The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-12-02

              THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, DECEMBER 2. 1915.
NO. 25.
Sullivan News
District Court
The Greatest
Prank Sims was a Lastrup
c tiler Tuesday.
Miss Jennie Linn spent a few
days of last week with Mrs.
Frank Sims.
Ross Adkins and Archie Greer
returned from Canada last Wed-'
nesday.
Fred Sorrum transacted business in Pierz Wednesday.
Mtile  Lcck   called  at Pete
Adkins' Wednesday evening-.
m Sam, Alva and Nellie Martin
ate Thanksgiving dinner at Sanborn's.
Mrs. Ford served Thanksgiv.
ing dinner to her relatives and
friends. Covers were placed for
sixteen.
Fred Sorrum has done considerable work on his new house.
Mr. Frank Sims and wife
Spent Thanksgiving- with Mrs.
Sims' parents Mrs. H. C.Smith.
All who attended the Thanksgiving' dance, report a tine time.
C. E. Look and Ross Adkins
were Lastrup  callers Friday.
Stewart and Glenn Oliver
called at  H. C. Smith's Friday.
Mrs. Tom Smith and sister-in-
law ATtnie were Onamia callers
Friday.
Mrs. T. S. Look and Mazie
Look drove to Pierz Saturday.
Anthony Nespori  returned to:
his  home   in Pierz   Saturday
and didn't get a deer.
Jurors Selected
The grand and petit jurors for
Folly of War
The greatest  folly of  war  is
Fire In Lumber      jNews Gathered       -Clover Seed in Vi-    ABOUT THE STATE
Yard Tuesday!      Here and There      cinity Not Poor
Tuesday    morning   about   10'
the next  term of  district court that  it   is  the   worst   possible, o'clock  an   alarm   of  tire   was
inMorrison county, which opens
Jan 11th, were drawn last Friday by Clerk of Court Stoll,
Sheriff Felix and Justice Werner. There are 23 grand and 30
petit jurors. Those drawn from
this neighborhood are:
GRAND
Frank Kahl, Buckman.
Ernest James, Platte.
John Bares, Pierz.
C. W. Miller, Buckman.
PETIT
Herman Kuschel, Buckman.
John Bednar, Pierz.
Christ Tembreull, Pierz.
John Gau, Pierz.
Hillman News
G. W. Waller and Jes Leigh
went to Onamia Wednesday.
Miss Carolyn Sutliff and Wm.
Hammond went to Little Falls
Thursday to spend Thanksgiving
Mr. R. C. Bethel, Theo. Miller, and   Ingo Hanson attended
way of doing what nations seek
to do by war.
There is nothing that war
ever achieves that could not be
achieved better in another way.
It isn't at all clear what the
nations of Europe are striving
to achieve by war. They all
profess to be fighting on the
defensive. They all profess to
be fighting in tlie interst of
permanent peace. Their stories
are very confusing. But whatever it is they are after, it
could be gained much better by
peaceable methods than by war.
It may be that many will imagine that the American Civil placed upon the stove, and in
war is an exception. It was some way it caught tire during
fought "to free the slaves," i the absence for a few moments
and it did free the slaves. But of the workmen. The extent of
at what a cost! I the damage reaches about $50.
Slavery was in a fair way to be
ended when the Constitution
was framed, and  when the  fur-
turned in from The Morrison
County Lumber Yard, and the
fire laddies immediately responded to the call. The fire,
which started in the engine
room, had gained considerable
headway and was burning in the
sawdust between the walls, and
in places had reached the ceiling. Some difficulty was experienced by the firemen in getting
control of the flames, as they
were hard to reach. But after
an hour and a half of hard work
they succeeded in overcoming
the fire. The fire was caused
by a pot of tar, which had been
A. W. Cook of West Sullivan is reported quite ill.
Peter Newman of Little
Falls was in town Tuesday
on business.
Theo.
