TEAM TO BE CHOSEN FROM 7 DEBATERS

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Lake Crystal May Be

First Team From This

District to Cross Word

Swords With New U1m.

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HARD TRYOUT

WORK TO START

EARLY NOVEMBER

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Much Interest Being

Manifest in Team, Which

Will Uphold High School

in District Contest.

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Seven boys and girls, students

at the New Ulm high school, have

becm chosen, and from this number

the debating team, which will uphold

the local school in the district contest,

will be selected.

The seven from which the team

will be named are Howard. Vogel,

Alice Meile, Fred Lippman, Hilda

Steinmetz, Roland Hohn, Edith

Kjolstad and Erna Grussendorf. All

are good debaters and took part in

the high school elimination contests,

held recently.

Active Work in November.

Active work will be commenced

early in November amid Principal R.

J.Stewart informs the Journal that as

soon as possible following sufficient

try-outs the team of three will be selected.

Strenuous work will not be

taken up until following the close of

the football season during the early

part of November.

Twelve Teams Entered.

Already twelve high schools

in this district have entered teams,

and unless there are more entries

withimi the next few weeks, the

teams will be paired as follows for

the first series of debates: Sleepy

Eye-Springfield; New Ulm-Lake

Crystal; Amboy-Winnebago; Blue

Earth-Elmore; Jackson-Sherburne;

Windom-St. James. There were but

nine teams ini the district last year, so

it is evident that interest in the contests

arranged by the State Debating

league is growing in favor.

Providing more high school

teams are entered in this district a

re-arrangement of the first series of

debates and the places of the several

teams will have to be made.

First Series in December.

The initial eliminations will be

held some time during the forepart

of December – not later than the third

Friday of the month.

Won Last Year.

The New Ulm high school team

was awarded the state trophy last

year, and it is hoped the team will

duplicate the performance this year.

Howard Vogel was a member of the

team last year and he is a seasoned

debater. Last year’s team was composed

of Elizabeth Hintz and Clarence

Rolloff, together with Howard.

The first two were members of the

1923 graduating class.

Toplc Interesting Question.

The topic, which will be debated

is “Resolved, That European Immigration

Into the United States Should

Be Prohibited for Five Years.”

Brown County Journal

October 26, 1923

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MUCH BUTTER MADE IN BROWN COUNTY

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Twelve Creameries

in 1922 Turned Out 3,038,492

Pounds of Butter Valued

at $1,150,586.62.

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NUMBER OF PATRONS OF

CREAMERIES 2,031

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Statistics Relative to

Butter-Making Industry in Both

Brown and Nicollet Counties.

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Minnesota is rightly called the

“Bread and Butter State.” Not only

does Brown county produce its share

of the bread-making material – flour

– but on the other hand its creameries

produced in excess of three million

pounds of butter during the year

1922. The flour and the butter placed

the market by this county will go a

long way towards keeping the wolf

from the door of the state. Not only

does it do this but its flour and butter-

are shipped to many other states

and some reaches foreign countries.

Total Received from Butter.

The one independent and eleven

co-operative creameries in this

county, during the year 1922, produced

3,038,492 pounds of butter,

which was disposed of for a total

sum of $1,150,586.62. The running

expenses of these creameries totaled

$111,937.93, and the patrons were

paid $999,224.51 for butterfat. The

average net price per pound received

for butter was 37.86 cents. But few

counties in the state had a higher average

net price. Itaska had the highest,

41.45 cents.

Number of Patrons.

The number of patrons of the

Brown county creameries during

1922 totaled 2,031 and the number of

cows, which furnished the butterfat

was 18,816. These bovines furnished

7,560,155 pounds of cream and

121,704 pounds of milk, from which

2,470,452 pounds of butterfat was

derived. The aver-age overrun was

22.99 and the average price paid for

a pound of butterfat was 40.44 cents.

