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THE PIER
JOURNAL
VOL. 2.
PIERZ, MORRISOX COUNTY, MINNESOTA, APRIL 18, 1911.
NO.-4a
COMMISSIONERS'
PROCEEDINGS
Grass Seed Applications Approved—
Agram Abatements Allowed—
Routine Business
J. A. Wallace of Denham
Takes Charge of Our Station I VAt.  IltKMAn
GAME WARDEN
J. A. Wallace, formerly station agent at Denham, arrived
Tuesday to take charg-e of the
Soo station at New Pierz. Mr.
H. A. Hohensee will take Mr.
Wallace's place at Denham.
Herald:    The board of  coun-
isionJ met  in  regular   monthly session Tuesday and Wednesday morning.
.airman appointed Andrew
Herum as a committee of one
to act with supervisors of the
town ot Darling to repair bridge
across Little Elk River iu sec-
l 36 and report at nest meet
ie bid of S. Trebby for  fur-
nig ice for one year for the
court house and jail in  the sum
?115   was    accepted.      The
'*& Hock Ice Co. bid $33 74.
ie report of   the   board   of
audit was read and approved-
The petition of H. C.   Larson
to be setoff from school district
61 to district 15 was granted.
Applications for  grass  seed
■ e considered and the   audit-
vas instructed to send applications to the Dean of Agricul-
•, State Unive'sity, for a total of 39J3 pounds.
Most of the petitioners   were
• tn the town of Lakin.
S&%    Agram      abatements
w^mbwcd; also   that of  T.
O. Gorlon, Little Falls.
Bills allowed:
M. C. Lund, field notes $     2.50
P. S.   Randall,   justice,
witness and constable    27.02
Henry Bentfeld,  constable fees       8.45
P. Armstrong,  expense.    32.23
N. W. Telephone Co. ...    15.15
Transcript Pub. Co.,   legal printing     33.30
Pairbank, Morse &  Co.,
repairing scales       6.00
Frank X. Bastien, stamps 9.00
Security Blank BookCo.,
supplies     52.35
Frank X. Bastien, fees._ 20.50
Fritz & Cross, supplies. 53.25
S. P. Brick,board of  au-
+> dit     15.00
Frank    Renick,   stamps
and express     12.53
C- J. Smith, election   returns       1 90
John Monahan,constable
fees       7.00
F. E. Levis,   supplies       1.50
B. Y.  PdcNairy, auditing
board     15.00
Hewitt Bridge   Co.,    Ft.
Ripley bridge 1397.50
N. W. Chance, doctoring
pri soners     36.75
Louis F. Dow, supplies.    2340
Sam Wilson, election       1.40!
B. Y. McNairy; stamps.      9.25 j
Transcript Pub. Co.,supplies .     15.401
D. Rocheleu, milage       4.60
Sam Wilson, election returns „       1.40
Frank Armstrong, board
. of prisoner       5.40
F. H. Lakin.board of audit and milage     20 20
A. Herum, milage       5.60
Henry Gassert, milage., 4.00
MartinViechorek, milage 2.00
Martin Viechorek and D.
Rocheleau were appointed as
a committee to act with the city council in the repairing of
the Mississippi river bridge in
city of Little Falls.
The following resolution was
adopted:
Whereas a report has been
made and filed with the County
Auditor of the   town   aifairs   of
Priest To Celebrate Anniversary
Rev. Father Meinulf Stuck-
en kern per O.S.B. of St. Martin,formerly of Meiers Grove,
will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his entrance lo
the priesthood, July the twentieth. Father Memulf was
ordained Julv 20,  1861.
Think more and spend less.
Live on less than youearnand
"lace the difference in our
bank. The great big dol-
ars 3*ou earn trilcleaway from
vou. Stop the leak. Start a
bank account —German State
Bank of  Pierz.
Peter Medved of St. Paul,,
who for manv vears was in
the mercantile and later in the
hotel business in Little Falls
and well known ih this part
of the county, was a visitor in
Pierz Wednesday. .
Miss Elizabeth Keller teacher in district 39, went to Cold
Springs Wedne.-dav to spend
Easter with her pare ins.
Geo. Kiewel of Little Falls
came out to his auto yesterday and called on his customers in the village of Pierz and
New Pierz.
Herman Vierk of Agram
was a visitor in the villag*e
yesterday.
Read all the ads this week.'
WANTED—Neat girl for
housework, small family. Call
at New Pierz Store.
Mr. Arnold, auditor for the
Soo, was in Pierz Tuesday
checking out Mr. Hohensee.
Mrs. John P. DVjrnig and
M ss Minnie Faust returned
Mondav from a visit to the
Twin Cities.
