The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-04-08

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THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VT>L. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, APRIL 8, 1915.
NO. 43.
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Victory for Minnesota u
Resolution Ordering Investigation la
Amended.
By a vote of 68 to 57 the lower
house of the legislature adopted an
amendment to the University of Minnesota Investigation resolution eliminating the section for a special committee and Instructing the public accounts and expenditures committee to
continue Its Inquiry.
The vote came after the most stormy
lession since the opening of the present legislature, during which personalities were hurled across the chamber and it was suggested that two
members retire to a committee room
and decide their personal questions
by physical  combat.
The result of the vote was considered a victory by friends of the university, who put forth a most vigorous fight against the Malmberg-
Qreene-Lydiard   resolution.
MILL   CITY   BANK   MERGER
First National and Security National
,, United.
The First National bank and the
Security National bank of Minneapolis have merged.
The new bank will be called the
First and Security National bank and
will have a combined capital and surplus of $11,000,000 and deposits of
$50,000,000. It will be the largest
bank west of Chicago and will outrank the First National bank of St.
Paul  $13,000,000  in  deposits.
The First National bank of Minneapolis and the Soo road have long
been closely allied and recently erected a $1,000,000 office and bank building. The new institution is regarded
by financiers as a strong Soo ally.
DRAFTING   SUFFRAGE  BILLS
Two Measures Providing for Limited
Voting to  Be  Introduced.
The Minnesota Equal Suffrage
league is completing the details of the
two limited suffrage bills to be introduced in the legislature.
Mrs. Antoinette Funk of Washington, a woman lawyer and legal adviser of the congressional committee
of the National Woman Suffrage association, is directing the formation of
the bills.
One will be like the Illinois law,
which provides presidential suffrage
and for the voting by women for as
many other offices as will be thought
practical in Minnesota. The other bill
provides for presidential suffrage
only.
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+        COST OF   LEGISLATION.        +
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+ The legislature is costing the +
•i- state $3,452 a day. +
-J- It  has  been  at  work  forty- •{•
+ seven  working days.    The  to- +
+ tal cost, as shown Ky the rec- +
+ ords of Walter J. Smith, state +
+ treasurer, has been $162,267. +
•f- During the ninety legislative +
•J- days   of  the  1918   session  the +
4» cost was  $284,573, or $3,161 a +
•J- day. +
•I* The  present  session  is  half +
•i- finished.    At the present rate +
+ of  expenditure  it   will   cost   a +
+ total   of   $324,5S'4>   or   $39,961 +
■i' more than the session of 1913. 4-
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+ ,J' + + + + + + + + 4,+ + + + + +
COLONIZATION   IS   BLOCKED
Brand Whitlock Writes Germans Will
Not Let Belgians Leave.
Five hundred thousand acres of
farm lands having been set aside by
a land company, through the effort*
of the Duluth Commercial club, business men and Mme. Artois, a Belgian
woman, for Belgian colonization, the
Duluth Commercial club officials addressed a letter of inquiry to Brand
Whitlock, American minister to Belgium.    Mr. Whitlock replied:
"While there are undoubtedly a
number of people who would be glad
to accept the offer you make I fear
that it is hot feasible at this time, as
the German military authorities positively refuse permission Belgian subjects to leave the country."
JILTED BY INDIAN, SHE SAYS
Minneapolis Girl Sues George P. Gordon for $18,000.
V^la M. Moore, nineteen years of
age, has filed suit In district court
at Minneapolis for breach of promise, asking $15,000 damages from
George P. Gordon, an Indian, graduate of Carlisle college and former
member of the.Carlisle football team.
Miss Moore alleges that she was to
have been married to Gordon in January, but that before that date Gordon married Miss Gazel Golbner. her
friend. She says Gordon owns property in Texas valued at more than
$35,000.
COLE  FORTUNE IS $250,000
Duluth Mining Man's Will Offered
for  Probate.
William H. Cole of Duluth, pioneer
Minesota mining man whose death occurred March 8 last at Pasadena, Cal.,
left an estate valued at upwards of
$250,000, according to a petition filed
iu probate court by D. B McDonald,
v ho asks to be appointed executor in
accordance with the terms of a will
which the petitioner seeks to have
admitted to probate.