L. (t. Poser Jr.   says  that
tlie report that cloverseed is a
poor crop this  year, is  not
News ol Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers,
true in his case.   He threshed TO TEST COUNTY OPTION LAW
23 bushels  of  alsike and 22 j 	
Billmeyer   of Hill-j bushels of red clover seed of L|q
man was a county seat   busi-!good quality.    This was all
South Buh News.
ther importation of  slaves was      Mr  and Mrg Uerm^n Kol, and
forbidden.    Many   states     had Miss Mary   Koll, spent  Sunday
abolished slavery, many owners ' before last at the homes of John
the Sterr-Nelson wedding atMt. ! had freed   their  slaves.    Senti-  S. Reding and Joe Janson.
ment against it was slowly  but I    Mr. John S.  Reding and wife
surely   growing,   even   in     the spent Thanksgiving   with Peter
were in  Hill-  south, when  Whitney invented  Koll and family.
the cotton gin,  and by doubling!     A cr0wd   of about   50 persons
the value of  slave labor settled  gathered and surprised Mr. and
Morris.
Pred Nelson   and Ollie  Scrib
man Thursday.
Mr. and  Mrs
I. J. Drews vis-
Bennie  Olson  was a caller at ited at   R- L. Bruber's  Thurs-
the institution of slavery  upon  Mrs. Henry  Flicker last Satur-
H. C. Smith's Saturday.
Miss Mary Brunett spent a
couple of days in Pierz last
week.
Roy Benton of Rucker called
on friends in this vicinity Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Raymond Sims and Miss
Margaret Adkins were guests at
the Will Britton home last Saturday.
John Smith and Millard Van
Kueren were hunting deer Sunday.—Get any boys?
Bert Sanborn was a caller at
the Martin home Sunday.
E. M. Thompson aud family
ate dinner Sunday at Lawrence
Kramer's.
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor and son
spent Sunday with the Cojacob
family.
Merle and Mazie Look called
at A. W. Cook's and Wallmark's
Sunday.
Miss Mary Brunett and Iliff
Wallmark called at the Johnson
home Sunday.
The young folks enjoyed a
skating party Monday evening.
Edwin Wallmark in company
with Frank Johnson, left for
Crosby, where Mr. Johnson has
moved his saw mill.
Ross Adkins left for Rucker
Sunday and will soon leave for
Dora Lake to work in the woods
for Waller.
day.
tlle south.
Thereafter began  a!d:,y   evening, it  being Mr.   and
;    , , ! Mrs. Flickers 15th  wedding an-
A   ivM-hrwneirivpn in hnnnr nf   Struggle for    balance    Ol    power |
i\ pai ty was given in nonor oi,        && «■ niversary.      The   evening   was
Miss Iona Leigh Friday evening, ! between slave  states  and   free spent   playing card and games
who is here from St. Cloud, vis-  states that continued until it re- j aQ<j a dainty   lunch was  served
iting relatives.
suited in   war.    When   the  war i at   11   o'clock.    All  bad a  tine
ness caller last Monday.
Herbert Muncy of Little
Falls was transacting business in Pierz last Tuesday.
E. M. Lafond and Canora
Tomelty of Little Falls were
Pierz visitors last Tuesday.
Mrs. P. A. Hartmann and
Mrs. W. J. Schauble visited
at Mrs. Christianson's Tuesday.
M. J. Nelles and P. C.Nel-
les of Rogers,Minn. were visiting with relatives and
friends in Pierz a few days
last week.
Dr, H. S. Degnan, our dentist, went to Staples last Wednesday to spendThanksgiving
with his parents.
uor    Men    Take    Steps   to    Attack;
Constitutionality  of  Recent
Enactment.
Are You Educated?
A professor of the  University
of Chicago has evolved a series
sympathy with all the good eau-
Henry Gau and Peter Gross
shot a large brown bear last
week Wednesday about seven j friends and keep them?
miles northeast of Pierz.
bear weighed 250 lbs.
The
Christ Grest of LittleFalls,
who has been   running P. L. or a ^ure women in tlle '
John  Love   and  Tiles Leigh I was over, the   question of slav-
I
went to Bowlus on business lastjery was settled.
But, again, at what a cost!
Say there were   three   million
Friday.
