The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-05-20

              PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, MAY 20, 1915.
NO. 49.
STATE NEWS BITS
Various Happenings o! the Week
Throughout Minnesota.
A St. Paul man, former convict at
the Minnensota state prison at Still-
Water, has written a story on his experiences entitled "Thru the Mill."
The author, "4342," by which identification alone he appears, points out
In his book some of the traditional
details of prison routine still in vogue
at Stillwater and takes a determined
stand against the indeterminate sentence, which, he says, results in
untold and unnecessary misery from
suspense and worry. Pictures of the
thirteen wardens who have held office
at StHlwater since 1853 are one of
the features of the book.
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The omission of an item of $14,000
for the contingent, fund of the public
examiner durhig the fiscal year 1916-
17 in engrossing the general appropriation bill cannot now be corrected,
according to Attorney General Lyndon
A. Smith in a formal opinion to J. A.
O. Preus, state auditor. The act as
signed by the governor is the law, although it differs from the bill passed
by the legislature. Andrew E. Fritz,
public examiner, said the loss of the
contingent fund will impede the work
of his department in the latter part
of 1916.
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Stations where antitoxin is to be
distributed free will be opened in 122
cities and villages in Minnesota by
the state board of health Aug. 1,
when an appropriation of $5,000 becomes available. The stations ordinarily will be located in a pharmacy,
which will issue the antitoxin upon
the requisition of any physician that
certain diphtheria, patients or persons exposed to the disease are entitled to receive it. There will be
one such station in each county and
in some there will be two or more.
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George Brown, formerly manager of
the Armour wholesale meat market
at St. Paul, and his son, George
Brown, Jr., were shot dead at Vancouver, B. C, by Herman Rosenbaum.
Rosenbaum then phot himself and is
not expected to live. The Browns left
St. Paul about five years ago and at
Vancouver formed the Independent
Packing company with Rosenbaum as
a partner, the partnership being dissolved later.
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If the regents of the University of
Minnesota accept the proposal for affiliation of the $1,500,000 Mayo foundation for medical research and education with the graduate school at the
university the legality of the affiliation will be tested in the courts. This
was made plain at a recent public
hearing in the auditorium of the university law school building.
+ . + . 4"
Frank Werner, aged eighty-one
years, messenger to Chief of Police
J. J. O'Connor and oldest policeman
in age on the St. Paul police force, Is
dead. Werner reached St. Paul from
Germany in 1854. He was a member
of the St. Paul volunteer fire department and joined the police force when
it consisted only of seven men.
.;. -j. •!.
V. A. Whipple, a veteran Minnesota lumberman, is dead at Minneapolis. He was sixty-five years old
and a native of Palmer, Mass. For
thirty years he was in the retail lumber business at Sauk Center, but removed to Minneapolis ten years ago
and engaged in wholesale lumber business and in real estate.
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Gustave Holmberg, aged seventy-
two years, committed suicide at St.
Paul by hanging himself with a
clothesline in the basement of his
home. His body was found by his
daughter. Holmberg has been ill
lately. This illness is believed to
have affected him mentally.
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Mrs. Harriet A. Wood, who with
her husband, William R. Wood, reached St. Paul in 1857 from Detroit,
Mich., is dead. She was ninety-seven
years old. Mr. Wood, who died in
1871, was land commissioner for the
Minnesota Valley railroad.
4>   4.   4.
George W. Granger, an attorney of
Rochester, has been named judge of
the district court of the Third district to succeed Judge Arthur H. Snow
of Winona, who retired because of 111
health. Judge Snow died on Saturday.
4.   .;.   4.
County option will be voted on June
21 in Houston county, in accordance
with a petition containing 925 signatures, or 205 more than required. Wet
towns in the county are Caledonia,
Brownsville and Hokah.
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William Seng, who reached St. Paul
from Germany in 1858, the year Minnesota became a state, is dead in that
city following a stroke of paralysis.
He was eighty-three years of age.
4.   4,   4.
John Welsan, a farmer residing five
miles west of Aitkin, was instantly
killed while working in his sawmill
when struck in the breast by a piece
of flying timber.
4.   4.   4.
A jury in the Hennepin county district court awarded Miss Maud Matt-
goo of Minneapolis a verdict of $1,500
in her breach of promise suit against
Dr. John Ol6on.
