The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-01-20

              THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JANUARY 20, 191(3.
NO. 32.
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ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
Reuben C. Chase, aged eighty-one,
Civil war veteran, is dead at St. Paul.
Trappers at work in Northern Minnesota declare wolves are slaughtering deer by the hundreds.
When Charles Burridge of Duluth
awoke the other morning he found two
big timber wolves on his doorstep.
George W. Freeman, aged seventy,
president of the Freeman-Patterson
Shoe company of St. Paul, is dead.
Rev. A. H. Koerner, well known in
the Methodist Episcopal ministry of
St. Paul for twenty-six years, is dead.
The annual poultry show of the
Cannon Valley Poultry association
will be held in Faribault Jan. 18, 19
and 20.
J. J. Mahoney, for fifteen years a
prominent horse dealer in the South
St. Paul market, is dead, aged fifty-
one years.
C. P. Craig of Duluth has been reelected president of the State Agricultural society. No candidate appeared
in opposition.
Thomas Frankson of St. Paul, -who
formerly represented Fillmore county
in the legislature, has announced his
candidacy for lieutenant governor.
James M. Schofield of Nashville
township, Martin county, is dead as
the result of a fall from a sleigh. Concussion of the brain caused death.
John Ryan, a resident of St. Paul
for forty-seven years and for twenty-
seven years a member of the St. Paul
police force, is dead, aged sixty-seven.
E. J. Luther, auditor of Itasca county, would increase the bounty on
wolves Instead of abolishing it, as
suggested by State Forester William
T. Cox.
Elbert N. Goodhue, district court reporter for twenty-five years, died suddenly at Winona. He was president
of the Minnesota Court Reporters' as-
saaUHon,
Mrs. Jennie Fraser, .said to be thc
oldest member of the Sioux tribe of
Indians on Prairie island, near Red
Wing, is dead. She was about ninety
years of age.
The jury trying Frederick T. Price,
on trial at Minneapolis charged with
the murder of his wife, returned a verdict of guilty after being out about
twenty hours.
Minnesota will honor the memory
of Henry Mower Rice, its first United
States senator, at the unveiling of his
statue in the Hall of Fame at Washington Feb. S.
The state highway commission is
preparing to ask legislation preventing bridges built under its direction
from being used as billboards by country merchants.
Eight thousand acres of Minnesota
land, a part of the Red Lake Indian
reservation, known as Mud Lake bottom, will be thrown open to entry and
settlement next spring.
Ole O. Solem, indicted for poisoning his mother-in-law, pleaded not
guilty at Jackson to a charge of murder in the third degree and was released on $25,000 bonds.
Martin Ross, residing near Crookston, was smothered to death when
a load of oats he was hauling in a
grain tank overturned. He was to
have been married soon.
At a meeting of the National Rifle
association at Washington Adjutant
General Fred B. Wood of Minnesota
was elected first vice president of the
association for the coming year.
Horace Tyler, aged forty-eight, and
an unidentified man about thirty-five
years of age were found dead in a
gas filled room in the rooming house
of Mrs. J. C. Munderwiler at St. Paul.
The Stillwater board of education
has decided to have military training
in the high school. W. G. Braden,
formerly military instructor at Shat-
tuck school, Faribault, has been engaged.
Martin A. Gullickson of Fertile, this
state..threw himself in front of a locomotive at Minneapolis and was killed
instantly. Letters in his pocket revealed that he intended to commit
suicide.
W. A. Clark, an early settler of Nicollet county, is dead. He was born in
Pennsylvania in 1S-S and came to
.Minnesota in 1855. He served through
the Civil war in Company H, Second
Minnesota.
Duluth will observe Feb. 29 as Prosperity day. Mayor Prince has set
aside the odd day of the leap year
for a celebration of the return of
good times. There will be a public
ice carnival.
A game with South Dakota State
college at Northrop field will open
Minnesota's 1916 football schedule on
Oct. 7. Both Illinois and Wisconsin
■will play on the Minnesota grounds
this season.
