The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-06-03

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THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JUNE 3, 1915.
NO. 51.
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
<  Minnesota Readers.
POLK COUNTY IN DRY COLUMN
Rural Vote Overcomes Wets in  East
Grand Forks and Crookston—Saloons Ousted From Carlton.
$. .i. j,. .;-.;..;. .;..;. .;- .;. .». -;- -;- .j- -;- -;- -:•
+ •*■
-I> "Wets" and "drys" of Minne- 4>
4- sota have met in twelve battles 4*
since elections began under the •{•
county option law April 27. +
The score to date stands: 4-
Wets, 0;  drys, 12. +
4-
+ **** + **** *•?•** + **
Polk, Lincoln and Carlton counties
voted "dry at the latest county option elections.
The closest fight was in Lincoln
county, where the "drys" won by
thirty-five votes. Three saloons at
Ivanhoe will have to close.
In Polk county the "drys" won by
more than 1,000 majority after the
hardest fight that has been made so
far in any of the county option elections. Big "wet" majorities were
polled In Crookston and East Grand
Forks, but the country districts voted
heavily against saloons. There are
fifty-one  saloons in  the  county.
The saloons In Crookston and East
Grand Forks must close within six
months. The licenses In Crookston
expire at different periods and there
will be several In existence when the
final day, Nov. 24, arrives. In East
Grand Forks the licenses do not expire for nearly another year and the
thirty-two drinking places can run until the last minute.
Saloons were voted out in Carlton
county by about 700 majority. There
are thirteen saloons in the county.
Elections will be held June 7 In
Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Kandiyohi, Murray, Otter Tall, Pipestone,
Redwood, Renville, Todd, Traverse
and Watonwan counties.
AUTO PLUNGES OFF BRIDGE
One Man Killed and Two Others Seriously Injured.
Ernest Clemans of Minneapolis is
dead and Louis Foley and Ben
Diechsler, both of Stillwater, were
badly injured when an electric truck
belonging to the Purity Bread company of St. Paul plunged 100 feet into
the Mississippi river off the Washington avenue bridge in Minneapolis.
One-half of the automobile struck
the stone foundation of the bridge
pier and the other half hit the water,
breaking the car in two.
The accident happened while the
auto was passing a street car and
the steering gear of the machine became unmanageable. The auto tore
out two sections of the iron railing
on the bridge as it plunged to the
river.
Both Foley and Diechsler jumped,
but Clemans, who was driving, was
unable to get out of the car.
Foley and Diechsler were carried
down the river for five blocks and
then rescued by two men on their way
to work. Both were taken to the Minneapolis city hospital, where it was
said they would recover.
NOTED   FUR   TRADER   DEAD
E. Albrecht Had Lived in St. Paul
Sixty Years.
Ernst Albracht, senior member of
E. Albrecht & Son, St. Paul furriers,
who reached Minnesota's capital in the
days when the city was at the edge
of a wilderness and skins of animals,
trapped or shot in the vicinity, were
the company's chief stock in trade,
is dead at St. Paul.
He was eighty-five years old and
had been a resident of the city for
sixty years. Boats and freighting
wagons carried the company's hides
to Eastern markets when Mr. Albrecht first engaged in business.
Mr. Albrecht was horn in Coburg,
Germany, Sept. 7, 1829. He came to
/he United States In 1852.
Extension Of The    j Locals of Pierz
R. F. D. Service! And Vicinity
Two Hundred
Why is a Ver-       |Some Interesting     STATE NEWS BITS
July 1st will see the U. S. R. P.
D. extended to more than a million farms not at present receiving- tlie service. This, is claimed
will be done, without additional
cost to the public, by the readjustment of routes so as to avoid
duplications and unnecessary
service and by the installation
of motor  service  upon     many
Carpenters   are   in   great
demand.
Leo Leidenfrost lias begun
to build a new house.
The new barn on the Jendro
farm will be a good one.
