The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1910-06-09

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PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JUNE 9, 1910.
NO. 51
VIKTOR BLOCK J>0L9
Austin F. Kosloskv has purchased from Paulina Viktor
and the Viktor esiate the
bock known as the Viktor
block, c irner Broadway iend
Kidder street. This block is
now occupied by the Victor
Clothing- company and G. R.
Anderson. The property his
a 76-foot frontage on Broadway and runs back to Bav
street 125 feet. The block is
considered one of the best in
the city both as to location
and construction and out.side
parties have several times attempted of late to buv the
pro;ertv. As the Victor
Clothing company has always
been housed in this block, Mr.
Kosloskv, who is manager of
the coin ran v, felt that it
should continue so; hence the
purchase. Mr. Ko-losky'si
fine home on Third street j
southeast was exchanged in <
the deal,—Transcript.
Mrs. Viktor is   a   sister   of;
our townsman, A. E.    Macho,
and her home is at Cedar   Rapids, la.
NEW    LINES   OF   TELEPHONE
John Stroman is rushing
the work on his new telephone
lines running from Pierz thru
different part
Th
ol Agram.
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li/ies running out of the \ illage
which will add between 35 and
40 phones to ihe exchange.
The work will be completed a-
bout Julv 1st.
$25 REWARD!
The school board of school
district No. 4b, Agram, offers
the above reward for information sufficient for the arrest
and conviction of the person
or persons who broke n;o the
school house m that district
and destroyed be>oks, broke
windows, etc., and wrote obscene and abusive language
upon the blackboard.
J.LEIDEN ROSTSR.
PASSES AWAY
Saturday morning- at about 7
o'clock John Leidenfrost Sr.
die-' at his home on theoutskirt
of the village. Deseased was
seen on our streets not more
than three weeks ago and when
the report that lie was ill was
circulated it was not considered
serious, but the patient was getting worse ever}* day until death
releaved him Saturday morning.
Deceased was born in Gaut-
ling, Lower Austria, on the 2'6.
day of December 1834 and was
'married in 1856. He came to
America in 1866 with his family
'and settled first near Cross
j Plains, Dane Go. Wis. where he
and family lived for 18 years
until 1884 when they moved to
Pierz where the family is still
living. Eight children were
born to the couple, six of whom
are living here: John Leidenfrost Jr., Leopold and William,
Mrs. C. A. Virnig, Mrs. Adam
Virnig and Mrs. Jacob Roch.
The burial ceremonies were held
at the St. Joseph's church,Pierz,
Rev. J. G. Stiegler officiating,
and the remains interred in the
St. Joseph's cemetery.
Many outside friends and relatives were here in attendance.
Among them were John Allram
and Mr. and Mrs. M. Schlouth
of Wheeler, Wis. and Mr. and
Mrs. Vincenz Altrichter of Little Palls.
PIERZ MARKET DAY
WELL ATTENDED BY
MERS BUT BUYERo
LACKING
FAR-
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More    Publicity    Needed
KICKED BY HORSE
Joe Tschida got knocked
out   in the   first   round,   time
one-tenth of a second, by a
broncho belonging to Meyer
Bros., last Monday evening.
The horse which heretofore
has not been considered vicious, was hitched to a sulky
and when he was invited to go
ahead, he suddenly landed
with both iee. upon Mr.
Tschida's breast and Joe toolc
the Count ai d allowed the
it- to v alk off with the
championship.
Simon Brick of Little Falls
was <i Pierz caller yesterday.
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Fish La!
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Will Begin
Sunday3 June 12
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And Will Be Continued Every Sunday Thruout
the Season.
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Will Make Regular Trips and be at Your Service at   all Times.
RAUCH   BROS.!
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lunch Utoom and Confectionery
MINNIE  FAUST,  Pr.
IceCream, Sodas, Candies Jilt
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LE   FreshFruit CannedGoodsI
Lunches Served at All Hours
The Market Day held here
Saturday, altho quite well attended by the farmers of the
surrounding country and by no
means a failure, did not however come up to the expectations of the promotors in some
respects. The thoughtful ones
could see plainly that something had not been done that
should have been done.
The trouble is that the object
of this enterprise is being defeated to a certain extent on
account of a lack of publicity
in out.side points where it should
be advertised and also on account of inefficient management
ln other respects. The purpose
of a market day is to provide
a good market for the products
of the farmers and at the same
time to offer incentives to them
to purchase their goods here.
The primary object is to provide the market and the rest
will follow. The local merchants and buyers are able to take
care of ja good share of their
produce, but as was demonstrated at the sale Saturday,
those who brought in good
horses and cattle found no buyers and consequently were o
bliged to take them home again.
