The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1913-08-14

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VOL. 5.
THE   PIERZ  JOURNAL
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, AUGUST 14. 1918.
NO. 9.
INTERESTING
CORRESPONDENCE.
(West Sullivan Items.)
P.   J.   Walmark   and   A. W.
Cook  made   a   business   trip to
Crow Wing county Friday.
Mr. Hoppe's year old baby
had the misfortune to burn its
feet severly this week.
WILL CORRAL
THE POACHERS.
Prank   Schubert
Zeruskie     visited
Zak's Sunday.
and  Mattie
at     Walter
Walter Zak bad tbe good luck
to rind anotber bee tree Monday.
Walter Zak bad tbe bad luck
to lose the propeller off of bis
motor boat last Sunday.
There is a whole lot in being
lucky if you can make a stand
off botb ways,
Dr. Gempers, Prank Gibson,
Anton Kedle and Paul Popelic,
returned to their homes at Bowlus on Saturday.
The scbool board of district
124, sent a team to Brainerd
Monday for a ton and a half of
Ivory Wood Piber Plaster to
plaster our new scbool bouse.
glmep Pearson, of Crow Wing
county, has the contract to
plaster our new scbool bouse
and will commence work Wednesday.
"^e   haye   re.^0   the   r-hymes of Johny
B.rqwn,
:phe muses called from off the hill;
And everybody in our tqwn,
" gays;    White  $o,se  surely   fill* the
^hite   Rose   flour  aud   White   Rose
Beer,
Are staples we can't do without;
One to nourish, the other to cheer,
When we are most down and out.
Joliny's pjotur-e a^d J[ahny\s verse,
£joth are pretty hard to down,
\Vhite Rose beer is not so worse,
Please cqme again Mr, Johny Brcnyn,
Piatte News,
Correspondent was. on a strike
last weejf, and sent no. news...
Theo, Hyebner leaves Tuesday
for Wyoming. He will return
Sunday with a "skunk wagon."'
Miss Mary Johns arrived home
Saturday from Brainerd. She
left again Monday to take 3.
pgsitign as a nurse.
Miss Sar3.l1 Rychner returned
tg Elk River Tuesday after yis=
\t\ng for a few days with her
parents Mr. and Mr-s. Charles
Rychner.
Miss Agnes Smith hauled
cream lo Freedhem Monday.
Misses Mary and Katie Sigette
and Agnes and Vera Smith wepe,
Gftil&FS ilt the Tiionms Johns
home Sunday.
Miss Emma Reese visited at
Chas. Rychner's Sunday afternoon and evening.
■ Quite a few cases of mumps
around here lately. Nearly
everybody had tbejji except correspondent,
Anthony Rychner and a friend
of Wyoming passed through here
Friday visiting with the Ben
and Chas. Rychner families.
Mr, and Mrs. C. Rees^ visjted.
at George Sigette's last Suuday
evening.
J. Sypneski and wife of Pulaski passed through here on the
way to Little Palls Friday.
George Emder  has   been appointed  game   warden for Morrison  county  and  he and other
sportsmen  of  tbe  county have
arranged   an   entirely   new deal
for   tbe   fellows   who   want to
shoot chickens  out    of  season
this year.    Under Mr.   Emder's
appointment   be   has   authority
to appoint several deputies and
this  be has done.    These deputies   will   begin   work   Sunday
morning  and  will  be  out from
different villages of  the county.
It is planned to cover tbe entire
county as much  as possible and
in order to properly do this tbe
services   of    local    automobile
owners    have    been     enlisted.
While    the  owners   themselves
are  not  deputies they have agreed to patrol different sections
each  Sunday  and  as  often  as
possible during tbe week.   They
will secure evidence and report
infractions of the game laws to
the   warden.     And  the warden
has  gone  another  step and secured  many farmers  who have
agreed   to.   report    infractions.
