The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-03-16

              PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA,   MARCH 1(5.   1910.
NO. 39.
VILLA DEAD
OH ALIVE IS
THEOBJEGT
American Troops to
Invade Mexico.
FIVE THOUSAND MEN
IN THE EXPEDITION
White House Says Order Does
Not Mean Intervention,
Washington, March 11.—President
Wilson has ordered American troops
over the Mexican border to capture
or kill the Villa bandits who raided
Columbus, N. M.
Major General Scott, chief of staff
of the army, announced that the expedition will consist of not less than
5,000 men, all of which are available
on the border under Major General
Funston.
In its present sta'-" the president's
order does not mea. .imed intervention in Mexico. It provides for a
punitive expedition to deal with lawless forces over which the Carranza
government has no control.
The following statement was issued
at the Whifce House:
"An adequate force will be sent at
once in pursuit of Villa, with the single object of capturing, him and putting a stop to his forays.
"This can be done, and will be done
in entirely friendly aid of the constituted authorities in Mexico, and
with scrupulous respect for the sovereignty of that republic."
VILLA,  DEAD OR ALIVE,
AIM OF UNITED STATES.
It was said at the White House that
the American government wants Villa, dead or alive, and that no step will
be neglected to carry out that object.
It was declared that the United
States will not consider the punitive
expedition an invasion of Mexico, and
will continue to deal with the Carranza government. The American government still is opposed to armed intervention in Mexico, but has decided
that the peace of both Mexico and
the United States is imperiled by the
continued activities of Francisco Villa.
The cabinet was unanimous in deciding that Villa must be caught.
It was said that the pursuit of Villa
will be undertaken in a comprehensive way and organized plans will be
laid for his apprehension.
Officials received the word of the
decision to go after Villa with troops
with undisguised satisfaction. Cabinet members expressed themselves as
greatly pleased. Army officers voiced
unanimous approval. A general feeling of relief that the administration
had decided to take the step was apparent.
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Civilians—Milton James and
wife, J. S. Dean, .1. J. Moore,
A. L. Richie, Walton Walker,
IV Witt Miller, H. M. Hart.
Soldiers — Frank Kendvall,
farrier; Sergeant M. A. Dobbs,
Corporal Paul Simon, Sergeant
John Nievergelt, Corporal Harry Wiswalk, Private Thomas
Butler, Private Fred A. Griffin,
unnamed trooper.
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VILLA FORCES LOSE
HEAVILY IN BATTLE
Columbus, N. M.. March 10.—The
casualties of the Thirteenth cavalry in
the fighting at Columbus wore seven
killed and six woun
Villa's total losses ia the fighting
were estimated It exeess of 100 killed
and twice as many wounded. The
American pursuit into Mexico was reported to have accounted for more
than seventy-five Mexicans killed and
wounded.
The American loss on the Mexican
side was one corporal slain when Villa
threw out a heavy guard to engage
the pursuing American troopers.
Of the eight American civilians slain
here. De Win  Miller of Albu-
Dr. H. J. Hart of El Paso
wore burned to death in the lire which
destroyed the C sial hotel.
Captain  Garcia  Dead.
Columbus,   X.   M.    March   12.—Car-
tain  Pablo Garcia, the wounded Villa
ollicer,   died   here.      Civil   authorities
had included G the Moa-
whom they planned to
flic charges of murder as a result ot
th© Columbus raid.
Conscience.
Now and then conscience whi
"Just  wait   till   1   gel   you   aloi
night!"—Toledo Blade.
Avon Farm
Hand Arrested
H. P. Saunders, who has been
making: liis home around   Avon,
charg-ed with  obtaining    money
by fraud thru the U.   S    mails,
was    arraigned    before   Judge
Donoliue of St. Cloud last
week   on   a   temporary charge
of fraud, pending- the arrival of
a debuty United States Marshal
armed with a warrant issued by
a United States commissioner.
Saunders was taken to Little
Falls for araigninent aud was
held for the next term of the
federal court at Ferg-us Falls.
"The pitcher went to the well
once too often," was the explanation offered by Saunders.
Mild mannered, an ideal servant but for his excessive craving" for whiskey and fond of
service, Saunders has a record
that has not been marred by
any previous conviction. He
uses English correctly and is of
neat appearance. He admitted
that the use of liquor cost him
several excellent positions.
Election Returns
Theo. Gross was elected bv a
big majority for supetvisor in
the town of Pierz against Julius
Marshik and John Mischke.
John Brummer was elected
supervisor in Granite and Matt
Valentine was re-elected supervisor and Luther Lorentzen was
elected clerk in Platte.
Buh elected Geo. Hoffman
for supervisor.
The infant villag-e Lastrup
elected:
President, W. Wolke,
Treasurer, Joseph Brummer,
Recorder, F. X. Buesseler,
Trustees: Theo. Ortman,
John L. Gross,
H. Stroering-.
Buckman village elected  Peter Blake for Recorder and John
Brandl for treasurer.
Genola elected for
President, F. O. Bolster,
Trustees: Mag-. Rauch,
Matt Meyer,
Tony Jamma.
