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History

SWIMMING POOL UP TO SALE OF BONDS

Committee Will Become Active Monday in Offering Bonds to Purchasers for the Erection of the New Swimming Pool.-Ben J. Seifert Post, American Legion, Were Instrumental in Arousing Interest in Project. As was announced in the Journal last week bids were opened for the erection of a swimming ...

POSTAL DEPARTMENT REVENUES FALL OFF

Returns From Local Office Show No Decrease Over Business of 1924. ———— Postal revenues, instead of being boosted by the increased postage rates which became effective April 15, are declining at the rate of more than $12,000,000 a year, it was indicated in a summary of receipts for ...

NEW ULM VICINITY STRUCK BY HAIL

Storm Thursday Evening Broke Just Before Six O’clock and Did Thousands of Dollars Damage. ———— CROPS IN VICINITY VIRTUALLY WIPED OUT ———— Phone Service Badly Crippled. Hundreds of Window Lights Broken.- Deer Killed. ———— The heaviest hail storm ...

Loeffelmacher gets his biggest honor

For 30 years, Harold Loeffelmacher and the Six Fat Dutchmen averaged 325 performances annually. “I’m not as active as I used to be,” Loeffelmacher says however. “I’ve cut it down; I’m 70 years old.” For him, cutting it down means playing between 70 and 100 dates a year. There is ...

Grandstand plan gets green light

Construction of a grandstand at the fairgrounds has been approved by the Brown County Agricultural Society. Members of the society decided to go ahead with the project if the cost could be trimmed to $240,000. Firms that bid on the project said cuts could be made. THE BROWN COUNTY Board of ...

Mediator sees no progress in construction worker talks

Work remained at a standstill this weekend at the Brown County Courthouse and the New Ulm Library as general laborers continued to strike. John Heymann of Heymann Construction in New Ulm said that “nothing has changed” on the status of the strike by laborers and that his firm is still ...