AH farmers   furnishing  enough
evidence for  conviction will be
paid $10 for  each   such conviction,
Mr, Emder interviewed several agriculturists in the city
Saturday and they agreed to do
their part to protect the game.
The poacher this year will
hereafter have hard sledding,
as he will not have one warden
to contend with but seyeral.
Some shooting hits already been
done, but the parties are known
and a special watch will be
placed on them.—Transcript.
FARMERS CREAMERY REPORT.
Following  is  a  report of the
Pierz   Farmers'   Creamery   for
the month of June :
Number of patrons.__
Pounds of milk received	
Pounds of cream received	
Average test of milk
cream
Butterfat in milk	
Butterfat in cream	
VILLAGE LIGHT
REPORT.
171
11,513
94,735
3.33
26.40
384.21
25,000.57
Following will be found the
report of tbe Light and Water
Board together with a list of
patrons, and the amount each
paid for the last month.
Juice sold in June at 10c
Kilowatts ___•«,__.   $81.80
Juice furnished forvnlage
street lights at 4c ^Kilowatts     18.44
A DESTRUCTIVE
TORNADO.
Total Butterfat    25,384.78
The Pierz poachers and those
of the outlying districts are all
"spotted" and may be called
upon the carpet for illegal
shooting seyevaj weeks ago,
Plenty of witnesses are available,
Total Butter made	
Overrun,	
Overrun, per cent	
Average   price    paid
for butterfat	
Average price received for  butter	
31,090
5,705
22.41
28k
25.06c
According' tQ a recqrd kept at
the §t. Clone] reformatory July
was the wettest month in 17
years. It also averaged war-
mer than the past |H years,
there was one hotter day two
years ago and one equally as
warm in 1097- The average
high temperature for the month
was 82.36, while the average
for 1908, 1909 and 1910 were
slightly higher.
To Kill Quack Grass,
Two weeks ago the Journal
published a letter from the Minnesota Agriculture Experiment
Station, addressed to J. A. Dengel, qf Bucknian, relative t-Q the
eradication of Canadian thistle,
and at that time Mr. Dengel
sent in a specimen of the so
called "skunk weed," in reply
he received the following letter:
University parm, St. Paul, ftfinn.
IJear S^ir:—I am pending yqu. a huh
ietin on eradioatiou of quack grass.
Some such method as is outlined iu
this bulletin would be effective iu killing off the weed you enclosed.
If, after reading- it, there are any
further questions which you would
like to ask I shall be pleased to, ans.-
iy,er,
Very truly yours,
A. C. ARNY,
Assistant Professor.
The bulletin referred to in
Professor Amy's letter is Press
Bulletin Nq. 3,6, gotten gut by
the University Farm, St Paul.
You can write directly to the
qbqvo address, or if preferred,
the Journal will be pleased to
send for copies for you if you
will  call   or send your address.
Fish Lake News.
(Pleasure Park.)
Mrs- P. S. Johnson left Pleasure Park last week for her home
at the county seat.
Berg's broke camp last Thursday after a pleasant outing of
two weeks.
"Mike" Kiewel and Herman
Pantzke visited their families
here last week.
Two men from Onamia stopped over night at Pleasure
Park. They were on their way
to Dakota.
Mesdames George Kiewel and
Herman Pantzke spent Thursday with friends and relatives
in Pierz.
The "Sprinkler" of the county seat got lost tbe other Sunday.
Peter W. Blake from tbe
county seat, called at Blake's
camp Friday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bentfeld
of Little Falls, and daughter,
Mrs. L. F. Foster of Virginia,
are camping here,
Mr, and Mrs. Peter Blake of
Buckman, Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Gravel and family of Pierz, visited at Blake's camp over Sunday.
Mesdames M. A. Johnson and
H. Pantzke are going to the
county seat to spend a few days.