Now there is no question but
what there is a demand for good
horses, milk cows, beef cattle,
hogs etc. and if properly advertised top prices could be obtained for everything of that
kind. The local dealers are
probably paying as much as can
be secured elsewhere for fat cat
tie and hogs, but there seems
to be very little demand in our
own vicinity for horses and
milch cows.
The proper course to pursue,
in order to rectiliy this fault, is
to inform buyers in outside
points of what will be offered
for sale with a general description thereof and in order to do
this it will be necessary to have
everything which is to be offered for sale listed at least two
or three weeks before the sale.
In order to induce the people
to bring in their better class oi
horses, stock, etc., it is up to
management to assure them
that there will be somebody
present to bid upon them besides their neighbors. On the
other hand, no buyer is going to
the expense of travelling from
Duluth, Brainerd, St. Cloud or
other distant point unless he
has a reasonable assurance that
what he wishes to purchase
will be placed on sale.
Thus far the business people of the village have defrayed all the expenses of tht
sale and of advertising and
considering that they leave also given away valuable prizes
and sold their goods at a
great discount, it is doubtfu
if the market day has proved
a profitable institution for
them. However, they are no;
complaining and are willing to
do more than their share towards making it a great benefit to the whole surrounding
country. But considering
that the expenses are becoming somewhat -burdenso
would it not be well to arrange
m.uters on a different basis?
Suppose instead of paying the
auctioneer a flat price for his
services, he be employed on a
percentage basis, the same as
at farm auction sales, to be
paid by the owner of thegoods
sold. This would tend to e-
qualize the expenses among-
all who are concerned anu
benefitted.
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John Stroman of Swa- ville
is in the village looking after
his telephone lines.
John H. Grell, Jos. H. Grell
and Prank Schwankl Sr are
building cement sidewalks in
front of thi ir business places.
The east side of Main st
will have over a half a mile of
cement walks when the above
mentioned are completed.
VILLAGE SCHOOL
CLOSLD MONDAY
On Monday of this week the
local school ended a successful
term of school. The conditions
under which the teachers
worked this year was far superior to that of previous years.
The conjested rooms of previous years were not there this
year. Each teacher below the
fifth grade, had but one grade,
yet in these four lower grades
there were enrolled over 200
children, an average of about
52 for each of the four lower
grades. This is certainly as
many as a teacher can do justice to. Although the enrollment of next year will necessarily be somewhat less than
tliis year the decrease will
scarcely justify a decrease in
the teaching force; otherwise
there will be the same crowded
condition that existed the previous year. Under such conditions it can not be expected that
children enter the upper grades
well equipped to do the work
required of them there. Nothing substantial can be built upon
a foundation which from the
nature of things is necessarily
frail. Give the children a good
-■tart, then half their work is
done.
The teachers   were somewhat
hampered in   their work   on account of the constant recurrence
of scarlet fever.   The school being closed a whole week means
t-back   of   practically  two
For another month the
school was conducted with about
i hail   attendance.    Those who
stayed out on account of being
ill   or   scared   naturally pulled
the wrong way when they came
oack to school, thus greatly retarding   the   progress    of   the
work.
There were 291 pupils enrolled
during the past year; a goodly
.lumber. Of these 252 drew apportionment and 39 drew no apportionment. The apportion-
■per pupil averages in the
run of years to about $3.75 per
capita. This means that the
district loses this year about
>150 apportionment money. The
loss is too much and should be
remedied. Perhaps half of this
number are pupils who drew
tpportionment in other districts, but the other half are
from our own district. One
would think- that there is some
justification for a compulsory
school law which compels.
1 wish to thank the sisters for
the cooperative spirit they displayed during the year as well
as for the courteous manner in
which all suggestions which I
had occasion to make were
taken. I also wish to thank the
Board of Education and the patrons of the school in general
for the good support and kind
treatment I have received at
their hands. I would have
served the people of this district, with pleasure, for a longer period of time; but it is natural in human beings to better
themselves financially, and it is
this that led me to shift my tield
of labor. Personally I can not
be with you next year, but in
spirit we can still be together,
united by the bond of mutual
good-will and the memoo* of
dear ones left behind.
Philip Goergek, prin.
Nick H. Mueller and family
have moved into Mrs. Bent-
field's house occupying the
south part of the building just
vacated by Philip Goerger.
Wm. Anderson of Vineland
Mille Lacs lake, transacted
business in  Pierz yesterday.
Frank Grell gave out 123,-
500 piano votes on market da)'.
The school children are enjoying a picnic at Fish lake
todav.
Oet your Lumber, Sash ind
Doors, I ime -.nd Cement from
John Borgerding & Co.
