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BENEFIT PLANNER
JO AID THE'POOR
AMERICAN LEGION ASKS YOU
TO ATTEND THEIR MOVIE]
i?*l SHOW.
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PROCEEDS WILL SE USED TO
^CONTINUE ASSISTANCE TO
UNEMPLOYED.
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Thursday of this week the American
Legion will give their picture show
benefit to raise funds to continue their
work among the needy in New Ulm.
Mr. Melzer of the Lyric and Grand will
provide the theatre for the perform
ance which will be given at the Grand
and will make no charge for the use of
the building or the picture machine.
Alice Brady -Show
At this writing the feature number
has been secured and will be the 'Land
of Hope" with Alice Brady starring.
A good comedy will also be provided
but has not yet been fully settled up
on. There will be several spot light
numbers which are not yet definitely
secured but a good evening's enter
tainment is promised. All of the re
ceipts outside of the expenses of the
evening will go into the Legion fund for
assistance to the destitute families of
the city.
History of Relief Work.
The Legion organized their relief
committee in December following the
appeal in the Review for aid for the
needy. They, like many others had
not realized that the situation here
could be so desperate but on investi
gation they found conditions even
worse than pictured by the Review.
But the constitution of the Legion calls
for Service to mankind and here is
where the boys saw their opportunity.
A committee was appointed and called
upon the Commercial Club and re
ceived a promise of assistance froTi
that body. However, the Com
mercial Club moved too slowly to be
of immediate benefit to the poor, so
the Legion canvassed the town them
selves, and made a survey of conditions.
They investigated seventy-two
families who were said to be in poor
circumstances and of these they found
twenty-six in ab&olute want. The
names of these various families were
secured through the grocers and by
getting a list of the various social or
ganizations who have at one time or
another given assistance to the needy.
Considerable was done to make Christ
mas a better day in the home of the
poor but most of the real ^vork was
done during the month of January,
when some of the Legion boys put in
almost their entire time on the pro
position. Mr. Teichrow, who has
been very active reports that up to
date the expenses of the Legion for as
sistance to the poor have been as fol
lows: For the month of January,
$255.88, February, $151.50 March,
approximately $100, although this
does not include a hospital bill which
they have guaranteed. The expenses
have been divided as follows: coal,
$147 wood, $75.50 groceries, $11.08
flour, $49.50 dry goods, $18.30 medi
cine, $12 and shoes, $20.
Funds Insufficient.
The funds to cover these expenses
were raised by means of a collection
from the business people of town and
by the giving of a benefit dance. The
dance netted about $75 and the total
funds realized were $425.30. A num
ber of those who have expressed
themselves as willing to donate
towards the fund were not seen in the
first round of collections and the boys
are planning to call on them shortly.
They hope with the receipts from the
Thursday movie benefit to be able to
carry on their work until those they
have had in charge are able to care for
themselves during the warmer season.
It has not been the aim of the Legion
to make these people dependant upon
the Legion or other assistance for their
support. The idea in the work has
been to assist them to find work and
to build up a credit for them so that
they flpay eventually get on their feet.
A number of those assisted have re
sponded and the Legion was able to
secure work for several on the bridges
and the families are- beginning to pay
up something on debts which were
contracted with approval of the
Legion. This is the proper way to
handle the situation and will result in
the most good but, as members of the
Legion say, families where there are
children must be provided for to some
extent even if there is little promise of
their being able to repay.
How The Plan. Works Out.
In one case, the man of the family
refused to accept work offered him be
cause the wage was not large-enough
to be attractive. The Legion brought
pressure to bear on this man and he
has since gone to work and is staying
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BROWN CO. GETS
$22,000 ROAD AID
THIS FUND TO BE EXPENDED
ON ROADS OTHER THAN
TRUNK LINES.
LARGEST AMOUNT FOR LOCAL
HIGHWAYS IN HISTORY
OF STATE
Brown county's share of the largest
road aid fund in state* annals is $22,
000.00 it was announced this week.
The money is for the more important
roads in the county, other than so
called Babcock roads on which only
trunk highway funds can .be used. R.
P. Chase, state auditor, Henry Rines,
state treasurer, and Charles M. Bab
cock, state highway commissioner,
make up the board which apportioned
the big fund.
Aid Greater Than Taxes.
