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City makes bridge commitment

Formal commitment to cooperate with adjacent government bodies to build a bridge to replace the Courtland Cutoff bridge was made Tuesday by the New Ulm City Council. The council had discussed the matter a week ago after a replacement bridge, possibly at 20th S.,was suggested as a possible way to ease some of the city’s traffic problems. State money is available to pay 100 per cent of construction cost of replacement bridges, if the state okays the project. Local governments would pay for design work and for all-weather roads leading up to the bridge. The council authorized its ...

RETIRED $112,000 IN BONDS, $161,400 CASH

Annual Audit Shows City Is Decreasing Its Indebtedness and Balancing Its Funds. ———— BONDED DEBT OF NEW ULM IS NOW $370,600 ———— Depreciation Is Now Taken Into Consideration. $144,142.83 Is Total Of This Item. ———— Since the budget system was adopted by the city of New Ulm a year ago the financial status has “looked up” considerably. At the end of the last fiscal year, as of date, February 28,1926, the bonded indebtedness was $370,600. This is a decrease of $112,000 over the previous year. This is set out in detail elsewhere. In addition ...

‘BOB’ HENDERSON IN COMFREY BURGLARY

Admitted Complicity in Robbery of Erickson & Kisro Clothing Store, Ten Years Ago. ———— WAS WORLD WAR BUDDY OF NEW ULMITE LATER ———— Article in Last Week’s Issue of Journal Recalls Reminiscences of Camp Experiences. ———— There is no doubt in the mind of a certain wellknown New Ulmite as to the fact that Robert Henderson, who is under arrest at Madison, Wis., on a charge of being a party to the robbery of the Superior, Wis., postoffice, November 21, 1924, was also implicated in the burglary of the Erickson & Kisro clothing store at Comfrey in ...

DISTRICT MEET OF WOMEN’S CLUBS HERE

New Ulm Will Be Scene of District Federated Club Convention Next Year. ———— DEMAND IS MADE FOR RIGID LAW ENFORCEMENT ———— Mrs. W. W. Smith, Sleepy Eye, Is Named First Vice President About 135 Delegates Present. ———— New Ulm will entertain the annual convention of the Women’s Federated clubs of the Second district next May. This was one of the closing actions taken by the delegates at Windom Wednesday morning. The district convention was held here a number of years ago. Favor Law Enforcement Responding unanimously to the call of the ...

ALBRECHT MAKES NOT GUILTY PLEA

Charged With First Degree Murder, in the Alleged Killing of Walter Vining, Dec. 18. ———— LARSON ALSO MAKES NOT GUILTY PLEA FRIDAY ———— He Is Charged With Second Degree Manslaughter in Death of Violet Johnson, April 28. ———— Two murder trials are on the docket in the district court at St. Peter, in Nicollet county. Hugo Albrecht, twenty-one-year old Mankato youth, Tuesday morning with which he was indicted by the Nicollet county grand jury last week. He is charged with the murder of Walter Vining, Bel-grade township farmer, December 18,1925. ...

America at 250

Editor’s note:  It is impossible to tell the story of the nation without telling the story of the Ohio River Valley. Long before interstate highways and railroads connected the expanding republic, it was the rivers that served as the young nation’s first true highway westward. In many ...