The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-04-22

              THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, APRIL k22J 1915.
NO. 45.
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest fo
Minnesota Readers.
FAILS TO PASS THE HOUSE
Senate   BUI   Amending  State  Primary
Laws   So   as   to   Provide  for
Party Conventions.
The senate bill authorizing political
party conventions lor the purpose of
adopting platforms, declaring party
principles and endorsing candidates
for nomination at primaries was killed
In the lower house of the legislature after an amendment, cutting
Out the important feature of the bill,
had been adopted.
The Rustad-Rockne bill, which recently passed the senate, was substituted for Sam Y. Gordon's convention
bill when the Gordon bill was reached   on  a  special order.
Representative G. B. Bjornson offered an amendment, which ultimately was adopted by a vote of 63 to 29,
eliminating the feature permitting endorsement  of  candidates.
Mr. Gordon then moved indefinite
postponement of the bill and the motion prevailed overwhelmingly by a
viva voce vote.
Footprints in The
Sands Of Time
WILL MEET IN TWIN CITIES
Prohibitionists Arrange National Convention July 19, 1916.
The Twin Cities will be hosts in
1916 to the Prohibition national convention.
The national convention of the party
met te Chicago and made the selection
by unanimous vote. Members of the
committee said 100,000 prohibitionists will attend the convention.
The convention really will be a
mass meeting of prohibitionists. Delegates to represent different states are
to be chosen after the opening of the
convention.
Eugene Chafln, twice candidate of
the Prohibition party for president of
the United States, who presided at the
committee meeting, said conditions
throughout the world presage a big
gain for tlie prohibitionists in 1916.
EIGHTY GUESTS ROUTED OUT
Fire Seriously Damages Alton Hotel
at   Minneapolis.
Firemen were showered with glass,
several women fainted and property
damage to the extent of $28,000 was
dene by a fire which broke out in the
Alton hotel at Minneapolis and spread
to two adjoining buildings. Eighty
guests in the hotel, many of them
women, dressed only in their night
clothes, were taken down fire escapes.
The fire, which is supposed to have
started on the first floor, was discovered by Mrs. M. I>. Knotz, wife of the
proprietor. She, with the night clerk,
George Roeppe, spread the alarm
through the hotel. During the fire an
explosion in the building caused a
shower of broken glass to fall on the
firemen and spectators in the street
below.
LOSS  PLACED   AT  $400,000
Elevator and 250,000 Bushels of Wheat
Destroyed.
The Huhn elevator at Minneapolis,
containing about 250,000 bushels of
wheat, was totally destroyed by fire,
the blaze starting in the boiler room
and extending in a series of explosions to the top of the ~seven-story
structure.
The elevator was literally blown to
pieces. The loss is estimated at
$400,000. Three men were hurt, none
fatally.
The engineer of a switch engine uncoupled his engine from a string of
empty cars and by quick work hauled
away another string of box cars loaded with grain, which were imperiled
by the blaze.
STATE BANKS ARE STRONG
Failure Unknown in Minnesota for
Three Years.
The 891 state banks of Minnesota
have not developed a single weak
spot in three years, A. H. Turrittin, state superintendent of banking, said by way of supplement
to the biennial report for the period
ending July 31, 1914, which shows no
failure of a state bank in that period.
The state banking department has
supervision at this time over 891
banks and sixty-three building and
loan, ten savings banks and eight
trust companies. Every Institution Is
examined not less than twice a year.
"It is interesting to note tlie
stride of times'' remarkedFather
Pankratius shortly before he
left. "When I came here there
were three yoke of oxen to every
team of horses. There were no
busies at all. The man who
had a sheeppelt on his board
seat was doing pretty well, and
the man who appeared on a Sunday with a new spring seat was
thought to have come into sudden possessoin of immense
wealth through the death of a
rich uncle. And now, though
only ten years passed since I
came here, almost every farmer
owns a buggy or a light spring
wagon. On the eve of my departure from Rich Prairie I must
commend the thrift and progression of her farmers. My wish
is that the next decade will find
among them as much sound and
consistent prosperity, as the
past."
