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WIND TAKES FORD SEDAN DOWN BEACH KILLING AGED MAN

Car Owned By Ray Fabel Of New Ulm Plunged Into Lake Crystal. ———— CHRIS FREDERICKSON UNFORTUNATE VICTIM ———— Was Seated On Rock Fishing With His Back To Oncoming Car. ———— Sunday afternoon about two o’clock Chris Frederickson of Butternut Valley aged seventy-seven, was instantly killed when he was struck on the head by the Ford Sedan belonging to Ray Fabel of this city which plunged down the embankment into the lake. The high wind started the car down the road-side toward the beach although the brakes were set and had to be released before it ...

BIDS CALLED FOR ON TRUNK HIGHWAY 7

Commissioner Babcock This Week ls Calling for Bide on Work Between New Ulm and Cobden. ———— DISTANCE IS 23.1 MILES COST ESTIMATED $150,000 ———— Contract Let for Graveling on Trunk Highway No. 15 South of Winthrop for $4,446. ———— The first step in the reconstruction of Trunk Highway No. 7, between New Uim and Cobden, as the result of the County Commissioners voting bonds in the sum of $250,000 at the last meeting of the board in 1924,18the call for bids by Highway Commissioner C. M. Babcock, for grading. The bids will be opened next Tuesday. ...

RURAL SCHOOLS ARE NOW ALL CLOSED

Superintendent B. B. Kennedy States That Past Year Has Been Excellent One In Brown County. ———— NO SCARCITY TEACHERS AS SEVERAL YEARS AGO ———— Expects to Have Sufficient High-Class Instructors for Next Year Early by Fall. ———— The last of the rural schools of Brown county closed for the summer vacation Friday. On previous Fridays during the past months schools in the different districts have been closing, and Friday the last quota of teachers bid their scholars goodbye, locked the shutters and doors for the summer months, turned the keys over to ...

15 GRADUATE FROM N.U. CATHOLIC HIGH

Commencement Exercise Were Held at Holy Trinity School Auditorium Sunday Evening. ———— ATTY. L. GLOTZBACH DELIVERED ADDRESS ———— Sixteen Young People Completed Course at St. Mary’s Catholic School the Same Evening. ———— The Holy Trinity school auditorium was crowded to capacity during the commencement exercises of the New Ulm Catholic high school, Sunday evening, when 15 young people, having completed the four-year course, were presented with their diplomas,as follows: Henry Altmann, Albert Blenemann, Leander Dauer, Erwin Fast, Marcus Franta, ...

New Ulm woman helps nab convict

Ursula Condon drove an escaped convict through Shakopee at gun-point Saturday, then helped catch him after he got out of her car. Miss Condon, administrator of Central Catholic Schools in New Ulm,was alone in her car,driving to the Twin Cities to visit a friend. She left New Ulm at 10 a.m. ...

Kites and breeze

SPRING OUTING — Connie Meyer flies her kite in an open meadow during an afternoon of fun for youngsters at St. John’s School in Searles. The students brought their kites and enjoyed the warm spring breeze before the end of the school year. (Photo by Steve Kohls)