The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-01-13

              THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JANUARY  13. 191(3.
NO. 31.
ABANDON EFFORT
IN DARDANELLES
Ail British and French Soldiers
4re Withdrawn.
SEVENTEEN GUNS BLOWN UP
General    Monro    Reports    Evacuating
Operations   Were   Carried   Out
Without   Loss or   Life.
London, Jan. 10.—It is officially announced that the complete evacuation
of the Gailipoli peninsula has been
successfully carried out.
General Sir Charles Monro, according to the official statement, reports
that only one British soldier was
wounded, that there were no casualties among the French and that all
the guns were saved, except seventeen
worn out ones, which were blown up.
The official communication issued
says:
"General Sir Charles Monro reports
the complete exacuation of Gailipoli
has been successfully  carried out.
"The guns and howitzers were got
away, with the exception of seventeen
worn out guns, which were blown up
by us before leaving.
"Our casualties amounted to one
member of the British rank and file
wounded.
"There were no casualties among
the French."
General Monro states that the accomplishment of this difficult task
was due to Generals Birdwood and
Davies and invaluable assistance rendered in an operation of the highest
difficulty by Admiral De Robeck and
the royal navy.
BRITISH   BATTLESHIP   SUNK
Entire Crew of the King Edward VII.
Is Saved.
London, Jan. 10.—The British battleship King Edward VII. has been
sunk as the result of striking a mine.
The entire crew was saved.
The sinking of the King Edward
VII. was announced by the admiralty
in the following statement:
"The H. M. S. King Edward VII. has
struck a mine. Owing to the heavy
sea it had to be abandoned and sank
shortly afterwards. The ship's company was taken off without loss of
life.    Only two men were injured."
The King Edward VII. represented
an investment of nearly £1,600,000
and was one of the finest of the last
class of predreadnoughts, corresponding in general to the American ships
of the New Jersey and Nebraska type.
GERMANY CONCEDES
AMERICAN DEMAND
Washington, Jan. 9.—Negotiations
between the United States and Germany over the Lusitania incident virtually have reached a conclusion.
This became apparent following the
receipt of two communications from
Germany through Count von Bern-
storff, the German ambassador, one
offering to pay an indemnity for loss
of American lives in the Lusitania
disaster and the other conveying assurances regarding the conduct of
submarine warfare.
The latest turn in the negotiations
caused gratification in official circles
and relieved to a great extent tension
over the entire submarine question.
Austria already has given assurances
regarding submarine operations and
it is expected that Turkey and Bulgaria will give similar guarantees.
Indications are that German proposals in the Lusitania affair will be
accepted by the United States. Practically the only thing remaining to
bring the controversy to an end is the
■wording of the agreement.
BRITISH   SUBMARINE   SUNK
Crew Rescued by Dutch Cruiser and
Taken to Holland,
Ixnidon, Jan. 8.—Tho sinking of a
British submarine off the coast of
Holland ls officially announced, The
crew was saved.
The admiralty statement says the
submarine, the name of which was
hot given, was sunk off the Island of
Texel. the largest and most southwesterly of the Frisian group.
The entire crew, numbering thirty-
three, wns rescued by the Dutch cruiser N'oord Brabant and taken into the
Dutch port of Holder.
Village Conncil
Proceedings
The village council met in regular monthly session in the village hall, Saturday evening at
8 o'clock. All members were
present.
The proceedings of the last
monthly meeting were read and
accepted.
The  following  bills  were allowed :
John Hansman, work  on
tower, $ 5.25
John Eller, work on tower 4.90
Joe Nimsch 10 hours work 2.00
Barney   Eller,    work   on
tower    14.00
John   J.  Eller,   18  hours
work on tower,      2.70
Wm. Eller, work         75
Morrison Co. Lumber Co.
lumber and paper, 105.76
The Pierz Hose Co. No. 1
Paust lire,      36.00
The Pierz Hose Co. No. 1
Priemesberger tire . . . 18.50
Jos. P. Meyer, 780 feet of
service wire,    15.60
Wm.  Priemesberger, service wire etc    12.20
Standard Oil Co.  75 gal.
gasoline,     13.75
Geo. Gau, 25 hours work.     6.25
Jos.   H.   Grell,   merchandise,          90
Herman Koering,  making
9 washers,      3.15
Langer Bros, freight      2.25
Adjourned.
