The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-10-28

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THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
V^OL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, OCTOBER 28, 1915.
NO. 20.
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
Montana Ahead
Of Minnesota
TRIPLE MURDER IS CHARGED
Two North Dakotans Arrested for Alleged   Killing  of Three Aged
Brothers In Minnesota.
Charged with participation in the
murder of three aged bachelor brothers on a farm near Lowry, this state,
last May, John Jacobson of Lignite.
N. D., and his brother-in-law, George
Nelson of Coteau, N. D., have been
arrested by Sheriff Warren Heath of
Burke county, N. D. Both men were
placed in the county jail at Bowbells
after a brief preliminary hearing at
which they were charged with being
fugitives from justice.
Minnesota detectives have been
working on the case for some time
and have linked together a strong
chain of circumstantial evidence, it is
said.
A liveryman from Glenwood, Minn.,
near Lowry, has identified the two
suspects as men whom he saw at
Glenwood just after the murder and
whose actions aroused his suspicions,
according to  the  officials.
Jacobson is a nephew of the murdered men. The two suspects have
been residents of Burke county, N. D.,
about ten years.
Joseph P. Leigh, a former resident of Hillman, made the Journal a visit last week. Mr. Leigh
is now living in Columbus,
Montana on a homestead, taken
about two years ago. At that
time, Mr. Leigh says, government land was plentiful, but is
all gone now. Land with a few
acres broken now sells in his
neighbood for §35.00 per acre.
His son Jesse is farming in Canada. Although living in the
dry belt, Joseph says, they had
too much rain this summer. Jos.
Rathbun, and all his brothers
are farming near Columbus.
"Montana for me, instead of
Minnesota," says Jos. P.
Visited Panama
Exposition
Chas. Gravel, wife and daughter Irene of Onamia returned
last week  from a six weeks' so-
;journ  along  the  Pacific coast.
i
The trip from Portland to San
(Ffaticisco was made by boat.
J They   returned   via  Salt  Lake
City over the Union Pacific.
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 Plains States.
The Rise of Princeton to a Place
On the Map
In our article "Create a Better
Market    by    Raising   Better
Spuds," which appeared in  lastjanda few friends autoed  to
week's  Journal,   we    predicted
Locals of Pierz
And Vicinity
Theo. Karel returned from
the west last Thursday.
Iliff Wallmark  of Pulaski
Onamia Sees The Possibility   I Mrs. McGreffOf
Ot Great Northern Branch
MEN  LOADED  LIKE  DRAYS.
RAIL   CONDITIONS   IMPROVE
Increased      Business      Reported      by
Northwestern   Roads.
Conditions   on   the   great   railway
systems centering in the Twin Cities
are   better   this   month   than   for   the
past   year   and   a  half,   and   show   a
marked improvement over any month
since   the  outbreak  of   the   European
war.    Figures  and  statements  given
out   by   Twin   City   railway   officials
give concrete evidence of the improve- j
ment  in  general  business   conditions!
for which both railways and business '
houses have been hoping.
The Minnesota Transfer railway has
handled thus far 14 per cent more
cars than in the same period last
year. These cars represent a large
portion of the total merchandise business in the state and their movement
is considered by railway officials a
fair criterion of general conditions.
The increase in loaded cars in Sep-1
tember was 8.3 per cent compared
with September, 1914.
MANAHAN  DECIDES TO  RUN
Will   Become Candidate for Governor
on Republican Ticket.
James Manahan is the latest candidate for governor on the Republican
ticket.
Mr. Manahan admits it, but he does
not admit that he will be latest or
last, or even late when the votes are
counted after the primaries.
The story first came out through a
friend of Manahan's.
"Jim Manahan will be in the Re- ;
publican mixup next year, as a candi- j
date, either for governor or for Unit-,
ed States senator," this man said.
Mr. Manahan was seen in his office
by a reporter and he admitted that
his friend had stated the situation
correctly.
Mr. Manahan is a native Minneso-
tan, having been born at Chatfield
March 12, 1866.
ROAD EXPENDITURES LARGE
Total for Minnesota Will Run Over
$3,000,000 This  Year.
Expenditures' in this state during
the year 1915 on work for better
ronds will run far over $3,000,000,
thousands of dollars above the record
tl) 1914, according to G. W. Cooley,
secretary of the state highway commission. Every county in the state
has participated to some extent in
this movement for a betterment of
highway conditions.
State road aid distributed so far
this year amounts to $750,000, on both
state and county roads, for construction and maintenance. Before the
end of the year this will have reached $1,500,000. The remainder of the
$3,000,000 total is being expended by
counties and villages.
