The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1910-12-15

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JOURNAL
VOL. 2.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, DECEMBER 15, 1910.
NO. 26
A  NARROW   ESCAPE C.O.F.ELECTSOFFICERS
John   Gross    Accidently     Shot
Saturday While Out
Hunting
John Gross of Granite had a
Very elo e call last Saturday.
He, with Uenry Gau, Frank
Waninger, Herman Faust and
Math Gross had been hunting
for several weeks in the neighborhood of tlnir camp, seven
miles south of Hiliman. Saturday morning* John told the
boys 1 e would look for
bear that day and left the camp
.ir nine o'clock. About three
n 'he afternoon when in a se-
c.uded and quite heavily timbered nook of the woods, and not
in the least suspecting* that any
human being was within miles
of him, he heard a shot tired
close by and at the same time
felt the sharp sting of the bullet at the pit of his stomach.
He immediately shouted that he
bad been shot and after waiting
a few minutes to see if anyone
would show himself, started
for the camp.
Upon examination it was
found that the ball perforated
John's heavy clothingf and
pierced his anatomy at such an
angle that it soon found exit
about six inches from the point
of entrance, without doing
great injury. The passage thru
several thicknesses of ducking*,
jackets, shirts and five or six
inches of Gross so impeded the
momentum of the ball that it
could not find its way out. In
the evening .-it- was found in
John's stocking...
When it fs remembered that
John might have been seriously
"Wounded and disabledin such a
manner that he could not have
reached the camp, the cowardice of the.*}**.fools who shoot at
everything in sight, and flee
withfjfut going to the rescue of
their victims, becomes more apparent.
Jos. P. Meyer, the butcher,
had a simjlar expedience and an
equally close call about eight
years ago,
Stillwater Gazettes Thee V
ti rumor that th re is a sho r
tagein the sauerkraut crop
and that certain portions
of our countfv are liable to
put on deeo "mourning* if this
prov»s to be *• rue. Some people have an ide i that winter
ineals^are not complete unless
they are supplied with buck
wheat cikes, sausage, sauerkraut and spare ribs, but
should it prove true, possiblv
the d* ficiencv might be partially filled bv the use of a inod-
erae dos. of th j ch._s_ tint
smells to heaven and return
•without batting an eye.
SULLIVAN LAKE.
Miss Edna Lynn came home
from Onamia last Tuesday
for a week visit with her parents.
Cha les Benson  killed a wolf
last Tuesday.
Mrs. T S. r. n'c _r.it to
Pierz, Thu-sdtv with our
m til carrier She returned
horn2 ag tin Stturdty.
Peter and Adam Zak c^bed
at A W. Cook's Friday evening.
Miss Edna Lvnn called at
C. E. Look's Thursday.
Raymond Sim has taden up
his musical studies with A, W.
Gook again.
MagjfretCook was the guest
of Miss Mazie Look Sunday.
W. Has km* ofKimball visit-
d with his sister  Mrs.    Wm.
Lynn the past week.   He   returned to his   home   Monday.
Miss Addie Brown, Mazie
Look. Frank Sims and Merle
Look called at A. W. Cook's
Sunday evening.
We ' *t< inform t rose inter-
etedin'eba cseof foun-
den> i act* u o.i Thanksdiv-
ing day that we are doing
nicely. Geese on Thanksgiving day never agree with us
— but — look out for
Christmas.
Annual Meeting of Catholic   Order of Foresters Was Held
December 4th
The Catholic Order of Forester-* held their annual meeting Dec. 4th at which the following officers Were elected:
Chief Hanger __. Erriil Froehner
Vice-Chief Ranger.Mag.  Rauch
Treasurer A. __• Macho
Rec. Secretary  C. P. Virnig
Delegate to convention at Mankato Jan. 11, 1911. J. G. Stiegler.
Substitute Emil Froehner.
The remainder of the officers
will be appointed at the regular monthly meeting, the tirst
Sunday in January.
The Motor in the Wheels.
Bv a singular invention, a
Colorado firm has succeeded
in making an auto truck whose
wheels are not, as formerly
seperated from the motor, but
contain the engine itself. The
well known f< od value of Gol
den Grain Belt B er makes it
a tavurile in home circle* and
is ■••specially rec ui i ended as
a tonic and an a d to digestion.