• Rose   Bracke    went    to   the
county seat for a few days,
Ed, Keough and sister Mamie
of Brainerd, Bessie Tomelty,
Alma Burkle, Cecilia Roble,
Bly Murphy, George Logan,
M. J. Bracke spent Sunday at
tbe Bracke camp.
\rcliie Biake, Etta Rundall
and Evelyn Blake visited with
Blake's Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Kidder
spent Sunday at Math Blake's
camp. Mrs. Kidder will spend
the week there.
Babe Tomelty returned to tlie
county seat after a weeks visit
with Blake's.
Guy Kidder is spending the
week at Bracke's camp.
Mattie Bracke is spending a
weeks vacation with her mother
liep-':
Louise Kiewel drove out with
her ear Sunday accompanied
by Mrs. C Kiewel of Crookston,
and son Charles, Addie Blake
and Nellie Hughes.
Total sold inJune 100.24
Paid L. P. Water Power
Co, for Juice furnished
village duriug month of
June at 4c a Kilowatts     48.40
Total profit .... $51.84
A. P. S;TOll,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Following will be found a list
of the patrons of tbe electric
light service, and the amount
in cash that each one paid for
juice during the past month:
Bares,   Hubert       $6 00
Becker, Frank    	
Boser John  	
Brandl,   Frank  A	
Brummer Norbert    	
Burton, Barney	
Boehm, John.	
Dombovy,   John  	
Eller,   William	
Faust, A	
Faust, Frank	
Grell,   Frank	
Grell, John H.   saloon	
Grell, John H. house	
Gravel,   Charles   E	
German Sate Bank	
Hartmann, P. A.  house	
Hartmann, P. A.   store	
Kerkhoff, E. H.  house	
Kerkhoff, E. H.  Journal  .....
Koering,  Herman	
Marshik Frank  	
Mueller,  N.   H	
Melhart,   Joseph	
Neisius, Jacob	
Nohner, Mrs.   Clara	
N. W. Telephone Exchange Co
Rich Prairie Milling Co	
Stoll, A.   P	
Meyer Bros	
St. Joseph's Cong, house	
St. Joseph's Corp.   church.. . .
Tembruell, A.	
Tembruell,  Christ.,	
Virnig F.   X	
Virnig, F. X. &  Co	
Vonder Haar, Mrs. A	
Bentfeld, Adam ..    . .	
Blake  Jacob	
Wermerskirchen, M	
Holieisel, John  	
Leese,   Mike	
Poster, P. L	
Virnig,   Joseph H	
Meyer,  Joseph	
Duncan, R. M.   store	
Duncan, R. M.   house	
Grell, Frank upstairs	
Grell, Joseph H	
Angermeier,   Mike	
Gassert,  Henry	
Faust Frank saloon and house
Gau, John house,	
54iegler, John   house	
Borgerding J. & Co.  	
A. P. STOLL,
Secretary and Treasurer
A Letter From Idaho.
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A tornado passed through this
part of the county last Thursday
afternoon and left havoc and
destruction in its short path.
Countless grain shocks and
stacks were flattened, trees were
blown down, and a few light
buildings were unroofed. But
these mishaps are trifles compared with the damage suffered
by Mrs. Arnold Nagel, six miles
southeast of the village. Her
barn, which was without doubt
the largest  in this  part of the
ADDITIONAL
LOCAL NEWS.
John Ziegler aud wife visited  at  Royalton last week.
John Honsmann built a
chimney on the lumber yard
ottiice.
Frank Brandl took three
pictures of Mrs. Arnold
Nagel's wrecked barn.
Al. Smith arrived last
Monday evening from Schles-
engerville, Wisconsin.
John Kastanek, of Minne-
county, was completely demol-1 aPolls<   is   hei'«   for   a weeks
visit with his parents.
Louis Spanfellner sold his
farm, the old Westbrook
place, to John Seppethl, of
Iowa, last week.
Last Monday morning our
streets were lined with teams.
It rained and farmers could
not cut nor stack grain.