With   the  temperature at
,; summer heat,   corn ought to
routes. As the good roads move- |cj1°w UOw-
ttient bears fruit in the shape of       -,,,     . „,        . ,        ... c
i     JbredStangl and   wife   of
passable    highways    the    year ^ 01oud ^.^   relativesiu
around,  more and  more   routes p.^ Monday
will be added  until   practically
every farm in the United States Jacob L. Hohman closed an
will be on a rural free delivery eight months term of school
route. This, with parcel post j ™ dist. 78 Tuesday,
facilities for the market of farm | IgnatzVonderhaarand fam-
produce, will mean millions of ■ ily 0f Albertsville visited here
dollars to the American farmer. I a few days thig week
There will be a game of
ball in Pierz Sunday afternoon between Buckman and
Pierz.
After closing a successful
Not Yet for a While
And now comes a most encouraging report.    It is said
that   the   Little   Falls-Pierz    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
electric line would be built ;is term of school at West Union
soon  as  the   difficulties  be- last Friday, Margaret Meyer
tween   Germany  and the U.' arrived home Saturday.
S., which  arose through the
sinkingoftheLusitaniawould' Jolm ^thman of Wiscon-
be settled. International dif- sni 1S here ■pending hisvaca-
ferences can be settled in;tion^ith the Faust andRaUch
short order; but the construe-1families' He 1S a telegraph
tion  of a  Little  Falls-Pierz, °P<*ator on the Soo Line.
Mr.   and  Mrs.  A. F. Hei-
Confirmed Yesterday!   miform Appendix?!     Correspondences
line has been hanging for 35
years.
Linierg-Koering
menz  and   family   from  St.
Cloud visited with Mrs. Hie-
Rt. Rev.   Joseph   F.   Busch, i
the new bishop ot   this   diocese
made his first visit to Pierz this
week and alministered the  sac-
rement of  confirmation  to   200
continuants.    The   bishop     ar .
rived Tuesday evening and was
met at the outskirts of  the  village by fifty  horseback   riders, '
the band and about  one   thous-.
and persons who  escorted   him
to   the   parsonage.    There,     a
short  address  of   welcome   by
Conrad Stangl and a   reply   by,
i
the bishop, and a   serenade   by ,
the band ended the preliminaries of Tuesday. Wednesday at
9 o'clock Pontifical high mass
was celebrated by the Rt. Rey.
Bishop with Mgr. B. Richter,!
Melrose acting as Assistant
Priest, Rev. E. Scheuer of
Holdingford and Rev. J. Wip-
pich, Millerville, as deacon and
subdeacon of the mass respectively. Rev. H. Pucks, Jordan,
and Rev. E. Steinach, Belle
River, acted as deacons of honor; the Rev. M. Scherer, Buck-
man, and Rev. V. Siegler as
masters of ceremonies. After
highmass a number of 200 were
confirmed and a sermon preached
to the confirmants by the Rt
Rev. Bishop.
At 3 p. m. the dedication of
St. Joseph's parochial school
took place with the Rt. Rev.
Bishop couducting tlie exercises
menz's parents, Mr. and Mrs.! and preaching a sermon in   ger-
M.   N.   Meyer   Sunday   and: man and english.
Monday. 	
Mr. Rudolph N. Lindbergand
Miss Anna  Marie Koering were
married  at 1 o'clock   Saturday;
afternoon, 22d inst,   at the parsonage of St. Francis church, by
Rev. Father J.  J.   O'Mahoney.' according   to   improvements
The attendants   were Mr. Emil and location.
Nelson and Miss Elizabetn Koer-1
The  groom is employed at1
Fv. S. Stumpf returned Monday eveuingfrom Thief River
Falls and White Earth. Price
of land in White Earth varies
That "Shiveree"
In Platte Town
ing ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
the Northern Pacific railway
shops in this city, and the bride
is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Koering of St. Mathias.
-Brainerd Tribune.
