The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-07-15

              THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JULY lo, 1915.
NO. 5.
STATE NEWS BITS
Various Happenings of the Week
Throughout Minnesota.
Malcolm Ingerson, an employe of
the Hutchinson Electric Light company, was electrocuted while working
with Manager Thomas Pitts of the
company at Biscay, on the Glencoe-
Hutchinson transmission line. The
two were standing on a platform between two poles and working on a
dead wire. Above them were two
live wires, one of which Ingerson
accidentally touched. He dropped into Mr. Pitts' arms and was dead in a
few minutes.
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"I'm tired of bumming," said Adam
Boitano, eighteen-year-old boy from
Chicago, to his "pal," James McCarthy, as they sat by the railroad tracks
In St. Paul Park. "There's nothing
to it; I'm going home," said Boitano,
as he talked of his home and mother
in Chicago. A lew hours later his
body lay on a slab in Stillwater. He
had fallen asleep on the Milwaukee
railroad tracks and was run over and
killed by a southbound train.
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A charge of first degree murder has
been placed against Olga Kangas,
held by the Minneapolis police in connection with the death of Fred A.
Henderson. Henderson was found
dying on the porch of Miss Kangas's
home the night of June 21. He expired In a police ambulance on the
way to the city hospital. A chemical
analysis of the contents of the stomach showed death was caused by
strychnine.
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Samuel T. Johnson, one time public
examiner of Minnesota and for many
years a resident of Minneapolis, where
he was engaged in fire insurance and
banking, died at the home of Henry
Wolfer, St. Petersburg, Fla. He had
lived in Florida since 1911. Mr. Johnson was namefl public examiner bjy.
Gpyernor Samuel R. Van Sant in 1902,
when that office a">sq had supervision
oyer the state banks.
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John Carlson^ a resident of Minneapolis since 1861, is dead on his farm
pear Red Wing, where he was spend*
ing the summer,    He was born July I
15,  1832,  in   Youpgby,  Sweden,  and'
Pierz Defeats        IMikeOlson'sDaughter'Locals of Pierz
Royalton 5 to 3.1       Dies In Canada
The baseball grounds were the
mecca for a large portion of our
inhabitants Sunday afternoon.
Pierz lined up against Royalton
and tlie former proved winners
by a score of 5 to 3.
Wermerskirchen was on the
mound for Pierz and had the
Royalton boys blanked up until
the ninth inning-, when he eased
up a little and the visitors gathered three runs on as many safe
hits and a low thrown ball to
third. He succeeded in making
14 of the. opposing batters whiff
the air, while Conners of Royalton turned the trick 9 times.
The Pierz ball team is putting up an elegant game of late
—the whole team showing the
right lighting spirit from the beginning of a game to the end
and much credit is due the
whole bunch in general.
Sunday   the   team    goes    to
Onamia   and    the    community j
should show their   appreciation
by sending along a  good  sized
crowd of rooters.
Following is a complete summary of last Sunday's game:
McGongle led off for the visitors and w-^s put an a grounder
to P. Faust, Daupe singled,
stole second; Rhoda struck out
but Christenson missed the ball.
H. Schwartz and Bourke then
fanned the air on six pitched
balls, ending the first half.
For Pierz F. Faust struck out;
settle)! ip Alexandria, this state, fifty-1
four y«ars ago, and In the fall of the ] Macho out short   to first.    Wer-
same  year   removed   to   Minneapolis., merskirchen then hit   safe over
Mr.   Carlson   was   a   dealer   in   farm j
lands and interested in the banking second, but Bollig ended the in-
Mrs. Mike Olson of Granite
received word last Monday that
her daughter, Mrs. C. E. Mc-
Pherson of Canada was very ill
and to come at once. Arriving
at the station to take the train
for Canada an awaiting telegram informed her that her
that her daughter had died and
that the remains would be
shipped to Wadena for burial.
Mrs. Olson left for Wadena hoping to meet the remains, and, if
possible, bring them to Granite
for burial.
Sullivan News
John Bollig of Pierz came up
to the lake Tuesday and visited
with Merle Look until Thursday.
C. E- Look and family called
at Martin's Wednesday evening.
Peter Adkins was an  Onamia !
visitor Wednesday.
Wm. Johnson and Lee Wood
of Rucker came up to the lake
on their bicycles Thursday.
C. E. Look and wife called at
T. S. Look's Thursday.
Wm. Droger was a Pierz visitor Friday.