WEATHER AND
MARKETREPORTS.
Temperature lor the Week,
Highest     Lowest
Thursday 78 55 above
Friday  75   51 above
Saturday    77   51 above
Sunday   70 53 above
Monday     08 51 above
Tuesday 75 57 above
Wednesday.. 82 64 above
Get wise and read tbe ads.
that appear in the Journal from
week to week.
John Dombovy has some tine
fruit this year, especially plums
and apples, and he certainly
knows how to protect them too.
Having built an out side bunk,
loaded up bis shot gun and procured a savage watch dog. Yes,
we rather guess he'll keep his
fruit.
Kaliher Still With Us.
Transcript: E. L. Kaliher,
brother of Dr. E. W. Kaliher of
this city, has purchased Dr.
Campbell's drug store at Swan-
ville and the drug stock of Dr.
A. J. Qstrander, Mr, Kaliher
recently disposed of bis drug
store at Pierz.
Jr,o, Idaho, August 7, 1913.
Dear Friends:—I am well and
hope you are the same. This is
certainly a nice wheat country.
I am repairing an engine for Mr.
E. D. Turner and think I will
finish it today. Some machines
are threshing now, but we won't
start until Monday. Wages are
trorn $2.50 to $3.75 a day, and
wheat runs from 40 to 50 bushels per acre and oats 70 to 80
bushels per acre. I think we'll
have about a sixty days run.
They raise more grain here than
they do in Dakota or Minnesota, but these machines are all
very small. We bad a little
rain Sunday but now we are
having some nice weather again.
Land is worth from $75 to $175
an acre. All the boys that are
working on this machine are
from Minnesota and Dakota.
I will close, with best regards
to all.
Your friend,
Joe. F. Kramer.
ished. Tbe loss of the building
is variously estimated at from
$2,500 to $3,000. Mrs. Nagel
reports: "I saw large black
clouds a little south of west at
least an hour before the storm,
and at that time told my daughter that I did not like the looks
of them. When the storm came
closer and it began to rain, the
two boys hurried from tbe Held
to get themselves and the horses
under shelter- One of the boys
was in the barn tying the horses
and the other was under a nearby shed, when tbe crash came.
The barn is built upon a six foot
basement. The frame superstructure of the north half was
torn away clean to the basement,
but on the south end, where the
loft was filled with hay, only the
roof and two of the walls were
taken. Tbe boy who was under
tbe machine shed, found his way
through the blinding rain and
hail into the house a few minutes after tbe crash and told me
what had happened. Tbe rain
and bail fell so heavily that we
could not see more than a few
feet, and tbe storm roared high
above our speaking voices. I
knew tbe barn went down and
also knew that my boy was at
tbe time in the barn. The sound
of creaking and breaking timber is awful when associated
with the idea of wrenching' and
breaking bones. But I was
greatly relieved when he later
walked out into the open, unharmed. When tbe storm cleared
and the sun shone again on the
calm harvest fields around us,
we found the barn a mass of
wreckage, a patch of shingles
torn from tbe bouseroof, a half
dozen apple trees broken, a
horse dead, and hundreds of
grain shocks lying flat in the
field. But withal, after our
dreadful experience the world
looked inviting' and cheerful.
No human lives were lost. During times of great danger, ones
thoughts are a prayer for the
safety of those near and dear.
Property losses are secondary
and are thought of only when
the danger is well over and the
mind has readjusted itself to
the commercial side of life.
The Market Report,
Wheat, No. 1      79
Wheat, No. 2          77
Flax,        1.22
Barley          45
Rye         50
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
Ignatius    Vonderliaar,    of Cracked Corn 80 pounds.. ..1.20
St.   Michaels,   was  in   Pierz
over   Sunday,     visiting   his
mother   and  other relatives.
Mrs. Frank Zuleger left
last Thursday for Colorado,
for seyeral weeks visit witli
her sister, Mrs. Oesterich.
