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New steam tunnel

CENTER STREET PROJECT - The City of New Ulm is constructing a steam tunnel across Center Street at the Minnesota Street intersection. According to Dean Gutzke of the New Ulm Public Utilities Department, more than 75 percent of the project has been completed (photo by Steve Kohls) New Ulm Daily ...

Thundering hoofbeats

COUNTRY ACTION Kim Abbas of New Ulm Saddle Club,left, rides her horse, Pike, around the tires in adult musical chairs as Mike Denn of Sleepy Eye clears the pole in jumping figure eights at the Sleepy Eye Horse show Sunday.(Photos by Steve Kohls)

New interpretive center gives Ridgely history a new slant

FAIRFAX — History doesn’t mean much until it’s interpreted, a Minnesota Historical Society director told a gathering at Ft. Ridgely State Park Sunday. The event was the opening of the new interpretive center in the old fort commissary that was rebuilt 30years ago by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Donn Coddington, supervisor of the field services, historic sites and archaeology division of the Historical Society, told a group of more than 200 people scattered across the grass by the commissary that establishment of an interpretive center is considered a final step in ...

PLANNING ADDITION TO UNION HOSPITAL

Stockholders Discuss Enlargement of Present Structure at Annual Meeting, Saturday. ———— NEW WING ON WEST SIDE WILL PROVIDE 18 ROOMS ———— Would Increase Capacity to 50 Beds. - Committee Appointed to Solicit Subscriptions. ———— The advisability of erecting a three-story wing to the west side of the Union hospital in this city, to provide 18 additional rooms and thereby increase the institution’s capacity to 50 beds, was discussed at the annual meeting of the Union Hospital association, held at the Turner hall club rooms, Saturday afternoon. A ...

CITY WILL CLOSE SOFT DRINK PLACES

Buildings Occupied by Lindmeyer and Taner & Manderield Up for Consideration at Council Meeting. ———— PETITION PRESENTED TO BOULEVARD BROADWAY ———— Action of Board of Public Works Approved in Rejecting Petition for Sprinkling on State Street. ———— City Attorney H. N. Somsen cited to the council that Chas. Lindmeyer,Ed. Tauer and Chas. Manderfeld had plead guilty to maintaining a nuisance in federal court at Mankato and had each been sentenced to serve eight months in jail by the district federal judge. He stated that it had been the custom under an ...

BARN WRECKED BY HIGH WIND SUNDAY

Badly Needed Rain Falls Tuesday Afternoon And Evening. ———— Relief from the drought which had become prevalent over this section of the state came Tuesday evening when 1.45 inches of rain fell in this city and vicinity. Very little moisture had fallen in several weeks, and lawns, gardens and farms were suffering badly. Reports at this office were to the cffect that in many instances farmers were turning their stock into the wheat fields because the pastures had given out and the fields had been damaged by the dry weather. High winds on Sunday damaged many trees in this ...