The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-04-27

              Imtttal
VOL. NO. 7
PIERZ, 1T0RRIS0N COUNTY, MINNESOTA, APRIL 27, 1916.
NO. 45.
PRESIDENT WILSON.
Informs      Congress      of
Ultimatum   to   Germany.
News Gathered
Here and There
® 1913, by American Press Association.
SENATE PROVIDES
ARMY OF A MILLION
Washington, April 20.—An army reorganization bill that would produce
regular army and reserve military
forces in the United States aggregating a million men was passed by the
senate without a record vote.
It is a substitute for the Hay bill,
passed by the house, and the differences will be worked out in conference.
In the closing hours of debate the
senate made provisions for a regular
standing army with a peace strengtfi
of 250,000 men, as compared with 14?f-
000 In the Hay bill, which passed the
house.
The senate retained after a close
fight the plan for a federal volunteer
army reserve force calculated to aggregate 201,000 men and federalized
the national guard forces of the states
at an estimated strength of 280,000
men.
In addition to this combined regular
and reserve force of 790,000 men an
amendment was passed to create a
school and college reserve corps in
time of war or threatened war, which
would recruit a force of trained young
men, schooled by officers of the regular army, the strength of which is estimated anywhere from 200,000 to
400,000.
BATTLE OF VERDUN
STILL IS UNDECIDED
London, April 24.—Battles of heavy
proportions have been in progress in
all the war theaters except the Balkans. Successes for the entente allies and the Teutonic allies have
varied.
The Germans claim the capture of
French trenches in (ho Verdun region
southeast of Moucourt and west of
Dead Man's hill, while Parts records
the taking of several German posts in
the Avocourt wood. Hill No. 304 is
again under heavy bombardment of
thi^ Germans.
The Italians and Austrians have
fought   a   sanguinary   ei ent  on
the Carso front, near Selz, in which
the Italians captured fl(!0 meters of
Austrian trenches and took a number
of prisoners and a quantity of rifles
and other war stores.
While the Russians report that In
the   I region  near  Aschkala,
fifty miles west of Erzeru'm, they have
captured an Important sector of the
Turkish positions. Constantinople says
that south of Bitlis the Turks have defeated the Russians and sent them in
retreat toward Bitlis.
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MANY TO "YIELD.
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Rome, April 23.—Austria will
bring stvons; pressure to bear
to prevenl Gel ui break
ing with the United States, it
is learned  here.
Hungarian statesmen, in particular, desire thai Germany
yield to the United States rather than bring matters to a
crisis.
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THAW IS GRANTED DIVORCE
Wife Offers No Defense to Infidelity
Charges.
Pittsburg, April 23. Harry K. Thaw
has been granted a divorce from Evelyn Nesbll Thaw.
The decree was granted by Judge
Josiah Cohen on recommendation of
Attorney   W.   S.   Thomas,  master.
The suit was tiled some lime ago on
ids of Infidelity. There was almost no
Read the Journal ads.
Fine Spring weather Sunday and Monday.
C. Look of Sullivan Lake
was in town Tuesday.
Clara Neisius is working
for Mrs. Frank Grell.
Hunters report that Rice
Lake is covered with duck.s
Buttermaker Bayer and
family spent Sunday at Elrosa.
Jos. H. Irrell   has l>uilt  a
large   machine shed  back of
his store.
Frank Brandl visited his
parents at New Munich over
Sunday.
Deputy Sheriff Fueguer
passed through the village
Tuesday noon.
Jos. H. Grell is building an
addition to his kitchen back
of his dwelling house.
Henry Roch left for Johns-
dale last Sunday where he
intends to do road work.
M. E. Barnes, school superintendent, is here visiting
schools in Pierz aud vicinity.
Mrs. John Stumpf is reported seriously ill at the
John liassier home at Little
Falls.
August Drews and F. X.
Buesseler went to LittleFalls
Wednesday to get their Assessor books.
Mike Auer of Belle Prairie
was in town Saturday. Mike
predicts a good crop even if
seeding is late.
Mrs. Leo Buhr and children left Friday for Adams,
Minn., where they will visit
for three weeks with relatives.
The six-inonths-old infant
daughter of Kalr Kapsner
had the misfortune Sunday
afternoon of breaking her
thigh bone.
Arthur Krupp of St. Cloud
was here Saturday to see to
the  excavating for the base-
News Gathered
Here and There
Must "Erect
Guide Posts
.Nick Staub is on the sick
list.
Simon Kazella is here buying stock.
Jos. Hortsch of Buckman
was in the village Monday.
A crew of men repaired
N. W. Telephone lines this
week.
R. M. Gross of Richmond
is employed as printer in the
Journal office.
The rural mail carriers are
equipping their motorcycles
with sidecars.
Herman Sauer and of l)ix-
ville visited at the Math.