The will which is offered for nro-
bate leaves $100,000 to the widw.
Village Council
Proceedings
The village council met in
regular monthly adjourned ses-
ion Monday evening April 5th.
All members were present.
Proceedings were read and
approved.
Upon motion the president appointed the following members
as standing committees for the
next year: Road committee S.
Priemesberger; Frank Marshick
building committe: John N.
Faust, committee on claims.
John N. Faust was appointed
a committee to make out a form
for a system of a three months
payment of water service.
Frank Marshik was instructed
to look after a dumping ground
for the village.
Motion made and carried that
Andrew Faust, treasurer of tbe
village of Pierz, shall receive
two per cent of all monies paid
out by him as treasurer, amounting to $4,644.80.
The following citizens were
appointed a board of health:
E. H. Kerkhoff and Louis Span-
fell ner.
The following bills were allowed:
Andrew  Faust,   fee for
$1,(344,80, fees paid
out 1914      $92.90
J. B. Hartmann, merchandise.   ..         6.65
Mike. Tschida, judge of
election  2.00
Carl Kapsner, judge of
election         2.00
John   Gross,   judge   of
election         2.00
J. B. Hartmann, for electric wire       30.00
Adjourned.
BAUNEY GROSS,
President.
J. B. Hartmann,
Village Recorder.
White Slavers
Foiled By Police
St. Cloud Times: The co-operation of the St. Cloud and
Minneapolis police and the suspicion that was aroused in the
minds of a St. Cloud man probably foiled a white slave plot
yesterday. A local resident who
was returning from Pierz reported to the police that a young
girl from that town who was on
her way to North wood had been
approached on the train by a
flashily dressed man and woman who had offered to see that
she reached the Milwaukee depot in Minneapolis. Tlie police
informed the Minneapolis officials of the circumstances, giving a good description of the
girl and the authorities of the
Mill City, reported this morning
that they had conducted the
girl to the station themselves
and placed her in the hands of
the matron at the station.
Leo Leidenfrosfs
House Destroyed
By Fire Saturday
Leo Leidenfrost lost his house
by fire last Saturday about 11
o'clock. The fire was discovered
early enough to save the furniture, but the house is a total
loss.
The fire started from sparks
from the chimney falling on the
shingles. The loss is estimated
at 82000.
John Vosen Dead
John Vosen, an old Pierz resident, died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Frank Kammer-
meyer, at half past eleven last
night.
He was born near Cologne,
Germany, April 3rd, 1842, and
was just past his 72nd. year.
Funeral will be held next next
Saturday.
Shorty Vonderhaar took
the train for N. Dakota this
morning. On leaving he said:
"Whatever you. do, keep the
band agoing."
Spend Small Fortune
In Tobacco
Diligent inquiry about town
fails to throw any light on the
above affair-
Fifteen Years Ago
Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer, was engineer in an electric
light plant in Detroit. Charley Murphy', the baseball millionaire, was a
reporter on the (Jincinna
Thomas H. Ince, the mot
magnate, was a oomio-operj
glad to get $50 a week. Ch;j
man owner of the Chicago
ball team and a string of
was a waiter in a quick
And so it goes. The list cou
out to a column's length
when you hear a boy or a
complain that, lie has no
him by the arm and tell
things. There never was a
world's history when the
opportunities for a youu
to push to the front. Ther
a time when a little iutel
determination wouldf prov
with competence in a few i
is particularly true in tl
business—for farming is
Tlie young man of today w
hold of a farm with the ide
it the best, farm in the couij
will work intelligently fo
with that idea always befi
not have to work for the
his life.
Hillman News
Interesting
Local News
Frank Leigh visited friends
in Rucker last Monday.
Miss Helen Davis and Julia
Leigh returned Monday from
Little Falls, where they spent
Easter.
The Teachout family is moving onto the place recently vacated by John Lease.
Joseph Kelly of Richardson
was a Hillman caller the first
of the week.
Osmer Leigh Sr. left Tuesday
for Dora Lake, Minn.