Prefers Washington
To Minnesota
In speaking of her home in
Vancouver, Wash., Mrs. John
Kraemer now visiting here, said
that she would not think of returning  to the state of  Minne-
The Village is
I Violent Electric
j    Storm Satur-
Dumpground! day Morning
The village of Pierz is without 1
A violent electric storm visit-
a dumpground and the chance,ed tl,is country early Saturday
of getting one within a reason- j "truing from 1:30until 5o'clock,
sotato live. "It is true," she | abie distance, seems remote. |Twetaty six telephone poles on
said, "that there are about two There is considerable rubbish |the Little Palls litle- and two
or   three   months   of   drizzling' ;„ +i,Q „;ii.,„0 „..,;*;„„ r„„ ., <,„;*- ! on   the   New   Pierz   line   were
in the village waiting for a suit-
The vil ige tlovvned °y wind and lightning.
Wenzel Medeck's ol 1 barn was
weather during the winter,  but!aoie resting place
the discomfort  caused by suchJofficers nave made repeated ef-
weather   is   nothing   compared  forts to rent lease or buy a piece
with   that of  along  Minnesota of    Jand    for    a    dumpground,
winter.    We  always  leave   the Lrfthout success.   Nobody wants nms roda of tbe P^rz Hotel or
carrots, turnips  and cabbage in j his land  covered   with  tincans. , very close by-    0ne of tlie lod^
the ground and take them as we ; When  Christ   Virnig  furnished 'ers  claims ms   bed was   moyed
struck by lightning and burned.
It  must have   struck the light-
need them.    We have no potato tne
bugs  nor   mosquitos.    We now
dumpground,   rubbish   etc.
six inches from the wall and that
was  some
times unloaded in his bia watch *t°PPed as a result of
have 21 acres. We bought a five I standing grain. Now and then
acre orchard with buildings six|a load would be dumped in front
years ago for $500 an acre and-of Koeck's door. And had he
sold one acre of it for $1,500."xontinued to furnish dump-
ground   priveleges a few  years
a crash.
There   is'a grocery  store on  it.
Sullivan News
The J. J. and Kd. Linnelian families
arrived   from   St.  1'aul  last     Tuesday
Our orchards are planted mostly longer,   some   of   the   villagers ;„,„, will make their home at the lake
to prune trees, but we also have would have  gradually extended'*1''3 summer.
300 apple trees.   One of Our new j the gro^ds  to tl)eil-  back door w^j£yB- L°°k "^ Bt Martin'8
orchards  is  just   beginning  to; to save hauling the stuff away. \    Mrs.  Tom  Smith   visited   at  T.  s.
bear.    A walnut  tree bore over ' In tlie lew  years Adrian Grell ;Lo°k'8 Wo«j;"»«'»>; •
,,„ ,       , , , 1 Messrs.  W.  L.  McGonagle,   Dr.  Wat-
bO pounds of   walnuts last year.  rented     the     siaugi,ter    bouse',™, a. A. Fitch and .1. X. Games of
Royalton motored up to the lake on
Wednesday, caught a line string of fish
and  returned home Thursday.
Peter Adkins was an Ouamia caller
one  day last week.
Mrs. Tom Smith was a guest at G.
IS, Look's Thursday.
Ed. Linnelian spent the week-end in
St. Paul.
Miss Ida Look called at T. S. Look's
never   Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Look and children called  at  D.  W. Sims' Sunday.
Miss  .Inle  Mitchell   and   Merle  Look
home Sat-
It is estimated  that an acre or- yard   for   a   dumpground,   the
chard will yield a net profit of ajdistance  was so shortened   be-
$100 a year.   Our son Charles has 'tween  it and  the  village  that
three acre orchard, and Lorenz |last year ^rbage was unloaded
Ethen has an acre of  strawber-' neai- the Skunk river bridge,
ries and both are making money, j    To solve  tllis problem and at
The roads  in our  neighborhood  tl)e same time  enforce  some of j
are all  paved.    Mike   Leeb  of'tlie   laggards    wi,0   are   never'
Canada cain.e to visit us 3 years ashamed of a dirty backyard, to
ago and I visited the Keller
family at Mt. Angel, Oregon,
last year."
clean up at least once a year, a
piece of ground—a quarter of an'1'
acre would be enough—near the
village should be bought, or condemned if necessary, and all the
refuse, garbage, rubbish etc., in
the   village   should   be   hauled
Ball Game Next
Sunday Afternoon
A game of ball will be played jtuere at :i specified  time by the
between  the   local  crack  team same   ,mm  and   turned.    Let's
and   the    best    Rucker    team j nave a clean town!
next  Sunday  afternoon.    It  is
safe to say  that our   team  will
win,     if   the    line-up   will   be
the same as last year and it the
boys are  in anything  like their
usual form.    Leo will pitch and
he will be well supported on the Brainerd, Minn., May 17.-In
bases and in the held. Turn a raid 1)ere today by sheriff
outand make the season's open-; Glaus A. Theorin and Chief of
ing  game a hummer.    Root for'.police Henry Squires,  under  a
search warrant, two loads of
whisky and beer were found.