Barney Gross, Pres.
J. B. Hartmann, Recorder.
South Agram News,
KAISER'S   ILLNESS    SLIGHT
Alarming Reports Come From Points
Outside  of  Germany.
London, Jan. 7.—All direct advices
from Berlin have characterized the
illness of the German emperor as
slight and the only reports intimating
that his condition is any way serious
have come from Paris, Rome, Copenhagen and similar places.
None of those have given definite
sources of information and in most
cases, as a manor of fact, the statements havo been frankly given as
mere rumors.
Those that called at Prank
Bolster's Sunday were: Mr. and
Mrs. Prank Stumpf, Mr. and
Mrs. Peter Langer and family,
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Brummer,
Mr. and Mrs. John Reding and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Math.
Meyer, and daughter Lena and
Mr. and Mrs. John Angermeier
and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Leidenfrost.
Ben Terhaar was a visitor at
the Evans home for a few days
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Thommes
and son Casper and Math, and
Eva Brummer called at the John
Eidenshink home Sunday.
Prank Leidenfrost visited' at
the John Eidenshink home last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Anton Rauch
and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Leidenfrost callled at tlie HermanTer-
haar home Sunday afternoon.
Ben, Angela and Agatha Terhaar visited at Edw. Stumpfs
Sunday.
Mrs. J. J. Brummer visited at
John Kippley's Wednesday.
There Is Always     ! News Gathered
Danger of Gas
The following happened several weeks ago and is therefore
history, rather than news- It is
mentioned that it might serve
as a warning that there is always danger of gas formation
and explosion from soft coal.
Pred Rieke put several shovelfuls of coal into the fru-
nace under Jos. A. Grell's furniture store, waited until the fire
was fairly ablaze and under
draft, and   went home to see to
Here and There
Winer, the cattle buyer, is
suffering with the grip.
John Tomala sold a pair of
2-year old colts for $325.
About half of the population is sick with the grippe.
H. Wieland was in town
Tuesday.
Read the Motion Picture
ad in this issue. All about
the German side of the war.
the tires there. Joe, coming home
Ed. Bentfeld has been haul-
from lower town, stepped  into  • -i        »  _*ii -i   *i *
iiug mail on Route 1, the past
the store, about five minutes la-1        ,
week
ter.    He instantly detected the
smell of  gas.    Upon investigation, it was found that both fui-
nice doors  had   been blown
by an explosion.
off
Locals
Freeport.—Jos. Gerwing of
Lenore Lake, Canada, arrived
in Freeport Monday, to visit
For this week Only we will
have our regular "Sunday
Show" on Saturday., January
15th, instead of Sunday 16th.
P. J. Gau Jr. will leave
Saturday for St. Paul to take
a course of study in auto electric equipmeut.
Lorenz, Lizzie and Bernar-
dina  Koering  and Geneviea
his  cousin,   Joseph   Rohling Porter of St. Mathias are vis
and other  friends  and rela- iting  the   Herman   Koering
tives here.
There will be an eclipse of
family.
The telephone  repairman
the moon on the night of ;came out Tuesday to do some
January the 20th, from one j repairing. He was a welcome
o'clock until three o'clock in caller to many patrons of
the morning. So if you want; the phone,
to see this phenomenon, have
your mother call you early.
Thirty carloads of powder
passed through Little Falls
Paul Felix and County At-hast week, enroute to Russia,
torney Rosenmeier were pret-jby way of Seattle and Vladi-
ty much in evidense last Saturday evening. They came
and went and came again.
Later it was learned it was
all on account of Lastrup.
Nick Thommes returned
yesterday to Ashland, Wis.,
after spending three days
with his parents and other
relatives. He reports the engine business as progressing
as favorably as could be expected.
