The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1913-11-06

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JOURNAL
VOL. 5.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, NOVEMBER H, 1918.
NO. 21.
HAPPENINGS
HERE AND THERE
Fergus Palls—No new cases
of hog cholera have been reported here   for  several weeks.
Wahkon — J. Byrnes, a
stranger, died here suddenly
and the authorities have not
been able to find any of his relatives or friends. He was about
65 years of age.
Bemidji—Has passed the 2,-
000;000 mark in its assessed
valuation this year. The total
valuation of the city is #2,153,-
344, an increase of $244,490
over last year's figures.
Little Palls—Wm. P. Davis
and Bessie Pay Hollenbeck of
Royalton, were married Wednesday afternoon at the Episcopal rectory by Rev. A. Osmond
Worthing. Mr. and Mrs. Davis
will reside at Onamia.
Moorhead—The organization
of farmers' clubs was the topic
of a stirring address made before the commercial club Thursday night by C. E. Brown,
agricultural agent for Clay
county. It was the largest and
most enthusiastic gathering
held for a long time.
Bemidji—So successful has
been the establishment here of
topnotch cash prices for farm
products by the Bemidji Onion
Growers' association that at a
meeting of the directors of that
organization it was decided to
/incorporate and enlarge the
present warehouse.
St. Cloud—The regular November meejting of the Commercial club was held Tuesday
evening in the Commercial club-
rooms. The special feature of
the meeting was the talk by
James A. Peterson of Minneapolis, who opposes Governor
Eberhart's public utility bill.
Royalton Banner: — Litte
Falls citizen refused to accept
the new charter which embraces
the Commission Form and City
Manager plan of government,
eit the election Tuesday. The
plan lost by a majority of three
to one. What's the matter
progressive brothers? The
light from the White Way must
have been sadly deficient.
Avon—Fifty car loads of potatoes Avere shipped out of here
this i fall. Amandes Immerfall
furnished ten car loads from 45
acres and realized $3,000.00 from
the same. All Avere shipped
through dealers, P. E. Schauble and Frank Schmid. Most
of them Avere shipped via Chicago to Indiana points. Nick
Thielmanand Amandes Immerfall are the potato kings of this
district, while Tom Hill and
Barney Murphy are said to have
the highest grade stock in
"spuds."
Alexandria—H. 0. Amund-
son's Riverside Manufacturing
company's plant was destroyed
'€ft>y fire last Sunday. Tlie los-s
on the building and machinery
is about $25,000, with insurance
of about $15,000. The origin of
the fire is unknown. The furniture and papers were saved
but nothing else. The factory
Avas built by Amundson in 1893
and enlarged in 1895. The product Avas office furniture and
store fixtures. TAventy men
were employed.
COUNTY SEAT
CHUNGS.
(From the Transcript.)
With pleasant weatheranother
week the German American
bank building will be  enclosed.
Mrs. Ellen Dufort has been
granted a mother's pension and
Avill receive $5 per month for
each of her three children.
Miss Lucile Blake, assistant
trimmer at Sand Sisters' millinery store, spent Sunday at her
home in Pierz.
Phil. S. Randall has laid out
and plotted a cemetery for the
Swedish Mission church at Darling. The cemetery is located
a short distance east of Pred-
erickson Bros.' store.
A sale of cattle will held in
Little Falls on November 15th
which will be of interest to
many farmers and stockmen in
this section. R. D. Colombe on
that day Avill auction several
head of Holsteins, bringing them
here from Wisconsin. This sale
is to be the first of a series of
like sales. All the cattle will be
tuberculin tested before the sale
takes place and purchasers will
thus be guaranteed that they
are in perfect condition.
The case, of the town of Mt.
Morris vs- the town of Little
Falls Avas taken up when court
convened Monday afternoon.
At the noon adjournment Tuesday the evidence in the case
had not all been heard. The
town of Mt. Morris claims to
have over paid its share of the
cost of the old Broadway bridge
to the town of Little Falls and
demands a judgment of $728 to
cover the amount over paid and
interest.
