The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-07-22

              THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JULY 22, 1915.
NO. (>.
ABOUT THE STATE
Hews of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
ANTI-ROAOHOUSE LAW VALID
State Supreme Court Puts an  End te
the  Issuing  of Saloon   Licenses
by County   Boards.
The antiroadhouse law was held
valid by the state supreme court in a
decision handed down in the case ot
William L. Kohlman, who was arrested on the charge of operating a blind-
pig at Kohlman's lake near St. Paul.
The decision of Judge Michael of the
Ramsey county district court is reversed.
The court passed on the alleged irregularities which it was urged made
the law void. The defendant urged
that the law was not legally passed
because the house failed to suspend
the rules by a two-thirds vote to permit the second and third readings of
the bill on the same day.
The supreme ccfTrt held this is not
necessary, but that the passage of the
law by a vote of more than two-thirds
of the house automatically suspended
the rules. They held also that it requires no particular formalities to
suspend the rules, but that the body
itself by its action may overcome all
such objections.
The decision puts an end to the
granting of liquor licenses by county
boards and holds that only duly incorporated cities and villages may
grant  such licenses.
BOARD  POWERLESS TO  ACT
Says Telephone Rates Took Effect
Prior to July 1.
The state railroad and warehouse
commission in a letter told the traffic
division of the Minneapolis Civic and
Commerce association that it had no
power to prevent the telephone companies from increasing their rates
prior to July 1, when the commission
assumed control of the rates, and that
the commission did not have power
to compel the companies to restore
the rates that prevailed before the
companies changed rates in May and
June.
The association asked the commission to use its influence with the
Northwestern Telephone company,
which changed its rates May 1, and
the Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph company, which changed its
rates June 1, to get them to restore
the old rates as a basis for rate adjustment by the commission.
The rate changes announced by the
companies in general increased the
rates and the Civic and Commerce association contended that the rates In
force when the law was passed should
be used as a basis for adjustment by
the commission.
DROPS  DEAD  AT  THROTTLE
Engineer Stricken While Train Travels Forty Miles an  Hour.
The Dakota and Black Hills express,
eastbound on the Northwestern road,
arrived at Winona two and one-half
hours late.
William Scott, third oldest engineer
on the division, was not in his seat,
although he began the run at Waseca.
Scott dropped dead in the cab while
the train was traveling forty miles an
hour, two miles east of Owatonna.
Fireman Tony Uppert was alarmed
when the engine bounded over a road
crossing without the usual whistle.
He found Scott's body. The fireman
took charge of the train and took it
into the station at Havana. Scott
was sixty-flve years old.
Man and Wife
Born Same Day.
It frequently happens that
man and wife marry on the same
day, but rarely do they happen
to be born ou the same day. A
married couple born on the
same day is Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Wise. Seventy-seven years ago
last Saturday Mr. Wise was
born and sixty-nine years ago
the same day Mrs. Wise was
born. A large crowd consisting
of relatives and friends surprised the aged couple in the
evening, and wished them many
happy returns of the day.
Village Council       I Locals of Pierz
Proceedings And Vicinity
The village council met in regular session Saturday July 3rd,
and was called to order by president B. Gross. All members
were present except J. B. Hart-
mann. John N. Faust was appointed temporary Recorder.
The meeting was then adjourned to Tuesday July 7th.
All member not being present
adjourned to July 8th.
Our threshers are busy getting their rigs ready for fall
threshing.
Thomas Trutwin and family of Little Falls visited
Pierz Tuesday.
E. J. Kapsner of Dell Rapids, 8. Dak., visited Pierz relatives here Sunday.
Fort Ripley will play a
game of ball with our team
AVednesday, July 8th the  vil
lage council met   in regular ad-  ~ext Simday afternoon.
journed  session.    All members
were present.    The proceedings
Yesterday was a very quiet
Are Your Roads Being Dragged?
Again the Union reiterates
the one-mill town dragging tax
must be used for the purpose of
dragging the town roads whenever necessary. Supervisors
and road overseers should un
derstand that they cannot misapply public funds save at their
own risk. In some towns, where
dragging will not benefit the
roads, it may be permissible to
use a share of the dragging tax
for other road purposes than
dragging, but where there are
roads in a town that will be benefitted by dragging it is the
bounden duty of the supervisors
and overseers to see that the
roads are properly dragged, and,
as we have already stated, an
official who fails to comply witli
the law is liable to fine or imprisonment. The best policy to
pursue, is to comply with the
law.—Princeton Union.
of the  last  meeting  were read ™7   ^   town.     Our  farmers
South Agram News.
