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RED CROSS AGAIN IN NEED OF FUNDS NATION WIDE DRIVE FOR SUM OF $100,000,000 BEGINS THIS MONTH NEW ULM CHAPTER DISTRICT EXPECTED TO FURNISH $10,000 (Contnbuted by W Johnson) The Red Cross War Fund of $100, 000,000, which was raised throughout the nation nearly a jear ago, has been practically expended. It has all gone in the greatest forth-putting of charity and helpfulness the world has ever known. Not only have OUT soldiers and sailors been provided for, but untold suffering and distress has been relieved a score of lands Belgians, Frenchmen, Italians, Serb ians, Roumanians, Armenians, Russians, Scandinavians, and Germans too, have all been made to know the great heart of the generous American people. More money is needed, for the task of administering to the woes of a world is a herculean one, and a second nation wide drive to raise another $100,000,000 ib to be started on May 20th and con tinue for one week. Of this amount $10,000 at least is expected to be forthcoming from the district within the jurisdiction of the New Ulm Red Cross Chapter. This District includes the city of New Ulm, the village of Hanska and the townships of Albm, Cottonwood, Linden, Lake Hanska, Milford and Sigel. The Chap ter has three active branches and over a thousand members and if all do their shaie the work of creating enthusiasm for the cause no difficulty should be ex perienced in raising the required quota, State Director Randall of Minneapolis has appointed Mr. W Johnson of New Ulm, Chairman of the Chapter, to take charge of the campaign in this district and that gentleman is now en gaged in the selection of his committee men and fellow-workers. He has al ready" announced that the plans include a speaking campaign that will carry the Red Cross Message into every school district within the Chapter ]unsdiction, a number of speakers having already placed then services at the disposition of the executive committee The subscriptions this campaign will ha\e nothing to do with member ship the Red Cross organization. All offerings will be considered as being made outright to the War Relief Fund, but the provision is made, as it was in the first drive, that twenty-five per cent of the total amount raised may be retained by the local chapter if its officers so request To meet the constantly growing de mands of the local organization it is being planned to follow up the drive with the dedication of Decoration Day to the cause of the Red Cross, the principal features of the plan being a Red Cross parade and a sale which the people of all the chapter cities and townships would participate as donors and bidders From such a source it & expected that enough money can he raised to keep the chapter organiza tion in funds for some time to come, although an idea of its needs may be obtained from the fact that the monthly shipment of aiticles to headquarters represents an average cost for material alone in excess of $60,000. This drive will be the first real appeal that has been made in behalf of the Red Cross to the people of this neigh borhood. Give until your heart, and not your head, tells you to stop. The following have been selected as committees to push the work: Executive Committee F. W. Johnson, N. Henmngsen, Rev. G. Hohn, Fred Crone, E. G. Hage, A L. Boock and J. A. Ochs. New Ulm Committee A. G. Meile, Aug. C. Dahl, E. A. Hag berg, A. S. Dorn, Geo. Hogen, E. A. Pfefferle, Herman Held. Sigel. Frank Forster, Frank Seifert, Fred Krambeer and Ed. Flor. Hanska Village. Prof. L. A. Clark, Henry Anderson, Iver Haugen, Clifford Helling and Theo. Torgrimson. Albin. Hans Siguidson, A. M. Shellum, Chas. Knudson, Jacob Rossbach and P. V. Sveum. Linden. Ole Pederson, Knute Haugen, Henry Melzer, Jurgen Fladmo and Nicol Nelson. Lake Hanska. H. F. Frederickson, 0. M. Broste, T. C. Hovde, A. E. Hanson and Ole K. Broste. Cottonwood. Wilbur Strate, Joe Schnobrich, Ben Dahl, Geo Grossmann, Jos. Hartung and V. E. Keyser. Milford. E. E Spelbnnk, Aug. Backer, Robert Runck, E A. Geisler, Edwin Gluth and A. J. Domeier. HONOR FLAGS FOR NINTH DISTRICT Each one of the six states, each county, and nearly each township in the ninth federal reserve district have oversubscribed their allotments of the third liberty loan. This was the an nouncement made by the chairman of the district, Mr. A. R. Rogers. In Washington 5000 honor flags have been ordered for this district. In the opinion of Mr. Rogers the ninth district will lead all other districts the entire country. In Minnesota alone 923 towns are entitled to honor flags. FARM O CH