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PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, OCTOBER 0, 1910.
NO. W
WAS   A    SUCCESS
That  Market Day is a Permanent
Fixture Was Again Proved
Last Saturday.
That the MarketDays inPieri
are a success and a permanent
fixture was again demonstrated
beyond a doubt last Saturday.
The day was a fine one—one
that seemed to have deeri designated for the purpose. Quite
early people began to come ih
from a distance of ten and even
twenty miles. The merchants
all report good sales.
Mr. and Mrs; Sam Lamothe
of St. Paul, who have been
hunting atSullivan Lake since
the season opened, returned
home Tuesday with a large
bag of chickens.
Next week Christ Tembreull will install a hot air
furnace into his residence on
Edward street.
Dr. Kerkhoff can fit glasses by
the latest scientific methods.
A   NARROW    ESCAPE
Revolver is Accidently Discharged in Goat Pocket on Saturday Aftfernobn.
Yesterday afternoon a £eiltie-
man traveling for the Home
Range Co. came very neai*
shooting himself itl the thigh
and knee. It is reported that
while sitting in in an automobile in front of Frank Grell's
Meat Market and fondling his
38 calibre revolver the weapon
was discharged. The bullet
perforated several thicknesses
of his oVercoat and trousers,
passing so close to his skin as
to powderburn it. The flattened bullet was later fonud in the
seat of the auto.
P. W. Blake of Little Falls
tame to town Wednesday evening to visit with Jake and
Capt. Gravel.
Casper Thommes, fqr the
last two years employed as
blacksmith for the Nichols &
Chisholm Lumber Co.,Frazee,
Minn., resigned his position
and came home Saturday. He
will go to Lastrup in a few
davs to open a blacksmith
shop. Casper is a steady,
well respected young man and
deserves success wherever he
may choose to make his home.
Paul Eller who is working
in a Brainerd harness shop
came home Saturday to visit
with his parents over Sunday.
Edward and MikeLeese and
their clerk and timekeeper, Jno
N.Faust returned last Fridav
f romStanleyJunction, 60 miles
westof Minot, N. D.TheyJust
completed grading five mile of
road for the Great Northern
Railway Co. This company
built a fifty mile branch from
Stanley Junction in a northwesterly direction thru Williams county, which brings it
to within a short distance from
the Montana and Canadian
borders.
They found the soil ot a
gravely clav which made grading somewhat difficult. About
fifty horses were left at Stan-
leyJunction, later to be shipped direct to the pineries.
There was as little rain
there this summer as there
was here, and the soil is so
drv that plowing this fall is
out of question.
This branch taps a country
with asparsepopulation where
primitive methods of farming
with oxteams, etc., common
here thirty or forty years ago,
are in vogue. To a man who
loves to be just at the edge of
civilization and is willing to
forego the comforts and conveniences of the older communities, Williams county. N.
D., Mike thinks, holds out
rich promises.
Before taking the contract
from the G. N R. R. Leese
Bros, finished a contract for
theSoo line near Solway,Minn.
Mr. and Mrs. Valentine
Kranz and daughter of Linton-
ville, Minn., came to Pierz in
their automobile Tuesday evening for a visit with relatives.
Mrs. Kranz is a sister to Hubert and John Bares, Mrs.
Peter Virnig and Mrs. Anton
Rauch. Mr. Kranz has sold
his farm in Lintonville, and
will soon move to Red Lake
Fall, Minn., to make his future home.
COUNTY   DADS   MEET
Reject Petition for Another Saloon in New Pierz During
Tuesdays Session;
The county board met with
all members present at the
cduft house in their October
meeting Tuesday morning. The
forenoon session was devoted
to the hearing of school petitions and to a heated discussion
arising over an application for
a saloon license at New Pierz.
A petition has been submitted
by a number of property owners of New Pierz objecting to
the proposed new drink shop
on the grounds that the new village has enougft such places.
The petition was rejected.
The bills were to receive attention during the afternoon
session—Transcript.
Mr. and Mrs. Roraff and
child of LaCrosse, Wis., arrived last Saturday at the
home of Frank Wise,Mr. Roraff s grandfather, for a short
visit. They are on their way
to Helena, Mont., where he
will go into the restaurant
business. Mr. Roraff was
reared in Little Falls but
went to LaCrosse about ten
years ago.
Aug. Leiter's family came
up this week with their household goods,fromDelano,Minn.,
and has moved into Theo.
Thielen's house on Edward
street. Mr. Leiter struck
out from Delano to drive up
with his horse and buggy, but
when in the neighborhood of
Watab, his horse sickened
and refused to go further. He
came from Rice by auto. Mr.