A refrigator car standing on
the sidetrack near the Monarch
elevator was damaged by fire
Thursday evening caused by the
explosion of an oil stove used
to keep the potatoes in the car
from freezing. Tlie car was
badly burned and the potatoes
Avere almost a total loss from
the result of the heat, the water
which was used to extingusing
the fire and the freezing temperature to which they Avere
subjected to afterwards. The
car contained about 300 bushels
of potatoes belonging to Mr.
DisAvell, an Iowa buyer. The
fire was discovered shortly
after 8 o'clock and hose company No. 2 was called out to
handle the blaze.
Jacob and Andrew Thoen of
Benton county were in the city
Tuesday transacting business.
The first named a short time ago
offered his fine farm in Benton
county for sale at $50 per acre.
A buyer immediately wanted
the farm, but through some misunderstanding did not take the
place. In the meantime Mr.
Thoen decided to make a trip
to the south with Florida as the
objective point. The trip was
made and he looked over land
in ten different states. He came
baclc to Benton county and
placed the value of his farm
land at $100 per acre. He says
that after looking at their so-
called good land in other sections he believes that Morrison
and Benton counties have anything on earth beaten in real
land values.
OF INTEREST TO
MANY IN THE 'N. W.
VILLAGE COUNCIL
PROCEEDINGS.
The village council met in
regular monthly session Saturday November 1st.
All members present except
M. Wermerskirchen.
Proceenings of the former
meeting were read and adopted.
On motion the   following bills
Avere alloAved:
W. S. Booth,   blanks...
Fire at Fleckenstine's..
Standard Oil   company
gasoline	
ElectricEngineering Co.
131 pounds telephone
wire	
Phil.   Randall,   surveying	
John  Holieisel,   service
Avire	
C. E. Gravel,
President.
J. B. Hartmann,
Recorder.
$2 95
25 45
10 56
27 10
17 00
14 65
Au action of immense importance -to the dairy interests of
the Avhole Northwest is noAV
pending before the Interstate
Commerce Commission at Washington. In the result is iirvolv-
ed a saving in transportation
costs of over three-quarters of
a million dollars to the producer
of butter, eggs and poultry.
The action, if successful,
would require the boat lines
operating on the Great Lakes
to install refrigerator facilities
for the transportation of butter,
eglrs> poultry and dressed meats
from Duluth to Buffalo and
other lake ports.
At present the boat lines refuse to furnish such facilities.
The result is that all of the
traffic moves by all-rail at a
rate of $1.05 per 100 pounds,
from Duluth or the Twin Cities
to NeAV York City, whereas the
rate on the boat lines for the
same class of traffic is 65 cents
per 100 pounds, from Duluth, a
difference of 40 cents.
The case was brought by tlie
Bridgeman Russell company of
Duluth, a central creamery, but
every owner of dairy beards
and iiocks of chickens, every
co-operative creamery and
private creamery, and every
man interested in the development of the dairying and poul-
industries in the Northwest is
as vitally interested as the company in whose name it was
brought.
Seeing the prospects of Duluth
becoming a assembling center
for butter and egg shipments
by Avater and the probability of
great development in the Northwest if the case is successful,
the Traffic Commission, on the
Duluth Commercial club has
joined the Bridgeman-Russell
company in preporation of the
case. The commission recently
won a signal Adctory in obtaining a reduction a reduction in
the rail and lake rates from the
east to Duluth, with consequent
benefit to all ot the Northwest
and the members of the commission have high hopes that they
Avill be successful in the action
now pending.
On behalf of the producers of
butter, eggs and poultry in Minnesota, the State Railroad and
Warehouse commission has intervened in the case, and undoubtedly many other interested parties "will join in the support of the action.
