The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-02-03

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THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
YOL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, FEBRUARY 3. 191<>.
NO. 34.
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SIXTY LIVES IS
iMJJrJTORM
Property Loss on the Pacific
Coast Also Heavy.
OTAY VALLEY IS  HARD HIT
Breaking of Dam  Results in Death to
Fifty   and   Scores   More   Are
Reported   Missing.
San Francisco, Jan. 30.—The storm
that has raged over the Pacific coast
region for several days has claimed a
toll of not less than sixty lives and
caused property damage amounting to
millions of dollars, according to reports thus far received.
It is feared that further loss of life
may be reported when lines of communication are cleared.
The greatest loss of life occurred in
the Otay valley, south of San Uiego,
when the lower dam of the California
Mountain Water company broke. Not
less than fifty persons, according to
figures reported by the coroner, lost
their lives and scores more are missing.
The Pacific claimed eight lives when
the garbage carrier Aberdeen of Oakland, Cal., was wrecked off the San
Francisco beach.
Flood waters and high winds did
much damage in various parts of the
state. The oil districts in particular
have suffered severely, hundreds of
derricks being wrecked.
Snow fell generally throughout the
northern part of the state. Telegraph
and telephone communication throughout the state, generally demoralized
by the storm, gradually is being restored.
COURTMARTIAL IS POSSIBLE
Officers Who Led Soldiers Into Mexico
Face Trial.
Washington, Jan. 29.—Courtmartial
of the three American army officers—■
Lieutenants Peyton, Fort and Wal-
dron—who led a detachment of soldiers into Mexico to rescue two comrades who had been captured by armed Mexicans near Brownsville, Tex.,
probably will result if an investigation proves they violated orders not
to cross the international boundary
line.
In that case, it is said also, they_
probably would be held responsible
for the death of the four members of
the rescue party who were drowned in
the Rio Grande while returning from
the expedition.
ZEPPELINS DROP
BOMBS ON PARIS
Paris, Jan. 31.—A Zeppelin dirigible
passed swiftly over a section of Paris,
dropping a dozen bombs, weight 600
pounds each, which killed twenty-four
persons and injured twenty-seven.
The fact that only one German machine appeared leads to the belief that
the Zeppelin was making a reconnoit-
ering trip and the supposition is that
the Germans have in view a similar
operation on a larger scale.
Warnings of the presence of a Zep
pelin were hurriedly given and the
lights of Paris were dimmed.
At the hour of the raid the theaters
and cafes were open and householders
had hardly retired.
Almost immediately all the aeroplanes guarding Paris were made
ready and thirty of them took the
air. One of these machines fired
twenty shots from a quick flrer at
the invading craft, which, pursued by
several of the little machines, sped at
top speed westward.
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Sauk Rapids Man
Arrested For Passing
Fraudulent Checks.
St. Cloud Times.—Carl E.
Ferdinantsen, former clerk with
tlie Northern Pacific railroad in
this city and a resident of the
Eastside, was arrested in Minneapolis today, charged with
having- passed thousands of dollars worth of bad checks in connection with the Farmers and
Consumers company which he
organized six days ago.
In company with two other
men, the former St. Cloud resident started the company which
he said was to act as a go-between for the farmers and their
city customers. Many housewives are said to have placed
orders with the solicitors. Fraudulent checks amounting to several thousand dollars have been
traced to the man.
In connection with the fraud
it was discovered that Ferdinantsen had passed two $500
checks in payment for diamonds
that he had purchased.
The man admitted to the Minneapolis police that he formerly
lived in St. Cloud. The details
of the +'raud are being carefully
investigated this afternoon.
All of the furniture for the
offices was paid for with checks
that were 110 good.
Ferdinantsen has been in
trouble before in connection
with bad checks and only a short
time ago was arrested. He was
also chatged with having secured money from two men he promised to secure jobs. His record is bad, according to the local police.
