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LOCAL GYMNASTS GO TO STATE TOURNEY

New Ulm Turnverein Will Be Represented by 19 Entrants at Northwestern Meet. ———— 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF MINNESOTA TURNBEZIRK ———— Latter Event to Be Observed at St. Paul in Connection With District Assembly. ———— Nineteen local gymnasts will represent the New Ulm Turnverein at the annual tournament of the Northwestern Gymnastic association, which is to be held at the University of Minnesota Armory, tomorrow evening. Some 300 gymnasts from educational institutions and gymnastic societies throughout the Northwest will compete for honors in ...

JOSEPH J. SPERL PASSES THURSDAY

Wellknown Resident of Cottonwood Township Succumbs to Cancer at His Farm Home. ———— COUNTY COMMISSIONER FOR PAST FIVE YEARS ———— Also Held Other Public, Corporation and Society Offices. — Funeral Was Monday. ———— The death of Joseph J. Sperl, well known resident of Cottonwood township for many years occurred at his farm home there, last Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. It was caused by cancer of the esophagus, and he had been ailing since last June, although confined to his bed but a week prior to his demise. Was County ...

FIFTIETH YEAR OF TELEPHONE GROWTH CELEBRATED TODAY

Interesting Facts Concerning Invention And Rapid Development. ———— FIRST TELEPHONE IN NEW ULM IN 1890 ———— Present Exchange Has 1662 City Phones And 711 On Rural Lines. ———— Seventeen employees of the telephone company in New Ulm will join with hundred of thousands of other telephone workers in the country in a dignified and concerted observance of the fiftieth birthday anniversary of the telephone March 10, according to L. A. Mills, manager of the New Ulm Rural Telephone Company here. On March 10, 1876, the first message was transmitted over the ...

BASEBALL LEAGUE MEET AT MANKATO

Snowstorm Sunday Precludes Many Towns in Southern Minnie League from Being Represented. ———— FAVOR SLOWER PLAYING DEFER OFFICIAL ACTION ———— Another Meeting Will Be Called Later Part of Month or Forepart of April. ———— Drifted highways that made travel by car difficult turned the first Southern Minnesota baseball league meeting of the year, Sunday, into an informal session at which general policies were discussed. The meeting, held at the Mankato city hall was at-tended by representatives of Mankato, Albert Lea, Owatonna and league officers from ...

New Ulm girl gymnasts win, going to state

LAKE CRYSTAL — For the second straight year,New Ulm High School’s girls gymnastics team is going to the state meet. New Ulm was fourth in the 1975 state meet. The Eagles edged arch rival Fairmont 77.4 to 75.75 points for Section Two championship Saturday at Lake Crystal. Windom was a ...

Sounds of music fill junior high

The Minnesota Orchestra, conducted by Henry Charles Smith, played to about 1,000 Community Concert Association members Tuesday night. They performed selections from Wagner, Handel, Ives-Schuman and Tchaikovsky. People familiar with classical music could listen with a hint of what was to ...