Auditor Chase said the division
furnishes another striking example of
the well known fact that the average
county receives more from the state
than it pays in direct taxes. The
county minimum is increased more
than 32 per cent over last year, he said,
without increase in taxes and the
counties receive hundreds of thous
ands of dollars more aid for road im
provements.
This is one of 83 out of the 86 coun
ties given allotments of $22,000 or
more, each receiving an amount ex
ceeding that which it paid under the
1-mill tax levy. The three other
counties—Hennepin, Ramsey and St.
Louis—for the first time receive maxi
mums of $66,000 each, but considerably
less than their respective 1-mill tax
totals. Ramsey county commission
ers transferred $10,000 to Dakota
county. Last year the three counties
listed got $40,000 each and many as
little as $1|6,578 each against $22,000
minimum under the new apportion
ment.
The above cut represents the building as tentatively planned to replace
the state school building at Mankato which was destroyed by fire February 5.
Plans for the above building were submitted to the building committee at a
meeting at St. Paul recently but were not accepted. State Architect Johnson
has been asked to confer with the committee and prepare new plans providing
auditorium. This committee decided to make its report as soon as possible.
Rich Counties "Divvy Up.'*
The balance from the three "richest"
counties swelled allowances to the 83
others under the state aid principle
that counties of low assessed valua
tions should be helped with road im
provement and upkeep,. That prin
ciple was adopted in the so-called Bob
Dunn constitutional amendment to
the constitution and the state levy
was increased from 1-20-mill to 1-4
mill and later to 1-mill, the rate now
of the state highway aid fund.
CO. A ITEMS,
"Company A" is gaining new re
cruits, the following five having been
sworn in recently: Emerald F. Dirks,
Alfred Marks, L. Strate, Wilbur Alwin
and F. A. Churchill.
Three members oft "Company A"r
have been promoted. Corporal Wro.
J. Pfaender is now Sergeant, and first
class privates, Clem Berg and Henry
Groebner have been promoted to
Corporal and .Company Clerk, re
spectively. The three new officers are
in addition to others of the company.
The membership has increased to
seventy-three, thus, entitling the com
pany to threea dditional non-commis
sioned officers. The officers enjoyed a
banquet and smoker at the Dakota
House last week, Monday on the oc
casion of the promotion. t*,
DEMOCRATS PICK
COUNTY LEADERS
THE DONKEY DEMONSTRATES
THAT HE STILL HAS A
KICK OR TWO.
CONVENTION DELEGATES ARE
CHOSEN FOR DISTRICT
AND STATE.
Just to prove that the Democratic
party in Brown County is not dead,
about thirty of the faithful assembled
at Turner Hall last Tuesday afternoon
in County Convention for. the purpose
of electing delegates to the State Con
vention to be held March 31 and to
the District Convention to be held at
Mankato the day previous. When
it is considered that there was practic
ally no publicity of the coming con
vention and some of the elected can
didates did not even know when and
where the County Convention was to
be held, it is certainly a matter of con
gratulation for the democrats that the
County gathering was so well attended.
Delegates Chosen.
The meeting was called to order by
County Chairman Christ Filzen who
was retained as temporary chairman
and Charles Glotzbach, Sr., of Sleepy
Eye was elected temporary secretary.
The temporary organization was
made permanent and the matter of
selecting delegates was then proceeded
with, with "the following result:
State Convention Delegates.
Cobden—Ivan L. Frederickson.
Hanska—Martin Erickson.
Sigel—Frank H. Seifert.
Albin—Andrew Schropefer.
Springfield—A. J. Yackel.
Sleepy Eye—William Brust.
New Ulm—Max Sebald and Henry
J. Berg.
County .Convention Delegates.
Sleepy Eye—G. Glotzbach, Sr.,
Charles P. Black.,
New Ulm—Christ Filzen and Hubert
Berg.
for thirty-three class rooms, four laboratories, and the necessary offices and of Minneapolis, S. H. Somsen of Winona (brother of Henry N. Somsen of this
city) and Harry Johnson of Duluth.
Sigel—John Krai.
Review the Situation.
Addresses were made by Geo. Glotz
bach» Sr., and Henry J. Berg of New
Ulm. Mr. Glotzbach stated that the
Democratic party is not dead yet and
that Jie is glad that he belongs to it and
that on account of its great achieve
ments in the past it should not be al
lowed to go under. In his opinion,
conditions will soon be better. He also
expressed his gratification that so
many delegates had responded to the
call.
