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|*W^$rf^jP* 1?M I if fir PI New UlmReview Published by Vi Pufeliafeintf CompMky EDITOR: Albert Steinhauser MANAGING EDITOR: H. Payne Jbbecriptfon Rates $1.50 Per Year. Wednesday Aug. 11, 1915. Official Paper of Brown County. That's Different. We noticed a headline in the Mankato Free Press* last week that read /'LORD IS MAKING GOOD." We were isafcurally a little startled at the temerity •af our brother editor in passing judgment this. way. On reading further, we discovered that he was simply referring to the excellent work of Harry Lord of Buffalo Feds. Jhink It Over. If a man had a fifty dollar pup he would look after it carefully and not it it have the run of the town day and •right- But if he has a child it is different. They are turned loose at a tender age tf go where they will and do what theyUnited aijtease. People wonder where the great amy of tramps, dead beats, gamblers, snd disreputable women come from, fhey are germinated from the seed gathered in countless homes and sown broadcast upon the streets of our cities sad towns. There are thousands of Afldren who are heading in that direction who, as far as care is concerned are not #ven an equal showing with a valuable ,3pp.—Springfield Advance. Jbod Night Dobbinl If Henry Ford can accomplish what \& has promised and can turn out a satisfactory gasoline tractor from his great automobile \orks for $200 he will i-ive revolutionized farming and the aansportation of farm products. The ordinary tractor is too costly to be used HI the average farm of 160 acres but a tractor that can be purchased for thecatastrophes price of one good horse and which can do the work of three horses is a thing that the average farmer will not lose mueh time in getting acquainted with. Of course, this doesn't mean that the fiorse is going to become obsolete. Old Dobbin will still be able to hold his own in many kinds of work. But the heavy lauding* the plowing and the reaping 3tu- he better handled by a tractor if fe grice and weight make it a feasable Toece of machinery for the average *&rmer. Such a tractor would mean a big im provement in the country roads. It Tsould interest the farmer in good roads ss much as the capitalist. Much of the kauling of produce to market would then 3e handled by the Ford tractor. Alto gether, it looks as if Henry Ford was in a position to get just about what he wants I he can produce the goods in his new ^oiect. And we are backing Henry if 3JB sets out to do it. The Factory Town. Mew Ulm is the prettiest town in Min nesota from the standpoint of natural 3eauty. We take second place to noand "jawn in the state in this respect. 3ut in thi5 age of cold commercialism, X-Jafos nu than mere beauty to stir 3ie, pulse of the average man. The Ttian whoi is contemplating moving to "lew Ulmi^vants to know what we are ioing in a buainess way. What are his Aances of gettmg a job in this town. 3e can't enjoy the bluffs of the Minne- *£a,Aif' Tall of this one concern. It is impossible o&. estimate the number who are depen iSmt uRon these 324 breadwinners em Sjoyjed by only one of the many manu facturing concerns. The other New Ulm milling concerns, while not so large, also have a big pay roll. But altho we are prone to always put oumnlTs first, they are by no means our only manufacturing concerns. The tile factory, the breweries, the overall facto story, the various bottling works, the produce plants and a host of other con "terns give employment to a large amount help when taken in the aggregate. Take the factories and mills away, and and what would be left of the city? One inclined to wonder what other towns aot so generously supplied with fact ties have,to offer as an attractive center for location. With all these plants here and more aoming, New Ulm is bound to grow. It can't help it. The rapid expansion of the residence section of the town that has caused over a hundred homes to be built during the past year is no boom, leading, to an undue inflation of real estate prices. It is a healthy growth directly traceable to the residence de mand of a healthy, hustling and grow-(in ing, factory town. Help Well Placed. When the war came on, last year, and the market for cotton practically closed, many of the parents of students attend ing the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, one of the greatest educational institutions in the South, and largely patronized by farmers, were unable to pay for the board, clothes and medical fees of their sons. Facing the alternative of closing the college doors to these deserving youths, the board of directors took the unse cured notes of 150 boys aggregating $15,000. At present but $500 remains unpaid and all of that will likely be paid in in September. The result of this radical innovation is that Texas is voting on a constitutional amendment authorizing any county to loan public funds to worthy youths for the purpose of defraying their expenses while attending state educational insti tutions. If this isn't simon-pure, blown-in-the bud philanthropy, nothing is. Hats off to Texas and the men who started the ball a-rolling!—Minneapolis Daily News, But The Horse is Stolen. "Chicago, Aug. 6.