The twelve creameries, operating

in the county during 1922,

were, Albin Creamery Co.; Comfrey

Farmers’ Creamery Ass’n.;

Essig Cooperative Creamery Ass’n.;

Evan Cooperative Creamery Ass’n.;

Hanska & Linden Creamery Co.;

Sleepy Eye Farmers’ Cooperative

Creamery Ass’n.; Linden & Cottonwood

Creamery Co.; New Ulm

Farmers Cooperative Creamery

Ass’n; Sigel Cooperative Creamery

Co.; Springfeld Farmers’ Creamery

Co., and the Stark Creamery Co. and

Minnesota Central Creameries, Inc.

Nicollet County Creameries.

The total amount received for

butter produced in Nicollet county

during 1922 was $709,785.92. This

means that the ten creameries of the

county did nearly three-fourths of a

million dollars worth of business in

butter alone during the year.

An average of 38.59 cents per

pound was the price paid for butter.

A price of 42.25 cents was the average

price per pound for butterfat.

The butter manufactured is the product

of 10,569 cows, and was made

from 282,900 pounds of milk and

5,140,584 pounds of cream. The total

amount of butterfat was 1,497,412

pounds, while the number of pounds

of butter manufactured during 1922

was 1,851,519 pounds – an overrun

of 23.64 per cent.

The running expenses of the

Nicollet county creameries in 1922

were $59,986.11.

State Statistics.

The statistics covering Minnesota’s

creamery industry as contained

in the list of creameries, cheese

factories, ice cream factories and

canneries issued by Dairy and Food

Commissioner, Chris Heen, are

very interesting and valuable and

should be given careful study by all

creamery patrons. According to the

figures contained in this report the

810 creameries of the state made in

1922, 193,906,937 pounds of butter,

an increase of 14 per cent over 1921.

It sold for over $72,928,773.83, an

increase of 11 per cent over the previous

year.

The average price per pound of

butterfat paid by the creameries to

the farmers was 40.73 cents in 1922,

as compared with 41.93 cents in

1921.

Over Two Million.

Six counties, Hennepin, Ramsey,

Freeborn, McLeod, Stearns and Otter

Tail, received more than $2,000,000

in cash for their butter. Of these

Ramsey, with ten creameries, leads

with a butter income of $4,892,027,

for 12,660,000 pounds or the largest

production in any county in the

United States except Douglas, Nebr.

Besides these eight leaders in

product on, there are 23 other counties

that each produced more than

$1,000,000 worth. All made substantial

in-creases over the production

of 1921. These include Blue Earth,

Brown, Carver, Chisago, Douglas,

Faribault, Fillmore, Goodhue,

Meeker, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Olmstead,

Pine, Pipestone, Polk, Rice, St.

Louis, Sibley, Steele, Todd, Waseca,

Winona and Wright.

Brown County Journal,

October 26, 1923

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BIG ATHLETIC BILL TURNER HALL, NOV. 2

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Alex. Vogel Promotes

Boxing and Wrestling Card That

Should Draw Big Crowd.

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TOMSCHE-BILLY KLEIN

SPARK PLUG-MARVEL

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Young Stecher Will Also

Wrestle Fred Anderson.-

Ladies Free to Attractions.

——–

Alex. Vogel has promoted an

excellent athletic bill, to open the

season at Turner hall, Friday evening,

Nov. 2. It will be remembered

that Mr. Vogel arranged for several

athletic cards in the local theatre last

year, which proved interesting to the

sport fans of New Ulm and vicinity.

Although last year’s attractions were

good cards, the coming bill will far

eclipse anything that has previously

been pulled off in this city.

Three Big Events.

There will be three big events,

two wrestling bouts and one boxing

contest.

Tomsche to Be Here.

Joe J. Tomsche, local favorite,

and for a number of years located

at Gibbon, but now at Albamy,

light-heavyweight champion of

Minnesota, will meet Billy Klein,

Brooklyn, N.Y.,c ontender for middleweight

championship. Tomsche

is well-known in New Ulm, having

wrestled here in several previous

contests. He weighs in at 188 pounds.