J.   P.   Leigh   went  to Moose
Lake Saturday.
Alice Morton, lona Leigh, In-
ga Hanson.   Teo Leigh and Mr.
slaves in 1861, worth   five  hundred dollars   apiece.    Suppose,
for the  sake  of   harmony,   the
and Mrs. I. J. Drews  visited at nation  had  decided to  abolish
slavery, but to compensate
slave-owners for their losses,
not at actual value but at twice
actual value. Suppose the nation had decided to buy and set
free all the slaves, compensating the owners at a rate of a
thousand dollars a head.
That would have cost the nation the tremendous sum of
three billions of dollars! But
what did the war cost?
As nearly as the direct cost
of war can be figured, it cost
the nation five billions of dollars.
The compensation plan would
have saved two billions.
But that is only the beginning
of the cost of the war. Pensions, growing out of the war,
have already cost the government four and a half billions of
dollars- Adding that,it makes
six and a half billion—or more
Frank Langer, telegraph
operator on the Soo line is
home to spend a mouth's vacation.
A toll master was once collecting carriage toll from the automobile traffic over the bridge.
Along came a Pierce Arrow
which was stopped and requested
to pay the toll of $1.50. Its
driver did so and proceeded on
his way. Thus with the Stude-
baker, the Oldsmobile and the
Kissel until finally came an absent minded auctioneer driving
a Ford. "Halt!" said the toll
man, "one dollar and a half.''
"Sold," said the driver and he
>roceeded to vacate at once.
A. Drews Sunday.
Miss lona Leigh left Monday
for Royalton.
Miss Vessa Young and Mary
Dawe left for Sidney, Mont.,
Monday.
Aug. Drews went to Lastrup
Monday on business.
South Agram News.
Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Stumpf
and Mr. and Mrs. Adam Virnig
visited at the Wm. Leidenfrost
home Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Brummer
and family and Mr. and Mrs.
Jos. Duschner spent Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
Stumpf and family.
Frank Otremba Jr. returned
from the Little Falls hospital
Tuesday, where he underwent
an operation for appendicitis.
Mrs. Joe Otremba and daughter visited at the John Hesch
home Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sporlein
called at the Brummer home
Sunday.
Theo. and John Stumpf and
Mr. and Mrs, J. J. Brummer and
family visited the Jos. Duschner
home Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Eidenshink
and family spent Thaudsgiving
at the Leo Leidenfrost home.
time
Mrs. Aenry Krushek and Miss
Margaret Meyer left Monday
for the hospital in Rochester,
where Margaret will undergo an
operation. We all wish the best
for her and hope she will soon
be able to return. .
A. C. Seifert, school teacher
in the F. Konen district, is on
the sick list this week.
Market Report
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,   88<92
Wheat, No. 2         ^2
Flax,        1.75
Barley      78
Rye       50
Oats      35
EarCorn       65
Hay $5.00
Butter, Creamery ..      37
Dairy - -~      27
Eggs       30
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
Posters threshing jig the
past fall, finished Saturday
and returned home.
Theodore Karel and Frank
Weisbrich will leave next
Monday for Frazee, where
they will work in the woods
for Nichols & Chisholm.
Julius Popilek of West Sullivan, passed through Pierz
Monday on his way to Royalton, where he will visit his
father for a few days.
Math. Thommes made a
trip to Ashland, Wis., last
week. He reports that everything is running satisfactorily
in the gasoline engine Victory.
Frank Kastanek of Pierz
has bought the half interest
of theditcher owned by Mueller and Fritz. Tlie ditcher
will now be worked by Fritz
and Kastanek.
Theo.   Gross   will     again
make firewood and posts this
winter on the same place lie
has been working for the last
three years between Onamia
and Johnsdale, He will have
a crew start some time next
week.
threshed from clover grown
on land sloping lightly to the
SOUth.       Clover   from    si >peS      Following conferences 1>.
tO the north Was almost Seed-   °fflcials and attorneys for saloon men
of    Northern    Minnesota   it   was   nil-
leSS. noiincod that ;i tost case attacking the
constitutionality of the county option
law win ix> brought Immediately in
Koochiching county anil probably will
be argued before the supremo court
Jan. 17. after the present calendar of
cases lias been cleaned up.
