The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-10-21

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THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, OCTOBER 21, 1915.
NO. 19.
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
WANTS STATE CONSTABULARY
Recommendation cf Adjutant General
Wood  to  the   Efficiency   and
Economy Commission.
Establishment of a state constabulary was advocated by Adjutant General Fred B. Wood in a letter to the
efficiency and economy commission.
General Wood suggests that such a
force could do the police work of the
forest rangers and game wardens and
would be valuable in carrying out all
kinds of police power.
The historical society suggested to
the commission that it be made a
state department, so as to give it
power to administer the archives and
history data which has been accumulating in the state department vaults
|TThis plan was advocated before the
last legislative session.
The scheme suggested by Governor
Hammond early in the year that inspectors of the dairy and food department and the oil inspectors aid W. G.
Mee, hotel inspector, which has been
found to work successfully, should be
continued, said Mr. Mee.
ROB SALOON; BATTLE POSSE
Outlaws at Tintah, Minn., Escape After
Running  Fight.
Three masked and armed men entered a saloon at Tintah, this state,
ordered the proprietor, bartender and
all patrons to line up along the wall
with averted faces and then robbed
the till. They got about $50 and left
without trying to rob any of the men.
The robbers ran toward the Great
Northern yards.
A posse of citizens formed quickly
and members opened fire on the robbers, who answered shot for shot.
A running battle took place along a
freight train in the yards, but the robbers escaped.
No evidence that any one was struck
by any of the shots has been found.
Surrounding towns have been notified to watch for the trio.
HAS  $1,500,000   INSURANCE
Thomas L. Shevlin Probably Leads
World for Man of His Age.
Thomas L. Shevlin of Minneapolis,
thirty-two years of age, former Yale
athlete and now president of the
Shevlin-Carpenter-Clarke company and
allied companies, has taken out an additional life insurance policy of $1,-
000,000. Mr. Shevlin already carried
life insurance of $500,000.
The taking out of the new policy
puts Mr. Shevlin in flrst place in the
United States, if not in the world, for
a man of his age, in amount of life
insurance carried.
Mr. Shevlin now is one of eight men
in the United States who carry life insurance of $1,500,000 or more. There
are eighty men on the United States
each of whom carries $500,000 or
more.
CASHIER TO  PLEAD   GUILTY
Willing to Admit Forgery and Grand
Larceny.
Joseph B, Thompson, deposed cashier of the Osseo State bank, has expressed a desire to be allowed to
plead guilty to two Indictments, one
for grand larceny and one for forgery,
the two carrying a maximum sentence
ol twenty years in the state penitentiary.
Thompson has been in the county
jail in Minneapolis since July 12, when
the operations of the Osseo State bank
were suspended by A. H. Turrittin,
state  superintendent of  banks.
"I am anxious to begin serving sentence," Thompson said.
HAUGE SYNOD HEAD DEAD
Rev. M. G. Hanson Succumbs Following  Operation.
Rev. M. G. Hanson of Kenyon, president of the Hauge Norwegian Lutheran Synod of America, a former resident of Red Wing, is dead at a hospital at Faribault following an oper-
ttion for acute stomach trouble.
Rev. Hanson graduated from the
Red Wing seminary in 18S4 and was
ordained the same year in l.ee county,
Illinois. His flrst charge was in St.
Paul.
In 1898 he assumed the presidency
of Red Wing seminary.
IMMIGRATION BOARD DIVIDED
Falls to Name New Commissioner to
Succeed Sherman.
Fred D. Sherman, state immigration
commissioner, is sure of his position
for another month at least.
The immigration commission, com-
i of Governor Hammond, Julius
A. Schmahl, secretary of state; J. A.
O. Preus, state auditor; J. A. Nichols,
Minneapolis, and A. D. Stephens.
Crookston, met to either reappoint
Sherman or select a successor, but no
action was taken. Nine candidates
were considered, but none seemed to
please a majority.
