The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1909-12-23

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NAL.
VOL. 1.
WHILE SHEPHERDS
WATCHED
Like small    curled   feathers,
white and soft,
The little clouds went by,
Across the   moon,   and   past
the stars,
And down the western sky;
In upland pastures, where the
grass
With frosted dew was white,
Like snowy clouds the young-
sheep lay
That first, best Christmas
night.
The     shepherds    slept,   and
glimmering faint,
With twist of thin blue smoke,
Only    their   fire's  crackling
flames
The tender silence broke—
Save when a yonng lamb raised his head,
Or, when the night wind blew,
A nesting bird   would   softly
stir,
Where dusky olives grew.
With finger on her solemn lip
Night hushed the shadowy
earth,
And only stars and angels saw
The little Saviour's birth;
Then came such flash  of  silver light
Across the bending skies,
That    wondering   shepherds
woke, and hid
Their frightened, dazzled eyes'
And all their, gentle sleepy
flock
Looked up, then slept again.
Nor knew the light that  dimmed the stars
Brought endless peace to
men.
Nor even heard the gracious
words
That  down  the   ages  fang
"The Christ is born! the Lord
has come,
Good will on earth to brim;'!'
Then oe'r the moonlit,   misty
fields,
Dumb with the  world's   great
.ioy, .
The   shepherds    sought   the
whitewalled town
Where lay the baby boy;
And oh, the giadness   of   the
world,
The glory of the skies.
Because the longed-for Christ
looked up
In Mary's happy eyes.
1PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, DECEMBER 23, 1&09.
~0UR  SENSE OF  SPWE."~~""~'
NO. 27
TELEPHONE HOURS
Prom 7:30 a.m. to 12 M.
,,       1  p.m to 6 P.M.
a, 7       „        tO   0       „
Every day except Sunday.
The service Sunday will be
fromt 9 to 10 in the morning
and 7 to 8 in the evening.
WANTS
Advertisements in this column
are  charged for at  the  rate of
live <,*''■ ts j>er !
TEA CNERS'
MEE TING
An interesting and instructive session of the Morrison
County Teachers' Association
was held here last Friday afternoon. Altho this was a departure from the usual practice of
holding such gatherings at the
county seat, the meeting was
a success in every respect. The
teachers of most of the schools
in this part of the country were
in attendance in spite °f the severe weather and poor roads,
and a number of the village
people were also present to listen to the discussions.
After the singing of a beautiful chorus by the pupils of our
public school, Father Steigler
responded to an invitation to
address the meeting. Speaking in behalf of the school and
community he extended a heart-
y welcome to the teachers. He
humorously referred to the
progress our village is making
in becoming a "convention
town" etc. He then discussed
educational matters for a short
time. His words were prolific
with inspiration and encouragement for the teachers in their
noble work of training our
youth to become good and useful citizens.
Several exellent papers were
read by the teachers. Miss E-
lizabeth Hoerner, whose subject was "Reading in Rural
Schools", discussed methods of
teaching the subject in an able
and efficient manner. Sister
Leonida O. S. B., teacher of the
fifth and sixth grades in our
village school read a paper on
"English and how to teach it"
whicli was well rendered and
laden with good and wnolesome
food for thought by those who
are seeking to become proficient in the art of teaching.
Nick Staub in a well-prepared
and original paper gave the
teachers some good advice on
how to their condition. Mr.
Stanb spoke from experience
showing how how it is possible
for a teacher to work up from
a third grade to a first grade
teacher without the advantage
ol attending a normal school
or college. He furnished some
amusement to his listeners by
referring to some of the obsta
cles a country teacher has to
contend with.
Prof. Goerger, principal of
the village scho tl read a strong
and scholarly piper on "Discip
line", lie showed that bad behavior of a child and defects in
his disposition cannot be permanently cured by applying external remedies: the treatment
must be internal and reach the
heart by leading him to do the
right things willingly and unconsciously. Lis argument
was based upon psychological
principles but was not merely
theoretical but had evidently
been evolved from actual experience. B
Supt. Barnes deserves much
credit for his efforts in making
these meetings accessible to
the teachers of all parts of the
county and we hope this is not
the last meeting to be held here.
A feature of the progann
that deserves special mention
was the excellent singing rendered by the pupils of our public school under the direction
of Sister Florian 0. S. B.