Klein weighs 185 pounds. The latter

has defeated all the runners-up on the

Atlantic coast. Both wrestlens are of

German extraction. There will be no

time limit to this event, and the best

two out of three falls will decide the

contest.

Boxing Contest.

Mr. Vogel has arranged a boxing

contest, of five three-minute rounds,

between Spark Plug of Atlanta,

Ga., and the Masked Marvel of

Des Moines, Ia. The former has 27

straight knock-outs to his credit. The

Masked Marvel will not unmask,

unless he is knocked out. Spark

Plug weighs 154 pounds. He is the

sparring partner of Cy Williams,

Denver, Colo., the man who fought

Firpo eleven rounds the other night.

He is a hard hitter. The Masked Marvel

weighs 153 pounds, has traveled

over the country, taking on any and

all. He does not remove his mask unless

he is knocked out. This has occurred

but once, when Al. McRoy,

ex-middleweight champion of the

world put him out in six rounds at

Aurora, Ill.

Anderson to Be Here.

Fred. Anderson, Chicago, Ill.,

favorite among local sport fans,

and who has appeared upon the mat

here a number of times, will wrestle

Young Stecher, Kansas, Nebr., in

best two out of three falls, no time

limit. Anderson weighs 159 pounds.

He is aggressive and has wonderful

speed. Action is assured when Fred

steps onto the mat for be takes all

manmer of chances to win quickly.

Young Stecher is a cousin of old

Joe Stecher, the ex-heavyweight

champion of the world. He is a clean

wrestler and holds the middleweight

championship of Nebraska. He

weighs 158 pounds.

There will be several prelimimaries

by local talent. Bill starts at

8 p.m. sharp. A band concert by the

Peerless band will precede the athletic

bill.

Murray Henderson of St. Paul

will act as referee for both boxing

and wrestling bouts.

Ladies Free.

Mr. Vogel desires to interest the

members of the fairer sex in clean

sport, and therefore there will be no

admission charge for the ladies that

evening.

Brown County Journal,

October 26, 1923

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BOARD DOES NOT

FAVOR CO. NURSE

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Apropriation of $1,000 for

Support of Activity in Brown

County-Red Cross Offers to

Defray All Expenses Above

This Amount for First

Year.-Commissioners Polkow

and Johnson Vote Favorably.

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A delegation from Sleepy Eye

and Hanska, together with several

directors of the East Brown County

Red Cross chapter, appeared before

the county commissioners Friday,

and following considerable discussion

anent the need of a county

nurse in Brown county an offer was

made to the board whereby the Red

Cross chapters of the county would

defray the expense of the activity

for a period of one year, providing

the county board would appropriate

$1,000.

When a motion, appropriating

$1,000 for this purpose, made by

Commissioner John M. Johnson,

was put to a vote by Chairman Polkow,

it was lost. Commissioners

T. Mueller, Jos. J.Sperl and Henry

S. Romberg voted in the negative,

while Commissioners Polkow and

Johnson were favorable.

At a meeting of the women of the

Hanska Civic league, held Saturday,

the action of the board came in for

considerable criticism. The women

said that several years ago the commissioners

appropriated $2,500 for

the support of a nurse, but at that time

a worker could not be obtained.

At the club meet a discussion of

current events was conducted. Papers

were given on the “Origin of

Hallowe’en,” “The Stories of Roosevelt,”

The ladies are studying the

state government of Minnesota and

a pap-er was given on “County and

Town Organizaion.” Mrs. Will Curtis

of St.James, state chairman of the

department of Applied Education of

the Minnesota Federation of Women’s

clubs, told the ladies of the recent

state convention at Hibbing.

Brown County Journal,

October 26, 1923

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OLD GUARD

SEEKING RECRUITS

IN NEW ULM

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Company A, Third Infantry,

Had Squad Under Sergt. Bert

Amorett, in New Ulm, Monday.

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UNIT OLDEST REGIMENT IN

SERVICE IN COUNTRY

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Organized in 1784 and in

Engagements Covering Long

Term of Activity. -Stationed

at Snelling.

