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GRAVES DEPARTED HEROES DECORATED

Memorial Day Observed in New Ulm. -- Showers During Forenoon of Day Precluded Cemetery Services. ———— LARGE NUMBER PRESENT FT. RIDGELY EXERCISES ———— Short Parade Wended Its Way Through Principal Streets of New Ulm Between Showers. ———— Decoration day was observed in New Ulm in the usual manner. The weather man furnished a showery morning, which precluded holding the usual services at the City cemetery. The program was at the Armory. The usual parade formed at the intersection of Center and State streets and marched the business section of the ...

UNIDENTIFIED MAN FOUND HANGING IN RAVINE NEAR CITY

Discovered By Henry Neuman While Seeking Ginseng Last Saturday ———— NO IDENTIFICATION PAPERS ON BODY ———— Believed To Have Committed Suicide Several Weeks Ago ———— An unidentified man was found hanging to a tree in the Emil Fritsche ravine last Saturday afternoon at about four o’clock by Henry Neumann, a farmer living in the vicinity of Essig, who was searching for ginseng in the woods on the Fritsche farm. The body was hanging far back in the woods where it remained undiscovered for several weeks. ‘Mr. Neumann immediately notified the ...

Chaos in the run-up to Civil War 

The seeds of the Antebellum period in the United States were planted many years before the Civil War would tear the country apart.  "For the newly independent United States, the first order of business was to establish a national government," explained Roger Micker, president of the ...

German immigrants find social independence in Minnesota

NEW ULM — In 1852, a number of young men and women of Wurttemberg, Germany, decided to devote their futures to aiding the development of a new world they called America. The group emigrated from Germany to New York City, but didn’t like it much, so they moved west to Chicago. Attending ...

The National Road connected a young nation

To have a United States of America during its infancy, you had to have a truly united country. Not just by national unity with its citizens, but by physically connecting the east with what was then the western frontier across the Allegheny Mountains.  Or at least that’s what President ...

Indoor pool gets support in city’s 3rd arena hearing

Twelve of 24 persons who spoke up at a Second Ward public hearing Tuesday on a possible recreational complex in New Ulm favored an indoor pool. Six favored a pool plus multi-purpose arena, two were against the entire complex, while four had questions or comments,Several present suggested any bond issued should give voters a choice of an indoor pool alone or a pool choice of an indoor pool alone or a pool plus arena. “I’m afraid if an arena is tacked on. we’ll lose the entire issue and lose the indoor pool which we definitely need,” said Phil Liesch, 810 N. Washington. He ...