The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-11-11

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THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, NOVEMBER 11, 1915.
NO. 22.
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STATE NEWS BITS.
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Happenings of the Week
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The United States forest service
will co-operate with the Minnesota
game commission in the protection of
game in the Superior National forest
preserve, Northern Minnesota. Carlos
Avery, state game and fish commissioner, has received word from the
forest service that it will permit its
rangers to act as deputy game wardens and to report all violations of
game laws in the preserve.
John Lang, territorial pioneer, is
dead at St. Paul after a prolonged illness. Lang reached Minnesota in
1859 and became a resident of Meeker
county. He enlisted in a Minnesota
volunteer company during the Civil
war and was a member of the Minnesota G. A. R.
Dr. Leonard G. Rountree, assistant
head of the department of medicine
at Johns Hopkins university, was appointed by the board of regents at the
University of Minnesota to become
professor of medicine and chief of
the department in the Minnesota medical school.
Peter Benolken, mayor of Freeport
and for many years a prominent merchant of that village, was instantly
killed when his automobile was struck
by a Great Northern engine at the
outskirts of St. Cloud. Two other occupants of the machine were not injured.
The body of Jacob Frederickson,
who disappeared from his home about
two weeks ago, was found in Long
lake, near Fergus Falls. He had tied
two axes to his body to make sure it
would sink. His eyesight had been
failing and he feared he would go
blind.
.With a 10 per cent increase in the
Minnesota butter output this year over
last year, the value of milk products
in the state in 1915 exceeds the total
value of the combined wheat and corn
crops by $3,000,000. The total value
of milk products is placed at $96,000,-
000.
Martin Nelson, ninety years old,
father of O. M, Nelson, vice president of the First National bank of
St. Paul, is dead. Mr. Nelson was
born in Denmark and came to St. Paul
in 1852. He was an attache of the
State supreme court for many years.
Cyrus F. Redlon, seventy-five years
old, is dead at Minneapolis. Born in
Boston, he came to Rockford, this
state, with his parents in 1855. He
had lived in Minneapolis since 1867.
He was a member of the G. A. R. and
the Loyal Legion.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rockstroh, fifty-six
years a resident of Minnesota, is dead
at lakeland. Mrs. Rockstroh, who
was eighty-one years of age and came
to Minnesota in 1859, first settling in
St. Paul, had lived forty years at
Lakeland.
The state revnue fund showed a
balance of $1,341,466 at the beginning
of November, according to a statement issued by Walter J. Smith, state
treasurer. The total balance to the
credit of all state funds is $2,240,-
366.77.
August Maniko, a Finlander living
about nine miles from Tower, was
killed by a rifle bullet. Another Finn
named Matt Niemitako, who was in
the vicinity at the time, is held to
await the action of the grand jury.
F. W. Flint, former night editor of
the Chicago Inter-Ocean, but for fourteen months resident in Minneapolis
as correspondent of the Associated
Press, fell dead on the sidewalk. He
was fifty-eight years old.
Paul Pearson, driver for a Rochester firm, was killed almost instantly
when his team ran away throwing him
under a load of coal. The wagon
passed over the chest, crushing him.
Henry Harley, thirty-four years old,
a farmer ten miles south of Black-
duck, is dead as the result of having
been accidentally shot by his fourteen-
year-old brother-in-law while hunting.
John Harders, retired contractor
and the last of a small group of pioneers who founded the German Lutheran church at Winona, died suddenly
of apoplexy.
Fifty years a boilermaker, thirty-
eight years as foreman, was the life
record of Harry Edwards, uged seven-
ty years, who died of heart disease
at Brainerd.
FUcelptB at the prison twino and
machinery plant siticn Aug, t total $1,.
806,107.Stt. For August, September and
October last year the receipts were
$806,107.29.
Noble Gardner, a farmhand, aged
about fifty-eight, was killed by lightning 1,t j week while threshing on
Frank   i^nard's  farm  near Chatfleld.
J. J. McOnfferty, for many pears a
prominent attorney, district court
judge and Democratic politician of
St. Paul, is dead at Seattle.
Mrs. Thomas Lowry of Minneapolis,
whci died Oct. 27, left an estate of $1,-
040,000. All the property is distributed
to members of her family.
Le«js lliutman, a farmer near
Heron Lake, was thrown from a load
of tile and killed when the wagon
passed over his body.
Rev. Father Francis H. Freckmann
to dead at St. Elizabeth hospital at
BPabasha, where he had been under
treatment.
Many Take Out
Hunting Licenses
Among- the list published in
the Transcript of those who took
out hunting- licenses are found
the following names:
W. H. K. Moyer, Little Palls.
Adelaide Moyer, Little Falls.