Leiter and family make a good
acquisition to our village and
we extend to them the hand of
welcome.
Willie Berg reports that
the wells of the following persons became dry during the
summer and had to be deepened:
Christ Faust,
Bowen Rathbun,    •
Math Kubitschek,
J. J. Boser,
Math. Gross,
Mary Meyer,
Math. Meyer,
Karl Kapsner,
Chas. Weiss,
Mike Flicker,
Eng. Flicker,
Mrs. Vonderhaar,
Frank Schwankl,
And. Faust,
Frank Weiss,
Lorenz Boser,
A. Trahowski,
Frank Heigl,
Frank Otremba,
Mrs. Virnig,
Mrs. Vosen,
Testing   Eggs
Dr. Wiley, the government
food expert, has made public
a simple method of testing the
freshness of eggs. If an egg
sinks in a solution of oneounce
of salt to ten of water, it is
fresh. A trial will convince
you that golden grain belt beer
is the ideal home beverage.
Order of your nearest dealer or
be supplied by E. S. Tanner,
Little Palls.
Subscribe for the Journal
OWNS HOLSTEIN BULL
Theo. Thielen, Owner  of "Prospect Farm"inBuh Now Owns
Registered Sire.
A few weeks ago, Theo.
Thlelen of Buh bought from a
noted Holstein breeder   a   bull
C0UNC1LPR0CEEDINGS
Only     Routine     Business   Was
Transacted at Monday s
Session.
The regular monthly meeting
was called to order with all
members present with  the  ex
WILLIAMS CONVICTED
Will    Not   Be   Sentenced    Until
J< *y   Finishes  the  Meyers
Case.
The case of the state vs.
eyers, charged with  b(
.ne of the trio who pulled   o
which cost him a  snug  sum  of jeeption of Mel-Wermerskircbou  train robbery between the  city
of Little Palls and Royalton on
July 5, is completed. Court
convened Monday evening and
during the three hour session
testimony was introduced. The
attorneys made their pleas just
before adjournment at noon
Tuesday, after which the jurors
were allowed to go to dinner.
When court was called at 1:15
the judge instructed the members of the jury and sent them
out to deliberate.
James Williams, the young
man who was found guilty Saturday night of having been one
of the three men participating
in the robbery,has insisted that
he is innocent. Williams claims
that for twelve years he ser
mass in a Catholia church and
and has never deviated from
the path of righteousness. The
prisoner appears to be affected
as the result of his conviction
and the suspense in waiting for
his sentence does not rest easily
upon him.
The Meyers case completes
the September term altho a
number of cases remainuntried.
—Transcript,
SCHOOL REPORT
Teachers should send their
monthly school reports to the
Journal.
Bowen Rathbun received a
letter a few days ago from
his son George who is working in a nursery in Columbus,
Mont. The duty assigned to
George is that of setting out
apple trees of which most
farmers there have from five
to twenty-five acres. They
have a very good crop of apples this year, tho they had
ten inches of snow on the last
day of August. He never
saw better grass then he did
there after the snow had melted. Winter wheat and rye
|l$pkvery promising.
Columbus, formerly   known
as Stillwater, is on theYellow-
stone river about sixty   miles
from the National Park and a-
bout fifty miles from Billings.
Twenty eight years ago,our
fellow townsman, JohnPhilipi,
worked in a   gold   and   silver
mine just north of   Columbus
which was then  a   station   of
two     houses.    It   was    then
nothing unusual to  see   large
herds of buffalo   passing    on
the south side of  the Yellowstone, where now are blooming
some of the finest orchards in
the country. John remembers
well that on  the   morning   of
August   15, 1882,   the   whole
country was   covered   with  a
heavy coat of snow,   That was
the same summer the   N.    P.
completed their   road   to   the
coast, when the famous golden
spike was driven.
money. Fully to satisfy himself that the animal was really
of the strain which its former
owner claimed he wrote to the
"Parmer," a reliable weekly
agricultural paper of St. Paul
to look up this animal's pedigree. We herewith publish in
full their letter to Mr. Thielen:
St. Paul, Minn.,
Oct. 1, 1910.
Mr. Theo. Thielen
Dear Sir:
Your recent letter at
hand and contents noted. As
we do not have a complete set
of the record books in this office
we referred this pedigree to a
local Holstein breeder, and we
enclose herewith the trail's extended pedigree. This pedigree
is one of the best of the Holstein breeds that we have ever
had occasion to trace out, and
we doubt if there are many
breeders that have in their herd
a better bred bull. His dam
has a record of practically 22
pounds of butter in seven days
while her sire is a full brother
of Hengerveld DeKol, one of
the greatest sires of the breed.