The people of Rochester will vote
on Jan. 25 on the question of issuing
$360,000 in bond? for the purchase of
Hov/ase  rights  and  for the construe-
ga ft a hydro-electric plant near
jbro Falls
Farm Fertilizers
Have Great Value
Barnyard manure lias value on
the farm aside from that as a
fertilizer. It improves the physical conditions of the soil and
makes it easier to handle. Its
decay produces heat and its
presence aids chemical and bacterial processes. Moreover, it
absorbs and holds a large amount of water and helps to areate
the soil. The benefits of these
indirect aids to plant growth
are in some cases worth as much
as the fertilizing power ot the
manure.
When it is added that barnyard manure is worth perhaps
$2.50 a ton, and that each farm
animal produces from five to
seven tons per 1000 pounds of
live weight each year, it is easy
to see that as a fertilizer J; he
material should not be   wasted.
The best practice is to haul
the stuff directly from the barn
to the fields. If this is done,
there is little loss through fermentation or leaching.
Sullivan News
G. P. Martin's sister and her
son of Wadena, who have been
visiting- at thc Martin home returned home last Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sandborn
are the prowd and happy pa-
rants of a baby girl born Wednesday Jan. 21th.
Sam Martin called at Thompson's Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Smith and
son John were Onamia visitors
Friday.
Lastrup callers Friday were
E. M. Thompson and Fred Brenner.
"Col" Siebert called at C. E.
Look's Thursday.
We hear that Ed. Linnehan of
St. Paul is quite ill.
Miss Jessie Smith visited with
her sister Mrs. Frank Sims from
Thursday untill Monday.
T. S. Look and wife who have
been on the sick list are greatly
improved.
Donald Taylor had the good
fortune to catch a wolf, Saturday.
Mrs. Robt. Adkins and daughter Ruth spent the week end at
the Pint home.
Miss Alice Morton is employed at the Chas.   Sanborn  home.
Mrs. Chas. Smith called at
H. C. Smith's Thursday.
Miss Mazie Look was a caller
at A. W. Cook's Saturday.
Raymond Sims drove to Onamia Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sims and
Jessie Smith were callers at D
W. Sims Sunday.
Mazie and Merle Look called
at E. M. Thompson's Sunday.
Onamia visitors Saturday were
T. H. Smith and Wiilard Van
Kueren.
Edward Martin is slowly getting- over the effects of the
measles.
Miss Mazie Look called at the
Martin home   Monday   evening.
Cillers at Peter Adkins, Sunday evening were Merle Look
and Jim Pint.
Joe and Herman Hoppe were
visitors at the  Walmark   home
Friday evening-.
P. J. Walmark was a business
caller in Pierz Saturday.
Edwin Walmark of West Sullivan is on the sick list.
Will Soon Leave
For Florida
Joseph Duerbeck receiyed a
box of fruit from the sunny state
of Florida, last Monday. This
fruit was raised on farms on the
Indian River, St. Lucie County.
Mr. Duerbeck is state agent for
the Indian River Farms Co. and
will soon leave for Florida with
a crowd of excursionists. Those
who are interested will please
call and inquire about excursion
rates and dates.
News Gathered
Here and There
Rucker News.
Do Your Horses
Earn Their Board?
Wintering Idle Horses,
We hear from our old friends,
the Waller and Kramer families
who have moved for the winter
to the wooded country around
Dora Lake that they are very
busily engaged in logging operations.
Joe Bollig" brought our mail
last Thursday for all it was the
coldest day yet—3fi below here
in the morning—and the roads
were so drifted that we didn't
think he could make it. A few
of the farmers turned out and
make a track where it was the
worst and Joe said he only tipped over twice which was pretty
good we think.
Menno Mennen and wife, who
have been living on the Lamotte
place have recently moved onto
their own farm.
Mr. Goble losthis horse, King,
Sunday   night   very   suddenly.
He was only sick a few minutes.
George Wood and family and
Hemy Ferguson were Pierz
goers Tuesday.
Mrs. I. D. Wood visited Pierz
last Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Sanborn
are rejoicing over the arrival of
a baby daughter Jan. 12th, and
J. A. Sanborn declares that being a grandfather makes him
feel twenty years younger.
A few of the neighbors of Mr.
and Mrs. George Kelley had a
"wood bee" last Saturday and
hauled and sawed quite a pile of
wood—enough to last them over
one or two cold snaps  at  least.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Arba Waller have been quite sick with
grippe but are getting better
now.