M.J. Tanner, Little Falls.
S. L. Bennet, Randall.
O. H. Bennett, Randall.
Harvey Erwin, Little Falls.
Fred Keeha, Royalton.
T. M. Leslie, Royalton.
Fred Joslin, Royalton
W. E. Pentield, Little Falls.
Mrs. A. B. V. Pentield, Little
Falls.
Joe Newman, Royalton.
Geo. Armstrong-, Royalt°n.
Wm. Beveridg-e, Little Falls.
Geo. Coons, Little Falls-
Eddie Moran, Little Falls.
G. M. A. Fortier, Little Falls.
Joe Martineau, Ft. Ripley.
C.A. Weyerhauser,LittleFalls
Marshal Thelen, Randall.
J. M. Totten, Randall.
Paul Miller, Randall.
Neal Miller, Randall.
Geo. Miller, Randall.
Max A. Corbin, Little Falls.
M. M. Buckman, Little Falls.
Geo. H.Blackhurst, Royalton.
Edward Ludwig-, Little Falls.
F. D- LeBJanc, Little Falls.
Henry Bernell, Randall.
Anton Bernell, Randall.
Paul Jaschke, Randall.
Hans Goscli, Randall.
Adolph Franzen, Pillager.
R. L. Palmer, Little Falls.
R. Gross, Pierz.
Thomas Gog-gins, Motley.
August Weisbaick, Pierz.
Chas. M. Tew, Ft. Ripley.
Theo. J. Thorsen, Cushing-.
Matt Anderson, Bolus.
A. C. Young-. Raymey,
Clyde Young-, Ramey.
Math Steinert, Royalton.
Ernest Church, Royalton.
Frank M. Sobiech,Little Falls
Simon A. Sobiech, Little Falls
Wm. Krottoschinsky, Little
Falls.
Wm. Batters, Little Falls.
P. J. Sobiech, Little Falls.
Paul   Krottoschinsky,   Little
Falls.
W, W. Hall, Little Falls.
Paul Felix, Little Falls.
J. E Guy, Little Falls.
Earl V. Wetzel.   Little Falls.
S. R. Fortier, Little Falls.
L. E. Allen, Little Falls.
Emil Weiczorek, Little Falls.
Bernark    Wieczorek,     Little
Falls.
Guy Sugrue, Little Falls.
Anton Freidricn, Genola.
M. E. Barnes, Little Falls.
Christ Reese, Si\, Pierz.
Christ Reese, Jr., Pierz.
Roy C. Waggner, Ramey.
G, B. Gregory, Motley.
W. E. Simonds, Little  Falls.
Conrad     Sundstrom,     Little
Kails.
BrtMSSt Chountird,Little Falls.
Luckily the Gasoline Did Not Explode
One thing- remarkable about
the fire Tuesday is that the
gasoline tank and the kerosene
tank did not explode. These
tanks are not of the steel variety, but are made of light sheet
iron. The gasoline tank contained about 50 g-allons of gaso-
line and the kerosene tank
about 40 gallons of oil. Had
the contents of these tanks been
ignited there is little doubt but
that the string- of building's, including the F. X. Virnig residence, and possibly the buildings and the lumber yard across
the street, would have become
victims of the flames. And,
with tiremen working- on the
roof and on the second floor,
a violent explosion might have
caused a collapse of the walls,
and engulfed some human lives
under the burning debris.
GENERAL
MARKET REPORTS.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
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Village Council
Proceedings
The village council met in the
village hall Saturday evening,
Nov. 6, at 8 o'clock. All members were present.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
The  following   bills were  allowed;
Wm.   Kopweiler 7i hours
work on electric line.. .$ 1.87
Jos. P.   Meyer,    700   feet
electric   wires,   service
wire and globes   30.24
B. Gross, two trips to
Little Falls, meals, expenses, telephone      4.34
J. Langer Bros, freight..    7.80
John    Kugel,    work    on
dumping ground     7.50
Barney Burton, telephone
calls     to    Minneapolis
from store     1.75
Wm. Priemesberger, work
on electric line, service
wire, etc   27.45
Prank Waninger, 35 yds.
cement crossing and haul
gravel  70.06
Pierz Journal, publishing
legal notices and proceedings    43.50
Jos. Grell, hardware,  etc. 15.53
;John  P.   Faust, work  26
hours on electric line. ..    6.50
Locals of Pierz
And Vicinity
The hunting season for big
game opened yesterday, the
10th.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Van Hercke, Parker town, a
son.
