The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-04-15

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VOL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISO,
STATE NEWS
Various Happenings of the Week
Throughout Minnesota.
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Joseph A. Eckstein died suddenly
at New Ulm of paralysis ot the heart,
while about to purchase some medicine at a drug store. He was one of
the best known lawyers in Minnesota,
having practiced in New Ulm thirty-
four years. He was a native of Bohemia and was fifty-seven years old.
Prior to practising law he taught
school and was attached to the United States signal corps. He was once
grand master of the A. O. U. W. of
Minnesota and was a thirty-second
degree  Mason  and  a Woodman.
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Thomas   Walsh,   founder  of  Grand
Forks, N. D., is dead in that city, aged
ninety-three years. Before locating
at Grand Forks Mr. Walsh had been
a resident of Henderson, this state,
where he served as postmaster under
the administration of President
Johnson. As a^soldier in the Civil
war, enlisting in Company I, Tenth
Minnesota infantry, Mr. Walsh participated in many engagements.
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At the election held in Butterfieid
on March 9 the canvassing board decided the vote was a tie. On a recount later the inspectors reported
the disputed ballot to be a wet ballot,
making the result stand 47 wet and
45 dry. The matter came before
Judge Comstock of the district court
at St. James and the case was dismissed, thus leaving Butterfieid in
the dry column.
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Wolf bounties are slashed from
$7.50 to $4 for full grown animals
and from $3 to $1 for cubs by a bill
which was introduced by Representative L. C. Spooner on the special request of the governor and passed tho
house by a vote of 69 to 34 under
suspension of the rules, but not until
after a debate full of bitter personalities.
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The state board of health has ordered the suspension of the work of
the bureau of vital statistics and the
branch laboratories at Duluth and
Mankato. The action was necessitated because of lack of funds and the
laboratories will be closed pending
action by the legislature on a requested appropriation of $15,000.
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Diphtheria Is on the decrease In Minnesota, according to the quarterly report of the division of preventable diseases of the state board of health.
For the three months ending March
31 7,256 diphtheria cultures were examined, as compared to 8,490 during
the same period last year.
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Minnesota internal revenue receipts
for March showed an increase of
$169,238.90 over the same month a
year ago and of $25,416 over those of
last February. The total receipts in
March were $337,666.66, as compared
with $168,427.76 in March, 1914, and
$312,250.66  in  February.
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Julius Schmidt, fifty-eight years of
age, prominent member of the Minnesota Retail Hardware Dealers' association and one of its former presidents, Is dead at Wabasha. Mr
Schmidt was a resident of that place
for fifty years and in business there
thirty-live years.
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Edwin Fisher of St. Paul, who passed the century mark Monday, continues to work daily. He is a pattern
maker in the foundry of Lee & Hoff
in West St. Paul. For eighty years ho
has worked at his trade and has made
patterns and castings for parts of machines.
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H. A. Libby, a pioneer Minnesota
lumberman, is dead at his home in
Seattle, Wash., after an illness of
two days. Heart trouble was the
cause of death. Mr. Libby reached
St. Anthony in 1869 from Machias,
Me.   Ten years ago he moved to Seattle.
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Dr. H. C. Swearingen, pastor of
Hope Presbyterian church of St. Paul,
has been named by Governor Hammond as a member of the state board
of parole to succeed the late Dr. Samuel G. Smith of St. Paul. The appointment is for a term of six years.
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Chester Olson, son of O. C. Olson,
met instant death while working in
a field on his father's farm southwest
of Pipestone. He was operating a
manure spreader and fell from the
seat, one of the heavy wheels of the
machine passing over his head.
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The death of Dr. T. Jensen at Caledonia marked the passing of one ot
the most widely known doctors in
Southern Minnesota. He was seventy-five years old and had been a resident of Houston county more than
forty-two  years.
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Ell Torrence of Minneapolis and E.
J. .lones of Morris have been reappointed by Governor Hammond as
members of the state normal board.
A. P. White of Bemidji was appointed
on the board to succeed T. Jacobson
of Alexandria.
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Leslie Welter of Moorhead has
been appointed on the state normal
board by Governor Hammond to succeed C. O. Dosland.
A Letter From
John Schmolke
Tribune, Sask., April 9, 1915.
Mr. Editor:
Thought I would let you and your
readers know how everything is going
on in this part of the country.
Everything looks fine around here
and the weather is just grand. The
farmers are in full swing sowing now.