—At least six per sons will be indicted by the federal grand jury investigating the Eastland disaster. States District Attorney Clyne, so reports about the federal building today said, was drawing up the indictments. The bills probably will be returned when the jury meets again Tuesday. City harbor officials today were pre pared to test the stability of every lake liner that enters the Chicago river or docks on the lake front. Rush orders were placed today for bars of iron, which will be used in weighting down the boats." So read the United Press wires from Chicago, in regard to the investigation of the Eastland horror. It will not by any particular comfort to the darkened homes of Chicago to know that now proper steps are to be taken to test the excursion steamers. Such measures can not bring back the loved ones who sank in the turbid waters of the Chicago river. Perhaps it is only by means of such that reforms can be made. Due it setrrs s,. ch a useless waste and sacrifice. The Blindness of Justice. The head-lines of the Minneapolis Daily News last week contained a scath ing arraignment of present-day justice that is well worth a little consideration. One Edward Martin stole an automobile, sold it and gave a bill of sale for it and was only arrested after a sensational chase thru the down town business streets. He was tried on the charge of "tampering" with a car that didn't belong to him and given a 90 day sentence. At the same time a farmer who had hired a horse and failed to return it be cause he became intoxicated was bound over to the grand jury on the charge of grand larceny. In the very next column of the paper is the case of a Spaniard arrested in the city on the charge of stealing $10 from the pocket of a man at the .Eagle's car nival. There was no direct evidence against him and he was convicted on the statement of the man who lost the money the fact that he had forty-five cents in his pocket at the time he was arrested XTo h& has to worry about next month's grocery bill. What has New Ulm to offer, then, for j^rmddle class man whose primary need a good, steady job? The answer is, ixetything. If you want a job in New isEeasjf enuf to find it. New Ulm is xausall^ weH supplied with factories for townats size. How many people know thitothe city is the home of the third Wgest flour mill in the world. The Sagle Mills give employment to a large cumber of men. Three hundred and twenty-four names appear on the pay- N one suggested that he might simply have tampered with the pocketbook. It is this sort of justice that makes our courts a joke and criminality simply a matter of "getting away with it." All men may have been born free and equal and all may be equal in the sight of the Law. But the sight of a big bank roll seems to change the perspective of the blind goddess a lot and it is certain that that same bank roll is a little in clined to make the scales of Justice wabble a bit. Prosperity For Farmers. It would take a confirmed pessimist among the farmers of this community to go around with along face these days. The corn is working twenty-six hours a day and Sundays in an attempt to catch up with itself. And in spite of thethat croakers, there seems to be no great need of worry as to the crop if the frost stays off till a reasonable time this fall. Much of the corn is beginning to show signs of silks and tassels. King Corn is not down and out yet—not by along ways. And wheat—say, you should see some of the fields around here. The shocks are standing so thick that one wonders who the farmer swiped all the straw from. All about New Ulm are seen fields ripe and heavy with grain. Quite a bit of the wheat is already cut and nearly all will be in shock by Saturday night. It has been along time since the farmer has had so much to be thankful for in the way of wheat. It stands tall and rank with big, well-filled heads, all of an even height and good for twenty to thirty bushels. Velvet chaff seems to be the best yield this time. There seems to be an unusually heavy acreage of small grain this year and if wheat stays at above a dollar a bushel every farmer the country will be buying a car if he jhasn't already done so. ¥^1 \l£~&l Russia may be worrying about War saw, the Allies may be growing gray over the shortage of shrapnel, the Kaiser may be sitting tight and not telling a soul what he is worrying about but the American farmer seems to have*the worry jinx flat on its back and gasping for life. And his only trouble is that the days are all too short for him to grab all the golden ducats. Where Are The Water Wagons? One of the most conservative business men of the city was heard discussing the dearth of water on our city streets last Sunday and he was very emphatic in his opinion that the tax payers of New Ulm are not getting what is coming to them in the care of the city streets. He was of the opinion that when the property owners pay out their good money to get the streets sprinkled they ought to be able to sit on their own front porches without having to choke in the dust of every passing auto. And it does look as tho he had some grounds for hisHe hearty kick. Last Sunday there was an unusually large number of outside cars in New Ulm attending the Jubilee of the Lutheran church. The occasion and the fine weather brought a large number of tourists to the city. What opinion of the city did those people take away with them after eating our dust for a few hours? With cars passing and repassing at frequent intervals every street in the city was filled with a swirling cloud of duts. And it was just as offensive to townspeople and pedestrians as to the tourists. And the townspeople are paying perfectly good money to avoid the nuisance. One could hardly blame the above conservative business man for handing an Irish blessing to the city