Less Than Half
a Crop of Corn
The corn situation has at last
cleared up and the frost curtain
has made its final drop. There
is no corn. There is here and
there a farmer who claims a
fair crop of the ripe maize, but
when compared with normal
yields, the last results must be
considered almost total failures.
The kernels are soft and the
feeding value is low. Jos.
Brummer and Peter Thommes
report that their corn ripened,
and so do a few in the immediate neighborhood south of the
village.
What disposition to make of
this immature corn is a question. The majority of the farm-
ers are feeding it to the hogs as
it is. Those who have a silo
can no doubt do best by
cutting it into silage.
Lid, Otasek Here On a Visit
Ludwig    Otasek,     for   many
years a resident of Pierz, now
of Winona, Minn.,  spent a  few
days of this week renewing  acquaintances   and  visiting  relatives.    Mr. Otasek  and  family
moved    to Winona   about  five
years  ago.     When   questioned
whether he would like to  again
be  classed  as  a  Pierzite,   Mr. i
Otasek said he would if he were
young    and    active   enough  to
farm, but  as  a retiied   farmer
who wishes to spend the declining years in ease  and  comfort,
he   prefers   Winona   to   Pierz.
Mrs. Otasek is in good  health
considering her years.    His son
Anton, is  now  attending busi-'
ness college.
South Agram News.
John Hansmann of Pierz made
repairs on the school house in
District 131 during the last
week and also built a woodshed.
Math Reding returned last
week from North Dakota where
he has been employed.
Loretta Kippley called on
Eva Brummer Sunday.
John Eidenshink and Jas.
Dusclmer were out hunting
Sunday but met with very poor
luck.
Ducks
vicinity.
are  plentiful  in    this
Joe Kippley, champion duck
shooter of Agram, shot so
many ducks Sunday that he
could not carry   them all home.
Create a Better
Market By Rais=
ing Better Spuds
Considerable criticism is
heard here about the price of
potatoes. It is claimed that
when 30 cents was being paid
on the local market, prices
ranged up to 55 cents in other
towns. We do not know
whether there is as much difference as this, but we are certain
that the prices paid here are too
low. The Commercial Club will
probably look into the matter
and see that there is a good
market here for potatoes at
prices that are as good as paid
anywhere else. Arthur Van
Wormer, tlie printer whose
home is in Princeton, savs that
the prices paid there Tuesday
was 43 to 45c for the average
potatos, and from 60 to 65c for
Early Ohios. And as he passed
through Elk River, Sheriff Iliff
of Sherburne county, who is a
potato buyer as well as a
county official, sold a car of
white stock on the track at
Staples at 45 cents a bushel.
But not to create an impression
that we are so greatly underpaid, Mr. Van Wormer modifies
his statement by adding that to
find a buyer in Princeton, potatoes must be of an absolutely
pure variety. Scrub or mixed
potatoes are not taken at any
price. So it seems that perhaps the farmer himself is as
much to blame as anyone for
the price paid here this fall.
The Moose Lake Produce
company paid 32 to 38 cents
while our prices were 30 and 25
cents. Pierz, as a potato center, is in its infancy, and the
few irregularities which now
obtain in regard to prices and
marketing facilities, will correct themselves in the course of
a short time.
Farmers should sort their potatoes well as this will add to
the price and they can be assured that if the Club takes
hold of the matter that there
will be something stirring. We
want the best markets obtainable and if energy will get the
buyers who will pay all the
market will warrant, we will
get them them.
Smith Held to
The Grand Jury
James Smith was bound over
to the grand jurv by Justice
Randall, late Friday afternoon
and his bail fixed at $700. He
was unable to furnish the bail
and is being held at the county
jail until he does or until the
garnd jury meets in January.
Smith was arrested at St.
Cloud a little more than a week
ago by Hubert Friesinger, special agent for the Northern Pacific, on a charge of attempting
to swindle a farmer who lives
near Wadena, while the two
were riding on a Northern Pacific train between St. Paul and
St. Cloud. It is alleged that he
tried to borrow $30 from the
farmer, offering as security a
check for $360, which is 'said to
be worthless.—Transcript.
