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u» 1 VOLUME XXXVII. PLEA FOR WILSON BY NOTED GERMAN ADOLF FALBISANER EXPLAINS WHY HE IS OPPOSED TO HUGHES ST. PAUL EDITOR ADDRESSES LARGE AUDIENCE AT THE ARMORY A good sixed audience listened at tentively to a stirring appeal to German American citizens of Brown county to cast their votes for Woodrow Wilson for President, by Adolph Falbisaner of St. Paul, at the Armory, Wednesday evening. The speaker is one of the best known German-Americans in the state, and his address was so plain and convincing that it had a telling effect upon his audience. Music was furnished by the Ex Regiment Band, and several patriotic numbers were played on the street and at the Armory both before and follow ing the speech. Mr. Falbisaner was editor of the St. Paul Volkszeitung for many years. He is a former member of the faculty of the University of Minnesota, and an honor ary member of the German Pedagogi- Society of Minnesota. He was a elegate to the International Germanic Congress at St. Loius in 1904. In his appeal for the repudiation of Hughes and his Rooseveltian policies, Mr. Falbisaner said, in part: Gave the Reason. "Yes, it is true that the officers of the Minnesota branch of the German American alliance decided to request the members to vote for Mr. Hughes But the officers failed to give any reason for their decision, while there are reasons to believe that the rank and file of the ^.^German-Americans are not willing to plfease a few Republican politicians by sacrificing the foremost prmdiptes'of his alliance and surrendering to their worst enemies. "The rank and file stand ior the eight hour principle, for the emancipation of children from industrial oppression, for laws preventing the abuse of injunctions they are in favor of the income tax by which the burden of taxation is shifted to those who are best able to say, and th#y also favor a tax on war munitions. "The rank and file endorse the fed eral reserve act insuring the nation against financial panics, and our Ger man farmers appreciate the rural credit law, which enables them to borrow money at reasonable terms directly from their Uncle Sam. "The rank and file are mindful of the statement of candidate Hughes ex pressed by him in his speech at Mil waukee on Sept. 20, that all these mea sures enacted by the Democratic con- gress must be undone,' which means that Mr. Hughes wants to have all these laws repealed, which the rank and file of our people favor. "The rank and file are not wiling to assist in electing as presidenc a man who, as he himself (.Hughes) publicly an nounced, is in complete accord with Mr. Roosevelt. "The rank and fi'e understand the significance attached to the conference which Mr. Hughes had shortly after his ^jiominacion with Mr. John D. Rotham, 3^ editor of the Providence Journal, ""^known to be the mouthpiece of the British ambassador at Washington. Not for Teddy. "The rank and file are 'not yet' ready to join Teddy Roosevelt and those Re publican leaders who urged war against Germany. "The rank and file are anxious to avoid the possibility of having appointed as prime minister in the president's cabinet a man like Roosevelt, who in his letter endorsing the candidacy of Mr. Hughes 'singled out the German-Americans, that type represented in the German-Ameri ^-^ran alliance and similar alliances who are wearing the badge of moral treason to this republic' "The rank and file are convinced that they were not meant when President Wilson referred to 'a minority, a very small minority, of illoyal citizens.' "The rank and file are willing to agree with Germany's former colonial secre tary, Dr. Dernburg, when he approves of the course taken by President Wilson in the Lusitania controversy: 'The -nbmarine question had first to be settled i^ause this act was not a question of Replaceable wares or financial losses, of the lives of American citizens. The differences with Great Britain, there fore, were postponed until a way, had been cleared through Germany's wise (Continued on page 2) LEGISLATIVE SESSION SHORTEST ON RECORD Minnesota soldiers now on the Mexican border will be permitted to cast their votes next Tuesday. The legislature in extraordinary session last Saturday, passed the necessary measure. The house was in session five hours and thirty two minutes, while it required the senate six hours and two minutes to complete its work. Besides adopting the law enfranchising the boys to vote, an appropriation of $11,000 was authorized. It cost $8,000 for the special session and the other $3,000 will be used in conducting the election in Texas. The services of six commissioners will be required to take the vote. They will go to Texas for that purpose. The Secretary of State's office will be repre sented by Assistant Secretary James A. Larson. The Governor has appointed the following five commissioners to act with