Jos. Gruber, brother to
Robert Gruber, and John
Miller brother  to Mrs. Robert
If all "shiveree'' crews were
treated like the one in Platte
last week "shivereeing"' would
soon be a forgotten art. Old
wash boilers, cowbells and other
Gruber and Mrs. John Vorath I shiveree instruments  would   be
Platte News.
arrived from Dane Co.,. Wis.
last Tuesday and will visit
here a short time.
Albert  Koenig,   wife  and
children,  of  Ruffalo,   N. D.,
i: ■ , -       .   „,„•!■   i.,   ' are visiting with the Herman
Road Overseer Frank  Brisk  is  busy i o
these days witii a crew flxng up the jFroehlich family.    Mrs. Koe-
nig is a daughter of Herman
GOOD   ROADS DAY  JUNE 15
Governor Hammond of Minnesota Issues  Proclamation.
Governor Hammond has issued a
proelamatlon designating June 15 as
"Good Roads day." The 1913 road
law authorizes the setting apart of
the third Tuesday in June to stimulate interest in road work.
The governor urges the people of
the state to contribute on that day
liberally of their time, money and material.
roads.
The town board met Saturday to let .
contracts   for   grading   tour   miles   of j -^ lOeilllCll
road.
Miss Emma Reese ami Theo. ftych-
ner visited at H. Wanninger's Sunday.
There is a baby mule on the Henry
WanningBr farm and it's a very comical little thing, it pays to go and look
at it.
Mr. Mrs. Ben Richner will leave for
Mispah Wednesday.
Did you all hear the charivari Friday evening? That's ri<;lit boys! Tin
cans are plentiful now days. B
Xavier Swaser and wife arrived here . Boelllll,    and
Thursday.
Mr,  and  Mrs.   (,'.   Reese  and  Walter |
Pelouski, Pete Froelich, .lohn Matlock   day	
and  Bill Hayes called at Valentine's ' which Was probably held this
This is the first
time Mr. Koenig has passed
beyond the limits of North
Dakota, his native state.
Frank Boehm was notified
Tuesday of the death of Dr.
J. C. Boehm's wife of St. Cloud
John Leidenfrost and wife,
Michael Berger, Engelbert
Frank Boehm
went to St. Cloud the fame
to   attend the   funeral
left to lie undisturbed at the end
of their usefulness./ A crowd
met at a place one evening last
week and serenaded the young
married couple with a selection
to suit the occassion. They were
politely but firmly told to fold
their instruments and silently
slink away. The}' went, but returned the next evening and re
I peated the performance with
much forto and stoccato. The
bride's folks now began to beat
such well directed time with fists
and hoe handles that a fewotthe
musicians still carry the evidence
of it in their faces.
What is the function of the
vermiform appendix ? What
part does it play in the human
economy ? This question has j
occupied the minds of eminent
anatomists, physiologists, and
others of profound scientific j
erudition the last two decades.
Various conclusions were arrived
at by these men of learning.
Some named it Darwin's missing
links, others argued that its secretions acted as a lubricant and
again others said that it was
put there to increase the circulation—of coin. But it now seems
that it was left to an obscure
practitioner, one Doc Holmes of
Kansas, to discover the true
function of this much maligned
yermiform. And the great discovery came about this way:
Doc Holmes, a confirmed disci
pie of old Isaac Walton was
about ready to go a'anglingand
was turning the garden over in
search of worms for bait, when
a sick call came from his friend
Bill Case. The case was pronounced appendicitis and an
operation was performed forth
with. The appendix was
wrapped up and stuck into the
vest pocket for future demonstrations and the fishing trip
was continued, where it was cut
short by Bill Case's case of appendicitis.
Doc's luck was poor, and when
his half a dozen worms were
nibbled away, he had nothing to
show but a six inch perch. He
was a long way from the landing. "I'll try this for a bait"
said he to himself as he reached
into his vestpocket and put the
fresh appendix on the hook.
