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THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 7.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA,   APRIL ,20  1916.
NO. -4 4.
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
s\
BOTHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
News Gathered
Here and There
W. H. Armstrong, justice of the
peace of Luverne, died suddenly, aged
eighty years.
C. C. Van Dyke of St. Paul has filed
for re-election to congress from the
Fourth district.
C. J. Reagan hass been appointed
postmaster at Appleton, ending a long
fight for the place.
Two yeggman raided the Barnesville postoffice and stole $400 in money and $50 in stamps.
The Northwestern Good Roads congress will be held in St. Paul Sept. 6
to 8, state fair week.
Thomas Mosford, Stearns county
pioneer, is dead. Mr. Mosford was
born in London, Eng.
Elmore Parrott of St. Paul, aged
eighteen, dislocated his jaw when he
yawned on awakening.
Prank B. Kellogg has accepted an
invitation to deliver the Memorial day
address at Fergus Falls.
Dr. Rudolph Barton, pioneer St. Paul
dentist, who was born in that city
sixty-five years ago, is dead.
Moorhead will vote on a $75,000 bond
issue April 25, the money to be used
in the erection of a new high school.
Frank Klnning, eight years old, waa
instantly killed at St. Paul when he
was run over by a heavy automobile
truck.
At a special election at Bird Island
a bond issue of $58,000 for erecting a
new school building carried by a large
majority.
Mrs. Julia C. Upson, mother of the
late Arthur Upson, the Minnesota
poet, is dead at St. Paul at the age of
seventy-two.
Mrs. Mary Briscoe Wagner, a resident of Minneapolis for fifty-four
years, is dead. She was seventy-five
years of age.
Herbert C. Smith, for nearly forty
years a newspaper employe of the
Twin Cities, is dead at Minneapolis,
aged sixty-four.
An unidentified man leaped from
the Central avenue bridge at Minneapolis and his body was swept away
by the flood waters.
More than 1,000,000 hogs have been
marketed at South St. Paul since Jan.
1. Last year five months were necessary to reach this mark.
Rev. David Holmgren, aged seventy,
was run down by a runaway horse af,
Minneapolis and died soon after being
taken to the city hospital.
Prominent citizens of Minneapolis
are discussing plans for making Fort
Snelling a permanent military training
camp for men of the Northwest.
The recount of votes cast at the city
election of March 14 in Owatonna
ended in a finding of 759 dry votes,
807 wet ballots and eight blanks.
Herbert Hoffman, foreman on a
farm near Brainerd, committed suicide while brooding over a love affair.
He was twenty-eight years of age.
Jesse R. Hubbard, forty-five years
old. one of the best known railroad
conductors of Northern Minnesota, ls
dead at Duluth following an operation.
Private Lester K. Spaulding, a Min-
nesotan, has been awarded the first
distinguished conduct medal in Canada for unusual acts of bravery at the
front.
Arian Paulson, two-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Paulson of Rochester, drank carbolic acid found in a
pile of rubbish while playing and died
an hour later.
Herbert Emery, thirty-four years
old, committed suicide at Austin by
cutting his throat. Illness and financial trouble are supposed to have
prompted the deed.
A daughter just* born to Mr. and
Mis. Charles Stewart, residing near
Sherburne, is said to be the first baby
girl born in the Stewart family in
more than 100 years.
Sale of small tracts of land in the
ceded portions of the Chippewa reservations in Minnesota is provided for
.in a bill introduced in congress by
Representative Steenerson.
Henry Tipp, alias "Kid" Scully, convicted at Minneapolis for an offense
against a young girl, was sentenced
to Stillwater penitentiary for a term
of from one to seven years.
Jean Duluth farm at Duluth has
sold the Uioroughbred Guernsey bull,
May King Linda Vista, for $4,600. said
to be the highest price ever paid for
a Guernsey bull in the United States.
Peter Cromberg, a member of the
Great Northern section crew at Litchfield, was struck by a fast mail train
and almost instantly killed. Cromberg
was attempting to push Martin Martinson :i!!ffh the tracks when he was
struck.
J. T. Johnson of Fergus Falls, who
has been a member of the legislature
for several years and who has fre-
Quently been mentioned as a probable
dry candidate for speaker of the next
house, pleaded guilty to a charge of
illegal liquor selling, and paid a fine
of ">7E and costs. Mr. Johnson is a
druggist.
Read the Journal ads.
This is good Friday wea
ther.
Barney Burton was a business caller Tuesday.
Correspondents must mail
their letters on Monday.
Tony Fueger was here on
official business Friday last
week.
Barney Gross and Herman
Koering made a trip to Little
Falls Wednesday.
John Wallace of Brainerd
is again working inJohn(ias-
sert's butcher shop.