Brainerd  was   voted   "dry"'   on
Liquor Seized
at Brainerd.
the home team-
Northern Lights.
A Sabrist Bartli was give ath  April 20.
the horn af Mrst Heramen Mrs.
Harmman Prollick in honner af
tar Father Marry hov arrift last
week fram North Dackota.
Taedor Ortlnnan of  Bull sart
How Did She Know
One of Wenzel Medeck's sows
and her young ones had made
to Plow lis week alleraty it tlieir home in the old barn for
seems somwat arlly Tao tond'jaeveral weeks. Friday evening
you tink so too. | her  matermej  instincts told her
Brimmansharker Bross. ar that there was danger lurking
trashing in N.B.now, at Taotor in the air behind those dark
Tillan bias as we seen and John clouds and that something might
Halt gets rit bayes go rit atham . happen before morning. After
and glean out tad korner wants a short counsel it was decided
with tar many stales af gran tis to move to other quarters.
year. j During the  night  the old   barn
N. W.   Furstanparker  was  ajbumed;	
Now Pierz Ciller Wensday.
Jack Frind was at the.stashi-
011 with a lot of Potado.
Mr. Martean Flashhkker and
Fammaly has mooft to St. Ma-
thias Growing Co: Tuesday, 25.,
Mr. Paull Hohesel has mooft
on his now farm in South Platte,
bot we tak him for a North Buh
man now backas he is in tlie N.
13. tis 1 rict now, his many
frunnts arount Lastrup till soro
fom him.
Brevity is The
Soul of Wit
C. E. Look was a Pierz goer Monday.
Miss Jule MiU-liell spent Monday
night with Mr. and Mrs. Taylor.
Tom Smith called at Waller's Mon-
lay.
Mrs. Van Keuren visited with Mrs.
Ford Tuesday.
Wm. Prober and Merle Look visited
the Seliwitz ball nine Tuesday, and we
think we will have a ball game next.
Sunday.
Wanted—To exchange a perfectly
good bathing suit for a fur lined coat—
for particulars enquire of correspondent.
Locals of Pierz
And Vicinity
The ice was over half an
inch thick Tuesday morning.
C. A. Virnig lost his best
horse Monday morning.
The road between here and
Little Falls is a getting to be
a good one.
The total of  Mr. and Mrs.
Albert   Pavlu's ages  is   176
years.
Fred Gravel of Onarnia was
in Pierz Friday calling on his
brother C. E., and friends.
Miss Bertha Winkler made
a trip to Holdiugford, Saturday to visit with her parents.
Albert Bayerl arrived here
from Argyle last Saturday
for a few days visit.
Til lie Meyer visited at the
Herman Meyer home in Royalton last week.
Paul Eller of Greenwald
spent Sunday with his parents and friends.
Tony Kobilkaof NewPierz,
is now section foreman at
Greenwald.
Smokestack Of
Mill Fell Sun=
day Morning
The smokestack of the mill
engine house was so much damaged by the storm of Saturday
morning that it fell to the ground
Sunday morning. A new stack,
larger and longer, has been ordered to take its place. When
Gravel was asked "Why have a
stack, the creamery has nothing
but a chimney,'' lit said, "a long
stack was necessary to give the
firebox the required draft."
Holstein Park News,
JUDGE ARTHUR H. SNOW.
Pioneer   Jurist   of   Southern
Minnesota   Dead   at   Winona.
Section 5 has changed hands. Particulars  are   not   known.
Mrs. ('lias. Sanborn spent the day
with  her mother last  Sunday.
The town hoards of Pulaski and
Richardson met in this town Tuesday
for the purpose of looking over the
route of B new road on the town line,
which will give Messers. Brenner and
Rosin  a  road  past  their land.
J. H. Taylor and road crew picked
rocks one days last week. The rocks
hitting the brush sounded like a heavy
hail  storm.
Bert Sanborn made a trip to Little
Palls  Thursday.
Sam and Ed Martin visited their
sister, Mrs. ('has. Sanborn. Sunday afternoon.
Judge Arthur H. Snow, whose :
nation as Judge of the Third judicial
district  to effective  Jurj
eighteen years' service, wa
eently   accepted   by   Ciovernor   i
mond, is dead at his home iu Wli
succumbing to cancer  from  which  be
had suffered for years.    He attended
the   duties   of  his   office   to   within   a
few hours of his death.