IS ARRANGED BY LAW MEN IN ARMY CAMPS MAY BE FURLOUGHED FOR RUSH WORK ON FARMS SOLDIERS READY FOR OVERSEA DUTY CAN NOT GET ABSENT LEAVE After Congress had adopted the law empowering the Secietary of War to furlough soldiers, the Department of War outlined the regulations under which the boys from the farm may obtain a leave of absence from military duties. According to these regulations a short furlough, chiefly during seeding or har vest time may be granted. Only sol diers below the rank of sergeant will be furloughed. Soldiers deskrnated for ser vice abroad cannot be furloughed. If the company to which furloughed sol diers belong is ordered for duty overseas every man from that body must be cut short his furlough and return to camp at once to join the colors. Form of Application Every application for farm fui lough must be made on blanks, form 1035 P. M. G. O, to be obtained from local military draft boards. This official blank, propeily filled in, will be for warded by the local draft board to that arm of the service to which the soldier belongs. There the commanding of ficer makes the final decision. The ap plication for furlough may emanate from relatives of the soldier or from the soldier himself. Farm Furlough En Masse The regulations for furlough also pro vide for a short farm furlough en masse, if the trip from camp to farm can be made within 24 hours. Within this distance farmers may ask for a number of soldiers to assist them during the rush of the harvest season. Such farmers must file their application on form 1035, and must be prepared to pay the soldiers the wages obtaining in their community. Soldiers, however, are not compelled to work in the harvest fields, unless they feel so disposed. Any farmer wishing to make use of these new regulations for furlough may appear before the local draft board and there secure the necessary blanks, form 4035 P. M. O. G. NICOLLET CO. COURT IN SESSION The spring term of the District Court of Nicollet County convened Monday, Hon. I. M. Olsen presiding with Court Reporter W. T. Eckstein in attendance. The calendar is very light and Court is not expected to last over a week. No grand jury was summoned as there were no criminal cases that needed the at tention of the grand jury. There is, however, ope criminal case to be tried, the Suess case, an appeal from Justice Court. The defendants were found guilty of selling mortgaged property and took an appeal to the District Court. This is the first jury case to be tried, and a jury was empaneled yesterday. Major Albert ,Pfaender will assist Co. Atty. Geo. ,T. Olsen in the prosecution of this case. A child welfare meeting was held at the M. E. church Tuesday evening, for the benefit of the Sunday Schools. •M® _^jgagjifr"W gaps Jul1*!*.. Xrail 1 iiii-'y'•'!• wry^i' VOLUME XLI. NEW ULM, RROWN COUNTY, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1918. TELEPHONE PEOPLE REPORT GOOD YEAR INCREASE IN GROSS EARNINGS AND IN THE NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS ELECT NEW DIRECTORS. STOCK HOLDERS INTERESTED IN STATE MERGER According to the annual report of Secretary A. G. Bierbaum submitted to the "stockholders of the New Ulm Rural Telephone Company at their 13th annual meeting held at Shell's hall last Thurs day, the company's assets now total $92,651.50 which includes $789.87 cash on hand. The liabilities of the com pany are the capital stock of $61,450 bills payable amounting to $7,900 a dividend account of $4,301.50 and un divided profits in the sum of $19,000. It also appeared from the statement that ance the organization of the com pany in 1905 the sum of $57,356.01 has been charged off for depreciation. There are 425 stockholders in all. Most of them are owners of one share of $25 each, altho there are a few who have two and more shares. The largest in dividual stockholder has stock amount ing to $2,050. Gross Earnings Increase The past year has been a very success ful one from the financial standpoint, the receipts totaling $33,206.74 exclusive of $2,766.86, cash on hand April 16, 1917. There was an increase of $2,000 the gross earnings, the same amount ing to $27,179'.55 for the past year. Of this amount $24,834 was received in the shape of telephone rentals and the balance is made up of .commissions for long distance service, tolls, advertising notices and rent. There was expended during the past vear $9,357.65 for salanes $1,515.98 for batteries, wire, material, etc., $4,301.50. was set apart for dividends the taxes amounted to $982.67. These with a number of smaller items bring up the total disbursements to $35,183.73. This is exclusive of the balance of cash on hand, April 16. 