The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1913-07-10

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PIERZ  JOURNAL
VOL. 5.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JULY 1(). 1918.
NO. 4.
VETERANS WILL
RECEIVE PENSION.
HAPPENINGS
HEREAN_D THERE
St. Cloud—During" the past
year 203 pupils were graduated
from tlie Stearns county schools,
according to a list prepared by
Superintendent   W. A. Boerger.
St. Cloud—John D. Chubbuck,
general organizer of the American Federation of Labor, installed the bartenders' union
and did other labor federation
business. i
Wahkon—Eight cans of brook
trout fry arrived last Thursday
night from the state fish hatchery at Glenwood. They were
planted in one of the small
streams in town 41-25.
St. Cloud—The store at St.
Wendel was burned one day
last week. The building was
valued at $3,000 and the stock
of goods is partially covered by
insurance. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
St. Cloud—The board of education of Stillwater is negotiating for the Univcrsalist church
property on Third street, just
north of the high school building, and there is little doubt
but the sale will be made. |
St.  Cloud-With six children!    Tlie Northern Pacific Railway
dead and a husband still  living ; company is taking a decided in-
terest  in   the   Morrison county
Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany
who will soon, celebrate the
twenty-fifth anniversary of his
coronation, has made proclamation that eyery soldier who was
wounded while fighting under
the German flag in the war of
1866 with Austria, or in the
Franco-Prussian war in 1870-71,
will receive a pension. Pension will be paid, regardless of
where the veteran may now
live nor of what country he may
be a citizen. , Even deserters
are not excepted.
Wendelin Voight of Buckman
will be a beneficiary by the
Kaiser's generous decree. Mr.
Voight served in the Twelfth
Prussian Husar regiment, all
through both the war of 1866
and 1870-71. He was wounded
at the battle of Koeniggraetz,
but rejoined his regiment immediately after recovery. Appli
cation for pension has accord
ingly been made to the war department at Berlin.
TWICE IN THE
SAME PLACE.
N. P. Offers $50 Prize Gup,
fair to   be held  in Little Falls
but gone, she knows not where,
Mrs,   Frances   Noga   has  still
,.„ .       ,„„„„,.+   .,„,i, this fall and has announced that
nine children   to    support  and i
wants  aid  from  the city.    Her
petition for $3 a week from the
city was taken up in the commissioners' meeting and granted.
Pipestone,—Imprisoned eight
flays between  tbe   walls    of  a
it will give a $50 prize cup for
the best herd of dairy animals
exhibited at the fair. These
must be composed of one male
and two females. Aside from
this generous offer the company
will also offer a cash prize of -1:5
person winning it three times.-
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Stgre building, and then to be fQr m best bvw,)el of dent corn
rescued and apparently little the ( The $_0 cup js to be competed
worse for its long tast, was the for ^ -^ ^ ,g tQ becQme
experince of a pet cat owned by ^ permanent property of the
a Pipestone family. A board
in the floor was raised and the
Imprisoned, gat U!}er.at.ed..
Brainerd, —The first jury to
report under the five-sixths law
brought in the verdict in the
district court today. The ten I ^ 1>,>u - ligutning from a
men awarded Judge J. T. Hale f comparatively clear sky about
gfBeerwQQd $1QQ damages be- jW 9 KlQQ* QU the evening of
cause of tlie condemnation of the 4th of July struck and coin-
part pf his gounty estate QnjPle*ely demolished a Morrill
$enp   jajfe   fqr    \he   proposed telephone  gQl§  west    of   John
May Be iron.
Cuyurui. Northern railway.
Little Falls—A complaintwcys
sworn out by Hub. Friesinger
a special agent of the Northern
Pacific railway company, charg-
Ziegler's   place   in lower town.
This   is   only   a few rods from
where lightening   struck   when
'John Philippi's three cows were
i killed.    On account of lightning
jng Arthur garrison withlar:i
geny, and he was, ta}>ep t}efpr.e
a justice. He waived e*amina:
tion and was held to the grand
jury. He was released on $200
bail-
gt; Cloud—Ludwig Hamm 32
years of age, a talented must-
clan, while in a partially demented state of mind jumped
out of a second story window
of a local hotel at and early
hour in the morning striking his
jjead and dyipg jointly. He
had been here fqr tl]e past fgw
week*, His home is in Bavaria
Germany,
Brainerd—An. unknown 'man,
"about 40 years old, was run
down and instantly killed by
the Minnesota and International
passenger train on the railway
bridge nortli qf Brainerd. His
hi<ad was severed from his body.