Father Pankratius, we are
told, left here about 1892, and
he died at Farming 8 or 10 years
ago.
There was a long string of
autoes in front of the church
last Sunday. Should Father
Pankratius condescend to view
his beloved Rich Prairie from
the spirit world on a Sunday
and see a dozen or more farmer's
The Band Dance was  I Uses Oxen 6 Years,   j interesting
!Some Interesting
A Grand Success
The band dance is a thing of
the past. It netted the boys a
handsome sum, which will partially repay the members for
money dug from their own pockets to pay for a few new instruments. The business men of
the village were very liberal in
buying tickets and a good crowd
from surrounding towns tilled
the coffers of the treasurer to
the satisfaction of all concerned.
A parade to the rat, tat, too, up
and down the Main Street and
a serenade in each end of town
were a prelude to the jollifications of the night. About one
hundred dollars were cleared.
Rucker News.
Ole Rhine and Fred Nelson
come down from Johnsonville
Sunday.
Carl Nelson, of Mt. Morris,
was a Hillman caller the first of
the week.
V. G. Bruler visited at the
Drew's home Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Munyon
and "family'", Rucker returned
this week Tuesday from on extended visit in Wisconsin.
Mrs. Baasner visited Mrs. W.
C. Penniman.
Mrs. O. C. Leigh, Mrs. Jos.
Love, Herman Peterson, wife
motor cars lined up in front of ' and children, Misses Julia Leigh
the  temple which he  built and \:illd Helen Davis spent   Sunday
'afternoon   at    Meadow - Brook
i farm.
in which he preached his farewell sermon, he would have the
intense satisfaction that his
wish had not been in vain.
Little Falls News
Frank Leigh   called   at   Mt.
{Morris Monday.
Orin   L.   French   returned to
So. St. Paul Monday, after spending a lew days with   relatives
at Rucker:    He was  aceompan-
(From Transcript.) |ied home by eis daughter,   Mrs.
Congressman C. A.Lindbergh Raymond Bruber, and children,
left Monday for Akeley. He re- jwho will make a short visit in
ceived a message  this   morning the cities.
that  there  was a  epidemic  of I „.
,  ,   ,- ,, ,   ,,   , Among the Pierz callers this
scarlet lever   there  and   that a I 6        :    >       _
u f   .      , ,    -,   , Week were: Arthur Rasmusson,
number  of   teachers   had  .been  .,     , TT    ,
,.      t      -».-     t •   n       11    Monday,    Herbert    Kyner    and
quarantined.     Mr.  Lindberghs ^,, ' , ,,    .
t       , , ,       , i a,   i        Clvas.   Scott,   Tuesday;    Marie
daughtei is a teacher at Akeley.  ^ ,    '       4    ■,
i Drews and Ove Anderson came
A  man   giving  his  name   as up   from   Hopkins   last   week.
Gus  Johnson was taken  off an Wednesday, for  a  visit  at   the
early  morning   train   at  Little Jacobsen home, Rucker.
Falls  Sunday   and   locked   up j    Dan Sommers of Randall spent
overnight   for drinking   on the \ Saturday and   Sunday   here,   a
train      He   was  kept  until   he ; jruest at O. C. Leigh's,
paid the   costs   and let go later j
Sunday.    He said he was on his      Am<>ng those arriving on  the
way to Minneapolis.
train last Friday, were:  H.   P.
Peterson,   A.   Albrum,   (Pierz).
1 Jarney  Burton   left   Monday j H. Ryner ank his nephew, James
afternoon   for  Tribune,   Sask., |Lansberger. (Minneapolis),
where he  is  interested in farm
KILLS SECOND  CHOICE  ACT
Minnesota House Passes Senate Repeal Measure.