Ground Feed      1.25
Potatoes         00
Beans  1.50—1.75
Onions         70
Butterfat Market.
The Average during the week
was 28c
South St. Paul Hog Market.
Fishing  is  poor in Skunk
river.    Some claim  that nets
and other obstructions down
the  streem  don't allow fiish m, ^ve- Pnce-
I Thursday  ...8.02
to come up. I™ • i
1 i Friday 8.01
Nick   Allies  and wife mo-! Saturday 8.05
tored to Foley last week and ^Ionday K(>r'
,   , , m. (Tuesday 8.05
rented   a   house.     I hey   in- ,„r  -,      ,
J | Wednesday 8.00
tend to  move into it the end
of the week.
Wm.   Priemesberger,   our
drayman,     has    bought   an Steers.  $6.50 to 8.35
Avery   auto   truck   and   will i Cows and Heifers,$4.50 to .,7.00
hereafter    do    his    freight Calves' ^^^
hauliug with it.
St. Paul Live Stock.
Karl J. Becker, of Winona,
Minnesota, arrived here Saturday to visit his brother
Frank Becker, who recently
had his right foot amputated.
Frank Marshik returned
last week from tlie State
Farm at St. Paul where he
took a course to qualify himself to teach a consolidated
school—one which has an
agricultural department.
Joseph P. Leigh, of the
town of Leigh, has sold his
farm of 252 acres near Hillman station, to W. (J. Penni-
man, of St. Paul. Mr. Leigh
has not yet decided what he
will do, but says he will not
leave this part of the country.
Feeders, steadv, $4.50 to 7-75
New Munich News.
Peter Doll and Henry Stroing
from Lastrup are visiting with
the Herman Stroering family for
a few days.
Math Pitzl, C. W. Young,
Joseph Wieber, in the formers
car, motord to Pierz and Onamia Friday on a business and
pleasure trip. They returned
Monday.
Says Asa Gray, America's foremost naturalist :
John Maud and H. Koeck
are cutting the   weeds in the
streets.
So many discussions are always heard after a severe storm
regarding the nature of torna
does, commonly called cyclones,
that we thought it opportune
to make a brief   explanation.
All winds travel in a circle.
That circle may be a hundred
or tive hundred miles across.
The wind which blows north
here today may be part of a
circle of moving- air blowing'
south 500 miles from here. But
here the wind apparantly blows
in a straight direction. All
these winds are cyclonic. A
tornado is a violent Cyclonic
storm confined to a small  area.
Reference has been made in a
former chapter to tornado
winds; they are rather exceptional phenomena and not thoroughly understood. The winds
seem to blow iu from all directions toward an area of low
pressure at a single point. The
spiral motion that is common
to all cyclones, in a tornado
seems to be gathered up into a
condenced form, like a funnel.
The direction of movement is
the same as that of the cyclone
—that is, in the reverse direc
tion to that of the hands of a
watch. The upward motion of
the air inside of tbe funnel is at
a rate of over 170 miles an hour.
The onward movement of the
whole system is about thirty
miles per hour.
Dane County News.
Mrs. Pohl, of Pierz, Minn., a
sister of Theoder Dresen, of
this place, arrived here last
week lor a visit.
Mr. John Uebersetzig, who
has been ailing for the past two
years and who underwent a
series of operations at St. Mary's
hospital at Madison died at his
home here at 11 o'clock Sunday
a. m. The funeral will be held
at the Catholic Church Wednesday morning. He is survived by
his wife and four children.
A tire broke out at Mel. Esser
Saturday after dinner and destroyed the barn and bay sheds
and burned up two horses, thirteen hogs andaniunber of chickens. Only the very efficient work
of town people and the fire department saved the dwelling
and saloon from burning as the
house was on tire, the gables and
windows on the east side being
all ablaze when the help arrived.    The loss is about $2,000.
Keep  posted   by reading the
Journal's     "Bu-
column.