His brother bought potatoes
in Genola about 2 years ago,
and was known as the "Big
Swede".
LASTRUP NEWS.
BRITISH     CASUALTIES
GREGATE 539,467.
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London, Jan. 29.—British casualties to Jan. 9, 1916, total
539,467, Premier Asquith stated.
The losses are divided as follows: Killed, 128,738; wounded, 363,283;  missing, 59,048.
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BATTLE LASTED  SIX HOURS
Turks Report Defeat of British Re
lief Column,
Berlin. Jan. 27.—The British forc«
going to the relief of the troops surrounded by Turks at Kut-El-Amara
attacked the Turkish positions near
Monlari Jan. 21. but were repulsed
after an engagement lasting six hours,
according to an official report issued
by  the Turkish headquarters staff.
The British, the announcement says,
left 3,000 dead on the field.
PARLIAMENT IS  PROROGUED
Conscription Bill Pushed Through
Both Houses.
London, Jan. 29.—The British parliament has adjourned, the conscription bill having passed both houses.
As is customary members of both
houses gathered in thc house of lords
to bear the king's prorogation speech.
John Fischer, Jr. called on
Peter Wagner Wednesday.
John Finneman was taken to
the St. Raphael's Hospital of
Little Falls Wednesday.
John P. Virnig, Joe Brummer,
John Gross and Henry Strveing
were county seat visitors Wednesday.
John Brummer and John Fischer, Jr., left for the Twin cities
Monday.
If it keeps on snowing like it
did last week people could build
an "Undersnow Road.''
Alfred Hansman is working
for Mike Braun.
Wm. Viens is visiting with the
John Gohl family this week.
Ben Athman called on John
Muellner Monday morning.
Say! who was the fellow that
came down the road last week,
alter the snow storm, with a
pair of snow shoes, and when
half ways tore the strapes, and
carried the snow shoes home
under his arms? Ha! Ha!
Louis Brummer took the butter to Pierz Monday. On account of bad roads Louis couldn't
bring it to Pierz Saturday.
Wm- Virnig our Mail driver,
had a pretty tough time Monday
getting through the snow.
Mrs. Henry Zirnzible of St.
Cloud, died, after an illness of
pneumonia.
Former Pierz Woman News Gathered
Dies at Sauk Rapids.;      Here and There
Sauk Rapids. — Mrs. Henry
Zirngibl of this place passed
away at her home last Wednesday following a short illness.
The deceased, who was just in
the prime of life, being 30 years
of age leaves a sorrowing husband and four small children to
mourn her untimely departure;
also her aged mother, Mrs. Ros-
ina Harlander, of St. Cloud, and
a brother, Joseph, who is attending St. John's university. The
funeral was held from the cathedral at St. Cloud last Friday
morning at 10 o'clock and interment was made in Calvary cemetery.
The sorrowing relatives have
the sympathy of the entire community in their hour of bereavement.
Buckman Farmers'
Creamery Report
The Backman Farmers'Cream-
ery at their annual meeting recently elected the following officers:
Jos. A. •tremba, President;
John Meyer, Vice President;
Julius Marshik, Secretary; John
Poster, Treasurer; Directors:
A. A. Hesch, Andrew Suess and
Peter Denzen.
Operating Statistics.
110
386,733
35,700
9*,740
120,762
Lbs. overruu       22,022
Percent of overrun.. .. 22.3
Lbs. Butterfat shipped    117,119
Lbs. Butterfat sold   to
Patrons        3,209
Lbs.   Butterfat  sold to
Buttermaker  128
Lbs. of Butterfat sold to
non-patrons  306
Total    120,762
Average price received       25.83
Average price paid....       "29.27
No. of Patrons	
Total lbs. of Cream .. .
Total lbs. of Milk
Total lbs. Butterfat ..
Total lbs. Butter made
Resources.