Everything is booming, hut the town
of Tribune most. One good thing they
are going tq build a Catholic church and
that will bring in many more settlers
to this country. Yesterday, April 8, a
Catholic- priest came to our town to
read mass. As there was no Catholic
church here I told him he could read
mass in Wy house, afterward they had
a meeting and trustees were elected. In
two weeks they 're going to have another church meeting. Church will continue in my house till the regular
church is built. I gave them ten (10)
acres of land right next to the town to
build a church on. There are over 30
Catholic families here and it would be
very easy to build a church here because they all want it. Some will give
$50 and some $10, according to their
means. Our house is pretty big and
at the same time it was just packed
full. It was sorrow to see the people.
Lots of them had tears in their eyes,
because they hadn 't seen the priest for
three years and some longer than that.
We had a nice rain the same day we
had our mass here,    it looked as though |
the Lord sent blessings upon us.
Geese and ducks (wild of course),
are flying around here in abundance
this year.
Oats is 75c per bu. and wheat is $1.40
per bu. Hogs arc 7c per pound live
and calves are from 5 to 7c. Potatoes
are $1.00 per bu. Butter is 25c per
pound.
T   am   very  busy   from   early  in   the
morning till late at night.
Yours truly,
—John Schmolke.
The Cycl
pne Whi
Passed Throu
29 Year
Twenty  nine  years
terday  (Wednesday)  a
passed through,or rath
here.    The anniversary
catastrophe,   the   toll o
was no less than 131 live;
to the minds of  the old
an evening of fright an
And this is how it is
by
A. SITZMAN
It was  about 5 o'clock  in the
evening.   I had closed ny school
OURNAL
TA, APRIL 15, 1915.
NO. 44.
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nteresting
Some Interesting
Local News!     Correspondences1
Pierz   road.    According   to the
chief  surveyor, they  intend to
and was at Ignatz Kubitschek's, i make their  grade to New Pierz
my boarding place, when suddenly a dark spiral cloud appeared in the south. Then a ten
foot board came down close by
an 1 stuck in the ground.  Pieces
partly on the wagon road, and
partly on the land to the west
of the road.
"This work is final,'' said the
foreman,   "and the contract for
bob   up   over    Otremba's   hill.
Prom our viewpoint we had no-
APRIL  THE  MONTH TOR GOPHER
WARFARE
April and May are the months in
whicli farmers should get after the
pestiferous gopher. Seed corn can be
protected from their attacks by various
methods. Corn soaked in the following
solution is a good poison bait for the
gopher:
One ounce of sulfate of strychnine
dissolved in a pint of boiling water
with an equal quantity of sugar syrup
added and mixed  thoroughly.
After the corn has been soaked in
this solution, let it dry and then distribute it over the infested areas.
If gophers have not disappeared at
eorn-plantSng time, seed corn itself
may be soaked iu the same solution 24
hours without injury.
Metliods of fighting the four-footed
pests of the farm will be found iu Extension bulletin 54, by F. L. Washburn,
Division of Entomology, Minnesota College of Agriculture.
Footprints in The
Sands of Time
COST OF PRODUCING MINN. FIELD
CROPS
Five years of study the cost of producing field crops in Minnesota, has
been reported on in Bulletin No. 145 of
the Minnesota Experiment Station, by
F. W. Peck, assistant agriculturist,
Division of Agronomy and farm management. The bulletins principal object
is to furnish information which will ' id
farmers to increase their net returns.
The various factors of cost are carefully
worked out and reduced to an acre basis
so that the farmer may tell very nearly
whether he is raising liis feild crops at
a profit or loss by comparing the returns from his acres with the average
cost of products set down in the bulletin.
Copies of tlie bulletin may be had
from the Office of Publication, University Farm, St. Paul.
of I3uckman's barn now began to ! grading will  be let by  the first
of May, and the  road will be in
operation before the snow Hies.
thing to fear because the storms Prom here   we will probably go
path   was in a northerly  direc-1 to Lastrup, touch  Sullivan and
tion.    As  it passed  over   Pish J Mille Lacs on the west and run
lake, the cloud assumed a whit-  into Aitkin.
ish appearance, which, no doubt
was   caused   by    the   spraying
yeast  of   the   water.     Here, it
seems, the fury and   violence of
the roaring demon   was spent—
ouly a few  damaged trees were
reported beyond this place. Por
a few   seconds it  rained gravel
in upper town.
Another cyclone   passed thru
Rucker  at   the   same   time,   in
whicli Henry Drake was seriously injured and lay at John Newman's place   for several   weeks.
He embraced the trunk of a tree
and   kept   his   hold   while   the
storm lashed   and   whipped   his
body into contortions.