Miss Marie and Irwin Drews
and Andrew Markuson were
Pierz callers last week Tuesday.
Harry Miller returned Thursday from Pierz, where he has
been employed for some time.
later
Fri-
WILL LESSEN LAK
Breakwater  to Cost $4,0
sured   Dulut
Duluth is assured a $4,<
water off the harbor en
to  Congressman  Miller,
the  steamer Benjamin
fall  had  an  effect  on  t
Survey  will  be  made
ings   reported  to  congre;
ber.   Work on the surve
to begin in May.
Improvements  to   the
tern   at   the   lighthouse
made.    The foghorn and
south pier will be  eleetri|
ed from the shore if ne
WILL RUSH STEEL PLAN!
For a man to spend $20 per
year for tobacco is not unusual,
yet this sum put at interest
each year from the age of 20 to
70, will amount to $30,000 at
the end of this period.
Tobacco is useless if not actually harmful, but $30,000 in the
bank when you get to be 70
years old would be a fine thing
for any of us.—Ex.
Thousand Men,to Be Employed a
Duluth.
Within the next week or two 70t
to 1,000 men will be put at worl
on the steel plant of the Minnesoti
Steel company at Duluth and it is in
tinmted that the plant will be rushet
to completion. Vice President Join
Reis of the Minnesota Steel companj
will reach Duluth shortly to resunii
construction work.
According to President Farrell's re
cent annual statement $3,000,00<
worth of work has yet to be clone or
the steel plant to complete it and i'
is hoped to finish it this year.
DEFEATS   PROHIBITION  BILl
Card of Thanks.
We are sincerely thankful
for the kindness shown by
our neighbors and friends
during our recent bereavement caused by the death of
our sou Joseph.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Neisius.
Statutory   Measure    Killed   in   Minne
aota  House.
Statutory statewide prohibition was
defeated in the lower house of th<
legislature when an attempt to over
ride the committee report recommending for indefinite postponement
Representative Anderson's bill met
failure by a vote of SO to 39.
When the majority report of the
committee, which voted 9 to 6 for indefinite postponement, came up, Representative Anderson moved to hava
the  bill  placed  on  general  orders.
Try Journal want ads for results.
ing to accounts they were a
rather scrub lot; but much
too good for "cannon fodder."
P. A. and J. B. Hartmann
were called to Jordan Friday
on account of the sudden serious illness of their father,
Valentine Hartmann. They
returned Saturday reporting
their father much better.
The letter "F" plays a big
part in life. It stands with
the farm and tlie farmer: lie
must f-ertelize the f-urrows,
send the best f-ruits to the
f-air. and plant for tlie f-u-
ture. His f-ields must be
f-ree from weeds and f-iltii,
his land clear of legal f-ees,
but f-ull of f-ruit, and f-amous
for f-ull measure and f-ine
f-lavor. Good f-ences eliminate f-ury, he gards against
f-ire and reads tlie Pierz
Journal.
Don't ride a borrowed horse
to death.
Sunday was  the first   real
spring day.
Ed. Stoll of Dent spent
Easter Sunday here.
This warm rain last night
ought to start the grass.
Farmers everywhere are
beginning    to    harrow   and
seed.
Born—ToMr. and Mrs. Lawrence Brummer last week, a
son.
Dr. J. H. Newman and Geo.
Emder of Little Falls, were
Pierz visitors Saturday.
Tim says it is easier to
bridle a wild ass of tlie desert than some tongues.
Many St. John's students
spent the Easter holidays
with their parents  here.
An egotist is a mau who
thinks if he hadn't been born,
people would have wanted to
know why not.
Frank Scheberl of Granite
sold his 120 acre farm in the
town of Granite to Tony
Friedrich for $30 an acre.
John Gassert is in receipt
of a letter from his father,
which states that he arrived
safely at Los Angeles, California.
The Journal received a
card from Henry Gassert
written at Hermosa Beach,
California. "Hello to everybody—We are well and happy."
Mel Wermerskirchen is getting his drugstore building
south of tlie Columbia hotel
brick-veneered. Robert Kluge of Little Falls is doing the
work.
