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Blue Earth deputy shot

EAGLE LAKE — A sheriff’s deputy was in extremely critical condition Saturday with a gunshot wound suffered in an early morning shootout at a roadblock. About 100 law enforcement officers took part in a manhunt that ended a few hours later in capture of a second suspect in the shooting. The Blue Earth County deputy, Robert Smith, 27, was shot in the stomach about 3 a.m., as two men in a car tried to drive and shoot their way around a roadblock, one mile east of Eagle Lake. The deputy was shot after a series of incidents that included a burglary in Eagle Lake, shots fired at a ...

The wind was too strong to inflate the balloon. It was a case of …going up, up and down.

USE KINDERGARTEN AS FOUNDATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

Miss Ida Heers Starts All Little Folk On Trip Thru Grades ———— EARLY TRAINING IS OF GREAT VALUE ———— Every Method Used Has A Definite Meaning To Children ———— Because we believe it will be interesting for parents and friends of the school to know how children are being trained in the various departments of the public schools of this city, this Review is starting a series of articles which will show the school life of the children from the kindergarten thru the various grades to the high school where they prepare for further education in ...

NEW ULM YOUTH SUFFERS INJURIES INFLICTED BY SELF

Ivan Baltus Victim Of Revolver Which He Was Repairing ———— ACCIDENT OCCURRED SUNDAY MORNING ———— Asked To Be Taken To Local Hospital To Receive Medical Aid ———— Ivan, sixteen year-old son of Mrs. Minnie Baltus, Second South Street, was injured Sunday morning in an accident which might have proven fatal when a revolver which he was trying to fix, discharged and entered the right side of his body penetrating the liver. He was taken immediately to the Loretto hospital where he is resting easily. Had Found Revolver According to his mother, Ivan ...

$5,000 REDUCTION SCHOOL TAX LEVY

Board of Education Adopts Budget System Outlined by Superintendent F.B. Andreen ———— BETTER TRAFFIC SAFETY FOR SCHOLARS IS URGED ———— Committee Appointed To Act With Parochial School Representatives in the Matter. ———— Based upon an exhaustive compilation of data and figures prepared by Superintendent F. B. Andreen, according to the anticipated expenditures that will be necessary to maintain the New Ulm public schools for the 1926-1927 term, the local board of education adopted the budget system in connection with school expenditures. As a ...

MOST OF CORN NEEDS WEEK FOR MATURING

County Agent Lenzmeier Says East End of County Will Yield From 75 to 77 Per Cent Full Crop. ———— HAY NOT SUFFICIENT TO CARRY OVER WINTER ———— Fall Seeded Crops in Excellent Condition and Outlook for Good Yield of Fall Wheat and Rye. ———— County Agent E. C. Lenzmeier states d that about a week of good maturing weather is required to put the corn crop in the clear in Brown county. In the western and southern parts of the county the corn crop is later than in the northern and eastern portions. In the vicinity of New Ulm much of the crop is ...