The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1913-08-07

              VOL. 5.
PIERZ  JOURNAL
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA,  AUGUST 7. 1913.
NO. 8.
HAPPENINGS
liREJND THERE
Little Palls—There was a
lig-ht fall of bail here Wednesday niglit. The hail was not
heavy enough to do any damage
in the vicinity.
St. Cloud—D. G. Heggie died
at St. Joheph's hospital Wednesday night of complications.
He was nearing his 94th year at
the time of his death- He had
been an inmate of tlie home
since February 26th, coming
here from Carroll, Minn.
St. Cloud—Mrs. John Rengel
a former old resident near the
city, who lived with her husband
in what is known as the Rengel
addition, died Sunday night in
St. Piiul, aged 73 years, of complications incident to advanced
age.
Brainerd—The home of John
Zander in North Brainerd was
struck by a bolt of lightning
Wednesday night. The terrific
crash jarred the city. The
lightning bored a hole through
the roof of the story and a half
cottage and demolished the
chimney.
Foley—The department game
warden has been collecting information and evidence the past
few days which will lead to the
arrest and conviction ol" two
Kanabec county residents for
dynamiting fish. They will be
hauled into court within the
next ten days.
Fergus Falls—Christ Johnson
has received a letter from his
son, Carl Johnson, who has been
at Nome, Ala.ska, for a number
of j'ears. The letter was written at. the time navigation
opened some six weeks ago,
and says that the past winter
was the finest and mildest winter ever known in Alaska.
Mendota—Walter Grant, aged
22, a brakeman on the Milwaukee road, was killed here last
week. He was riding on the
rear end of the tender of the
engine which bumped into a
caooose. Grant was caught between the bumpers and his life
crushed out. Grant was a son
of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Grant
of Kasota.
Stillwater—Frank L. Chanse
has filed application for are-
ward of $200 for the capture of
John Russell, now serving time
in Stillwater for the theft of a
horse worth $50 from Frank
Morocko on July 13. Russell
was arrested July 21st and sentenced July 22nd.
Fergus Falls—Early Thursday
morning as a gravel train was
pulling in here, about eight sections of the rail spread and let
five of the cars loaded with
gravel roll into the ditch. The
accident occurred between Long-
dale and Fergus Falls. The
train crew was not on or near
the cals so that no one received
any injury.
Fergus Falls—Judge Moen of
the municipal court decided
that the Fergus Brewing company has no right to sell beer
here because the city is "dry."
For the sale of a case of beer, a
wholesale quantity to Grover
Pointer, the court imposed a
fine of $75. Under the general
state law the company would
have the right to sell in wholesale quantities but the sale is
forbidden by the city charter.
NO APPENDICITIS
AMONG INDIANS.
C. Gabbo, one of the old in-
dians, wrell known here for tlie
past thirty-five years, was in
town last Tuesday and had dinner at the hotel. He astonished
the others at the table, who
knew him to be more than eighty
years old, by eating a very
hearty dinner. After dinner he
was asked how he kept his unusually good health and why
they never suffered with appendicitis and other bowel and
stomach troubles. "Po-esh-i-ko"
said he, pointing to his well-
rounded stomach, "always take
Po-esh-i-ko.'" It is a fact that
people here, who have lived
close to the reservation, for the
past forty years, never heard
of these indians having appendicitis.
VILLAGE COUNCIL
PROCEEDINGS.
Road Will Be Built.
A number of Onamia citizens
met with two of the county
commissioners of Morrison
county and with the town board
of Richardson township near
the Sim Cyrus farm in Richardson Monday to take up the matter of having the state road
opened in Morrison county to
connect with the state road in
this county near the Renne Alberts place. The commissioners and town board agreed to
have surveys made immediately
and work will commence as
soon as surveys are completed.
Morrison county agreed to appropriate $500 and the township of Richardson will allow
the same amount. The opening of this road will greatly increase the business territory of
Onamia and will make it convenient for the settlers in the
east side of Morrison county to
come to Onamia. Those who
attended the meeting from Onamia were: W. S. Gish, H. J.
Boyer, G. M. Covill, Alof Dahl-
gren, Chas. Gravel, Henry
Goulet and J. B. Cojacob. From
Morrison count}' were County
Commissioners Rochelleau, of
Little Falls, and Henry Gassert
of Pierz. C. E. Gravel, of Pierz,
J. K. Martin and W. H. Ryan,
of Little Falls. Supervisor
Sanborn and Chairman of the
Board H. C. Smith of Richardson Lake Breeze,
$48 40
7 20
20 35
Tlie village council met in
regular monthly session in the
village hall Saturday evening,
August 2nd, 1913, at 8 o'clock
p m.
