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Aid flows to earthquake victims

There is no word yet from three Fairfax couples believed to be missing in Guatemala. Mr. and Mrs. Wenzel Prax, Mr. and Mrs. William Steinke and Mrs. and Mrs. Joseph Zollner are believed to be in Guatemala, but have not been heard from since a week ago Thursday. Prax’s son, Wesley, said the U.S. government is conducting a search for the three couples. He said he has received no word yet about his parents. A PLANE with donated relief supplies for Guatemalan earthquake victims will leave Minneapolis Friday, according to Sister Sandra Spencer of Epiphany Church in Coon ...

Revenue sharing draws praise as library opens

New Ulm’s $1.2 million city library was praised as “federal revenue sharing at its best’’ by Walter Mondale, D-Minn. one of the men who helped make it possible. Speaking at the dedication of the library Thursday, the senator said, “I will tell them in Washington the New Ulm ...

Now you see her, now you don’t

MRS. W. J. VON BANK, 308 S. Broadway, New Ulm, found that trying to sweep water off her sidewalk was just a good way to get wet Monday. Improperly draining water from the melting snow covered parts of South Broadway,and unless cars slowed down or drove in the left lane, the traffic threw water ...

3 missing nuns reported safe in Guatemala

Three Sisters of Notre Dame who staff the New Ulm Diocese Mission in Guatemala have been reported safe by two other sisters who cabled Good Counsel Academy. The sisters, who staff missions at Nahaula and Rio Bravo, were reported missing after last week’s earthquake because of “bad communications,” according to Sister Eunice Silkey of Good Counsel. SISTERS at these missions and two other missions at San Lucas and Potzun apparently did not know how the other missions fared in the earthquake, Sister Eunice said. First word about the sisters at Potzun came from San Lucas,she ...

SWIMMING POOL MEET HELD LAST EVENING

Large Number of Coupons for $5 Worth of Swims in Proposed Pool Signed Up. ———— GATHERING HELD TO DISCUSS BOND DRIVE ———— Informal Meeting of Legion Committee and Citizens At Farmers And Merchants Bank. ———— A meeting was held last evening at the Armory of interested citizens in the proposed swimming pool in North German park. It was anticipated that Wesley Bintz, of Lansing, Mich., who was in New Ulm several weeks ago and submitted his proposition to the members of Ben J. Seifert post, American Legion, which organization is sponsoring the ...

CAR AND GAS $20.40 STATE TAX AVERAGE

Minnesota 1925 Levies on Automobile Owners For Better Highways Are Not Exorbitant. More Than the Automobiles Yield Less Than $12 Each of License or Registration Fee and $3.35 Gasoline Tax. Compared With Personal Property. State license of $16.15 and $4.25 gasoline tax — a combined total of $20.40 was the complete tax and full good roads contribution on the average passenger automobile in Minnesota last year. Based on official reports just made public in St. Paul, the figures are held to apply fairly in Brown county as well as in the rest of the state. More than half of the ...