Mr. Larson as a board of election inspectors: For the First Regiment, A. P. Erickson, auditor of Hennepin county for the Second, Dr. J. H. Dorsey of Glencoe for the Third, Roger M. Weaver of Duluth for the First Field Artillery, Col. George C. Lambert of St. Paul as an additional commissioner, Judge Loren Cray of Mankato. Judge Cray acted in a similar capacity at an election during the Civil War. The law as passed contained but few amendments, as drawn by the Attorney General's office. The commissioners will leave the state capital tonight for the border. The result of votes polled on the border will not be known for at least a week after the election, as each will be en closed in an envelope with only the city and precinct number in which the voter lives, and will not be opened until after it reaches the auditor of the county in which the voter lives. The votes will be turned over to the commissioners after they have been cast, and will be brought to the office of the Secretary of State, who will send them to the proper county auditor. In districts that are close the result of the election may not be known until the soldiers' votes have been received and counted. A REAL SURE-ENUF STRIKE IN NEW ULM. Six of the eight journeymen barbers in New Ulm went on strike Monday morning, demanding an increase of $2 a week in pay. Some of the master barbers granted the demand and their men returned to work, while the others refused. The men were receiving $14 a week and 50 per cent of their chair receipts, above $22 a week. They asked the $16 and the usual commission. This was the third strike that New Ulm has ever enjoyed. One was at the Eagle Mills and the other the stone quarry. Both occurred several years ago, and were so quiet that few people here knew anything about them. Another strike occurred here during the building of the high school when the workmen refused to continue unless allowed their lunch hour in mid-forenoon. STOLEN CAR IS RECOVERED. While St. Paul Saturday Deputy Sheriff H. F. Jahnke learned from the St. Paul police that the Ford car taken trom the three men arrested there accused of the Comfrey store robbery, and now confined in Jie Brown county jail, was stolen from Erie, a small town in Northwestern Illinois, had been idenlified by the owner and returned to him. The car, it is claimed, was stolen on the night of August 28, and a new license taken ouc at the State Capitol in St. Paul, on September 5, just a week following the theft. The license was issued to a man giving the name of W. A. Anderson, who said his residence was in Wisconsin. Al though the St. Paul police are not certain, they say they believe the alleged Ander son was James Burnes, one of the men in jail here. SOLDIERS PUBLISH PAPER A copy of the Border Patrol, a weekly paper published by the soldiers at Camp Llano Grande, Texas, has been received at the Review office from Capt. B. Groebner, Second Minnesota Infantry. The paper consists of four pages, six columns to the page, and is well filled with camp news and a reasonable a mount of advertising. Although a liberal amount of space is devoted to the doings of the Minnesota soldiers in camp, none of the New Ulm boys are mentioned in the copy received, which is dated October 21. The Border Patrol has been in existence about two months. RURAL SCHOOLS IN NICOLLET VISITED STATE EDUCATIONAL BOARD IS MAKING WIDE SURVEY OF CONDITIONS. LOCAL MEN AID IN SOLVING PROBLEM IN ADJOINING COUNTY. County School Superintendent R. B. Kennedy and Prof. H. C. Hess, superin tendent of the New Ulm schools, made a two days' trip visiting the rural schools in four townships of Nicollet county last week. They were designated by the State Board of Education to assist in an investigation of twenty counties as to the rural school conditions, reports of which will be used in determining the needs of the schools and as a guide to legislation to be sought at the coming session of the state legislature. The investigation of the twenty counties which was made last week required the services of the members of the faculties of the several normal schools in the state, the members of the board of education, superintendents of some of the city schools and the county superintendents. Similar action was taken in twenty different counties last year, and it is expected that it will continue until every rural school in the state has thus been officially visited. Nicollet County Schools Visited. The schools visited by Superintendent Kennedy and Prof. Hess included those in the townships of Lafayette, New Sweden, Brighton and Bernadotte. Discussing conditions in the various districts, Prof. Hess said there was very little sentiment expressed by those with whom they came in contact for the consolidated system. The reason was that most of the school^ are well equipped as one-room rural schools go, and the patrons ieel they will -bp called