All members were present.
The proceedings of the previous meeting were read and
approved,
On motion  the following bills
were allowed:
Little Falls Water Power Co., for  light	
P. A. Hartman, mdse__
F. Faust,   chief   of   fire
department, Kugelfire
The resignation of John Dombovy, as a member of the board
of health was read and accepted.
Upon motion it was resolved
to publish notices for bids for a
wooden tank.
The liquor license bond of N.
H. Mueller, granting him the
right to sell intoxicating lipuors
in his place of business for the
term of one year, commencing
August 2nd, 1913, was read and
approved. Sureties are Nick
Hennen and Frank Marshik.
On motion council adjourned.
C. E. Gravel,
President.
J. B. Hartmann,
Recorder.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF JOHN HEACH.
Come to Minnesota,
A man passed through Kansas
recently with this inscription—
"Colorado and elevatiou, Kansas and stagnation, populistic
administration and damntion;
I'm going to my wife's relations
and make no further demonstration." An exchange snggests,
"Come to Minnesota, correct in
elevation, where a man with
education can engage in speculation, bring along your wife's
relations, have good times and
free salvation, with no danger
of starvation. This is wortli
consideration and is no prevarication.
Mayhew Lake Woman Dies.
Mrs. George Reller, who resides on a farm near Mayhew
Lake, died last Tuesday evening
after having suffered for over a
year from an abdominal cancer.
Mrs. Reller was an old settler
of this county, having lived
here 40 years. She had a wide
acquaintance in her community
and the news of her death will
be heard with much regret.
Mrs. Reller was 60 years old
at the time of her death, having
been born abroad in October,
1853. She is the wife of George
Reller, a prosperous fanner at
Mayhew Lake, who together
with nine children survive her.
The funeral took place at 9
o'clock Friday morning from
the church at Mayhew Lake.
Seven Cows Killed,
Seven cows were killed by
lightning at the Ferdinand
Neils farm, two miles northeast
of Sauk Rapids Friday night.
The stock belonged to Fred
Knaffla, who is running the farm
Six ot the cows were at the
north side of the barn and were
huddled close to it for protection from the storm which came
from the southwest. The bolt
sruck near the north end and
killed them, in addition to
another inside. A large number of other cattle and small
stock in the barn escaped.—
Sauk Rapids Sentinal-
Adrian Grell had the niis-
fortuue to badly mash his
finger last Monday. He got
it fast in the gearing of a
binder.
A Tip For Auto Owners.
W. F. Schultz, Hutchinson —
I am using a mixture of three
gallons of keroseen to tive gallons of gasoline in my auto and
have tried the combination long
enough to recommend it to
everyone running a car. A
person should, however, begin
with a small quantity of kerosene and increase it until he has
found the right mixture for his
carburator. One strong point in
its favor is that you always
have clean spark plugs.
My sudden disappearance and
my as sudden re-appearance in
my usual haunts is as much of a
puzzle to you as is the aurora
borealis to a meterologist. "Six
miles north" or "seven miles
east" is always John Heach's
answer to inquiries as to where
he has been. Should you ever
be allowed to accompany me on
one of my nocturnal expeditions,
you might a tale to your friends
unfold which "would cause their
hair to stand on end like the
quills upon a fretful porcupine." My diary, to be exhibited at a later date, will be a
revelation to you all. You will
find in it jotted down, date and
place and persons present, remarks which may be of value to
my successor. "Old John
Heach will be found dead in an
alley some morning," is a statement I overheard in a saloon
the evening of the third day of
June 1901. This remark plainly
and indelibly inscribed in my
notebook may be the means of
bringing a guilty man to justice.
My individual victories
against great odds in weight
and numbers in a great number
of broils is still fresh in the
memory of most of you and
need not be mentioned here.
But let me remind you that there
is more in old John Heach's
head than a fine comb will ever
take out, and, he may not have
much education but he met the
scholars coining home from
school. During my travels over
this world I saw much and felt
more. But for an unfortunate
circumstance which prevented
my selection to a United States
cabinet office, my travels on
this convex earth would have
been as much heralded as those
of my illustrious friend, General Grant.
