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CHILDREN’S DAY AT CO. FAIR BIG THING

Young Folks Intensely Interested in Coaster Float Parade and Various Speed Events. ———— FREE-FOR-ALL RUNNING AND LUMBER WAGON GO ———— Grandstand Additions, New Poultry Building, High Woven Wire Fence Nearly Completed. ———— The management of the 1925 Brown County fair, to be staged at the Fair grounds in New Ulm, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 27, 28, 29 and 30, struck a popular chord in the hearts of the kiddies, when they decided to offer the little folks a number of special features in connection with the regular big program ...

HIGH SCHOOL STUDY COURSE IS CHANGED

New Curriculum Introduced To Meet with Suggestions of State Education Board. ———— WON’T INTERFERE WITH PREVIOUS ENROLLMENT ———— Students Attending Last Year Not. Affected by Innovation, But May Conform Thereto. ———— The opening of the New Ulm high school on Monday, August 31, will mark the beginning of a simplified high school course of study for the entering Freshmen. This new course of study has been introduced to meet with suggestions of the State Board of Education. It will not affect the plans of students who were enrolled in the local high ...

School faces discrimination charge

A discriminatory hiring practice charge has been made against the New Ulm School District. The Department of Human Rights is charging that the school board is violating state statute with its policy against hiring applicants whose spouses are teachers in the district. Al Dosland,attorney for the school district, indicated that the case will probably wind up in the courts if the school board chooses to try to retain the policy. HOWEVER,there seems to be mixed feeling among school board members whether the policy is worth retaining. The Human Rights Act, Dosland explained Thursday, ...

In this hunt, the quarry survives

This isn’t Boone County, Tenn.,but we do hunt raccoons here. To practice up for those coon hunts the South Central Minnesota Coon Hunters Association sponsors field trials for their dogs along with games using the raccoon as the main attraction. One of those meets is coming Sunday at the ...

Jeannie C. Riley at the fair

Inside her insect-stained bus, Jeannie C. Riley sat licking a Dannheim’s ice cream cone. The high-heeled boots, the mini-skirt and the computerized image that followed “Harper Valley PTA” are gone now. Instead, she wears a western pantsuit and mentions freely that she hasn’t had a ...

Blaze destroys barn during thunderstorm

A barn southwest of New Ulm was destroyed by fire this morning after it apparently was struck by lightning. Joseph E. Grau was awakened by the rain at about 3:20 a.m. and discovered the fire. An official of the New Ulm Fire Department, which received Grau’s call at 3:35 a.m., estimated the ...