The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1911-09-21

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THE PIERZ JOURNAL
VOL. 3.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, SEPTEMBER 21, 1911.
NO. 14
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RECEPTION FOR
REV.J.G.STIEGLER
Pupils of St. Edward's School Preparing For Entertainment to be
Given Oct. I
The pupils of the St. Edward's school are rehearsing
for a reception which they
will give Oct. 1, at 7:30 P. M.,
to our pastor, Rev. J.G.Stieg-
ler, on his return from abroad.
All are cordially invited to
attend and help make the evening an enjoyable one. Tickets for admission will be sold
as follows: Reserved seats,
35c; general, 25c.
The program follows:
1. Orchestra
2. "Welcome Song"
3. "Welcome Address"
T. Wermerskircen
4. "The   Little Grandmas"
Pantomime
5. "Reden     ist    Silber,
Schweigen ist Gold."
By ten girls
6. "Brownies at School"
By eighteen bovs
7. "Japanese Parasol Drill"
8. "Wer traegt die   Pfanne
fort?"
Pech Joseph Macho
Katherin   AnnaLeiter
Ein Herr.... Alex Hartman
Fuenf Musikanten
Ein Kind.. Antonie Wilkes
9. "Dream of Fairyland"
Operetta
10. "Nearer   the  Fathers
House" Action Song
11 Rev. J. G. Stiegler
12.    Orchestra
No Need To Stop Work
When your doctor orders
you to stop work, it stagg*ers
you. "I can't you sav. Yon
know you are weak, run-down
and failing in health, day by
dav, but you must work as
long as you can stand. What
you need is Electric Bitters
to give tone, strength, and vigor to your system, to prevent
breakdown and build you up.
Don't be weak, sickly or ailing
when Electric Bitters will
benefit you from the first dose.
Thousands bless them for
their glorious health and
strength. Try them. Every
bottle is guaranteed to satisfy.
Only 50c at E. L. Kaliher.
Celebrates  Eighty • Second Birthday
Prank Kapsner celebrated his
eighty-second birthday last
Monday. In spite of his advanced ag*e Mr. Kapsner attends church regularly in all
kinds of weather and can be
seen on oar streets almost every day. He was born the
eighteenth of September, 1829.
The only man in this community who precedes Mr. Kapsner in age is Albert Pavlu, who
was born in December 1828 and
will therefore be 83 years on his
next birthday. With Albert
Pavlu as first and Mr. Kapsner
as second in age, Jos. Virnig
Sr. is a close third with 81 years
and four months to his credit.
Mr. Virnig was born in May 1830.
The old gentleman Staub comes
as fourth with an age of 81
years and two months. He was
born in August, 1830, which
makes him only three months
younger than Mr. Virnig.
Prank Karel is 78 years old.
But the oldest person in Pierz
and probably in all Eastern
Morrison county is Mrs. Nespo-
ri in upper town with an age
of 88 years.
Respect and protect the aged!
There is a strong tendency a-
mong the young to regard
decrepit age as something
shopworn and out of date. They
seem to forget that the man faltering under the weight of four
score, once delighted in feats
of speed and enduring strengh.
Unless taken prematurely with
disease, the dim eye, the halting
gait and palsied hand await us
all.
INDIAN KILLED IN
DRUNKEN BRAWL
S.L. Gourd.Wealthy Cherokee Indian,
Killed at Randall By His
Brother-in-law
Restaurant Keeper Disappears
E. E. Barkley, who, for
seme time, had ,been conducting a restaurant in Little
Falls disappeared last Sunday
afternoon. No cause for his
disappearance can be found.
Several of the hired girls have
money coming and it is thot
best for them to continue the
business until all bills are
paid.
Bid » Wanted
Notice is hereby given that
the town boards of the towns
ot Granite and Hillman will
meet on Saturday, the 23d day
of September at 1 o'clock p.
ra.. at the place of M.M.Meyer, in the town of Hillman,
for the purpose of receiving
sealed bids for the superstructure of a steel bridge on the
town line between the towns
of Granite and Hillman, between sections 35 and 8.
Bridge 34 feet in length;
otherwise construction and dimensions same as the bridge
in the town of Granite, between sections 20 and 21.
The right reserved to reject
any or all bids.
Otto Hoffman,
14-1    Town Clerk of Granite.
Notice
Notice is hereby given that
all parties owing the late
Christ Berg, are requested to
call and settle before their account is turned over to the pro-
b     . court.
Mrs. Christ Berg.
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
Hut sad mortality o'er-sways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea.
Whose action Is no stronger tlmn a flower?
O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
A-alnst the wreckful siege of battering days.