A companion had time to crouch
on the bridge supports and to
escape injury. Both men had
been walking to the railway
camp at Leaks.
. jstfikjng |:wice \n nearly \\\e
s.ame plage ft has, been whisper
#d about that there might be a
heavy deposit of iron ore beneath the ground. We confidently look for a still higher
rise of value in the real estate
pf R^ch street,
The belief tjiat lightning never
strikes twice in the same place
received somewhat of a set
back last Friday evening when
lightning struck Thomas Ko-
bilka's chimney. The bolt passed down the chimney, completely demolished the framework on which it rested so the
whole structure of brick and
mortar fell onto the floor below.
Aside from the sudden fright,
the occupants of the house escaped unhurt. The same chimney was struck by lightning
last year. Thomas says he will
rebuild the chimney, but will
take the precaution to protect
it with a lightning rod.
VILLAGE COUNCIL
PROCEEDINGS.
in
Don'ts for Horse Owners.
Don't overload your horses.
Don't feed too much   corn
hot weather.
Don't make any sudden change
in the feed.
Don't keep your horses in
poorly ventilated stables.
Don't feed grain to warm horses. Give them hay first.
Don't allow the harness,especially the collar, to chafe.
Don't neglect to give the   harness a cleaning once in a while.
Don't expect your horses to
relish their feed, unless the mangers are clean.
Don't give large amounts ot
water at one time. Small amounts frequently are much better.
Don't give your horses patent
medicine that you know nothing
about, especially colic remedies.
Don't keep a horse going after
it begins to show signs of exhaustion. You will save time.
Don't allow your horses to
drink a large amount of water
on coming into the stable very
warm. Allow them to cool off
a bit first.
Don't allow young horses to
wear a set of shoes more than a
ippnth. Have them removed, the
hoofs leveled, and the shoes reset if they are worth it.—H.
Preston Hoskins, Assistant Veterinarian, University Farm,
St. Paul.
Get wise and read the ads,
that appear in the Journal from
week to week.
Jokesmiths Busy.
The story is current of a joke
played   on  one  of  our brother
editors ijl a nearby town West
pj here when g9i«*g to a neighbor for a sack full of hay—seed,
he found upcm his return home
that he had been the victim of
a practical joke, The doctor
editor has not been able to
"diagnose" how the trick was
played or what result he would
get if he planted the substituted
grass seed, at least he has not
jpentioned. a word ab,ont it in
IHs, paper.—-^a^e Breeze,
We admit that the boys got
one over on us, but it is now
ancient village history. The
unsubstituted lower half of the
grass-seed grew remarkably
well.    Why shouldn't it?
The village council met in
regular monthly session in the
village hall last Saturday evening. All members were present.
The proceedings of the last
meeting were read and approved.
The following bills were allowed:
Journal pub. license,
board  of   health and
tank notices     $22 75
F. Kammermeier lumber
and  work  for   street
light  ladder         9 75
Little Falls Water Power Co., juice for  June     45 00
Jos. Me3'er  special   police 4th of July        4 00
John    Schmidt   special
police 4th of July         4 00
John Holieisel three 250   ,
watt lamps ...j        6 00
A. P. Stoll salary June       7 00
Charter   Gas   Co.,    exhaust   case __      18 25
Little Falls Water Power Co., one meter       10 00
Boser & Held 24 hours
work on water works
and   moving   electric
light   pole         4 90
P.   H.   Bares   trip    to
Little   Falls         4 00
On motion council adjourned.
C. E. Guavel,
President.
J. B. Haktmann,
Recorder.
TO MAKE
GOOD ROADS.
A Few Squibs After the Fourth.
(B,y fte §pQrt}n§ K0*tsr,)
A ILinning tie game was
pulled off here on the 4th. Score
6 to 6.    Pierz is all right.
Andrew Schmidtbauer and
"Miss" Frankie Neisius made
excellent clowns.
A_ farewell dance was tendered
Frankie Faust last night in
Faust's hall. A very enjoyable time was had. Frank leaves
today for Canada.
Ye editor took in beautiful
Fish lake Suuday. For lack of
time we cannot give this beauty
Spot the proper write-up it deserves, but we will endeaver to
do so in the near future. It
truly is a second Long Branch,
Coney Island, etc, Boating",
bathing, fishing, bowling and
dancing. Here the Fish Lake
Park Orchestra is stationed and
one may dance any evening except Sunday, and on that day or
inght, dancing absolutely will
not be allowed,
Get   the   habit—the   Journal
habit.   It's a good one to tie to.
