The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-01-27

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VOL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JANUARY  27. 191(3.
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers,
•FATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience  of the
Busy Reader.
Mrs. Sarah M. Coon, for more than
fifty years a resident of Northfield, is
dead at the age of eighty-five.
Farmers and others interested, about
eighty in all, met at Mora and organized a co-operative creamery company.
Premiums aggregating more than
$5,000 are offered by the Farm Crops
show to be held at Crookston Feb.
7-12.
About 1,000 pounds of butter was
consumed when the Comfrey Farmers'
Co-operative creamery was destroyed
by fire.
Minneapolis, the eighteenth city of
the United States in population,
ranked seventh In building operations
in 1915.
Irving A. Caswell, manager of the
Cummins campaign in Minnesota, has
opened headquarters at the Merchants
hotel in St. Paul.
Tentative plans are under consideration for the affiliation of the St.
Paul College of Law with the University of Minnesota.
Peter Kaiser of Rockville, an employe of the Rockville Granite company, was killed when struck by a
Great Northern train.
James A. Peterson of Minneapolis
has filed for lieutenant governor of
Minnesota on the Republican ticket
at the June primaries.
Discouraged and unable to find work
Edward Samson of Minneapolis shot
and killed his wife and then fired a
bullet into his own brain.
To raise $100,000 for Minnesota college 200 Lutherans, 100 men and 100
women, will begin a ten-day campaign in Minneapolis Feb. 1.
Frank Russler, the hermit of Rose
Creek, is dead. For forty years he
occupied a shack of two rooms, using
a dugout under the shack as a bed
chamber.
Five persons were injured in an accident near Winona when a heavy
bobsled was hurled into a ditch. The
team dragged the injured persons several rods.
One-third of St. Paul's buildings
erected during 1915 were homes. During the year there were 1,246 permits
for dwellings taken ont at a value of
$3,119,114.
The first presidential petition to be
filed with Secretary of State Julius
Sehmahl was that of Woodrow Wilson. The petition contained more
than 500 names.
Judge C. W. Stanton of Bemidji has
issued a statement denying he will
be a Democratic candidate for governor. He says he will file for reelection to the bench.
Work will start on the new $400,000
packing plant of the Farmers' Terminal Packing company of St. Paul
at Newport Feb. 1, directors of the
company have announced.
The report of the federal department of agriculture shows that on
Jan. 1, 1916, there were 1,210,000 milch
cows in Minnesota. This is a gain of
24,000 milk producing cows in a year.
Axel Anderson, aged fifty-five years,
leaped to death from the highest point
of the high bridge at St. Paul. His
crushed body was picked up on the
Ice fifty feet from the south bank of
the river.
William Sulzer, former governor of
New York, and Francis Baldwin, Bl-
mira, N. Y., will be the Prohibition
party's candidates for president to be
selected at the Minnesota primaries
in March.
The Blue Earth County Pure Seed
association, which comprises several
counties in that part of Southern Minnesota, will hold its annual corn show,
seed fair and convention at Mankato
Feb. 2:?-2r..
Awakened by the odor of escaping
gas Mrs. A. J. Markle of Minneapolis
went into the kltohen of her home
and found her husband dead on the
floor. Coroner Seashore said the man
had ended his own life.
An I. W. W. walking delegate is
organizing woodsmen in Northern
.Minnesota with the avowed object of
calling a strike. Ho charges the men
are underpaid and underfed and are
forced to live in "rotton" camp conditions.
Four school districts west of Jackson with a valuation of more than
$300,000 have voted to consolidate and
will erect a modern school building
next summer which will give the desired grade work and high school facilities.
Frank Robison, who during tho Civil
war aided in the construction of some
of tho first buildings erected in St.
Paul, is dead at Alma Center, Wit.
Mr. Robison helped by hnnd to mak«
the shingles used on the old St. Paul
rathedral.
,T. O. Harris of Kelliher, tried in
United States court at Duluth on a
charge of iutrodudnjr liquor intc Indian territory and whose ^asc was
looked upon as a test, wa6 acquitted
by a jury. Harris is a saloon keeper
at Kelliher.
Cfiuckholes Come
Every Winter
The cliuckholes between here
and Genola are an abomination
in tlie eyes of the gfood-road enthusiast. And they are furthermore an abomination to the
stomacli of him who drives over
them after a heavy meal. Why
these cliuckholes should make
their annual appearance only
between here and Genola is
strange. They do not seem to
thrive with the same persistency anywhere else.