Miss Rosie Adkins left for
Kimball last week, where she
expects to enter high school this
fall.
Matt Pint returned from Dakota Friday and will visit a
week with his parents.
And Vicinity
The rainfall Tuesday night
was 1.87 inch.
Wm. Eller is confined to
his bed by rheumatism.
Alfred Stumpf returned
Monday after a visit in Little
Falls.
Mary Bolster took the train
for St. Paul last Wednesday
morning.
Oscar (iuenther of Four
corners spent a few hours in
Pierz Tuesday.
Henry Terhaar and family
motored to St. Mathias Sunday to visit friends.
While corn is somewhat
back, there is a heavy growth
of weeds in the village.
O. J. Oftedahl opened his
Photo Studio in Upper town
for the first time Sunday.
The town board of Pierz
will have a meeting in the
village hall Saturday July 17,
in the afternoon.
Greorge Miller of Redwood
Falls came here yesterday to
visit Jos. A. Janson and his
nephew John Reding.
Locals of Pierz
And Vicinity
Iliff Wallmark of Pulaski
was a business caller in Pierz
last Friday.
Unless a hail flattens the
oats there will be an unusually eeavy crop.
The officers of the .Pierz
Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co. met in New Pierz
last Tuesday.
Joseph Jaeger of Staples
came here Saturday to visit
with the Theo. Gross and Jacob Souutag families.
The lack of money is the root
of more evil than the love of it.
Open an account witli the First
State Bank of New Pierz.     adv
Miss Mabel Labrie, Rose
Milvet, JakeHanle and David
Labrie spent Sunday at the
home of Mrs. Adolf Stumpf.
Haying is in full blast
and rye will be ready to cut
in a week. The hay is short,
but it should be cut now, not
to interfere with the harvesting of grain.
Swanville Girl 18,
Is A Suicide
All  lovers of  good   roads
'must  take off  their  hats to
iJolni   Fischer  Jr.    The  two
[miles from Math. Zierer's to
Nick Meyer is changing the jj0im Millner's corner is an
former Melhart  store build-j exceptionally  good  piece of
ing, which is owned by Mey- road.     John   says  it  is  the
er Bros, into living rooms.       simplest thing  of tlie world
By the number of  mowers,to build a good  road, by the
Mr. and  Mrs.  Peter  Adkins and hay   rakes daily hauled U8e of the road dra8
ning by fanning.
In   the   second  A   Schwarty
came   through   with    a    single.
business.
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Within five minutes after he had
|eft the home qf M|ss Alice p. Jones,
of Minneapolis fuiB Frqld, aged tbir>
ty-two, parried put HtS threat and sUotjE. Conner also lifted a safe one
h'imself through the head with.a w to rio;ht fleld but Carnes and
yolver.    He died before a doctor ar-1
rivet}.    Althpush   married,   Froid   i«| Wm. Conner struck out and Mc-
paid to have been infatuated with Miss
Jones, and extremely jealous of her,
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Mrs. Anna Sletten, seventy years
old, of Wanamingo, was killed and
Mrs. Knute Ronningen painfully injured in a runaway accident at Zum-
brota. Mrs. Sletten's skull was fractured, her chest crushed and one of
her limbs broken. The team became
frightened as an old prairie schooner
occupied by gypsies passed.
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M. J. Kowalewski, Winona druggist
injured ip an automobile acc|dent near.
$frt c|ty, 'iliea 'twenty.fqur. hours^ja..
tpr wjthout regaining Cflnsciqusness..
pis skuj} was frac(ure.d whet} he was,
^rpwn from tfte machine. fhree
p(.her men were seriously injured, hut
pftysiplans say all will recover.
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&. p. Walden, thirty years, old^ a
brakemftn pn the Northwestern road,
fell between the cars of an east-
bound freight between Essig and
Bleepy Eye and was mangled by the
wheels, He died at tbe hospital at
Bleepy Eye. Walden was married and
Uveg ftt Waseca.
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Fullblood Indians of the eight Chip,
pewa tribes of Minnesota have de-
creed among themselves a wholesale
ouster Of "mixed bloods" from the af.
fpirs of the Indians. To that end the
aid of the federal government is asked ln a peUtion sent to Washington.
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The three-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry OrUorf, living about three
pities south pf Glencpp, tried to enter
a chicken house through an open win.
dow, The window, not being securely
fastened, fell and struck him with
such force as to break his neck.