Balance   on   hand   last
year,    $   58.48
Received for Butter .. .30.258.83
Received for Coal         82.39
Received for  Creamery
supplies,	
Received for Creamery
shares	
Received for Telephone
share	
Total paid to Patrons.. 26,881.06
Running expenses   2,997.96
Balance on hand      813.95
33.05
230.20
30.00
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Little Falls.—Misses Hilda
Rassier and Celia Blake left
Saturday evening for St. Paul
to enter a wholesale milliner;
house.
Pioneer Settler
Of County Dead
Little Falls.—Martin Christenson, one of the pioneer set
tiers of Morrison county, died
Monday morning at his home on
Wood street from chronic bronchitis. He was 76 years old and
had lived in this county forover
45 years, coming here from Norway, where he was born. He
took a farm near what is now
Gravelville and lived there until 10 years ago, when he came
to Little Falls to make his home.
He was married tirst in Norway when 21 years old and was
married the second time in 1908
in Little Falls. He is survived
by a widow, eight children, 14
grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. Two sons, Andrew of Dutton, Mont., and Edward of White Bear, are here
for the funeral, which will be
held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon from the M. E.   church.
Hubert Bares has a new
safe.
This is a hard winter for
stock.
Chas. Gravel of Onamia
was a caller between trains
here yesterday.
The N. W. Telephone repairer has been busy here
for the past two days.
Motion picture show in
Faust Opera House every
Sunday night.
Herman Koll and wife visited at the John 8. Reding
home Sunday.
Hay is beginning to be a
scarce article ill the village
on account of the bad  roads.
Mrs. H. Wieland returned
Monday evening from a visit
at Albany.
Marriage license has been
issued to Joseph Schraut and
Catherine Bollig.
Rochus Kurtz left Tuesday
for Avon where he will visit
friends and relatives.
The stork visited at the
home of Nick Dahmen last
Sunday and left a young
daughter.
Geo. Kiewel was transacting business in Pierz and
Lastrup last Monday.
Paul and Elsie Retzlaff of
Granite left Tuesday for
Kimball where they will be
employed.
Jos. Weisbrich of Buckman
braved tlie snow drifts Monday morning and came to
Pierz on business.
County commissioner Rich-
eleau passed through here
yesterday on his way to
Onamia.
Henry Gau and Mel. Wermerskirchen left for Minneapolis last Monday to attend
the Automobile show this
week.
F. X. Virnig left for the
Twin cities and Chicago
where is going to take in the
style show and do spring
buying.
At the meeting last Tuesday of the county commissioners the petition of the
citizens of Lastrup to incorporate as a village was allowed.
W. J. Bockhorni of St.
Paul was in the village last
week. He said that the report of liis death, like that
of Mark Twain, was greatly
exaggerated.
Joe Wise and wife of Dix-
ville and Mrs. Frank B. Otremba of Buckman visited at
the Math Neisius home last
Sunday.
The eclipse of the suu was
plainly visible between i» and
10 o'clock this morning. The
moon passed between the
earth and the sun.
Anna Reding anu Bernard
Petziuger of Morgan are here
visiting at John S. Reeling's
and P. M. Koll's, Anna Red
ing is a sister, and Bernard
Petziuger is a cousin to J. S
Reding.
Annual Report of the Farmers'
Co-operative Creamery Association
The Pierz Farmers" Creamery Association held their annual
meeting last Tuesday.    The report and proceedings follow:
It was decided to build a Storage Shed.
Six percent will be paid to Shareholders.
The balance of the Sinking Fund at the end of the year is to
he divided at a certain percentage on every pound of Butterfat
each Stockholder delivers.
The date of the Annual Meeting has been changed to the tirst
Tuesday in February.    The old others were reelected.
166,099 12
21.15
8.56
Operating Statistics for 1915.
Number of Patrons,  22:!