Hav ■ it on the family t;i-
ble an i enj y bs be t-iiis.
Order of your nearest dealer or
be supplied by E. S. Tanner,
Little Falls.
CG. WiLLJ^GHr CASE
As Defendant in   Action County
Holds That A. K. Hall Has No
Claim Upon Treasurers Safe
Whether the s ife in the
office of the countv treasurer
b longs to the county or to A.
K. Hall will remain questionable for another week as an
adjournment was laken in the
case-Tuesday morning.
The c untv attorn, y his
prepared his.side and is r ad\
to tight the case to prove thai
the money strong box is not
legally the property of A. K.
HaH, who claims to have loaned
it a"iout 25 years ago to a former .lerk of court. The countv as defendant holds that the
plaintiff, having adjudged ;i
bankrupt in June 19o9, has no
claim to the sate. It is claimed
by Mr. Hall that he was not
aware at 'hit nine that the
safe was in the treasurer's
office, hence did n t list it with
the inventory i f his property
through f rgettuin. ss.
Under the s'atute of limitations the . ountv also c aim-
that, having tailed to commence action with n six years,
the plaintiff, Mr. Hall, has
forfeited his claimstothe -afe,
which has been in the peaceable possession of the county
for the past quarter of a cen-
turv.
Bv consent the case w id adjourned to Tuesday, Dec. 20-
-Transcript.
Peter Mever s<>ld a voung
horse to Anton Tembreull
Mondav.
Mrs.    Wm.   Lynn   was
Ouamaia visitor Mondav.
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AGRAM.
Herman Vierk and Henry
Wuellner were county seat
visitors last week.
John Terhaar called on
Herman Terhaar one day
last week.
Mrs. John Loidolt visited at
Frank Bolster's place last Saturday.
Henry Wuellner and wife
visited relatives and friends
in Swan River a few days
last week.
John Stumpf visited Sunday at Frank Otreraba's
Bernard Terhaar visited
Sunday ar. Wilkes's place.
Henry Wuellner and wife
visited at Frank Bolster's
Sunday.
John and Henry Zimmerman --pend Smday at home.
n
"His Life Wds Gentle and ths
Elements so Mixed in Him That
Nature Might Stand Up and
Say to All the World: This was
a Man.'"
Peter Virnig died last Friday, December 9, at the
age    of    forty-eight    years    and    seven    months.
He was born in Cross Plains, Wisconsin,
and came to Pierz wheii but four years old; was married to Eva Bares about twenty-seven years ago and
has since lived on his farm in Buh.
His wife, eleven children: John P. of the village;
C. E. of Harvey, N. Dak.; Mrs. Steph. Gross, Lastrup;
Hubert, of Granite; Andrew, Henry, Clara, Frank,
Kate, Mary and Joseph, (the latter seven of minor
age) four brothers, Christian, Adam, Frank and Joseph, one sister, Mrs. Henry Langer and his aged
mother, Mrs. A. G. Virnig, survive him.
He was a member of the Pierz, Minn., 710 Court
Catholic Order of Foresters, and St. John's society of
Lastrup, under the auspices of which he was buried
in St. John's cemetary at Lastrup Monday morning
at ten o'clock.
The court house officials sent a large boquet of
flowers. His was the largest funeral ever held in
this section of the country.
Peter served fourteen years as assessor of his town
and about six years as county commissioner from
this district. He was a man of absolute honesty, and
his friends and acquaintances held him in an esteem
of which many a man of more pomp and pretensions might well be proud.
Byfhis gentle and unobtrusive manner he so endeared himself to every man, woman and child in
this community, that when the bell with slow and
measured stroke, tolled the tidings that his frail and
wasted body was lowering in the grave, we very
much doubt if there was one who did not utter a
tremulous prayer for the welfare of his soul.