When rocks Impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but time decays?
O fearful meditation!   where, alaclc,
Shall Time's best Jewel from Time's chest lie
.hid?
Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot
back?
Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
The rich proud cost of outworn burled age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry oceon gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the flrni soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such Interchange of state,
Or slate itself confounded to decay,—
Huln hath taught me thus to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my Lovg away.
This thought Is as a death,which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
—Shak.
3,000 Attended County Fair Saturday
Conservative estimates made
on the number of visitors in
Little Falls Saturday for the
purpose of seeing fair exhibits
and aeroplane flights give it as
3,000, Little Palls, with a permanent population of 6,078, as
given by the last census, was
said to have had over 9,000 persons within the city limits between the hours of 10 a. m. and
6 p. m. Saturday.—Transcript.
Follow the crowd to Frank
Qrell's store to get one of the large
mirrors free.
Henry Meyer returned last
Tuesday from St.Cloud where
he had been on business.
Mrs. John Roch and her
son, Leo Bednar, of North
Dakota are here visiting with
the family of Frank Rauch.
Miss ElenoraTraut of Portland, Oregon, who visited in
Little Falls with Mr.and Mrs.
Jeddy Mayward and other relations left Tuesday for Phil-
brook for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Traut. The Trauts formerly
lived in Buh town.
Jos. Singsang arrived from
N. Dakota with his two sons
and a daughter-in-law. Mr.
Singsang is a former son-in-
law to John Schaefer. He
may make his future home
here.
Jos. Froehlich of Buckman
was in town Wednesday.
L* Winer shipped two cars
of stock today.
Little Falls, Sept. 18.—Justifying his act as having been
done in self-defense, S. S.
Durham, of Clough township,
killed his brother-in-law, S.
L. Gourd, a full-blood Cherokee Indian, Saturday evening.
The fighting was the result of
a drunken brawl which took
place on the shore of Budde
lake, four miles from Randall.
Gourd and a friend were
preparing some fish for supper when Durham and his
friends came to join the party
at the lake. The Gourd party
had plenty of liquor and the
Durham crowd brought some
more. Gourd soon got into a
fight with one of the men.Durham,fearing Gourd was going
to stab the man he was fighting with, interfered and parted them. Then Gourd turned
upon Durham and broke a willow club overDurham's shoulder but Durham disarmed him.
Then Gourd, as Durham
claims, was about to stab him
and in self-defense he swung
the club he had taken from
his brother-in-law against his
head He struck Gourd on
the side of the face and he
dropped unconscious.The man
regained consciousness and
suggested that a doctor be
called but this was not done
and he died Sundav morning
at 7 o clock.
The party came to Little
Falls with the body and gave
themselves up. An autopsv was
made Mondav morning and it
was found that Gourd had
been hit on the right side of
the head, causing the breaking of an artery and forming
a blood clot on the left side of
the brain.
Gourd was a full blood
Cherokee Indian who came to
Randall about three vears a-
go from Oklahoma. He is reputed to be very wealthy, receiving a large royalty yearly
from oil wells on lands in Oklahoma. His wife, the sister
of Durham, who killed him, is
a 16th blood. He leaves a
wife and five children.
DISTRICT COURT
OPENED MONDAY
Grand Jury Charged and Cases Have
Been Set For Trial—Theodore
Martin Indicted
Held for Investigation.
Hoke Smith of Georgia believe his
state crowns all others in its sense of
civic and political honesty, and he
tells this story to prove it: A wealthy
farmer named Sneads, who, though
he could neither read nor write, was
elected to the Georgia legislature, was
a power in poliUcs because of his
sterling honesty When he arrived at
Atlanta, he w; Invited to luncheon
at a swell hotel by another member
of the legislature. Sneads' host non-
chalanUy passed him the bill of fare.
Sneads held it before him as if studying it intently. "Well, how does that
bill look to you?" asked the host, unaware of his guest's inability to read.
"Well, it may be all right," replied
Sneads, slapping it down on the table;
"but you don't f'tch me votln' for
It UH I know hk     about itt"
Warren Graham,son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. Graham of Little
Falls, was thrown from a
horse early Monday night and
quite badly injured. His
horse ran into a wire fence
newly streched across the
road. The sudden stop threw
him over the horse's head into the hard road. When he
did not return at the time he
was expected a search began
which resulted in finding him
unconscious at the place of
the accident.
John Philippi received a telegram yesterday from Oak-
dale, California, informing
him that sewer pipes would
be laid thru his orchard which
would necessitate the removal
of ten fruit trees. For the
removal of these trees the cit-
y will allow him fifty dollars
besides replacing the trees.
