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VOL. 2.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, FEBRUARY 0, 1911.
NO. 34
ST. JOSEPH SOCIETY
PROSPEROUS
BASKET SOCIAL
Monday evening February 13,
in Faust's hall. The proceeds
of this   social will  urotowaids
FARMERS' INSTITUTE
LL  ATTENDED
Treasurer's Report Shows $1062- helping to defray the ex Attendance at This Institute
_ _ or  getting1 a basketball   team.
Better . One
Meld Two Years A
THE   JOKE    IS    ON   US.
PIPR7    RAMP
ounday Evening, the Pierz  Bas-  two weeks will forg ve us
in   1 reasury—Lxpenses I or
Last Year Were $87.10
Membership on
The   Increase
With the  Three   New   Members
the Society Now Has Membership of an Even Hundred
The St. Joseph's Society had
their regular monthly meeting
last Sunday alter high mass
in the parochial school,at which
the secretary and treasurer read
their annual reports.The society
has a reserve'fund of $1062. The
total expenses for last year a-
mOunted to $86.10. The tl
members acted upon and accepted last Sunday, with the
ninety-seven old memo*
the local society a membership
of an even hundred. We are
indebted to Joseph Pre
their financial secretary, for
the above report-
Con-iestlo   Disciplii
A little man in !ngiand
rushed
the
from Minneapolis.
Free d mce after the Social. J
Everybody come and help a
good ibing along.Baskets will;
be sold !   ora 25c up, but none
will be higher than SI.50.
Miss Marv Wilkes of Pi
left for St. Joseph on the Soo
train Wednesdav, where she
will be employed by Prof. Ph.
Goerger,teacher at that place,
Mr. Goerger is well
here, lie was principal of our
village school last year.
Shall Certainly Have Another InsiituteNext Year
G.E.Brown of Elk River and F.fl
Gibbs of St.Paul Spoke onDai-
rymg, Clover,Gorn,iiogs,Etc.
ketBaliTea. eetFcemen
Worthy   of Their Steel
CooKes Look Big
on Picture
If Pierz Wins it Will   Put   Them
in Front Rank of Basket Ball
Teams in the State
The Cooke' it ball team on lhe efound
. known as :
mTeam") which v
quint   ne
m -ilCnODY is <•- H g to    get    a
sionTeam ) which will .play on ^ «=•
rn.
The Farmers'   Institute   held
last   Thursd; ».   2,
h was c ,-  C.   E.
i and P.    H.   Gibbs,    was
Herman Pantzke   and Gust I much better attended than   thejimdi inch
Kiesal of Little  Palls  passed about  two
thru   Pierz   Sunday   on   their |aS"o: son for it is plain,  written  to the
Farmers are beginning: to learn i<
the l: "The Basket :
to give rwin
on their inv
her values of their ainst R<
With land at from $40 to $80 antnight.
ing to sell  his   farm   with-
liis cons* nt.—Its  all,  a
ARE
in
ction 22 41.   ra
•
m my
\ ies fi ora buyei
io    much    •
NRY DENGEL
KILLED IN WEST
While Working in Portland, Oregon,   He   Fell Down an
Elevator Shaft
wav home from Buckman,
They look Jake Dengel home.
Jake had been to Minneapolis.
\WFORD    LAND    i
[FE BUI
St. P. inmesota
A. II. Vonderhaar,   cashier
of t h e !ocal 1 )a n k, i n i e rv ie w ed
some ol the
FOR   SALE—I    oiler    for
sale in 80 and 160 acre pieces.
my entire farm, known as  the
| Buckman farm.    The highest
bidder gets
Jos.
me]. lacreil 7 for a farmer to try j    That  game was   pla
,i,,ntc 1acf t„0..a!?„     "PJ ,-, meet   Vv Friday evening
ciiants Jdsr.   1 uesu.iv-     ne  re-     ■   1 ,    ,■ .   ,    .     ,, ,,     .,-'  ,    .       ■*/..
