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of I xfo VETERAN PASTOR HONORED Luthera Congregation Celebrates With Rev. Albrecht His Silver Jubilee. Preachers Other Towns Join in Exercises and Pay Tribute to His Gifts of a Substantial Character Presented by Members of His Flock. Sunday was a great day among the Lutherans of New Ulm. It was also a memorable day for Rev.

C. J. Albrecht. For twenty-five years the venerable pastor had watched over the interests of his congregation in this city and the members of that congregation decided that the completion of a quarter of a century of faithful service was worthy of a celebration. Accordingly they gathered at the church in the morning in great numbers and at the proper time their pastor was conducted into their presence.

The church was beautifully decorated and after an eloquent tribute by Rev. Schroedel of St. Paul, president of the Minnesota synod, F. H. Retzlaff, on behalf of the congregation, stepped forward and presented Rev.

Albrecht with a beautiful silver water pitcher containing a cash purse of substantial proportions. Rev. Albrecht started to respond, but the moment he arose from his seat a large gilded ball overhead opened and let fall upon him a veritable shower of fragrant flowers. It was a sight that was at once pretty and effective. During the dinner hour lunch was served by the ladies' society to the visiting ministers and the members of the college and parochial school faculties and in the afternoon a sermon was delivered by Rev.

Zich of Sleepy Eye. The evening was given over to exercises at the school and at the parson-age and in all of these Rev. Albrecht was an interested participant. was he pleased with a handsome leather rocker vhich came as a gift fiom the women's society of the church. Rev.

Albrecht came to New Ulm on the 20th ot August, 1882. Since then he has ser-red as pastor of the Lutheran church without interruption He was also president of the Minnesota synod for eleven years and at the present time is visiting minister to the churches of his district. When he came here his congregation numbered thirty-six voting members. Today it has 210, with a total patronage of nearly two thousand souls. Prominent among those who attending the celebration on Sunday were Revs.

Schroedl of St. Paul, Zich of Sleepy Eye, Fritz of St. Leo, Chris. Albrecht of Algonia, Gottlieb Albrecht of Renville, Schuetze of Olivia, Bauer of Johnson, Engel of Wellington, Brunsh of Mud Lake, Buenger of Kenoska, Emanuel Albrecht of Fairfax, Gus. Albrecht of Holland and Wm.

Albrecht of White, S. D. Rev. J. E.

Abramson has resigned as pastor of the Baptist church in Sleepy Eye to accept a call from Brainerd. Mayor Silverson estimated that fully ninety-five per cent of the people of New Ulm preferred to have the saloons kept open on Sunday. Judged by the crowd that was here last Sunday the percentage among the foreigners is equally great. Edward Lee, a young man of twentyfive years whose parents reside near Springfield, was found dead Monday morning in the office of a lumber company for which he worked at Driscoll, North Dakota. His body was brought to Springfield for burial.

The Farmers Elevator Company of Fairfax has arranged for a convention of farmers to be held in Minneapolis September 3 and 4. The object of the convention is to devise methods to fight the grain trust, and such well known friends of the farmer as Jim Haynes. Frank Nye, William Henry Eustis and Congressman Charlie Davis are to be on hand to supply the oratorical fireworks. The management of the Chicago Northwestern railroad is experimenting with a German speedometer and expects to adopt it for general use on all passenger trains. Unlike the speedometer now in use on the Burlington, the German invention is placed, instead of on the locomotive, in one of the cars composing the train.

The machine not only records the speed which the train makes, but also records all stops and their duration. A complete check is thus kept on engine and train crews. amsm 1 WHAT MAKES LUMBER HIGH? One Explanation to be Found Excessive Charges for Railroad Transportation. Take the case of the Pacific Coast, for example. Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana contain 900,000,000,000 feet of standing to construct 45,000.000 houses and sufficient to care for the wants of the entire United States for a period of 25 years.

This region contains over 2,000 saw and shingle mills, and employs 192,000 persons, with a payroll of approximately $135,000,000 per ear. Last year these states shipped by rail 17,000,000 tons of lumber, on which the freight charges were not far from $150,000,000. The entire operating expenses of the Northern Pacific is paid by the lumbermen ot the state of Washington alone, and were it not for the forests on the Pacific Coast the entire traffic ot all the lines could be handled by one road. The cost of producing this lumber at the present time is about $13.50 per 1000 feet and the average selling price for the entire output is not over $15 at the mill. But freight charges are so high that in many cases the original selling price of the lumber is exceeded.

