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COUNTY SCHOOLS ENROLLED 4,144 PUPILS LAST YEAR

High And Graded Districts Draw 2,030. 2,114 In Ungraded Districts. ———— EFFICIENT STAFF OF TEACHERS IN COUNTY ———— Many New Instructors Will Take Up Their Work This Fall. ———— Brown County schools had a total enrollment of 4,144 pupils during the school year of 1924-5, according to the report submitted to the State Department of Education by Supt. R. B. Kennedy. There were more students enrolled in the rural district than in the high and graded schools, their rural enrollment being 2,114 and the other 2,030. Of this enrollment, 1,968 pupils ...

IMPROVEMENTS AT D.M.L.C., $5,000

Extensive Repairs and Renewals Being Completed on College Heights This Season. ———— CHEMICAL LABORATORY ENLARGED AND MOVED ———— Enrollment for Fall Term Commencing September 2 Larger Than It Was Last Year. ———— Extensive improvements have been made at the Dr. Martin Luther college in this city during the summer months, and the work is nearing completion at this time. These betterments, comprising mostly repairs and renewals, and made at a cost of approximately $5,000, were ordered by the board of directors at a session held some time ago, and were ...

Water Fans From A Distance Spend Sunday In Towns Having Pools. ———— MARSHALL BUSINESS MEN TO BUILD A POOL ———— Reports Of Two Cities Are Strongly In Favor Of Projects. ———— New Ulm was going to have a swimming pool but when the actual cost of the project was realized it was deemed best to wait until another year and in the meantime committees were instructed to learn what other communities are doing to take care of the expense of their swimming pools and then New Ulm would go ahead and complete its plans. For the benefit of those who are interested ...

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 ordered in by the city. THE TWO-BLOCK stretch is near Washington Elementary School and residents told the council the city would probably be ordering sidewalks in sometime in the future,so they’d rather put them in now. City policy has been six-foot sidewalks along streets with 80-foot ...

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, ...