The territory which Avould be
served by adequate facilities for
refrigerated transportation on
the great lakes includes Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and seventeen counties in
Northern Wisconsin. The territory does not begin to consume its entire production of
butter, eggs and dressed poultry and full 90 per cent of it is
now shipped out of the territory. Of the shipments 70 per
cent go to the markets of East
Buffalo, New York, Philadelphia and other cities.
Minnesota  in  1912   produced
131,500,000   pounds   of   butter.
Ohly 10 per cent of that amount
was consumed in the  state   andj    Arthur Wieland spent Monday
of  the  remainder,   70  per cent I evening at home.
Avent   to   tiie   markets   east   of]
Buffalo.      In    the    same   year.
North Dakota produced 13,906,
HUNTER SHOT
ADDITIONAL
IN THE LEG.!
LOCAL NEWS.
aud poultry moving from the
other states involved is also
large.
It is not hard to figure out the
effect if the traffic in those   products moved to the east   by   the
lake rather than all-rail,   Avith a
difference   of   40   cents per 100
pounds  in  the   rate.     With re
frigerator   facilities     provided,
most of the traffic destined  for i
Philadelphia,   New    York   and
other   eastern    markets   would i
seek the lake  route,   especially
since better time can  be   made,
considering delays in switching
at Chicago, and it is the opinion
of   refrigerating   experts   that!
the products could be   delivered j
in the east   in   better condition
after    transportation   by   lake
than   by   rail,  with consequent
higher prices offered.
Butter, eggs and poultry are
sold on the basis of prices de-
liArered at the market. Obviously if the products could be delivered in better condition in
the east, prices would be held
at least to the present level and
the producers Avould reap the
benefit of the reduced transportation charges.
The refusal of the boat lines
to provide facilities for refrigerated transportation to date
may be traced to the fact tiiat
the packet freight boats, Avhich
are the only ones which could
be so equipped, are owned and
controlled by the rail lines east
of Chicago which obtained the
traffic at a higher rate in consequence of the Avater higliAvay
being closed to it.
With the eastern market
opened on more favorable terms
to the dairymen and poultry
raisers of the Nortlnvest accelerated development may be expected in those industries. For
that reason the case is of much
importance, and its result Avill
be Avatched with interest by all
people interested in Nortwest
development.
An unknown man, suffering
with a gunshot Avound, exhausted and dying from exposure and
probably loss of blood, Avas
found by Math. Pelarski last
Sunday morning about 9 o'clock.
Math, was in town Monday and
reported it as follows :
"I was on my way to the Platte
church last Sunday morning,
when I found a stranger lying
unprotected beside a haystack,
about half a mile from, my house.
When I spoke to him, he gave
no answer, but by signs of his
hands gave me to understand,
that he Avanted me to fire several
shots with his rifle.
I waited about fifteen minutes
and was about ready to go home
for a team to take him to town,
when two men, presumably his
companions, appeared with an
improvised stretcher. A hurried
examination showed that a rifle
ball entered his thigh, about
three inches beloAV the groin and
came out two or three inches
above the knee joint behind.
The leg was black, but whether
from powderburn or other causes, I cannot say. They told me
he had been missing since Friday morning and had been exposed to the cold of two days
and two nights. When asked
who they were and from where
they came, they said from near
Ironton or Iron wood. They put
the wounded man on the stretcher and started towards tin- north
with him.
The wounded man, no doubt,
heard the two men shoot or pass
close by shortly before 1 found
him, because 1113' shots brought
them to the spot in so short a
time. There was no blood on
the haystack, which makes me
think that the unfortunate fellow crawled some distance.
There were thousands of shots
fired Friday and Saturday."
The Journal has been on the
lookout for a report of the accident from the Brainerd and
Cuyuna side, but up to the time
of going to press, not the slightest bit of information has com<'
to throw light on the identity ol
the parties of the mysterious
affair.
Winer is buying up horses.
At seems that rains always
have to spoil fall roads.
Stewart, the picture en-
larger, is delivering this
week.