Pounds of cream received,     67l.6:!7
Pounds of milk received,        88, 168
Butterfat in cream 162,948 76
Butterfat in milk, .• 3,150 86
Total	
Average test of cream,   	
Average test of milk,	
Butter shipped,       200,677
Butter sold to patrons,         2,259
Cash sales,          4,352
Butter on hand,  100
Total Butter made,	
Overrun pounds	
Overrun per cent,	
Average price received per lb	
Average price paid for Butterfat per lb	
Cost of making Butter per lb	
RECEIPTS FOR 1915.
Balance in Sinking Fund	
Balance lust years  business,	
Butter shi|)j*ed	
C i^h sales	
Butter sold to Patrons	
Coal sold	
Gas anil Oil,	
Salt	
Tubs and Supplies,	
Shares and storage building  rent,	
Supplies on hand,	
Butter on hand,	
Butter unpaid	
Gas unpaid	
Coal unpaid,	
DISBURSEMENTS FOR I'M5.
Supplies on hand from last year,.
Butter on hand	
Paid for Butterfat,	
Paid lor Butter,	
Paid for Starter Milk	
Buttermaker salary	
Scretary and Treasurers salary,
Officers fees	
Freight and I)ravage,	
Fuel,	
Gas and Oil,	
Butter Culture	
Salt	
Tubs	
Supplies,	
Miscellaneous	
Paid into Sinking Fund,	
Paid for back Checks,	
Balance,	
SINKING FUND—RECEIPTS  191.",.
207.:;-^
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51,582.47
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87.96
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1,131.39
106.00
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35.00
100.00
13.75
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1,455.77
300.00
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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.
Balance	
Shares sold,	
Lew on Butterfat	
Storage building rent..
SINKING FUND—DISBURSEMENTS  1915.
New Machinery,    	
Refund to Frank Marshik for share	
Ice and labor,	
Insurance and 'rax,	
Donations,	
Lumber,	
Paint and Painting	
Hardware. Belting, etc	
Storage Building rent	
Dividends and Interest,	
4.22
-    196.00
100.00
1...27.4S
6.00
l.'-28.48
472..7
2.5. IK)
170.60
7.7'.
20.00
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CARL  KAPSNER, Secretary.
South Agranv News,
Market Report
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
'Vneat.No. 1,  $1.21
Wheat, No. 2..       1.18
Wheat. No. 8....       1.18
Flax,          2.10
: Barley .. __
|Rye	
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Ear Corn  	
Hay     5.00!
I mtter, Creamery ..       37
Dairy        M
Egtfs  	
Flour. Royal	
White Roue.. .  	
yrade flour	
Mr. .lohn Eidenshink and   son   Bran      	
Math   Shmurer.    Joe  Shorts     I
Mrs. John Eidenshink and
daughter Bertha visited the John
Kippley home Friday afternoon.
A large crowd of youn>r folks
from here attended the card party and basket social held in
District "JO Sunday evening.
Mrs. John   Kippley  and   -
Frank   and   Evelyn   Arnt   were
Little Falls callers Saturday.
Casper and Math Thommes
visited at the J. J. Brummer
home Sunday evening.
K    M.   Anderson,  a   sewer  lab'
was killed by a ravoln at 8t. Paul.
D. X Morrill, probate judge of Bin
Stone county and pioneer resident of'
Ortonvllle, ls dead.
Mrs.  Julia   Elisabeth   Akers.   m;
one years old. a resident of Minnesota
since   1859, Is dead at  E
James   Gandsey.   a   pioneer  of   and
I  mayor of  Hibbing. is dead at;
Duluth following an operation.
Professor  E.  O.  Kaasa.  for
years old,  instructor at the  Luthi
women's   seminary  at   Red   Win.
dead
Mrs. Mary Jane Hemperly. territo-;
rial pioneer and a resident of Minna-j
apolls since 1S57, Is dead, aged eighty-;
eight years.
C. J. Lynch, aged eighty-eight, one
of the pioneers of Rook county. Is
dead at Luverne. He was a veteran
of the Civil war.
The Webb mine at Hibbing. o»
by   the   Shenango   Furnace   company,
has resumed operations after an Idleness of two years.