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James J. Griffith, a young farmer
living on the O. A. Otesa farm six
miles north of St. James, was plowing
corn when a light shower came up
Although there was but little lightning he was struck by a bolt and instantly killed.
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Magdalene   WennsUtrsch,   eighteen'
year-old Plalnvlew girl, was found not
guilty of murder in district court at
Wabasha. She was accused of having murdered her new born baby.
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Joseph Clinton, aged sixty years,
was instantly killed at Voorman
crossing, one mile south of Lakeville,
by a Dan Patch car.
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Henry Beach Beard, father of the
Minneapolis lake boulevard system, is
dead In that city, aged seventy-two.,
Gongle   was an easy out on  a
grounder to first.
For Pierz Short went out
shortstop to first; Thomas and
Schauble both fanned.
. In the third the first two Royalton men up fanned and Schwartz went out pitcher to first.
Conner fanned the first three
Pierz men up, making it a. short
inning:
In the 4th Bourke went out
3rd to 1st; A Schwartz fiew out
to Schauble and C. Conner fan-
ned-
In Pierz's half Macho grounded out short to first. Wermerskirchen hit safe for three bases;
Bollig hit the first ball pitched
to third who overthrew first,
Wermerskirchen scoring. Short
then grounded out to first and
Thomas went out 3rd to 1st.
In the 5th both Carnes and
Conner whiffed and McGonagle
was thrown out at first by Christenson.
For Pierz Schauble struck out;
N. Faust out third to first and
Chrisenson was called out by
being struck with the ball on
the third strike.
In the sixth Doupe, Schwartz
and Rhoda all went out on easy
grounders.
Pierz begun to find their batting eye in their half of the 6th.
After F. Faust went out pitcher
to first, Macho hit safe over
short for two bases; Wermerskirchen and Bollig singled:
then Short singled. 2 runners
scoring.    Schauble fanned.
In the 7th Bourke hit safe but
are the proud great-grand-parents of a little girl born to their
grand-daughter last week.
C. E. Look, wife and children
called at Peter Adkin's Friday
evening.
T. S. Look and wife took dinner at Mrs. Ford's Sunday.
Thirty-two people from Sullivan attended the ball game on
the north side of Platte Lake
between Sullivan and Schwitz
on the hitter diamond.
While Ernest and Fred Brand
of Schwitz were riding a motorcycle last Friday the machine
skidded, throwing the boys into
the ditch, pinning Fred under
neath and breaking his leg in
three places. He was rushed to
the hospital in Brainerd where
the doctors fear he will lose his
limb.
Oasper Thommes and wife of
Lastrup were at the lake Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Begs, daughter
Hazel and son Worth of St. Paul
arrived Sunday and are stopping
with the Linnehan's
The Pierz Fire department
held   its annual   meeting   in
out of the   village, the farmers expect a big crop of hay.
Hubert Bares left for D*]*3** village hall last Saturday
luth last Monday,  where he'evening.     Hie following otti
will serve as juror in Federal
court.   He will be gone about
two weeks.
A bank  cannot  keep  its  patrons unless it serves them.  The
'cerswere elected for tlie ensuing year: Frank Faust,
chief; John Dombovy, first
Assistant; John Schmidt, 2nd
Assistant; Barney Gross, sec-
First State Bank of New Pierz \ retary and Louis Eller, treas-
holds its customers by prompt J Urer,
service. adv
Andrew H. Faust and his
Mrs. Christ Meyer sister to
Peter, Math, and Mike Thom-
sister Cresenee left for the nies, visiting here, received
Twin Cities Tuesday. Ores-1 WOrd last Tuesday that her
ence will visit with the Aug. husband had died suddenly
Leiter family at Winnebago, ut  their   home   in   Chicago.
before returning.
Mrs. Meyer and Peter Thorn-
Swanville, July  12—Florence
Johnson, of East Swanville, committed suicide Saturday evening
by shooting herself through the
heart with a .22 rifle, while in a
boat on Buss hike, a small body
of water near her home. Her
body fell into the water and was
recovered by her father, who
had gone in search of her.
Miss Johnson left home at
about 6 o'clock, took her father's
boat and rowed out on the lake,
as she had often done. When
she did not return as it grew
late, her father, Peter Johnson,
went in search of her. He saw
the boat floating near shore and
rowed out, rinding the body in
live feet of water.