PIONEERS  ARE   FOR   PEACE
South Agram News
The Kopweiler family will
live ill Mrs. Virnig's house in
lower towu.
Otto Hoffmann of Lastrup
and John Schaei'er of Pierz
were Little Falls passengers
on the stage Wednesday.
idly around Piers. vVe have
lighter soil than Greenwald
but we have better roads.
Those who visited at the .1. .1. Brum-
mer home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs.
Frank   Kandel   and   son,   Mr.   and   Mrs.
Th lore    BtUmpf,    Mrs.      Fred      Smith
and   John   Kippley.
Tlie town board of Agram met at
the clerk's office Monday morning.
Bernhard Terhaar, Joe and Henry
Kippley  called  on   Bertha  Sunday.
Roads  are   in   poor   eonditlos.
Nearly   everybody   is   finished   plant;
Roads are   drying up  rap- ing com.
The infant son cf Mr. and Mrs. .r.
J. Brnmmer was christened Philip
John   Thursday.     Mr.   and   Mrs.   John
Kideiishink  being sponsors.
Heavy Frost
Monday Night
Pierz was visited by a light
frost Sunday eight, and by a
heavy one Monday night. The
temperature fell to 27i degrees
Monday night. According to
reports there was very little
damage to field crops, and most
of the fruittrees have missed the
danger of frost.
The Flies' Revenge
Notice To Clean Up
The residents of Pierz ar hereby requested to clean up their
yards of ashes, tincans, rubbish
and all inilamablematerial ot'all
kinds whatsoever before May
lath.
By order of the Bre chief
P. Faust, Fire Chief.
May, 15, 22, to 29.
Ten little flies
All in a line;
One got a swat!
Then  there  were.
F. X. Boelim and K. M.
Stumpf went to White Eearth
reservation yesterday to look
at land.
Frances Kurtz arrived yesterday from Gleudive, Mont.,
and is now a visitor at the
Ed. Eentfeld home.
F. W. and Elizabeth Mar-
sink of Kimball and Richard
Boehm of Carver spent Sunday with their parents.
Wm. Kopweiler has resigned as foreman of tlie section at Green wa Id and will
probably move back to Pierz.; Grain and Produce
v     i 1?     *     jo*      d   • riarket Report.
i rank Jbaust and Steve Prei-I ,tT,     .  „    „
-mu.i*' Vheat, No. 1,      1.88
mesberger will   be delegates  Wheat) No- 2      i;;i
to the  State Firemen's  Con-|p|aX)  [go
vention   at  Pine   City  next I Barley	
month.                                         Kye  1.04
.Oats   4s
Mrs.Lotus Spanfellner was EarCJorn  65
....
.... 37
  27
  17
... 3.60
Gathering at St.  Paul  Sends  Message
to President Wilson.
Territorial    Pioneers   of   Minn.
who gathered at ihc old capitol al 8t.
I'anl to celebrate tbe Bfty-aeventh an-
ir> or the admission ot thi
to the Union, and many of whom
tough! through th I Civil war. declared
themselves to bo di
and unanimously passed a resolution
expressing their confidence Iu P
dent Wilson and the action be will
take  in   r-   a rd   to  ' mla trnR-
edy.    The resolution foli.
"Be it resolved, That the 'territorial
Pioneers' association, at its annual
meeting in St. Can] on the
ol the liny si", i mil anniversary of the
admission ot Minnesota to the Union,
to the president of
the United States and express"
him Iti confldi he will set in
the present crisis for the best i
csts of the nation."
Moses P. Hayes of Minneapolis
elected  president  of ti. itlon.l
Other officers are: Frank C. Ford,
Newport, vice president: John A.!
Stees, St. Paul, treasurer, and George!
H. Hazzard, St.  Paul, secretary.
NINE PERSONS HURT
BY GAS EXPLOSION!
MARKET REPORTS.
"If brevity is the soul of wit",
John Spaeth, the (ireenwald
saloon and hotel keeper, is witty.    The siofn on his  building is
Nine little flies
Grimly sedate;
Licking   their  chops—
Swat!    Then there were.
Eight   little  flies
Raising some  more—
Swat,  swat!   Swat,  swat!
Then there  wert	
Four little flies
Colored  green-brue;
Swat!    (Ain't   is   easy)
Then   there   were	
Two little  flies
Dodged the civilian—
Early   next   day
There   were   a   million!
taken to the hospital at Little Falls, Wednesday, and
may have to undergo an op-
peratiou.