And lo and behold, how the fish
did bite! On the way home he
left a mess for his patient, Bill
Case, and sold and distributed
the remainder among his friends.
But soon the villagers began to
notice that Doc's success in Hailing was in direct proportion to
the number of appendicitis operations. "Much appendicitis,
many fish," was an oft repeated
remark among the old women.
Thus was made THE discovery of the age . If DocHolmes had
not run short of bait that day
countless appendices might Ik ve
been wasted during the generations to come. The discovery
is of great importance to fisher
men, especially when there is a
shortage of worms. So long as
there is a surgeon at hand, they
never need despair of a good
catch of fish.
Hlliman News.
Miss Julia  Leigh and Wesley
aller took in the dance a
er last Saturday evening.
Various Happenings of the Week:
Throughout Minnesota.
Twenty-five   boys.   Inmates   of   the;
i Waller took in the dance at Ruck-' it»ta training school at Red  v
| were paroled at a meeting of the state!
j board of control.    This Increases  tho:
"outside population" of the school to;
l£ent   330  and   reduces   the    "inside  popula-j
was   a business caller   tion" to 232. The "outside population":
; has exceeded that within  the  instltu-:
Mrs.
Mr. Bethel   Soo depot
at Pierz ^^^^^^^^^^^
at Hillman last week.
Mrs. O. C. Leigh     and
Love
home Sunday.
Among the callers af Irwin
Drew's Sunday afternoon were:
Mr. and Mrs. Victor„G. Bruber
Rucker; Mr. andMrs. Aug.Drews
Miss Marie Drews: Miss Marie
Drews; Mrs. J. C. Miller and
daughter;   Miss    Inga    Hanson.
Rev. Pindley of Spier Minn,
preached at the school house
Tuesday evening.
Miss Marie Drews went lo
Pierz Wednesday for her music
lesson.
It is rumored that Hillman is
to have a new store in the near
future.
Corn planting is finished in this
vicinity. Here's hoping for a fine
crop.
Silas Eliot is a guest at the
W. ('. Penniman home, arriving
Monday from the   west.
South Agram News
morning.
Korbinian Riedlecliiier receive.} word last week that
two  more of  the citizens  of
FIREMEN TO GATHER JUNE 8
State Association Will Hold Forty-
third  Meeting at Pine City.
The Minnesota State Firemen's association will hold its forty-third
meeting at Pine City June 8, 9 and 10.
Kxteuslve arrangements are being
made and It is expected that the meeting will attract at least 4,000 persons.
Andrew Myler, St. Paul fire marshal,
is state secretary, and J. M. Collins of
Pine City, president.
Under the spreading chestnut
tree a stubborn aute stands, and
Smith, an angry man is he, with
troubles on his hands. He cusses
softly to himself and crawls beneath the car, and wonders why
it didn't bust before it came as
far. The carburetor seems to be
the cause of all his woe; he tightens half a dozen bolts, but still
it doesn't go. And then he tries
the steering gear, but finds no
trouble there, until wet with per-
tion for the last year and the dlspar-j
Ity is growing all the time.   The school;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   is   now   in   fine   shape,   according   to!
visited at the Penniman   Chairman C. J. Swendsen of the hoard:
of control.
+   +   +
The state board of visitors, which!
practically   was   put   out  of  business;
by   the   1913   legislature,   which   failed;
to   make   any    appropriation   for   its!
maintenance,   has   reorganized.     J.  C.I
Matchett, St. Paul, was re-elected sec;
retary.    He Is the only salaried mem-
her of the board     The  members are
W.   A.   N'olan.   Grand   Meadow,   chairman:  Swan J. Turnblad, Minneapolis;
Rev.   L.   R.  S.  Ferguson,  St.  Paul.
+   +    +
Mrs.   Deborah   M.   Pen one
years of age, widow of Curtis H. Pet-
tit,   late   Minneapolis   millionaire   and
pioneer lumberman, miller and mining
magnate,   won   by   a   decision   of  the
state supreme court  the right to take
her  statutory   third  of  her  husband's
estate, notwithstanding his will, even
though   she   consented   to  the  will  In
writing before her husband's death.