1918. 78 New Subscribers During the past vear 68 additional phones have been installed in the city and 10 in the rural districts. The city phones number at the present time 1354 and the rural districts 692 are in operation making a total of 2064. There are 167 miles of toll lines in Nicollet County, 164 1-4 miles in Brown County, a total of 331 1-4 miles. The number of miles of circuit in this county is given at 264 1-4 miles and that of Nicollet at 286 miles making a total of 550 1-4 miles. During the past year 1 3-4 miles of pole line have been built and the same number of miles of circuit have been added to the system. Of these 1 1-4 miles are in Brown County and 1-2 mile in Nicollet County. Elect Officers Tre meeting was called to order by President Fred Pfaender and after the minutes had been read and approved the president appointed the following as election judges: Jos. N. Schaefer, Anton Hellmer, Rupert Altmann, Geo. A. Tauer, Louis Spelbnnk, Herman Pfaender, Frank Forster, John T. Sta dick, Jos. Simmet, John Gaetke, Geo. Wager, and Fred Rengstorf. After nominations for a Board of Directors had -been made the meeting adjourned until 1 o'clock in the afternoon. The polls were open until 2 o'clock the afternoon. The votes were then can vassed and it was reported that the fol lowing Board of Directors had been chosen: New Ulm, Fred Pfaender, F. H. Retzlaff, H. P. Bastian, Adolph G. Bier baum, Jos. Wiesner and Wm. James Courtland, Henry Mueller, and Nic Remhart Lafayette, John Huelskamp and Fred Wellner West Newton, Math. Walter and Wm. Palmer Cottonwood, Jos. J. Sperl and Math. Roeck Milford, Aug. Backer and Jacob Haubrich Sigel, John A. Sellner and H. A. Hillesheim. At a meeting to be held next Monday the Board of Directors will select the officers for the ensuing year. Interested in Consolidation Some of the stockholders present who had read in the Daiiy Press of the parceling of the state between the Tri State Telephone and Telegraph Com pany and the Northwestern Telephone Company wanted some information on this point and Manager Otto Kohn was called upon to explain the proposition. Mr. Kohn told the stockholders that it was planned to give the Tri-State people the southern part of the state including the city of St. Paul and that the north ern part of the state including ^he city (Continued on next page) HEATING COMPANY REPORTS PROGRESS RECEIPTS ,OF PAST YEAR MORE THAN DOUBLE THOSE OF PREVIOUS YEAR NO MORE EXTENSIONS OF THE SERVICE CAN BE MADE AT PRESENT TIME tre New Ulm Heating Co. is able to make as good a showing for the next six years as it made for the past year, tLe entire plant will he paid for and there will be approximately $17,000 in the fund set apart for depreciation. This is certainly a showing to be proud of and that is the way the stockholder of the company felt after Secy.-Treas. F. W. Johnson read his annual report at the annual meeting held at the Commercial Club rooms Monday afternoon. By the property owners on Minnesota Street putting at the disposal of the city their credit for the space of eight years, they will be able to turn over to the city a plant that is worth about $40,000 and that is able to produce a net income to the, city of approximately $7,000 after setting aside $2,000 annually for de preciation. Income Doubles 1917. The total income foi steam for the year ending May 1, 1918 aggregated the sum of $8,763.85. This is more than twice as much as was taken in for the previous year. Of this the sum of $1,995.24 will be expended for interest and $1,745 will be placed in the sinking fund for depreciation. This leaves ap proximately $5,000 which can be used toward the retirement of stock. Paying Off Indebtedness. ^fter this year the sum of $2,170 will be placed to the credit of the deprecia tion fund annually. The interest on this fund for the next six years will be fullyJ2000. If the company should be tobfe-to pay off $5p00 on the capital stock eveiy year, the interest saved in this manner will during the next six years amount to $6,300. That is how it will be possible for the city to own the plan^ in six years fiom now and have approximately $17,000 in the sinking fund for depreciation. Live Steam Cost $1100. It must be admitted that fully $1100 was expended fo* coal for live steam, whereas the year before the amount of coal used to produce live steam was negligible. It is believed by the directors that the city will not charge up this additional coal to the Heating Company, because the city derived benefits from the