,    ... ,   • c       yield of ten bushels to the acre,  the Cooke s, with  a score c
ports things as being very fav- from the small returns on to 19.    .
arable. Ithp innoufmont nnj ii^fa>-mor'J    rp^g   picture   of  the  Cooke's I rl ve" iro m »n theSco
Paul Eller. master  harness
ke B
ollig
Pioelilich
famil
ar-
the investment and the farmer's
labor, the successive   crops   of
maker   of   Pierz, will   open   ah xhaust the  fertility  of
aer.   harness and   shoe   shop   here | the   soil.     The   only   way   to
in the very tear future.
J —Green wald
1 Cloud Timet
news    in
(swearing that Id  drown  him
self. When bo bad waded in to the
depth of ' his wife, who had
followed him, seized him by the hair,
and then, as a loeal editot denrribed
it, ''she led him back till he reached a
place where the water was about two
feet deep, where she pulled him over
backwards, and soused him under,
and pulled his head up again." "Drown
yourself (down he went), leaving me
to father the brats! (another plunge)
get drunk! (another souse) and start
for the river! (another dip). Better
use  the  water   instead   of  rum!   (an- j
other dip and shake of the head).    i;il ; (T» (\ \ \ U f> \\   DU[lPi
larn ye to leave me a widow!" After ; ^ ^ U ! J M t L i   HUU C w< 3
sozziir g  him   to   her  heart's  content, | 	
she led him out a wetter if not a better man, and escorted him into the
house, and closed the door.
ipeared  in the .    :      . : iy.      They   brought
polis  Tribu w  day- ' usehold
and judging from that,
[maintain  the ility   of   the heavv,   husky  fellows.    Ab utu e   home   hi
first they   intend  to [live in  the J, N. Ranch  I;
just sou! h of 1 i
soii, aside fr< rcial fer-j March the
is barnyard manure < -     Minnesota,     North   and
I Clover;    Peed   the   clover   and; South   Dakota  in quest of fast
A party    was   held   at   the (other si ducts to th< to conqu
home   of   Anton     Tembri d return   the   fertilizing If our bunch beats theCoi
last Sunday evening at which I °i]   iron\   v Sunday 1 ', it will put the
was    a large number of young!'1* came.    This is the same    old [Pierz quint in the front rai
Was Buried in Portland Last Monday
Is Brother to Mrs. N.   H.   MeeP
ler and His Parents Live
in Buckman '
folks.Card games and singing
v ere the pastimes indulged
in.
Frank Marshik, Newly   Appointed" Trustee, Took His Oath
of Gfnce
;.: in the same old   \ lallTeai
it cannot be Clov-      Come and root for them Sim
er and dairying was    preached] day e\
here    twenty    and    twenty-live J  ( .
years ago, but few
advice     until    several   of
farmers    h )ol r)is
slri! dim: Jan. 3
hers th;
nhernf n amlled
School b'eports.
John. Kaas of Buckman was
transacting business in Pier/.
Wednesday.
George L. Boser  of Buh is
ties   to   tin? Soo   station.
Buckma lis   p ire
I
■ building occu
r    a ml   Co.     a ml
by    the   fall    was     instantly
killed.     He was   employed   as
foreman by 0 Dispatch
■mi   it was  while he   was
gt d in loadingof a
issue of a   1 ne   that   he
his de
wi   ; m a r 1
to M i ttner in 1%2, was
and
was was
in Germane and c ime io
Buckman when  but ten years
and   went   to  Oregon  in
1902.    He.v ied in Port
land last Monday.
Why  He  Was  Strict
A farmer in a county in central
Pennsylvania has posted hi3 woods
■igainst hunter?. When asked by a
aan, who had been reading one of the
liar   monthly   meet-
f the vill
ierz was   call.
otlces,  whether  he  intended  to    en- j evening Feb.   4.     All    11
were   present
•merskirc a
shik who was appointed to   fill
our   most   pr ivc   far
i
:e as we had last
us h
orce   theqa   etxictly,   the   farmer /he-
"Do  I?      Do !, niter my experi-
uce   cf  last  fall? :  old
.v,   in  tbe  face,  broke  a sheep'*  leg .
iinnin' it dov.n a bank, tors the lead
. ipe out o' my spni le writ
er   at  my   bouse   and   barn   rfght   in
era  Ehuckm',  b:ov,-ed  off  i>art of  my '
coifs tail, thinkin' it a sxiulrrel in the
s, set the woods on lire, so's wp j
had to fight it all night and for a week
. ter,    killed     mv    ducks   and   game I.