The bill repealing the second choice
provision of the primary law was
passed by the lower house of the legislature by a vote of 89 to 1, Representative A. M. Peterson casting the
only dissenting vote. The bill passed
the senate with five negative votes.
The senate bill was substituted for
Representative G. B. Bjornson's house
hill. In urging passage of the bill
Representative Bjornson said that it
was drawn on the advice of the state
auditor and was generally appnyre4
throughout the state.
lands, on business-
The Pine Tree sawmill started
up Monday morning for the season, after mak.ing a trial run
Saturday afternoon to test the
machinery. The tirst drive of
the season also started Monday,
a big crew beginning work under Otis Webb.
A bill has been introduced in
the legislature to allow the
spearing of certain kinds of fish
with artificial lights during the
months of April and October,
providing that such spearing is
done in streams and that no
spearing is done within 500 feet
of a lake.
Tracy Waller called at the
village last Friday.
J. C. Miller and daughter Miss
Pearl, drove to Pierz Saturday.
Marion Benton was a Granite
caller Sunday.
Miss Melvine, Mt. Morris,
went to Pierz last Saturday, to
meet her sister from the Mill
City.
Miss Sterr, Fred and Joe
Sterr drove up from Mt. Morris
Saturday.
Mrs. Sam Perkins and Mrs. Joe Zcl-
lors visited at the Griff King homo
one  tlav  last  week.
Then SellsThem for
Beef for $240.50
August Larson, living near
Fish lake, Green Prairie, was in
Little Falls Monday with a yoke
of oxen which he sold to a local
meat dealer. The oxen have
been in continuous use on the
Larson farm for the past six
years and have done more work
than a team of horses could accomplish, according to Mr. Larson. The animals have been
faithful workers, he says, hitched
either single or double. Mr.
Larson drove the pair into town
hitehed to a buggy and handled
them much the same as a person
would a team of horses. The
pair weighed 3,700 pounds and
netted §240.50—Transcript.
Local News'      Correspondences
FLAYS SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
Clean Up !
Fine for road work.
Shorty Vonderhaar
In North Dakota
Shorty Vonderhaar wrote the
Journal that he had landed in
God's country and accepted a
position in the Security State
Bank of Karlsruhe, N. D. "The
town is only a year old," says
Shorty, "but it is prospering.
All german catholics here. A
big church and school are in the
course of construction. Don't
let the band die.''
Back to the Smokehouse,
No clover this year.
all frost killed.
Give plenty of   light to all
seedling in tlie house.
Platte News,
The   following   crowd   spent   Sunday
afternoon  and  evenjng at  C.  Beeae'a:
Missc-s  Katie  and  Mary  Big tte, Tillie
It   is.Olsou, Rose and Clara Waninger, Mrs.1
Ben   Richner,   Messrs.     Chas.     yon
Sigette, Ben and  Theo.   Richner,!
.loo    Kainz,    Christ     Langer,      Willie1
Young,   Alfred   and   Ed   Richner   and
Andrew  Kainz,  .lr.,  an.I   family.
Misses   Emma   Reese,   Minnie     Noe,
Get  the garden Soil  in gOOd   Anna   .lon.lro   and   Kate   ami   Mary
condition of tilth before sow-:^tti' «a christ Roi'sl> 1""1 T1,°" Bich-
,      T, ner   spent   Saturday   evening   at   the
ing any seed.    It pays.
Over 200 cases of eggs were
shipped out of New Pierz
during the last week.
There will be a little bunch
of people going to Mill Laca
Lake some of these days.
A. P. Stoll and family autoed to Brainerd Saturday, returning Monday.
Mrs. George Borley of Madison Lake,Mont.,visited friends
and relatives in Pierz.
Lost—Auto jack. Kindly
return to R. (J. Scoles or leave
at the Journal office.
It was H2 in the shade last
Sunday and Monday, yet the
nights were cool.