Company which will almost equal the amount the city was forced to expend for live steam. Monthly Sales Of Steam. During the past year the monthly sales of steam were as follows: May 1917 June July August September October November December January 1918 February Mar'ch April Interest received on C. W's. $ 158.50 51.70 21.80 43.95 41.80 827.55 848.95 1,783.05 2,049.25 1,384.65 871.25 654.30 27.40 $8,763.85 For the original system the sum of $26,400 was expended. The extension that was put last year cost approxi mately $17,000 bringing the total cost to $43,400. In this connection it can be stated that if the extension had been installed at the time that the original system was installed, there would have been a saving of at least $5,000 in the cost of construction. The cost of con struction of the extension in detail is as follows: General Contract $15,032.17 Engineer's Fees 891.89 Meters 460.95 Advertising 7.35 Freight, Express, etc. 26.26 Supt. of Construction ... 200.00 Man hole covers 15.00 Valves, Fittings, e^c... 273.18 Now Fifty-nine Consumers. The first year the plant was operated the income from 'the steam amounted to $4,275.78. Of this amount $963.27 ,was expended for Interest, $660 was placed in the depreciation fund and $2,652.51 was used for the reduction of the indebtedness. There are now 59 consumers andthe capital stock invested amounts to $40,000. Re-elect Directors. The old board of directors was re elected as follows A. J. Vo0el, G. A. Ottomeyer, F. W. Johnson, Ferdinand C-one and Henry N. Somsen. They will soon have a meeting to perfect an organization. The report of the Secy. Treas. will be passed upon by the city council and it is barely possible that minor charges will be made, but the re port will remain substantially as here given unless the council should decide to charge up to the Company the entire extra cost of live steam. The detailed repoit of the joint committee of the city SUNDAY NIGHTJARK CONCERTS council and the Heating Company for the year ending May 1, 1917 was read and ordered filed. No Further Extensions. There will be no further extensions this year, except that the new city hall will be connected with the plant MINNESOTA MEN TO CAMP LEWIS,WASH. Survey of Men in Class 1. This call is in line with the announced determination to speed up the calling of drafted men to the colors and follows the request that each state make a survey of the number of men in class 1 available for immediate induction. Three States Exempt. All states except Califorria, Oregon, and Nevada are included in the call. These states, with the District of Co lumbia have already supplied so large a part of their quotas that the War de partment decided it was not necessary to include them this time. ing engineer has given it as his opinion ning at the Club rooms, with President that for the present no extensions should be made, because it would prove un profitable, and he is the directors' authority for turning down any applica tions for further extensions unless the motors-in use could be increased by at least 100 horse power. LARGEST CALL ISSUED THUS FAR. 4700 TO GO FROM THIS STATE. LOCAL OFFICIALS HAVE NOT YET RECEIVED NOTICE OF CALL. A new draft call for 4,700 drafted men from Minnesota has been received by Adjutant General Rhinow. The men are to entrain for Camp Lewis, Wash., in the five days beginning May 25. Sheriff W. J. Julius reports that he has not as yet received any official informa tion, but expects it a few days. Total in May 305,000. For the United States the call is for 233,742 men, the largest thus far, and as the call is on the general induction schedule the drafted men will be sent to the regular concentration camps for training. With the special call already out for the month of May approximately 305,000 men will be called. NON-PARTISAN NEWS ITEMS Herbert Bryer, a young farmer living near Stewart, Minnesota, has been selected by the Non-Partisan League as their standard bearer for Senatorial honors for Sibley and Nicollet Counties. The first choice of the Non-partisan League, a Mr. Seemann of Henderson, refused to file for the office because he felt that he was too old for the political game. The selection of Mr. Bryer was made at the meeting held at Gaylord last Tuesday. Members of the Non-partisan League of Nicollet and Sibley Counties will have a picnic at Indian Lake near Winthrop Friday afternoon, May 10th at 2 o'clock. On that occasion John A. Currie, one of the National speakers will be present, to address the farmers. Gov. Frazer of North Dakota has been making speeches in this state for the