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For New Ulmites, phone can be headache

When the R.J. Adelmann family moved into their home at 1118 16th S., they soon had a telephone. Adelmann had contacted New Ulm Rural Telephone Co. three weeks before the family moved into town Oct. 13, 1975. The phone was installed as ordered and all seemed well. BUT THEN the Adelmanns received their first phone bill - and the trouble began. On that first bill for October service the phone company had charged Adelmann for a number of long-distance calls made before the family moved into the home, from a time “when our phone wasn’t even installed,” as Adelmann ...

Concordia house winners

CONCORDIA LANES house trophies to women bowlers were given out Thursday night. Left to right are Donna Mielke, Darlene Shay and Sharon Johnson. Donna Mielke and Sonja Freiderich (not present) shared the high series award of 603; Shay had top average of 174; Johnson had high single game of 258. ...

City makes bridge commitment

Formal commitment to cooperate with adjacent government bodies to build a bridge to replace the Courtland Cutoff bridge was made Tuesday by the New Ulm City Council. The council had discussed the matter a week ago after a replacement bridge, possibly at 20th S.,was suggested as a possible way to ease some of the city’s traffic problems. State money is available to pay 100 per cent of construction cost of replacement bridges, if the state okays the project. Local governments would pay for design work and for all-weather roads leading up to the bridge. The council authorized its ...

RETIRED $112,000 IN BONDS, $161,400 CASH

Annual Audit Shows City Is Decreasing Its Indebtedness and Balancing Its Funds. ———— BONDED DEBT OF NEW ULM IS NOW $370,600 ———— Depreciation Is Now Taken Into Consideration. $144,142.83 Is Total Of This Item. ———— Since the budget system was adopted by the city of New Ulm a year ago the financial status has “looked up” considerably. At the end of the last fiscal year, as of date, February 28,1926, the bonded indebtedness was $370,600. This is a decrease of $112,000 over the previous year. This is set out in detail elsewhere. In addition ...

‘BOB’ HENDERSON IN COMFREY BURGLARY

Admitted Complicity in Robbery of Erickson & Kisro Clothing Store, Ten Years Ago. ———— WAS WORLD WAR BUDDY OF NEW ULMITE LATER ———— Article in Last Week’s Issue of Journal Recalls Reminiscences of Camp Experiences. ———— There is no doubt in the mind of a certain wellknown New Ulmite as to the fact that Robert Henderson, who is under arrest at Madison, Wis., on a charge of being a party to the robbery of the Superior, Wis., postoffice, November 21, 1924, was also implicated in the burglary of the Erickson & Kisro clothing store at Comfrey in ...

DISTRICT MEET OF WOMEN’S CLUBS HERE

New Ulm Will Be Scene of District Federated Club Convention Next Year. ———— DEMAND IS MADE FOR RIGID LAW ENFORCEMENT ———— Mrs. W. W. Smith, Sleepy Eye, Is Named First Vice President About 135 Delegates Present. ———— New Ulm will entertain the annual convention of the Women’s Federated clubs of the Second district next May. This was one of the closing actions taken by the delegates at Windom Wednesday morning. The district convention was held here a number of years ago. Favor Law Enforcement Responding unanimously to the call of the ...