Mrs. Anderson visited Mrs.
Roy Bruber Monday  afternoon.
The Socialist speaker who
was to have given a lecture at
our school house last week Wednesday (ailed to put in an appearance — presumably on account of the severe and very
disagreeable weather.
Matt Pint and bride are comfortably settled on the Lamotte
place at Christinas Lake, which
they have rented for this year.
We wish them much happiness
and abundant prosperity.
Ray Bruber hauled wood for
Kay Benton Monday afternoon.
Little neglects; big failures!
John Pauser shot 2 wolves
a week ago.
A mild epidemic of Florida
fever has struck Pierz.
Don't miss "Master Key"
at Faust's Opera House, Sunday night, Jan. 23rd.
A dead ear of seed corn
costs $3.00. Does it pay to
test the seed?
The profit-making farm is
a farm where headwork lightens handwork.
John Seibert and August
Imm of Platte lake were in
Pierz yesterday.
A surprise party was given
at the Frank Flicker home
Friday evening.
Why must a man look at a
thermometer to satisfy himself that it is cold ?
Mrs. R. C. Scoles is substituting on No. 4, while her
husband is packing ice for
the coming hot season.
Peter Weidenbach and wife
Horses should not be confined
I to the barn during tlie winter on
Statistics in Minnesota on a!,;liberal supply of grain. It is
number of farms indicate that far better to "rough" tliem
the horse is a costly item of through the cold months. They
equipment on the farm. Assum-1sooa]a be fciven the run of tilting average state yields of grain ;yard or lot ciUI-jng the clay. This
and hay for the last five years ^i10uld be provided with a pro-
and considering the amount of|tected shed, one that is thor-
feed fed annually to a horse it is ougi,iy dry and well provided
apparent that the average far-|witb bedding. While nature
mer is giving close to 4.5 acres does ner part ana protects the
of his best land to each work. n6rae ^fa a heavy coat of hair
horse.    This is besides the straw during-   the   cold   months,   the
consumed and pasture, which
also may be very productive
land.    Be sure the horse  is  gi-
shed   is   necessary   in   order   to
afford the neeessary shelter and
protection against rains,   snow.
productive work on a  sufficient
acreage.
ving you back an equivalent   in and cokl  wnu|s.    Winter   winds
come mostly from the north and
northwest, and the shed should
be so situated and constructed
as to give the proper protection
from this quarter.—Department
of Agriculture, Wash., D. C.
What Becomes ot That Gent?
Columbus Dispatch.—A farmer came to town with 30 apples,
which he sells three for a cent,
getting- of course ten cents for
them.
Another  farmer, also witli 80
LASTRUP NEWS.
Joe Zeller passed through here
last    Saturday    on   his   way   to
went to Randall Thursday, I their apples together, making
to spend a week with rela- 60 apples. One man having sold
fives and friendB.
Bertha Adams of Minneapolis is here visiting at the
home of her uncle, Peter Weidenbach.
apples,   sells   them   two   for   a|P'erz-
cent,   getting   lo   cents for his. '     Stephen Gross called on John
They got 25 cents in all.
The next time they came in,
with 30 apples a piece, they met
at  the edge of  town  and  put J Gross, a son, January 16.
Mr. J. P. Virnig, P. H. Buesa
ETinneman, who  is quite  ill  at
this writing.
Morn to Mr.   and   Mi
MONTENEGRO IS
FORCEDJO QUIT
First ot Allied Countries to
Submit to Teutons.
VICTORY IS OF GREAT VALUE
Territory Gained of Little Importance.
but Austria It Enabled to Extend
Her  Adriatic   Sea   Front.
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•;• -:•
•!-        Vienna.   Jan.
•:- lure    of   Cot tin jo.
v Montenegro,   was   announ
-:• the war olliee.    The official an-    +
•j- nouncement  st;n +
-:•       "The capital  of   M
-:• is   in   our   hands.     Our   tl
+ pursuing the heaten
v tered   (Yttinje.     Th.
+ of   the   Moi
+ the town are undamaged.    The   +
+ population ls calm. +
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* + * + + + + •:• + + .:-•:•       ■:• + +
two for a cent, the other three
for a cent. They decide to sell
them tive for 2 cents.
