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Luther girls win big

Martin Luther Academy of New Ulm trounced Sleepy Eye High School 86-37 in a girls dual track meet Monday at Johnson Field here. Luther is 3-0 in dual meets but finished far down the list in the Winthrop Relays. The Rams have another chance in a multi-school meet when they host the MLA Invitational 11 a.m. Saturday; there will be a boys division and girls division Saturday. Monday’s meet was the first of five straight home appearances, concluding with the Red Rock meet May 18. Luther took 10 of the 15 first places. Marge Hoyer won both hurdles. She hasn’t reached last year’s ...

84,600 ACRES CORN WILL BE PLANTED

No Change in Acreage Compared With That of Last year According to Survey of County Agent ———— INCREASE OF ALFALFA 50 PER CENT, ACREAGE 4,870 ———— All Small Grain Has Been Planted. Some Re-planting This Week, By Reason of Wind Storms. ———— County Agent E. C. Lenzmeier informs the Journal that agricultural extension workers aim to have one acre in alfalfa for every dairy cow in Minnesota. At present the highest acreage per cow in the state reached by any county is .46 of an acre Brown county with 20,900 dairy cows and 4,870 acres of alfalfa, this ...

DUST STORM CLOUDS HORIZON TUESDAY

Wind Carried Silt Over Wide Area in State, Dust Covered Everything and Permeated Into Homes. ———— DAMAGE TO CROPS NOT GREAT IN BROWN COUNTY ———— Pastures Suffering and Hay Crop Will Be Cut, If Rain Does Not Soon Visit Southern Minnesota. ———— The worst dust storm of the season visited southern and central Minnesota Tuesday. Although the wind did not reach a velocity it did on several former occasions, when dust storms visited this section, the pall of dust, which was carried along over wide areas, was much heavier. The weather bureau observers ...

BOLD ATTEMPT AT DAYLIGHT HOLDUP

L.A. Gaut, Salesman of New Ulm Grocery Co., Has Thrilling Experience, Friday Morning. ———— DODGES ROCK HURLED THROUGH WINDSHIELD ———— Bandits Foiled by Intended Victims Presence of Mind and Courage, Then Disappear. ———— L. A. Gaut of this city, veteran traveling salesman of the New Ulm Grocery Co., had a thrilling experience, Friday morning, which he is not anxious to repeat very soon. Faced by desperate masked bandits, who attempted to hold him up and rob him of money which he had collected on his trip, Mr. Gaut, with rare presence of mind, ...

KEYNOTE SPEECH IS DELIVERED BY TOM DAVIS ON SATURDAY

Gives Forceful Address At Turner Hall On Issues Of Campaign ———— STANDS SQUARELY ON PLATFORM OF PARTY ———— Roundly Applauded Whenever He Drove His Argument Home ———— In a forceful address Tom Davis, gubernatorial candidate on the Farmer-Labor ticket told his audience at Turner Hall, Saturday evening what he stood for and what the party he is affiliated with believes in politically and economically. Only a fair-sized audience greeted him, due to a heavy rain which visited this section of the state. Dr. L. A. Fritsche presided at the meeting and ...

Seven Ranges survey changed the country

Editor’s note: In the years following the Revolutionary War, the United States stood as an unfinished nation. The young republic was burdened by war debt, constrained under the Articles of Confederation, and lacking many of the basic tools of governance. What it did possess, however, were ...