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Germann continues push for Minnecon erosion control

Despite two setbacks this week, Dr. George Germann says he will continue to press for erosion control along the Minnesota River bank at Minnecon Park. “The bank will have to be protected,” Germann said. “I’m going to keep the pressure on so we can go ahead with this.” AT TUESDAY’S New Ulm City Council meeting, Germann made a motion to have plans drawn for 10-foot steel sheet piling and rip-rap. Cost estimate was $17,650. The motion died for lack of a second. He then moved to have plans drawn for 16-foot wood piling and lack of a second. The council then tabled the ...

End of the line

SNOW DRIFTS brought an eastbound train to a halt west of Fairfax before the train was freed Wednesday. Fairfax’s Chicago and North Western depot manager Darrel Benson said an engine went off the tracks between Winthrop and Gibbon Wednesday but was placed back on the tracks by a crane. Cause ...

Study to be taken to decide who pays for mall study

Who’s going to pay what share of a mall feasibility study will be decided by a committee, the New Ulm City Council said Tuesday. Such a study had been requested by New Ulm Business Districts (NUBD) a month ago. CITY MANAGER Richard Salvati told the council the city could allocate up to $5,000 this year towards a mall feasibility study. A very rough estimate of cost of such a study is $7,000 to $10,000, he said. If the city contributes, it should be in cooperation with downtown businesses, Salvati said. He suggested a joint interview panel of councilmen and downtown businessmen to ...

69th legislative session gets going Tuesday

Drinking, drainage and drought are D-Day targets for southwestern Minnesota lawmakers. D-Day is Tuesday when the lawmakers,all with at least one year of seasoning, gather in the capitol at St. Paul. This will be the second half of the “game” that started in 1975. It is scheduled to be the short half of the 69th session. “We aren’t going to stay here forever,” said Nicholas Coleman, senate majority leader and one of the whips. Rural lawmakers have some things they want cleaned up before the hoped for April 1 adjournment of the 69th. Sen. John Bernhagen, R-Hutchinson, is ...

BOOK HISTORICAL PAGEANT ON FOURTH

John B. Rogers Will Furnish Excellent Attraction for Evening of Fourth and Fifth Celebration. ———— SOME THREE HUNDRED PEOPLE IN PRODUCTION ———— Races and Ball Game in Afternoon Other Attractions to Be Arranged for Later. ———— A representative of John B. Rogers Producing Co., of Fostoria, O., was in New Ulm Tuesday and arranged with the Brown County Agricultural society to furnish a historical pageant for the evenings of the Fourth and Fifth of July, which, with a mammoth fireworks program will be the major attraction of the celebration ...

KLOSSNER CREAMERY BROKE ALL RECORDS

Year 1925 Tops List With Total Out-put of 416,792 Pounds of Butter, or 38,500 Pounds More Than in Previous Twelve month. —Total Receipts Were $182,920. Stockholders, at Annual Meeting, Vote To Purchase Eight-Ton Ice Machine. ———— All previous records of the Klossner Creamery Co., one of the most successful and progressive co-operative organizations of its kind in this section of the state, were broken, last year, when the creamery’s output was Increased to 416,792 pounds of butter, which is 38,500 pounds more than was manufactured in 1924, the banner year thus far. This ...