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Transcript: The opening
session of the September term
of the district court was held
Monday afternoon. After the
grand jury had been charged
they indicted Theodore Martin
for murder in the first degree.
The following cases are to
come up for trial during the following week:
Tuesday. September 19.
S. P. Brick vs. Stanislaus
Semrau.
Joseph Bursik vs. Edward
Cash.
Geo. H. Powers vs. the Merchants' State bank.
Wednesday,   September 20.
Dana Brown and William
Tourtilotte vs. A. K. Hall.
Onamia Lumber & Mercantile
Co. vs. Jos. Porten and. Henry
Mochle.
The Merchants' National bank
of St. Cloud vs. Joseph Froelich.
The Royalton Lumber Co. vs.
A. C. Wilson.
Thursday,  September 21.
E.M. Edbourgh vs. Northern
Pacific railway Co.
Price Jones vs. Norther Pacific Railway Co.
Friday, Sept 22.
Christina Hanson Bole vs.
Nels A. Swanson.
Kasih S. Bodwell vs. the
Northern Pacfic Railway Co.
and Jos. Yort.
Geo. McCollough vs. village
of Motley.
Saturday, Sept. 23.
Acme Harvesting Machine
Co. vs. Morrison County Farmers' Exchange, et al.
D. M. Cameron and E. F.
Shaw vs. J. D. Boyd and Ray
Boj>d.
S P. Brick vs. Frank Mengel
and Adelaide Mengel.
Monday, Sept. 25.
Marianna Koziol vs. Anthony
Kozial.
A. Hirschman & Co- vs. Joseph Froelich-
Max Meyer vs. L J. Picket.
Tuesday, Sept. 26.
Antonia Backowski vs. John
Velinski.
J. K. Martin vs.Fred Schwan-
ke, et al.
Elizabeth McDaniel Engler
vs. the Modern Woodmen of
America.
Rasmus J. Mortenson vs.
Charles D. Johnson.
The first case taken up by
the court was Jos. Bursik vs.
Edward Cash, a suit involving
but a small sum, but which occupied the court's attention
practically all of Tuesday.
John Hoffman Now in British Columbia
Geo. F. Hoffman received a
letter from his son, John, formerly of Leavenworth, Wash.,
but who recently moved to Seventy-Mile House, British Columbia. This queer name was
probably given the place from
the fact that it is seventy miles
from Ashcraft, the nearest railroad station.
He aud three other families
set out from Washington with
three teams and travelled six
weeks before they reached
their present heme, 700 miles
from Leavenworth.
John goes on to say "I am
working with my team on a
farm at four dollars a day, but
how long it will last I do not
know, nor do I know how long
I will stay here and where I
will go should I leave. Dear
Pa, see that the Pierz Journal
is changed to my present address. I miss it very much. I
have not heard from Pierz since
spring and want to know what
is going on at home."
Apples, extra choice, 40c a
peck.    New Pierz Store
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Scoles
of Pierz were Little Falls vis-
last Sunday.
Grover Smith last Monday
bought the Jos.Otremba place,
west of the village for $7,800.
Mr. Schmidt is the husband
to Theresia Stumpf, daughter
Mrs. Adolph Stumpf.
Thursday's Storm Did Much Damage
There was more damage
done by the storm last Thur-
day morning than was at first
expected, according to the reports, which came in during
the last davs of the week.
Nick Wollack of Platte lost
two cows and one steer by
lightning-.
The roof was blown off; one
of Conrad Stangl's barns.
John Tretter had a grain
stack stru.k by lightning and
burnt.
Nearly all the telephone
lines in Morrison were out of
commission next morning.
It is reported that the gran-
ery on the John H. Langer
farm south of the station was
upset.
At John Donek's place the
storm carried away a half a
stack of hay and unroofed one
half of his barn.
Frank Bolster lost a colt
by lightning.
A barn on the Schinittbauer
farm east of town was upset.
P. L. Girt/.' threshing crew
was sleeping in it. but none
were hurt.
Hundreds of grain stacks
had their heads blown off.
The country south and east
seems to have been in the direct path of the storm. According to the reports from
the neighborhood of Nick
Lochner, Barney Block and
others, many grain stacks
were upset and the bundles
carried all over the fields.
Burglars Entered Clothing Store
M. J. Bracke's stock of
clothing and tailoring goods
in Little Falls were relieved
of several hundred dollars in
value, by burglars last Monday night. Up to date no suspects have been arrested.
Billstein-Walman
Leo Billstein, son of John
Billstein, and Miss Mary Walman, both of Little Falls, were
married in the German Catholic church at Little Falls
last Tuesday morning.