.ester, broke down lo rod, o' post ■   ^" Journal, publishmg
rill    fence,    and then wonder if
an   it when i put   up   'Keep  Out'
i a.     Why, mis er, no hunters gits
•;   ihem   woods  no   more,  not  even  if
% swear •on  a slack of  Bibles that
v want to hunt lor a lost chiid."
ancy cau the
nation of J. B. Hartmann    I
ath of office.    The  fol
ills  were a:
J. Dombovy chief oi
partrnent for charges acco
lire at Barney  Ellei
Peter r    Jr.,    I
MuellerJ jick
he itier of 1 n plead-1
ed   guiii v    las' tv   to. a
<.re of a; te  y
brou                    -e Justice  j
k     The
li   e  and    costs amount* d   to
S27.4d.
fJumber of pupils enroll
Number of visiters	
■ daily attendan :
it nor ta
th are:
Th -er
Lousa  I
der
ab,
teacher.
FUCKER-GROSS
Two Well Know:; Young People
in Pierz Marry Tuesday M o-n-
inc at 9 O clock
in ]
When  "Heckiere"  Reign.
The heckler is a necessary cempie-
ent   to  every   political   meeting,   so
council proce.
Frank Grell.Mdse r
.los.K. Grell Mdse	
Jake > eisius, Mdse	
Rich 1 rairie   Milln :
wood       3.75
A motion
an       amendme; to    ' ordi
na^ce No33 which was c
C. E. Gravel was instructed to
ch so that he is now dignified with (ask an .'
io  title of "The Voice."    He  bobs   nty of ordinance No. 38i    .
in the most surprising places with    tifm was made and carried   that
e   most   surprising     questions,   and    vjJJaffe pays town of Pii
:ngh he is the fly in the'^rnent repainng the road   between
j  lar as the candidate is concerned, * •»
o the man in the street he figures as j vibage an. ■ ierz.
i   welcome   relief  to  the   arid  atmos- l_   Meeting was
of politics. There are candidates    jecf to ca
ho proudly boast that they welcome
*•t^p*.^•»^*3f--r^**««••
Frank Flic
licker   of    .
and Mary  Gross,   daughter  of
.   Theodore   Gross
of Gran:
!h's church Tuesday morning at nine o'Clo
:tenia   Gross,   thei  bri
sister,   and   Th ster,
daughter of F. O. Bolster of A-
gran :re   the   brid
lohn Gross, the ither,
1 and Jos. Flicker,   brother to the
groom, st men.
Afl at  the
I church ; entto T
! Gross'
■ the wedding,a dance floor
rth    loaded    and
creaking under  th< lit  of
j well coo . and oth-
lents awaited them.
Congratulations-
-i
NOTICE
I have recently installed into my chliiing store a com-
■set of dost proof clothing rack's on which I can hang
up a-11 my suits.This make* it
handy to show the sui ts and al-
epsthem in proper shape
and out of the dust. I a Iso
have instated two new lloor
show cases, and a new w rap-
oing counter, which maki s a
big improvement in myst ire.
1 now have as good an up to-
date clothin aa can   be
found   outside   of    the   large
cities. Joe Ries
FOR SALE CHEAP
Improved   farm-A.   P.   iTOLL
sub-
e  heckler  as  conducive  to  the  sue-
ss of a aieetiag.    But a' candidate
aust   needs   be   a   vei ^d   re-
ourceful Individual  if be is to come
ut of the eucounce.'   «»'!th flying col-
j, for the average heckler sets out
'h the express object of "upsetting
i  apple  cart,"   and   he  is  at  some
s to bring about this result.—Lon-
n Globe.
Frank Grell
Recorder.
Queen Alexandra at Coronal
the Jewel house at the Tower o
. don    is    now    being   overha
j burnished   for   tbe    coronation    n xt
I June, while a new  stale en
ling  prepared  for  Queen  Mary.     This
will be very similar to that worn   by
n Alexandra at the previous
vuony,    Queen Alexandra will, by the
and will
sit on the left hand of the king during
tbe whole ceremony. It is many years
since the mother of a British sovereign last assisted at a coronation.
nr
he COOKE Basket Bal
Team of
AND THE.