Mrs. Herman Terharr and the
children visited at Mrs. Oscar
Guenther's in Ramey Friday.
The party at John Kippley's
was well attended.
Those that visited at the J. J-
Brummer home Sunday afternoon were: Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Brummer and family and Mr.
and Mrs. Jake Girtz.
Miss Bertha Leidenfrost is
visiting at the Leo Leidenfrost
home.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Brummer
and son William and daughter
Eva visited at August Meyer's
Monday evening.
and approved.
An amendment to water rates
passed in the June meeting was
passed, changing that part of
the water rates from 20 cent to
15 cents for all parties using
10,000 gallons or more per
month.
The   following   bill   was   allowed:
Pierz Journal, publishing
financial statement.. .   $60.00
Adjourned.
Bakney Gross,
President.
J. B. Hautmann,
Recorder.
There Will Be No Electric
Line to County Seat.
Visions of an electric line between here and Little Falls are
vanishing with the   report   that
are all busy making hay.
Many a man missed opportunity by the the thickness of a
dollar bill,—the dollar he failed
to bank at the First State Bank
of New Pierz. adv
Geo. Kiewel of Little Falls
was in the village Tuesday
and Wednesday shaking
hands with his friends.
The Telephone Exchange
is giving us day and night
service. Tlie operators are
Miss Theresia Spanfellner
and Miss Irene Bentfeld.
Mrs. Henry Schneppen-
heim left for Page, N, Dak.,
last Saturday to visit her son
Frank and family. Frank is
section foreman at that place.
Jake Tlion, John Poster, director and J. F. Hill secretary of the Morrill Rural Tel-
the auto of tlie  company which \ ephone Co. were   here Satur
day  in  the  interest  of  the
company.
Mrs. John Boehm and little
daughter went to St. Cloud
last week to visit with relatives. John does his own
cooking now and has to eat
it himself.
WIND'S PRANK COSTS LIFE
Barn Blown Off Foundation Struck
Aflain by Tornado,
Blown from the foundation a month
ago a barn on the farm of Otto Bergman, near St. James, that had been
replaced on its base, was hurled over
again by a small tornado and timbers
struck Prank l.ane. killing him.
The storm in which the tornado developed was the heaviest that ever
visited that district and much dam
age was done by the wind and tor
rents of rain.
MRS. W. W. MAYO  IS  DEAD
Mother of Famous Surgeons Sue
cumbs at Rochester.
Mrs. W. W. Mayo, ninety years of
age. wife of the late Dr. W. W. Mayo;
founder of the Mayo clinic and surgical institute, is dead at the home
of her daughter Mrs. D. M. Berk-
man, at Rochester. She was married in 1851 to Dr. W. W. Mayo. Besides the daughter the sons, Dr. W,
J. Mayo and Dr. C. H. Mayo, survive.
"Minnesota Day" at Fair Chosen.
Thursday, July 22, has been selected by Governor W. S. Hammond
as "Minnesota day" at the Panama-
Pacific exposition. On that day th«
governor will plant a Minnesota
memorial tree on the exposition
grounds in the presence of exposition
officials, the members of his personal
party and Minnesotans ln San Francisco.
GENERAL
MARKET REPORTS.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,     1.80
Wheat, No. 2      1-28
Flax,       1.66
Barley—  ..     60
Rye        90
Oats      48
Ear Corn      65
Hay 16.00
Butter, Creamery        37
Dairy       27
Eggs       13
Flour, Best     3.40
"    Straight      3.30
Low grade flojir 1.80
Bran . 1.40
Shorts  1.45
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans      2.00
Onions        60
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
was to build this line had been
sold at a sheriff's sale. And so
die a premature death all our
roads which are promoted on
the compound of oil  and  wind.
The St. Cloud Times says:
Hopes for an electric line of
communication with Kimball
and other points in the southern
part of the couuty suffered a
jolt this morning when a Cadillac
automobile owned by the Minneapolis & Central Minnesota
company was sold at sheriff's
sale and bid in by the Northwestern Cadillac company of
Minneapolis, to whom it is said
the transit company was indebted. The car had been used here
last summer during the purchase
of right-of-way and grading.