Jos. Portner of Nicollet Co.
rs here looking over some land
which he bought some time a-
(jo, He will move here this
fall.
Miss Emma Virnig has been
appointed substitute mail carrier on rural route No. 1.
A. E Reynolds made a business trip to Royalton Monday.
Miss Maud Berg spent a few
days at Rices this w<
PRIZES AWARDED
ON MARKET DAY
The prizes offered on mar ke t
day by the Commercial Club
and by the business men were
awarded as follows:
Heaviest baby: Mr. and Mrs.
John Gau,  weight,    20   pounds,
. 50.
A. M. Bares, for   tallest   man,
free dinner, awarded to   Nick
Gross.    Height, 6 ft. 2 in.
Blake, for largest bill of goods, I
line lamp: W. H. Rucker.
Jos. H.  Grell,    largest   bill   of:
goods, wash wringer: Wessel
Wolke.
M.   Wermerskirchen,   for   man!
with longest whiskers, bottle
of brandy: Wessel Wolke.
John H. Grell, oldest man,    1-8
beer: Wessel Wolke
C. E. Gravel,   newest   married
couple, 100 lbs. flour: Mr. and
rs. Henry Langer.
Golden Rule,   most popular lady, pair of tine shoes: Mrs. J.
J Boser. 19,000 votes.
Frank- Faust, lor homeliest-man
bottle     of    whiskey:   Prank
Rauch
J. Bordgrding, for   largest   bill
of goods, 1 M   shingles: John
Stuckmeyer.
A.   E.   Macho,   largest   bill   of
goods,  parlor   lamp:    A.    M.
Bares.
H. Koering, largest bill of goods
pair of line shoes: Ed. ytuck-
meyer.
GOES TO ST. JOSEPH
Philip ■ - who  has  had
charge of the public schools of
this village for the past two
years leaves today with his
family for St. Joseph where he
has been engaged as principal
for next year.
Mr. Goerger has shown much
efficiency, skill and tact in his
management of the school here.
So far, as we have been abl
learn, not a single complaint
has ever been lodged against
him during his conn with
the schools here.    II 9 be
cause better inducements have
been offered him in his new tield.
Both he and his estimable wife
have made many warm friends
here who regret to see them go
and wish them a continuation
of the success they have enjoyed here.
POTATO DRYING PLANT
Owing to the over-production
of potatoes in Germany, several potato drying plants ar
ing operated; the process being
somewhat similar to that of
drying apples. One of the purest and most wholesome beverages on the market today is
golden grain belt beer. Served
at mealtime it relieves fatigue
that comes with overwork and
overdoing, and builds up the
entire system. Order of your
nearest dealer or be supplied
by E. S. Tanner, Little Pails.
NOTICE!
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned that his blacksmith shop will be closed June
14 and 15 as he will attend the
tiremen's convention at Alexandria. All parties having work
to do are requested to bring it
before those dates.
50-2 John Dombovy.
BASE   BALL    SUNDAY
There will be a game of
baseball played Sundav afternoon between a team from the
town of Freedhem and the local nine.
WEST    BUH
John Enlund and daughter
Ruth were at Little Falls last
Thursday.
GilhertOlson returned home
from Kail Prairie where he
has been visiting friends and
relatives.
Carl Beimert was in New
Pierz Tuesday.
Mrs. Wieland and daughter
Ella, were at kittle Falls
Thursday.
Granpa Hanson was at the
county seat this week.
Peler Van Hercke called at
Peter Tretters place Wednesday,
Gilbert Olson and family
visited with relatives in Swan
River Sunday.
Strawberries are getting
ripe in a hurry on account of
the dry weather.
Rev. J. G. Stigler and A. P.
Stoll made a business trip to
St Paul the first part of the
week.
John Donek Sr., is building
a new home on his place, three
miles north of the village.The
foundation is finished and was
made by Albert Pavln of the
village and we are told that he
did a good job for a man 82
years of age.
Mrs. Mike Leese returned
Tuesdav from Solwav,   Minn.
MORRISON COUNTY
TELEPHONE
COnPANY
A. E. Reynolds, Local Manager
OPEN HOURS
From 7:30 a.m. to 12 M.
1   P.M   to  ()   P.M.
7    ,,    to 9    ,,
Every day except Sunday.
The service Sunday will be
from 9 to 10 in   the morning
and 7 lo.i> in the evening.
C. F.'Tohnson, collection a-
gent for the J. I. Case threshing Machine Co., of Minneapolis, was a business caller in
Pier/. Tuesday.
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We   loan   money   on    improved f
FARMS at the cneape^t rates.
^ We offer you the Convenience and
Safety of a checking account.
Open   an  Account    now
with the
GERMAN
STATE BANK
PIERZ, fllNN.
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