+   +    +
A test of Minnesota's option law, as
It  relates to the operation of brewery
distributing     stations     within     'dry"
counties,   probably   will   grow   out   of
the   election   by    which    1'olk   county
was made dry.      It  is understood the
twelve   brewery   distributing   stations
in   l'.ast  Grand   Forks will continue to
operate.    This will bring on the test.
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When the ten-year-old son of Julius
Fratzke, a farmer residing near Hutchinson,   attempted   to   creep   between
the drop boards in a granary door the
upper board  fell, striking him on the
neck   and   strangling   him   to   death.
The board was only three feet long, a,
foot  wide  and  an  Inch  thick,
"r    "I*    "r
As he was about  to step  Into  his;
cab at Hutchinson  Paul Jones, one of.
the St.  Paul road's oldest engineers,]
was stricken with paralysis which se-j
rlously  affected  his  right  side.     His;
run was from C.leneoe to Hutchinson.;
He had been with the St. Paul road:
for  forty-three years.
+   +   +
Minnesota  has  received  $21,537   In
inheritance taxes  from  the estate o^
Maria D. Jesup, widow of Maurice K.'
minimum of' •JesuP>   *ew   York   capitalist.      Mrs.'
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ) Jesup died  in  June,  1914.    She held
$5.00 per day COUld not but prove   atock in  the Great  Northern and the;
I Soo line railroads and in Great North-:
1 em ore properties.
It is said that Henry Ford, the
auto manufacturer, will restore
the old scale of wages, having
found that his philanthropy, for
snch it was, did not work out
satisfactorily. He says the men
soend more and drink too much,
and that they are not dividing
their earnings with their wives
'as they should. A wage scale
that would give a floor sweeper
and roustabout a
impractical. It would necessarily remove all incentive to individual effort.—Princeton Times.
"Col" Seibert of Platte lake
was an over Sunday visitor in
Pierz.
Mr. and Mrs. .lohn Eidenshick »«<»: his native village in Germany
son    Edward    visited    at    the     IVter .     .
Thommes home Sunday. ! had fallen   prey to  the  ene-
Mr.  and   Mrs.   Math  Srliriener  visited   lily's blllletS.     This llle'lkes,  SO
at  the .1. .1.  Brummer home Sunday.     I f^ ^ ^    kaoWg   fou].    ki,led
Mrs. John  Neisuis was a county  seat
visitor Saturday. and as  many wounded, from
Bernhard. Zilla and An-elia Terhaar'alnoUg      ljjs        relatives     and
called  at  the F. O. Bolster home  Sun- .    , ,,    .   .
d acquaintances.        Balthasar
.i. j. Hnimnni and John Kinpiey and Riedlrchner.  age   oil.   fell at
son   Henry   autoed   to  Little  Falls  Sun     ^rras last fall'   1 .eOlKl l'(l Hecll-   r°aC* t0 Ef*Ve llis   bniill a    chailCC
day evening to get Mrs. John Kippley . '   -..,      .   tocool.and ponders on liis train-
who   returned   from   an   extended   visit   iel<  66-   (lieU   m <>  UOSpital    at;
in the twin cities ami the west. Kolnuir; KorbiuianMaier, 24. ing lu :i <-"°'"rosP°nden,-"<i school;
died in a field hospital inBel- aod then he stnrts the -iob onVe
Jacob Posch of Little Falls gium   from a  wound in   the '"ore until by chance he's  seen,
was    a   Piav.   caller     Mon- head: and  Joliann   Fink. :>•_>, ll"'■ cause of ;iH the trouble—lies
day. died in Lothriugen. lout of gasoline.-Kx
Trial Marriages in Vogue
The Eskimos, according to
Peary, make an institution of
trial marriages. If a young man
and woman are not suited with
each oilier they try again and
sometimes several times, but
whenthey find ma tessui table, the
marriage is generally permanent
If two men want the same gi I
they settle the matter by a trial
of strength. The girl hasnothing
losav.lt is not a trial of strength
GENERAL
MARKET REPORTS.