council, the street committee, the sprink ling force "and all others in authority" as he wiped the dust from his eyes last Sunday. And he is one of the heaviest tax payers in the city, too. How many noticed the thickness of the dust on the sidewalks in the business section of the town last Monday morning. Every shop boy who had to sweep the sidewalk in front of his store will testify that it was plenty thick enuf. And this was in the paved section of the city, at that. There seems little excuse for the dust niusance on paved streets. The excuse for such dusty conditions seems to be that the city water supply is inadequate and that it is necessary to conserve the water in every way possible. That man be true, but there are other methods of laying the dust that the city would do well to investigate. Crude oil is used with marked success in many towns. It is no more expensive than the water system and is more lasting. Properly applied, it will solve the dust problem for the summer. Certainly some such method is worth investigating. For if the water supply is so low that we haven't enough to lay the dust, we must" find some other way of abating the nuisance. New Ulm citizens are tired of their dust diet. SONS OF HERMANN MAY COME. The Sons of Hermann who hold their lodges in St. Paul and Minneapolis may journey to New Ulm in the near future and hold meetings beneath the shadow of their Patron Saint on the heights west of the city. Such was the suggestion made to the local lodge by Grand Presi- ., .. ,, dent Henry Suess and Grand Secretary 1 £, -.-i .« i.i 1 I V^Xloo* XXlltWi WllCIi l/IKJjf IXIClr Wlfcll (silt? XT ., And this sort of thing is so common. 1 ,. »/r _i.- 1 v. 1 over the improvements being made on Martin had mends and so he had only ., *_ the statue and monument. If the plans tampered with the automobile when he sold it. The other poor devils were without friends and had to take the limit. They were not a bit guiltier. I NewTT1m Ul fraternity last Sunday to talk materialize ,and it is thot that they will, the twin city lodges will make the trip on the 26th of September. They will be accompanied by a large number of friends and the day will be an important one in the annals of the local lodge. At that time the repairs to the statue will be completed and the official in spection will take place under the direction of the grand officers. Some eight hundred dollars is being spent to restore the statue this summer. The plastering has been completed and the decorations are well under way. When the work is completed, the statue and grounds will be in perhaps the best shape they have ever been in. The Sons of Hermann are in a very florishing condition and the Commis sioner of Insurance has complimented the organization upon its splendid financial condition. In spite of the fact they paid out $132,000 in death benefits last year, the fraternity had a surplus of $6,000 to add to their already large reserve. This condition is due to the fact that only one officer of the lodge receives any pay. INTERNATIONAL PRESS CON GRESS A SUCCESS. The International Press Congress held at the Panama-Pacific International Ex position at San Francisco, July 5th to 10th, was, in personnel and program, the largest and most notable assembly ever held of persons interested in journalism. The enrollment was 957 delegates, ac companied by 1230 visitors, a total of 2187 persons in attendance. This en rollment represented 29 nations and 46 states of the United States. Of theplatform delegates€97, or three fourths, were from outside California, and 123 from outside continental United States. They in cluded representatives of Australia, Aus tria-Hungary, Argentine, China, Cuba, Canada, Columbia, Denmark, France* Greece, Germany, Guatemala, England, Portugal, Ireland, Switzerland, Hondu ras, Italy, Java, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Alaska, Hawaii and the Philippine Islands. The official proceedings will appear in the Book of the Congress to be published by a committee of which Jason Rogers, pub lisher of the New York Globe, is Chair man. The Congress voted unanimously to form a permanent organization with two vice presidents from each nation, an executive committee, a secretary-treasur er, and a president. The invitation of the Government of New South Wales to hold the next Congress in Sydney was accepted. OVER 300 ATTEND CATHOLIC CONVENTION (Continued from first Page.) and delights in the climate of Minnesota. read a telegram from the holy father sent by Cardinal Gasparri, the papal secretary. It read: "On the occasion of the sixtieth annual convention of the German Central Verein, the holy father is pleased to take cognizance of your far-reaching achievements, and prays for a happy issue of your deliberations." At the close of the meeting the big audience arose in a body and sang the national anthm. Such fervor was thrown into the singing as should con vince the most sceptical of the loyalty of the great body of German-Americans that was represented by ten thousand delegates. And so the sixtieth annual convention of the federated German Catholic socie ties was opened. It saw as splendid a demonstration of the loyalty of the German Americans to church and state as one could ever hope to see. The delegates to the meetings held their first regular meeting in the palm room at the St. Paul and the meetings will continue for several days. The New Ulm delegation which ac companied its delegates to the conven tion to take part in the sixtieth Jubilee returned