Stones in the summer and
cliuckholes in the winter !
Who would be held to "strict
accountability" for Bob Dunn's
deatli from shock should the
misfortune of driving- over this
road ever befall that good-road
thunderer of Princeton !
But let us bear our burdens
meekly. Perhaps it is decreed
that there must ever be some
hindrance to free and easy
transportation between our infant sister clown south and ourselves.
No Summer One
Hundred Years Ago
Some of our contemporaries
are speculating- over the possibility that the year 1916 will be
summerless. The year 1816,
after the disastrous end of the
Napoleonic wars, had scarcely
enough summer to be worth
mentioning-, and the theory seemed to be that tlie terrific bombardments on European battlefields are bound to have a similar effect upon weather conditions next year.
June of 1816, we are told, was
a month of frost and ice. New
England, Ohio and Pennsylvania
were covered with snow. June
17 there was a great snowstorm,
and iiocks of sheep were overwhelmed and suffocated. The
ice was an inch thick on the
fourth of July, and August 20
witnessed a heavy fall of snow.
Not until September were normal climatic conditions restored.
Tlie nation is that history will
repeat itself after the passage
of a century, and the alarming
thought in this connection is
that if the amount of explosives
used in the Napoleonic war
caused all that derangement of
meteorological conditions, then
| the amount used in the present
war is likely to keep the temperature at 40 below zero at
least all next summer. Tf that
should prove to be the case it
surely is time for universal disarmament.—Ohio State Journal.
To Rural Mail       I News Gathered
Route Patrons       Here and There
Let A Daniel
Come to Judgment
Northern Lights.
Andreu Schinidtbeuer  maid a
buisness trip to   his farm in Pu-
Your attention is called to the      A  double   wedding is one
fact that  you must  keep roads 0f the coining events.
° i I    Joe   Eisel  Jr   wos a color at
Mrs.H.  J.  Vonderhaar of CaptUredaJVOlf  ""? S;iturday Joe   Leebs  on   friday   with   a
|laske staping- in  Lastrup on his
NorbertBrummer, John Smith, ' wav
Louis  Feucht and  John Stangl
in passable condition so the carriers can make their trips, also
that your mail box must be so
placed that carrier can easily
reach it without being- compelled
to leave his rig-. If snow drifts
in front of the spot where your
box is located, move the box to
place where this condition does
not prevail. In fact route patrons should, in weather like
the last few weeks, do all in
their power to make the work
of the  carriers as  agreeable as
morning-.   To place due and just. bunch of fur
Karlsruhe. is here on a visit. , , r °
honors  for the   capture  of   the;     T       _ ,,,-,•
.,'       T       t, . . , I    Joe  Sen   cant   another   Woli
Mrs. Preiner   sold   a beast    a Danial  must come  to.tlie   ;Uher   Jay   (so|)u,    trapef
Louis   and   Smith ;joe)
Charly Piney is houling wood
horse   to  Jake   Greisch   last judgment.
week. drove the   wolf out of a thicket
See  the  Farmers Electric toward  N°rbert,  who was sta-1from7,is farnwmd also lookinj
Light plant demonstration at ticmed a sllort   distance   fr°m j after bis trapinjr Lne along that
the Gau garage ! where the animal was expected . Rowt
j to emerge.   As the wolf stretch-1    Herman Boser the Kllern. waa
Mrs.   M.   Wermerskirchen'ed forward   free and  far across after   a lood   offense   Posts   at
made a trip   to  Minneapolis a meadow to  seek secluded lair  Raend Lake
Tuesday. |up  Dn  Hillman  safe  from  the!     Bashren   KimJ   &   Mlke   Gue
Fritz Sager and wife of.fcTuns of the germans, Norbert were one ot tbe many cuple that
possible. Don't expect unrea- j Albany visited with the Her- 'shot him through the hips, took in the beg dance at faust's
ble things of them, and you will mau    Wieland    family    last Some   distance   further   on  be hall the 17
have  no  right to expect your k |limped acros8  a  road   m front|    Mrs Billia calla ColUtwadskJ
:  you do  not keep I     „ _„        , , ^    ^ pf John Stangl, who dismounted wa8 her for a abort visit wid Mr
Bertha   Adams
brother Albert and Barbara
-in;- -j     v.    i    i  a, n> -j        £      him with a pitchfork.
Weidenbach   left Iriday for v
Now who is really responsible      All the peepuls of North buh
for the capture of the wolf.   An  are tinking   off   widening   there
a week's visit at Randall.
the roads open and the space in
front  of   your   mail   box  from.
drifts of snow.