Hiobble Skirt in  Bible Time.
ran any on* doubt, asks a writer In I way, wear this crown
nch^lewspaper. that the ladies o'
.li   in  Biblical  times  were  im-
in their walk. like the ladies of
?      In   the   latter   part   of   the
'■   chapter   of     the     Prophecy     of
.h, says the writer before referred
we   get   a   glimpse   of   how   these
^liters of Sion dressed on gala oc-
ins.      We  learn  further,  he  says,
i a passage In the Talmud  (Baby-
■n), chapter vl.    (Schabbats tranS-
-n),  that   the  robes  of  the   ladies
e   so   tight   that   they   could   only
i.k with short steps.    By this means
preater opportunity was afforded to
uirers to observe them.    The
r.  quoting from the Vulgate,  ob-
ves:    "Nihil sub sole novium."  The
Ion  evidently  is  that the  hob-
■   sKlrt   was  in   vogue  In  very   far-
.,ay  times.
Team will play a game of BAS-
KET BALL in FAUST'S Hall
Germans Fay Much for Meat.
The   Social  Democrats  are  making
much of the almost prohibitive price
of meat in Germany.    A picture postcard  that had a  wide circulation  before it  was  withdrawn  showed  a  fat
ler,   meat   ax  in   hand,   standing
ock.    There  was nothing  in
except the man and bis im-
:if trade to show that it was
laverous  worn-
of  meat,  and   the
nswers:    "You to the
now.
.   go  to !>thecary*a
for it."
LA STRUP.
F< b. 7.—La-t Sunday even-
i n g C1 e m e n s F s u • -
prised by his friends at his
brother's home, where he has
spent several weeks.
Asocial crowd  gathered at
the home of Stephan J.Gross
; last Sunday.
Who  says  that Lastrup is
progressive?       A    short
ptnue ago it was voted to have
a semi-graded  sc iool   but according to posters, a third and
er school has b< en
which is open   everv Tuesday
even:
Simon Kassela has been a-
round buying cattle for John
Schaefer of Pierz.
During Father Sand's absence a priest of Onamia v.iL
fill his place.
Henry Kingen and son have
been   hauling jce   for William
jHohn.
EVEP-
ATS!
.
i
. '^*N^'v*>,:*s^*w**
John Kramer Nicho-
j lias arrived   in Pierz ''
_        ( for a,visit with his brother-in-
I jS  < I law Jacob Nohner.
<]
Jj. Winer, th buver.
>ped a carload of  cattle to
dot & Co.,Duluth,l
-
I    Get your visiting cards printed
•at the Journal os
FOR SALE—My eighty a-
cre farm in the town of Gran*
ite, three mi es south-east of
Lastrup church.
Joseph Kramer.
Anton  Johnson   of   Dixv lie
in Pier/. Tuesdav   with a
tew bushels of clover which h i
wanted   to   se.l.      It   did   not
take him long to find a buver.
Chas Meyer and wife of
Buckman were in PierzTues-
day.
Theodore  Ortman   of   Lastrup brought a load   of   cattle
o John H. Schaefer Tuesday.
Riley Hortsch of Buckman
was in Pierz Tuesday.
Miss Mary Kainz of Buh
went to Hope N. D. Mondr.y
lor a visit with relatives.
Have your glasses correctly
fi ted by Dr. Kerkholt.
Carl Meyer and wife of
Buckman were transacting
business in Pierz Tuesday.
FOLWD—Somebody forgot
at my place at the time of Mr.
Stumpf's funeral a corduroy,
sheepskin lined jacket. Owner may have same by paying
for this notice.
31-tf        Mrs. John Stumpf. •
P. L. Poster transacted
business in Little Falls last
Monday and Tuesd
Dressmaking above Frank
Grell's Store.
Agnes Joa of St. Martin and
Nick Schraut of Pierz will be
married in St. Cloud February the twenty first.
Robert  Harseh of Las!
was in Pierz Wednesday,
F. X. Virnig returned from
twin Cities, Mi
WANTED—girl   TO DO