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History

NEW ULM IS ON NATIONAL ROADS ROUTE THRU U.S.

Systems Were Mapped Out At The Session Held In Washington. ———— MARKING HIGHWAYS TO AID TRAFFIC ———— Trunk Lines From North To South Border Run Thru Minnesota. ————— New Ulm is on the route of one of the newly selected United States highways, according to word ...

The Nixon resignation: Citizens reflect on its effect

Aug. 9, 1974, is an historic day. On that day, just about one year ago, -President Richard Nixon resigned from office. He was forced out by growing evidence that he knew of, and possibly participated in,the Watergate scandal. HOW FAR has the United States come from that day, when ...

Residents would rather switch, get sidewalks

Residents of N. Franklin from 12th to 14th N. pulled a switch Tuesday and asked the New Ulm City Council to allow them to install sidewalks. The catch was that the property owners wanted to put in four-foot-wide sidewalks instead of the six-foot-wide ones required along streets that width if ...

Crash landing

AN AIRPLANE from the New Ulm Spraying Service crash landed 7 a.m. Sunday while spraying 2-4-D on a cornfield on the Ralph Meyer farm. The pilot, Raymond Gieseke, was uninjured. The Meyer farm is located four miles east of Fort Ridgely. The plane struck a Brown County REA transmission line, ...

TO ASK TEMPORARY RESTRAIN ORDER

Property Owners Between Center and Fourth North Streets on Broadway Get Busy. ———— DATE OF HEARING SET FOR AUGUST 13 ———— Allege That Action Taken by City Council Was Illegal. — Hindrance to Business Also Alleged. ———— The curtain has not been rung down ...

LAKE SHETEK DREW BIG CROWD SUNDAY

Dedication Exercises Of Memorial Monument On Historical Site. ———— Twenty thousand persons attended the dedication of a monument at Lake Shetek, north of Currie Sunday in memory of fourteen white settlers who were massacred by Indians on August 20, 1862. The ceremonies, at which ...