The Joseph Meyer family
has moved into their new
house.
P. W. Blake of Little Falls
renewed acquaintances here
yesterday.
E. P. Adams, E. M. Lafond
and Art. Lafond were callers
here Tuesday.
Our threshers had a few-
days' vacation the first of the
week.    Too much rain.
Christ Morrill of Kremlin,
Montana, is here to visit
friends and hunt deer.
Mrs. J. F, Smith of Superior, Wisconsin, is visiting
friends in ihe village.
Marriage license was issued
Friday to Joseph H. Tschida
and Frances Hoffman.
Almost two inches of  rain
Fire in Mischke's
Building Tuesday
The Mischke building was
badly damaged by tire Tuesday
afternoon. The tire started at
about half past twelve. The
corner occupied by Faust Bros.
grocery, the living room > occu- ;
pied by the J. M. Blake family i
are   damaged   beyond   hopes of    Germans, Austrians and  Bulgars Now
NISH CAPTURED
3Y BULGARIANS
Second Largest City in Serbia
Taken by the Enemy,
HALF OF COUNTRY CONQUERED
Wheat, No. 1,	
Wheat, No. 2         83
Flax,        1.85
Barley ..     45
t?       ' gg; Crane   &  Ordway   water
oatsV/.V."V.V.V."7.7.7-7-   311  meters 69-36
EarCorn  65  Marshall Wells Co.   elec-
Hay $5.00      trjc street wire	
Butter, Creamery .. 37 Jos. P. Meyer 12,100 ibs
Dairy        27      coal _	
Eggs .  28 Tom Feucht, workonelec-
Flour,Best      2.80,'     triyu     ^
"    Straight  2.70
N. A. Thiene, work for J.
Meyer     3.00
John Seibert, 6 hours work    1.50
99.13
62.00
Low grade flour 1.80
Bran  1.40
Shorts   1.45
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed  1.40
Beans .
Onions
Potatoes.
2.00
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Rucker News.
Council adjourned.
Bakxky Gross, Pres.
J. P. Hartmann, Treas.
South Buh News.
Mr. -Wm. Ball, Ward Hart-
wick, Prank Sluck and Peter
Nelson autoed up to Pierz from
Morgan, Minn., last Friday and
called on the Peter Koll family.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew   Ranse,
Mr.    George   Green,   Raymond
the week end in Pierz, the guest Reding    and     Alfred     Hunke
of Miss Marie  Bollig.    She   re-  autoed up from Morgan,   Minn.,
last Saturday and surprised the
Peter Koll and John S. Reding
families. The former and the
J. S. Reding family spent an
enjoyable time at the Peter
Koll home Saturday evening.
The evening was spent in singing and music.
Miss Elizabeth   Waller  spent
Brainerd Dispatch: The L.
M. Koop company have leased
the Elks building in Jamestown,
N. D. for three years and will
remove as soon as the necessary alterations and changes
are made in the store building-.
Brainerd's Joss of this well
known store is Jamestown's
gain. Brainerd people in general had always regarded the
Koop store as one of its best
business establishments and
they will regret exceedingly to
see the family remove to its
new home.
turned to Rucker on Tuesday.
The very heavy downpour ot
Sunday put a stop to road work
in progress in Leigh town.
The Tomberlin family visited
at the Geo. Waller home last
Sunday.
The school children from this
end of tlie district found the
creek at the Rucker place so
unusually high Monday morning
that they couldn't cross it and
had to turn back.
The Olson rig finished up the
threshing around here last
week.
Miss Bessie Benton spent  the
week end with her cousin, Thel-
' ma Waller.
Wm. Munyon returned home
last week from a business trip
to Wisconsin.
The crew at the Penniman
''clearing'' came home Monday,
the work"  being   at a   standstill
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Koll
arrived here last Monday evening from tlieir wedding trip to
Goodhue, Minn., where they
visited with relatives and
friends.    They will soon be set-
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tied in their new home at Pierz.
Injured Foot is Amputated.
Leon Wright, who was injured
on a train at Clear lake last
Wednesday, underwent an operation for the amputation of his
right foot at St. Gabriel's hospital. The foot was amputated
a short distance above the ankle.   It was   so   badly  mangled
repair.
Faust Bros, are the heaviest
loosers. 'This firm lost by dam
age by water and destruction by
tire almost their entire stock of
$1600. John B's motorcycle,
and Theo. Hescli's motorcycle,
which was undergoing repairs
in the shed, were badly damaged .
