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Miss Susan Hohmann spent Sunday in St. Pau l .

The open season for quail and par­tridge began Saturday.

W. G. Alwin made a business tr ip to Minneapolis Thursday.

Robert Raverty was down from town Home Wednesday on business.

George Cook and George Guth left Monday over the St. Louis for the world's fair.

L. Emmerich, saloonkeeper in Com-frey, was in the city Sunday visiting with friends.

Dr. L. A. Fritsche and wife are at the St. Louis fair, having left New Ulm Wednesday.

Lafayette village has formed a Roosevelt-Johnson club with a mem­bership of 100 voters.

Chas. Stuebe was a passenger Wed­nesday for Minneapolis, where he was called on business.

Lorenz Dauer and his daughter, Mrs. Richard Geisinger, left yesterday for the fair at St. Louis.

Sleepy Eye has gained a newresident in the person of C. P . Manderfeldt, formerly a resident of town Sigel.

D. A. Grussendorf and wife of Fairfax visited with relatives and friends over Saturday and Sunday.

G. W. Barnes left Thursday for his claim in Wisconsin near Spooner in the north central part of that state.

C. M. Seamans, republicancandidate for Judge of Probate, was in the city shaking hands with the voters Friday.

Lena Kjestad, office girl at the New Ulm Steam Laundry, spent Sunday visiting with her parents in Hanska.

Arthur Seiter assisted at the North­western depot last week during the ab­sence of H. L. Beecher at the world's fair.

August Toll 'and Minnie Erickson, both Bashaw township young people, were married^Wednesday by Judge George.

Burg 's Battery marched in a body Monday out to the ranges andwitnessed the shooting by the United States artillery.

Louis Schilling was employed as assistant in the office of Judge of Pro­bate George for several days last week and this.

Mrs. Robert Fritsche returned Thursday to her home in Lamberton from her visit in New Ulm with her children.

W. E. Doty and W. F . Stege were; down from Courtland for the party given Wednesday evening by the East­ern Star.

Mrs. George Zickrick returned Mon­day night from St. Paul where she has been spending a week at the home of her daughter.

Court opens in St. Peter for Nicollet county next Tuesday, and Hoidale & Somsen and Albert Pf aender will go down to try cases.

Theodore Schonlau and Hjaimer Hoidale enjoyed last week hunting ducks, choosing Swan Lake and its vicinity as their ground.

William, Louis and Herman Rieke and Fred Lamers of West Newton left Thursday for St. Louis where they will take in the fair.

The Buengers claim that their suc­cess in bowling is due to the fact that they have a small alley of their own which they practice on.

Gen. Gust. Widell of Mankato has made, an offer of a site for an armory for Company H, Second regiment, M. N. G., located in his city.

The residence of C. F . Mowery on the corner of German and Seventh South streets has been sold to Fred Walther of Cottonwood township.

Mrs. Elizabeth Strickler is expected back today from Michigan, where she has been making a visit with friends in Lansing, Detroit and Toronto.

Dr. E. W. Bay ley was down from Sleepy Eye Saturday in his uniform as captain on General Bobleter's staff to attend the reception at Turner hall .

Miss Dorothea and Ida Hauenstein and Mrs. C. V. E\erett , their guest, attended the school of instruction of the Eastern Star in Lake Crystal Fr i ­day evening.

Work on the county ditch in Eden and Prairievill*e townships in pro­gressing finely. The contractor, Mr. Woodbeck, is using a mammoth ditch­ing machine.

J . F . Armstrong, formerly of the Northwestern Consolidated mills in Minneapolis, has accepted a position as correspondent with the Eagle mill of this city.

Two new members were initiated into Hecter Circle at the meeting Friday, night in the hall . Mrs. Hoyt was down from Minneapolis to take charge of the ceremonies.

A gang of about twenty men is busy this week putting up the steel wagon bridge over the M. & St. L. tracks about two miles south of town. The steel arrived Saturday.