Sec. 756. Roads.—In all cases
of   impassible  roads,   bad conditions of roads, unsafe bridges, | tage   of   the   good   sleighing ' tion in a lingo about like this:     j chan*e
dangerous  fords,   or  other  ob-  and    are    hauling   wood    to j    Louis and Smith did the crank
struclions  to  service   on  rural town
routes,   the  postmaster at  dis-!     A surprise   party was held  it in gear and put on the clutch
tributing office  shall notPy the'af-the Theo. Gross home last and   Stangl   put  on   the  emer-
patrons  effected   and the  road. Wednesday evening in honor gency brake,
supervisors or officials in charge 0f their daughter Antonia.
of such matters and request that j
the necessary  repairs be made. |     Math. Meyer of Agram has
If the repairs are not made with- received a letter   from Cana-
in a reasonable time the   post- da, stating   that his brother,
master shall  report the fact to1 John Meyer, had died,
the Fourth Assistant Postmast
^ter   T.    B < polls
from his load of  hay and killed  and   Mrs Gida   the has   returnd   bslhker. 1
to her horn Cunsil Bluf Iowa
ate fair bo
The state
fair dates will
al   Kcu hi a loss of
Farmers are taking advan !autoist would resolve the iiues-  slecl:s  out  to  fifif  tlie  auttho a   fit the busts the
i city.    The   Masonic with  all'
equipment, waa the chief loss.
John Saggity Past tiugh lure'     Him
inir   -and    atarMno-     Nnrl^rr  tint   on his Way to Pirz
ing   ana   stalling,   JNoioeitput ■> I city and village folks, accordlr,
Ih-llo Hello W bub what is de
issued
trouble over dere wedideut herd     "-.,',        w„„„, „i, .in
Theoilnri'    Koi will;
from you for a quit a Wile Come   „,.
France Call To The Colors
a fue pleasainl hours
er General, Division of Rural
Mails, including the names of
the patrons effected and the
officials in charge.
LASTRUP NEWS.
Roads are very poor.
Mrs. Henry Gau of Pierz, called her sister, Mrs. Peter Gross
last week.
France   lias begun   to call   its
citizens who reside in this country, to   the colors,   and  several
Mrs. F. X. Virnig returned  from Morrison county have been
from   the   cities,    where   she summoned,   among  them   being
took a course  in fitting  cor-'Rev.   Fr.   A.   Beyne,  Catholic Black mare (sora boy Joe?)
sets. priest   at   Belle  Prairie,   and a i
See  the   Farmers Electric'f;mne'" residing near Fort Rip-'
Light plant demonstration at^ ey-
the Gau garage.
prace up   Lat os   here from you   with *< l   x
Rahn ot M -i »!
1 **      ' letter from  Mr.  Roosevell asking him;
Mik Van  Schmlt vas a caller   ll(" ln i"'""'' "se of hl8 namc ln th6i
.  ..  .. ,,     .)n Minnesota primaries.
at H karoing on the -0 I     „.,,,.
William   Cherry,  aged   seventy,   an!
Tr ■   ..   ,     ■ ,, oM was   found;
Herbert Scbmit vas  caller at   fro7en ,„ ,,,.„,„ |n
Reascroff the oder day spending   i>ors.    Near hi-
lard  run   in   which   I
he was una-;
Joe Eisel jr was Pleasand vis-   ble to gel out of
,i   ,.      .     ....I    nc ...   ufinn   hi.       The   Northern   Ml "rial;
iter   at scool   D t. no   UU ou   Ins
ass
elected Peter J Falltl
president     Brainerd  was  selected as!
A large crowd from town
attended tlie card party and
box social at ' the Flicker
school house last Sunday
evening.
Peter Wagner  called on John
Muellner Thursday.
! the Columbia hotel, lias taken
Miss Lena  Muellner returned L vacation of two weeks. Jos.
from St. Paul last week. j XT.        ,   ,       .   ,        ..     ,i„,„
Nimsch has taken his place.
Miss Catherine Wagner called
on Mrs. John Muellner last Saturday.
Sullivan News
J J Leeb is   lulling hay   evry   ,',,„ WJn,,.r
day 2 tons  mit a load  snow ilos   Cass Lake will nssocla-
not Hotter him
tion at it!* LSI6 summer outing.
i leflnlte   arrangements   h
Hunters   clan your   Hig guns   made for Inaugurating I
dare has bin a big Moose arount   m',"",ri«1   ;™>i;alKn
Mr. and Mrs.   A.   Johnson   of
A   commission
ounty
88 dam (so look out Barney) in ,hp sta,,. ,las been named, of which
<".   W.   Boynton   la   chairman.