While   looking <nt  one of  the
j surveyors  rods, whicli  are colored  somewhat   like a barber's
i pole,   Mr.   Sanborn  of   Rucker
meditatively remarked :  "I car-
. ried one of   those poles   for the
;N. P. through Little Palls oyer
forty years ago.    I think it was
in 1869 or 1870 when we ran the
preliminary   survey.     At   that
time   we   little thought   that in
j our   wake   would   |follow     one
a few days later. We saw trees
over 12 inches iu diameter twisted into such masses as you can
twist a willow sapling.
Wm. Dahlmeier, who then
lived on the Rob. Gruber farm
in Dixville was killed during the
storm. He with family had escaped to the cellar, but came up
again and ventured outdoors to
close the barn door. This precaution cost him his life.
HUBERT BARES.
I was shingling on the catholic church that evening, when
that cloud threatened. I had
seen two cyclones in Dane Co.,
Wis., and knew what this meant.
I at once notified the twent}'
carpenters working in the
church and ran for home, which
was then on the old Roch place-
The cloud disappeared a few
moments later.
WILLIAM MEYER.
I was  working as   watchman
at a lumbermans supply camp at
Round  lake.     The   camp   was
moved about 0 feet from where
it originally stood.    While taking a  survey  of the  surroundings after   the storm  was  over
I found a vest hanging in a tree
in   the   pocket  of   which   there
was a dime,    a dress which   had
a  thimble   in  its   pocket,    and
same empty sacks which belonged to the Sauk Rapids flour mill.
ENGELBERT BOEHM.
SPECIAL PRIZES FOR BOY PORK i     It   seemed   tome   that I   saw
producers 'the cloud  at least half an   hour
Special prizes have brou<.dit the tot;'l
     j>f the greatest railroads of the
Bentfeld and I drove up there ! wo,.ld     But it  see]ns  tllat   U)e
days for building great trunk
lines are past. Yes, I knew
Potter, the president of the proposed electric line through here,
and did business with him forty
years   ago  at   the  old   market
BUSINESS FARMER TESTS HIS
SEED
The business farmer of today tests
his seed grain. In tanning as in every
other business, elements of chance are
being removed as fully as possible.
After a farmer has selected his seel
<rrain by tlie use of the fanning mill, he
should make tests for purity and germination. If he is not prepared to do
this, he should communicate with the
Minnesota Seel Laboratory, University
Farm, St. Paul.
The only safe thing is to remove elements of chance by selecting good seed,
and by testing for purity and germinating power.
for   the   pork-producing   contest,   to   be
before it struck us    I unhitched
begun this spring, up to $700. my team, put them into the barn
This means that pork-raising is going .    ,   ., . ,■      ..
,      : ' ■.,',',' and   told   my   wile   there   was
to be almost  as  popular  with  the  boys
of   Minnesota   this   Bummer   as   corn- something coming.   What it was
growing has been for several years past. wg  di<J   nQt  knQW     for   we    ,|ad
For   lull   information,   address   T.   A. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Erickson,   University   Farm,  st.  Paul, never iieard oi cyclones.   Shing-; ly damaged, while the wood was
Minn. les  began   to drop   in the   yard  uot disturbed.
place near the Union Depot.
Wenzel Altrichter left for
Pliilbrook Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Smith
went to Little Falls Friday.
Mrs. John Kraemer of Vancouver, Washington, arrived
here today for a visit witli
her daughter Mrs. Jacob
Girtz in Granite. She says
her husband John is well and
happy.
Keep posted by reading the
Journal's ''Business Locals"
column.
although there wasn't the slightest breeze to be felt.
Shortly hail and showers of
rain fell and the wind chilled
the air and the velocity of the
wind grew in violence. The
Funnel 1 shaped cloud dipped to
the earth and rose again at short
intervals. The apex of this inverted pyramid seemed no more
than a foot across.
My wife and I were iu the
house when the crash came.
The walls of the house were
torn to splinters and scattered
to every corner of the township.
The floor on which we were lying, when we regained eonscies-
ness, was fifteen rods from the
foundation. One of the vagaries of the storm is this: A binder was lifted across a pile of
piled split stove wood and bad-
Seeding is in full blast.
Clean up and keep clean.
Peter Wagner left for Dakota Monday.
Don't forget that clean-up
time is coming.
Henry Gassert is now in
San Diago, Cal.
Miss  Mary   Langer   came
i Rice Monday  to attend
the dance.
Jos. Bockhorni was in the
village last week, calling on
his customers.
Nick Thommes came down
from Brainerd Monday, and
left again Tuesday.
Mrs. Jos. Bollig visited her
sister in Little Falls Thursday returning Saturday.
Last Sunday was a cold
and unpleasant day. A cool
north wind blew all day.