The machine was bid in for
$10 to which will be added the
sheriff's fees and storage charges, making the total about $175.
Those who have been awaiting the re-opening of operations
along the right-of-way have
thus far waited in vain. Although it was announced last
season that cars would be in operation between St. Cloud and
Kimball within a limited number of months, that mode of
transportation appears as far
removed from probability as a
year ago.
Herman Oltman of Tribune,
Sask., Canada, arrived here
last Friday for a short visit.
He says war talk or arguments are not allowed, offenders will be arrested.
John Viktor and wife of
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, arrived
here last week to visit with
Wenzel Medek and family
and other relatives. Mfs.
Viktor is a sister to Mr. Medek.
Weather Bureau.
Weather Forecast for the week
beginning Wednesday, issued
by the U. S. Weather Bureau at
Washington, D. C, for the Upper Mississippi Valley and the
Plain States:
Moderate temperature and
generally fair weather the tirst
half of the week; tbe latter half
will be warmer and generally
fair, except that widely scat
tered  thunderstorms,  are  prob-
Gerhart Block of south
Pierz showed ears of wheat
Tuesday morning, which,
with favorable "weather should
yield at least 20 bushels per
acre. It is of the Marquis
variety.
Wm. Httwer of Granite
bought of Nick Gross 107
acres of land about five miles
east of the village, with all
buildings and about 55 acres
under cultivation, for $40.00
per acre.
Hugo Wermerskirchen, who
was seriously burned by fireworks on July 6th, has returned from the hospital in
Minneapolis, where he was
under the care of a eye specialist. He will not lose
sight.
Mr.   and    Mrs.     Richard
Locals of Pierz
And Vicinity
Fort Ripley will play a
game of ball with our team
next Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Fred Herwas and
daughter of Dixville were
Pierz visitors Tuesday morning.
Mel Wermerskirchen and
Alois Spanfellner are spending a few days at Sullivan
lake fishiug.
Mrs. Frank Wolek's children of St. Paul are here visiting their grand-parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Math. Hesch.
Tlie man who is down and out
is the one who, when he was up
and never banked in the First
State Bank of New Pierz.     adv
Jacob Neisius and his son
August left for Minneapolis
the first of tlie week. Jake
will transact business and
Guste will take in the sights
of Minneapolis.
Brainerd—L. A. Skafte of
Duluth, E.T. Haugland of
St. Paul and F. R. Gerard of
Chicago are here doing the
preliminary work necessary
for the introduction of the
new automatic telephone.
St. Cloud—Ray Elliot, 19,
has been bound to the grand
jury. Young Elliot was arrested in possession of a car
owned be Don Freeman and
stolen tlie previous evening
while it stood in front of a
store.
Holdingford—The 4-year
old daughter of S. M. Biel-
jeski, Evelyn, fell into the
cistern, which had about six
feet of water. The alarm
brought RayMuedeking, who
jumped in and rescued the
child, who was already unconscious, but was revived.
Alois Preimesberger of tlie
Simple Gas Engine Co. of
Ashland, Wis., arrived here
last Tuesday for a short visit
with his parents. The Simple Gas Engine Co. is doing
well, as he says, aud intends
to enlarge its business by
putting in more and larger
machinery and manufacturing larger gas engines. He
left lor St. Paul and Minneapolis yesterday and if lie
can't get what he wants there,
he will go to Chicago.
Pierz Looses
STATE NEWS BITS
To^Onamia, various Happenings of the Week
 I       Thrnnnrhnut Minnocnta
Throughout Minnesota,
The Pierz team ended their
winning streak last Sunday by
loosing  to Onamia 5 to 1.    Thei    It ls announced that the coke ovens
game was   commenced   at   7   in'*1'  the  "»w  Pliint  of  the  Minnesota
| Steel company, which will begin mak-
the evening and only s'x innings   ing stcei_ by Nov. l, will be the first
were played.     The   Pierz   team ' Dart flnishpd and w,u \e put ,n oper'
: ntion   by   Sept.   1.    A   large   construe-
left    here    at    1:30    but   on   ac-   tion   force   Is   on   this   department  of
count of the bad   roads   most ot\** ^ and the workJ3,bo,tnhg ^J"
' ed.    The new ovens  will be tU
the players did not reach their, est In the Northwest and are of dif-
destination until after 6 o'clock,' ferent dei
being compelled to walk from
five to ten miles as two of the
autos broke down, and shortstop Short quietly spent the
day fighting mosquitoes, stranded seventeen miles from nowhere.