Frederick    Douglas    Parker   of
Paul, the first editor of the Appeal, a
publication   devoted   to   the   Interests
of negroes. Is dead.
State Senator R. ('. Dunn of i'rince- ■
ton announces  that  he will not be a
candidate  for delegate  to  the  Republican national convention.
In   per   capita   sales   of   Red   Cross
seals in  1918  Worthlngton led all the
oihrr cities of the state with a r.
of ten for every inhabitant.
Martin Fisher, a farmer near Staples, was accidentally killed while
butchering a hog. the knife slipping
and severing  an  artery  in  his leg.
The  Twin  (in   Rapid  Transit  I
pany   carried    264,914,76 .gers
over Its lines in 1915. This compares
with 261,094,963 in the roar before.
Catching   hobs   at   recess
suited  in  the death  of  Vincent   Hi
han. the eight year old son of Mr. and)
Mrs.   P,   W.   lloulahan  of  Minneapolis.!
John Poloek whs drawn Into a coal;
chute by a falling mass of coal sift-;
ings at Minneapolis and died from I
suffocation before he could be res-;
cued.
Jesse Harry of Grand Rapids, state;
game  warden, has secured s
convictions the last ten months.    llej
patrols one of the largest districts In;
the state.
The barn and  silo of I*  L  Fallon,
one of the largest In  McDeod county,:
has   been   destroyed   by   flr>-
with ten horses, fifteen calves and lnO;
tons of hay.
Horace Ix>wry of Minneapolis has;
been elected president ..f the Twin;
City Rapid Transit company to sue-;
ceed C. G. Goodrich, who died about;
a month ago.
Village  and  t tions  may  be;
held the same time as the presidential'
primary elections, March 14, according to an opinion given by Attorney
General Smith.
The United Milling company of Minneapolis has been adjudged bankrupt
at a hearing before Judge \V. F.
Booth Liabilities are $300,000 and
assets at.
An epidemic of grip and pneumonia
is prevalent at RM I-ake Indian reservation. Eleven Indians have died
■Jaee -'an. 1. hut most of those now
sick are on the road to recovery.
Gladys   Barr.   lift' I   old.   is
plaintiff In a divorce suit in district
court at Fairmont. The child wife
alleges her husband beat her. failed
to support  her and deserted her.
Standardization or potatoes has
l>een solved by fanners of Itasca
county. Almost to a man they have
pledged themselves to grow only tubers of the eight standard varieties.
John Kelley. auditor of Rock county.
wandered away from his home In l.u-
verne the other day and all efforts to
find him have been futile.    Mr. Kelley;
had not been well for some time past ■
President Wilson will visit St   Paul;
in early March, according to Informs-J
tion received by St. Paul Democratic:
leaders     The visit will be made dur-
ing    the    president's   second   speech
making tour.
Mrs. John Sorenson, a widow, was
shot to death at ber home In Austin:
by  John   Peterson,  a  rejected  suitor,.
aged  fifty^ne     Peterson  then  turned;
the   weapon   on    himself   and   died
j shortly after.
John If. Conklin. the first settler of
the Duluth Heights district, where he:
bad resided thirty-five years, is dead,'
aged   fifty-six   years.     He   bad   been
closely identified with the city's bust-;
ness activities.
Practically S2.50O.0O0 has be*:.
pended on Minnesota highways since
ae state and counties.
From the state read and bridge fund
there haa been distributed to the
eighty-six counties of Minnesota In the
The coon-
Edward
Duchner Jake   Leidenfrost  and I i Corn 80 pount six months *i2i
j William Brummer attended   the Ground Feed     1.40; ties are renuired to ei|
ssliow held   in   Pierz   Saturday Beans ...   ..     4.00
evening.
Onions
DO
dollar   the
amount of tbe  state aid
Remember there will be a grand DANCE at Faust's Hall, Tuesday, February 8th. 4916.