Dr. E.L. Fortier. deputy coroner, was sent for and after viewing the body, pronounced it accidental drowning. When Herman Kami, a Swanville undertaker, was preparing the body
for burial, he found the bullet
wound in the breast and the coroner was again sent for. The
undertaker says there was no
water in her lungs. A .-- ri Ik-
was missing from its place in
the Johnson home, hence the
suicide theory. No cause can
be assigned for the act, as she
was not known to have any
trouble.
The body was taken to Swanville, where an Inquest will be
held.
Deputy Coroner E. L. Fortier,
County Attormy C. liosenmeyer
and Sheriff Paul Felix went lo
the scene of the tradedy Sunday
afternoon, returning about four
o'clock next morning. They
again left for Swanville this
forenoon and are investigating
the details of the shooting.
A possible reason for despondency on the part of the girl is
given by Swanville people, who
were In Little Falls Monday.
According to their story, Peter
Johnson told the mail carrier on
his route that tlie girl had wanted to go to Minneapolis to work,
but that they had persuaded her
ABOUT THE STATE
News o! Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
LIQUOR  DEALERS TO  FIGHT
Former  Moorhead   Saloonmen  to   Ask
Courts   to   Declare   County   Option   Unconstitutional.
Although Moorhead has been "dry"
tor two weeks as the result of the
county option election In .lune. It is
learned that former liquor de
have not given up the fight and will
carry their case to the courts. The
saloonmen will declare that the Minnesota county option law is unconstitutional when applied to Moorhead because of the fact thai Moorhead has a
home rule charter. Proceedings will
be begun by Tracy Bangs of Grand
Forks, attorney lor the liquor dealers,
as soon as he can set thc briefs in the
case prepared. The suit will be financed by all of the Moorhead liquor
dealers, with help from the Mini
olis. St. Paul and Milwaukee brewing
interests. The business done In liquor
sales in Moorhead prior to the I
ment of thc county option law amounted to approximately $4,000,000 annually.
In the two weeks that Moorhead
has been dry at least one of the predictions of the "dry workers" has
come true; the city and county jails
are practically deserted. There have
been but five arrests thus far in July
on charges of drunkenness and vagrancy. A year ago the arresl
these charges totaled thirty and forty
a day.
Thirty saloons, all but one of those
formerly operating when liquor licenses were granted, are still open,
selling "imitation beer," soft drinks,
elder, pop and fruit, while several OP'
crate lunch counters.
MAY   ATTACK    OPTION   LAW
... ,. to stay at least  until after bar-
Clemence Koermg and son mes left at once tor Chicago. J .
p ,»     .        ,.,,,,      ,    i„     u ,.       ,,, i vesting   was    finished.      it    is
of Brainerd visited with the Mr. Meyer   was lor  25 years!
thought that tins may have had
something to do with the girl's
Herman Koering family last
Sunday. Enroute home they
took in the ball game between Brainerd and Little
Falls at Little Falls.
suicide.
Suicide by   shooting   was the
'. verdict of the  coroner's jury at
play and both were out. E.
Conner ended the inning bv fanning.
For Pierz N. Faust hit safe
but was caught between first
aud second. Christenson tlew
out to tirst and F. Faust went
out on a bunt, pitcher  to  tirst.
In the eighth Carnes out third
to tirst, then both Conner and
McConagle fanned
Pierz added two more runs
in the 8th, Macho went out on
a grounder, third to tirst; Wermerskirchen was safe on a fumble; Bollig hit safe over second,
scoring Wermerskirchen; Short
then made a three bagger, and
Bollig scored. Thomas ended
the scoring by flying out to left
field.
Koyalton's three runs in the
9th were made on a   three   bag-
a streetcar conductor in Chicago.
Peter Tretter reports that I
he cut a 15 inch sound pine
stump off with his 24 inch
Edward Preimesberger re-, breaking plow. He further the inquest held over the body
turned last week from Har- stated that he plowed under of Florence Johnson of East
wood, N. D., where he had 14 feet high brush. There is Swanville, winch was found at
been employed on a farm. A! no reason to doubt his state- bottom of Bilss lako' a sm;i11
hailstorm  destroyed  all  the 'ment for he  showed the two **>** of water near  her home,
corn and small grain.   Hence foot   rule  he   measured  the Saturday evening.
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farmers there   have no  more stump and brush with.
use for hired help. ,.. . .      ..
r One   mistake   the   county
On  account  of the heavy, road builders   are   making is
rains and cold weather, corn that   they   are   grading   the
Move on Foot to Test Minnesota Stat
ute   in   Courts.