MINNESOTA   GETS $325,000
Leaseholders of State Owned Iron
Mines Pay Royalties on Ore.
The state of Minnesota has just
received $325,000 from leaseholders of
Ftate owned iron mines as royalty on
ore mined during the quarter ending
Sept.  80.
There were approximately i."00.000
Jons mined and shipped, the royalty
being 2o cent:, a ton. The Oliver Iron
Mining company was the largest contributor, paying royalties  of  $268,103.
HIBBING AND CHISH0LM DRY
Federal Officers Apply Indian Lid to
Two More Range Towns.
Federal officers have notified the saloon and hotel keepers of Hibbing and
Chtsholm that they must discontinue
business and close their bars on or
before Nov. 1.
Action is taken under the Indian
treaty of 1865.
Huge Burdens That Are Carried by
Porters In Constantinople.
More varied as a spectacle than
the veiled women of the Galata
bridge are the hamals, or coolies.
Most of these carriers arc Kurds,
fierce people of the eastern mountains, who have fallen to the low
estate of selling their strength to
city dwellers. I know the feats of
transportation achieved by Chinese
servants, by Japanese go-rickkies,
by hill women of the Himalayas, by
dusky coolies of India and the
straits, but to the Kurdish hamal
must be accorded the palm as a burden bearer.
Yonder man carries on his back
a bedstead and mattress, fastened
on top of a great basket. The next
man carries twenty watermelons as
one load. Here is another with
twenty-four square feet of plate
glass mirror in a frame, and following him one who carries u roll top
desk, and on top of that an office
chair. There must have been a furniture sale somewhere, for the next
fellow bears a sofa and two parlor
chairs.
Now comes a hamal groaning under the weight of .two kegs of while
lead or paint;—a heavier load than
his mate's more showy burden of
thirty-eight five gallon oil cans. And
here comes one with thirty-three
wooden boxes on his back.
Not all thc hamals arc young aud
6trong. Here comes an old Albanian,
whose load of figs bends him to thc
ground. As if to point thc contrast,
two boys with huge hampers on
their backs come prancing and playing pranks. Is not this next coolie
carrying the heaviest load of all?
On his back is a full sized packing
case, and lashed to it are six other
large wooden boxes. That is no
white man's burden. A not uncommon load for hamals, 1 am told, is
300 pounds. Is there any other city
in the world where men work so
hard to earn 5 or 10 cents?—
Youth's Companion.
Dumas' Onion Soup.
Onion soup is often liked by people who disdain the savory herb in
any other form. There is no doubt
of the wholesomeness of the onion,
and those who have never tried the
soup arc recommended to use this
celebrated recipe of thc elder Dumas: Take, for three pints of soup,
four Bermuda onions or eight common white ones, mineo and fry to
a golden brown in two tablcspoon-
fuls of butter. Pour in two quarts
of water, season with pepper and
salt and boil until the onions are
quite soft. Beat the yolks of three
eggs, mix with the soup and pour
mixture over finger slices of toasted
bread. Milk may be used instead of
water in this soup.
Flamingoes' Tongues.
The beastly Yitellius, as Gibbon
calls him, spent at least six millions
of money on his table in as many
months. He invented, or his cook
invented for him, a dish which he
designated "the shield of Minerva."
One of its principal ingredients was
flamingoes' tongue?, of which both
Pliny and Martial speak in encomiastic terms. Dampier says that the
flamingoes have "large tongues, and
near the root is n piece of fat which
is accounted a great dainty." When
Captain Owen was surveying the
cast coast of Africa his sailors shot
down hundreds of these beautiful
birds iu order, with an extravagance
worthy of Yitellius. to make a dish
of the tongues alone.
His Desire.
"I'm going down- to the hotel," said
old man Bentover, "to consult that 'ere
celebrated surgeon who advertises to
perform operations entirely without
pain. I want to get him to cut off my
worthless son-in-law.—Judge.
GENERAL
MARKET REPORTS.
Grain and Produce
flarket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,        82
Wheat, No. 2         80
Flax,        1.70
Barley _.     45
Rye       86
Oats      30
EarCorn       65
Hay $5.00
| Butter, Creamery ..       37:
I      "        Dairy       27
Eggs       20
Flour, Best _.     2.80,
,    "    Straight      2.70
Low grade flour 1.80,
Bran , 1.40
Shorts   1.45
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans      2.00
.Onions        06
I i
Potatoes       25:
Priemesberger-Thielen.