The sire of your bull has eleven
daughters in advanced registry,
and, as you will note by the
pedigree, the dam of his sire
has a record of over 25 pounds
of butter in seven days.
It would seem to us that you
are to be congratulated on having secured a bull of such high
breeding.
Yours truly,
THE FARMER.
Last week Mr. Thielen also
bought from a breeder near St.
Paul a Chesterwhite boar. He
is a son of Sample, a prize winner at the State Fair last year.
Theodore is a high class farmer and we predict that in a few
years, "Prospect Farm" as he
has named his place, will be a
stock farm which will be a credit to this community.
and J. B. Hartmann
Proceedings of the foregoing
meeting were read and accepted.
The recorder was  instructed
to inform P- A.        Hartmann
to place sidewalk and  scale in
proper place within 10 days.
The following bills were allowed:
Electrical Engineering Co.
batteries $17.71
W. S. Nott Co.,  repairs   6.75
Pierz  Journal, publishing ordinance     7.80
E. L. Kaliher, wood alcohol     3.25
Louis    Feucht,   use  of
plow     1.00
Motion made to adjourn subject to call.
Two Farm Names
Theodore Thielen of Buh on
Tuesday filed with Register of
Deeds F. X. Bastien a name for
his farm. The farm will henceforth be known as "Prospect
Farm." C. J. Lunden of Elm
Dale also filed a farm name,
haying given his holdings the
"Elm Tree Mills."
KILLING THE  UMPIRE.
J. P. VIRNIG'S
Baggage
and
Dray Line
'\llwork  promptly attended to
at reasonable prices.
Mrs.
ported
Joe    Rathbun   is   re-
very   ill and   not   expected to live.
Frank Faust went to the
Twin Cities Monday and returned Wednesday.
Math. Lokowitch and
ChristinaRidl will be married
Oct. 18.
Dr. Kerkhoff can fit glasses by
the latest scientific methods.
P. A. Hartmann has just
completed installing a hot air
furnace. To make room for
this necessitated enlarging
the basement both in width and
depth. Partitions on the upper floor had to be taken out
and shifted to make the proper hot and cold air pipe connections.
His large new barn is all
done but the painting.
P. B. Nelson of Paynesville
was in town  Wednesday.
John J. Boser accompanied
John Grell to the coast.
OATS!        OATS! OATS!
Place yoar order with P. A.
Hartmann for good oats at a
cheap price.
New Subscribers:
Jos. H. Virnig
Aug. Leiter
Hubert Virnig
Herm. Block
John L. Boser
Otto Hoffmann
Nick Wolak
Adrian Grell
Math. Zier
Lon Robinson
Onions and Lemons.
Two or three thin slices of lemon
eaten after pa'-taking of onions will
entirely deodorize llie breath, no matter how much onion has been eaten.
Eat the lemon, pee.u_.__- aud all, with
either sugar or salt. The Juice alone
does uot have such a perfect effect.
It la an Essential Part of the Great
Game of Baseball,
According to bleacher law, there are
three particularly justifiable motives
for doing away with umpires. Au
umpire may be killed—first, if he sees
fit to adhere to the rules and make a
decision against the home team at a
close point in the game; second, an
umpire may be killed if he sends a
member of the home team to thu bench
when the player ln question has done
absolutely nothing but call the umpire
names and attempt to bite his ear off
(an umpire has no business to be
touchy); third (and this is a perfect
defense against the charge of murder),
an umpire may be killed if he calls
any batter on the home team out on
strikes when the player has not even
struck at the balls pitched. That the
balls go straight over the plate has
nothing to do with the case.
There is ample proof at hand to
-show that killing the umpire Is a distinctively American sport. Other countries have tried baseball, but they have
not tried killing the umpire. That Is
probably the reason why they have
not waxed enthusiastic over baseball,
for baseball without umpire killing is
like football without girla In the grand
stand, it simply can't be d«ne. That
foreign countries know uBtklng about
our king of outdoor* sports was Indicated forcibly when In tbe fall of 1909
the Detroit team made a trip to Cuba
under the management of Outfielder
Mclntyre. In tho entire series of
twelve games with tbe Havana and
Almendare« nines not) one single objection was made by'either the Cuban
players or the silent Cuba^spectators
to a decision of tbe uippires. The
Americans did not know what to think
of it—until they counted up the gate
receipts nt the end of the series. Then
they realized that in their own country
it is the'delight ln killing the umpire
rather tban the pleasure in watching
the game that draws tbe tremendous
crowds through the turnstiles.—George
Jean Nathan ln Harper's Weekly.