——–

A squad, consisting of Sergt. Bert

Amorett, and three privates, of Company

A, Third Infantry, U. S. A.,

was in New Ulm Monday. The visit

to New Ulm was made for the purpose

of securing recruits to their organization.

None were secured. The

regiment is stationed at Ft. Snelling.

Under Captain J. O. Green the company

is now at Mankato, and squads

are visiting the different cities and

villages in this vicinity, securing recruits.

Headquarters will be made in

the National guard armory until Nov.

9. The trip from the Fort to Mankato

was made overland by truck – all of

the men and baggage being carried in

three large army trucks and two trailers.

This organization has been sent

out by the Third infantry to obtain recruits

for the regiment. Men desiring

to enlist for service will be accepted

at the company headquarters at the

Armory at Mankato or by the squads

sent out for that purpose.

Oldest in United States.

The Third Infantry. is the oldest

regiment in the American army,

being organized 1784. Its battle-flag

streamers show participation in

many engagements extending over a

series of years almost equal in length

to that covered by the history of this

country.

Fighting Indian wars on the frontiers,

at New Orleans, during the

War of 1812 and in eleven battles of

the Mexican war, the Third Infantry

gained the title of “The Old Guard.”

In the Civil war, from the battle of

Bull Run to the final struggle at Appomatox

Court House, the Third Infantry

was in the thick of the fighting.

The Spanish-American war and

the Philippine Insurrection found

“The Old Guard” again on the field

of action. In 1916 a long patrol on

the Mexican border began, which

was destined to keep this regiment

from winning further honors on the

battlefields of France.

Although the organization, as a

unit, did not take active part in the

operation of the American Expeditionary

Forces in France, many of the

individuals of the company, which is

now securing recruits for the regiment

saw active service overseas.

Sergt. Amorett, who had charge

of the recruiting squad in New Ulm

was born and reared in Tennessee.

Brown County Journal,

October 26, 1923

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SCHROER IN

TOILS AT LA

CROSSE,WIS

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Young Man From New Ulm

Charged With Burglary in

Wisconsin City. -Pleads Guilty.

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FORMER INMATE OF ST.

CLOUD REFORMATORY

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Had Been Making

Headquarters at Winona

for Number of Weeks

Prior to Crime.

——–

Arthur Schroer, twenty-three

years old, of New Ulm, a musician,

who has made Winona his headquarters

for the past two weeks, pleaded

guilty before Judge John Brindley in

county court at La Crosse on a charge

of burglary, while George Williams,

aged twenty, a Winona musician,

and his wife, Marie, charged jointly

with the offense, were eet free.

Schroer and Mrs. Williams were

arrested Sunday noon in a hotel at

Sparta, it is said, where they were

located after Williams had appeared

at the La Crosse police station Saturday

night in search of his wife. They

were brought back to La Crosse,

where they were held. Williams was

also taken in custody.

Mrs. Williams at the time of her

arrest, was wearing a coat which

Schroer admitted stealing in La

Crosse, according to the authorities.

Williams and his wife admitted

driving Schroer from Winona to La

Crosse in their automobile, Tuesday

night of last week, when Schroer, it

is said, robbed the Lotus cafe of $41.

Schroer, who pleaded guilty in

county court to a charge of committing

burglary in the night time in connection

with the Lotus cafe robbery,

an offense punishable by a term of

from one to ten years in prison, also

admitted several other robberies at

both La Crosse and Sparta, District

Attorney Gordon said.

Schroer will be sentenced by

Judge Brindley tomorrow.

Schroer is said to have admitted

theft of two coats from the residence

of George Grebner; of articles, including

a woman’s wrist watch, from

the Flynn boarding house; and of

two pocketbooks containing a small

amount of change from the residence

of A. O. Colby, at La Crosse, and

several thefts at Sparta, in the period

between his arrival there Friday night

with Mrs. Williams and their arrest

Sunday noon.

