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POSTAL DEPARTMENT REVENUES FALL OFF

Returns From Local Office Show No Decrease Over Business of 1924. ———— Postal revenues, instead of being boosted by the increased postage rates which became effective April 15, are declining at the rate of more than $12,000,000 a year, it was indicated in a summary of receipts for May. Receipts of 50 selected post offices for May totaled $27,454,861, as com-compared with $290,838, 321 for April, and $29,085.090 for March. These offices, which turn in more than half of the country’s total postal receipts, reported a decrease of more than $20,000 for each business day, as ...

Beer license denied new Beyer’s owner

Leon Olson got only half a loaf from the New Ulm City Council Tuesday and may go to court seeking the other half. The council denied a 3.2 beer license but granted other entertainment licenses for a bar Olson plans to operate at the former Beyer’s Bar, 121 S. Valley. Licenses for soft drinks, two pool tables and two mechanical amusement devices (foosball) were okayed by the council. Future granting of the beer license was said to be a possibility. Patrick Moriarty, Olson’s attorney, told The Journal today Olson will be opening in July with all the licenses he can get and will ...

Loeffelmacher gets his biggest honor

For 30 years, Harold Loeffelmacher and the Six Fat Dutchmen averaged 325 performances annually. “I’m not as active as I used to be,” Loeffelmacher says however. “I’ve cut it down; I’m 70 years old.” For him, cutting it down means playing between 70 and 100 dates a year. There ...

Mediator sees no progress in construction worker talks

Work remained at a standstill this weekend at the Brown County Courthouse and the New Ulm Library as general laborers continued to strike. John Heymann of Heymann Construction in New Ulm said that “nothing has changed” on the status of the strike by laborers and that his firm is still working on unpicketed projects. THERE IS a possibility that the laborers could be locked out, although Heymann emphasized that that firm has not made a decision on whether to go along with a lock out decision being contemplated by Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Minnesota. “I don’t ...

Grandstand plan gets green light

Construction of a grandstand at the fairgrounds has been approved by the Brown County Agricultural Society. Members of the society decided to go ahead with the project if the cost could be trimmed to $240,000. Firms that bid on the project said cuts could be made. THE BROWN COUNTY Board of Commissioners agreed this week to pay $80,000 from revenue sharing funds for the project. The county also has agreed to levy $20,000 a year for up to eight years for the grandstand. The agricultural society has $26,000 of its own for the project. “We’re a little disappointed it had to cost ...

COMMITTEES START BOND DRIVE FOR A SWIMMING POOL

All Plans Complete For Construction Of Pool And Bath House. ———— LEGION MEN WILL BUILD A MEMORIAL ———— Citizens Must Lend Aid If Longfelt Need Is To Be Satisfied. ———— New Ulm’s Legion Memorial Swimming Pool is now complete - on paper. The plans have been perfected, bids received, and contractors are “raring to go.” There remains to be determined only one thing, that is the civic spirit and enthusiasm of the citizens of New Ulm. Long Felt Need Realized The Legion Memorial Swimming Pool is the logical outgrowth of Ben J. Siefert Post’s ...