Judge   Marshall   A.   Spooncr  of   Be-
midji. representing the .saloon men of
of test questions for  tlie educat-    International    Kails,   and    Oct \.
ed   which,   he  avows,   are   the   ■*■«■  of ,.;""'1  PorJ8; lt,nf
the liquor  inter- rOOkston  and
best evidences of   a   real educa-   But Grand Forks, visited Bt Paul to
tions.    If you can answer "yea"  F°"»* ** ?! '"""'I0" "° "u!"',1 S
J J habeas corpus proceedings.    Attor;
to    all    the    questions    you    are   General   Lyndon  A.  Smith,  hacked  by
, , ,      .. ,. Governor Hammond,  refused to ac
truly  educated,   the    professor   t0 this  „„.„„„,.    An  illjlim.,i0ll
says.    Here are the questions:      ceedlng probably will he the form of
the action.
Hasan    education   given   you      Attorneys   for  the   liquor  Int
their attack  on  the  law  mainly
on   the  home   rule   chart- D   of
ses and made you espouse them?   the  ■< utution.    They  claim
ii        -. i       „ ,ui; ;,.;.      that  the  county  option  law.   I
Has it made yon public spirit-   |ng rounti(,s   ,„ '(lopriv„   homo rule
ed? charter  cities  of  the   right   to   I
,,      ., , ,       ., saloons,   is  in   conflict  with   th;c
Has it made you a brother   to   ture of the ,ioI1
tlu weak? SERBS AND   BULGARS FIGHT
Have you learned how to ma 	
Bloody Race  Riot Occurs In  Northern
Minnesota.
Peter N'anofT of Bovey ls dead, Jo«j
Kadosoviche   of   Ta< onlte   is   Bl
through  the shoulder and  one  unidentified   man   possibly  is  fatally  in
by  a   deep  knife   wound   through   the;
hack ns the result of a luiuialur-
waged   at   Calumet   with   the   Utl
fury between Bulgarian! and
sheriff Sanderson "f Itasca county;
Will a lonely dog   follow   you   ami a   party of   depin
rounded  a deep swamp near Calumet
where  Paul  Keceman and
Can you be liigll   minded   and   chin. Serbians, wanted tor the killing.
"      , ,   ,      , are supposed to be hiding.
bappymthe meanest drudgeries     l,,(i.,1 „.,,,.,,,, wlli,.h Bamed ,nt0 a
0£ life? . concert.>il  attack  by   Bl
party   of   Bulgaria
Do   you   think   that    washing   th(,ir national hymn  pr. the
dishes and boein* corn are joat   "" ■   ">   whul1   kniv"-s'   »»°ttieB.
chairs and clubs were used witb aban-
as compatible with   high   think--   don.
ing as piano playing or golf?      I + •$• + * + •!• ++++*++++++
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yourself?
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Do   you know what it is to be
a friend yourself?
Can you look an   honest   man
Do you   see anything to   love
in a little child'/
in the street'/
Are  you   good   for  anything
DULUTH   WILL   PROFIT
IRON   ORE   BOOM.
BY
Can you be happy alone:
Can you look out of the world   +
and see anything but dollars and   j"
i "1*
cents/
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Can you see   anything   in   the   •;-
puddle of mud'.' +
■:■
Oan you look in a mud puddle
by the wayside and see a   clear
sky'/
Ttuluth. Now 30.—That Duluth will benefit enormously by
the boom ln the iron and steel
industry forecast for ne.v
Is the opinion of authortl
the trade. It Is estimated that
mi   requli
Minnesota     iron   OB
will   run   as  high   as
to  60,0 which   will
break  all   r the   highest
so far being  49,
one season.     Many authorities
an advance of $1
In iron ore, so strong does the
Henry Preimesberger went + certainty of
to Fareo. V D,   Tuesday  on * a rfsuU °Pe'at°™ are prepar-
•:•   ing to stock pile heavily.