Largest Cities
In The World
The Coldest Day
This Winter
London, Dec 30.—New York      The lowest temperature of j
is the largest  city in the world, the season so far, was reached '■
London by reason of losses, oc-i]ast    night      The   42   below j
casioned   by  tlie  war,   and because  of a gigantic  mistake in
estimating the population, must
HAROLD KNUTSON.
Seeks   Lindbergh's   Job   In   the
Lower    Branch    of    Congress.
now admit that the American
metropolis is the bigger by
about a quarter of a million
people.
Nor are matters improved, as
Londoners have imagined, by
comparing the population of
Greater London with that of
Greater New York, for there
again the American metropolis
beats the old city by 132,000.
Next   in   order   comes   Paris
with 2,846,986, and then Chicago
with   2,185,283,   Tokio   with 2,-
168,151, and  Berlin with 2,064,
153.
izero point   was reached  during the night and now at half
nine it is still 38 below.   The
lowest temperature last win
ter was 36 below.
Hillman News
vostock.
Mrs. Henry Wuellner and
her son John returned yester-'
day from Colby, Wis., where
they visited relatives the past
week.
After an absence of about
one year Mike Heigl returned
to pay Pierz and Buckman a
visit. He has been working
nestr Blanchard, N. D.
Mary Tomala, for several
years employed by P. A.
Hartmann, left last week for
of the order of O. S. B.
Everyone is cordially invited to attend the card party C'",
^     ■'St. Joseph to become a Sister
aud basket social, which will
be held in the school house
of District No. 90, two miles
north and one mile east of
Pierz, on Sunday, January
23rd. The boys are all kindly requested to bring baskets.
A small crowd gathered at
the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Flicker Sunday evening. Progressive euchre was
played in the evening. Later
on a delicious lunch was
served, after which the guests
Miss Alice Morton left last
Wednesday for Hoistein Park.
Miss Laura Lenon of Mount
Morris, left for Pargo, N. D.,
Thursday.
Mrs. Blood left for Flenwood,
after a short visit with her son.
Matt Pint of Sullivan was in
town Thursday.
Miss Annie Andersons sister,
Laura, returned from Randall
Saturday.
School started Monday, after
a two weeks vacation.
Alvin Martin was in Hillman
Thursday.
Safety First.
LASTRUP NEWS.
Those that called at the John
Muellner home last Sunday were
Mr. and Mrs. John Brummer,
Emilie Boehmer and Mr. and
Mrs. John Fischer Jr. and faini
ly. The evening was spent by
playing cards.
Mrs. .lohn Fischer Br. called
on Mrs. John Muellner last Saturday.
Martha. Susanna, Theodore
and Catherine Wagner, spent
Sunday afternoon at the John
Fischer home.
Mr. and Mrs. John Muellner
and Mr. aud Mrs. John Fischer
called on John Brummer and
wife Sunday afternoon.
There is a telephone  agent In
Harold Knutson, the well II
Cloud newspaper man, recently
for   the   Republican   nomination   for
congress In tbe Sixth district He was
thr third man to enter the race.
It  coal   ; to run the state
of Minnesota in all departments last
year, in tact, it cost about $83 more
than the total income of thc state,
but  the extra money is within re
Harold  M. 1.' nirty, son
of Mrs. W. F. I who
enlisted   in   tho   Thirty -I idtan
battalion from Calgary, has been
killed in action "somewhere In;
France."
Two   school IbaUltj
this    vicinity    by    the    name   of   county and four in Martin county have!
i Brown Darison.   He can fix tele-   consolidated   and   a   120.000   school-;
,        ,      . . house  will  be  built  at   Huntley.    This;
phones   by   simply   looking   at   wjl|  h;, ,h ,n8olldated school;
them.    So  if  any   bodies   tele-: in Martin county.
phone is   out of   order, just call'     Railroads   oi» Unnesotaj
on him;   he will fix it so it will!1
work like a whistle.
Why not have electric lights
on your tarmac The most of
you have one, and many of you
have two or three gasoline engines, which can light your
house and barn, without any-
extra cost. The gasoline engine,
when running only half an hour
a day, pumping water, sawing
wood, grinding feed, etc., will
put electricity enough in the
storage    batteries   to   light   all
Twenty-two below zero last
Wednesday. The coldest day
we have had so far.