The stork visited the home
of C. I. Virnig at New Richland last Thursday and left
a 9 pound boy.
Louis Kast of Pierz spent
last Tuesday night in Wahkon. He and his family contemplate locating there.
Cecilia Blake left Tuesday
morning for Little Falls,
where she will work as trimmer in the Sand Sisters millinery store.
Peter Zwach of New Ulm
lias arrived with his household goods and will locate on
a piece of wild land east of
the village. He will live in
the John Tamala house at
present.
Henry Lust of Hillman
has moved to the village of
Pierz and now lives in the
Henry Sehneppenheiin house
in Upper Town. He bought
a lot of the Jos. Preiner es-
tateand will commence building some time this spring.
In an exchange we see a
query; a young lady asks
the editor for a remedy for
thick lips. The editor replied he knew of no remedy,
but advised her to keep her
mouth closed. This advise
would be good for many that
have no thick lips.
Bemidji. — A submarine
boat perfected by Clarence
A. Blain is to be launched,
if present plans carry, on
Lake Bemidji and used as a
passenger boat. The Blain
craft makes it possible to
immerse or rise at will by
means of planes.
Tlie Northern Pacific Rail-
Holstein Park News,
At last here is the solution of the |
cost of high living. First cati h a crow,
a yearling preferred, as anything over
that age is inclined to be tough. Prepare
for tlie kettle the same as any domestic
fowl. Now go out and decapitate that
■ old hen—the one which never lays. Mix
the two well together ami cook. Serve I
hot. Those who have tried this dish
proclaim is as delicious.
Mrs. G. P. Martin and Mrs. .1. A.
-'.inborn called on Mrs. EL Thompson
last  Tuesday.
Hill Johnson of Rucker has been
helping Alva Martin dig his well.
Leonard Pint of Long Lake purchased some poultry from Jim Taylor last
week.
The schoolma'am visited around in
Holstein Park Saturday and Sunday.
Bill Filler and Herb Winkley of
j Faribault, are moving onto some of
the Filler land in this town. They are
going in for stock raising. Their land
lis well adapted for this line of farm-
ling. Mrs. Filler intends to come as soon
[as the boys get  their house built.
The southern part of Minnesota and
Iowa have taken quite a fancy to this
part of Morrison county. They show
good judgment.
Mi>s b'ubv Thompson, Miss Julia
Mitchell and Mr. and Mrs. ('has. San
born  spent  the afternoon  and  evening
at   Martin 'g Sunday,
ABOUT THE STATE
News o! Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
VOTERS MAKE FEW CHANGES
Present   Status   Retained   by   Most   of|
the   Minnesota   Cities   Balloting
on  Liquor Question.
• Sullivan News
Mrs. Henry Riekfl and Margaret Adkins called at ('. K, Look's last Tuesday.
T. S. Look made a business trip to
I'ierz one day  last   week.
Peter Adkins was an Onamia  visitor
Saturday.
Mrs. Robt. Adkins visited with Mrs.
Pint Saturday.
Messrs Thompson and Taylor were
palters at the Robt. Adkins and II. <'.
Smith  homes Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sims have moved   into   their   new   home.
Miss Jule Mitchell spent the weekend   with   Mrs.   Charlc     Sa thorn.
Mrs. T. S. Look was i caller at Robt
Adkin 's Saturday.
Merle Look called at S. E. Brand's
Friday.
Illif  and   Krvin   Walmark     and      Mis-;
Florence Wilmot  spent  a  very enjoyable time at   the  masquerade  in   Platte
town, Saturday  night.
Callers at the Robt. Adkins home OB
Sunday were Mesdames Raymond Sim-;,
Henry Rieke, Frank Sims and <'. E.
Look and children,
The   "boys"   organize,1   a   ball   team
Sunday  with   Wm.   Droger  tor captain
and C. K. Look, manager.
Henry Rieke and family expect to
move back to the farm near Lastrup
Monday.
A tew fi>h were seen in Sucker Brook
yesterday.
T. S. Look has bought tend a half
mile south of the lake. He is busy
clearing  for a  building spot.