For example the rate to Minneapolis is $13.20 per 1000 feet making lumber which cost only $15 at the mill cost $28 20 at Minneapolis. To Omaha and Chicago the rate is $16.50, to Cincinnati $19.80 and to St. Louis $17.32. After this explanation one can readily 'understand how, during the years from 1900 to 1906, the Northern Pacific had gross earnings of $308,567,873.94 while its operating expenses were only $158,579,164.55 and how during the same the Great Northern's gross earnings reached $234,898,393.79 and its operating expenses only $118,193,460.59. Notwithstanding this prosperous condition of affairs the Pacific coast lines have not taken care of the interests of the western lumber shippers as they should have done.

To illustrate, several ago the lumbermen of the states of Washington and Oregon petitioned the Hill and Harriman lines for a reduction in the rates to the Middle West of $3.30 per 1000 feet, on the ground that they were burning up annually 53,000 carloads of lumber in the woods and at the saw mills because of a lack of market for cheap lumber. Their request was refused, notwithstanding the fact that the cost of haul is $1,200.44 per train load and the revenue at the reduced rate would mmsMBamm MUST WE COME TO WIRELESS POLITICS? in Freight Rates from Pacific Coast to Middle West are Simply Outrageous. To Minneapolis, for Example, the Hauling Charges Nearly Equal the Original Price of the Lumber. A resolution was introduced and passed by congress last winter authorizing the Bureau of Corporations of the Department of Commerce and Labor to investigate the cause of the high prices for lumber. This investigation is now under way, and the lumber manufacturers of the country welcome it, because they know that the real cause will be freight rates.

VOLUME XXIX XEW UL.M, BROWN COUNTY, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28, L907. isO. 35 jr in Washington Star. be $4,950 per train load.

This waste of timber is still going on. Moreover, during the past two years, the average time of movement of a car load of lumber from Puget Sound to St. Paul was 120 days and the Pacific Coast lumbermen lost $15,000,000 in cancellation of orders by reason of the inefficiency of the railroads. In 1905, for instance, the Great Northern and Northern Pacific added one locomotive to the equipment of the two roads, despite the fact that the earnings were the greatest in their history. But while all this is bad enough for the Middle West consumer, the worst is still to come.

In October the Hill and Harriman lines will put into effect a new tariff schedule raising the rates to points in Kansas and Nebraska $1.65 per 1000 feet and to all other points east of the Rocky Mountains $3.30 per thousand. This means that lumber in Minnesota will hereafter cost $31.50 per thousaud and the extra cost of building an ordinary dwelling will be approximately $66. And this too in face of the fact that the earnings of the Hill and Harriman coast lines for the year just ended are the largest in the history of the roads. MAYOR SILVERSON WINS A PRIZE Engagement of City's Ruler to Miss Katherine Taney is Formally Announced. In the Minneapolis Journal of Wednesday evening occurred the following announcement: "The Gamma Phi Beta Sisters of Miss Katherine Taney were informed of Miss Taney's engagement to Charles Silverson of New Ulm at a charming sorority tea given this afternoon.

Miss Taney is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Taney of St.

Paul and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, class of 1906." Mr. Silverson confirms the report and says the marriage will take place shortly after New Years. The Review congratulates both him and his bride to be. Miss Taney is an exceptionally fine young woman and ip'winning her it is universally conceded that the mayor wins a prize. She, in winning him, captures New Ulm's foremost business man.

It is a pleasure to extend best wishes to both. The seeing of tyrants and usurpations is an easy thing to vested interests. Thomas F. Ryan of New York, who is associated with the Rockefellers and the Guggenheims in the Congo concession, was lately denouncing Hughes, now governor of New York, as a conspirator because he was uncovering the old secrets of manipulation of insurance funds. Mr.

Rogers of the Standard trust has characterized Attorney General Hadley of Missouri as "a young man who threatens the liberty of commerce." The late Daniel Kelly spoke bitterly of Folk as "a usurper," and Mr. Harriman has referred to Mr. Roosevelt as "the uncrowned king." The last few years has shown that the cry of oppression can come as readily from the top as from the bottom of organized society. The pig caught under the gate will always squeal, whether the gate swings high or Louis Globe MANKATO WINS THE THIRD Closely Contested Gam Gives Championship to Blue Earth Metropolis. St.

Peter Shut Out in Wha Was Unquestionably a Pitchers' Battle. Fully Two Thousand People Witness the Spirited Struggle for Supremacy. Manager Quane of the St. Peter Herald and St. Peter base ball team has been consulting the dictionary.

He says now that the word "near" is a good word. Therefore the St. Peter Browns are "near champions." M. D. Fancher, sponsor for the Mankato club, says it came high, but they "needed the money." Therefore it was that McCleary was pitted against Bartos.