We shall leave further appreciation of the dead to
the language of Schiller, Germany's great dramatist
and bard:
Stumm unb taub.ift's in bem cngen l)nuf<*, , »
Cief ber Sdilummer ber Begrahctien;
Bruber!   2tdj in enrig tiefer Paufe
^eiern alle bcine ftoffnungen;
©ft ertu-irrnt bie Sonne beinen l}uc*,el,
_3tjre (Shttb empftnbeft bu nid)t mc_ir;
Seine Blitmen miecU ba IDcftmiiib. ^liigel,
Sein ©elifpel Ijoreft bu nidjt niefyr;
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2fber mob! bir! — Koftlicb ift bein Sdjlummer,
-Kur/tg fdildft ftdi's in bem engeu fyms;
111 it ber .-freubc ftirbt bier aud) ber ttummer,
Kodieln aud) ber lllenfdieu Qualen aus.
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_5al)r barm mof*l, bu {Tranter unfrer Seele,
(Eiugemiegt non unferti Segnungen!
Scblummre ruhia, in ber (Srabesboble,
Sdilummrc rubtg bis auf IDtebcrfel^n!
Bis auf biefen letdienDolIen fjiigclu
Die al.macbt.ge Pofaune flingt,
Unb nad) auferi^nen dobesriegeln,
(Sottes Sturmaunb biefe Ceidien in Beroegung fd^mingt—
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(£rbe mag juriicf in (£rbe ftduben,
.jbegt ber (Sctft bod) aus bem morfdien f)aus!
Seine llfdie mag ber Sturmnnnb treiben,
Seine Ctcbc bauert etnig aus.
91   MILLION IN U. S. TO VISIT LITTLE FALLS
Increase 20.9 %   Over   77.256.-  Part of City Outside   of   Ind
630, the Population  in
1900
The population of the United
States with all her possessions
is about 101. tOO,(XX). This number includes 7,636,426 in the Philippine Islands, as enumerated
in the census there in 1903 and
estimates for the population of
the island of Guam, the American possessions in Samoa and
persons in the Panama canal
zone.
Washington, Dec. 10. — The
population of the United States
is 93,402,151. This is the total
number of people enumerated
thruout the states, territories,
District of Columbia, Alaska,
Hawaii and Porto Rico in the
thirteenth census, which began
April 15, 1910. The total does
not include the Philippine Islands.
The increase in the country's
population during the last ten
years was 18,145,521, or 20.9
per cent over 77,256,630, the
population in 1900 compared
with an increase of 14,576,864
or 22.7 per cent over 62,979,/'66,
the population in 1890.
The population of continental
United States is 91,972,266, an
increase of 15.977,691 or 21 per
cent over 75,994,575 in 1900
when the increase was 13,046,-
861 or 20.7 per cent over 62,747,-
714, the total in 1890.
REWARD   FIGHTERS
National Officers of N. L W. V.
Ask for Names of Svrvivors
of Indian Wars
National Commander Henry Heg*' r and National Secretary C.R.Hauser of the National Indian War Veterans'
association have sent out notices asking for the names
land addresses of all those who
tan
Treaty Territory and the
Remainder is Within
The west side of Little Falls
is doomed to go dry in accordance with a statement made
by one of the deputies working
in this section under W. E.
Johnson. In speaking with
Bert Boyce of that city, who
has returned from Northome,
where he was employed as a
bartender at the time the northern town was closed, the deputy stated that Mr. Boyce's home
town is to be closed within a
couple of months. Altho it is
known that only the smaller
part of the city can be affected
as only the west side comes under the treaty restrictions, the
city is to be visited and all
thirst quenching emporiums are
to be closed on the occidental
side of the Mississippi river.
There are eight saloons on the
west side while the remainder
of the city's 25 are located on
the east side, which is not affected.
Some of the west side saloon
men have stated that should
they be put out of the business
by "Pussyfoot" and his men
they will secure a transfer from
the city council and resume operations on the east side.Others
have announced that should
their places of business be
closed, they will leave the saloon business.—News Tribune.
PLATTE
Peter Tretter of Buh has
pulled his saw mill up to the
stumpage bought bv Christ
Reese.
Wilsoft Hayes made a trip
to Swan River Saturday.
Next week school in district
71 closes for two weeks, Xmas
vacation.