In his remarks H. J. Berg urged the
delegates chosen to be sure to attend
the convention tp which,they had been
elected and stated further that when
he went to the State Convention two
years ago he-expected but a very small
number to be present and was sur
prised tp find the best attended State
Convention that he had seen for years.
Mr. Berg also said that the party
wag certainly not off the map and that
in a very short time it would come
back stronger and more vigorous than
ever. He stated also tha£ the- rank
and file of the Democratic party was
.not responsible for the war and-that it
was not for him- to,say who should be
blamed.
County Committee Chosen.
The following were elected as mem
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NEW ULM, BROWN COUOTt, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29?'1922
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TOWNLEY RESIGNS
AS N: P. LEADER
DECLARES HE CANNOT SERVE
WITHOUT CONFIDENCE OF
THE LEAGUE.
WILL OFFER, RESIGNATION TO
MINNESOTA ORGANIZATION
THIS WEEK.
A. C. Townley/^president of the
National Nonpartisan League, had the
floor at the opening of the third day's
session of Jbhe National Nonpartisan
league convention at Fargo. Mr.
Townley took up in detail the charges
made against him and his associates
of the national committee made in the
report of the state executive committee
yesterday.
Announced His Resignation.
Mr. Townley announced that his
resignation as president of the organi
zation would be presented to the meet
ing of the Minnesota organization on
March 31. The announcement of his
absolute severance of any relations
with the North Dakota organization
and his resignation followed an impas
sioned appeal for harmony in the party
ranks.
Mr. Townley led up to his climax
with a statement that the fight had
hindered his work as the head of the
organization that the charges in the
Fargo Courier News in the last six
weeks and reprinting of these charges
had its effect upon the work of the
league in other states.
Must Step Down,
"The conditions are such now, he
declared, "that I can be of no effi
cient service to you any, more. I can
not work without the confidence of
men."
Preceding this he had deplored the
effect of the fight in destroying the
confidence of the membership in Lynn
Jf. Frazier and. in William Lemke and
Others of the leaders who had given
their, service, paying an especial tri
bute to Lemke.- tf?^
It is now believed that a report will be made to the State Teachers' college
board for definite action within a week.
The accompanying cut gives a good idea of how the proposed new Teachers
College building will look, with the exception that the north addition, a small
library building-, will not be included.
Mjr. Townley's *final announcement
came as a complete surprise to the con
vention and after the first moment of
blank amazement for both friend and
foe supports of Mr. Townley jumped to
their feet with protestations of their
belief in him. .The speaker, however,
did not'wait-to hear these but hurried*
from, the hall' and to his hotel, gfj^ff
Bjelieves in Balance of Power.
Once the fire of the former leader
flared^ forth while he was approaching
his cjimax. It came with a reference
to the balance of power "I believe in
it." delcared the speaker^ "I believe
in the balance of power plan and I'll
prove that I am right in this belief
in America? yet.'* I
^Preliminary to his announcement
of "his own severance of relations with
the North Dakota organisation, Mr-.
Townley laid the basis for the election
of a, new state, executive committee in
North, Dakota by showing that the
national articles of association of the
Nonpartisan League called for the
holding of office of the present league
executive, committee until 4»ne conven
ing of a called delegate -convention
and that from- thjs., convention en the
term of the executive ^committee would
be two years.
This statement of -the -president ^of
The building committee consists of I. N. Tompkins of Mankato, J. H. Ray
OVERLAND TRUCK
LINE ESTABLISHED
THE G. & S. FREIGHT LINE OF
TRACY WILL MAKE.
REGULAR TRIP.
LOCAL FIRMS MAKE USE OF
NEW TRANSPORTATION
FACILITIES,
the GT^&~&.
Truckline, an overland freight line has
been organized with Gardener and
Stevens of Tracy as the sole proprie
tors. They intend to haul freight and
other commodities between Tracy and
*New Ulm and for that purpose have
secured a two and a half ton Republic
truck which is already in service.
As soon as the business increases addi
tional trucks will be put into service.
They make trips from New Ulm west
three times a week, namely Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday and return the
(alternating days.
At the present time they are hauling
goods for the New Ulm Grocery Co.,
Stuebe Bros., The Eagle Rollerv Mill
Company and also cream for one of
the local creameries. This is just the
beginning and no doubt their business
will increase from day to. day during
the summer months.