or* for heavy additional expenses, and their present equipment rendered useless. During their trip they visited one consolidated district, No. 43, in La fayette township. "They have in that district," said Prof. Hess, "a good two room building with two teachers, in which are taught the eight grades, each teacher having four grades under her charge, and it can't help but be admitted they are en abled to do much more than twice the efficient work that could be done by three teachers were the schools separated in to three one-room schools, each having only a few students and each teaching all of the eight grades. ^Spec'alizing in all lines of work is admitted to be the order of the present day, and this ap plies to school teaching, as much or more than in any other line of work. No teachei can do such efficient work while handling eight grades as she can with only four. That goes without saying. Children Are Happy "We were there when the busses drove up to take the children to their homes, and they were the happiest lot of youngsters one wants to see anywhere. In that school there are now enrolled between twenty-five and thiity pupils, while during the winter months I think each teacher has some thirty. In many of the one-room schools that we visited there weren't more than ten present. It can be easily understood that the consolidated school is much cheaper to maintain." The investigation committees who visited the rural schools in the twenty counties in question last week, will meet today (Wdenesday) with the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Schools at the State Capitol in St. Paul, when the situation will be discussed and plans outlined for the future, along the same line of work to be followed up next year. Supts. Kennedy and Hess will attend this con ference and remain in St. Paul for the state teachers' convention, which opens Thursday morning and continues until Saturday afternoon. They will return home Saturday evening. WHEAT HAS BEEN HIGHER. Two dollar wheat isn't so bad, after all. A Minneapolis man remembers paying $3.34 for that commodity and selling the flour that he made from the wheat, at $14 a barrel. That was in 1864—in Civil War times. He is now a bookkeeper in Minneapolis, named William P. Willetts, but was in the milling business in Indianapolis at that time. He says: "I have been out of the miUing business for fifty years, but when flour struck $10 a barrel here the other day it reminded me of old times." NEW ULM, BROWN COUNTY, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 1, 1916. FIREMEN'S ANNUAL BANQUET SUCCESS FIREFIGHTERS ENTERTAIN THE CITY FATHERS AT THEIR DINNER. PROSPECT OF NEW CITY HALL IS AGAIN DISCUSSED BY THE COUNCILMEN. Hopes for a new City Hall were again expressed at the annual Firemen's banquet, as they are at every banquet, which was held at Turner Hall last Saturday night. Both firemen and City Fathers present remarked on the needs of such an improvement and there seemed to be a well grounded belief that the day is not far distant when their dreams will be realized. Members of the council and city officers were guests of the New Ulm Fire Department at the dinner, and as usual the affair was a decided success. The dinner, which-was a good one, was served by the ladies of the New Ulm Turnverein. Aboqt 100 guests sat down to the dinner. Fhfe Chief Henry Engel acted as toast master in his most happy vein. The principal speakers were Councilmen Fred Behnke, Wd. Eibner and L. B. Krook. Talk About City Hall. It was the latter who broached the subject of a City Hall for New Ulm Mr. Krook said that as a member of the council he felt that the time was at hand when the matter should be taken up and the project of the necessary bonds submitted to the voters at the earliest possible moment. Other speakers echoed the sentiments of Mr. Krook and plans were freely dis cussed. Chief Engel also said he believed the question could be further discussed and are H?jxements made whereby the bonds could be voted on at the city election next spring. The councilmen, in their addresses took occasion to compliment the firemen, individually and collectively, on the good record made by the department in all the years that it has been in existence. The fire department, which is a purely volunteer organization ranks with the best of the kind in the state. There has long been talk of better and more up-to-date equipment in fire-fight ing apparatus, including a motor truck, and it is fully expected that it will be foithcoming in the not far distant future. The program was well rounded out with a couple of piano solos by Miss Cecilia Eibner Ed. Stoll sang two songs and Mrs. John Schapekahm gave several recitations. All of the numbers were heartily applauded. One of First Members Present. Charles Stoll, one of the four living members of the original fire company, organized in 1869, and the