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GREATER ACTIVITY PLANNED FOR FT. RIDGELY GROUNDS

Special Meeting Of Park Historical Assn. Votes Drive. ———— RESERVATION OFFERED FOR MILITIA ENCAMPMENT ———— Special Effort Encouraged For Scenic Routes To Fort. ———— At a special meeting of the directors of the Ft. Ridgely State Park and Historical Association held in the Dutch room of Turner Hall Sunday afternoon appropriate resolutions on the death of Charles H. Nixon, Vice President of the Association who died recently, were adopted, a successor to him was elected, the wording of a tablet to be placed at the recently installed flag staff at the ...

AURORA BOREALIS CENSORS SERVICE

Telegraphic Communication and Radio Programs Intermittently Interrupted by Northern Lights, Tuesday. Interference Was More Noticeable in East Than in Middle West. Local Radio Fans Report Having Had Trouble Getting Stations. ———— If your radio wasn’t working perfectly, Tuesday evening, don’t blame the contraption, for the trouble, no doubt, was caused by the aurora borealis, popularly known as the northern lights, which played havoc with telegraphic communications and radio broadcasting that day and evening. The greatest difficulty experienced by “listeners in” was to ...

CRIMINAL CASES IN BROWN COUNTY DECREASE IN 1925

Facts Gleaned From Reports Made By Co. Att’y T.O. Streissguth. ———— 65 OF 73 OFFENDERS CONVICTED OF CHARGE ———— Drunkenness And Violation Of Liquor Laws Cause Arrest Of Many. ———— County Attorney T. O. Streissguth completed his annual report last Saturday and has filed the same with the Attorney General and the County Auditor. It will be submitted to the County Commissioners at their February meeting. The report for 1925 shows that 73 criminal cases were tried in the Courts of Brown County within the past year. This in a decrease of 17 in the ...

Students see inequality in discipline

Administrators in New Ulm schools paint a picture of toughness and fairness when dealing with discipline problems. And they believe the methods they use in dealing with these problems do work. SOME STUDENTS, however, see the situation differently. Three students at New Ulm Senior High School agreed with their principals that truancy and tardiness probably are the biggest problems in the school. But they don’t agree that the culprits always are caught or dealt with fairly. “It is possible to get away with skipping,” said one youth who has been sent to the principal’s ...

Germann continues push for Minnecon erosion control

Despite two setbacks this week, Dr. George Germann says he will continue to press for erosion control along the Minnesota River bank at Minnecon Park. “The bank will have to be protected,” Germann said. “I’m going to keep the pressure on so we can go ahead with this.” AT TUESDAY’S New Ulm City Council meeting, Germann made a motion to have plans drawn for 10-foot steel sheet piling and rip-rap. Cost estimate was $17,650. The motion died for lack of a second. He then moved to have plans drawn for 16-foot wood piling and lack of a second. The council then tabled the ...

End of the line

SNOW DRIFTS brought an eastbound train to a halt west of Fairfax before the train was freed Wednesday. Fairfax’s Chicago and North Western depot manager Darrel Benson said an engine went off the tracks between Winthrop and Gibbon Wednesday but was placed back on the tracks by a crane. Cause ...