Wilson Hayes of Platte and
C. E. Look of Sullivan were
in  town  Monday.    Both re-
llay	
I5utter, Creamery .
Dairy	
Egga	
i Flour, Beat	
A terrific explosion caused by a;
leaking tank of Mas wrecked two build-;
ii North Minneapolis and injured
nine persons, one seriously.
The tank was located in the rear of:
H. A. Comfort's bicycle shop.
Mr.  Comfort  beard  the  sound of the;
as and closed the
his shop.    With   '   ander Tallifer, an!
employe,  hi to the rear of the;
place .Hid tried to reach a small gas;
flame which was burning near thoj
tank.    As he approached  the  rear of
dldinK tbe explosion picked him
up bodily and  flung him on a pile of
debris.     Tbe   bicycle   shop   was
pletely   wrecked and  started   to  burn.
In   i urant  of Charles  Was-
rg,   next   door,   La Berg-
st.cn,   James   Ooyle   and   Dr.   C
-ness   wen :   at   a   lunch
counter.   .losie Wm Mrs Em
ma Franklin and Fram i
in   the   kitchen.     These   six   persons
were virtually blown out of the building,   which  immediately   collapsed.
ry window in a street car passing the place was blown out and a
panic ensued in which several persons
narrowly escaped injury.
ATTEMPTS   LIFE    ON   TRAIN
"    Straight	
Low grade flour 1.80
I Bran      1.40
Shorts   1.45
ported a light   frost in   their Cl,,cked Corn go pounds....1.40
Ground Feed -.     1.40
Hearts  __.     2.00
'>nions         60
respective localities
John Terhaar returned Saturday from an extended visit1
through   tlie    Northwest   in- j
eluding    Winnipeg.      He   is
again tending bar for Flaudy
Litke.
Susie    Wagner    lias    been
ibusy the   last few   days pre-
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday .  ...7.2:1
Friday	
Saturday..   —
Monday	
St. Paul Woman Cuts Throat With
Razor  Blade.
Mrs. Grace Selb, thirty years of age,
of St. Paul, cut her throat with the
blade of a safety razor while In a
berth on a train as It was leaving Cincinnati.
The woman's attempt at suicide
was discovered by the conductor before the train had gone half a mile.
He had the train backed to the station and Mrs. Selb was removed to
the city hospital. Her condition Is
reported serious.
Mrs. Selb, who is the wife of a
well known St. Paul attorney, recently figured in a mysterious cutting affray at her home In which one man
was seriously cut by anothe
-Buffalo Ne^B-jparing the Mrs. Voseu house   Tuesday	
DAIRY   HERD   DIES   IN   FIRE
Swating   flies   helps   some,     but     not for    Alois    FililiipS.  who    ili'.S Wednesday 7.25
short, pithy,   rhymy and   to the  mUeh.    The best way to remove these , . ,        , -
.,.,.',..,. been  engaged as  teacher lor
olt point, and  has no equal in the «™« ol typhwd and.other du* „_ ^..JJJTi      m. w.si. South St. Paul
has no  equal in the
is to ,-lean op tlieir breeding places—   the dist net school.      Mr. HllI-
iliterature ot   anv language.    It pjlos of ri,tuso ;ll,0llt horsi, ;t;1,,los Do  UpBwaflteacj,M heIV l2 yeais Live StockMarket.
Says:   DURST,  WURST.     It   is  it  now. and eajey a flyleaa summer. jc
ago and will be   remember. ' """""""
, "pure without scrupulosity and   ' , .     . . . .    Cows and 11
Woolt's arPlanty Fool around,  exact without apparent elabor-      Before soing to um take a or. .\ines-    "3    a ll.v
North Buh tis yeur.
ation.
Before going to bed take a Dr. Miles'
I Laxative Tablet You will feci better
!   tn tbe mornin;:.    [Advertisement.!
by   a
zeus.
Calves, stea -5.50 to
. steadv ?4.o0 to 7-00
Thirty-one   Cows   Perish   When   Barn
la  Destroyed.
Thirty-one dairy  cattle perished  In
a  Ore  wbich  destroyed  the barn  on
' the   farm   of   Knill   Nelson,   north   of
1 Manchester.   The barn was struck by
lightning.
Joseph Nelson, son of the owner,
saved the horses and seven cattle be-
Tore^he roof fell in. The loss is estimated at more than (5,000.
Don't forget to attend the DANCE at FAUST'S HALL Honday evening May 24th, 1915.