Recorder, O. J. Brick,
Treasurer, John T. Harsch.
The village of Pierz had a
quiet election save the contest
for the contest for the office of
recorder for which J. N. Faust
was elected by a vote of 82
against 47 of his opponent. The
village officers line up as follows:
President, S.   Preimesberger,
Trustees: B. Gross,
John Gau,
Peter Meyer,
Treasurer, Andrew Faust,
Recorder, J. N. Faust.
One thing- remarkable about
the election was the strength of
J. N. Paust in the village ami
Theo. Gross in the town.
Southwest Piatie News
A large omul   of   people   attended     the    surprise   on   Joe
Eieintz aud wife Saturday even
ing.
Theo. Rychner and wife. And.
Kaintx and family, Geo. Sigfet-
te and son and Mike Casey
called at Reese's Sunday.
Lots   of   bets  made   Sunday
about     who      would   and   who
wouldn't   be   elected    Tuesday
Makes no difference who   looses
ii means a keg of "nails".
Letter From
T. C. Gordon
Little Falls, March 13, 1916.
Dr. E. H. Kerkhoff,
Editor Pierz Jourual,
Pierz, Minnesota.
My dear Sir:
It is very gratifying- to this
company and especially so to
the writer to find that the statements that I made prior to tlie
voting- on the electric light bond
are working" out as predicted.
At the time this matter was before the voters the writer made
a statement to the effect that
by reasonable, careful management the Pierz plant would
earn enougii money so that its
earning-.s would take care of the
bond at maturity and it was estimate! at that time that a flat
monthly sum of money would be
taken from the general fund of
the villag-e and turned into the
lightipg fund for street Ugh ting-
purposes. I do not know whether this has been done but if it
has not it certainly should be.
Without a transfer of monies
of this nature the users of light
would be paying- for the street
Jig-hting- service and not the taxpayers as a whole.
Wishing- you continued success in this matter, and at this
time I would like to call your
attention to the fact that additional earnings could be procured
by making- the creamery a rate
that they could afford to pay
for their power service.
Yours very truly,
T. C Gordon.
Piatie News.
What Our School     News Gathered
From The Land of
Districts Get       Here and There    The Midnight Sun
Following- is the amount each
school district in our neighborhood will g-et from the March
school apportionment. The warrants will not be ready for the
school treasurers until the first
part of next week and they are
requested not to call for them
until then.
14   ._$ 75.60
19      84.00
36      105.00
46        96.60
55          50.40
62        52.50
75 1914      113.60
ID
78
87
88
90
92
97
98
99
127
129
134
1915
67.20
67.20
60.90
18.90
58.80
88.20
52.50
73.50
119.70
56.70
77-70
58.80
What Our
Towns Get
Ted Rychner and wife called
at the Sig-ette home last Sunday
afternoon.
Joe and Clifford James called
on Math. Valentine last Sunday
evening-.
A bunch of young- folks gathered at the home of Tony Smith
Sunday. They were: John Eber-
towski, Fred Valentine, Frank
and Joe Sagorski, George Kohs,
Win. and Paul Hayes and the
Wolf Bros. Christine and Cecilia Valentine and Johanna Eber-
t'owski and Mary Wolf. The
time was spent playing games.
Prank Sagorski is helping Peter Tretter saw logs.
Math. Valentine called on C.
Reese Sunday afternoon.
Iliff Walmark made a trip to
Pierz last Friday. He says the
roads are bad.
The following is a list   of   the
amounts which   every   town   in
the neighborhood will get   from
the March settlement:
Aern in                   S    155 31
Buckman
Buh   	
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114.77
Leigh   .. ..
133.77
Morrill   ..
521.66
717 B4
Platte   .. .
Pula.ski     .
Richardsoi
Pierz,  vill;
	
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27S».7i>
287.33
227 80
116.54
KiJimaii News
D. Driver arrived last Wednes
day to visit at Marion Benton's.
O. H. Peterson of Minneapolis
arrived Tuesday to visit his son
at Mount Morris.
Elmer Cyan was in Hillman
a few days last week.
Born— to  Irwin    Drews   and State Oil   Inspector    Rush
wife, Saturday, a son. says the buying of low   grav-
Miss Carolyn Sutliff went to ity oil will help out the gas-
Little Falls  Saturday   to   visit oline   situation    in    a    large
Many Wolves Killed
This winter has been hard on
wolves. Deer have not suffered
to any great extent. Wolves
often destroy deer and other
game, but have been hunted
down by the thousands this
season. The conditions have
favored the hunters and trappers. Snow has been deep and
soft, making it difficult for the
wolves to travel fast or for long-
distances.
In Roseau county the winter
kill of wolves will he fully 800.
There wolf hunting clubs have
been formed by young men and
boys who have pursued wolves
on horseback and skiis and
killed hundreds of them. There
were 405 wolves destroyed in
that section in 44 days. Individuals got all the way from
one to 26 pelts. The wolves
have been all but exterminated
in that county.
Miss Minnie Rauch is employed at Minneapolis.
A. W. Row of Clearwater
was here last Fridayo t buy
an auto.