Tommy Feucht has returned from the St. Cloud Business College.
Fmil Johnson of Platte
Lake township' spent a few
days of this week in Pierz.
Mich. Lochowitch has resigned his possition as bartender at the John Grell saloon.
Andrew and Henry Virnig
returned yesterday from St.
Cloud, where they attended
the Business College.
John 1mm of Platte Lake
township was a caller here
Thursday. It took him six
hours to make the trip.
Loads of  household goods
Clean Up And
Keep Clean
Clean up your yard and have
your ashes, rubbish and all refuse piled up by May 1st. The
dump ground will be open
from the morning- of May 1st to
the evening- of May 5th, during
wliich time you will have full
access to same.
It is in the same old place in
Adrian Grell's pasture. After
May EStb, the keys to the dump-
ground will be in the hands of
tlie draymen, and they alone will
have a right to haul rubbish
there. Remember the time, from
May 1st to 5th, inclusive.
J, L. Hodman's Idea
On Good Roads
Old Landmarks Gone
Two ancient landmarks have
disappeared fro m the village of Pierz. The old barn
which stood on the rear of the
Barnev Gross property, and the
scorched skeleton of the Mischke
building were torn down last
week. Notliingremains of them
but a few heaps of splinti
boards. The barn was built 35
years ago and had about outlived its usefulness; tlie Mischke
building was built ten
years later, and, but for damage
by tire last fall, might have answered a purpose for at least
ten years longer. Tliescreech oi
the nails as they were tugged
and   lifted   from their old rusty
Buckman, Minn., Apr. 17. r16.
The Pierz Journal:
How to prevent are-occurance
of the unspeakable condition of
the roads leading to Buckman is
a serious problem to solve. I
am told that nothing can be done
in the nearfuture, and present
deplorable conditions can not be
overcome owing soil conditions.
. As I am interested in good
roads I will advance a few suggestions which may in the future relieve the difficulty if carried out.
By all means clear away any
brush, grass or noxious weeds
from the sides of the roads. Be
sure your culverts are large enough to carry away the water
as rapidly as possible.
Do not cut your ditches too
deep and too close to the roadbed .
When grading up a read bed
do not get too much of the same
earth and sod onto the road bed
unless a gravel or rock foundation is assured.
Have you noticed that tlie
built roads thru a marsh werein
much better condition than those
on higher ground? There is a
reason for this: yon were forced
to give tins your earliest   atten-
News From The
County   Seat
(From Transcript.)
Miss  Blanch   Lewis, who dis-
New Road to Onamia
Will Be Opened
County Commissioner  Riche-
leau went to Rucker Monday to
GENERAL VILLA.
Mexican   Bandit  Leader
Again    Reported    Dead.
appeared   from   her   home  here   rent   buildings to   house the la-
last Wednesday and for whom a
search has been conducted since
by Sheriff Felix and Mrs. M.
Lewis, her mother, was found
Monday morning wandering along the   Freedhem   road   seven
borers and teamsters, which
will be employed on the new
Onamia road.
mkt  Riclie-
leau returned   from tlie   Rucker
miles from Little Falls by Mor-   country  Tuesday   evening.     He
ris Olson, a Belle Prairie farmer.
Mr. Olson went to the home
of Lyman Ayer and telephoned
the sheriff, after his efforts to
get the girl to accompany him
had been unsuccessful, and Mr.
Ayer went after the girl and
took her home. .Sheriff Felix
brought hertoLitt-h Mon
day afternoon and she is at St.
Gabriel's hospital receiving medical attention. She is very
weak and told the sheriff that
she had had nothing to eat since
she left home and had been
pi ig outdoors. She made
no explai alion of her leaving
e,   but  : .   ra-j
;i   and   was   able   to return
iiueHue it answers to q
asked her. When she is stroi
she   will   be   qu d   mort
ly.     She   i :.une
no   one   but   lie.
par. ure.
Mrs. Lewis asked the Transcript to express ber thanks to
the public for the assistance
which   had   been i ive i in locat-
rented the   buildings on   tin
II lywood   place  to be   used   as
headquarters for a crew of men
and teams,   which will  work on
the   new   Onamia   road   a   g
part of the summer.    The   crew-
will, number about 25 or B0 men.
This   new   road   will   turn
somewhere near Christmas lake,
and    will    shorten     the    wa
road to Onamia to 27 miles   The
work of   clearing will   begin   as
soon   as   the   condition   of   the
ground will   permit, which   will
pro ■ about May 15th.
West Buh News,
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HEAVY FIGHTING
AROUND VERDUN
Louis   Axmen   left  for   Ci
.< . Wiscons
The   Lad   s    Ud of 1 he   Free
Mission   church   mel   Sunday at
Ison home.