Grain and Produce
flarket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,     1.28
Wheat, No. i       L.88
Flax,        1.60
Barley     60
Rye '    1.06
Oats      46
EarCorn        65
Hay $5.00
Butter, Creamery        37
Dairy        _'7
Kggs       m
Flour, Best      3.60   sixty-two years, is dead.
"     SJfraitrhf ^mV*88   tne   *,dow   oi   tne   'ate   Captain
Birargui       °'ou| Jonathan Chase.    She was eighty-one
Low grade flour l.sO   ycarB o^
Bran  1.40
Shorts   ». 1.15
+   +   +
Julius I.lnderman, a farmer residing In Lincoln county, was killed,
while driving along a country road
with a plow attaehed to the rear of
his wagon. ITls team ran away,'
throwing I.inderman out, the point on'
the plow piercing his breast.
+ •:• +
Mrs. Richard \ ashington, one of
St Paul's well known pioneer residents, whose husband was a descendant of Ijiurenee Washington of Virginia who was a brother of Ueorge
Washington, is dead at St. Paul, aged
seventy-seven  years.
+   +   +
Mrs. Ida Balser. a Mankato milliner,
died  of  blood   poisoning  after  a  few
illness that followed the prick-
Ing of a pimple on her lip.    Her husband  was killed In an automobile accident  two  years  ago.
+   +
Mrs.     Klizabeth     Bcott,     eighty-four
sldent of Minnesota for
sixty-five  years,  is  dead  at  St.  Paul.
Mrs.  Scott  was  born  In  Ireland  and
came to America when she was eighteen years old.
+   +   + t
Mrs. Jonathan Chase, territorial pioneer and a resident of Minneapolis for
Mrs. Chase
+   +   +
Mrs.   Anna   E.   Germain   Menard,
^g^^^^H^^^^^^^^B^^^^^^^^w Minneapolis    territorial     pioneer,
t racked Corn 80 pounds.... 1.40   dpa(1   ■£ M(.nar(1 wm bor£ |n Francj,l
Ground Feed     1.40, in 1S24 and reached Minneapolis from
Beans 	
Onions	
South~St. Paul
2.00
60
Friday	
spiration, then lie quits in sheer ' for thesupremacy ofgoldengrain  ^l urc ay —
^■^^^^^■^^H .   .    ,      Monday   »Ai
belt beers, which are noted   for , r„       .
| Tuesday r.40
their mild uniformity,      perfecj ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
despair.    He squats behind tlu
purity and tonic and digestive
value. Order of E. S. Tanner,
Little Falls. Minn.
Keep posted  by   reading  the
£ jiirnal's
column.
"Business     Lo^
Indiana In  181
+   +   +
Mrs.    Missouri    Pratt
years of age, who reached 8t. Paul in
Hno* Markpf     1S4:;  wnen  that Plare wa» known as
I log ITidTKCl.   pigg Eye   ,g deaf, Rt Minuet!,,,
Ave. Price. | 4.   +   +
Thursday 7.43      The   Ooodhue   county   option   petl
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^tlon   contains  1.7SO  signatures,  about
nore than necessary'- The elec
tion will take place July 12.
+ + +
Mrs. Ann Blake, ninety-three rears
old. a resident of St. Paul for thirty
seven years, la dead. She was a native of Ireland.
+   +   +
Patrick F. Lyons, seventy yeans old.
teers....^^g^^^^m   for
_     service bureau at St. Paul, is dead.
Cows and Heifers,$4.25 to .J
Cal 75      a three-year-old son of James Car.
i Feeders, steadv, ...$4.30 to 700   rigan of Witoka. Winona county, fell
into a well and was drowned.
Wednesday 7.40
South St. Paul
Live Stock/Market.