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State orders end to bottle-buying

ST. PAUL — The state agriculture department has ordered competitors of Don Dannheim’s New Ulm Dairy to stop buying glass milk bottles on or before Tuesday. Commissioner Jon Wefald announced the action Friday. He said letters were being sent to Oak Grove Dairy of Norwood and the supermarkets in New Ulm who “are evidently buying his (Dannheim’s) half-gallon bottles on the open market.” Wefald said the letters stated in essence,“We believe the purchase of these bottles constitutes an attempt to lessen, restrain or impair the New Ulm Dairy sale of selected dairy ...

WORK ON SANCTUARY ST. PAUL CATHEDRAL

Plans for Edifice Promise Architectural Beauty to Rank With Finest in World. ———— COST IS GREAT-WORK HAS BEEN STARTED ———— Next Stage on Finishing Interior Includes Ambulatory and Six Apsidal Chapels. ———— Work on the St. Paul cathedral sanctuary, the ambulatory and the six apsidal chapels has been started. This is a continuation of the important development of the cathedral group which were completed some time ago with the clergy house, sacristy and the landscaping of the grounds. At this time no attempt will be made to do more towards the finishing of ...

GREATER ACTIVITY PLANNED FOR FT. RIDGELY GROUNDS

Special Meeting Of Park Historical Assn. Votes Drive. ———— RESERVATION OFFERED FOR MILITIA ENCAMPMENT ———— Special Effort Encouraged For Scenic Routes To Fort. ———— At a special meeting of the directors of the Ft. Ridgely State Park and Historical Association held in the Dutch room of Turner Hall Sunday afternoon appropriate resolutions on the death of Charles H. Nixon, Vice President of the Association who died recently, were adopted, a successor to him was elected, the wording of a tablet to be placed at the recently installed flag staff at the ...

AURORA BOREALIS CENSORS SERVICE

Telegraphic Communication and Radio Programs Intermittently Interrupted by Northern Lights, Tuesday. Interference Was More Noticeable in East Than in Middle West. Local Radio Fans Report Having Had Trouble Getting Stations. ———— If your radio wasn’t working perfectly, Tuesday evening, don’t blame the contraption, for the trouble, no doubt, was caused by the aurora borealis, popularly known as the northern lights, which played havoc with telegraphic communications and radio broadcasting that day and evening. The greatest difficulty experienced by “listeners in” was to ...

CRIMINAL CASES IN BROWN COUNTY DECREASE IN 1925

Facts Gleaned From Reports Made By Co. Att’y T.O. Streissguth. ———— 65 OF 73 OFFENDERS CONVICTED OF CHARGE ———— Drunkenness And Violation Of Liquor Laws Cause Arrest Of Many. ———— County Attorney T. O. Streissguth completed his annual report last Saturday and has filed the same with the Attorney General and the County Auditor. It will be submitted to the County Commissioners at their February meeting. The report for 1925 shows that 73 criminal cases were tried in the Courts of Brown County within the past year. This in a decrease of 17 in the ...

Students see inequality in discipline

Administrators in New Ulm schools paint a picture of toughness and fairness when dealing with discipline problems. And they believe the methods they use in dealing with these problems do work. SOME STUDENTS, however, see the situation differently. Three students at New Ulm Senior High School agreed with their principals that truancy and tardiness probably are the biggest problems in the school. But they don’t agree that the culprits always are caught or dealt with fairly. “It is possible to get away with skipping,” said one youth who has been sent to the principal’s ...