Paul Eller of Greenwaid
will sp. nd Easter Sunday
withhis parents Mr. and Mrs.
W:n. Eller in Pierz.
EstherBesinius ofSt.Cjoud,
teacher in district 134, left
Monday to spend her Easter
vacation at home.
County Commissioner of Holdingford,
•Stearns Co., Has Appointment for
Five Counties
  •
Valentine Herman, of Holdingford, county commissioner
of Stearns Co., last week received his appointment as
game and fish warden, embracing a territory coveredjjby the
counties of Stearns, Benton,
Sherburne, Todd and Morrison.
He is now prepared to appear
unexpectedly and unannounced
in any nook and |corner where
violators of the game and fish
laws might be found.
Mr. Valentine succeeds Tj-ue
Osgood of St. Cloud who has
served as game warden for several 3'ears and who was inPierz
on official business about three
weeks ago.
of   St,    Cloud
age   Saturdav
Carl Thiele
was in our vi
and Sundav.
Dr. Dufort, formerlv of
Buckman, was in the village
Monday.
j Miss Alma Hanlon, teacher
| in district 126, le:t for her
home in St. Cloud, Tuesday,
where she will s*~end her Easter vacation. Her school will
re-open next Tuesday.
Wm. Drews, son of August
Drews of Hiliman. was in
Pierz Tuesdav. He returned
home on the afternoon train.
Louie Gravel of Onamia
passed thru Pierz Friday on
his was to Little Falls.
the town of Ripley, and       \
Whereas a large   number   of      S. D. Wood left for Manka-
Slfli!?_f.??_.?L'£t_.8vi_.f>1^!*0. Minnesota, Monday to visited his mother,    who is   very
have requested -the board of
county commissioners to take
some action on said report:
Therefore, it is resolved, that
the cou'ity attornoy be and he
is hereby instructed to make examination of said report and
proceed in such manner as to
him may seem best.
Application of John Wilinski
to retail liquor in the village of
Flensburg was rejected on
grounds that the building was
too hear the schoolhouse.
Will Pitch for Grand Forks Team
JessLeigh, who list vear
pitched for the Thief River
Falls base ball team has been
hired by the Pickets of Grand
Forks,N. D., for the summer.
Jesse is a -on of Joseph P.
Leigh of Leigh town.
ill with pneumonia.
Mrs. Anton Bednar and son
P. M. Bednar*. of Wei ber,
Neb., and Mrs. Teresia
Dvorak of Brainerd, Neb.,
visited friendsand relatives in
the neighborhood of Frank
Karel for a week. They returned to their homes last
Monday.
Mr. Hallmann, the Soo's
bridge inspector, was in Pierz
Saturday and Sunday. He
inspected the two bridges
which were damaged by the
passenger engine last Saturday.
Simon   Kassella   left
Bowlus last Tuesday.
for
TELLS CAUSE OF APPENDICITIS
E. L. Kaliher druggist states
that much appendicitis in Pierz
is caused by constipation, gas
onthe stomach or sour stomach.
These troubles are almost INSTANTLY relieved and appendicitis guarded against by taking a SINGLE DOSE of simple
buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc.,
as compounded in Adler-i-ka,
the new German appendicitis
remedy.
F.Marshik,Jr..student in the
Normal school at St. Cloud,
arrived this morning to spend
his Easter vacation with his
parents.
Mrs. F. J. Gilbrideand her
sister Miss Hildegard Wermerskirchen arrived here last
Tuesday night from Davis,S.
Dakota, the home of Mrs. Gilbride, where Miss Wermerskirchen has been staying all
last winter. Both are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Mel
Wermerskischen of Pierz.
Mrs. Gilbride will visit with
her parents for a few weeks.
Mel Wermerskirchen .Anton Tembruel and P. J. Gau
left the first part of the week
for Long Lake where thev
will stay   a few  days fishing.
Local school closed Wednesday for an easter vacation,
and will reopen Tuesday.
Frank Nagel, who is attending school in Little Falls
returned home Satudav to
spend   his   Easter   vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Billig
returned from Fair Haven,
Minnesota Fridav.
Carl Stauningof Crookston,
traveling for the G. H. Jen-
kinson Co. of Souix City Iowa
dealers in Glass, crockery,
fountain and billiard supplies,
transacted business in Pierz
on Friday and Saturday.
Lust Bros, of Center Valley finished sawing lumber
last Friday.
John Brown of Granite was
a Pierz business caller Tuesday.
Frank Karel of Buckman
visited with his daughter,
Mrs. P. L. Poster over Sunday.
Rheinhart Stumpf went to
Lit4le Falls Saturday visiting
his mother.