Theo. Ortman i   is having  his
rbti
week
Peter Buesseler left for Sullivan lake last week, where he
will tish a few weeks.
. John Ortmann left for St.
John's college Thursday to rename his studies. He spent the
holidays at home.
Victor Kaas spent Sunday at
Pierz with his parents.
ing  November.  1915, of $1.19 over
corresponding period of 1914.   Th
tal revenues per mile were $983, while!
expenses were $587.
The  plan for the state to write Its!
own    insurance    on    stale    buildings,;
v.hi.h   went   into   effect
has   saved   the   taxpayers   $1
ordlng  to  S.  \V.   Works, state In-:
1   surance commissioner.
ised of having murdered her;
husband three years ago at Glendlve.;
Mont., Mrs. Georglana Steele, proprl-;
etor of a rooming house at St. Paul,!
is In the li ninty Jail awaiting:
the arrival of Montana authorities.      i
David  S.  Slvright, one of Hutchinson's best known pioneers, ls dead at
the age of eighty-four.    He was born
in  Nova Scotia  and  reached   Hutchinson in 1867.   He p.i ; In all of
tho Indian troubles of the early days.
Judge McClenahan has ordered the.
Injunction made permanent, thus bus-
■ state In its i a that
I the   village   council   of   International
Market Report
Grain and Produce
riarket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,  $1.15
Wheat, No. 2       1.12
Wheat, No. 3...      1.08
Flax,       2.15
Barley     58—60
Rye       84
Oats        39
Ear Corn       65
Hay—..,     5.00
Butter, Creamery ..       37
Dairy       27
Eggs       3Q
Flour,Royal      3.20
"    WhiteRose      3.10
Low grade flour 1.60
Bran 1.20
Shorts  1.25
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Peed     1.40
Beans         4.00
Onions        06
A Basket Social and Spelling Match will be held Tuesday, January 18th, in School
District 55. Everybody is
cordially invited.
Wm. Faust  received a letter from Frank W. Marsehik
departed for their homes hav-i of  Oklahoma,   in   which   he
Barney    Bollig,    who   has,y°ur buildings, do all your iron-
been   working   as  carpenter itt*« "» y°Qr wasl* »*diine and
near    Minneapolis,   for   the do a dozen other things without
past five   years, is here visit- a»y cost  to you.   You  are not
ing with his parents and rel-j011 »■ meter-   After >'our
is once   wired and   the   dynamo
installed   the  expense  is  at an
end. And electric lights are safe
and always ready.    If you have
atives
ing had a pleasant time.
The wood brought into the
village this winter is of a
very poor quality. It is chiefly old windfalls and stuff
that died from exhaustion
while standing. Wood, like
meat to be good and healthful, must be cut down in the
prime of life, while the vital
forces are still at their best.
Now, if you had wide sleds
to break tlie road to the regulation   width, autoes  could
states that they are all living
on the farm and are satislied
with tlie new surroundings.
John Tomala received a
substantial Xmas precent in
the sum of $75.00. from his
son John, who is working for
the Soo line at Centre Valley, N. D.
The 1915 taxes are uow
due. The personal property
tax must be paid before Feb.
29th, or a penalty of 10 per
cent   will be   added and   the
no gasoline engine, it does not
cost you much to buy one. The
electric equipments will cost
from $250 to $415 and are put
out on trial and are guaranteed
in every way. For further information call on
The Gau Garage.
John Finneman is on the sick   Fa|lB has no authority t ■ sa-
list. ' I loon license in a county dry by option.