The Fire company had the
monthly meeting Saturday
evening.
C. H. Mast of Sullivan visited with tlie R J. Bollig
family over Sunday.
Several cars of immigrant
goods arrived at the Soo station last Thursday.
A. R. Stoll and C. E. Gravel were business visitors at
the county seat Friday.
Herman Klasen of Buck-
man visited in Freeport and
N 'W Munich last   week.
Miss Grace Hall of Little
Falls is here visiting with
the R. C. Scoles family.
Ig. Preimesberger of Staples arrived last Friday for a
short visit among   relatives.
-I. M. Jacobs of St. Paul
was here yesterday to buy the
Jos. Ries stock of  clothing.
Mary Bolster will again
sell millinery at Green .aid
and at Onamia this spring.
Mary Zimmerman has
eepted a position as operator
in the N.  W.   Telephone   office.
Pr- on   of  John
Hoffman, was a Pierz visitor at
his uncle's home last week,
directly from the
artic regions where he is an employee of the British government land survey. He is away
on a month's vacation. He
been 1800 miles northw. st of
Winnipeg, in northwest territory, where the frost never
out of the ground and wl
the only white' people seen are
tiie British mounted police.
Fred said he had experienced
70 below weather and that he
had suffered no more than in 20
below temperature hen .    'I
3Uiall and   stunt- d    in    that
"When it   comes   to   the   high
of li\ ing" said FYed
here in I lie south |: | have no
cause to complain. I was in an
Eskimo village' in which the
Hudson Bay Co. sold flour for
$14.00 a hundred, sugar for 50
cents a pound and salt pork- for
nis a ponm
seems that Jim (I ■! i — famous aphorism "The cost of high
living" in contradistinction to
"The high cost of living-" i
not cover that territory. "The
high cost of h w living" is ;,
phrase better lit ted to desc
the bread and butte." conditions
of the extreme north.
LASTRUP NEWS.
ABOUT THE STATE]
News of Especial Interest tof
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS;
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told;
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
Peter Boreseh of St.   Jos-     Jol|n p V|rnjg and  w.fe   n.
eph is touring the couutry in turned from P Thura-
the interest of the    St.    Paul   day.
Dispatch. ,,,.,,  at
Miss Juliet Virnig came up h10"11   Fischer* Tuesday   ever,
from St.    Cloud   Sunday   to
spend a few hours   with   her
parents.
Mrs. Anion Friedrich went
to Buffalo, Minn, last Friday
to visit her daughter, who is
ill.
John Philippi Jr.. and
Louis Gross left for Brainerd
John Brummer made  a   short
call on Geo. Kummet   'I
John Mile! Iner and    Wife    and
.lohn    Brummer   called   at
Ben    Athman     home   Saturday
ia Virnig   visited   Miss
Mary Grell Friday afternoon.
On account of the Wad    weath-
last Friday to work in the N. eifcmany   of   our   young   folk*
P. shops. could    not   attend      Uie   dance
inday evening.
Why  were  there so many
... . ' .vin Stiu ;■   and
republican primary votes casl  aud jonn pischer and wife   vis-
in a red-hot democratic community i
G. A. Schlegel left   yester-
ited al Ben    Athman,8   Sun<
Wagner  who b
employed    in     Hoffman,    Minn.
day for Morris where lie   in- ew year8>   is  '
,    . ,   £       ., siting Ids parents.
tends to work   tor    the    next
six months. John Muellner and   wl
a Pischer and wife spent the
Frank Boehm Jr. and fain- ag  at    John    Brurami
ily moved to St.    Cloud    la-
week, where they   intend   to
make their home.
12 below on   the
March.
Kith   of
her parents.
John Love and Giles Leigh
went to Vawter Sunday.
A number of young folks enjoyed a sleigh ride Tuesday
evening.
Henry Gassert made a business trip to the Twin Cities
last week.
Christ Tembreull hauled a
load of household  goods   to |
St. (.'loud for Frank    Boehm
last week.
measure, contrary to thegen-
eral idea among automobile
drivers, the lower priced oil,
he stated is more efficient
and econonomical. Only is
the higher gravity oil preferable in starting the crank
machines in cold weather.
but even this trouble is put
at a minium on account of
the betterment in carbure-
toer making. For selfstarter.
he sr.ys. there is no valid
reason 1'or demanding
line with a high gravity test.
Mrs. Herman Benfield
spent a week witli her sisters
Mrs. J. M. Biake and Mrs.
John Rassier at Little   Falls.
Robert    G ruber    returned
from  Mazomauie,   Wis.
week.      He     reports     mild
weather and no snow the
Leo Beach of St. Paul,
father to Mrs. A. P. Stoll.
and Mrs. F. X. Virnig underwent au operation last w<
Math Hard wig of  St.
eph visited friend.
urday     and     Sunday
Hardwig  left     M for
Montand to prove up ou   his
claim.
Just   before    going   to
press, we   are   informed
that    Herman    Terhaar
died   at   10   o'clock
: forenoon.
Market Report
Grain and Produce
flarket Report.
	
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