They do so, and when they're
through   find out they   have received only 24 cents.
A birthday party was held     T1)e problem is: Why did they
at the Oliver  Brunett home|not get;is mudl for tlieir apples
last Wednesday evening.    I^selhng. tliem Hve for 2 cents, as
they did when they sold them
separately-:'     Or,   what became
During the cold spell of
last week, four of Wenzel
Medek's pigs froze to death.
Out of a lot of thirty, these
four were found stark and
stiff one cold morning. It
seems that these youngsters
dici not inherit much of the
foresight of their illustrious
progenitor—the wise old sow
who led them to safe quarters one stormy night last
summer shortly before lightning struck their old lodgings. Another rap against
the law of inheritance.
was Frank's birthday.
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jos.  Klein
and 8tepb.au Hourtt of North <
Prairie  visited  at  the John
Hanisch home last week.
Don't miss "Master Key"
at Faust's Opera House, Sunday night, Jan. 23rd.
Mrs. M.K. Wermerskirchen
returned from Minneapolis
last Monday after a few days
visit with relatives.
The "Jitney" has been compelled to resort to horse power, since the road has become
impassable for gasoline motors.
Many a steer is eating his
own fat this winter, not because feed is lacking, but because judgment in the feeding of it is.
It's time to brush up on
the future of the live stock
business. The longer the war
hists the bigger the problem
of feeding the world.
Sunday, January 23rd. a
card party and basket social
will be held in the school
house of dist. 90, to which
everyone is cordially invited.
Every boy is •kindly asked to
bring a basket.
Why not live in Florida,
where the temperature in
winter never goes below 60;
and in summer never above
95. "There is something
there that won't suit you,''
says the knocker. Yes. that
may be: but there are a few
things  here  that are a trifle!
Hillman News
A. E. Chatcher of St. Paul,
was in Hillman Wednesday.
Mr. J. P. Leigh of Vater is
here for a visit.
J. C. Miller went to Pierz
Friday on business.
Giles Leigh, Miss Carolyn
Sutliff and Inga Hanson spent
Thursday evening at Marion
Bentons.
Arba Waller and Roy Benton
and John Brown of Rucker were
in town Saturday.
Carl Stuckie left for Springfield, Minn. Monday for a short
visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Hanson
went to Genola Monday.
Andrew and Pete Macknson
are hauling posts for R. 0.
Bethel.
ler and Henry Steering, made a   th„ annlst|CP
business  trip   to   Little   Palls,
Saturday.
Rome.    .Inn and
Austria have agreed to an arnu
This,   it mlly
eliminates  Montenegro  from
Formal negotiations for the surrender
of   the   half-starved,   poorly   equipped
are exi>'
to  hegin at once, and  when  they are
completed   Austria   probably   wll
Mer In  Mi - and trill
more se. d   the
Adriatic sea.
The    armlsti
King  Nicholas. th< aegrtn
i-    ruler,   after   the   Austrians   had
tured   Mount   Lovcen,   the   mountain
peak   which    dominates .   the
capitai of Montenegro,
The. aged  king  wept  as  I
The John Gross  family   is  on
the sick list.
Dr. Healey was in townPiiday.
Miss Anna G.i scrt was jr-^ri"
sitor here Sunday.
Mr. Prank Kluetcb transacted
business in town Monday.
Miss Anna Buesseler   is   emp
loyed by Mrs. John Gross   this
week.
No definite period  Iib ■  for
the continuation of the armistice,  but
it ls b ble that  Moi.-
gro,   the   first   of   th
(ike   her   colors   to   ihe   Austro-
Germans, will arran peace
terms hef. nd of the month.
The lignlflcai
•s    not    lie    in    the;
fflHrNerrltoii Monte-j
having   even   a   smaller
than    Serbia,     but   In     Montenegro's!
Adriatic sea front.
Montenegro   lies   ftlonj
Austria's  main   Adriatic   naval station.:
where the Austrian fleet now Is d
Used
This  further  extension  of Austria's!