Neisius home Friday.
W. H. Galley of   Royalton i carried out.
was  a  business  caller  here
the forepart of this week'.
Alois and Hildegard Bus-
sen of Richmond visited over
Sunday at F. O. Bolster's.
Math. Neisius left for Frazee last week to work in the
Nicols-Chisholm saw mill.
The need  need of guide posts
along"  the  rural highway of the
state has caused the Pairmount
Automobile Club to call tlie attention  of the  town  boards of
the state tint the law  requires
them to erect  guide   posts   for
tlie   convenience   of   travelers.
Sec.  681,   Chap.   8  Statutes of
1905, general laws of Minnesota
reads:  "Every town shall erect
and   maintain   guideposts   and
boards at such places on tlie public roads therein as shall be convenient for the direction of travelers."   It is stated that practically  no  attention   has  been
paid to this   law  and the auto-
mobilists  will endeavor to' have
tlie   provision  of   the   measure
News From The      Some Interesting
County  Seat        Country Items
Big Farms or Heap Big Liars
"Yes Sir,"' resutnbed the Da-
lcato farmer, as the crowd of agriculturists seated themselves
around a little table; "yes, sir"'
we do things on a rather sizable
scale.    I've seen a m.m   on   one
i of our big farms start out in the
John Fischer Jr. has begun        • ,    , r ...
6        spring  and plow a furrow until
to drag the  road from  Math.      . ,,,,       ,        , ,
n I autumn.      then   turned   around
Zierer's to John Muellner's. .   , .    »   „,     w.   ,
and    harvest    back.    We   have
Leo     Virnig.   student    at some big- farms ap there gentle-
the State University spent men. A •"riend of mine owned
Faster here with his parents, one which he had to give amort-
Mrs. Win. Schauble spent «"a'-rfJ on> and I pledge you my
Monday and Tuesday visiting word the mortgage was due on
with friends at Holdingford. olle end before  they  could get
.... , it recorded at   the   other.    And
Auto   drivers   report   the
(From Transcript.)
Colonel A. D. Davidson, for
many years prominent in financial and business circles in the
noortwest and a former resident
of Little Palls, died from stomach trouble Saturday evening at
a hotel at Rochester, where he
had gone gone for treatment, j C. E. Looks.
The   remains   will   be  taken to      ^,jr j   j^r
Duluth and the funeral
will be held from the family
home there tomorrow afternoon.
Colonel Davidson made home
in Little Palls for about 10 years
leaving to live at Duluth in I
While a resident he served   one
term as mayor.    With his broth-
Hoistein Park
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial interest to
Minnesota Readers.
Bert Sanborn was a I'ierz visitor Monday.
Rose   Adkins  spent  Tuesday
evening with Ruby Tho np.s
Sam M;u lens spent Su.idayat
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
s. L  Kramer are
staying at  thej.   King   home.
The ladies are sisters.
Mr. and Mrs. I - Sanborn
and daughter and Mr. and Mrs.
Pred Sorum and children were
entertained at the Martens home
Easter Sunday.
School bus No. 1 does not run
ers, A. R. and   William   David-  anymore.    Wonder why.
son, he founded   the   First   Na-       Alvah   Martens went to Last-
tioaal bank of this city and had  ™P Saturday.
been one of its  directors  since. J    p    Brenner   visited   at Iv M
He   was  interested in banks at Thompson's Sunday.
Duluth, in the Davidson & McRae
Little Falls road in fine condition except the stretch this
side of Metcalfs.
with grief—women yelling, chil-
Rauch Bros.' Saw mill has dren howling, and dogs barking,
finished sawing for this sea- One of my men had his camp
son. All told, 60,000 feet of truck packed on seyen four-mule
lumber were sawed. teams, and   was   going   around
Three of Karl Kapsner's bidding everybody goodbye,
cows were dangerously sick " Where was be going?" He was
last week from drinking of ffoing half-way across the farm
the refuse fluid from the to feed tue PteV' replied the
creamery. | Dakota   man.    "Did he ever get
Wm   tm *«, i        i        back to his family?"    "It  isn't
in. Meyer  one   day   last
*,i- v    ,        ■ ..    .     time for him vet." Up there we
week had an increase ot twini
„„i„„„ i      i • i.   •     • ,     send   a young   married   couple
calves  and a big  colt inside x     8
„t „..    i.^....      o. ■<. out to n ilk the cows, and   tlieir
or an   hour.    Prosperity   enough for tlie time being. I children  bring home the milk.
E.  O.   Roehm   and   F.   C.-l SOUttl kg\M NeWS,
real estate firm and was general
agent for the land department
of the Canadian Northern railroad .
Mr. Davidson organized the
German State Bank about 15
years ago, and is quite well
known by most of those who
were in business in Pierz at
that time.