A birl hdny surpris ; iven
at   th |    BoFchers   home
and machinery are going in- sockets gave evidence thai the
to the county north and east hammer which drove them home
of here almost every day.        . meant they should stay there.
The Mischke   corner was ti
Frank Sagorski and Alex
S. Johns ot Platte, who have
been working at■Keiner,Minu.
all winter, returned home
Monday.
down to make room for the new
German State Bank budding. In
the march of progress the
must ever make room for the
new and young. This is true of
Miss Gertrude Stumpf left   buildings as well as individuals.
Times change and with the
change and demands of times,
buildings of modern* type must
displace the dilapidated and the
old.
The Pierz boys wbo are out in
the world chasing their favorite
phantoms, upon their return,
will look   with   favor   upon the
Monday for Little Falls, and
from there she will accompany her sister, Mrs. (r. M. liei-'
tners to Minneapolis.
Fred Kheer shipped a car
of emigrant goods from Genola to Canada last Monday.
Fred, it is said, will make his
permanent home in Canada.
^ advance ol their old home tow n.
Henry   Vandenheuvel  has But  it  will   not  be  without a n,(ls< m,t even plowing should
taken   a Contract    to   buila a   Huge of regret.    The old fami 1-   be  permitted nor should it be a
Stretch   of    state    road   near  iar   scenes   they   returned to see  storage  place   for   boulders, it.
tion.
Now during a slow thaw and
with an unusual heavy snow,
you should do something to clear
away at least some ol the snow
oa a northern or western slope
of a hill otherwise you would
have a constant running stream
along the wagon track's; each
wagon load will cut the furrows
a little deeper. Usually there
is not much snow at the higher
elevation otherwise you would
have to clear the top of some of
the snow too.
Do not let running water
change your clay road into a
fathomless mire. Drain it off
from the road as soon as possible.
Your roads should be fully
four rod; wide, without obstructions   on   or   within   these   four
Bemidji, Beltrami Co., and
will leave for there in about
two weeks.
April weather --- a little
snow,—a little rain,—a few
thunder showers,—winds off
and on, — muddy and soft
roads,—that should make
genuine April weather.
Math. Lichtenberger of
Holdingford moved into his
new home, the Henry Vandenheuvel place, east of the
village, this week. Henry's
family lias moved into the
Jos. Brummer house in Last-
nip.
The auto bus between here
and LittleFalls is again making two trips daily. Owing
to a bad stretch of road near
Cody's place, traffic from
Little Falls to Cody's is done
by team, and from that place
to here, by auto.
The one year old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Annt
of Little Falls died yesterday
afternoon and burial held
tomorrow. The child was a
grandchild to Jos. J. Faust of
Pierz. Mrs. Faust will attend the funeral.
will be gone  and  they   will  pro-
ably take sticks and   mark the
dangerous and  against the law.
In   summer   time after a rain.
place in the sand where the barn   weather   permitting, the   roads
stood they used to play hideand  »l">ald be dragged.
Don't   be   giouchy,    when   it
so seek in.
News Gathered
Here and There
ing her daughter and especially  Saturday, April 15.    Tin
to Sheriff Felix, who   has   been  -■ i thirty-
conducting a search lor the
since her disappearance.
Mrs. Sarah A. R( id died Sunday morning at the home of her
<laughter, Mrs. II. W. Tenners,
.')04 Third street northeast, after
an illness of several months
Bfight's disease.
Mrs. J\''id was born Dec. 18,
1858,    at   Titusville.    Pa.,    and
fifth birthday. A midnight lunch
was served aud a good time
was had.
Fred Schneider will leave
Miles City, Montana, iii the near
futured.    He will be accompan-
i d by two of   his   f.iends  from
RuthtOn.    Thej   are  at pre
Dli    the    II -.hncidei
family.
socia I  was given at
came   to   Little   Falls  2J years  the  Freedhem   schoolhouse.    A
ago to make her  home  and has crowd from here intended to
lived here since. She leaves
four children, a sister and two
brothers. The children are Mrs.
Will Reid of Staples, Prank
Reid of Walker, Mrs. 11. W. Venders and Mrs Jacob Kingen of
this city. Mrs. G. W. Taylor of
Little Falls is a sister anil the
brothers are Marvin and Ellsworth Mars of Saginaw, Mich.
Funeral services will be held
at 8 o'clock Tuesday afternoon
at the M. E. church and interment will be in Oakland cemetery.
comes to hauling a little sand;
for sand ami clay make a good
roadbed. Every farmer should
make it a point to help and
avoid a reoccurrance of the prevailing  evil; it's a determent to
Phil.   S. Randall  returned | them
to Little Falls  this morning.
