death Balance In Brown County
Brown County records show 559 births and 202 deaths in the past year, with 557 births and 203 deaths in 1920. Home reports 21 births and 1 death, Lake Hanska 16 births 1 death, Sleepy Eye 51 births 16 deaths, Springfield 37 births 14 deaths, and New Ulm 181 births 102 deaths. Hospital reports and reporting practices affect totals. a full table follows.
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Brown County
State Department of Health
Carl P. Manderfeld
Cobden
Evan
Home
Lake Hanska
Sleepy Eye
Springfield
New Ulm
Furs Taken From Produce House Burglary Case
John Affolder and John Wurm were implicated in a February burglary at the Stuebe Brothers Commission house. About 150 muskrat pelts and 16 mink pelts valued around 370 dollars were stolen. Wurm was pursued to St Paul then to Ramsey County custody. Affolder confessed involvement while Wurm fled toward Echo then Winthrop before arrest.
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John Affolder
John Wurm
Stuebe Brothers Commission
Wurm
St. Paul
Ramsey Co. Sheriffs Office
Police Department of
Stuebe, Brothers
Bard
Affolder
Young Affelder
Ratskins
Young Wurm
North Spring Street
Worm
Echo
Winthrop
Harmening
New Ulm
Young Affolder
Chicago Northwestern
Winona
Watertown
Minnesota Street
Wim
Otto Schleuder
Herbert Luetjen
Lincoln School
Armory
Wunn
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Civic Club
Council
William Fritsche
Henry Ahrens
George Hagen
Mr. Ahrens
Ahrens
Altho
Barker
Evept
Counci
Washington Street
N. Fis
Ington Abreek
Roperty
Walla
Pater Kitzberger
Amke
Court News
Fred Engelbert
Meta S. Nelson
Edward F. Berkner
Roman P.er
Olaf Bentson
Saffert-Guggisberg Constr. Co
Brown County Vital Statistics
Manderfeld
Stuebe Bros
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