In speaking of the road conditions in the county a local man
today said:
"From all reports   the   worst
stretch    of    road    in   Morrison
county is about two miles out of
Little  Palls on the   Pierz   road.
1 saw a whole family prostrated | This is the   road   that   has   had
more money spent on ii than any
the   worst   of it is it breaks   up
the families so.    Two years ago
G.   L\   Martens  r tlie
sad   news   that   his   father
at Wadena April [8th, at tlie age
of 83 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and Mr.
and    .Mrs.    I: spent    last
Saturday  night  and Sunday at
the Oliver home near Vineland.
vm   Martins called on :
Thompson Sunday afternoon.
Some of the young  from   li
attended the masquerade  dauce
at iI. Smith's on Monday nighl
Sullivan News
Pern    Dorman    visited    with
ley  Look-   last   Wednesday
night.
ment  of  the   German   State
Bank building. Kowitz of Dixville   were cal-
t  i      i>   i-   u-ii i     -i     Its   in    Pierz    Fridnv      Mr i     Math   Reding  called   on  Bill
John P. Kobilka  and wile L 1!?   iU    X:1W1Z   *nuay.    J*".
„,,,->. ,,     ICowit'/ issHci-pt-wv -m,! i^k   Brummer Sunday,
of South Pierz  were in   the iMWira 18sucretarj ana treas-
Villaee   Monday   making  aj>'urer0^k©iJittle ^0v^ Cream-      Mr. and Mrs. John Edenshink
rangements on the property
in lower   town to move in in
about two or three weeks.
"When we have no seed-
corn and can get none," said
a Lastrup farmer, "the best
we can do is not to plant
any." He is about right. He
couldn't do better.
ery. jand  daughter Loraine and Mrs.
i   i        (,   ,       c        j.   sjr  , .1.   J.   Mruinmer    and    daughter
John   Schaefer of Melrose ,,., , ,   ... .        ,,      .
.  . , Hildegard, Misses Anna Ranch,
visited relatives  here several
We  were   pi   ised to see John
Bollig*   smiling far ■ itur-
day when the mail arrived.
other road in the county What
ls the matter? There is plenty
of good road-making material,
and enough labor has been put
on this road to make it right?
The odd part is that the*worst
places are on the side hills. Plat
roads—no side ditches or drainage—is to blame. A number oi
local number of local concerns
thatdoconsiderable hauling over
this road are having lots of Sunday afternoon
trouble this spring. When com
pared with the 13 miles of tractor build road north of this city,
or the road to Royalton, it does
not compare Favorably."
Merle I took was a Pierz calk r
Saturday, going by the way of
Hillman.
Mrs. I,. P. Ford and da lighter,
T. S. Look- and   wile   and   Sam
Martin  were guests at the <
Look    home    Sunday.      Easter
e_;'g.s were greatly in widen.
The voting folk's practiced
ball on Peter Adkins clover Held
Mrs.   R ibert Adkins called at
! 'eter Adkins Sunday.
.lohn Brittou drove to Lastrup
Monday.
The Catholics of Rich Prairie   plan to have   their   new
T.   S    Lo >k   wan a   busi
r in Pierz Monday.
days last week. Mr. Schaef-
er had a meat market here
several years ago.     He is en-
Cltra Hesch and Bertha Leidenfrost visited at the John Kippley
home Sundav.
Ms   Pred   Sporlein  aud   son
gaged in   the same   busineffl Joe,    and    Mrs.     Hanson    were
Pierz caller last week.
at Melrose
Nick J., Win. M. and John
M.   Meyer   and   their   uncle
is   son
Aug. Eichmiller left Mon- Mike   ^^    aud   ^
day   morning   for   Montana!   ^  bad.  tQ  Frazee to  re.
•Isume  their   work   with the
Nichols and Chisholm Lumb-
Everybody around here is busy
harrowing and seeding.
Kate     Neisius    is    attending
school at Pierz.
er some homestead   land.    If
Grain and Produce
he finds the country as good
as it has been reported to
him he may file on a claim.
Work  on tlie   bank   base-
Harket Report.
er Co., where they have held
positions for several year. \ heat. No. 1, $1.10
Wheat. No- 2       1.07
Tlie  fire  department   was wheat No. 3-.                    1 02
called out  Tuesday forenoon [,'|ax                                         j qq
ment is progressing   rapidly,  to   quench a small'  blaze   on Barley"                                    58
Much of the dirt   taken   out ; the roof of  the Peter  .Meyer Kye      ""_"
Will be used   as   filler   for a  house  in   lower   town.    The 0ats"
The    masquei at
Smith's   Monday   night   v
church ready for services this
season.      It   is   tlie   largest
church   building in this part S  ™ral relatives from Stearn*
. ,,                       . .. .                     . (              o   Ihe \\.  A.  L\ mi fam-
ot tlie state and it is expected .                                                ...
