WRESTLING, BOXING BOUTS ON TONIGHT

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Best Bill of Events Ever Held in New Ulm Will Please Crowds at

Turner Theatre.

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BILLY KLEIN WILL

GO AGAINST

BOBBY BYLUND

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“Spider” Kelly of Omaha and Ben Reeves of

Mason City Will Put On Boxing Contest.

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Tonight at eight o’clock the athletic fans of this vicinity will be treated to the best program of events ever held in the city at Turner theatre. Alex. Vogel, promoter, has a real sport card of attractions for the approval of the fans. Billy Klein, who put the mighty Joe J. Tomsche out in two straight falls several weeks ago at Turner theatre, will go against Bobby Bylund, famous Minneapolis wrestler. The Klein-Tomsche bout was a wonderful exhibition on the part of Klein, and no doubt the contest this evening will be all the more remarkable, as both participants are well up in the wrestling world.

Accepts Challenge.

Bylund challenged KIein to cover any amount from $25 to $1,000 last week. Mr. Vogel has received a message from Klein offering to cover any amount up to $500, and winner to take all, provided Bylund will train down to ringside weight of not over 150 pounds, the middle-weight limit.

Minneapolis Man

Against Klein.

Klein, who weighs in at 159 pounds, and is the middleweight champion of New York State, will go against Bobby Bylund, of Minneapolis, in the main wrestling event of the evening. Bylund weighs in at 160 pounds. He is the Swedish middleweight champion of the world. The agreement is that the one who secures two out of three falls, no time limit, is the winner of the bout.

Boxing Contest.

The main boxing contest will be between “Spider” Kelly of Omaha, Nebr., and Ben Reeves, of Mason City, Ia. Both are contenders for the welterweight American championship of the world. They are famed hard hitters and the contest will be an excellent exhibition of this manly art. They will go six rounds.

Anderson Against Hansen.

Mr. Vogel has booked Fred Anderson, famous Chicago stockyard wrestler,and wellknown in New Ulm, to put on a bout with Joe Hansen of Sleepy Eye. Fans of Sleepy Eye are willing to back their man against Anderson and some excitement is expected.

The Keckeisen brothers will put on five two-minute boxing rounds as a preliminary. The Keckeisen boys are wellknown swatters and the contest will be interesting.

Pete Melby, wellknown Minneapolis referee, will be in New Ulm for the purpose of refereeing the contests.

A large number of Twin City fans will be here this evening to take in the big contest between Klein and Bylund.

Brown County Journal

December 7, 1923

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DEBATING TEAM OF HIGH SCHOOL NAMED

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Howard Vogel, Erna Grussendorf and Hilda Steinmetz Will

Uphold the School’s Honor.

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FIRST CLASH WITH LAKE

CRYSTAL HERE DEC. 14

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Judges Have Been Chosen and Team Is Getting Ready for

First Event of Contest.

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New Ulm’s debating team, which will uphold the honor of the local high school in the different contests during the coming season, and again try for the state championship has been chosen. The team is composed of Howard Vogel, premier debater of the local high school, and who was a member of last year’s victorious team, and who also won the state declamatory contest last season; Erna Grusendorf and Hilda Steinmetz. All three are seasoned debaters. The first two are seniors and the latter is a junior.

First Debate December 14.

The first debate will be held in New Ulm, on Friday evening, December 14, when the Lake Crystal team comes to New Ulm to lock horns with the local team. The team is composed of three boys.

The question to be debated is that “European Immigration into the United States Should Be Prohibited for a Period of Five Years.”

The personnel of the team was selected after preliminaries and interscholastic debates were held and every member of the student body, who desired to make the team, was given a chance. The three members of the team are now hard at work preparing for the coming debate. They will uphold the affirmative side of the argument in the initial debate.

Principal Stewart informs us that two judges in the persons of Prof. Smith, principal of the Mankato high school and Prof. Morris of the Teachers’ college faculty have been chosen and they have accepted. The third will be secured soon.

Brown County Journal,

Dec. 7, 1923

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JULIUS JOHNSON PULLS DOWN PRIZES

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Eden Township Chester White Raiser Gets Two Firsts at

International Stock Show.

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TEN SECONDS, ONE THIRD AND ONE FOURTH LANDED

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Mr. Johnson Exhibited

Eleven Pigs at Big Chicago Show.

-Brown County on the Map.

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When it comes to raising prize stock Brown county is forging right to the front. Julius Johnson, wellknown Eden township Chester White hog raiser, had on exhibition eleven pigs at the International Stock Show at Chicago this week. A telegram from Mr. Johnson to Mrs. Johnson Tuesday evening stated that his exhibits had been awarded two firsts, ten seconds,one third and one fourth at the show. The animals were in competition with other exhibits from all over the United States.

Big Advertisement.

This is a big advertisement for Mr. Johnson. His stock will henceforth be known all over the country. Mr. Johnson has for a number of years been greatly interested in the breeding and raising of purebred Chester White hogs and has made a science of the care and feeding of such animals. That he has made a distinct success in this regard is evidenced by the awards at Chicago.