Paul Felex passed through
here on his way to Morrill
Sunday.
Mike Schraut is on tlie job
every day sprinkling on the
Main Street to settle the dust.
His wife:  "Oh, I'm so hap-
Kanners in  all,parts  of  the ' Py !" Her husband : "That so^
Kainz  home.
Misses    Anna   .Tendro      ami      Minnie
Noe  visited  at   Ben   Riehner's   Friday-
Miss   Katie  Sigette   visited   at   Chas.
Young's  at  Gravelville   Mon.lay.
Yes!   We   all   bad   a   tine   time   at   the
dance.
Who  says   Platte   is  goin;.'  dry.'     Mr.
Sigette has a well "nmpty "steen"
deep with 3q many gallons to a foot.
Ami here's hoping yon have more
luck playing jokes thai are meant for
more  than  jokes.
Holstein Park News,
Report of Special  Committee on  Deaf
and Dumb Institution.
Management and methods of teaching at the state school for the deal
and dumb at Faribault are severely^
censured in a report to the lower,
house of the legislature by the spe-.
cial committee which has been investigating the institution.
Former students, the report asserts.'
are almost invariably hostile to the
management of the school, whose In-'
dustrial teachings are declared not of
advantage in any useful trades.
The report recommends that the
legislature wipe out the present board
of directors and put the school under
the management of the state board of
control. If that Is impracticable it Is
suggested that the members of the
present board should resign or else
exercise such supervisory earn and direction as Is contemplated by law.
It is  urged  in  the  report that the
policy of literary and industrial training   at   the   school   should   be   i
lished by law so as to prevent bickering on the subject.
That the board of directors re
Dr. J. N. Tate,  superintendent ot the
school,  to  resign  at  the  end   of  the
present school  year is  recomnv
in the report.
The report is made by a conn;
consisting   of   P.   H.   Kon/.en.   A     1'.
Teigen and  W.  J. North.    No le
tion  is  pending  to  carry  out any  ol
the recommendations of the committee.
DUE TO DOMESTIC TROUBLE
O.  L.  French   of  So.   St.   Paul  was
a guest at the Bruber home the last  ot
Wm. Lemieux   was arraigned t,u'  NV0,'k-    His  'laughter,  Mrs.   Ray
this morning in municipal court Brul'ov a"'1 <*iWren. accompanied "■»
, r ,. •      ,, home   Monday   lor  a   short   visit
on a charge ot assault in the second degree. Lemieux is charged
with rtmning down Mrs. Margaret Newman while riding a horse ■
country are watching with interest an experiment which is
being made in Brooks county,
Georgia. The Georgia farmers
objected to the commercial system under which they were receiving but seven and eight
cents a pound tor the pork
which they raised, while they
saw the ham and bacon of commerce retailing in their own
markets for 25 cents a pound.
They resolved to reestablish
the ante-bellum smokehouses
on their farms and immediately
carried the resolution into effect.
Through cooperation they have
commenced marketing their products in the finished form.
They find that the profits which
they make from curing their
own meats are relatively larger,
considering the time and expense involved, than those
which they were receiving from
marketing hogs on the hoof.
The remarkable thing about
tins profitable experiment is
that it has not been worked out
in any of the grain centers or
near any of the country"s great
markets, but in a remote county
in the extreme southern part of
Georgia, in a "one crop" section and that crop cotton.
Road   dragging   lias   commenced.
Mano    Mailing   has   moved   onto   the
i.amote farm at Christmas I
Mr. McKay of Vineland was in this
locality   looking   for   calves    to    pur-
. has".
A.   V.   Johnson   of   Chicago,   HI.,   is
going   to   start   building   operations   on |
bis   land   south   ami   east   of       I'eavey
lake,   within   the   next   few   da\s.
Mr. Teachont and family ealled at <
Sanborn's   Sunday   afternoon.
Bill Killer and Herb Wiukley have :
started  building  on   their land.
