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Welcoming ice champs

NEW ULM’S state champion Bantam B hockey team climbed on the fire truck as part of their welcome home Sunday night. Bantam players are, from left, Peter Anderson, Vince Dietz, Mark Thompson, Paul Macho, Peter Macho, Tom Leske, Scott Zeig, Mark French, Terry Steinbach, Jeff Schugel and Steve ...

Highway 15 bypass option meets Lafayette resistance

LAFAYETTE — If Lafayette area residents would have their way, an improved Hwy. 15 wouldn’t by pass their town. A bypass of Lafayette is one consideration of a plan being made by the Mankato District of the Minnesota Highway Department, which unveiled the proposal at Lafayette Thursday night. The preliminary plans calls for widening and leveling of Hwy. 15between New Ulm and Winthrop, as well as reduction of curves and elimination of three bridges-all for the estimated current cost of about $6 million. Work is to start in 1980. BUT IT WAS the future proximity of Hwy. 15 to the ...

PROHIBITION WAS DEBATE SUBJECT

Two Trios of Public Speaking Department of Holy Trinity Senior Class Argue Pro and Con in Interesting Verbal Mill at Auditorium, Wednesday Evening. Many Interesting Points Stressed by Both Sides. Teams Well Trained.--No Decision. ———— “Resolved, That Prohibition Is a Success,” was the subject of an interesting debate held at Holy Trinity school auditorium, Wednesday evening of this week, by the public speaking department of the Senior class. The affirmative side was upheld by the Misses Salome Laudon, Josephine Kurth, and Hildegard Henle. The negative side was ...

TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL

Rural School Instructors of Brown County Get Valuable Pointers at Meeting. ———— ONLY FIVE ABSENTEES- ILLNESS MAIN CAUSE ———— But One Teacher in Brown County, That Does Not Have First Grade Certificate.-- Excellent Record. ———— But five of the rural teachers in Brown county were absent from the annual teachers’ institute, held in the court room of the court house Friday and Saturday. Several of these were ill and this precluded their attendance. High Grade Personnel. Superintendent R. B. Kennedy extolled the excellent personnel of his teaching ...

TOWNS APPROPRIATE $4,000 FOR ROAD

New Ulm Businessmen and Citizens Will Raise Substantial Fund, Approximating $2,500, for Project ———— FOUR TEAMS TO COLLECT QUOTA IMMEDIATELY ———— New Ulm-Fort Ridgely State Aid Road to Be Important Link in Travel Route. ———— Four thousand dollars are now pledged by three towns in Nicollet county for the construction of the New Ulm-Fort Ridgely state aid road and New Ulm will do its share toward the construction of this all-year travel and historic highway. The towns of Lafayette and West Newton have each pledged $1,500, and Ridgely will ...

GEOLOGISTS LIKELY TO INSPECT VALLEY

Comprehensive Investigation to Determine Commercial Possibilities of this Section Proposed. ———— NATURAL ADVANTAGES MANY IN THIS REGION ———— Increased Eastern Demand for Sandstone, Limestone and Granite Caused Attention to This Part of State ———— New Ulm may be in for a big industrial boom, if investigations by geologists in the Minnesota valley are up to the belief of a number of residents of this city, who have been interested for years in the natural advantages that are said to be extant in this immediate vicinity. Among the resources ...