Fred Priemesberger and Anna
Thielen were married in Lastrup
last Tuesday morning-. Ed. Priemesberger served as groomsman
and Christine Thielen as bridesmaid. The wedding was cele-
i brated at the bride's home. The
I young- couple will live in the
village, where the groom holds
a position with the Morrison
County Lumber Co.
A Stage Name.
There is a story, well known to
theatrical folk, of how Ada Rehan,
thc actress, whose name was Ada
Crehan, came to adopt the stage
name of Rehan. Mr.. Daly, tradition
relates, was opposed to middle initials of his actors and actresses being printed in advertisements and
programs. Just-before Miss Rohan's
appearance as a Daly recruit Mr.
Daly was looking over some proofs
of programs. His eye lit on "Ada
C. Rehan," a compositor's error.
He struck out the "C," and Rehan
her name remained.
He Did Remember.
"Don't complain when the children around you make a little
noise," said the man with the kind
heart. "Remember vou were once
a little boy."
"I'm not forgetting it," replied
the man with a perpetual grouch.
"I was one of those little boys who
are always compelled to sit around
dressed up and watch the other boys
have a good time." — Washingtoa
Star.
Getting It Back.
Parker—I wonder why Sinnrt-
leigh married that little dressmaker?
Harker — For his money, I believe.
Parker — For her money, you
mean.
Harker—No; I mean what I said.
You see, she made all his first wife's
clothes.—Indianapolis Star.
Not That Kind.
Bill—How many liauds have you got
on your watch?
Jill- Why. two.
"Where's the second band?"
"Oh, this is not o second hand
watch."—Yonkers Statesman.
that time would remedy the
faulty market which seems to
exist in Pierz and some other
small towns in this part of the
state. In making this prediction, we had in mind the history
of the potato industry of Mille
Lacs and Isanti counties.
It may be of interest to our
readers to learn something of
the history of the potato industry in the vicinity of Princeton,
Minnesota.
About twenty five years ago
a starch factory was erected at
Princeton on the faith that a
certain number of farmers plant
a considerable area to potatoes.
A few farmers planted as many
as 10 acres to potatoes. This
was something unusual and attracted much attention. Visitors came as far as 20 miles to
get a look at these monster
fields of spuds. Prices at the
factory was 20 cents per hundred.
Gradually the acreage increased, and the quality of the
tubers raised brought in outside buyers who paid from 25
to 30 cents a bushel; all potatoes had to be carfully sorted
for the outside market but the
culls were bought by the starch
factory at the old price of 20 to
25 cents a hundred.
As the years passed the varieties raised increased, Early
Ohios taking the lead with
white Burbanka a close second.
Then two new varieties were introduced, the Triumph and Late
Rose. Much care was taken to
obtain pure seed of these four
leading varieties. There art-
several other kinds raised, the
Kings and Russets holding a
prominent place on the market.
The Triumph potato is
shipped to the southern market,
Texas getting the majority.
The soil around Princeton
varies; south, east and west of
the town the soil is sandy, while
to the north is heavy clay soil
and hardwood timber. It is
found that the sandy soil is
better adapted to tlie raising of
potatoes than the heavier clays,
producing a better quality but
lighter yield.
Clover is used as a fertilizer,
each fanner keeping part of his
land in clover, raising alternately clover and potatoes.
Not every year do potatoes
bring the price they do this
year, sometimes going down as
low as 20 cents; when these low
prices prevail, the starch factory booms, but when the price
is high the factory cannot run
at a profit.
Such, in brief, states the rise
of Princeton, from obscurity, or
the home of Bob Dunn, to the
world's greatest primary potato market. It is true, that
there are more potatoes raised
and marketed locally at Princeton than at any place in the
wond.
Pierz Sunday.
Safety first for your funds.
First State Bank of Genola, the
bank you can trust.    Adv.
Peter Gross of Lastrup has
bought a new Chevrolet $490
car from Henry Gau.
According    to    the    Onamia,
Breeze, there  seems to  be more
than mere talk  to the prop
extension of the Great Northern
feom Milaca northward through
Onamia, thence along the  west
shore ofMilleLacs lake, through
the Cayuna range in Aitkin
connecting  with   the Hill   road
at Hill   City,   Aitkin  Co-    This
would give the Great Northern
a direct  line to the twin  cities
through   both   the   Cayuna  and
Mesaba ranges.    According   to
JotmGirtz returned  from information, Mr. HiU, during his
Montana last week, where he speakin? tour at  tlie  several
had been working as painter county fairs in t|)is part of lhc
all summer. letaie this fall has intimated that
Savers    have   beaten   a  path   his line is seriously considering
to the First State Bank of Gen-  this   plan, and   it is likely   that
ola,   the   bank you  can   trust. fort ^i ^ &ying before another
Adv.
summer is over.