GENERAL
MARKETREPORTS.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
'Vheat,No. 1,      1.38
Wheat, No. 2       1.86
Flax,        L.85
Ha r ley ._     65
Kye       H
Oats      :»0
EarCorn       50
Hay $5.00
Rutter, Creamery ..       37
Dairy        _7
Egg*      in
Flour, Best      3.80
"    Straight      3.50
Low grade flour L.80
Bran 1.40
Shorts    1.45
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^    Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
way Company   lias made ap-|Ground Feed     1.40
Onions
2.00
60
plication to the  land depart-11 Jeans	
ment for obtaining title to
Spirit Island, located about
tive miles from the south
shore of Mille Lacs Lake, under the federal railway land
act. The island is a vast accumulation  of   rocks,   not  a
'particle of soil or vegetation Tuesd;iy ^„.7.08
is to  be found   thereon   and^Wednesday	
jforwhat purpose the railway ^^  ^ p||u]
.company  seek   possession of. Live StockMarket.
this   huge pile   ot   rock   is a —      -   -
to     * Steers	
.conundrum.    The island con- Cows;iml Heife,
I tains a fraction  over half an Calves, steady,.
acre.—Onamia Breeze. Feeders, sieadv, ...$4.30 t<
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday      	
Friday 6.80
Saturday     7.05
Monday	
Despite the prospect of a county option vote within a year In many counties, cities of the fourth class which
voted on the saloon question seemed
inclined to retain their present status
and If any gains were made it was by
the "wets."
Only four important changes were
made—Brainerd. Anoka and Fairmont
going dry and St. Peter, after being
without saloons one year, switching
back to the wet column.
Anoka went dry, but a charter provision would automatically have ousted the saloons on May 1.
Fairmont, after a most strenuous
campaign, went dry for the first time
in its history by 83 majority. Six saloons and four wholesale establishments were put out of business. Frank
E.  Wade was elected mayor.
In Faribault, where the drys waged
a hard campaign, the returns showed
that the wets won by fi.Vi majority,
the vote being 1,247  wet and r,99 dry.
In Waterville and Sauk Center the
wets had a bad scare, although they
carried  both  places.
Sauk Center went wet a year ago
by 141. This year the majority was
reduced to 39.
Kasota, just across the river from
St. Peter, went wet by a slightly increased majority, thirty-two more
votes being recorded tor license than
for the anti-saloon propaganda.
Lake  City   Remains Wet.
Lake City, the place where the state
militiamen train each year, could not
see its way clear to oust saloons and
the wets won by the comfortable margin of  IU  votes
Sleepy Eye voted wet by 140 majority. Last year the drys were defeat
ed by only  r,6 votos.
St. .lames, home of Governor Ham
niond. who signed the county optloD
bill,  went  wet  by 23 votes. I
Le Sueur last year Went wet bjj
three votes and it took a supreme.
court decision to decide the
This year the saloon forces rallied
and the city remained in the wet
column b> 59 votes.
The drys had the satisfaction of Increasing their majority in Luverne by
47 votes. Last year the Rock county
metropolis voted to oust the saloons
by .")4. This year the drys polled 101
more than the wets.
I>ast year Marshall went dry for the
first time by 63 votes. This year It
repeated,   but   the  majority  was  71.    J
Pipestone also went dry, but the
majority of 23 a year ago was reduced
to  13. j
Hlue Earth went dry with a vengeance, the vote being 351 against saloons  to   Utfi   for. t
Fergus Falls, the largest dry city
in the state, did not change front, but
voted to keep out saloons by 698 to
624.
NAMES VASALY AND ARMS0N
Governor Hammond Makes Two Important Apoclntmentt.
Governor Hammond has announced
the leappolntment of Charles E. Vasaly as member of the state board of
control and of James Q. Armson as
member of tbe state tax commission.
Loth appointments are for six years,
both men are Democrats, having been
originally named by Oovernor John
A. Johnson, and both are chairmen of
their respective boards.
Governor Hammond offered no comment regarding liis action, but he has
assured friends that it is in line
with bis desire to continue in office
men who have made acceptable records as servants of tbe sta'
DULUTH   WITHDRAWS    CASE
Delay  in  Obtaining  Hearing  Given si
Reason.
The interstate commerce commis-]
■Ion rendered a decision permitting
tbe Duluth Commercial club to with-'
draw its complaint against the Chi-;
cago and Northwestern and other
railways, asserting excessive and unlawful rates between North and South
Dakota. Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska,
Kansas and Minnesota points on their
lines and Duluth. In that they exceed
contemporaneous rates between the
same points and Chicago, Milwaukee,
St.   Paul  and   Minneapolis.
The complaint was withdrawn subject to future refiling because of delay in obtaining a hearing.
CONVENTIONS   BILL   PASSES
Provides for Partial Return to Old
Political Methods.
The bill providing for the holding
of political party conventions to be
called for tbe purpose of adopting
platforms declaring party prin'
and recommending candidates for
nominations at primaries, was passed
by the senate, although it met with
considerable objection when it came
up on the order of its passage. Tbe
vote on its passage stood 36 ayes to
20 nays.