by their special at about one o'clock Sunday night. NEW ULM GRABS SKAT PRIZES. At the skat tournament held in the gymnasium of Turner Hall last Sunday the local players landed the greater portion of the prizes. Some fifty skat enthusiasts were at the tables. A dele gation of about twenty came from Man kato to participate in the tournament and Cobden and Gibbon were also repre sented. Two sessions were held. At the after noon session, J. P. Graff won first honors. Second place went to Otto Schneider, third to C. W. Borchert and fourth to Otto Puhlmann. Joseph Miller of Man kato won first place in the evening play ing with John Becker, second William Thiedemann, third and Ed. Guggesberg fourth. The visitors were entertained by the local skat players at a luncheon and re freshments were served during the play ing. FINE LOCKERS FOR ARMORY. Lieutenant Adolph Klause is having his troubles these days picking out a style of locker to meet the needs of New Ulm's military organizations. He has plenty of material to choose from as many big locker companies are after the contract for the big armory. It is planned to install 164 steel lockers so it means a big contract for some company. The locker the local officers have about decided upon, is an all-steel affair, 19 inches wide, 20 inches deep and 72 inches high. They will be locked with a key as the combinations have been found to be an endless source of trouble. Be sides individual keys, there will be two master keys that will fit every locker in the list. Special lockers will be furnished for the officers who will have a double compart ment locker on one side of which they may keep their official papers and files and on the other side their equipment. A special steel cabinet for the head quarters stationery will also be provided. The boys hope to get into their new home by the first week in October if there are no further delays in the work. ELEVATOR NEARLY COMPLETED. The new elevator erected by the Springfield Milling Company is rapidly nearing completion. The sheet metal siding is being put on and the interior work is being rushed. The elevator is 37 feet square and 97 feet in height. It has fifteen large bins, eight of which reach from the top of the building to the basement, and seven from the top to the runway. The capacity will be about 100,000 bushels. In the basement is the immense hopper scales with chutes leading from each bin. The new building is connected with the brick elevator by a shaft house in which the machinery for running the elevators is also connected. *"**& In the center of the new elevator is the "man lift" a device which has a little on which a man can stand and be raised to the top of the building. This new addition to the Milling company's property will enable them to store thousands of bushels of grain and also adds tothe appearance of the property.— Springfield Advance. _f Special Excursions From Everywhere To New Ulm S-'o-o ifelG "tJLES S'OF *ADE ^OERS .• **%W, TAILORING DISPLAY Are You Interested in Good Tailoring at Low Prices? Would you like to see some of the most attractive Woolens in yard length size, representing the newest design in fabrics, embracing every conceivable weave? Even if only prompted by curiosity, call at our place on MONDA & TUESDAY AUGUST 16th and 17th. On these Dates a Special Representative of KAHN BROS., CHICAGO TAILORS S SATISF Experienced in the art of taking measures and post ed on all the latest style decrees, will be on hand. Never before has such an array of exclusive Woolens at popular prices been shown in this community, and a visit will surely be worth your while. Should you place an order, the time of delivery of your gar menu will be arranged to suit your own convenience. Correct ly fitting, stylish clothes, reliably constructed and at very mo derate prices are guaranteed. SPRENBER'S HABERDASHERY LEO. A. SPRENGER, Prop. SOLOMOMAGNIFICENT TUESDAY, AUGUST 24ltl A WONDERFUL ALL NEW NOVELTY CIRCUS lUS.'SSySLiSJi BI NEW STREET PARADE *&M*mimmimmatommihtommantt.*.tmm*unA Downtown Ticket Sale Circus Day at Pioneer Drug Co., 125 No. Minnesota Str. Prices Exactly The Same As At Circus Grounds. Do You Want A Weal Farm Home In Worth Dakota? If you are going to buy a farm away from here you should not do" so before looking over the Des Lacs and Mouse River Valley Lands in Ward County, North Dakota. We own our own lands. Save money and buy direct from us. We can show you some of the best land in the State and can sell you well im proved farms under cultivation with good buildings for $25.00 to $45.00 per acre or wild lands at lower prices. Land is as good and crops as sure as anywhere in the State.' Only the best of soil black loam and clay subsoil. No crop failure when soil is reasonably cul tivated. Prices in our Country are far lower than further south or east. We invite you to investigate. *$&&&i Land seekers' rate for round trip from Minneapolis to Kenmare every Monday and Tuesday only $11.75 for four or more parties. AtNow is the time to buy. Landt ^A IS going fast and prices will be higher next year. Land will double in value in a few years. Write to f4*^»s ii FIRST NATIONAL BANK, fetof^f &3??»*JL3W Kenmare, I I I I 1 BROS CIRCUS AN S E N O S NEWt^AJJDED $U000,000 SPECTACLE N OUEEN O SHEBA I MOST PRODUCTION EVER STAGED IN THE WORL 1250 PERSONS IN THE CAS 300 BEAUTIFUL DANCING I S SINGERS HORSES A^DTRAIN LOAD OF SCENERY War County, N. Dakota, o, Or write or see FREDW. FRIIS, Vice Pres. of said Bank. Now at New Ulm, Minn. aSfc if -.*,