Big Dance
given after the show at Faust's
hall, Friday, Sept. 22, by the
HotSpringsRedCrossRemedyCo
Don't forget the big "First
Communion" on request moving
pictures, show, Sunday night,
the last night.
PLATTE
Hrs. Wilton Hayes and children, Miss
Emma Reese, Wilson Hayes and Theo.
Rychner called at Walter Hayes' place
Sunday.
Robert Rychner is at home now for a
visit with his parents.
W. Hayes, C. Reese and Ben Rychner
were couty seat callers Monday.
The Misses Agnes and Vera smith
were Platte store callers Sunday.
A number of frieDds gathered at C.
Reese's Saturday evening and enjoyed a
fine time, it being his 44th birthday,
Enough rain for the present.
The lightning has been using Platte
rather rough lately. Monday night it
struck the clothes line near the houee of
Walter Hayes and Wednesday it struck
one of the large treeB near C. Reese's
barn, and also killed three head of cattle
be'onging to Nick Wolak.
Mrs. Ben Rychner and Mrs. C. Reese
visited Mrs. A. Kainz Monday.
Wilson Hayes Sr, and Don Wilson were
at Pierz Saturday.
SULLIVAN LAKE.
Sept. 18—Robert Look called at Peter
Adkin's Tuesday.
Mrs. A. W. Cook and daughter visited
at D. W. Sims' Friday night.
Illif Walmark visited at Wm. Lynu's
Sunday.
Ethel and Nellie Martin called at the
lake Sunday.
Mrs. D. W, Sims visited at A. W.
Cook'sJSunday and Monday.
Edwin Walmark visitod at C. E
Look's Sunday.
P. Walmark and C E, Look left for
Little Falls where they will serve on the
jury.
Mrs. C. E, Lcok was a Pierz caller
Monday.	
Follow the crowd to Frank
Qrell's store to get one of the large
mirrors free.
L.F.HIGH SCHOOL'S
SHORT; COURSE
Consisting   of Agriculture, Manual
Training, Cooking and Sewing,
Begins Nov. 20
The "short course" of the
Little Falls high school for
the farmer bovs and girls of
Morrison county will open
Nov. 20 and continue until
Feb. 23, a period of twelve
weeks, with a holiday re<
of two weeks at Christmas
time.
Students 14 years of age or
older will be admitted to this
course whether thev have
graduated from the eighth
grade of the county schools or
not. Grown up men and
women who are interested in
the work are also invited to
enroll. While students will
be received who cannot enter
upon date mentioned, they
will, of course, lose some of
the work.
During the course there will
be a "Rally Week" when extended farmers institute work
will be done by the representatives from the college of
agriculture,—Transcript.
A Dreadful Sight
to H. J. Barnum, of Freeville,
N. Y., was the fever-sore that
had plagued his life for years
in spite of many remedies he
tried. At lasthe used Buck-
len's Arnica Salve and wrote:
"it has entirelv healed with
scarely a scar left." Heals
Burns, Boils, Eczema, Cuts,
Bruises, Swellings, Corns and
Piles like magic. Onlv 25c at
E. L. Kaliher.
"Pussy Fool" Johnson Resigns
Washington, Sept. 18.—Because his views regarding
suppression of the l'quor traffic among the Indians did not
coincide with those of the officials of the federal bureau of
Indian affairs, W. E. Johnson
of New York, chief special liquor officer of the bureau,
famed from coast to coast and
particular in Minnesota, has
resigned.
Acting Secretary of the Interior Adams said that no
fault had been found with Mr.
Johnson's integrity or his
character. Both the department of the interior and Mr.
Johnson himself, said Secretary Adams, thought it would
be better if he quit the service
because certain views he held
regarding the administration
of his office did not coincide
with those held by the department.
It was through Johnson's
activity that the famous prohibition clauses of the old Indian treaties were enforced in
Northern Minnesota last vear,
causing a storm of furtile protest from citizens.
South  Agram
Sept. 12.—Mr. and Mrs. J. s. Urumtrer
and son William were in Little Falls Friday to attend the county fair.
Henry Wuellner was in fierz last Saturday.
Some of our farmers in th;s vicinity
have finished cutting corn, but some
started only a few days ago.
Mrs. John Vorrath and son Harry and
Mary Kastanek were Little Falls callers
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Brummer and
daughter visited at John Kippley's last
Sunday.
Mrs. John Kippley visited at tho Ei-
denschenk home last week Saturday.
Peter Thommes called on J. J. Brummer Saturday evening.
Follow the crowd to Frank
Orell's store to get one of the large
mirrors free.
The Red Cross Remedy Co.
had full houses this week.
The two months old infant
of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Langer died last night.
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