only one who is yet an active member, was present and gave a short talk to his fellow mem bers. The three others of the original members, who are still living, but who have now dropped out of the organiza tion are: E. G. Koch, Albert Held and Frank Grebe. Several of the present members joined when the department was reorganized in 1887 and have been in active service ever since. It is at the annual banquets that the older members can show the younger chaps how to have a good time and they keep their end up with the best of them. It also remarked that none of them take a back seat when it comes to fighting a fire, either. Following the banquet the evening was given over to dancing and it is a common remark that the firemen can dance as well as fight fires and all know that they are as good as the best of them at that. NEW FIRM'S EMPLOYES ARRIVING L. A. Gaut and family arrived here Saturday and will hereaitcr be residents of New Ulm. Mr. Gaut is the shipping clerk of the New Ulm Grocery Company, which has completed arrangements to locate in this city. The new concern is the-successor to the Nichols, Hicks & McNairy Company of Sauk Center, that company discontinuing its Sauk Center house, but continuing the branch at Willmar. R. M. Hicks, manager of the company is expected to arrive in the city Friday of this week, and Miss Ama Strand, the bpok-heeper, will be here later. Mr. Gaut and family are waiting for their household goods and will occupy a residence on South Broadway. 4i/Jvkkifl &&$&*& v«4v A iJii FORMER NEW ULM BOY ACCUSED OF AUTO THEFT Deputy Sheriff Bert L. Morris of Waukesha county, Wisconsin, arrived here Saturday night, and left Sunday with Charles Wieland, formerly of this place for Oconomowoc, in that county, where he is wanted on a charge of burglary. Wieland had been arrested earlier in the week by Chief of Police John Herzog, on information received from the chief of the Oconomowoc police department on June 30. A telegram stated that Wieland was accused of stealing an automobile. Chief Herzog had been on the look out for Wieland since that time, but it was not until last week that he showed up. When he appeared in town the chief spied him and locked him up in the county jail and notified the Wisconsin officials. A wire was immediately re ceived requesting that the prisoner be held until an officer could reach here. Wieland refused to return without a requisition from the governor, which was secured by Deputy Morris on his way here. According to Deputy Morris, Wieland and a companion are charged with breaking into a garage last June and stealing an automobile. It is claimed they filed a Yale lock in two to make their entrance. The auto has been re covered and Wieland's partner arrested and is also awaiting trial at Waukesha. Wieland was brought up in New Ulm, and has several relatives living here, but it is said that none of them would come to his rescue, when in the present trouble. When searched at the jail a key to a locker at the Northwestern depot was found in his pocket. In the locker Wieland's suit case was found, but it contained only a loaded revolver, a quantity of working clothes, a bunch of love letters from various young women, and a book of sample love-letters. SOO LINE IS POSSIBLE BUYER OF M. & ST. L. Reports current the latter part of last week that the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway is to pass into the hands of some larger and stronger company, seem to bear the ear-marks of truth. Hayden, Stone & Co., and J. S. Bache & Co., who underwrote the recent finan cial readjustment of the road have given an option on all the underwriters' stock to a Wall Street banking firm, and this firm has also secured options on the stock of three of the largest indivi dual shareholders. A New York dispatch indicates that the road is likely to become a part of the system of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie railway, the Soo Line, a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Other pos sible buyers, besides .the Soo Line, are said to be the Milwaukee, Wabash, Illionis Central and the Canadian Northern. The present outstanding stock of the Minneapolis & St. Louis totals $25,783, 550. GERMAN LECTURE THURSDAY. What promises to be something es pecially good in the way of a lecture is the one scheduled for Thursday evening of this week at the high school audi torium. The speaker will be H. F. Urban, a German journalist and poet, and his subject will be "Wit and Humor" in German Literature. There will be no charge for admission and all are cordially invited to attend that the most good may be given out to the citizens of New Ulm who rightfully should be very proud of the excellent literature pro duced by the German race. The lecture will begin at 8 o'clock. INVESTMENT CO. EXAMINED. The State Bond & Mortgage Company recently underwent its regular examina tion by