Wm. Hohn, the Lastrup
saloon-keeper called on his
Pierz friends Monday.
Mrs. Jacob Duscher went
to Little Falls last Saturday.
J. Blake of Lastrup brought
a load of butter and eggs to
Pierz Saturday.
Casper Braun and wife of
McGrath came down from
that place Monday morning.
Thev returneq to their home
in the afternoon. Mr. Braun
states that he will not enploy
Austrians this summer.
ENGINE ON
PASSENGER BROKE
Last Saturday—Tore Ties for Three-
Fourths of a Mile—Strange That
Engine Was Not Derailed
Last Saturday afternoon,
while the east-bound passenger Corporations
was runni igf at a speed of thirty miles an hour, two miles
west of Vawter, the cranK shaft
on one side of the engine became detached on one end, and,
with every revolution of the
drive wheel, this heavy bar
swung a cycle, demolished the
cab and broice a number of
steam pipes. Owing to the escaping steam the engineer was
unable to control the engine
and it ran for three-fourths of
a mile, worKing gre it havoc a-
mong the ties and the stringers
of a bridge before it came
to a stop. Railroad men
report that it is strange the
traia was not derailed. Another engine was sent down from
Onamia and the train passed
thru our station one hour and
thirty minutes late.
ANSWER TO CONUNDRUM
If all   the   grocery m-_n     would
not  trust   out any groceries nobody    would  have   a  chance tu
beat them             Jacob Neisins.
43 «     	
T. S. Look of Sullivan arrived in Pierz Tuesdav. He
will work in Frank Grell's
butcher shop.
Jos.1 Faust Jr. who lives
four miles north ofthe village
was
dav
a visitor in   Pierz  Tues-
Erick Johnson, the cattle
buver of Little Falls, was in
our neighborhood a few days
the first patt of the   week.
"^^r. A. Brown, representing
the American Tobacco Co. of
New York city, called on our
Pierz merchants last Tuesday.
Eugene and Louis Gravel
returned to Onamia Tuesday.
A larg-* (lumber of women
have bank accounts with us
and transact their own business. Would it not be wise
to open an account for vour
wife and alio v herto pay all
the hopse-hold 'expenses bv
check? All accounts are welcome here—German State
Bank of Pierz.
Julius Marshik was a business caller last Tuesday.
Geo. Leeb Sr. of Lastrup
was in Pierz last Tuesday doing sometradinginour stores.
Sam Trebby of Little Falls
was a business caller in town
Wednesday.
Winer, who shipped a car
load of cattle to Duluth, Friday, returned to Pierz Monday.
'•Who made that pretty Easter
hat."
"Why, it was Clara Nohner,
the up to date milliner."
Jos. Mueller, son-in-law of
Robert Kluge, went to Little
Falls last Tuesday where he
has been employed as log
driver.
Henry Waninger of Platte
was in town Monday after a
well driller. His water supply is giving out.
Jos. H. Grell of Pierz and
Jos. Froelich of New Pierz
made a business trip to Little Falls Tuesday.
Mrs.   Grams of   St. Cloud
spend a few davs at the home
of Mr.Hurrle of Buckman last
week.    She   returned   to her
home Monda\*.
Chas. Lake, teacher ia district No. 19, left for his home
at   Richmond   to   spend   his
Easter vacation.    His   school  clu.dinZ
will reopen next Tuesday.
•i#*T-»i.V'*•-•<«. ..   .    .    .
The Private Ownership of American
Timberland and Its Menace
Scientific American: Standing timber i*   necessarily the
source of our  future   lumber
supply.   It is but natural that
thinking persons view  with a-
larm   its   concentration,    i ot
onlv in private hands,   but  in
a few private hands. A report
prepared bv   the   Bureau   of
of the   Department of Commerce and L.ibor
and [.issued   in   February   of
thi-* year deals at length  with
the  tremendous   increase   in
the value of the standing timber in all parts of the country
as well as with the extent   to
which, in   a   few   vears,   its
ownership has gradually   narrowed.     While fortv years  a-
go at  least   three-fourths   of
the timber now standing   was
publicly   owned,    it   is   said
that   now four-fifths of   it   is
privately owned.
To quote the report: "Examples of the increase during
this interval arc: From S5 to
$30 an acre, $7 to $40, !_2>> to
$50. $1 to $13, $4 to SI40, SI
to S1S0. Specific tracts have
been t>o\d first for $24,000,
and later for $153,000;S10,000,
and later S124 000; $240,000,
and later $2,500,000; $23,000,
and latfer $500,000; $19,000,
and later $1,125,000.These ex
amples illustrate the remark
able profit made by certain individual holders.