St. Cloud — Curiosity regarding a dynamite cap found
in the street cost the 12 year
old daughter of Ed. Kichter
two fingers and a thumb on
the left hand.
St. Cloud—The Sauk Rapids Granite company has
purchased the Monarch Granite company, Much machinery is to be added and fifty
more men employed.
Easter Sunday was automobile day in Pierz. Sometimes 12 to 15 could be seen
in both upper and lower
town. It seemed as if the
autos of who eMorrison county had come to Pierz.
Miss Angeline Wermerskirchen, who is attending
"Villa Scholastica,"' a musical academy at Duluth. came
home last Friday to visit her
parents during the holiday
vacation. She returned yesterday.
Nick Sehr Sr. and wife,
who have lived north of the
village engine house for many
years, and came here with
the first  settlers,   over forty
I years ago. have moved to the
| home of their son John Sehr.
near     Gravelville.      Hubert
! Brust has   now   rented  their
I home.
Some Interesting
Correspondences
Holstein Park News.
Miss Ruby Thompson visi to.1 with
her cousin, Mrs. Lawrence Kraemer,
lust week, returning home Thursday.
Mrs. .1. A. Sanborn and Mrs. Chas.
Sanborn called on Mrs, Martin Tuesday.
T. S. Look called at Martin's Tuesday.
The mosquito has arrived, at least
so says oue of the I'arkites.
Lawrence Kraemer ami wife visited
at Thompson's Thursday,
Mrs. .!. A. Sanborn called on Mrs.
.1. R. Taylor Thursday.
.1. A. Sanborn and .1. R. Taylor inspected Brenner ami Rosin's now house
Thursday.
Miss Margaret Cajacobs returned
home from  Minneapolis last  wool;.
The Martin wood sawing outfit
sharpened posts for Mr. Cajacoba last
woi'k.
Louis Lease and famOy have gone
to i-'.storvillo. Iowa. Louis lias been
offered a position on tho railroad there
ami they have gone down to look
things over.
T. S. Look bought a fat hog from
tho  Martin  farm last week.
Miss Nellie Martin spont tlio weekend    witli    her   sifter,    Mrs.   ('lias.   San
bent
Sam   Martin   took   dinner   at   liis   sis'
tor's Sunday.
A bear was seen i" this neighborhood
last Sunday, at least it looked like
one at a distance.
Andrew Thoen lias traded tho land
which  he  formerly  owned  in  this town.
Platte News.
Notice everybody!    The masquerade
at    Sigette's   will   be   Friday,   April   8,
instead   pf   Saturday,   April   it.
Misses Emma Reese, Prances Valentine,  Mary    ami    Katie    Sigette    and
Messrs. Cliff Wallmark and Theo.  Kycli-
ner  spent   a   very   pleasant   Boater  by
enjoying a ride.
Say, you didn't see anything of four
i ows  around,  did  yo   |
Miss   Mareeliiie   1/ -nay   spoil!    Kastcr
at  Little Calls.
Mr. and Mrs. c. Reese called at Geo,
Sigette's and  Frank   Kleutch's Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter 1'elonski visit-
oil   witli   Frank   Kleutoh   Sunday.
Remember the masquerade is Friday,
April  8.
There will be a masquerade dance Friday
night April 9th. at Sigette's place in Platte.
Be   good ;    do   good :    and
don't make a fuss about it.
GENERAL
MARKET REPORTS.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
'Vheat, No. 1,     1.
Wlieat, No. 2       1-
Flax,        1.
Barley ..
Rye.	
Oats	
Ear Corn .-_	
Hay	
Butter, Creamery ■•
Dairy	
E>gga	
Flour, Best      3.
"    Straight      3
Low grade flour 1
Bran  1
Shorts   1
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1
Ground Feed     1
Beans -.     2
Onions	
30
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65
98
48
50
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87
15
.45
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.40
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80
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday .  6.70
Friday	
Saturday  6.72
Monday	
-.lay 6.70
Wednesday 6.70
South St. Paul
Live StockMarket.
rs $7.75 to
Cows and Heifers,$4.25 to -
Calves, stea' -
Feeders, steady, ...$4.30 to 700
ABOUT THE STATE
News o! Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers,
DOUBLES  IN  SEVEN  YEARS
Remarkable   Growth   of   Official   Business  Conducted  by the State
of Minnesota.