Power oi Big Guns,
old  man   with  a   big  bank  ac-!
It is said that G. W. Robison, formerly of Rucker, intends to return to this country
Some idea of the power of the
A    restaurant    has    been big guns with  which   Europe's
opened in the rear end ofJohn battles are being fought may be
H. Grell's  saloon   by   Frank had    from  tbe fact  that  their
Fuhrmann. carrying power is the greatest
,.       T   ,     u,        i      -Hi the world has ever known.   The
Mrs. John Stangl will leave
,, . .   c       ,,     ..,.,, „ ,,   , force of impact of the German
this week for  the Old iolks
.. .       .,,    ,,,       ,       ,,,       .     lli-inch      gun,       lor      instance,
Home in   St. Cloud.    She  is b
amounts    to    300,000,000- foot
82 years old.
I pounds.   This interpreted means
J.J. Roch and wife of Zum- that it has an impact  the  same
brota, arrived yesterday noon
and are visiting at the Tern-
breull home.
as that which would result from
dropping    a    block    of  granite
thirty   feet   long,   twenty    feet
thick and thirty feet wide   from
a point one hundred feet   above
the ground    level.     The    12-iuch
(German   gun   lues  a projectile
j weighing   nearly   1,000   pounds,
A young man without a   small  scm\H    it   twelve   and   one-half
bank account never becomes an'    Ues and with such   speed   that
The majority of the fanners complain that this years
spring hogs are not as large
as they should be.
it arrives at the end of its max-
Frank Thienes, Henry and
Charles Stedtfeld, and Robert
Fuchs, all of Brainerd. visited at tlie John 8. Gross home
last Sunday.
40 bushels per acre.
count, at the First State   Bank
of Genola.    The  bank   you   can \ "™m   range   in   ninty-hve
trust.   Adv. >nds after it leaves  the  muzzle
lofthegun. Owing to the twist
of the shell and of the revolution of the earth, during its
flight, the shell will deviate
over 500 hundred feet from its
'true course if fired in a due
Stephau   Gross    sowed    15   north and south direction.
bushels of Marquis wheat on	
8   acres,   which   yielded  325
bushels or a little better than R"1 Estate Problem.
Why is It that a chicken will walk
iiver ground meat, corn, onto, tender
grass and table scraps in order i" tiy
Joe Zeller   ot   Granite   has   over two fences, dodge six automobile*
made many improvements on "";' ":"u ,h:,,f ,:l "*** £ s'™"" ■
J        J neighbors lawn?—Macon News.
his place by building a porch .
and  making   many   repairs.
Ed. Ruff did the work. Mrs.  Peter   Koll and   ehil-
m.        i.   ., . dren left Friday morning for
Tlie road to Success is paved i J
with banked dollars.    The road   Morgan   to attend   tlie
to Poverty is paved  with spent ding of Herman  Koll.     Her-
dollars.    Bank your  dollars  at  man and wife will live in the
the First State Bank of Genola. j neighborhood of Pier/..
The Bank you can trust.    Adv.
Lucille Love at Faust's Opera
Mr. and Mrs. Cassimir AVer- house every Sunday night.
merskirchen of Jordan, Minn.,
were here  and attended the
Borrowed  Implements.
"Say, Subbubs. I understand you have
Neighbor Wombat's rake."
I'll let vou use Dingbat's lawn mower
wbeu you like."— Kansas City Journal
Priemesberger-Thielen    wed-
ding.   Cassimir Wermerskir-   ™  ~~' ^ "d ^/   ,
Mrs. Wm. Jordan and children and Mrs. Carl Jordan,
who   have   been   enjoying a
chen is a. brother to Mel Wermerskirchen   of   Pierz,   and j
Mrs.   Cassimir   Wermerskirchen is a sister to Mrs. Chas.
Vanherke of Little Falls, who
oss and Miss Helen Hoerner. returned to tlieir homes
in Brainerd Tuesday. Mrs.
Gross and Helen Hoerner are
sisters to Mrs. Win. Jordan.
Passes Away
Mrs. Margaret McGregor died
at her home in Little Fails
ly   Wednesday   morning.     She
was 71 year   old and had   1
in Morrison county for 37 years.