Last Wish.
"Marry me, or be my wife !"
"Kill  me   then,   but   spare
my
life !''
Said   Katherine   'mid   blinding
tears,
"Just give us two more
WHITE ROSE BEERS."
Additional Local Hews.
Chas. Vanhercke of Little
Falls, spent the 4th with his
daughters.
Mrs. Oscar Parkin of St.
Paul is visiting her brother,
Joseph Ethen.
Nick Terhaar, cashier of
the State Bank of Avon, spent
the Fourth here.
A.W.Cook and J. C. Chris-
tianson of West Sr.Hivan,
were visitors here last Thursday.
Miss Shindler of Holding-
ford is here for a few week's
visit with the Win. Schauble
family.
Albert Bayerl of Argyle,
Minn,, spent the Fourth in
Pierz. He reports the Argyle
country in need of rain.
P. ^. Hartiuann and son
Alex departed for Jordan,
last Monday, where Alex will
ttike treatment for rheumatism.
The out-of-town people,
who spend the Fourth here,
by far outnumber those who
go away to celebrate that
day.
You can no longer kick
that big dog around in upper
town. Frank Grell sold it to
John Schwankl, who crated
and shipped him to Wynd-
mere, N. 1)., last Thursday.
Heavy rain on the 4th, and
dusty roads on the fifth, is
something every town cannot
boast of. In many places in
the village, the streets were
as dry as powder Saturday
evening.
AlvinMohler went to Onamia Thursday afternoon to
.play violin at the Fourth of
July dance. The Four Corners celebrated Saturday and
Alvin also furnished violin
music there.
If you look at the ordinary
country road after a shower you
will see small puddles along the
wheel ruts and some times
larger pools. This water stays
on the road surface because it
cannot drain away into the side
ditches. If you look closely
you will see side ditches which
have grown up with bushes and
weeds in many cases and which
are so far from the traveled
part of the road that the rain
witter does not drain into them.
That part of tlie roadway where
the wagons travel is called the
travelled way:
To prevent water from standing
on the traveled way the road
should be raised in the center
and should slope gently into
broad shallow ditches. It is
then said to have a crown.
If it is ten feet from the center of
the road to the side ditch, the
surface at the side ditch should
be at least ten inches lower than
it is at the center where the
horses travel. The road then
luis a ten inch crown. The rain
that falls on a road properly
crowned will run quickly to the
side and not soak into the surface or form pools. The side
ditches for surface water should
run parallel to the right of way,
and should be open at every low
point so that the water can run
out of them into neighboring
brooks or streams. It the
ditches merely collect the water
from the road surface and it
cannot run awny, large pools
will be formed along the roadside, which will gradually  soak
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into the  soil   beneath  the road
and make it so soft that the
wheels of wagons will cut
through the road surface and
soon destroy it.
Sometimes water runs from
land along the road into the
road and forms a little stream
down the wheel tracks or in the
middle where the horses travel.
When driveways into farm
yards are built across the side
ditches they frequently form
channels for water from the
farm yard to run into the road.
The pipes under driveways become lilled with leaves or rubbish and the water can no
longer run away. If the driveways that stop the ditch water
were rebuilt so that pipes were
necessary and the ditch could
be left open, much trouble from
surface water would be stopped.
Sometimes a road runs across
low ground or through a swamp
where the road cannot be
drained by side ditches alone.
If the road were built higher
like a railroad embankment
across stfch low land and made
with a crown, it would be dry
and hard. Sometimes a road
passes through what is called a
cut. This is a place where the
earth has been dug out so that
the road can go over a hill
without being too steep. The
water which always flows quietly under the ground on hillsides
is known as ground water. In
road cuts such water sometimes makes the road muddy
and the road then needs what
the road builders call under-
drainage. \ good kind of
underdrainage is a trench to go
along under the side drain and
about 3 feet deep and afoot and
a half wide. In this trench a
pipe is laid near the bottom and
covered   with   loose   stones no
A LETTER
FROM GERMANY.
Mrs. Peter Nagel is in receipt
of a letter from her husband,
now sojourning at his old home
in the Fatherland. Mr. Nagel,
Buffalo Otremba and Albert
Motschke took the steamer at
New York on June 8th, and arrived at Hamburg June 19th,
after a tine calm voyage, wholly
devoid of sea-sickness, but not
without a longing for home and
familiar faces. Out on the vast
expanse of the Atlantic with
nothing to rest your e3'es
against but the blue heavens
above and the ocean below, and
nothing to feed your fancy but
the thoughts of the slimy monsters of the deep, the ceaseless
monotony of the rolling billows
becomes almost unbearable.