past few weeks and he is billed to speak at the Linden town hall May 8, at 2 o'clock p. m. The next day, May 9th, at the same hour he will speak at Fairfax. been held at Klossner, Lafayette, Court land nad Nicollet. and St. Paul to be present. NUMBER it MAY MEETING OF COMMERCIAL CLUB CLUB PLEDGES TO CONTRIBUTE $600.00 TO HOFMEISTER BAND FAVORED. PARK BOARD TO BE SO INFORMED Pursuant to call the Commercial I The consult- held its May meeting last Monday eve- C. A. Stolz in the chair. After the meeting had been tailed to order by the President, Secsetary »W. ^E Meile read the minutes of the *previeoB meeting which were adapted after sniew corrections had been made. .He .also read the minutes of the last idirectan? meeting stating that bills for the amount of $37.45 were audited and-ordered paid- Benefit for Hofmeister The most important business -CMgang a lengthy discussion was the Benefit for Capt. Hofmeister. Some club members were of the opinion that the conceit given by the Hofmeister Band a few weeks ago was for the benefit of Ca.pL Hofmeister. The manager .«f the foairiL John Henle, who was at the meeting gave the desired information. He stated the band had been under considerable expense for notes the concert refensai to was the annual concert -of the .hand, the proceeds of which had always Howell into the coffers of the band and no ex ception was made this year. This was considered but fair, and all the club members were satisfied. But since the Club stood pledged to support the banA with a contribution of $50.00 a month to be paid to the leader it was oonsideraB. necessary that something in the line JQ£ a benefit concert or dance should "hfc given in the near future. Arrangemente were left in the hands of a committee. Park Concerts In connection with this matter the question was discussed on what day the concerts at the park were to be given. Various suggestions were offered, some members thought Saturday or Wednes day evening more suitable than Sunday evening. Manager Henle .explained it made no difference to the members of the band, but they would like to know the sentiment of the business men on this point. During the discussion it was pointed out that laboring men haft no desire to dress up and go to a parlt concert on a week day they would g& on Sunday because they had been rested and were dressed for the occasion. Businessmen and clerks would also be prevented from going if the concerts were given on Saturday night, because the stores are open and had to be kept open although the crowd would foe 5& the paik and not in the stores. The plan of having the concert *m Minnesota'' Street Wednesday or Saturday evening was considered ill-advised. The matter was finally brought to a head by making the motion that it is the consensus of the members of the Commercial Club t» have the concerts, on Sunday evening at the German Park. This motion which prevailed is to be brought to the atten tion of the park board. New Ulm Heating Co. F. W. Johnson referred to the warfc of the New Ulm Heating Co. the found ing of which was directly traceable to the Commercial Club. He pointed out how much money had been saved to the city during the past year. The total amount was at least $5,000.09 which was like finding money on the street. Besides tnis nearly a milikni gallons of water had been saved to the city from the condensation pumped back to the station and which had been trans formed into soft water. As a result ne boiler compound was used and the life of the boilers was conserved. For a complete report on the meet ing of the Heating Co. the reader referred to another column of the .Re view. The past week Equity meetings have FAMOUS FIRST MINNESOTA ANNIVERSARY NSam Gieseke, can- didate for Representative from Nicollet County attended these meetings and was one speaker was Wm. Kuenzelmann. ivtuucu wrac wceuugs aim of the speakers. The other anniversary of A week ago last Monday-marked the St. Peter is planning something special burg when the major portion of itm 1 for July 4th/*during Chautauqua week regiment was -wiped out of existeneein a very brief space of time. A. M.^p*§ 7th. Efforts are now being made to Pickle of Sleepy Eye is the rofly trar- |Sa& arrange for a home coming on that day, viving member of the regiment living feM^* assurances having been given by the in Brown County. Col. Francis .. St. Peter Association of Minneapolis late of thiscity, was Quartermaster nf' the regiment. thethmustermgMinnesote 3 5^3 fi into th federal service of First a Infantry. The Regiment became famoue for the brilliant stand it made at Gettys- A*