A CLOSE GAME
The Pierz Basket ball team
played tbe opening game of
the season last Friday night
at Little Falls against the Business College quint and altho
they lost by a very small majority yet their playing was superior to that of the L. F. B. C.
throughout the whole game except in the free throwing for
baskets. Our team was badly
handicapped on account of the
small size of the hall, which
prevented successful team
work. Fausts hall in which
they have been doring their
practicing is much larger and
Ihe floor is much smoother
than that of the hall in which
they played. Yet in spite of
these disadvantages the Pierz
bunch made an excellent showing and would have won easily
had they not missed so many
free throws'awarded for fouls.
This was a surprise to the
team as Kopveiler rarely misses a free throw in practice at
home and is accounted for by
the fact that our baskets were
pat up by guess and are not the
correct height or distance from
the wall.
The game was a fast one and
exciting from start to finish. Brilliant plays were made
at times, but lack of room interfered with systematic team
work.
Kopvieler, Pierz's center,
played a whirlwind game and
plainly demonstrated himself
the superior of every other
man in the game. John Faust
and Tony Wolke did excellent J
work as did the whole team in
fact. Mark made his mark,'
or someone else did—on his eye.
The writer went along with
the "boys" as chaperon intending, if circumstances permitted,
to do a little refereeing, but
our whistle caught cold and
wouldn't blow and say. when
we chaperon another bunch
like that, we wont unless we
have a number of cowboys a-
iong to lasso then* when it's
time to come home.
The Pierz players and their
supernumerane." were entertained at the Buckman Hotel,
Principal Millard, of the business college, looking after
their welfare in person. A return game has been arranged
with the same team to be
played here Jan. 7.
experiments With Infants to Show
That It Is Innate.
There are many optical Illusions
which show that our perception of distance, height and spuce are acquired
rather than instinctive, and In the domain of psychological physiology one
of the standing controversies touches
this point. The German school of
Leipzig is inclined to affirm that all
our perceptions of distance, area and
Bolldlty aud our ability to distinguish
between right nnd left, up and down,
before and behind, are acquired as a
result of long practice and experience.
A person blind from birth who
has learned to distinguish triangles,
squares, circles und objects of other
forms by touch is not able Immediately after the acquisition of sight to
distinguish these familiar objects by
sight alone. lie or she Is still compelled to rely ou feeling. In the beginning all objects appear to such a
person (and perhaps they do so iu the
case of bablesi ns shapeless, tremulous
spots of color situated close to the
eye.
In tbe course of the debate that
raged In Germany some experiments
H'ere made with babies. It appeared
tbat In babies what must be described
for want of a better term as a sense
of space seems to exist. Tbe Infant
was held In the arms of the experimenters for about ■ minute, at tbe
end of whicli Interval the c-hlld was
permitted to drop upon Its bed. ln
every Instance the child exhibited a
dread or panic when It felt the arms
of the persons holding It relax. The
babe, even nt the age of oue month,
seemed to understand that Its su*>
port was departing. It held. or. rather,
clutched, nt anything It could reach,
whether the arm. neck or collar of the
person holding It.
From these experiments It has been
Inferred that there must exist u senso
of space almost from Infancy. What
Is the dread of falllug but a manifestation of an innate sense of space''—
Loudon Post.
SLOW   DEATH.
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Disease Usually Takec • Long Time to
Kill, Says □ Scientist.
Few Indeed are tbe men nnd women of full age, any twenty-tlve. who
have not yet contracted the malady
that will kill them, according to that
distinguished scientist and physician
Dr. Felix Itegnault. Normally, as contemporary Investigators are beginning
to Hud out. it takes twenty years for i Wednesday described as
The   southeast
BUCKMAN.
Peter  Kollman   and    wife    ret
Thursday from  Freeport,   Minn.,   where
they were cal ed by the death of ilur.  K.
Sister.
Nick Kol is, of Tintah, nnd his daughter, Lena, ate visitir.g friends in th s lo
cality.
Vincent Ronnellenfitsch who h*»s been
making   Canada his home  for  thi
three ye rs returned Saturday  and   will
visit with hio parents for a  short    lime
Frank Schwankl of   PSefl   tra-
business in the village Tuaaday.
Fdward   and  Carl   Ka* finer   who are
studying at St. John's University si
pected   home  Trn.rs ay,   and   will
their * Brents during ihe Xmas vacation.
Miss Cecilia Ronnellenfitsch arrived
home from Minnoniwlia Saturday and
will visit her parents over Xmas.
A large crowd gath/ red   at   the   home
of Mr. and    Mrs.   John    Kelzenbcg   to
celebrate the birtbdaj of their din
Lizzie, Sur.da  .    All report a good  time.