business.   He intends to re- +
i ■* , *   i *f* *\* V* *i" v *'** **f V *i* *'• *'* *r *I* '!* "'* *'* *.**
Til hiteWng posts on Main  MOTHER AND DAUGHTER DEAD
street are being cut   off   antl , Former Turns on Gas at Their Home
put in on Second street, run-     w      „   '" ,st' Paul'
1 Mary    Maxwell,   four; -s   of
ning east and west, in   lower age,  i8 dead  at  the St.  Paul
town; and on Sixth street run-: ,h/'f *al'    "e' d.e"thft l8„ th° ■"
' that  has  followed  the alleged  break-
nillg east and west,  ill    lippei   mg  of  a  temperance   pledge   by   Pat-
k  Maxwell, father of the girl.
town.
Mr. and Mrs
L.   J.   Wall-
than four   times   the   value   of  Onions
Brainerd.—Mrs. Lena Shupe,
known as "Grandma" Shupe, re-
cantly fell and dislocated her
shoulder, and is now at St. Joseph's hospital. Mrs. Shupe is
93 years old and in destitute
circumstances, and the Bachelor Maids have assisted her for
anumber of years.
slaves—that would have been
saved.
But that does not count the
waste of labor and destruction
of property involved in the war
Nobody can say how many billions that represents.
It does not count the moral
havoc of Reconstruction a damage that cannot be expressed in
money. It does not count the
fact that it took the south thirty
years to recover from the war
and from Reconstruction. It
does not count the money thefor-
Potatoes.
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FACT THAT SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND PRECIOUS
HUMAN LIVES WERE SACRIFICED; nor does it count the
martyrdom of Lincoln.
It was right and wise and
holy to free the slaves. It was
essential to national integrity
and the permanence of the national ideal that they should be
freed.
The girl was found unconscious on
a bed in h«-r b I., liutchlns
of the  Relief  society.     The  body  of
mark    of     Hoffman,     Minn. J the child's mother a the bed.
. .   ,     ,-      Ga-^ f:lbd the rooms occupied by the
came here to  visit   with  Mr.jfamiIy and ,t , .  niothfir
and  Mis.  P- J.   Wallmark     of  "pened a Jet for the purpose of
g the lives of herself and daughter.
West   Sullivan.      1 liey   Were      Notes left by the mother expressed
went to Rucker Monday morn- ;,net by Qif£ Wallmark at the JrW.SJ that the ch"d 8hould dl8
returned
Andy Fenn. Commissioners
Riehelow and Henry Gassert
But can anybody say that war
mer Confederate states have paid' was the best way to  solve  the
out in pensions  to tbe  veterans' Problem or deny that it was the
ot the gray. worst    possible    way: —Duluth
IT DOES NOT COUNT THE Herald.
ing to inspect some roadwork
and bridges. From Rucker
they went to Onamia.
Winter is here in full cap
acity according to the temperature Sunday night. The
mercury registered lo above
zero during the night. All
hopes of another indian summer must be abandoned now.
Wm. Meyer Jr.,   Jos. Jan-
iSoo   depot.    They
to Hoffman last Monday.
companiedby A. P. Wallmark
father of P. J. and L. J. Wall
mark.
W. O. Brunet of Little Falls,
a private in the Canadian fo
is in a hospital in England,either
wounded or ill from some di-
contracted while with the Allied
army in Europe. J. H Brunet,
his father, who lives on a farm a
MARK TWAIN ON ADVERTISING
orski, John Schlegel and Tony I short distance west of the city,
Ziegler left Tuesday morning received notice Saturday from
for Frazee.   where they   wil anadian Red C :ety
work in the Nichols
When Mark Twain ling
the Virginia iterprh
super rther   once
wrot' -  id he had   found   a
spider in his paper,   and   a-
whether it meant   good or  bad
luck.
rk   replied   and    said     it
it neither good luck or I
merely looking
over the pages to find out what
merchan tot  adv
so that it could spii
to that effect-    The   notice   did
holm lumber  camp this Win-[not ther Ik .unded anci undisturbc for-
ter. or si r after.
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