Frank Brandl's barber shop
was not damaged by tire, but
when four streams began to
pour into the living rooms overhead, the   deluge of water coin-
in   Possession   of   Lnrge   Section
of   Balkan   State.
lin, Nov. 7.—The capture ot
Nish, Serbia, by thc Bulgarians, was
announced officially hero.
Tho conquest of Nish wu off'
after three da' \  lighting.    In
these engagements tho Bulgarians
raptured 350 Serbians and two cannon.
The rapture of Varvartn, on the
Moravn rl\or in Serbia, aboul forty
miles northwest of Nish. was an
nounced by the German war office.
More than 8,000 Serbians were taken
prisouers.
The town of Krallebo, thirty-five
miles southwest of Kraguyevatz, also
has   been   captured   by   the   Germans,
ing   through   the ceiling,    made! who are pursuing the Serbians to the
the   removal of   the  chairs audi east of that noint
The Germans have reached the Zu-
photographic parapharnaha lm-   pnnv(,vnc rti8tri(.( nnd ,„ th„ Mo,
perative.       The     postoflice    too    valley  have  pursued  tho Serbians be-
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was cleared ot fixtures and mailj     Nw lM,n,„0 ,llH «„,>.„,.,«,.
in anticipation of the fire sweep-   fd the Serbians and in tho riclnM
j Sokobanyo  also   they   won   a   vi,
ibg tbe Whole blOCk.    Mrs. J.M.J taking   more   than   500   prisoners   and
; Blake saved the piano and most' "•*  cannon,    i
fell   Sunday   evening.    Thia|of tJ|e {urniture.
is unusual here in November.     The oripi? of lhe  tlro is un.
Anton Kerich,   janitor  of, known.   It started as an insig
the   court     house    in    Little! niticant   blaze-as all   tires do
forees  i;ot   in   touch   with   each   other
near Krivivlr.
Enemy Holds Half of Serbia. .
with   tho   exception   of   Belgi
Nish   is   tho    largest    city   In    Si
Soon after the outbreak of the  war
the oapltal was transferred from Bel-
tails, was a  Visitor  in   Pierz   in the   northeast   corner  ot   the   Kra(lp to xlsh.   Th. :mir„,
last Saturday.
Lucille Love, the 30 reel serial, now running atFaust'sOpera
house.
shed.    John B. discovered it antl. remained until the city was threaten-
' ed bv the Invaders,
his first  impulse was   to run to |     Nlsh is „„„.„„,, „„  thn main ra„.
"•el a pail Of water trom  the fan- ' road  lino of Serbia, running from
grade to  Saloniki.    Tl no  re
cent  statistics of Its population, which
oars   age
cet and drown  it.    Then he discovered thedepl irable fact that   twenty
More than  half of Serbia Is now in
on account of an open   hydrant   possession of the invaders, who also
The next couple to be married    in
and   Frances   Hoff- The next  best   thing to do was   junction effected I
have   taken   tho   greater   part   of   the
two   weeks   is   Jos. I there was no water in the mains.   ro„11(ry.!! ,,lih,,ul SVf)„.m    T„„
Tschida
maun.
John
man   and   Bulgarian   forces   cum
the   semicircular   wall   ol   hostile   ar
and on account of   the inability
M.    Emmel   of St.
Cloud was here yesterday in
the   interest   of  the   Golden
Valley Land Co.
Otto Mueller of Jordan,
who has been doing some
ditching in this neighborhood, left yesterday   for   liis
home.
'crevices of   the walls   and roof.
John   Prieinesburger,    Jr. Tbe firemen  had to stand idly
Of Staples,   had   a   stroke  of|byunti,   the writhing, stiffening
paralysis last week.   He was boge told tlielll that Ul0 cov,
taken to the   N.   P.  hospital  water  waa ()I1 lhl.  way<   0nce
four streams at work", the tire
was under control in a short
time.
Faust   Bros,   carried
lo summon   help by  ringing the
tire bell.  Owing to the Inflamm j mlee about thi ms
.        .      .   I       Several days ago the Austrian
able material stored in the shed,    invml(,(1   -■
forces   with   tl ades  who  ad
vanced from the north.   The line now
of the   fire   department to   oiler   r„na from  the WC8tern
even a temporary  check for the ■ Vlshegrad.   eastward   along   the   railroad   to   Varvartn,   thence   south   to
wantof water, the tire spread so ^ T'suup.      The    Bulgarians,    however,
rauidlv   that   large   volumes of    have   advani"'
lapimy iat« wegt of the Nish.Kalonlkl ra|lroad and
smoke shortly burst through the j are said to be threatening Pristine.
front and  malignant  tongues of j
j flame    began    to dart    through
ITALIAN CABINET IS DIVIDED
IS
Differences of Opin ->n Arise Concerning t. o  War.