Peavy Lake called at the Peter |    Mike   donnlck   from S  buh is Works- secretary and George H. Price,
Arllrin'    -inrl r    P    l?r.ivi   i>r>muu   werry    bissie    cleering    lor    his treasurer.
Adkin s and L. f.   l<ord   homes.         *                               s AtI,                ,.,;ii  i.VI,don A. Smith
l»«i rpi„ln>,in- iHrudder   in law   in .N    bull   dats   ,  ,„.i..o.. r,*r«r .
last Thursday
J. L. Gassel is here representing the Superior Sales
Systems of Minneapolis and
Hillman News
Wm. Goble and Wm. Munyon
o: Rucker went   to   Pierz   Wed.
H. P. Peterson and JolmFem-
na of Mount Moris went to Pierz
on busines Thursday.
John Lynn of Sullivan was in
town Friday.
Wm. Dreus was to Pierz
Saturday.
Miss Carolyn Sutliff and Giles
Leigh visited at Rucker Sunday.
Those that visited at J. C.
Love's Sunday were Mrs. Marion
Benton daughter Bessie and
Earl Hefner and Miss Marie
Dreus.
Evelyn Bruber is staying with
her sister Mrs. 1. J. Dreus.
Miss Inga Hanson returned
Monday from Johndale after a
short visit with friends there.
J. J. Baasener and John
Brown went to Pierz Monday.
Is CO uslness offer
rite mike Keep rite on and h< ,,,m public life.
Ole Christianson was a   Pierz devilip de country on de Hill «  to '"•  "-111 "  *•
Jos.   Otremba,   hostler   at visjtor Thursday remainder ol   his  ten
i     Merry Scmitbauer  is working   general, but will candidate
Tom Smith was a  lake  caller  for nnkle John S for anotl' Bc" or for
rp, . suprriiif  COnrt  lusn
iiy" ' Herbert   Schmit   has  bin   out'     John Smith, i Indian, who
w i   ,,    ,      t       i ,..,,-      says he  is  128 years old. was struck
Mazie and Merle  Look  were hinting  for a  Big jack   Rabbit   liv a lr;iill „.. ,, 9,rl.
guests at the Peter Adkins home he baa  bin hinting  for a   week   ously injured.   t; Indian had
Thursday evening. i but   returned    with   an   empty   J,l8t ' l attack i
grippe and was hauling a load
Col. Siebert wishes  his   name' %nn to town when, i <* crossing the
mentioned in  his   official   capa- !     Jack Sunday   was a  Pleasand   '™<k- ">" *•» ">■
, ,, , ,   . ., i i    „„      * \-        Loans  and   discounts  of   Minnesota
stty   hereafter   and   not   plain   wisitor   at the   scool haus   at .\    ;,,atr. b:[uk, ,
John Siebert as it   mas  in   the' bull an increase of $14
Journal last week. Hnh.-n Ross  is bissv  insttul     ' th?
i    Hubert koss is dissj   msiaui     toU|   jn s   .ipi,roxl.
Merle and   Mazie   Look   and   ln£ llis £as Pkint ul1 '''s 1;uul
a ii • i    i .i anks;  now
Mary Adkins attended the snow       Ropert   Hoop   has   bought   a ,«hty.
in Pierz Saturday night. stompitch farm   from ed  Konen tea su-
a estate.    The company I    Mr- «* ¥**• T- 8' Look "ere! "* 'S bi'^y ^'^ U
now has yards at Rice, Ran- lake ca"ers 8anday- '    ^uie Schmitbbauer is deMoo
John   Smith   visited  at  Wal-  * slia" ot lu d;i-v
mark's Sunday.
Mr. and   Mrs. John  Muellner   ,
called on John Fischer and wife | W miP^<    preparing   for   a
Wednesday evening.
Miss Elizabeth Schmitt is at
work for her sister, Mrs. Richard McCay, who is sick with the
grippe.
Mr.   and   Mrs.   John  Fischer
Sunday afternoon.
Sales   Campaign   for  P. A.
Hartmann.
The Morrison County Lumber company of Little Falls,
has purchared lumber yard
at Rice from  the Peter Hoh-|
Miss Margaret Freiehler is
employed at the Peter Gross
home.
