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NIGHT SERVICE IS ORDERED STOPPED

New Uim Threatened With Discontinuance of Duties of Night Clerk at Post Office. ———— PETITION CONG, CLAGUE INTERVENE WITH DEPT. ———— Service Originally Installed in 1902 and Has Been Greatly Beneficial. Lobby Open at All Hours. ———— Postmaster Lewis B. Krook has received an order from the post office department instructing him to discontinue night service at the local post office at once. He immediately took up the matter with the department and requested that the order be held in abeyance until January 15. He also requested a reconsideration of the ...

SETTLEMENT MADE – MANY CIVIL CASES

December Term of Court Progressing Rapidly In Disposition of Calendar. ———— MEMBERS PETIT JURY REPORT MONDAY A.M. ———— No Cause of Action In Baltrusch Case. Settlement In Personal Injury Case. ———— The calendar of civil actions is being rapidly depleted. Yesterday morning the Jury was sitting in the trial of case No. 27, B. Rovig vs. Chas. W. Durham, twenty-six cases having been disposed of since the members of the petit jury reported for duty at 10 o’clock Monday morning. There are fifty-two cases listed on the civil calendar. At this rate ...

BOY’S DRAW SIXTY DAY SENTENCE FOR STEALING TURKEYS

Sentence Suspended Under Six Month Probation Plan. ———— SOFT DRINK PARLOR ROBBED MONDAY EVE ———— Evidently Is Work Of Young Boys Of City. Get $15 Change. ———— Petty larceny by young boys in the neighborhood has been becoming so great during the past few months that city and county officials in charge of law enforcement decided to make an example out of one of the cases. Wednesday afternoon Leo Simmet and Erwin Baltus plead guilty before Justice Fred Pfaender to the charge of stealing turkeys from the Henry Diepolder farm, located north of the city. ...

Heavy snow falls in area

The New Ulm area received 5 inches of new snow as the second major snowstorm of the season moved through Minnesota Saturday and early Sunday. Saturday’s storm brought total snowfall in New Ulm for November to 10.4 inches. This is the most snowfall the city has received since 1947 when ...

Fire in the sky

Sparks rain down, as Ron Kolb, Minneapolis, cuts into one of the legs of the 3M water tower while Dale Fullford, Fairmont, and Alan Dantzman, Winter, Wis., work on one of the supports. Below, sports fly in Kolb’s face as he uses his acetylene torch to cut three-inch strips in five places on ...

At New Ulm: Cow goes for $16,500

What may have been the largest amount of money ever paid for a cow in Minnesota was exchanged in New Ulm Tuesday. The $16,500 paid for Ardean Lucifer Lad Penny, a 5-year-old Holstein, was the highest price ever paid in the state according to Greg Baure, a representative of the David Bachmann ...