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100 Years Ago: MANY ACCIDENTS OCCURRED SUNDAY ON TRAVELED ROAD

MANY ACCIDENTS OCCURRED SUNDAY ON TRAVELED ROAD ———— Many In Hospitals Because Of Injuries Sustained In Driving. ———— SEVERAL SMASHUPS IN LOCAL VICINITY ———— Press Reports Accidents In All Parts Of The County. ———— Sunday’s nice weather brought out a flock of large number of pleasure drivers and as a result of the great traffic a large number of accidents have been reported over the entire country. New Ulm and vicinity also got its share of the accidents, the most serious one being that which happened near St. George Sunday ...

100 Years Ago: MRS. C. W. MILLER FILES FOR ELECTION

MRS. C. W. MILLER FILES FOR ELECTION ———— Women Of City Promoting Election Of Candidate On School Board. ———— Women in New Ulm have banded together and are using their efforts to place a woman representative on the School Board of the local public schools. A recent announcement carries the information that Mrs. Verna H. Miller, wife of Dr. C. W. Miller, for many years a resident of this city, has filed for election on the board. At the present time F. P. Zschunke has not filed and it is rumored that he will not do so. Mrs. Miller is seeking the place on the ...

100 Years Ago: 4,144 PUPILS ARE IN BROWN COUNTY

4,144 PUPILS ARE IN BROWN COUNTY ———— 2,030 of These in High and Graded Districts. — 2,114 in Ungraded Rural Districts. ———— 167 TEACHERS EMPLOYED IN COUNTY SCHOOLS ———— Average Monthly Wages Paid for Instructing Youth of County Is $127. ———— According to Superintendent R. B. Kennedy’s annual report, which he will submit to the state department of education, there were 4,144 pupils enrolled in the public schools of the county during the school year, which will end July 31. Of this number 2,030 were enrolled in the high and ...

100 Years Ago: SOUTHERN MINN. IS AGAIN DELUGED BY VERY HEAVY RAINS

SOUTHERN MINN. IS AGAIN DELUGED BY VERY HEAVY RAINS ———— Many Counties Experience Severe Wind And Rain Storms. ———— ROCHESTER VISITED BY ELECTRIC DISTURBANCE ———— Four Persons Injured. Large Circus Tent Quickly Collapses. ———— Southern Minnesota was visited again by a severe windstorm last Thursday which at Rochester assumed miniature cyclonic proportions. Other sections experienced severe rain and at some places hail storms resulted in some damage to growing crops. New Ulm escaped this time. It looked threatening for awhile to the south ...

Poor farm was home to country’s unwanted

Forty years ago they didn’t call it welfare. It was mother’s pension, commissioners’ relief, old age pension, or county poor farm. The first three gave monthly payments or picked up bills for living expenses. But the last alternative meant a move to the solid brick two-storied structure along the Cottonwood River at the south end of New Ulm. FOR THOSE with no place to go it was a roof over their heads,remembers Al Alfred, former county commission. They included hired men too old to work, parents whose children didn’t want them at home any more, even some who had deeded ...

Let St. George do it — alone

When the Central Catholic Schools system informed one of its parishes, St. George,its building would be closed in autumn 1975 and its students bused to New Ulm,there was a revolt. The families of St. George, in rural Nicollet County, 7 miles northwest of New Ulm, voted 131 to 0 to abdicate from the consolidated schools system and go it alone. That was their declaration of in-dependence from an association they had never participated in with full enthusiasm. It was their version of “let George do it alone.” WHEN schools resume Sept. 2, St. George Catholic Parochial School will ...