The New Ulm Grocery Co. had two
loads of merchandise going west on
Saturday ad one of the loads was
hauled by the new freight line and the
other was handled by the truck of the
New Ulm Grocery Company. The
Grocery Company have not discon
tinued their own freight service to
neighboring towns but contemplate
giving all the business that they are
able to handle to the new concern.
The first trip made by this new over
land freight line was made Tuesday
last week. ,,,
BASE BALL PARK SECURED.
Sunday morning a committee of the
base ball team and the directors of the
Brown County Agricultural society
had a meeting for the purpose of iron
ing out all their differences which ex
isted about the renting of the fair
grounds for baseball purposes. The
meeting proved a very satisfactory one
and arrangements were perfected agree
able^to both parties which gives to the
local ball team the use of the fair
grounds for'baseball purposes for the
corning season. The only trouble now
is to get a baseball team. It will re
quire considerable effort to get things
organized but th,pse who are at the
head of the movement are quite con
fident that they will experience, no
serious trouble in putting New Ulm
on the map this year again for good
baseball*,^ A meeting will shortly be
called for the purpose of talking things
over and getting matters under way
and it is hoped that all the baseball
fans and enthusiasts will be on deck
when the meeting is called so that
basebajlism. for 1922 will start? with a
hangfj,-
Theodore Button of Linden town
shipbas decided to run,for the office of
commissioner in the second district.
The present incumbent is John M.
Johnson.
What has become of the auto tourist
camp project? Are^we going to let
the.matter drop? maf^
•fo -te. ''urv
CONSTRUCTION STARTS SOON
Rahr & Pratt of Pipestone, con
tractors who will have the work of con
structing four sewers in New Ulm this
year stated, through the senior member
of the firm who was here last week,
that they will begin excavations next
week. They expect to employ about
thirty men and about five sixths of
them will be taken from New Ulm
workers. It is necessary to bring with
them about half a dozen men for cer
tain work requiring experience.
SETTLE SALARIES
FOR C0MINGYEA1
SCHEDULE OF PAY DECIDED
UPON FOR THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS.
NO SWEEPING REDUCTIONS TO
BE MADE BUT SAVING
WILL BE $1000.
The local school board held aspecial
meeting Monday evening tp take up
various matters which had 'been left
over from the regular session, partic
ularly the subject-of reduction of
salaries in the city schools.
Salary Schedule*
The salary question was a difficult
one for the Board to deal* with this
year. On the one hand, there has been
considerable local sentiment in favor
of reductions and the School Board
Directors, in their St. Paul meeting,
recommended greater economy in
school expenditures. On the other
hand, the action of School Boards in
various cities of the State indicates
that reductions are not going to be
very general.
The local School Board, therefore,
decided that no very great reductions
ought to be made. After much dis
cussion it was finally agreed to adopt
the following schedule, with., the pro
viso that no teachers salaries should be
increased:
ELEMENTARY GRADE TEACH
ERS with one year of normal training
or less and without experience begin at
$900 with two years of normal train
ing at $950.
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACH
ERS with one year of normal training
or less and without experience begin
at $950 with two years of training at
$1000.
ACADEMIC HIGH SCHOOL
'TEACHERS without experience be
gin at $1200.-
For each of the first five years of
experience an allowance of $50 is
made for each of the five-year periods
thereafter a further allowance of $50
is made. In this computation rural
school experience and experience inter
rupted by several years absence from
the profession are counted at one-half
their numerical value.
An allowance of $25 is made for the
principalships of the Washington and
Lincoln Schools.
This left the special and administra
tive positions to be dealt with in
dividually. In these positions, some
slight reductions were made, amount
ing in the aggregate to $1000.
''Opportunity Classes"
Another matter of importance taken
up was the plan of organizing special
classes for next year. These classes
are to be for the benefit of pupils who
by reason of physical handicaps have
been retarded in their school progress
and have not been able to keep up with
their work. There are to be two
rooms for such pupils and they are to
be known as "Opportunity Classes."
Special teachers are to be provided and
their salary is paid by the state of
Minnesota. There are about thirty
such pupils in the city schools and by
putting them into special classes and
under the care, of special teachers their
opportunity for advancement is much
greater. At the same time this will
enable the school board to reduce the
regular teaching force by one and the
salary of one teacher will therefore be
saved to the district.