Mesdames    Richner     and
Hayes   called   on   Mesdames
.  Reese and  Tho_ttsen  Thurs-
served on the frontier aga_nsi_ «.
hostile Indians in the United
States and those in volunteer
service from the close of the
Civil war until 1863. It is the
d- sireof these officers to place
the names of such persons upon the books of the National
Indian War Veterans' association so that they mav benefit by the act now pending* be
fore congress when said act
becomes a law.
The association has been organized for the purpose of
procuring pensions for its
members and two of its numbers, Messrs. Hegwer and
Hauser, have been sent to
Washington, D,C.,to inaugurate a vigorous campaign for
the purpose of accomplishing
this object. It is their desire
that those soldiers, who so
valiantly defended the frontier
in the earlier days, making it
possible for the present generation to develop unlimited
resources and to liv*a in peace
and prosperity, be accorded
the same recognition that the
goverment has so justly given
i the survivors of other wars.
I I.-dian war veterans are requested to mail their names
•and addresses in care of Box
!4S4, Washington, D. C.—
I Transcript.
r.
Wilson Hayes and sons.
Frank and Walter, Christ
Reese, Frank Thomson, A. H.
Nagel. Andrw and MikeKainz.
are busy logging*.
Mesdames T.Smrth.C.Rich-
ner, Miss Emma Reese, visited with Mrs. Walter Hayea
last week.
Three young lads went out
hunting rabbits lastSaturday;
one of them shot 25 times and
got 1 rabbit; the next shot 10
times and got 4; the last shot
3 times and got 2 rabbits.
Christ Reese drove to Pierz
after a load of feed Saturday.
Frank Thomsen was a Pierz
caller Saturday.
Miss Cecilia Valentine visited at school district 71 last
Monday,
Math. Valentine and sons
are busy hauling fence posts.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Richner
called at Dan Nelson's last
Sunday.
ROB  MORRILL  STORE!
Entrance  Gained to  Four  Corners Emporium in Southeast
Town and Money Stolen
Information regarding the
robbing of the Jos. H. Pohl
general store at Morrill Sunday night has been brought
to the office of Sheriff Armstrong. During the night last
Sundav the store, which is located at the Morrill Four corners, was entered and a sum
of money stolen. The amount
is between $30 and $35. Mr.
Pohl is unable to state whether any merchandise was taken
by the robbers or not.—Transcript.
School Reports.
for
the
Report of Dis. 98
month ending Dec. 9
Enrollment 38
Averag*e daily attendance. _. 36
No.of days taugbt    .19
Visitors School-board.
The following were neither absent nor tardy during the
month- Leonard Hoheisel Edward Kastanek Fene Block
Mary Gir.z Stasia Hoheisel
Oliva Girtz, Anna Hoheisel, Anna Girtz, Rosie Kastanek, Kaite
Hoheisel, Pena Kastanek, Clara
Pauser, Herman Block, Wenzel
Voita, Mary Hoheisel, Margar-
etta Hoheisel.
Simon S Meyer teacher.
I pay  7 to  8 cents for  green
hides. Frank Grell
I pay 7 to 8 cents for green
hides. Frank Grell.
Dr. J. H. Newman of Little
Palls passed through town today on his way   to    Onamia.
The.members of the Pier*v t
Minn.,710 Court Catholic orvf-
der of Foresters attended Requiem Wednesday morning",
read by Father Stiegler, in
honor of the deceased member
Peter Virnig.
W.T.Wilson of Alexandria
Minn representing the LaCrosse Implement Co called
on Jos. H. Grell  Wednesday.
Jos.Thei ss the c%ar dealer
of Melrose was here Wednesday selling "Night Caps."
Jos. Mueller of Buckman
was in town Tuesday.
I pay 7 lo 8 cents for green
htdei. Frank Grell
WANTS
Adverti-emeoU colun_nin this |
are charged for at the rate of
rive cetts per line.
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.
*oR ^ALE— An almost
new fine ..ard coal heater,    Call at Journal office.
FOR SALE—I offer fof
sale in 80 and 160 acre pieces,
my entire farm, known as -the
Buckman farm. The high-eat
bidder gets it.
Jos. Froehlich.
FOR SALE—A piece of
land in town of Pierc, Section
11, 160 acres, 70 acres under
cultivation, fair buildings on
it. Will sell at a bargfxTrt on
easy terms.
24-3 John Josefin.
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