Rome, Nov. 7.    Sharp differences of
opinion have de\.) -od In the cabinet
concerning the
One   of   the   mi11:
us. of the cabinet is said to have
expressed   the   view   that   li
Interests would be served by assisting
a   movement   toward   the   restiu
of pe
Opinion  here  is divide rning
the condm t of thi ily aa
I regards   a   Balkan   ezpedltl
part of the county last   Mon-jttae   stock   and  John   Miscli rf,nant   ,
carried 1700 OH tbe building.     It    na's  irnn  wi"  llas  triumphed  in  this
I respe aid he would ratio
is said that he carried $l,JOO on   KlKn as rll;. rat s(afr than
the   building   until  last   spring,! allo«  a Par» ot hi*
ate in a Balkan undertaking and his
when    excessive     rates    caused    V|ew waB finally adopted by the mtn-
at Brainerd.    His father
now visiting him.
An electric storm, with  a
high wind   passed  over  this
day. Lightening struck school
house No. 129. the Frank
Konen district, and badly
damaged the chimney and
sidings of the buildings.
Henry    Voerkel,     better
known as "Little Henry.*'was
in   town   Monday.    He   said
I that all rivers and creeks were
out over tlie   meadows,   and
i for the present  because  of   the  that it   was   impossible to save
rain.
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Roy Benton is again at home,
having   returned   from   Dakota
j last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Griff King ar
rived home the latter part of
the week from their southern
trip. They report a very enjoyable time and only one
slight accident.
it and the operation was performed soon after he was brought
to the hospital. The other foot
was squeezed, but is not badly
injured.
His brother, Arthur, who also
had his foot injured, is better,
and his foot will be saved.
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Leon   Wright,   better   known
caus
him to cancel $1,200 of it. Part
of the grocery stock saved,
is stored in the Bridgeman
sell creamery. The barber chair
is temporarily set up in the Pierz
Hotel parlor.
The charred   building no.'
ister of war and th' abinet.
TO    CRUSH
Austria
MONTENEGRINS
Effort!
that it rained much more  U]
, fers a forlorn   and almost tfi ue
in   northern    Granite
around Pierz-
Making     Vigorous
Along   That   Line.
Vienna. Nov. 7—Vigorous attempts
I to   crush   the   Montenegrins   are   reported in the official si
The    mountaineers   are   admit-
1 fiphtinr   •-   --•---••- ••   as   to
'~- "■ hard   proposition   even   for   the   Aue-
some spectacle.    The  tin of the. trta<
i     ., - ,,    ■    ... Karlv in the war. while Austria was-
(fallenin roof flapping idly in t! jth  BtruMlei ,n  otn„
We have a gOOd fire depart-  wind;     the   long   hollow    open' fields, they gained a foothold in p:
.„, .   .       . .   ,   : , on  th-
ment.    lhe speed with which J front, and   the broken windows   and  from  ,
the Mischke  fire was exting-'overhead  gaping   sternly   into   «">:■ ta <«»•
lodging  them.    They are able to get
uished   reflects   only    credit  autumn space,give it anappt ,,piies of ammunition by sea and
upon   the   laddies.      Handi-;ance»realorfancied-ri>fa guast-j the mountainous country favorsu
1 and robs the Austrians of a large part
capped as   they   were in   the  iv     human     countenance  or a   of the advantage  they  wduid  enjoy
beginning,   tlieir  work   with  |iu,nan   skull.    The  inscrutable   from their ne>rr «*"'«*
the axes, chopping   openings depth of murky blackness far to   QUARTER   OF   MILLION   LOSS
to the seat of the tire between  the   rear   from   whence   roared I "
Liit    iou     iiv/ (   Newspaper  Plant of Secretary  Daniels
the     studding    and     ceiling ami belched flames and smok- Destroyed.
joists,   must   be commended,  if tbe rates of the  infernal Raleigh : he entire
,, .... , iant and  building of the  News and
I hey worked    with   dispatch   g\oaa \UH\   been   opened,  mysti  . observer, owned by Secretary of the
Motion     Future     show     at  here as-Bud" Wright, is a young and to the point.     The value nes tue a £ *&£?SS£
Faust's    Opera     House    every   man of   small   stature, who   oc    to property owners of an etti-  o la a
(Wednesday   and   Sunday  night  cassionally   worked here  in the cient   lire    fighting   machine      Lucille Love at I '^JS oT desu^yed.™*11 *t°W* *"
'at 8 o'clock.                                    Burton store.                                  is too often  under-estimated,  bouse every Sunday ntgut
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