She leaves eight children:   John
P. McGregor,   Kalispell, Mont.;
Thomas and Jos. W. McGregor
Edmonton, Canada: George McGregor, Little Falls:   .lames M.
and Alfred M. McGregor:   Mrs.
Isabelle   Hughes  and   Mrs.  Albert L. Argall,  all of Missoula,
Montana.
FAMOUS  WALKERS.
Men   of  Genius  Who   Were  Celebrated
as Tireless Podestriana.
There have been some famous pedestrians, with the emphasis on the
word famous.   Charle
a great walker.    "Twelve, fii
even twenty miles a day were none
too much for Dickens. * * * Sfl
ing his blackthorn stick, his little
figure    sprang   forward    over   the
ground, and it took a practiced pair
of  lc ecp  alongside  of  his
voice."   He onco did "a special feat
of turning out of bed at
hard day, pedestrian and ■
and  walking  thirty  miles  into  the
country for br<
Sir Walter Scott  "walked twenty
or thirty miles without fad
withstanding his limp."    browning
when pasl lid  take long
walks without fati >   Words
worth   at    tin did    t"
miles a day.   De Qnincey cousin
fourteen  miles a day
his health, ami Lamb,notwithstanding   his   "almost   immaterial   li
"could  walk  during all  t!
Brahma  was a  til Hnn,
and Beethoven always took his d
walk or "run" of five or more miles
in   all   manner   of   weathers,   whilo
Turner traveled twenty miles a day,
DS   he   v. l.crt
Spencer at thirteen, in a lit of h<
walked   forty-eight   miles
one day and  fori;,
hut was probably injured in so
ing.    Tolstoy at  fifty-eight walked
L30 miles in three da
Great men are usually of pov.
ful physique, and many of D8 would
suffer if we emulated their walking
habits, hut they have not all b
so vigorous.    Iramanucl Kant walked for at least an hour ei
hut douh![
pin  or  Weber, Spinoza or Calvin,
who   were   none   of   them   in
health, would have found a wa
a   mile  or  two  quite   sufficient  or
even  too  much.— Dr. .James Frederick Jvogcrs in Si
Daniel O'Connell.
During the school days of an 1
student in Prance Ilio French i
lution endangen '.  his liberty and;
!iis life, and Hei
returned to his native land, sti
law,   was  adn oar  and;
found  himself in  the midst of the
rebellion of 1 aged
himself on the side of law and
der. He made *'.'U0 thc I
of his legal life. Soon his yearly
100. Ill 1811 ho
d lord mayor of Dublin.
In 1844 he was put in jail. In 1875
he died.    Th. tho
life of Daniel -11, the Irish
liberator, of whoi >nc said,
••He was the greatest popular leader
the world n."
is grandmother of  the bride
,,   ,       , . ,,  . Lucille
Mothers  pensions   paid  in   .
__    - . . ,      nil. now running atl-aust sOpera
Morrison   count;    since   the ■
law went  into effect in   1913 j
aggregate $3,765.50, accord-] St. Cloud—Fredrick A<
ing to a report made by Judge died Tuesday morning al
Shaw to the children's bu- o'clock from burns that he
reau of tlie United Statesde-jreceived yesterday when his
partnient of labor. Mothers'!clothes were accidentally ig-
pensions are given only tonited after having been sat-
widows with dependent ehil-. united iu gasoline. The boy.
^"vou-n ,oan me ti.at dren or. in case  the husband who was then
is alive, if he is in an in r.and Mrs. Ju a ma
ylutn or penal institution.   »of Si   I    >ud.
A* the Maid Saw  It.
"In her book, 'Thirteen Years of
a Busy Life? Mrs. Alec Twcedie
tells this story on herself.
ore she started on a journey
from ' ick-
ed away her jewelry, including her
ring and watch chain. Her maid
was sitting op; t in thc train,
and suddenly Bhc noticed they were
ng.
"Oh," she c in a sudden
panic, "where are your ring
"1 put then. edie
replied. "I never travel off tho
beaten track wearing jewelry of any
kind."
"Oh, dear, what a pity!" commented the maid. "They make you
look such a la
Marvelous Measurement.
•h is heard of the wonderful
instruments employed by scier.
rd the slightest tilts and pulsations of the crust of the earth, but
few have any idea of the uncanny
accuracy of those instruments. For
instance, one such instrument will
render observable a tilt of less than'
one three-hundredth of a second oft
an arc. This means that if a plane
surface was tipped up only so little
that thc rise would amount to a
single inch in a thousand miles the
unen t mentioned would reveal
thc tilting,
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