Mr. and Mrs. John Muellner
were visitors at the Peter Wagner home Sunday.
Many of our young folks attended the basket social held in
district No. 90.
Those that attended the party held at John Muellner home
Monday evening- were: Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Altrichter, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Muellner and daughter Lena, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Hoheisel  and   daughter   Hilde-
dall, Ft. Ripley, Pierz, Grey
Eagle, Bertram and Little
Falls.
A jolly bunch from town
gathered and drove out to
Peter Koll's home Friday
evening and celebrated the
Misses Anna and Marie Koll's
; birthday. The evening was
spent in playing games and
musical entertainments. A
lunch was served at midnight.
The autos  are now   really
gard, Mr. and Mrs. John Fischer,  dead,  SO   far as appearances
North buh   has been   sleeping
Alva Martin  took   a   load   of'awile   but   vviU  dry to  cum   ln
dressed poultry  to   Pierz   Mon | llL';u' ll*»reu
da jr.
ing for Mik Brown last week
MissEattie andannie Piney
Market Report
it  upholds  thc  findings of
tatea   court  of  ap;
that D lips In tli- polls
chamber   of   commerce   are   taxable.
;ise was Im-kuh in thf- Hem
count- ;l"l   h*s   been
passed on by the state supreme •
Drafts to the nun and
aggregating $- :rawn
I   Hreus, state audi-
Alft-rt Stuckmayer was work-    tor. on various counties, estates and
I to produce revenues for
the   administration   of   public   affairs.
nits issii. Preus to de-
and John Brummer. The evening was spent playing cards.
At midnight a delicious lunch
was served, after which all departed for their homes, having
had an enjoyable time.
„ ... B toped in   Pierz over night and
Grain and Produce wu.e ca,lers  By Mr ailU MrB
Harket Report. Julin LcL.b 4 daughter
Wheat, No. 1,  $1.24
Wheat, No- 2      1.22
indicate. They all have the
ghastly stare of a corpse. Tlie
most of them are covered with
a shroud. But we very much
suspect that many of tliem
are   only    hibernating   and
fray the expenses of the state reached
a total in  1015 of $21.086,1.
itor   Knute   Nelson   has   lntro-;
ciuced a bill in thc senate authc:
an appropriation of $ 1,000,000 f<
Mr Jenderlv • bawling   r< <o a military
Wood to Pierz H & 4 cords aday   school similar to West 1'olnt^ As the
Wheat   \o   3 1 °0 ,   -    , government has practically abandoned
11 ' *          ' ,   he dont   sell it he   is giving it a   the use of tne ^^ senator Nelson
Flax,         s.13   ^-.iv : believes it should be devoted to the
Barley ._ .- 85 I training of Western military cadets.
Rye..          88;     J" Eisel jr   had a cholly time      ttgurc8 compiled by Fred D. E
q   . j j   at    the   dance    in   Pierz   (has a   man.   commissioner   of   Immigration.
I show that during tbe past year there
ars of immigrant
Otto   Fur man   a   pleasand  at   r. by the Minnesota
Butter, Creamery . Joe 8Ufntty home at Branerd     | T^sotaT^ Jj "SS
Dairy  y olto   how   do you   like   it ^ f-sota a percentage of 51 per
Eggs        25  out there
Ear Corn....       65  cholly gudfeller
Hay  ---    5.00
Hunters   haf bin  saying there
cei."<f the total number ha:
The constitutionality of the oil  in
ticn  law  of  Minnesota baa been
where the siren Klaxtou will
WARNING. —I   hereby  give
warning that there must not be
any wood cut on my lands and
lands adjoining mine in the town! renew  his screech  to  warn
of Hillman.
John Schmc
Flour.Koyal	
... . |__4. Um   „n Pni,.   .-Iiil.-ns    iroiit   uphold   by   the   state   su;
that the warm   sun of spring'^ ^ade flour 1.80 dont be   no, P.aie  ch. 1^ .uout  ^ ^ ^^^  ^
*           !Rnn , .,0  hear but we   kan Und dem in tie   ,he due for ln«:
Will lure them into tlie open.   ^ran J-".   lldy   Btak   aow 4   er 5 in   a stak   reea for the fh
Shorts     -D  havi      bin shol in Obnly as th. , oil company refu,
Cracked Corn bO pounds 1.40
are only  haf grone W her. lrom
'the horse-drawn vehicles  of
iuipenoing danger.
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans       4.00 *
Onions        60
Long Meddo North buh
•: panics that agreed to abide by
the decision.
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