Only Exhibitor from Brown.

Mr. Johnson was the only exhibitor from Brown county to place animals at the show. He can well be proud of his success.

Brown County Journal,

Dec. 7, 1923

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PROVISIONAL KLAN ACTIVE IN NEW ULM

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Local Organization Adopts

Resolutions, Which Are

Published in Official Organ.

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CLAIM COLUMBUS DID NOT DISCOVER AMERICA

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Give This Honor to Leif Ericson. Protest Against Calling

October 12, Columbus Day.

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Some weeks ago the Journal carried the information that several representatives of the Ku Klux Klan were in New Ulm for the purpose of organizing a branch of this national hooded secret society. It has developed that the organization was perfected. At the time it was stated that meetings were held on the heights west of New Ulm and that on one occasion the “fiery” cross, which is one of the insignia of the hooded order, was seen to flame forth.

Active in St. James.

The Kluckers are active in various sections of Minnesota, and recently several representatives of the organization were in St. James, Redwood Falls, Sleepy Eye and a number of other places in this part of the state, for the purpose of recruiting members and establishing provisional klans. It is said Klans were established in Austin, Fairmont and other places.

Do Not Don Hoods.

It is said that the klan members in Minnesota have recently refrained from wearing their customary hoods, by reason of the conflict of this activity with the state law. However, it is known, representatives of the Klan are making a thorough canvass of every community of the North Star state, proselyting for members.

Klan in New Ulm.

That there is a Klan in New Ulm is no longer doubted, as the appended resolution, adopted October 19, and published in the official organ, speaks for itself. Speculation is rife as to who the personnel of the New Ulm Provisional Klan are.

Read Resolutions.

The resolutions are illuminating as to the attitude of the Klan taken towards the discoverer of America, Christopher Columbus. Christopher is too much for them, therefore the attempt is made to set up Leif Ericson, mythical Scandinavian sailor, as the discoverer of the western hemisphere.

The resolutions read as follows:

Whereas, it has come to the attention of this, the New Ulm Provisional Klan No. 29, Realm of Minnesota, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, that certain sectarian organizations are disseminating a species of sectarian propaganda which unfairly and unjustly seeks to convert public opinion towards establishing a figure in world history, known and named as Christopher Columbus, as discoverer of America, and

Whereas, the Roman Catholic hierarchy claims the sole right and divine jurisdiction over the Western Hemisphere, because of this alleged discovery, as is proven in the Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII, given at St. Peter’s, Rome, on the 25th day of December, 1891, in the 15th year of pontificate, wherein is stated, that “The American Republic under Protestant rulers is with the worst enemies of the Church; this Republic having seized upon the lands discovered by Christopher Columbus, a Catholic, and usurped the authority and jurisdiction of the supreme head of the church,” and

Whereas, all historians maintain doubt as to Columbus having ever set foot on North America, many claiming that he died entirely ignorant of the existence of the mainland; that Columbus was in a sense a discoverer possibly, in so far that he reached a West Indian island, which was named San Salvador, in the year 1492, but that this alleged discovery was purely accidental, as he had originally set out to sail for India, where gold and riches were the lure, while some historians on the other hand claim that he had prior knowledge of the existence of a new world from the archives of the Vatican, where information and learning of every sort were carefully filed, recording the Norse discovery of Vineland and of the voyages of the Vikings to our shores; that this previous knowledge which Columbus had at his disposal gave him that extraordinary confidence, which the romantic accounts of his voyage to San Salvador are ascribed to his “enlightenment from heaven,”and

Whereas, fair and unbiased history records that to Leif Ericson, is due the honor of discovery of the American continent in the year 1000, five centuries previous to the alleged discovery of America by Columbus, that Ericson in his explorations touched three peninsulas – Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Cape Cod, building his house and passing the winter near the latter on the mainland, which he called Vineland. (now Massachusetts), that he made known his discovery, and described the character of the new land, upon his return to Greenland, the following year, and

Whereas, and further, if any man is to be honored by the American people as discoverer of America, the honor should go to Leif Ericson, and to him only, and so therefore,

Be it resolved, that we go on record as deploring the insidious propaganda being promoted in our schools and through the public press, by exalting and extolling Christopher Columbus as the discoverer of America, and we further deplore and resent the action of any local sectarian organizations proclaiming through paid advertisements in the press that October 12th, designated by such organizations as Columbus Day, such day to be commemorated because of this alleged “discovery of our great land,” and we further resent the false claim that the Western Hemisphere is under the sole and divine jurisdiction of the papacy due to the alleged discovery of America by a Catholic, calling attention to the fact that Leif Ericson, of Nordic stock, from which the Anglo-Saxon race was developed, was the real discoverer of America – particularly the United States – that our country was colonized by Protestant Pilgrims, that it was given birth as a Christian nation, by a Protestant Washington, and its unity was preserved by a Protestant Lincoln, and further be it

Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of this organization, and that copies be forwarded to all Protestant ministers in New Ulm; to all fraternal organizations in New Ulm; to all state legislators of Minnesota; to the entire press of the state; and to all Klan and other patriotic publications throughout the nation.