Hillman News,
Don Sommers came here from
i Randall  last   week Wednesday,
Eastern Granite News.
to  do some
near here.
work on   his  farm
Nina King has been sewing
the past- week for Mrs. Joe.
Zeller.
Mrs. Ernest Goble and Elizabeth Waller spent Wednesday
night at the Tomberlin home.
Lawrence Kramer is breaking
land near Hillman for Mr.
Waller.
The Loop family visited at
Olson's Sunday.
Mrs. Fred Brainer and baby
spent Tuesday  night  at  Jessie
King's.
Clarence King and wife are
here from Clearwater,
Mrs. E. Perkins, Alice and
Frank visited at E. M. Thompson's over Sunday.
Mrs. Lawrence Kramer visited at Jess King's Monday. Ambition,
Ambition  causes  ii   fool   to jump  at
Anna Gassart of Pierz visited   tho UUHU1 ami faU m thc m„a.-chica-
at Jim King's Monday. , go N«wa
Miss Mary Drews, Miss Anna
Opalinsky and Wm. Drews were
Pierz callers Wednesday.
Mesdames Geo. Waller, Tracy
Waller and children, J. C. Love
and Miss Alice Morton visited
Mrs. Arba Waller last week
Thursday.
Misses Carolyn SutiifT and
Inga Hanson spent last Friday
evening at the August Drews
home.
Mrs. Waller is now cooking
for the crew which Mr- Waller
has at work on the Blue place.
Mrs. Arba Waller returned to
her home at Rucker last Sunday.
And. Markuson of Mt. Morris
was at Pierz Tuesday.
Marie, Ben, Bill and Fairchild
called at R.C. Bethel's Tuesday
evening.
Sullivan News
Messrs T.   H.   Boyd   and
Lufkins of St. Cloud arrived
Camp     Linnelian,     Wednesd
and hunted   ducks  a  couple of
days.
Dr. McDermott, son Will and
George Storer of Minneapolis,
arrived Tuesday and will camp
on the A. W. Cook place a
couple of weeks. They brought
their Evenrude motor along.
We now have six launehes on
the lake.
Miss Mazie Look spent Wednesday night with Miss Dorothy
Lynn.
Mrs. John Britton and children visited with Mrs. C. E.
Look, Thursday.
Mas. Frank Sims spent last
week with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. Smith.
C. F. Foster of Minneapolis
is hunting in this vicinity and
stopping at the Pint home on
Long Lake.
Mrs. G. W. Sims visited at
Mrs. Ford's Thursday.
Messrs. Dr. Watson, A. A.
Fitch and J. N. Carues of
Royalton returned to their
homes Saturday.
Sam Perkins, wile and child,
spent the week end with the
Thompson family.
Mrs. T. S. Look and Miss Ida
Look called at Robt. Adkin's
Sunday.
Messrs. G A. Baird, J. C.
Nichols, Frank Williams, Harry
Etten and J. A. Uohm, all of
St. Paul, spent Sunday at the
Linnehan's.
Ed Thompson and son, Frank
Perkins and Mr. Adamal were
Lake callers Sunday.
Messrs. Mel Wermerskich-
en, John Viring, John Boser
and Joe Ries spent Sunday
night at the lake.
Mrs. Pint drove to Midland,
Monday to meet her daughter,
liinda, who returned from Dakota.
Mr. and Mrs. John Britton
visited with Mrs. Ford Monday.
Locals of Pierz
And Vicinity
John Heach is seriously ill.
Lastrup is experiencing a
boom.
At least a month's threshing is left.
John Rassier ond wife motored out Sunday.
Lucille Love at Faust's Opera
house every Sunday night.
A steady increase of business, the merchants report.
W. J. Schauble returned
from North Dakota Wednesday.
Lucille Love, the 30 reel serial, now running atFaust'sOpera
house.
Mrs. Jos. Preiuer is exca-
vatiug for a basement for a
new house.
FraukPriemesbergeris uow
employed as clerk in Frank
GrreH's store.
"Col." Seibert of the Platte
lake country was a Pierz caller yesterday.