Stewart Oliver of Vineland was j
down Sunday after his motorcycle, '
which has been stranded here for a!
couple  of  weeks.
lias anyone tried th" new dish1 M
go, should like to hear through these
columns  how  they  liked  it.
Flies Found to Breed in Winter.
Flies, those spr■. lers of disease,
breed in winter as well as in rammer,
says the Journal of the American
Mi-.li.al     association.     The     statement
is based on the fa.-t that on January
7, 1915, Hies were round actively pre
pagating in a heap of manure, though
the temperature had been down near
zero not long before. Tho manure
doubtless had supplied the necessary
heat, and this was retained by the
covering   material.
This explains the often h"ard ipies
tion "Where do all the Hies come
from." It has long been known that
adult Hies survive the winter, hiber
nating    in    cellars    and    similar    places,
but  that  they  actually  bi I  in  sold
weather   is   a   feature   rather   annoying
to   contemplate.     The   moral   seems   to
be   that   manure   should   be   as   carefully
A  gOO(l     memory    is   llnpOr-   guarded  in  winter as  in  summer.
Who's iii trouble?"
Andrew Lepniski left yesterday for Superior, Wis.,
where lie lias secured employment for the summer.
J. L. Hohmann, school
teacher in Dist. 78. visited
his home in St. Cloud Saturday.
John F. Smith and family left
yesterday for Superior, Wis.
What Mr. Smith's plans for the
future are, is not known.
Young    St.  Paul    Man  Wounds   Wife
and   Kills   Himself.
Carl Eminel of St. Paul, a young
accountant, met his wife in a law-
office in that city lo adjust their
trivial domestic difficulties. Within
a few minutes he had shot her and
fatally wounded himself. He died In]
an ambulance on the way to the City
hospital.    She   probably   will   re.
Mrs. Emmel was waiting in th.
flee of Boyesen ft Flor when ber bus-;
band entered. He had asked Attor-j
ney H. H. Flor to arrange the confer-!
ence and Mis Emmel had agreed by:
telephone from her home with her:
parents.
BOXING BILL PASSES HOUSE!
Legalizes   Ten-Round    Sparring    Con-:
tests  in   Minnesota.
Representative George Moeller's bill;
Legalising   ten-round   no   decision   box*]
ing matches in  Minnesota was passed!
by the lower house of ti..   li
by  a  vote  of  75   to   47,   ar.
amendments had been adopted, one of!
them placing all cities except th<.
the   first  class   out ot  tho   provisions;
of the bill.
This was the third time the bill
has passed the bouse. It will now:
go to the senate, friends of the bill
expressing confidence that it will be
passed by that body.
One   of
very sick.
Weslcv    Waller's    horses    is
called  on  Mrs.  Bruber
George Johnson  has been quite sick
: but   is  mm h  better  now.
With this issue of the Journal,
weekly   weather  forecasts   will
be published. These forecasts
come     from    Washington    and
through the U. S. Weather Bureau at Minneapolis, and predict
the weather from Wednesday to
Wednesday   of   each   week-.    If
tant, but there are times when
a good forgettery is a great
convenience.
Early cabbage that has
been well hardened off may
be set out now. Set the plants
down to the first leaves.
Ben Lenord of Minneapolis
Fireman on the N, P. K. R.
took in tlie Band dance and
also made a call on his friend
Reinhart Stumpf.
John Holieisel went toVine-
land Tuesday and returned
Wednesday morning with a
good string of fish. Roads
are good all the way. lie says.
GENERAL
MARKETREPORTS.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,      1.40
Wheat, No. 2       L-38
Flax,        1.80
Barley   ..     r>r>
tiye	
Oats	
Far Corn	
Hay	
Butter, Creamery	
Dairy	
Eggs	
Flour, Best	
BLOW TO WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Minnesota   House   Defeats   Motion   to
Put   Bill   on   Passage.
