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75TH ANNIVERSARY GYMNASTIC UNION

of American Turnerband To Be Observed at St. Paul, Sunday. ———— FIRST DISTRICT ASSEMBLY OF SEASON AT SAME TIME ———— New Ulm Turnverein Will Be Represented by Actives, Juniors and Possibly Young Ladies. ———— The 75th anniversary of the founding of the American Turnenbund, together with the 29th anniversary of the St. Paul Turnverein will be fittingly observed in connection with the first district assembly (Bezirks-Turntag) of the Minnesota Turnbezirk, at the St. Paul Armory, as well as at Turner hall, St. Paul, next Sunday, November 15. Gymnastics and ...

PRICE OF POTATOES WORRY HOUSEWIFE

Increase in Price from Ninety Cents Per Bushel to Nearly $3 Is Recorded Since Early Fall. Shortage in the Crop of Late Potatoes, Due Chiefly to Insufficient Moisture Largely Responsible. Upward Price Trend Is Expected During the Coming Months. ———— With the prices of potatoes sky-rocketing, New Ulm housewives and places of business without stocks sufficient to carry them over until the 1926 crop comes in face the necessity of paying high prices for the tubers in future months. Prices have been on the upward trend since a short time after the greater part of the crop was ...

TAX RATE LEVY IS HIGHER IN NEW ULM

Auditor Louis G. Vogel, Computes Rates for Cities and Villages of County. ———— NEW ULM RATE 68 MILLS, SLEEPY EYE HIGHEST, 88 ———— Springfield Rate, 858 Mills; Comfrey, 57.4; Hanska, 64.2; Evan, 44, and Cobden, 44.8. ———— County Auditor Louis G. Vogel has completed the work of determining rates for the cities and villages of the county, to be used to compute taxes, levied this year and to be collected next year. The New Ulm rate is considerably larger than the rate, employed to compute taxes last year, and collected this year. The increase is 15.6 ...

FARM CENSUS FACTS ARE MADE PUBLIC

Summary of Agricultural Data Is Interesting. Comparisons for 1920 and 1925 Are Made. ———— FARM OWNERS,TENANTS INCREASED IN BROWN ———— Value of Land Much Lower. — Buildings Higher. -- Breeding Cattle Nearly Doubled. ———— The Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C., has just issued a preliminary announcement relative to agricultural activity in Brown county. The data furnished by the department is illuminating as to several lines of activity on the farms of this county. It is noted the number of farms have increased during the past five years. ...

WOMAN KILLED AS AUTO HITS RUM CAR

Four Injured in Crash, Which Occurred Friday Afternoon Near St. James.—Two Iowa Men Held Until Coroner’s Verdict of Accidental Death, Was Returned Monday.Mrs. Paul Klein, Wife of Prominent Farmer, Dies of Injuries. ———— Mrs. Paul Klein, wife of a prominent farmer near St. James, was killed Friday afternoon, when the automobile in which she was riding with her husband collided with a machine which police said contained a large quantity of liquor, three miles west of that city. Four persons received injuries. The two occupants of the alleged liquor car were arrested and ...

Harvest is in: Farmers, buyers play waiting game

They’re all playing a waiting game. Farmers are waiting for grain prices to go up, buyers are waiting for the price to drop lower, and the government is waiting to see the result after placing an embargo on grain sales to foreign buyers. What it means is that grain is moving out from ...