The PieTz team was much un-
steadier than in any previous
game and it was hugely due to
their hard trip that Onamia can
attribute their victory.
Frank Faust and Newman
were on the tiring line for Pier/,
and both pitched very creditable
ball, and the contest, while it
lasted, was a very interesting
one and the loosers, as well as
tlie winners, made a very creditable showing.
Remember the Pierz team
play the Fort Ripley nine on
the local diamond Sunday. Turn
out and see a good game. Wermerskirchen and Christiansen
will compose the Pierz battery.
A Bad Run-a-way-
But a Lucky Escape,
Nick, the ten year-old son of
Henry Hennen, sustained a few
minor injuries in a ruu-a-way
Tuesday morning. While returning from the creamery a
bolt which fastens the sluifts to
the front axle tell out aud frightened the horse. As the horse
turned the corner to turn into
the home yard, the buggy ugset
and threw Nick against a wire
fence. The boy showed some
pluck in trying to stop the
horse, while the buggy was zigzagging to a dangerous extent,
lt might have been worse.
Hoistein Park News,
(Too lute for hist week.)
Mrs. J. A. Sanborn attended
the afternoon party last Thursday at the home of Mrs. Arba
Waller, given in honor of her
mother, Mrs. Lewis, of Rock-
ford, Minn.
Miss Ruby Thompson spent
the week eud with Miss Elisabeth Waller at Rucker.
Wadena—C. E. McPherson
arrived liereTuesday evening
from Estevan, Canada, with
the remains of his wife, who 1.Jt"Wedn(
died at that place Monday'
evening, of peritonitis. Mis.
McPherson was formerly Miss
Edith Olson, who lived for a
time near Sebeka.    She is a
Chas. Sanborn  drove to I'ierz
Miss Nellie Martin spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Waller,
Mrs. Cajacobs and   daughter,
Margaret,   had   a   very   narrow
accident
daughter   of    Mr.   and    Mis.   escape from a   serio
„. 7     ,   ,., pp. J  last week when the team of colts
Michael Olson. I lie young ^ weredrivingbecaine fright-
woman was twenty-four years ened ou the sleelJ 1)U1 just eaat
and three months old the day i ol \ijke Olson's place and ran
of her death. The remains away. Fortunately the ladies
were accompanied here by C. I steered the team into a stump
E    McPherson.   his   mother, and   their crys for help brought
,   i»  »,   m i ,i  .'Mr  Cajacobs to the rescue.
Mrs. J. P. McPherson and the J
mother of  the dead   woman.
Mrs.    Michael    Olson.     The
funeral   was   held   from   the  town   during   the   past    week
Another accident occurred on
the steep Lastrup hill in Granite
Thursday 7.15
Friday  7.10 able>
Saturday 7.801 '
Monday 7-151    The First State  Bank of New
Tuesday.,  7.10 Pierz  is  tne  bauk   for   aU  the
Wednesday  7.10 people. adv in Foley.
country.    The only similar set in the
world is in  Germany, it ls asserted.
There are ninety-six individual c
In the building, with
tons  of  coke each  i
and they will furnish the entire plan'
with  sufficient   gas  for tbe  blast  and
operation of the furnaces.
+   +   *
The Rural Life Conference for leaders   in   rural   communities   In   Minnesota will be held at University Warm.-
St. l'aul, July  27 to 30, Inclusive     At
this conference  will  be discussed thc
various  problems  of  special   Intel
to rural communities. Including those
Ol   tin'   school   the   church,  the   farmstead,   public   health,   recreation,   the
fanners1   club,   tbe   farm   home,   and
good seed.    The aim  is not  only  to
bring together a large number to confer on problems of general  Inti
but  to  give  instruction  to those who
are not   practical  fanners  in some ot
the practical agricultural problems ot
the day.