CRONE B R O S . S P E C I A L S . Groceries fresh and new every day. Look at our new line of ladies'

waists. The nicest line of cloaks and ladies '

siuts in the city. Remember our underwear sale. Try a pair of Douglas shoes. New belts just received. New lme of fine cushions, new styles.

Turner Theater, Wed. Eve., Oct. 19.

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Hon- Henry Watterson

The famous Kentucky orator will deliver his great

lecture on

Money, Morals and Society."

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" A masterpiece of all that can com­mand and delight an audience."—Mo­bile Register.

Pr ices: Parquet and Dress Circle, $1.00; first two rows of balcony, Toe; rest of balcony, 50c; gallery, 25c.

Ticket sale opens at City Drug Store on Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 10 o'clock.

Otto Baarsch, formerly cashier at the Northwestern depot in New Ulm, passed through the city last Wednes­day on his way to Winona from Clark, where he is cashier in a bank.

Miss Jennie Lind, who has been mak­ing a visit with New Ulm friends and who was being entertained by Miss Addie Olsen, returned to her home in Minneapolis Wednesday afternoon.

H. C. Hess, now superintendent of schools at Glencoe but formerly of Sleepy Eye, reads a paper Fr iday be­fore the Western Minnesota Teachers' association at the fourth annual ses­sion in Granite Falls .

August Beyer's home in Courtland was gay Sunday evening with the christening of his little son Alfred. His house was crowded with friends and their children and congratula­tions were many. The guests were treated at 6 o'clock to a sumptuous supper.

Joseph Pillmeyer, employed in John Forster ' s furniture store, received a draft for $883.62 Saturday from Ger­many, the same being his share of the family estate. The estate has been in probate for the last ten years but settlement has just been made. He has a brother in St. Peter, "Wolf Pillmeyer, who receives an equal amount.

The Ladies ' Aid society of the Con­gregational church met at the home of Mrs. E. T Critehett Fr iday and elected the following officers for next year: President, Mrs. E. T. Critehett; vice president, Mrs. John Larson;secretary and treasurer, Mrs. G. W. Nicholson. Work for the coming yearwasplanned. The meetings are to be held every two weeks.

The Sleepy Eye high school foot ball team changed cars at the Northwestern s ta t ion Friday afternoon on it 's way to St. Peter, where it played a game Saturday with the high school of that city.

Henry Rudolphi returned Thursday from Germany where he has been since early last summer. Wi th him as a great surprise to many of his New Ulm friends he brought back a wife.

Captain McGlatchlin, commander of the Thirtieth battery encamped here, has been assigned to a battery at For t Leavenworth and in January will sail with his new command for the Philippines.

Gen. Gust. Widell was up from Mankato on his naptha rai l road tricycle Friday to look after matters connected with the placing of the machinery at the New Ulm stone corny pany 's plant.

Isaac Martine of North Dakota was down Thursday from Sleepy Eye, where he has been visiting, to arrange about going on the road as agent for the Minnesota Mutual Fire Insurance company of this city.

St. Michael's church at Morgan is to build a large parochial school building and sealed bids have been advertised for. This work will be started this fall and as much of it completed as possible.

Joseph A. Eckstein returned last Wednesday from Meadsville, Pa . , where he was attending the meeting of the board ot directors of the Supreme Lodge of the A. O. U. W. He was gone from the city for two weeks.

L. A. Papke, a Gaylord contractor, was in the city for a short time Mon­day on his way to Morgan where he figured on the parochial school house to be built there. While in New Ulm he called on a number of friends.

Bruno Olding of Redfield, S. D., was down for a visit with his parents in New Ulm over Saturday and Sun­day. Mr. Olding is in the plumbing business with his brother Anton and they are enjoying a prosperous trade.

Gustaf Daffinrud, a ranchman near Bismark, N. D., but twenty years ago a school boy in New Ulm, stopped off last Wednesday for a short visit with friends. He was 13 years old when he left and had not been back since. He found the city rather strange.