(advertisement)
Leigh for  Commissioner
Our old friend Jos- Leigh was
in from his home at Hiliman
Tuesday with the announcement
that he had been visited by the
political bee and was now in
the race for commissioner of the
third district.
The people of the third district are to be congratulated
upon their good fortune in securing a man of Mr. Leigh's a-
bility to represent them upon
the county board. He has had
plenty&of time in his thirty
years residence in the county
to study the most pressing
needs of the people and his experience as a member of the
town boards fits him especially
for the position. For many
years he was on the board in
Bellevue town and his work
was so much appreciated that
he had to move out to avoid
re-election. He has taken a
prominent parkin the development of eastern Morrison county and the people of that section will reap lasting benefit
from his untiring.>;efEorts in
their behalf should he be honored with the election. We
hope that all opposition will be
removed and Mr. Leigh's election made unanimous.—Royalton Banner-
WANTS
Advertisements in this column
are charged for at the rate of
five cents per line.
FOR RENT-Iam compelled thru sickness and old age
to rent or sell mv salmon business in Lastrup For particulars call at mv saloon in
Lastrup. Joseph Brummer.
3-tf
Have for sale S. W. 1-4 of N.
E. 1-4 Sec. 4-42-29 and lot 3,
Sec. 12-12-29 and S. W. 1-4 of
N. E. 1-4 30-42-28 and E. 1-2 of
N. W. 1-4 Sec. 33-41-29 and N.
E. 1-4 Sec. 12-40-30 and the N.
E. 1-4 of Sec. 13-40-30 and W. 1-2
of S. E. 1-4 in same section.
This land will be sold on easy
terms by John Schmolke,
4-tf Buckman, Minn.
PLATTE
Oct. 3.—Levi Miller andBill
Hayes of Little Falls are helping  Wilson  Hayes paint
house this week.
his
bought
Christ
LOST—Saturday   morning
between Lastrup and Pierz, a
pair of eyeglasses.  Return   to
this office.    $1.00 reward.
15-3
FOUND—A sum of money
between town and John Prei-
mesberger's place. Owner
may get it by calling at my
place. Nic. Gross.    16-lp
Hi» Origin«lity.
Uncle George—I have read your article over, aud 1 must say It shows a
great deal of originality. Arthur—
Thanks. I'm sure. I flattered myself
there were some Ideas ln It. Uncle
JJeorge—Oh, I was not speaking of the
composition, but of the spelling.
Vermilion.
There are trade secrets ln the Chinese
vermilion Industry centuries old which
no foreigner has ever solved.
John Donek, Sr.,
some lumber from
Reese.
Andrew Kainz of Buh took
a load of furniture to Belle
Prairie for E. P. Parks.
Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. John
Noe and son, Gib, and Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Madison and
son, Walter, of Bowlus visited at the home of Ben Richner and-wife this week.
Abrother-in-law of J. B.
Svienty is paying him a visit
this week.
A crowd of People gathered at the home of ChristReese
Sunday and enjoyed themselves until five o'cl-ock in the
FOR SALE—143 acre farm
Section 30, town of Pulaski.
Some under cultivation. Fair
buildings. Good improved
meadows. Will cut about
400 cords of wood.
Also 70 acres in Section 24,
Town of Platte, adjoining-
church. Partly under cultivation.  Some small buildings.
Will sell either or both of
these places at reasonable
price and terms. J. K. Martin.    Little Falls, Minn.   16-2
ALL wanting any ditching
done call on Aug. Quade at
Wm. Leidenfrost's or Leo
Leidenfrost's. Latest McAllister ditching machine.
The Coffee Plant's Friend.
In Colombia there is a tree highly
esteemed as a shade for the coffee
plant It ls found also in tropical Brazil and possesses qualities that make
It peculiarly suited for this particular
use. It will live ou a stouy, poor soil,
and a tree only eighteen months old
will shade 144 square yards of ground,
while when full grown it may be fifty
feet high and have a spread of fifty
feet ou every side.
FOR SALE—120 acres land
in Section 32, township 42,
Range 29. Only 2 miles from
Lastrup church. Frank We-
verka, 494 Banfil, St. St. Paul.
b •c-J? QALE—An almost
new fine jiard coal heater.    Ca;l at Journal office.
Gene
birth of
house.
Gravel   reports   the
a   daughter   at   his