22 Mar 1922
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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1922
Page
1
State highway commissioner Charles M. Babcock announced cancellation of April 6 bids for projects nearly $500,000 in value. Due to reduced trunk highway funds, maintenance and early spring contracts will be scaled back, with no new construction this year though maintenance will continue near last season levels.
The Watonwan Game and Fish Club proposes to form a five member committee to enlist neighboring counties and newspapers in a mass crow destruction campaign. Last year the county held a two day hunt that killed 1500 crows and awarded prizes of 6, 3, and 2 dollars. Farmers have intensified interest and the group aims to expand the effort this year. Continued on page 3.
Comparisons of available funds reveal a 1922 total of 10 613 000 after interest payments with disbursements and charges listed against that amount. Items include maintenance by law, contracts awarded March 10, surveys, right of way, and administration costs. Major trunk highway projects cited include St. Cloud to Little Falls paving, Red Lake County work, and the Northfield Westcott contract.
Final hearing on County Ditch 32 is planned for Cobden on April 6 while Judge Olsen will hear the Judicial Road petition on April 3. The proposed four rod wide highway would run from the Metzen bridge in Cottonwood through timber tracts along the Chicago Northwestern Railway right of way to Cambria in Blue Earth County, a plan contested by Cottonwood town and timber owners who fear substantial timber losses.
A Monday lecture at the Methodist church featured Y H Shahbaz of Urmia Persia recounting the sufferings of Persian Christians under Kurds and Turks. He described mass evacuations, families torn apart, refugees overcrowding a mission compound, and relief aid from Russians. A $33.52 collection supported ongoing relief and a Washington plea urged safe return home for the Persians.
A 100 member celebration committee is chosen to oversee the massacre commemoration. The group will assign tasks, make arrangements, and meet at Turner Hall next Monday evening to finalize organization and begin work.
City voters attend special meeting to table paving action on State Street from 7th North to 7th South until April 12 after ward changes. Council to decide feasibility under general 1921 law. bids to follow if approved. Oil contract bids total 17 with Pure Oil winning at $5.35 per 100 gallons for about 100000 gallons. Water supply discussion resumes with Layne Bowler expert sought. Local election judges named for wards and precincts. Infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Koop dies at two days old.
John Affolder and John Wurm appeared before Judge I M Olsen on charges of grand larceny in the first degree for stealing muskrat and mink skins valued at 875 dollars from Stuehe Brothers Produce House. They pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the second degree and were sent to the Reformatory at St Cloud for an indeterminate term. restitution and partial sale proceeds noted. Sheriff to transport them Wednesday morning. Miss Mabel Johnson returned home to Minneapolis after visiting Mrs F E Eidsvold of this city.
After nearly five years, the engineer F D Minium filed the preliminary survey for County Ditch No 67 lowering Swan Lake with Nicollet County Auditor W H Holt. The survey estimates open ditch outflow south of Nicollet village at about 111 570.93 and affects 32710 acres including Nicollet County's lake bed of 10920 acres. Survey cost so far is 6500.61 and flood conditions overflow land outside the meandered line.
Delegates from Sleepy Eye and area precincts meet for county convention amid debates on Kellogg support. Hallam forces lose as resolution endorses Kellogg and instructs county delegation to vote for him by an 88 to 16 margin. Supporters include L G Davis J C Rothenburg W B Mather. opponents include A H Hauser T C Streisguth A W Mueller F H Retzlaff.
Delegates to state and district Republican conventions named include PJ Graft A W Mueller B H Retataff WM Mather WM Julius W W Smith Hans Mo George Foster Albert Hauser Sleepy Eye George Chambard P J Blien Comfrey L G Voge George D Erickson P Liesch Emil G Hage E R Lane W L Walters Alb Hauser John Schulz Hans Larson.
Sigel Co-Operative Creamery replaced a broken boiler with a new unit after a leak preventing repair. Frank Seifert and August Hoffmann were authorized to travel to purchase the boiler, while a threshing crew kept operations running. The new boiler, arriving Monday, will handle the creamery’s needs for some time as churns run three days weekly producing about 25 tubs of butter. Also noted, Joseph Augustine of Springfield remains in Brown County jail awaiting recognizance or six months’ confinement after a domestic dispute conviction.
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