Variety provided the spice Thursday evening at the first of four hearings on a recreational complex being discussed for New Ulm. Fifteen of some 50 Ward 1 residents who attended Thursday’s hearing, at Redeemer Lutheran Church, expressed various ideas about a city recreation facility. USE ...
When “The Exorcist’’ raged through the state, Bishop Raymond Lucker was suddenly the exorcist, too. “I had any number of calls from people who were disturbed,” he remembered,”who began to think that perhaps they were possessed.”Possession by a demon. What is it? IT USED to be simple mental illness, according to the bishop of the New Ulm diocese. Or epilepsy. Anyone with a physical or mental irregularity that went otherwise unexplained was possessed of a demon. No more, according to Bishop Lucker. In his estimation, demonic possession is vanishingly rare. “It is ...
NEW ULM — “It’s pretty scary,” according to Art Stone,”to watch that thing throw out lumber from buildings it chewed up.” His subject was the tornado he saw once from half a mile off. His subject is still tornadoes, every time warm weather rolls around. Everybody worries about the killer storms whose wind velocity has never been measured. But Stone is one of the few people around who are paid to worry about them. He is civil defense director for Brown County. GETTING READY for what almost never comes is what his job amounts to. The last tornado to nick New Ulm was five ...
Tom Davis, Candidate for Governor, Will Address Meeting Here Early in May. ———— ERNIE LUNDEEN, OTHERS CONFER WITH FRITSCHE ———— Veteran Campaigner, Will Likely Make Magnus Eat Assertion, He Has Brown County in Pocket. ———— Tom Davis, than whom there is no more vitriolic and seasoned campaigner in Minnesota, and who is a candidate for the farmer-labor nomination as governor, was in New Ulm Monday. He was accompanied by Ernie Lundeen, former congressman from the Minneapolis district. Two other Minneapolis politicians - Messrs. Pewters and Harrigan - ...
Orchestra, Girls’ Glee Club, Memory Group And Solo Artists Attend ———— HELD IN MANKATO SATURDAY, MAY 1 ———— Fourteen Other Schools To Compete For Prize Awards ———— Representatives of the local public high school will join students from fifteen southern Minnesota high schools who will take part in the seventh district music contest which is to be held in Mankato, Saturday May 1. Contestants listed in this musical feature from the local school and other schools as well, already are making preparations for the event. Final arrangements for the contest, ...
Residents On North Broadway Also Petition For Concrete Pavements ———— NEW BOILER NEEDED FOR MUNICIPAL PLAN ———— Danger Of Shutdown During Months Of Heavy Consumption ———— Many matters of importance demanded the attention of the city council at its regular monthly meeting held at the city hall Tuesday evening. Among the most important were the petitions for the paving of Broadway from Center to Fifth North’ and the paving of Minnesota street from Third North to Ninth North Streets. Other road matters also demanded their attention and action on ...