S. W. Morgan, founder of the oldest
.Mrs.   Geo. Tretter   and   Mrs. ' -,.\velry ho-.. -ota,
Peter Vosei,  called   on   Mrs. F.   Is dead  at   Winona,  where
_.    ._, .       a Hshed   thc   Moi
\. Buesseler Sunday. , in bUBlnegi untn
t   i       r.   ,i  ,,i   r-,™;i..   ^on*   the final and only sickness of his life
John   Gohl and  family  spent  develope(1
Friday evening with the George       Despite the fact that Kelliher is In
Byers family. the   Ind.an   lid   territory   the   village
uracil of that place has gram
Mrs. John Hoppe and son Joe   loon license.   This Is the first saloon
house'of Sullivan visited our burg last   "> be "<;«"«* ** a v,lla*n '"£'J*
zone, where liquor can be confiscated
Sunday. . wnerever found.
. _,. ,r .lohn Reagcn, superintendent of the
Miss Anna and TbereseVosen   ,)maha road roal sl had
spent    Sunday   afternoon    with been In  six railroad               ts.    The
Miss Therese Tretter. seventh proved fatal when he slipped
on the ice and fell beneath the wheels
"All  is not well" at   Lastrup. of a locomotive driven by Dennis be-
,     r.   ■                                             ,x neen. his brother-in-law.
La Grippe and Pink  Eye suffer- „
vv New MinntMOta postmastrr
ers are yuite numerous. ! Galbralth,  Balatoi.
audetl I
Robert Buesseler   hauled   the   Jonn Rasper. Faribault; J  II. Pclham.
freight for Gross Bros, last Sat-   Menahga;  M. W. a. Murray. Parkers
| Prairie; John A. Tlmpane, Watenrille;
Frank M. (lark. Wells.
John Noggle Loses Residence.
The residence of John Noggle
on his farm about three miles
southwest of here, together with
practically all its contents, was
destroyed by tire Tuesday noon.
The family were at dinner and
hearing something fall upstairs,
one of them opened the* stairway door and found that the
roof was falling in. The children were hurriedly gotten out-
Unclaimed Letters.
urday,
i r *
Minnesota's state lands sold during
,rought   an   average   of   $7   an
acre.   The highest price per acre was
received for lands in Polk county and
  the lowest ln I.ake.   During the year,
re were 79.1SJ acres disposed of by:
,   . •   state for an  aggregate of $.'•
List of  Letters unclaimed at
the post office.    If not called for      A. L. Ijirpenteur of St. Paul, nir
three years  old. waa  the oldest  pio-;
they   will  be   sent to   the   dead' neer among seventeen who gath
letter office at Washington. lhe \f■"»»»**» *««» ln *lnn*a
lis as the guests of George A. I
tirst   half of  the real   estate
be used all winter.   There is'taxes on or  before May olst,
no  reason why  sleds should'to avoid penalty and the last
not be made wider, and there half must   be paid on  or be-idoors  and a few articles of fur-1
I i
is   every   reason why   they, fore October 31st.    The local I niture were all that could be;
should.    But   reforms   come'banks   have lists   for this vi- saved  before  the  whole he
slowly, even  in the  case  of cinity and you can pay your was a mass of roaring flames.
a bobsled. tax to them. '—Banner.
Mrs. Ambrose Wetter.
Miss Mary Schwartzbauer.
Mr. John Otto.
Mr. Geo. Kassel.
Mr. and Mrs. L st.
CD Mrs. Lena Kline.
.). X. He well.
Mr. Philip Goerger.
Mrs. Mary
- Minnie Evans.
Mrs   Ben Eva:
Mr. Ben Evans.
Mr. Peter Dahle.
rk.
Postma
"nnepln county  plone<
of   those   present   had   passed   i
ninetieth milestone.
John  C.  Net ha way. assistant al
ney general,  has been appointed  by
Governor  Burnqutst  as  judge of the';
Nineteenth In mak-:
ing  the appointment Governor  Burn-:
statement that Judge;
Xethaway waa the choice of the late-
Governor Hammond for the place.
The state Investment board ha
elded to dispose of the "foreign" bonds j
now held by the state as Investments.:
The state owns approximately $5,000.- j
000"of bonds of other states, but has;
no  money   to  grant  applications   for
loans from  Minnesota clti«s.  villages
and   school   districts  totaling  almost
13,000.000.
Don't forget to attend the New Year's Dance in Faust's Hall, Monday, January 17th, 1916.