E. M. Thorn]>son and Jim
Taylor of Kichargson were
callers here Tuesday.
Carpenters are erecting a
machine shed on the old
Father Koering farm at Lastrup.
A cement crossing has been
built between J. B. Hart-
mann's store and the Columbia hotel.
E. J. Webber of St. Paul
called on the creameries in
the vicinity of Pierz last
Tuesday.
School opened in district
129, near Frank Konen's place
last week with A. C. Seifert,
as teacher.
Tax Penalty
After Oct. 30
If the last half of your real
estate tax is not paid and you
wish to avoid a penalty of 10
per cent which attaches when
they become over due, you will
do well to visit the county
treasurer's office before il closes
Oct. 30. It will also be well to
pay before the last day. as
there is always a rush then
The law prescribes that the
last half of the real estate tax
shall be paid before Nov. 1  and
attaches a penalty of 10 per
cent    if    not    paid   within   the
limit. Oct. 31 falls on Sunday
this year and therefore the
thirtieth is the last day on
which the taxes may be paid
free from penalty.
Weather Bureau,
Weather     Forecast     for   the
eek beginning Wednesday,
issued   by  the U.  S.   Weather
ureau at Washington, D. C-,
for the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Plains States.
With the exception of local
rains Wednesday or Wednesday night in the Upper and
Lower Missouri valleys, the
weather will be generally fair
during the week, although unsettled weather is again probable over the extreme Northwest toward the end of the
week. It will be somewhat cooler Wednesdap in the
Northwest, and on Thursday
in the Upper Ml .sissippi valley.
Gold In Ancient Rome.
William Jacob in liis "History of the
Precious Metals" estimates from the
accounts given by tlie Roman writers
that In the reign of Augustus, the tirst
ot the emperors, when Room wtu at
the heiirht ol' its power, the amount of
goW in the Roman empire was nearly
12,000.000,000. This vast treasure had
been ^atbereU chiefly by conquest from
various  nations  of   Etarope,   Asia   and
Miss Gertrude Stumpf and   A,ri,a"   Tncre   had   bt'ou   «*■*»■
mines in Spain and in the Atlas moun-
Cathryue   I homines   went to  (ilins of uorth Afrl,a> but tbeir yleld
Bowlus   on   a   visit Monday,   In the wealth of Unga and of cttlea in
. Asia   and   Egypt   bad   been   despoiled
returning yesterday. (Uul c.arried away to enricb. tho con
querors.
HetiryDallmeier has bought
a house and lot in St. Cloud
where he and family will
henceforth make their home.
Wm. Droeger of Sullivan
was a  visitor in   Pierz for  a
few days last week. He says
ducks are plentiful in his
country.
Mrs.FrankSehneppenlieini,
of Page, N. D., who has been
here visiting with relatives
for some time, returned to her
home yesterday.
John Wallace, who is work-
Mrs. John Priemesberger
returned  home  from Staple*
last week, where she had visited with her son Ignatz and
family.
Mrs. Peter Kugel of Portland, Ore., is here visiting
with relatives. She is staying at the Christ Faust home.
She intends to return in
about a week or ten days.
Her father-in-law, John Kn-
gel will accompany her on
her return.    .John intends to
UNCLAIMED LETTERS
List of letters unclaimed at
the post office. If not called for
they will be sent to the dead
letter office at Washington.
Mrs. Anna Tatao.
Auy.   Ueferewski.
Victor Olson.
Don C. Cameron.
T. J. Callahan.
C. E. Gravel,
Postmaster.
ing at John Cassert's butch- make   Portland    his   future
er shop, was called to Brain- home.
erd last week, through tlie
sudden and serious illness of
his father.
Mike Srittner returned
from Fesseiiden. N.D., where
he had   worked   during   har-
A Toast.