Consequently it was a pitchers' battle. St. Peter had won one game at St. Peter by a score of 6 to 4 Mankato had won one game at Mankato by a score of 5 to 4. The third game was to determine the championship, and this game was to be played at New Ulm.

It was played last Sunday. Naturally interest was at a fever heat. Two thousand rooting enthusiasts were on hand to witness the outcome. They came by automobile, they came by train, they came by team, they came by foot. It was the base ball game of New Ulm's history.

Frank Force of the Minneapolis Tribune was the umpire, and it is Frank Force's story, specially written for the Review, that we depend on for a truthful account of the game. Mr. Force says: It was a pitchers' battle throughout. McCleary was a trifle stronger than Barros, but both pitched magnificent ball. McCleary allowed but one hit and struck out fourteen men.

Bartos fanned out twehe. but permitted three men to take first base on what, in base ball parlance, are considered safe hits. As showing the excellent work of the star performers, only two passes were given to each club during the nine innings of the play. In the first two rounds both sides went down in one, two, three order witn a prospect of a long drawn-out game without any scores. In the last half of the third Michelson led out with a clean drive to center for two bases and scored a moment later on a hit over short by Capt.

Giblin. This was the only score that Mankato should have made, but in the sixth inning the St. Peter fielders wobbled and gave the game away beyond recall. Krost of the Mankato team singled in this inning and went to second on a fly from Plymat which was muffled in the field. Then one of the Rabes sacrificed both men along a base and Krost scored the final run of the game when W.

Rabe's ground ball was juggled at second. St. Peter had but one chance to score and this was in the eighth inning. With two men out, Bartos dtew the only St. Peter hit of the afternoon by driving out a single to left.

Bartos then went to third when a fly was dropped out in the field, and the St. Peter fans began to yell for a score. The next man up should have attempted the strike of his life, but instead of that he bunted and practically put an end to the game. McCleary was steady in the ninth and St. Peter's chances of winning the championship, together with the majority of the gate receipts and a purse of $100, went glimmering.

The score by innings was as follows: ti 3 Jl St. 1 4 Next Saturday St. Peter will play the Arlington Grays at Henderson and Quane promises to take out of the Sibley county boys the satisfaction that was denied him Sunday. The Arlington Grays shut out Gibbon Sunday in a ten-inning game with a score of 1 to 0. A game between the two clubs to determine the championship of Sibley county will be at Arlington on September 10th.

a It is reported in railroad circles that Edwin Hawley, who owns the Minneapolis St. Louis and Iowa Central lines, has recently come into possession of a controlling interest in the Chicago Alton. Eastern connections is something that the Minneapolis St. Louis has long been in need of. II COMMEI SEPTEMBER 3rd, and most every boy must have a new suit, as vacation time finished them all.

We received a large assortment and the prices can't be beat. Come in and we'll show you the best line of school suits in the city. 4 "37 Ottomeyer's We are offering for a short time some rare Bargains in shirt waists at half the regular price. 10c 12k Ladies', Gentlemen's and Children's Hose at Ladies' stvlish collars worth 25e, on sale Summer Underwear to be closed out at cost. We would call attention to our large line of fall and winter coats which are now in also to our new dress goods coming, and we shall show the largest line of dry goods in this section of the state.

Embroidery and Laces Cheap Eggs are taken in exchange for goods. School Free With every 10c purchase or more in the line of School Supplies we will give a Nice School Bag Free of oil cloth and water proof. Note the price. Boy's Best-Ever School Suits, Guaranteed Rain-Proof. Double seat and double knee, front of pantss lined, tape bound seams, sizes 4 to 16 5 0 0 Boys' Cornet school suits, plain black or blue, double pants all lined, taped seams, only 5 0 0 Boys' Trarabrut school suits, double seat and double knee, front of pants lined, all seams tape bound, price 5 0 0 Boys' Duplex school suit, double breasted, double knee, indestructible pockets, patent seams, 4 5 0 We have many other styles of suits, which we can't mention.

Dark blue Serges and black, sizes 3 to 16 years, prices from 2 0 0 to 7 5 0 Closing out a lot where we have only a few sizes left, at less than half the price. 50 pieces of Cashmere Tricot, Poplan Plaid, fancy dress goods just received, at 2 5 a Yarl Assortment of Dress Goods at 5 20C a 25 percent off on all black dress goods during the sale of two weeks commencing August 26, until September 7. CRONE BROS. Choice Farm Lands In the best farming district in the State of North For particulars apply to BRANDT MUNICH, N. D.

IF yd, worth more CR 'f.