So successful was the market day held in Springfield a short time ago that the commercial club of that village is planning on another for Thursday, November 3d. It is the in­tention of the club to make the event a livestock show as much as possible.

The following Comfrey farmers left in a body for the world's fair on Monday of last week: Christ Wallin, Oscar Kratz, Gus. Bergstrom, Andrew W. Pederson, Jacob Liesenfeld, Emil Samuelson, Oscar Elg and Albert Anderson.

The potato crop for the year is near­ly harvested, although there has been some delay on account of the wet weather recently and many of the far­mers are still at work. The yield in the vicinity of New Ulm is good and the quality is of the best. Tubers pro­mise to be plentiful this fall and winter.

An insane patient at the St. Peter hospital, Amelia Simler, made a desperate attempt to commit suicide Wednesday. While crossing a bridge in a hack she jump from the carriage and then leaped from the bridge into the river. A keeper with her jumped to the rescue and brought the woman fo. shore.

The Mankato Free Press published a "Harves t " edition Friday of thirty-two pages. I t was an issue of interest, containing write-ups of Mankato and of all the villages in Blue Earthcounty. The Free Press is one of the most en­terprising dailies outside the three large cities of the state and deserves the success it gives evidence of enjoy­ing.

Fo r a year and a half now the in­candescent lamp of which Superintend­ent Adolf Wagner of the city lighting plant is making a test, has been kept burning and it still glows with bril­liancy. The lamp is the '"hylo" and it is the low light which is being sub­jected to the test. The superintendent expects the lamp to burn for a year and a half more. * '»*.;& »

Word from Frankfort, Ky., received last week by Miss Mattie Smith of Sleepy Eye, states that her brother Christ was shot in the mouth in a gun accident in that city. The extent of the injury and the circumstances sur­rounding the affair were not given. Mr. Smith was a traveling expert for the Waterous Engine company of St. Paul .

The entertainment given by the East­ern Star Thursday evening was a big success. About eighty-five attended and whist was played at twenty tables. After the playing was over the tables were cleared away and the floor given up to dancing. The party was given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. F . Drew of Colorado Springs and Mrs. C. V. Everett of Redwood Falls, who are the guests of Eastern Star ladies. j

Mrs. M. Mullen was in St. Paul Wednesday attending the funeral of John Putman, a friend of the Mullen family for thirty-five years. Mr. Putman was found in a secluded par t of the wholesale house of Seabury & Co., where he was head bookkeeper, with a bullet through his heart and the coroner pronounced the case one of suicide. All his accounts are straight and no motive is known.

' Thomas Kretsch, who has been in the employ of Robert Fesenmaier in the hardware business for a number of years, has been offered the position of cashier in the state bank in Sleepy Eye and has accepted. He expects to take up the work about the first of Novem­ber. Mr. Kretsch succeeds William Brust, a former New Ulm boy, who be­comes cashier of the new bank in Sleepy Eye.

Mrs. Mary Eder, who was injured at the time of the Catholic convention by being pushed off the sidewalk, is re­ported as recovering as nicely as could be expected. The bone broken at the thigh is healing favorably and it is expected that she will be about again in a few weeks. The statement appearing in local papers to the effect that she would prabably be a cripple for life is entirely erroneous.

In spite of the half threats by a number of customers who kicked on the advance in the price of light fur­nished by the city plant, the big ordering out of lights which was led to be expected has not yet occured and the collections for the first month have been almost completed. On September 1st the rate was increased from eight to ten cents a thousand watt hours, and a minimum of fifty cents for all meters was put into effect.

High officers of the M. & St. L. journeyed from Minneapolis to Des Moines Thursday to inspect the line of ra i l road from Ruthven to Des Moines which the former road is to acquire the first of the year. This is a move which has been talked of for some time and will give New Ulm and all points along the road the advantage of cheaper coal rates, as there are ex­tensive coal fields near the new terminus.