Hubert and John Toenyes and tln-ir
cousin, llenrv Kleppner of St. Augusta,
are visiting with Henry I
Henry Roos bought n team of drivers
from Geo. Denzen.
John Hohn was held up Sunda\ evening while on his  way   lo   John   K'
erg s home which afterwards turned
out to be a joke on the feweman.
Nick L. Mueller was out on a rabbit
hunt, 1 t-rsdsj*, and was very succi
Regina a d Martha Hotach will
Monday for South St. I'aul where they
will virit with Mr. nnd Mrs- R<i) mond
Daris. Regina will look for employment
while Martha will shortly leave for
hon B.
Henry Roos and wife made a business
trip to Pien Tuesday.
Born- to M". i nd Mrs. Geo. Denzen
on Dec 16, a dtiughtcr.
iev  nl-o
BowlUs
The peculiar properties of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
have been thoroughly tested
during epidemics of influenza,
and when it was taken in time
we have not heard of a single
case of pneumonia. Sold by
all dealers.
a fatal malady to kill a patient. It
may take thirty years. The popular
Impression is that a man may die suddenly or that he may require only n
year to die In or six months. To be
sure, a man may be killed or a child
may die in u few mouths at tbe age
of one year. But. ordinarily speaking.
all deaths are very slow. Indeed, aud
about 95 per cent of civilized adults
are now stricken with fatal diseases.
They do not know It. They may uot
suffer from them. In due time they will
have their cases diagnosed as cancer
or tuberculosis or diabetes, or what
not. But so inveterate are current
misconceptions of tbe nature of death
that tbe origin of tbe fatal malady—
ln time—will be miscalculated by from
ten to thirty years.
Iu the case of human beings death.
 fcarrlng   accident,   Is   nearly   always
Everything in the lineof lumber j caused by some specific malady.   This
can be  had at reasonable prices
malady Is as likely as not to be cured
—what Is called cured. Tbe cure, however, no matter how skillful the treatment or bow slight the disease, has
left a weakness behind It In some
particular organ of the body. One of
the organs is. If not prematurely worn
out. nt least so worn tbat Its resisting
powers are greatly diminished. All of
us in this way when we have reache<l
a certain age possess un organ that Is
much   older   than   the   rest   of   the
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transact,,!- all o her busmen . ^Jof Mn ^   £veu ,f ^ ,|ve
brought before the meeting,    ; t0 be very old> ludeed. we shall not
, —S    I die of old age. but of weakuess of the
lungs or of the kidneys or of the liver
or of the brain.—Current Literature.
at John Borgerding & Co's Lumber Yard.
/The new school district No.'
12') iti the town of Buh will!
hold their first meeting at:
Prank Konen's h mse Dec 31, ■
at 2 o'clock P. M. for the pur-
iv so of   electing  officers   and
visit very   much
vi-ited   relative™	
during the time.
Ludwig Otasek sold to P. L.
Girl/, f.'rlv acres of land   la-t
ous:   ihe    southeast    t*>-ater
of the northeast quater,   Sec
23.  Township  40.   Range   30.
Consideration $800.
Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Nelson
left on Wednesday morning tor
Srskine and Hagley. Minn.,
where they will spend the holidays with relatives.
We have been supplied with
telephones. If you know any
items of news please call us up
at the office or residence.
.ell ventilal
:,     with     modern    conveniences and |>opular   ra*
Now Beaufort leads them  all.
75c and 1.00 per   i!
the 1
REYNOLD'S
Xmas
Presents: Story
Books, Novels
Toy . Caddies
Almonds 20c
razlNuts 15c
Walnuts 20c
Peanuts 10c
Mixed " 12 to 13
Oranges 40 c
Dates 12c
Tigs 15c
Apple Cider 40c
I
We also   pay
eggs and butter
cash
Call at Fr nk
Xmas presents.
Grell's  for your
For Sale.—A 16 horse power gasoline engine in yood
condition for $375 if taken
soon. Mrs.John Bolster.
Lost—A light log chain between P. A. Hartmann's and
Aug. Janorske's. Finder
p'etse leave at P A. Hartmann's store.    Karl Kapsner.
Wanted—To hire a man
for all around work. Inquire of P. A. Hartmann.
ForSale.-Two farms
with improvements,
each containing 120
acres. Inquire of
Jacob Neisius.
There will be a moving
picture show at the B jou
New Year's night with extra good fims.
When you buy your coffee at
Qrell's you have it ground free.