Schroer is said to have told the La

Crosse authorities he had served five

years in the Minnesota reformatory

at St. Cloud. He arrived in Winona

about two weeks ago, and became

acquainted with Williams, as a fellow

musician, the district attorney

was informed.

Brown County Journal,

October 26, 1923

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NEW ULM STONE CO. DOUBLING CAPACITY

——–

Large Crew of Men Under

Superintendent Aug. Widell

Progressing With Work.

——–

1,000 TONS CRUSHED ROCK

OUTPUT PER DAY

——–

Big New Crusher and

Larger Capacity Screens to

Be Installed.-Building to

Be Doubled.

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The demand for New Ulm

crushed rock, tha product of the New

Ulm Stone Co., which is operating

a plant at Redstone, has become so

great that it was necessary for the

concern to make plans for enlarging

the capacity of the plant. The work

has been started and will be pushed

rigorously until the machinery is

installed and the plant ready for operation,

next spring. Superintendent

Aug. Widell states that it is not expected

the improvements will be finished

before March 1.

Capacity 1,000 Tons Per Day.

Before the plant was shut down

preliminary to commencing the improvements

the capacity was 500

tons of crushed rock per day. This

capacity will be doubled with the addition

of new and modern machinery

dur-ing the coming winter.

Monster Crusher to Be Added.

A monster gyratory Traylor Bulldog

crusher, the product of the Traylor

Engineering and Manufacturing

Co., of Allentown, Pa., will be installed.

This crusher has a capacity of

about 100 tons of crushed rock per

hour. A jaw crusher, the product of

the same concern, was installed three

years ago and has a capacity of about

70 tons per hour. This crusher will

take a rock three feet square and turn

it into crushed stone. The gyratory

crusher, to be installed, will take a

twenty-inch rock, and convent it into

pieces 2-1/4 inches in size. There are

two smaller crushers at the plant at

the present time. Both are of the gyratory

type.

Double Screening Capacity.

The screening capacity of the

plant will be more than doubled and

an elevator will be installed for the

purpose of hoisting the product after

it has gone through the crushers to

the screens, where it is separated into

different sizes. These are operated in

a vibratory manner, which greatly

adds to the effectiveness.

The capacity of the present building

will necessarily have to be doubled

to house the new machinery.

This will be added on the east. Workmen

will pour the foundation for the

new crusher in several days, and

within a short time carpenters will be

busily engaged in the erection of the

addition over this foundation.

Add to Storage Capacity.

The big bins, in which the

crushed rock is stored are also to be

greatly increased. Cement piers are

now being erected for this purpose

and the bins will be extended a story

higher than at present. The capacity

will be 800 tons of crushed rock. In

addition to this the concern has on

hand for emergency 1,100 tons in a

pile near the plant.

From 28 to 30 Men Employed.

During the present summer there

have been from 28 to 30 men employed

at the local plant. About twothirds

of these reside in New Ulm.

This industry is of great assistance to

New Ulm and when it is considered

that the present season’s output has

beem between 50,000 and 55,000

tons of crushed rock or about 1,000

cars, it is seen that New Ulm crushed

rock is finding a ready market.

Shipping to Iowa.

During the past year a large number

of Iowa cities have used New

Ulm crushed rock in paving operations.

Red Oak, in southwestern Iowa

has paved some 60 blocks during the

past summer. Other cities, to which

the New Ulm concern has shipped

its products, are Atlantic, Carroll,

Lake Charles, Mason City, Boone,

Des Moines, Valley Junction, Eagle

Grove, and a number of other places

in the state to the south. In Minnesota

the product has been shipped to

the Twin Cities, Fairmont, Rochester

and Mankato.

With the return to normalcy paving

operations throughout the middle

west will take on an increased impetus

and it is expected by the New

U1m concern that the demand for

crushed rock will be far greater than

at the present time.

Mankato Men Moving Spirits.

The president of the local concern

is G. A. McLaughlin of Mankato

while N. W. Pugh of that city is secretary

and treasurer. Aug. Widell, the

superintendent, was formerly a resident

of that city.

Brown County Journal,

October 26, 1923

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