I have stood with unbared
head and smoked a complacent
pipe, before the German Kaiser,
the Queen of England, Franz
Joseph of Austria, Napoleon
the Third of France, the Czar
and a host of other heads of
European nations. Never during all his long career did John
Heach coin his cheek to a smile
or bend a humble knee before a
throne.
The great Li Hung Shang,
during the zenith of his greatness, was a personal friend of
mine; and I have dined with the
Mikado of the Island Empire.
Three visits to Europe, one
to each of China, Japan, South
America, Africa and Mozambique, made me familiar with
the great oceans of the globe.
I have three times rounded
"The Horn" at the southern extremity of South America and
sailed westward by Alexander
Selkirk's domain and other
Maoris inhabited South Sea
Islands to the harbors of Australia.
TODD COUNTY
CREAMERIES.
The state of Minnesota boasts
of a good many progressive
dairy communities which are
making records in the dairy
business, but we have seldom
noticed a more interesting example of dairy progress than
that shown by Todd county,
which in the last 15 years has
virtuly changed from unimprov
ed land (much of it timbered)
into a developed larm community, which last year received
over $1,000,000 for its dairy
products alone. According to
the Long Prairie Leader, which
recently issued a most commendable resume of Todd County's
agricultural resources, this
county boasts that its twenty
creameries last year paid out
over #1,000,000 to patrons. All
of these creameries are owned
on the co-operative basis. The
average price paid for butterfat
was between 32 and 33 per
pound. The 3,500 farmer patrons furnished to these creameries over 10,000,000 pounds of
milk and over 11,000,000 pounds
of cream, there being manufactured a total of 3,800,000 pauuds
of butter.
The first creamery in Todd
county was organized at Bertha
in 1899. Its total business the
first year was then $3,000; its
business now exceeds $10,000
per month. The history of the
Bertha creamery is typical of
the history of all the other
creameries in the list. As in
dicyted the development which
the county has made along all
lines since the co-operative
creamery made its appearance,
a statement of the bank deposits might be cited. In 1899 the
total bank deposits in Todd
county $1(31,660; in 1913, after
fourteen years of dairying, the
bank deposits of the county
totalled $1,641,132.
We cite this little history
about Todd county because it is
typical of a development which
is taking place all over Northern
Minnesota and in fact all over
the northwest. Wherever live
stock supplants the old system
of grain farming we begin to
get on to a permanent basis of
agriculture and on this basis
our farmers begin to prosper.
ADDITIONAL
LOCAL NEWS.
Wheat harvesting began
last Monday.
Gerhard Terhaar visited
relatives in St. Joseph last
week.
John P. and Andrew Virnig of Lastrup. made a trip
to St. Cloud yesterday.
Barney Burton, accompanied by Mr. Greisch, was in
this city buying horses last
Tuesday.
Mrs. Nick H. Mueller returned Sunday from a weeks'
visit with her parents in
Buckman.
H. E. White, former superintendent of tlie Little Falls
schools in visiting in the
county seat.
Keiuhart Stoll left Monday
for Rochester. Otto Brick of
Little Falls is taking his
place.
Miss Theresia Spanfellner
WEATHER AND
MARKETJEPORTS.
Temperature tor the Week,
Highest     Lowest
Thursday  85 51 above
Friday 82   52 above
Saturday   88   54 above
Sunday 86 57 above
Monday     85 51 above
Tuesday 84 64 above
Wednesday ._ 75  57 above
The Market Report.
Wheat, No. 1..  78
  76
--  1.22
  45
-  47
  33
Wheat, No. 2	
Flax, 	
Barley	
Rye	
Oats	
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         00
Beans  1.50—1.75
left the first of the week for-Qnions 70
a visit with friends and relatives in the twin cities.
Miss Crescentia Faust is
doing the honors at the telephone exchange during Miss
Spanfellner's absence.
Landloard Bares is treating
his hostelry to a coat of
paint, and when finished,  it
Butterfat Market.
Tlie Average during the week
was 27c
South St. Paul Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday.   8.45
Friday  8.45
certainly will present a very j SatUrday 8.48
neat appearence. IMonday .J 8.45
Tuesday H.25
Wednesday   8.20
St. Paul Live Stock.
Hillman News.
John Brown Was In Town.
Frank Johnson of Sullivan
came to town Sunday evening and returned Monday
morning with a load of lumber for a new school house.