+   +   +
The state of Minnesota lost Its case
to  obtain   from   the   Northern   Taclllc
approximately $38,000 gross earnings,
tax which lt contended the road  had
omitted from its annual report for the
last   thirteen   years,   including
The state supreme court has de< Ided
that the earnings had been Included in
the  reports  of  other   roads'  and   that
payment    by    the    Northern    Pacific
would be a double assessment.    The
funds   referred   to   were   for   cha
made  for  freight handling for steam
ship companies and for other railroads
at Duluth.
+   +   +
Plans to take members of the Mm
nesota Editorial association, who will
visit nibbing A the bottom of
cpen  pit mines  -it   llil.bing  i
perfected by J ler, secret
of  tbe  nibbing Commercial  club, and
W,   .1.   We rlntendenl   of   the
Oliver    Mining   company.     The
elation,   which   will   meet   al    Duluth
Aug. 6 and 7, win be enter! j
a banquet at Hlbblng in the cvenlng.l
+   +   +
Redwood   county   has   nearly   t*00,-
000 of ditch construction under
In   judicial  and   county
of this amount being spent within
county limits. he largest sum
of  county  money  ever  expended   for
this   pnrpOM   anywhere   in   tl
and the ditch system, when compli
will   put   under   cultivation   thOBJ
of aeros that hitherto have been inaccessible.
+  •:•  +
William   O.   Deacon,   aged  fifty-one
years,   for   more   than   twenl
a newspaper man  in  the Twin  (!lt
is dead at Mlnneap< lis after an ill!
of eight months   !     was stricken with
paralysis   while   in   Canton,   o.,   at
Thanksgiving  time, and  an  operation
fOI   tumor  on   the  brain   showed  thut
his   case    was    hopeless.      He    was
taken to Minneapolis in May.
+   +   +
The   Inspectors  of   the   ballots  cast
In the county option election in Redwood county .lune 7  have compi
the  work  of recount.    The total
cast was 3.80S,   or   1,901    dry   votes.
1,803 wets,  four blanks and five ballots doubtful and not counted.    In the
election the drys won by twelve votes
and thc wets contested the result.
+   *   +
While  Rev. George W.  Elliott and;
wife  of   Royal,   la.,   traveling  by   an.:
tomobile.  were  on  their way  to  Red-:
wood   Falls   to   visit   their   son,   the:
steering   gear   broke   when   a   point;
four   miles   south   of   Ijikefield   had;
been reached and the car ton
Mrs.  Elliott wa tly killed
Rev. Mr. Elliott was badly Injun
+   +   +
Oscar  Arneeon,  former chief clerk;
of the state house of represents!,
has been appointed land clerk In the:
efflce of J. A. O. Preus. state auditor.;
Arneson.   who  is a brother of .lames;
Arneson. secretary of the state box-:
ing commission,  will have charge of;
the state land sales.
+   +   +
Application   for   the   creation  of  a|
game reserve ln Beltrami county, in-•
eluding all of I-ake Bemidji. has I
filed    with   Carlos   Avery,   exeoutlve;
acent of the state game and fish eom-j
n    The proposal Is to establish;
a limited reserve similar to the Lake
Minnetonka refuge
+ + +
Mrs. Shnre Shurson of New Richland Is dead and four other persons
are seriously hurt as the result of an
accident when a Minneapolis and St.
Louts passenger train crashed Into an
automobile In which the five were
riding near Waseca.
+   +   +
Boehm are living in a cottage'Congregational eliuivli.-Wa- The buggy in which Jake Bren
,,       ,             rnji-ii              '  n               1             1 ner and Otto Rosin were   riclini
at Cove, on the shore of Mille dena County Journal. ;camenamanageble and turn*
Lac lake, since they returned             ^ ^ ^ q{ ^ ;i  coupU.  of  1>:iml.sprinfs,  „,,   £****              ■ f£? £
from  theiir   honeymoon trip. piera5olicit8 vonrBanking busi- setting the occupants and t.p.ng , ^^»«d ^ im brlcky8rd
They will soon come to Pierz  ness Qn   U)e   merits of it-   - ver the old gray  mare.     Some   m   Ferew,   FailR   and   many   of  the
andBtay   until   school  Starts  vke.   Solidity,   Safety   and   its skin was lost, otherwise no dam-  WW^^VfcS nTaTuiSST
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age done.