the State Banking Department and received a clean bill of health. The State Examiner notified them that his experts found the finances and invest ments of the concern in excellent con dition. The company has prospered greatly since its founding here. WANTS NEW CHARTER. St. James is after a new home rule charter for that city, and has started steps toward getting it. Judge Com stock, in response to a largely signed petition, last week appointed a commis sion, consisting of fifteen prominent citizens of that city to draft the proposed charter. Marriage Licenses. William Schnobrich .. Conttnwood Martha M. Fisher Searles Edward A. Schultz Olga A. Yungerberg Nicollet Co. Brown Co. NUMBER 44 VOTE RETURNS AT COHHERCIAL CLUB ARRANGEMENTS MADE TO GET ELECTION RESULTS NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT VOTERS OF NEW ULM INVITED TO AVAIL THEMSELVES OF SERVICE All voters of New Ulm and vicinity have an opportunity to receive the elec tion returns on the night of November 7 at the rooms of the New Ulm Com mercial Club, whether members of that organization or not. At a meeting of the club directors Friday night, arrangements were made with Manager P. R. Mc Hale, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, whereby the returns will be supplied by messenger immediately upon their re ceipt at the Western Union office. All Voters Invited The directors wish it understood that not only club members are expected to take advantage of this service, but all voters are invited to make the club rooms their headquarters on that night. Returns from the national, state and congressional elections will be received during the night. President G. A. Ottomeyer and the directors, at the meeting, discussed the fact that there is a misapprehension among the people of this city as to the availability of the club rooms for citizens who are not members. The plan is to make the club rooms a truly community center for the business, professional, and in fact all men of New Ulm. They are expected to make free use of the rooms where they meet many strangers when a quiet conference is desired. It is not neceassry to be a member to avail oneself of this privilege. The rooms are also availabe for small conventions, or for social or business inter-course. New Janitor is Engaged Mrs. White, whose husband had long been janitor of the club rooms prior to his recent death, has been engaged to act in that capacity in the future. The annual election of the club's officers and directors will be held on the evening of Tuesday, November 14. The commercial club is reported in. excellent condition, both financially and socially. Its usefulness to the city is being demonstrated every day, and it is the desire of the directors and officers to make it even more so. Road Signs Next Spring. It was decided that the long talked of signs to be placed on the highways lead ing to New Ulm, would be prepared during the winter and placed position in the early spring. The signs to be of iron, it being the opinion of those present that the proposed wooden ones would not be of sufficient durability, and that iron ones would be worth much more than the difference in the cost. C. A. Stolz, chairman of the good roads committee, said while figures had been obtained on road signs that it had been proposed to place along the high ways, it had later been decided not to act too hastily in the matter, but to erect something better and more sub stantial than had at first been contem plated. Therefore the committee had concluded to wait until spring before erecting the signs, members of the committee as well as the directors, be lieve that a few iron signs erected on iron standards, would be better and cheaper in the end than wooden ones which would soon have to be replaced. Mr. Stolz also suggested that the com mittee might take the matter up with representatives in the surrounding towns and make the road-marking uni versal throughout this section. Other Towns Might Co-Operate. "If Sleepy Eye, Springfield, Hanska and Comfrey in this county St. Peter and other towns in Nicollet county, as* well as Mankato and other nearby cities would co-operate with us in the matter, "said he," we could have signs directing to all of the places, and then it would not have a selfish appearance and the traveling public would Have a great deal better service than according to our preliminary plans. "There is also another proposition that I have had in mind: Why should n't the state mark the directions on all roads? I believe it should do so. I don't know that there is money avail able for that purpose, but it would seem only right that if there is no provision now for such action one should be made. Next to good roads there is nothing mote appreciated by the person travel ing through the country by either team or auto, than to find the highways pro perly and plainly marked." 'M 3 1! 1 ., "if.