They were all glad to once more
rest their feet on terra rirrna.
Their arrival at Hamburg-
found them all in good health,
especially Buffalo Otremba, who
reports that he gained 20 pounds
while crossing the Atlantic.
The Journal hopes that their
visit in the old country will be
a pleasant one. All visitors to
the Fatherland, after an absence
of B0 or 40 years do not find conditions there so congenial as
they expect. During the space
of so long" a time, American
custom and haste has been
adopted, age and fixed habits
of thought have crept on, and
the bright visions of adventure
and fortune beyond the western
main no longer flit before a
youthful and hopeful imagination. Many of their old schoolmates are gone and are not remembered by the rising' generation, all of whom are too busily
engaged in the struggle for ex-
istance to give much thought to
the entertainment of Americans.
The old familiar landscapes,
and buildings which have not
tottered to decay, are now unduly small and contracted in
comparison with what they appeared to be when life was
young, dilating. n***rA'fing.
But discomforts and shades
of disappointments, the inevitable companions of the traveler, may be relegated by an historical interest in the grandeur
and beauty of the scenery along
the river Rhine, of which it has
been said:
More mighty spots   may   rise— more
glaring shine,
But   none   unite   in   one    attaching
maze
The   brilliant,    fair   ami   soft; -the
glories of old days.
Peter Nagel no doubt took a
boat up the Rhine to his destination.
WEATHER AND
MARKETREPORTS.
Temperature for the Week.
Highest
Thursday..
Friday	
Saturday..
Sunday	
Monday	
Tuesday	
78....
72....
71....
88....
80....
83....
Wednesday 75	
Lowest
60 above
58 above
60 above
54 above
51 above
63 above
54 above
The Market Report,
Wheat, No. 1       82
Wheat, No. 2          80
Flax,       1.19
Barley..        45
Rye        48
Oats        33
EarCorn       50
Hay §5.00
Butter, •Creamery       35
Dairy       20
Eggs      15
Flour, Best     2.30
"    Straight.       2.20
Low grade flour 1.50
Bran . 1.15
Shorts    ..1.20
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.20
Ground Feed     1.25
Potatoes        15
Beans 1.50—1.75
Onions        70
Butterfat Market.
The Average during" the week
was 27ic
South St. Paul Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday .. H.."")
Friday 0.00
Saturday H.55
Monday 8,72
Tuesday h.7h
Wednesday 8.80
St. Paul Live Stock.
Steers r $6.50 to 8.35
Cows and Heifers,$4.50 to ..7.00
Calves, steady, $5.00 ton. to
Feeders, steadv, ...§4.50 to 7.75
He who travels for comfort,
leaves that which he seeks, at
home.
A competence always fails to
to give full measure of comfort
and contentment, save where it
was attained, and those who go
long distances to enjoy their
fortunes, usually come back.
We have   in   mind   several of
our   acquaintances   of Melrose,
possessers   of   home-made  millions, now suffering affected enjoyment   of   Pacific   breezes at
j Los  Angeles,   who   might  add
immeasurably   to   the   comfort
; and   the   peace   of mind during
j their declining years, by returning to the scenes of their   early
struggles.
Fourth ot July Celebrations.
There is an advantage of having rain on the 4th of July providing they do not beg-in until
about noon. It holds the crowd
in town until the clouds roll by.
Some of our saloon-keepers report a heavier bartrade on this
Fourth than on that of last
year. But big or small bar
profits do not determine the
success or failure of PYmrth of
July celebrations.
(Continued ou Fourth Pa^e.)
Keep posted by reading the
Journal's "Business Locals"
column.
All chattel mortgages are
no longer filed with the town
clerk, but witli the Register
of Deeds.
Miss Mary Marshik left
Thursday for a few weeks'
visit at St. Cloud and Kimball.
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Billig
are visaing at the Frank
Boehm home this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Newman
of Brainerd. visited Mrs. Newman's parents, Mr. and Mrs,
Frank Boehm, last week.
Quite a number of our
young people, that are working in North Dakota and
northern Minnesota, came to
spend the 4th at home.
A Sane Fourth ot July.
As far as explosives are con-
concerned, the 4th of July celebration in Pierz was comparatively sane this year. The day
was remarkable for the absence
of sis-tlam-peakboom-pumng of
gunpowder in various forms,
which always makes the day
miserable for those with a
nervous temperament.
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