JEWELRY AND REPAIRING.
I have opened a jewelry
store a:id repair shop in Nelson's Photograph Gallery and
am now ready to do all kinds
of watch repairing etc I will
have a complete line of jewelry within a few days.
F. J. GILBRIDE.
Ladies will be interested to
know that Qrell's store has a fine
new supply of linens. Hemstitched pattern tablecloths, lunch
cloths, drtsser scarfs doilies etc.
A Ten Years' Penance.
It Is happily seldom tbat the revenge
of a disappointed  husband takes quite
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^     such an extreme form as In tbe case
^^of the man whose will ran thus: "When
Jos. Gau, a son of P. J.   Gau 1 remember tbat tbe only happy times
of Granite, has arrived   home « ever enJ«y«»
from Daisland, Alberta, Can ,
Selection of Seed.
8eed selection is one of the most Important details connected with successful agriculture, and too much care
cannot be exercised, says Farm and
Ranch. The annual loss from plaut-
lug poor or worthless seed is eDOrtOOlUI
and cannot be computed In dollars and
cents. Besides tbe loss of a crop,
there is always tbe danger of noxious
weeds being introduced with the cheap
seed. Only the purest seed is worth
planting, aud it can be obtained only
from reliable seed houses.
"REFRIGEPa JED"
WINDOW DISPLAY
A provision and fish dealer
in S*> kane  lias  set  up  «
hecal'sa refrigerate ■ window
display, which  passers-by by
the thousand stop to  look at.
The   foods   and    delicac
displayed       are       frequently
changed,   but  the gracefully
curved pipe, four inches in di
ameter of frost is a
in ver ending interest.    Golden grain  belt  beer d<
this* » xt rt. me cold, in fact
it   is   better   at   about   4o
urees.     Winter   and   summer
it   isthe   beer   of   quality   and
should be in every Dome. Order of \our nearesl dealer or
lie supplied by 10. S. Tanner,
Little Falls.
Blacksm th coal and
iron for sale at O. Tm Nelson's.
Dr. Fortier, dentist, In Pierz
het second Sunday every month.
NOTICE
All persons owning
property in the village
are hereby ordered to
clean t; e snow off t he adjoining sidewalk within
24 hours after the storm
cea - If this order is
not complied witn, t e
village will perform tiie
work at th* expense of
th-* property owner.
Signed
JACOB NEISIUS
President of '. uncil
days.
Mr. and Mrs. August O-
tremba spent a few days with
their relatives, Mr. Younb
and sons,  and  enjoyed  their
I  ever  enjoyed   were   when   my   wife
Bulked wltb  ine. and  when   I  remem-
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and will visit with his parents  this reason, be considered to have been
and friends   during    the   holi-   a  fairly   happy  one  because she  was
j nearly always sulking. I am coustrain-
 led to forget tbe repulsion tbe coutem-
^■J      platlon of ber face Inspired me wltb
C.   W.   Bouck   of   Rovalton   and leave her tbe sum of £00.000 on
was in the village Sunday. condition that she undertakes to puss
two hours a day at  my graveside for
Herman~Van~dTrhaar,   Fred 'the **■*- *enrs, *f°~** my ,^T* ,u
T       K        11       A X W company with her sister, whom 1 have
le.nbreull and L eo W ermers- reason <0 kD0W she loathes worse than
kirchen,      students      of      St.   ihe does myself."-Loudon Tit-Bits.
John's       college       rtturned
The Bijou Theatre
AT
Tuesday to celebrate Christ
mas and New Years at home
Didn't Like the Walk.
A north country pitman went with
his wife one Saturday night to do v.
btisi- Uttle shopping. They visited a large
' drapery establishment, and the obse-
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^—^ , quious shopwalker, having ascertain-
of Stronge cc \\ arner, Mon-jed their requirements, said to the cou-
dav. i pie politely. "Will you please walk this
|w-ay?"    But unfortunately be walked
Brand-new.     latest,   up-to-date *tS l:ime\    „     ....
r No.  trustor,    said  the pitma::
novelties in   lidies'   neckwear  at  nivvor hev waaked that way, an' Aakr
F. Grell's, not gannin' te try:"—London Scraps.!
H. Pinter transacted
ness for the  millinery  house)!
Fausts Opera   House
I have installed a rew latest improved
Edison Motion  Pi ture  Machine
will give entertainments evtry
Sunday night only Sunday night
Entire Change of Film every Night.
Admission only    -
io cents
JOHN N.EAUST, Prop.