A growth in volume of business unprecedented in the history of Minne
sota Is destined to be recorded this
year in the office of Walter J. Smith.
state treasurer.
How rapidly the state's business U
expanding may be realized by study
of figures prepared by Mr. Smith,
showing tho Increase In business In
liis department in the past seven
years.
Atop of the actual figures Mr. Smith
estimates that the receipts and disbursements will Increase L'.~. pel
this year The volume of busi
he predicts, will be $10,000,000 greater for this fiscal year than for tho
fiscal year ended July 31, 1914, when
tin-  total   was   $43.:
estimated that $53,261,TOO.04 will have
been accounted for this year at the
close of business July 31.
In 1909 the total of receipts and disbursements was $2").239,004.27. In the
seven years following this total will
have been doubled, according to estimates of Mr.  Smith.
STOCK   RECEIPTS   GROWING
Unprecedented   Business   Expansion at
South St. Paul.
South   St.   Paul   live  stock   rei
during the month pf March just ended
were  the  heaviest on  record   for  the
third   month   In   the   year   and
tinned  the  big  rate  of increase
the   corresponding   season   last
and in all former years which was established in January and  February.
Unofficial figures given out sh.
receipts for the month to ta
44,284    cattle,    11,164    >
hogs,   48,874   sheep,   8C: and
4,432 carloads.    More cattle and
than  ever  arrived   at  South   St.   I'uul
in  the   month   were   delivered   during
the   period   and   big   increases   weM
shown over the same month last
a gain of 809 cars having bei
Since Jan. 1 a total of 13
arrived at the South St Paul yards,
an Increase of slightly more than
3,450 carloads for the first quart
the year over the same period In
1914. This is an unprecedented expansion of business at the yards.
WORKING AT COMMON LABOR
Son  of   Multimillionaire   Diplomat   Lo
cated   in   Duluth.
For more than a year ('harlau
Tower, Jr., son of the well known
multimillionaire financier and diplomat, has been working as a
mon laborer in Duluth, living in a $3-
a-week room at the V. M. ('. A., eating at lunch counters, carrying his
noon "bite" to work in a newspaper
and going to the movies as an amusement.
His identity was revealed when ho
asked tlie engineer at the Duluth
sabe and Northern ore dock for a few
days' leave of absence to go East to
appear in a divorce suit brought
against him by Mrs. Ceorglana Htir-
dick Tower, a Pennsylvania girl, who
alleges that she Is married to him.
The woman also demands of his parents $200,000 damages for the a]
Hon of the young man's affections.
That case Is said to have been settled.
FATAL  FIGHT OVER   DOLLAR
Two Brothers Are Held for Murder at
St   Paul.
James Demos, twenty-eight j
of age, and Louis Demos, aged nineteen years, are held by the St. Paul
police charged with the murder of
Thomas Nekas, twenty-seven years of-
age, a cook, who died at the St. Paul:
City hospital an hour after he was'
taken there.
Nekos died of a fractured skull,'
Khich resulted from a blow suffered
following an argument over money.;
James Demos Is said to have thrown'
an Iron cuspidor which struck Nekos
near the base of the skull. The quarrel took place in a room above the
restaurant where Nekos was employed.
According to the story told the police by I.ouls Demos, Nekos owed his
brother $1. When James Demos
asked for the money Nekos refused
to pay and the fight resulted.
NINETEEN   HORSES   PERISH
Minneapolis     Hostler    Narrowly     Escapes  Pate of  Animals.
Nineteen horses were burned to
death and Oscar Hanson, hostler, had
a narrow escape from a similar fate
when the stable of the Twin
Transfer company at Minneapolis was
destroyed by Are. Eleven horses were
saved through Hanson's efforts.
Hanson discovered the fire, turned
in the alarm and then ran back to
save the horses. In saving the last
of the eleven brought out of the
blazing structure Hanson barely escaped being caught under a failing
flcor.
Don't   forget to attend the DANCE at Frank Faust's Hall, Honday, April the 12th, 1915.