Union construction workers continue on strike at the new sewage treatment plant, new library and county courthouse in New Ulm. Workers went out on strike at the sewage plant June 19, the same day as at the other two projects. The strike of general laborers, carpenters, bricklayers and iron ...

When the Central Catholic Schools system informed one of its parishes, St. George,its building would be closed in autumn 1975 and its students bused to New Ulm,there was a revolt. The families of St. George, in rural Nicollet County, 7 miles northwest of New Ulm, voted 131 to 0 to abdicate from ...

Forty years ago they didn’t call it welfare. It was mother’s pension, commissioners’ relief, old age pension, or county poor farm. The first three gave monthly payments or picked up bills for living expenses. But the last alternative meant a move to the solid brick two-storied ...

NEW ULM Battery recently won first in the annual Western Civil War Skirmish Association shoot at Eau Claire, Wis., proving it is on target as well as in demand for ceremonial appearances. Stan Mack, holding sabre, mustered the battery last fall to do a performance for students of Journalism ...

A number of streets were washed out Friday night as thunderstorms drenched New Ulm with 2.13 inches of rain. Damage throughout the area was scattered and apparently, in most cases, minor. Rain drenched most of The Journal area both Friday and Saturday. IN NEW ULM, a city street official ...

NEW ULM — Water Grams was charged Friday — in the county court where he formerly served as clerk — with felony theft of public funds. Grams had resigned his post as clerk of district and county court in Brown County June 3. The criminal complaint was signed by County Atty. Robert ...