Done this 19th day of October in the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Three, in regular meeting assembled.

New Ulm Provisional Klan Number Twenty-Nine, Realm of Minnesota, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Brown County Journal,

December 7, 1923

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BASKETBALLISTS

HARD AT PRACTICE

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“Mickey” Church, Coach,

Developing Some Good

Material.-First Game Dec.21.

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MANKATO COMMERCIAL COL. TEAM TO BE HERE

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Lads,Who Desire to Make Team Hard at Practice Several

Hours per Day.

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“Mickey” Church, popular coach of the high school basketball team for the past several seasons, is rapidly welding into shape members of the high school student body, who desire to make the team. Rigorous practice is daily being indulged in by the candidates for place on the team. Mr. Church states several hours per day is given over to this practice, and adds that the material is being welded into shape and that a team with considerable promise may be looked for.

First Game of Schedule.

The first game of the season will be played at New UIm on Friday, December 21, when the Mankato Commercial college basketball team will travel to New Ulm to clash with the high school quint.

The second game will be played also at New Ulm and will occur on Fri-day, January 11. The second team of Gustavus Adolphus college at St. Peter will be here. On Friday, January 18, the New Ulm quint will go to Sleepy Eye to engage the high school team of that place. The following Friday, January 25, the Lamberton high school basketball team will contest with the high school team on the local high school floor.

Return Game at Kato.

The New Ulm team will play the Mankato Commercial college quint a return game at Mankato on Saturday, February 2. Sleepy Eye will be here with her cohorts on Friday, February 8. This will be a hotly contested game, as Sleepy Eye and New Ulm are always contenders for the championship of the district.

The following Friday, February 15,is an open date. On Friday, February 22, New Ulm goes to Lamberton and on Friday, February 29, the quint goes to St. Peter, where the return game is played with the Gustavus Adolphus college second team.

District Tournament.

The district tournament will be held at New Ulm on Friday, March 7. The Armory floor has been chosen as the place where the district games will be staged. New Ulm hopes to win the district championship and thus represent the district in the state basketball contest, which will be held later in the season at Minneapolis.There are sixteen districts in the state.

Brown County Journal,

Dec. 7, 1923

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PROPERTY

OWNERS START PROCEEDINGS

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J.A. Horner Appeals from

Confirmation of Assessments

on North Jefferson Street.

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UNDERSTOOD CITY TO PAY FOR SIDE STREETS

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Assessments Levied Against

Property for Two-Thirds Cost

of Total Improvement.

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J. A. Horner has filed notice of an action, in the nature of an appeal to the district court, from the confirmation of the assessment made by the city council recently, for grading, graveling and boulevarding lots No. 13 and 14 in block No. 152, North, being part of the contract for street improvement on North Jefferson street and side streets, carried forth during the past season. This is in the nature of a test case and Mr. Horner has the support of a large number of the property owners on that street in his appeal.

Confusion Is Apparent.

It will be remembered that early last spring a petition was circulated and signed by a number of property owners on North Jefferson street, asking the council to grade, gravel and boulevard that thoroughfare. This had some thirty-six signers. Following the filing of the petition with City Clerk Wm. P. Backer, a second petition was circulated opposing the improvement. A hearing was held in the council chambers on May 4. At that meeting the discussion was vigorous. The condition of the streets as well as that of the side streets was condemned. Property owners stated that it was impossible to reach State street without the use of rubber boots and also that it was impossible to drive a car upon that part of Jefferson street. They complained that children got wet feet in going to and from school.

Question of Cost.

The question of the manner in which the cost of the improvements was to be liquidated came up and a lengthy discussion ensued. The property owners were represented at the hearing by Attorney Alb. Flor. At a recent meeting of the city council, when the assessments for the improvement came up for confirmation, a large number of the property owners was present and remonstrated because they were required to pay two-thirds of the cost of the improvement on the side streets. They were willing to pay two-thirds of the cost of the improvement on Jefferson street, but did not think it fair that they should be required to pay for a portion of the improvement on the side streets. A number of them stated they understood the city agreed to pay for the improvement on the side streets at the hearing held in May. The records of the meeting in the city clerk’s office do not show this. It shows that one-third the cost of the improvement would be assessed against the city at large, and the remaining two-thirds against the abutting property owners. There is where the impasse occurred.

Total Cost, $21,573.71.

The total cost of the improvement is $21,573.71. The cost is levied at the rate of $1.40 per running foot, or $70 for a 50-foot lot. Owners of corner lots are assessed for a 50-foot frontage on the side streets at the rate of $1.40 per running foot. Thus the owner of a corner lot is assessed $140 for the improvement.

Brown County Journal,

Dec. 7, 1923

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