Woman suffrage flared up In the
lower house of the. leglalature, Im
defeat on a motion to suspend the rules
end place Representative Larson's
bill granting women the privilege of
voting at presidential elections to a
vote. The vote to suspend was 75
ayes and 4'.' noes, a two-thirds vote
of  the  entire ing  necessary.
Friends of the I ill felt they s<
a partial  victory  in  forcing  practically  the  entire house to go on  record
regarding the question.
SENATE PASSES RANGE BILL
    1.02
      50
      B0
 $5.00
.....      37
        -27
        1(5
     3.60
"    Straight      3.50
Low grade flour 1.-'
Bran     1.40
Before you worry  yourself Shorts  1.45
to death   trying to   keep   up 'Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
with the   procession, find out!Ground Feed     1.40
j —
where  the  procession is go-;
Measure   Limits  Towns'   Expenditures
to  $25   Per   Capita  Yearly.
The measure fixing the limit of expenditures of Mesaba range towns to
|2S per capita was passed by the upper house of the legislature by a vote
to 6.
The hill passed with little comment,
although  it  had  been  the subject of
much   debate   when   first   Introduced
ise it was said to be fathered by
the steel  corporation.    A similar bill
is pending in the house.
BILL NOW  UP TO GOVERNOR
ing.
Hubert Bares had a new
coat of shingles put on liis
hotel building this week.    ""I  Thursday
Beans
Onions
2.00
(30
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
'. 7.11
 7.28
have had shingles  torn from   Friday	
reasonably correct, they should!my   roof   before since L have  Saturday — '•"'
, c   . , .,    '    "      .       ,, .     ,      ■ Monday "42
be   of  immense   l.euetit   to  the been in   tins   business,    says _
• Tuesday f4.0
farmers.     jHubert,   "but   they   were so Wednesday 7.4n
  few and   far between   that I   ,       ,    .     ,.      .
I ,...,.,.    ,,, „ .,     South St. Paul
Do  not   be  in a hurry   to didn    feel it. 1 earing all th, ..^ 5tockMarket
put out tomatoes. They should shingles oft   in a day   makes
not be   set out until   the Boil a man feel like a salooukeep- CuWS .uufHei"f;
Mrs.   Q.   Kiu
on Fifth street southeast on the 'Tuesday.
evening of April 9th.    The state
will   try   to show   that he  committed the act with intent.
Huns   Johnson   has   a   telephone   in
St. Cloud—Miss Irene Gravel  "ow-
of   Onamia is   the   truest of  her!    Mr. and   Mrs. Tracv   Waller arc be-}.
sister Mrs. John Cans, for a few  .... congratulated over the advent ot'j«* well warmed and danger of 61 tlie   morning   altel   a  tli>   ClUves, stead
days, a little daughter, April 13th. ; frost is over. election. Feeders, steady,. ..$4.30 to ?.0Q
".50 to
Minnesota Historical Society May
Have New Home.
The erection of the $600,000 home
for the State Historical society, authorized by the 1!U3 legislature, was
assured when the lower house of the
legislature passed the bill amending
the original law by a vote of 78 to 30.
The measure passed the senate ten
days ago and now needs only the approval of Governor Hammond to be-,
come a law.
DEATH ILLUSTRATES SERMON
Woman Stricken as Priest Speaks on
Life's Uncsrtalnty.
While Rev. Father Ictek was
preaching on the uncertainties of life,
and had just uttered the words, "We
know not the day nor the hour," at
tbe Polish Catholic church at Duluth.
Mrs. Belle McCarty, fifty years old,
fell to the floor, stricken with paralysis, and died a few hours later at a
hospital.
Twenty-tlvo Autos Burnsd.
The garage and agricultural estate
liahment of A. W. Wilson at Hastings,
containing about twenty-Are auto*
and a large quantity of farm Implements and supplies, has been destroyed by fire. The loss la estimated
at $20,000.