Steers $6.50 to H.35
John  Fischen, a cousin  of Cows and Heifers,$4.50 to -.7.00
Mike and Math. Tliommes is'Calves, steady, $5.00 toH.10
spending a few   weeks  here.Feeders' steadv' — *4-50 to 775
among relatives.    He visited
at St. Michael's before coming here.
0 Alvin Mohler and Ernest Bia-
Dave   Rooney, Fd. Tanner las  went  to Onamia Saturday
and Chas Farrow  transacted to attend  the wrestling match
, •      r>-        u  <      1       , between Mike Williams and the
business  in   Pierz Saturday.1.   ...
This  was  Mr. Rooney's first I
visit   here   and    he   seemed I    Mrs. Henry  Voltin called  on
,. ,,        . , ! Mrs. A. O. Mohler Sunday,
very    favorably    impressed J
with tlie village. A bunch of berry pickers were
lost in this  vicinity  Friday and
Miss Lahr, last year teach-;returned to tl)eir gQodly ,Ioines
er   in   the   Paul   Virnig   dis- Saturday morning.
trict,  was  here Sunday and;
notified   the  officers of  that
Land seekers are seen in and
around  this   vicinity quite fre-
district that she had accepted quently of late.
a school near Greenwald for 1    ., T ,
Mamie  Juetten   is  employed
John Brown of Rucker was in '
town last week with a load of
Mr. Easterbrook's household
goods and chanced to drink a.
few glasses of Kiewal's new
White Rose beer. He liked
this beer so well that he decided to quit hunting and fishing
for awhile and write a few simple rhymes in praise of this
beer. He had his photo taken
and a cut made of it, which,
with a few verses appear on
another page of this issue of
the Journal. He promised to
send more next week.
the coining year.
Mike Leese, working on a
contract in Sidney, Montana,
visited here a few days this
week.
(To Be Continued.)
What Grandpa Sees.
Anoka Union: The undressed
woman seems to be approaching, and more's the pity.
As long as you see her coming, grandpa, it is up to you to
run   and   run fast.—Transcript.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wei-
denbach went to Randall
Tuesday morning to visit
friends.
Heavy Fine For Speeding.
Ed. Forstad, who drives a car
for a local liveryman, was lined
$25 and costs Saturday by Justice Gaudet on a charge of
speeding. The complaint was
made by Mrs. P. Mrozik of Pike
Creek. It was alleged that he
drove at a high speed on the
Pike Creek road striking a  calf
by Elmer Cheeley at Morrill.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Krause j   Tlleo- Btlhneyer has his house
of  Minneapolis  are  visiting completed.
Mrs. Krause's parents, Herin.     T .    ,lT,     ,,   ..,.   ,
* John    Deer    oi Buckman was
Vierk  and   wife  of  Agram. 'ai.ouud   tllese   "diggins"   last
They will   leave shortly for Thursday.
Beinidii,   where  Mr. Krause      ,,•,,, ,   ,,
'' I    A birthday party was held at
will take a position as mana- John BiaIlas home 1;ist Sunday
ger of a dry goods store. evening in honor of their daugh-
Cooler weather throughout ter Glara<   A ***** crowd w;is
., , .,      in  attendance and all   report a
the   county,   except   in   the . *
" J hne time.
Gulf and Pacific   coast states,
during this week, is predicted,    Matt  -1-Juetten  was a   busi-
bv the experts of the weather'ness   callor   ia   Buckman   last
.     ,,r     1 . XT    Tuesday.
Dureau in v\ ashington.    No
warm  wave is   probable east      Another horse made its   'get
of the Rocky mountains dm- aw;l>'"  from a  ^arty   of  ^"T
ing  the  next
week   or   ten
pickers Thursday.
(Jays. Matt J. Juetten is making sev
eral changes   in his   house  and
Henry traseert went to Lit- wm  build an addition to tlie
tie Falls Tuesday to attend a  main   building   in   the near   fu-
meeting of the county com- ture.
missiouers.     They   accepted 	
the  bond of  K. Kling. who     Keep posted  by reudjn^ the
has been   appointed   clerk of Journal's     "Business     Locals"
the  court,   in   place of  S.  P.  column.
Brick, who has been apj>oint- ,
ed postmaster of Little Falls.
and narrowly missing Mr.  Mro-
zik and his little daughter.    Mr.;'     4^"»-»««i wx-^i*w *■•!«,      Get wise   and   read the
Forstad   pleaded   guilty to theaudllaS   ™*Z*«& as clerk of that appear in the Journal from
charge.—Transcript. ' the court.
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