Minnesota's county option law is to
be tested, according to the best be
lief of those familiar with the situation in the state since the act became
effectiv.
No information of thi
ceived   by   the   si a
mant,   but  the  conviction   is  growing
that the statute soon will be put tin
der Are.
The chief argument which the
will use If the law Is attacked is that
it delegates to the voters of a county
the right to suspend the operation
within that county of the local option
law  still on the statute books.
The local option law allows villages
and certain cities to vote on the I
tion of license or no license, Is
eral   in   its  application   and   has  not
been  repealed.
Another argument to be used is that
the selection of a county as the unit
for holding election on this subject ls
a purely arbitrary one. •
MINNESOTA MAYOR SUICIDE
George   Rlddell   F.res   Bullet  Through
Throat  Before   Arising.
George Hiddell, mayor of Grand
Rapids, shot and killed himself at his
home in that city, according to announcement by the coroi
Mrs. Hiddell, who had arisen first
and waa In another part of the house,
heard  two shots in the bedroom.
k and found her husband lying partly on the bed with bis
feet resting on the floor. A largo
wound was found in the throat. She
summoned aid, bnt death resulted ln
a few minutes.
Mayor Riddell was about forty-five,
years old and had lived In Grand Rap-!
ids twenty-five years.
varies in different parts of
the community. While some
corn now seems to grow by
bounds, other corn is so small
and puny that it might be
better to reseed the field in
which il stands to some catch-
crop like millet or surgham.
Mel Wermerskirchen, John
N. Faust   and   wife,   Hiltle-
contour  of the   roadbed   too
South Agram News.
Those that visited at .lohn
Eidenshink's Sunday were: Mr.
and   Mrs.   J.    Brnmmer,   Katie
much in the shape  of a capi-  Loschider,   Mr.   and   Mrs.   Leo
tal letter A of the roof of a
house. In other words the
center is too high and the
sides too steep, which makes
it dangerous in wet  weather.
Frank Ranch and crew are
Leidenfrost and son Frank,
Mary and Fred Leidenfrost and
Henry Kippley.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mueller
and family ol Buckman visited
at   the Herman Terbarr  borne
Sunday.
busy graveling road between      Ml. ;uu] Mnj   Tolm gidenshUk
Henry   Langer's    place   and  visited at B4?8bmire'sThursday
evening.
ger by Doupe, Schwartz's double
A Schwartz  hit  into a double and a single by Bourke.
garde and Theresia Wermers- the crossing south of the vil-
kirchen autoed to Minueapo-jlage.    This place is sorely in
lis Sunday to visit Hugo Wer-; need   of   a   gravel   surface, ited at 1         Sporlein's Snnday
merskirchen. who was so ser-j Frank  Ranch  is a good-road x]|_  prank Meyer and An
iously  burned  July  6th by'enthusiast, and we can safely and Mary Kippley visited al
TRIES   TO    SAVE    CRIPPLE;
Salvation  Army  Bookkeeper  Perishes;
In  Blaze.
John Shanlin. 'bookkeeper at the:
Salvation Army Industrial home at:
Minneapolis, lost his life in an ef-j
fort to rescue Richard Fremont, a;
cripple, from a Are which practically:
destroyed the home.
Shanlin's body, burned almost to a'
crisp, was found in the hallway on';
the third floor by firemen just before;
a section of the roof caved in and;
phrased to the basement. Fremont, in';
a semi-conscious condition from-
smoke, was found in a hallway by oth-:
er Inmates. They obtained a pie
rope and lowered him Into the hands;
of waiting firemen.
DIES AT AGE OF NINETY-TWO
fireworks.     They   say   that trust that with plenty of time
the sight of  the right eye is and  material,   lie   will do a
' lost. first-class class job.
Duchnet's ^
Born—to   Mr. and  Mrs. John
Nagel, a daughter.
Minnesota   Lotes   Her  Only   Daughte
of   the   Revolution.
Minnesota has lost her only daugh
ter of the American  Revolution.
.lerusha Hrown of St. Paul, nine!
rears of age. who has given this state
the distinction, la dead in that city.
Mrs. Brown had been ill for several
months and her death  had  bee
lieoted       The    attending    physicians
marveled   at   her   vital. had
Mind and deaf for three months.
Mrs. Brown was not only a daughter
of Samuel Hayward. who fought under Washington at Valley Forge, but
she was the widew a/ a Civil war
>>»ro   Colonel  Edward  M.  Brown.
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