1 ily arrived  Monday and will vi-
that it will take   three   more sjl ;i |c.A. (i.
years to complete it. - Transcript 30 years ago.
LASTRUP NEWS
Rev. J. P. Driver and  fain- 	
ily arrived from De Lacs, N. Virnig and
1)..  tlie    latter   part.of   last  Joan   Ortmanu   returned   from
week and will take up a j
maneut residence here.     Mr.
Driver  has been sent het
succeed Rev. Cronk as pastor
in the l". K. church   and   lie
conducted    services in   that
Mr-
sick
tire   evidently   started from
sparks from tlie chimney fall-
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Hay     7.00
ing onto the dry shingles.        Butter> Creamel.y ..      37
Wm.  Faust, the Journal is °airy       27
pleasd   to   report,   can  do a Rg'g's      1^
good  job  in   auto   painting. Flour.Koyal	
His prices   are   very   reason-     "   WhiteRose..      3.10
says the Farmers" "phones are abK'- compared with the pric- Low grade flour 1.60
working  oul  as   well as  ex- ©f usually   charged  for that Bran .1.25
° , ,  class   ot    work
pected,   Bave  that   now   and
sidewalk   from   the   Barney '
Burton corner to the sidewalk
in   front of the   the   Sisters'
residence.
Theo. Ortmann of Lastrup
was in town Wednesday.   He
His    work  Shorts  	
._1.30
then the winds will break a
pole or two. Farmers cannot
control the elements.
compares favorably with that
of the best.    You   will make
no   mistake   by   giving   him
r work in that line.
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans      4.00
Onions         60
Iner
home  Sunday   aftern
m   tbHt  Mr.   and   Mrs.   Prank   Mill
church last Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Jphn Fischer
—Kimball Kodak. Mrs. Peter Wagner and danght
  Martha   and   Kathryi
Mr. and Mrs.  .lohn  Fischer Jr.
Don't Forget It.
Monday is May 1st. The
dumpground will be open from
the tirst of May until the 5th of
May. Aaul your dirt away during those tive days. Alter the
5th of May the draymen alone
will have the keys to the dump-
ground.
Yards must be all
by the 10th day of May.
John II     S
ting with the John;
iicr family last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vanden-
speht Sunday afternoon at
rge Tretter hou
bn Brummer called oi\ John
Hampton, four yen:
run ovpr and killed by an ai
I ban It.
I.   M.   i
ounty,   Is   dead   from   :
Albert   I..   Tlazpr.   (lit
old. manager of the Minneapolis Klks'
ch-.b.
Albert II. Paegel, a Minneapoll
idem   for  fortj
-;!it.
The new Mankato city directory in-
in ]>op»i
in th >.rs.
Fifty-six   leadinp   bus: □   of
>ni:od a corporation to
Five hundred part
in a h ml to be |
inkato on July -l.
•   .       iiliei
old,  i   resident   of  Minneapolis
Flvi
rlously. as ihe result of an automobile
'ii at  Minneapolis.
The   Swift   C
crounds will 1
tion of a nool  exhibit  build
ing.
train-
erd has petitioned the city council to
moving picture th Sun
day.
Work  is  In  |
son   International   hirh-
bulldl
and  damaged   adjoin
■
date for v il   the
!   in   the   linn!
er, four
killed
to jump  on  the  fender  of
Tin       ■ 'i   count;
ml   a
fourth is said to bi
do li:
Henry    i thirty-four    •
old,  a  Bwltehn run  nvi
killed  In  the   \
1 iit Wlnoi
Zywickl
■ ■•I   in   th
Winona   when
while suffering from a fit.
Tie lis   of   Ml
on  the nnnu
cut, which will run wel
his   filing
nnd fon.
pd his candidal
■
young son wa*
\V.
n the Mil.
for murder In  1003. ha:
.  cut  his  wif
tli en
but ti
Two-year-old
Paul tome    pi
strychnine   an
died   on   hour  lat>-r  ai
hospit
Smith, thi
residing  i
.tally in
ing been Impaled upon
a pitchfork.
Edwin   R.  Cooper,   tl
old,  member of  th<
Paul and Duluth.
an a ut cm obi!
Daniel  W.  Lawler o!
filed  for the  I
tbe same position agaii
son several years ago, but
land.
Andrew  Johnson,   fit-
old, a of lJllllltl
of a
Ruth
old, died within twenty hou:
other.
Governor Burnquist b
tenta;
Xcrt!
to  p;
ds In Beltrami. K
Hubbard count:
now   In   tbe   real
Mloncap*
for <
Two bo
old.
hi-.v   hern   held   t
amily wei
Don't Forget to Attend the EA5TER DANCE at Faust's Hail Monday, Ma>   1, iVio,