A farewell party for Miss Hertha Baltrusch, who is to leave soon for Elro, Mexico, was given Tuesday evening at Waldheim, the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J . Alwin, by the Turner Hall chorus, of which Miss Baltrusch is a member. About twenty friends were assembled. The pathway leading from the college hill to the residence was illuminated by Japanese lanterns and the rooms were beautifully decor­ated with ferns and flowers. The even­ing was spent in singing, dancing and games. Light refreshments were served.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stolz were married just fourteen years ago Friday and in honor of the event about fifty friends from New Ulm drove out to their home on the Heimann farm. The, evening was spent in dancing, the music being furnished by two violinists. The guests brought with them a beauti­ful present which was presented to Mr. and Mrs. Heimann early in the evening. Mr. Heimann is to give up his work at the lime kiln soon, it is understood, and move his family into town.

Albert Steinhauser, Peter Mander-feld and C. A. Hagberg attended the funeral of Edward H. Huebner in Winthrop Thursday. Mr. Huebner with his parents moved to New Ulm in 1865 and lived in this city until he left to take up the practice of law in Winthrop in 1889. He was a graduate of the public schools of New Ulm and of the Mankato normal school. He read law in the office of John Lind and worked with him for a year after being addmitted to the bar . Mr. Huebner was three times elected county

• attorney for Sibley county, and in 1897 was mayor of Winthrop. Two

Safe Crackers Scare Sanborn. Safe crackers have visited Sanborn

for the second time in the last few weeks, the latest robbery having been committed a week ago Friday. The

j safe in E. J . Breitkrentz's store j was pried open with tools after the lock and combination had been de­stroyed and the contents, consisting of $75 in currency and many valuable papers, were taken. The first burglary occurred several weeks ago when the safe at the rai l road station was blown open with powder.

Tripping on a defective sidewalk, Miss Anna Lindmeyer fell Saturday evening on South First street near N. Neumann's place and was bruised on the hand and chest.

CALIFOENIA INFORMATION.

California is a big state, large of area, rich in natural wealth, tremendous in its scenic features and with a future full of great promise. Every American is more or less interested in knowing about this wonderful commonwealth.

A forty j»Mge folder with more than half a hundred beautiful illustrations and a complete colored map of the state has been issued by the Chicago & North­western Railway. It contains in con­densed and interesting form, a mass of information on varions subjects of inter-

. est, including a list of hotels at Cali­fornia tourist points with their rates, capacity, etc. Sent to any address on receipt of four cents in stamps, by W. B. Kniskern, P . T. M., Chica go. 42

Dr. Weaver's Treatment. Syrnppurifiee the blood, Cerate heals skin eruption*.

Home Made Have your cake, muffins, and tea bis­

cuit home-made. They will be fresher, cleaner, more tasty and wholesome.

Royal Baking Powder helps the house wife to produce at home, quickly and eco­nomically, fine and tasty cake, the raised hot-biscuit, puddings, the frosted layer-cake, crisp cookies, crullers, crusts and muffins, with which the ready-made food found at the bake-shop or grocery does not compare.

Royal is the greatest of bake-day helps.

ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.

^Turner Theatre}-One Night, Sunday, Oct. 23rd

S. S. Shubert presents the Eminent —Comedian—

De Udolf Hipper (De Wolf Hopper Co., Inc., Proprs.)

In the season's biggest musical triumph, the Messrs. Schubert's New York Lyric Theatre spectacular revival of the merriest opera

a WANG" Aided by a notable Metropolitan

70-- COMPANY OF — 70 Including Marguerite Clark, Frank Belcher,

Ada Deaves and the Famous Original 40 - - Lyric Theatre Chorus Beauties - - 40

Magnificent Scenery, Georgeous Costuming, Augmented Orchestra.

Seats now on sale at City Drug Store. Prices, 50 cents, $1.00 and $1.50.

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