Last year, nine artists began to work on a way to tell Bible stories without needing words, specifically for the people of Zambia. The idea has grown into a series of illustrations that can be used to share the Bible with people of any background, country, and most importantly, language. One ...
DEDICATE ST. MARY’S CHURCH WEDNESDAY ———— Archbishop Austin Dowling of St. Paul Performs Solemn Rites and Delivers Sermon. ———— MANY VISITING CLERGY ASSIST IN CEREMONIES ———— Cafeteria Dinner and Supper Served. Open-Air Amusements in Afternoon and Evening. ———— The new Church of St. Mary on was formally dedicated with imposing rites and ceremonies by Most Rev. Austin Dowling, D. D., archbishop of St. Paul, assisted by local and visiting clergy. This memorable day in the history of the new Catholic parish, here dawned bright and clear, and ...
At the July quarterly meeting Sunday night, the voters of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in New Ulm approved by a two-thirds majority the sale of one acre of land to an association of New Ulm medical doctors and also okayed the purchase of nearly one acre of land from School District 88 of New Ulm. This approval means the merger of nine local doctors into one medical clinic will become a reality. The doctors plan a building addition on the present New Ulm Medical Center building at Center and Garden. That addition will use up part of the present parking lot. The St. Paul’s playground ...
Edward Ozias, last direct descendant of the Stork Brothers produce family, left $929,000 to 19 charities through a trust arrangement, insurance policies and annuities, according to probate papers filed Thursday in Brown County Court. Ozias died March 19 at his home at the age of 61. He had worked as a bookkeeper for his mother and his uncles, August and Albrecht Stork, at Stork Brothers, Minnesota’s oldest produce business, long a landmark on S. German. Born in Tyler to Ida Stork Ozias and Edward Hudson Ozias, the young Ozias came to New Ulm in 1916 and always lived at his ...
Artus Van Briggle and his wife, Anne, were decorators at the Rookwood Pottery in Ohio. They moved to Colorado after Artus was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and he opened his own pottery there, the Van Briggle Pottery, in 1901. After Artus died in 1904, Anne took over the pottery. Van Briggle Pottery is known for its art nouveau vases with abstract flower shapes or graceful human figures in a single rich color, subtly varied shades or tonal gradients of matte glazes. The glazes were Artus’ passion, inspired by centuries-old Chinese pottery. This tile, which sold for $2,125 at a Rago ...
ST. PAUL — New Ulm has been selected as the site for the southwest regional headquarters of the Department of Natural Resources, DNR Commissioner Robert Herbst announced today. The department will construct an office building on a 117-acre site donated by the city and county along Highway ...