Adrlntlc   front   makes  the  p<
Cattaro    moi Bd    is   a   blgj
Otto    Boser    cal led    on    st^P    toward    Austria's    ambition
:<e the Adriatic an Austrian sea!
and thus check Italy's efforts to make:
It an Italian sea.
Peter Wagner  is  having  his
lighting   system    installed   this
week.
SEVERE FIGHTING      !
IN THE CAUCASUS
Mrs
Mrs.  P.   H.   Buesseler   Monday
morning.
The infant son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Brmnmer was christened Alfred, Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Geo. Hyers visited Mrs.
Casper Thommes   Sunday   e
ning. ivtrograd, official;
itement   given   out   by   the   Russian:
war department says:
"Caucasus:     In   the  course of  the
lighting  Jan.   14   we  captured   t*
Turkish   officers   and   more   thai,
men; a quantity of war and engi
Ing     material     and     provisions;
J. P. Virnig,  Henry Stroelnj ,.„„ and
and P. H. Buesseler were trans    eight machine gunH.
rsia:      In   the   fighting   at   Kan-
gaver, half wa- -ndan and
Kerroanshah, we took many prisoners.
Tbe enemy abandoned many dead on
the battlefield. Our losses were Insignificant.
itheast   of   Hamadan   we   drove
tack '
consisting of Tur'
acting business  in   Little   Palls
Saturday.
The telephone repairman was
in this vicinity last week repairing telepboD
The stork visited the home of
Mr. and Mrs. John Brummer
and left a son.
Market Report
Those that called on the John
Brummer home Sunday were Mr.
FIFTY   PROBABLY   PERISHED
Steamer   Clan    McFarlane   Torpedoed
Without Warning.
I-onclon, Jan.  IS.—According to
and Mrs. John Fischer, Mr. and   jUIorniatlcn fifty members of tbe Brit-
Mrs. John Muellner and Mr. and   i.«h  steamship   Clan   McKarl
Mrs.   lien   Otman   and   Family-   l'edoed in the Mediterranean sea i
' 30, are lost
Solo was the game. vlvorf wno have arrWed at
ay  that   the  ship  waa  torpedoed)
George Schmitt was  In   Pierz   without   warning.     Lifeboats   ba-
Sunday I el8ht daj,s aSa'D8t h«avy  seas.
I ! boats were tied  together and are be-;
_,. , ,    ,, ! to be k d on!
The infant   son   of   Mr.   aud
TWENTY-FIVE OF CREW LOST
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,  I
Wheat, No. 2   1.18
Wheat, No. il...   1.14
FlaX) .             2.151      lUL'  "u,uu   *uil    UI    mr'    'LUU   rations consisting   of half   a  blac
R    ,' Mrs. John Brummei .iiris-   and a small cup of water a day
tened John last Sunday.
Rye        ^b
Oats      44      The stork visited the liome of.
Bar Corn        85   y[r   an(j J£re   peter Gross   Sun-    Spanish  Steamer Strikes Mine In  B
Hay     5.00 day and left a son. °f Biica" and s,nk*-
Butter, Creamery ..       37| I»ndon.    Jan.     IS.-The    Spanish;
Dairy             27      John and Mike Schmitt called    ie*™rJ!*y\V*?T^t^lX
mi j          -. i )n t|ip g^, of m8cajr 0u ine preach.
Eggs  25  at the Peter Wagner home Sun ^aport of La Rochelle.
Flour,Royal                    . 3.20 .day evening. Twenty-n»e    of   her    crew    were;
..,,.,.   n „ .„! drowned.   Only one man was eared
White Rose...    3.10;
Low grade flour 1.60
Bran . 1.201
Shorts  1.25      Mrs. Jacob Hermann and £
Cracked Corn 50 pounds 1.40 Willie,   Henry  and   Jacob   and
Ben Atman  and   Mike   Biaun      The  Bayo  carried  a  cargo of
. . , „. end was bound from the Spanish port;
brought hogs to Pierz Thut- „llTa for u Rochene.
.undesirable.     Furinehtam
j how do you like this woath- JJ^iJE
er.   with    its   accompanying)Beans      4.00 Theo.   Ortuian   family   Sunday
fuel expert Onions       06 evening.
t Official   Intimation.
London. Jan.  I
-.hat  the German*
are Oakling with the Turks la
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