Here's to tbe mouth!    It Is th
cer's friend, tbe orator's pride and the
dentist's bope.-Bostou Transcript
The "Swat the Fly" craze vest and threshing. He says
seems to have brought good grain ran good, but thresh-
results. Look at your win- iug is slow. Too much rain.
dow and compare the crop' While undergoing repairs
of specks with that of other Monday afternoon the cylin-
years. der and  about 18 feet of rod
' John, the 9 year old sou of of the creamery  well fell   lo
Robert Happke broke his left tbe  bottom  of the six inch
between the knee and hip curbing, and the various
joint last Saturday after- vices of all the mechanical
noon. He was out loading geniuses of the village failed
stone and was crawling un- to bring it to the surface. A
der the wagon to pick up a new cylinder was placed in
small boulder when the hors- i I    and Math,
es started and drew one of Thommes, "theold thingmay
the   rear   wheels  across  hi where it   is till
limb. «t;':       Sour gra]
GENERAL
MARKET REPORTS.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,        90
Wheat, No. 2	
Flax,        1.70
Barley   ..      15
Rye .'       88
Oats	
Ear Corn	
Hay $5.00
Butter, Creamery ..      37
Dairy	
Eggs	
Flour, Best	
"   Straight       2.70
Low grade flour	
Bran 1.10
Shorts  L.45
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans 	
Onions        06
Potatoes        •_'.">
THE SAVING  OF  MONEY.
When    Purchasing    Luxuricn    Consider
How Old  You  Are.
In tho American Mngazino in an
article on family finances is related
this incident:
Ono day a young man twenty-five
years of ago told me that he
just fallen heir to $3,500.    He
going to spend tho whole sum on a
pure  luxury.     He  '•aid  ii:
was nut  much  money anj
that lie might as well have n good
time with it, even though the good
time lasted only a littlc while.
When I t<>l<l him in a general
way that he ought to savo that
money I made no impression on
him. Hut when I explained to him
how $2,500 invested at 6 per
and   compounded    annually    would
doable in twelve years he began to
wake up.    At thirty-seven ho wi
000, at   i i $10,000
and at ■;■ 50,000.   '■
000 at sixty-one would be yielding
him   $1,200   a i   little   moro
than his p] lury.
I had aroused his financial imagination to the first, real work it had
ever done, so far as I know. He
hung on to that tl
ed it at. 8 per cent
I told him that when he is ti
one   and   has   that   *'.'0,000   mi
somebody else will give him $'^,,.00
and if so to go out and spend it if
he wants to.   Money spent at sixty-
one by a man of some means is not
like money spent at twenty-fivi
a young man of no  i
man at sixty-one has comparatively
littlc   chance  left  for   his  pile  to
grow.    In fact, by sixty-ono ho is
supposed to have his pile.
Always when contemplating luxuries consider how old you are be-.
fore buying. Thc price of luxuries:
is much higher in early life thanj
later. It is very high in youth. It-
you want some comforts and a
luxuries in old age control yourself;
in the earlier years. Get the foundation of your capital laid early, so
that it will have time to build itself
from small beginnings into a substantial amount, 6ay at sixty.
Freeh Prunee.
The prune in its fresh state is a
beautiful bluish plum, cither lusciously sweet or tartly sweet, according to thc variety. The
sweet are the-French and the tart
thc Italian and Herman. While any
variety  of plum  having thc requi-
. mount of sugar and solids will
make a prune, the great mass of
production is confined to the vario-
bove named. California is the
home of the prune in America, although large quantities are now
produced in Oregon and Washington. But it is the climato of I
fornia, with  its dry, rainless sum-
.  warm days and cool nights,]
that makes it ideal both for produc
ing and drying.—Leslie's.
Bearding the Lion.
In his volume "The New France" i
J. Lilly notes that Fouche was
the only man who had the courage
to stand up to Ins imperial master.
Napoleon, who, perhaps, was less
of a gentleman than any man that
has ever achieved greatness, took
ire in brutally reminding him
of his vote for the murder of Louis
XVI. sire," Fouche in
turbably replied, "that was the first
ice which I had the happiness
of rendering to your majesty."   On
another occasion, "Duke of Otran-
Jie sovereign I ought to
have you bchoadt re, that is
pinion," was the minister's
calm reply.
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