Bad  weather interupted his
work of surveying the church
land west of road into build
ing lots.    The  Sisters   t
t'Sl-
Yours Truly,
Jacob L. Holiman.
Teacher Dist. 99.
Grain and Produce
flarket Report.
deuce, it is reported, will be   vheat, No. 1, $1.10
moved to the east of the par- Wheat, No- 2     1.07
ochial school. Wheat, No. 3.. LOi
i Flax, .
Louis Feucht and   Xorbert  Barley
Brummer  returned Tuesday  Rye--.
from  Mille  Lacs lake,   with Oats.
several   hundred   pounds of
fish.   "There were seven fishing parlies at the ontletMon-
day   evening,"  said Xorbert,
"but we   managed to   get all
we wanted.    Fish are still as
plentiful  as  they  were ten
years ago, but you don't  see
as  many  big   fellows   now.
The    biggest     Muskie    we
speared   weighed   about    20
pounds.
1.90
B2
65
7.00
37
17
3.10
Plans  and   specifications  for
the Little Falls federal building
were received by   Posttnast
I'.  Brick Tuesday  morning, and
may   be seen   at tin
The building is to be two stories
in   height,   with   basement   ami
attic and   will be   72 feet   I
It .vill fa.ee Broadway.
The   specifications    stipi
that the   building must  be <
pleted   within  14   months   In m
the   time  the  bid   is  accepted.
Bids will be opened at Washington, May I 7th.
The building will be o\ st
and brick with an approach on
the Broadway sidi
by a row of ornamental columns. The lirst Moor will be
several feel above the sidewalk
and will be reached by a flight
of granite st
but the rain prevented.
('ail Johnson from   Freedhem
was a Sunday   visitor  at tl
A . < llson  home.
Mary Olson Is home from Little   Palls  spending   her   E
Vacation.
Hildur Beckman is home fiom
Little Falls, where she had bc-n
ernploj ed.
Arthur   and    Waller   Willand
attended the farmers club m
ing at FVeddhem Saturday even
ing.    Mr.  Metcalf  from   Little
Falls   was   the  speakei
evening.    Be spoke on Farmers
shipping association and buying
a scale  lor  the   farmes  Use   in
Belle Prarie.
[da Kohs has purchased a new
"A I leu" car from a I
all that is re tuired is good
Hilda I Ian - it Thur-
at the Wieland home.
A farewell   p.
the li. i     - last
lay in In wbo
will soon depart for Montana.
O. and i
coun
that th(
Alma of Little   I
company them home.
Mr and Mrs U
visited at til
,y evening.
Ear Corn	
Hay	
Butter, Creamery	
Dairy	
Eggs	
Flour. Royal	
■'    White Rose	
Low grade flour 1.60
Bran 1.25
Shorts  1.80
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans -      4.00
Onions        60
This is the  popular
over thi    -
farmer for
merchant, win. paid il to
London, April  IT
Vntix sector no
been :
nt,    luit    the   I
and   B
Pari
niont  tbe  Freneh troops In  nn attack
and took  two h
which I from Fori 11
i lerman
artilli
a    iii   the
nvllle,    I
mom and
Germ.;
I d, while  I
cords b  )><>-
altlon th in
mining operui
$40,000,000 RIVER
BILL PASSES HOUSE
Washington, April 13 nnusl
and harl n  Mil,
carrying i
by  a vote  of 2
i       i upon In
chant-
res of an
items.
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Th'
a   $?'•
proaclies  to iii
Is   for  continuing   worl.   on
ment  projects already auth..
under
COAL MINERS GET INCREASE
Pennsylvania   Operators   Add   (
000 a Year to Payro;
Philadelphia,
will     tota.
check-off clause  for bo;
laborers   and
bltumlnou
.
Mine Workers of   '
Fifty  thi
by th
for   11
this dlstn
RULING   ON  ARMED   LINERS
State   Department   Asked   to   Pass  on
Clearance of French  Sh:pj.
uent -
and Ita<:
bich ar
mount'
state department for a ruling.
FAVORS TION   BILL
Senate Adopts House Measure in Toto
Save for One Clause.
•.ouse In.
banker g
saw a   $10 bill  on the  curb- ing the banker
stone.    He picked   it up   no- went io   the   b.
ticed the number and w< Tlie  banker
home to dinner.   While ho tjnized  the hi!
his   wife remarked  that  the .ml   ui.
butcher had sent a bill which all ti                   lid $-'0 worth                           ™£Je;
amounted to   Sin.    The
,      ,     , .,      ,-ni The committee ause
money he had was the bill lie nation   he   found   i
had   found,   which   he   _
her and she paid the butcher. iu   the ctiou  u
The   butcher paid   it to
lmn