"What did the Government
get for tiie timber? Of the
southern pine, sold for $1.?5
an acre, much is now worth
$60 an acre. Large amounts
of ""Douglas fir in western
Washington and Oregon,
which the Government gave a-
wav or sold at $2 50 an acre,
now bring from $100 to $200
per acre. The great redwood
belt in California was alienated on similar terms, and
some of it is now worth hundreds of dollars an acre.Prac-
ticallv none of the great forests in the public-land states
was sold bv the Government
for more than $2.50 an acre.
The great increase of value
gives grave importance to the
concentration of ownership
The report leads us to think
that five- elevenths of the
country's privately owned timber is in the Pacific-Northwest (California. Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and Montana), one-half of'which is now
controlled by thirty-seven holders, many of whom are closely connected and the three
largest of whom alone own
nearly one-fourth.
As to the largest holder
the Government report savs:
"The Southern Pacific Company holding is the greatest
in the United States—106 billion feet. This is about 6 per
cent ofthe private timber in
the investigation area, and 10
per cent of that in the Pacific-
Northwest. It is difficult to
give an adequate idea of its
immensity. It stretches practically 680 miles along that
railroad between Portlandand
Sacramento. The fastest
train over this distance takes
31 hours. During all that time
the traveler thereon is passing
through lands a large proportion of which for 30 miles on
each side belongs to the railroad, and in almost the entire
strip this corporation is the
dominating*owner of both timber and land. ... A very
significant fact in connection
with the enormous holding is
that the Southern Pacific Co.
is not selling its timber, but
is holding this valuable supply, evidently in the confident hope of a further
great  advance   of price."
Concerning the second and
third largest holdings, the
Government report hasthisto
say:
"The holding of the Wever-
hauser Timber   Company (indirectly  owned
1 subsidiary   concerns)   is   the
"Continued on Page 8.
AN ENTERTAINMENT
VVILLBE GIVEN
By St. Joseph's Society in Faust's
Hall on Monday Evening,
May I
Geo. Stelze, state org-anizer
of the German Cathode Aid association of Minnesota will be
in Pierz Sunday, April 30, and
Monday, May 1. A meeting
will be held Sunday, April 30,
after hig*h mass. Mr. Stelze
will address the meeting and
explain the benefits of life insurance and aid societies*. Monday evening:, May 1, the St.
Joseph society will arrange an
entertainment in Faust's hall
and everybody is invited to attend. The entertainment will
consist of music, singing- and
card playing.. |Refresh ments
will be served to all in attendance.^	
Ed. Tanner of L-ttle Falls,
representing the Minneapolis
Brewing Co..visited his Pieiz
customers last Friday.
John Przybilla of Buckman
was a Pierz visitor last Friday.
Fr.ink     Love    came
from Onamia Fridav.
down
T. M. Miller of the Climax Western Oil Co. of Minneapolis, was in town  Fridav.
Ferdinand Dahmen left for
Barry, Minn., Fridav.
Miss Rose Wermersker-
chen of St. James, Minnesota arrived in Pierz last week
to visit her uncle, Mel Wer-
merskerchan and family. She
will stay a few weeks.
Wessel Wolke of Lastrup
visited in Pierz a few davs
last week.
L. S. Look of Sullivan
here Fridav.
was
W. J. LaBree of the Duluth
Paper and Stationery Co.
called on Pierz merchants
last week.
N Hinsberger of Buckman
was in town Saturday visiting
his son-in-law Dr. E. Seguin
and family.
M. M. Meyer, town clerk of
Hiliman was transacting ousi-
ness in Pierz Saturday.
If you look through a bank
account you can always see
prosperity ahead. A bank
account opens the wav to all
things prosperous. Open an
account todav and you will lav
the first foundation stone fi r
a fortune.—German State
Bank of  Pierz.
FOR SALE—160 acres. 50
acres under plow, 20 acre*
meadow, 30 acres pasture,
four miles east of here, 1-4
mile to school, 1 mile from
Center Vallev Post Office.
41-4 M'ichael P. Meyer.
Wm. Rucker left Thursday
for Fort Benton, Montana
with his father's household
goods and cattle.
A.Will ofLastrup was in town
Saturday. He says grass Is
growing under the snow.
Steve Gross, the Lastrup
creamery man   was   here   on
business yesterday.
Qet our prices on flour and feed.
We can save you money.
Rich Prairie Milling; Co.
Henry Butterfield of Little
Falls passed thru Pierz Monday on t>is way to Onamia
where he will work during
the summer.
Andrew Drews of the town
of Leigh was a business caller
last Saturday.
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Jos. Por.tner of Granite was
a Pierz visitor last Saturday.
G. Somers of Hiliman transacted fpjsiness in Pierz S iturday.