The position of special instructor in
German for the grades will also be
dropped during the year of 1922 and
1|92&< German will not be taught in
the sixth grade and the seventh and
eighth grades will take German from
the- High School German teacher, in
this way again making a saving to the
Supt. Gloor was authorized to com
municate with a number of clergymen
in the Twin Cities in- order to secure
a, speaker for Commencement Day^
Dance Permission Given.
One more matter was considered by
5the
school board, that of allowing the
pupils to dance at the Junior-Senior
reception. The school board decided
that it would be best to sanction th
pastime for this one special occasion
and the young folks may now enjoy
their usual social hop.
NUMBER 13
WILL HOLD FOUR
DAY CELEBRATION
COMMITTE E OF 100 SETTLES
DEFINITELY ON TIM E OF
HOMECOMING
TENTATIVE PLANS MADE FOR
NATURE O BIGGES EVENT
EVER STAGED HERE
If enthusiasm and earnestness count
for anything, then the success oj the vjj
60th anniversary and home coming
celebration to be held here in New
Ulm in August is assured. This was
the spirit manifested at a meeting of
the commmittee of 100 which was held
in the club rooms of Turner Hall
Monday evening. In spite of the dis
agreeable weather about 75 men and
women were present for the purpose
of getting the work of the celebration
under way.
Chairman J. P. Graff called the meet
ing to order and expressed his gratitude
that so many had come out in spite
of the rain. Continuing, he stated that
at the annual meeting of the Junior
Pioneers it had been decided to cele
brate the 60th anniversary of the
Indian Massacre on a large scale and
that the president of the Junior Pio
neers bad appointed a committee of
five as the executive committee to
n$me a committee of 100 to have
charge of the celebration. That this,
committee had had several meetings,
had selected the committee of 100 and
had also tentatively assigned them to
the various sub-committees, because
the committee felt that if this part
of the work should be left to the first
meeting that an unusual and unneces- ,^
sary amount of time would be con
sumed in getting the committees se
lected and that any who felt that they
could and would prefer to work on
some other committee rather than the -V
one to which they had been assigned
should speak up and that such changes
would be arranged for.
Chairman Graff also stated that it.
was unfortunate that the local militia
would be in camp just at the time of *&
the anniversary celebration but that
efforts should be made to secure a
change of dates if possible. He gave
it as his firm conviction that the
coming celebration would be made one
of the largest, if not the largest eyer ^i
held in New Ulm. He thanked the J^[
ladies for turning out in sucli goodly
numbers on such a disagreeable eve
ning. He then called upon President
Albert Steinhauser to give his viewsl
of what the nature of the celebration
should be.
Tentative Suggestions.,.
Mr. Steinhauser stated that in the{
discussion held by the executive conW
mittee the concensus of opinion seemed**
to be that there should be only one
large day program and that should be
Continuing Mr. Steinhauser *s|ated vfl
that possibly the Turner Society could
be prevailed upon to take one of the
evening entertainments in hand and
stated that it had been suggested that
the Knights of Columbus might arrange
one of the evening program numbers?\~
He also mentioned that possibly one
of the evenings could be arranged to
have the people of the city and the
surrounding country take part in a
parade attired in the national costumes
worn in the countriesr where their
parents came from.
A Four Day Celebration*
One of the main things to be de
termined at the Monday meeting- was
the date and duration of the celebra
tion. This brought on quite a lively
discussion. Ten years ago the cele
bration lasted a whole week and. re
membering some of the hardships atten
dant upon a celebration spreading over
such a long space of time there was a
Very strong desire to cut down the
celebration to about half a week. The
women folks, especially were quite in
sistent that the celebration should be
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on the anniversary of the first battles
of New Ulm and that for the balance
of the celebration, evening entertain
ments should be arranged. For the*
evening entertainments, he suggested'/
that one evening could be devoted to!w/t~*Pv
the music and that community singingg,
and other musical numbers could be|f'f^^
arranged for and that possibly so
could be written for this special occa4- 3»
sion. One of the evenings could bef^
reserved for an automobile parade he
said and that the committee had been
already partially promised a Shriner|y^
demonstration for another of the'
evenings. This would mean that at
least 500 Shriners of the Twin Cities r?J
would come to New Ulm with their^'^%|
band, their drum corps and king.^M
The expense of the St. Paul Temple to fM
arrange for this evening's program
would be approximately $1500 and all 4]
this would be furnished without any
expense to the committee. 4 "^il
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