I). M. Cameron and Joseph
Eicli were Pierz callers last
Friday.
WEATHER AND
MARKETJEPORTS.
Temperature for the Week,
Highest     Lowest
Thursday 32     9 above
Friday  37    11 above
Saturday   47    23 above
Sunday  45 32 above
Monday     55 32 above
Tuesday   52   20 above
Wednesday.. 60 34 above
The Market Report.
Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Lo-  Wheat, No. 1,  7:;
rem Brummer of Lastrup lasl
Saturday, a son.
A young son arrived at the
Henry Langer home Saturday evening.
All  the   R. F. 1).   carriers
now leave at half   past seven
in the morning.
Wm. Priemesberger and
Herm. Oilman left for Tribune Canada last week.
Farmers who have not yet
threshed their grain are beginning to look for machines.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hoppe
of West Sullivan were b si-
ness callers in the village last
Monday.
There was a time when Ave
boys trapped muskrats and
sold them for five to eight
cents a piece.
liobt. Kluge. who has been
on   the   St.   Cloud
Wheat, No. 2.
Flax,	
Barley	
Rye	
Oats	
working
         71
       1.23
  50
       46
      31
EarCorn       ,"0
Hay $5.00
Butter, Creamery ..       35
Dairy	
Eggs     25
Flour, Best      2.3D
"    Straight      2.20
Loav grade flour 1.50
Bran     L.15
Shorts   1.-20
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.20
Ground Peed     1.25
Potatoes        85
Beans __     2.00
Onions        00
Butterfat Market,
The Average during the week
Avas 31c
South St, Paul Hog Market,
Ave. Price.
Thursday.   7.7*
Friday 7.71
Saturday 7.05
opera house,  returned   home I Monday 7.57
last Friday. j Tuesday 7.4m
] Wednesday 7.50
Nick Meyer of Meyer Bros.'
went to South St.  Paul   Friday,    where   lie   visited    the
stock yards.
Mrs. Alfred Sherwood of
Council Bluffs, Iowa, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Hoppe, who has been here
on a visit, returned home last
week.
Onamia News,
Keep posted by reading the
Journal's "Business Locals"
column.
Advertise   and   watch
business grow.
your
244 pounds of butter of which
11,806,244 pounds Avere available
for shipment. South Dakota
produced 20,452,280 pounds of
butter, of which 18,289,052 lbs.,
were available for shipment.
The seventeen counties of
Northern Wisconsin produced
25,555,^43 pounds of butter, of
which 23,259,000 pounds Avere
available for shipment.
In the same year the egg production of Minnesota was 7,500
cars, of which 3,000 moved out
of the state, and 800 cars of
poultry Avere shipped from Minnesota.     The  tonnage  of eggs
West Buh News.
Chas. Johnson helped George
Swanson and Mr. Stewberg
thresh Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Wieland were
county seat callers Monday.
Gilbert Olson and wife, Miss
Hanson, Mr. and Mrs. Wieland
and son Walter and daughter
Eleonor spent Sunday evening
at Chas.Kohs', Dancing and card
playing were the amusements.
Bill Kohs, Otto Dietz, Bill
Katz, Ida and Lena Katz spent
Suuday afternoon at Fuhrman's
in Agram.
Geo. Kohs Avas a Bell Prairie
caller Sunday.
Mr. Johnson and Mike Nagel
got the cattle which Bergheim
purchased from Olson and Wieland for his farm Sunday.
(From the Lak Breeze.)
Mrs. T. F- Young left Monday
morning for Pierz where she will
visit relatives for some time.
The village council met last
Wednesday night to pass on the
application for saloon license
for H. J. Boyer. License Avas
granted. The council will meet
iu regular session next Tuesday
evening.
August Eichmiller had the
misfortune of falling through a
trap door while at work on his
building near the livery barn.
Saturday, and fractured two
ribs and besides receiving several bruises Avhich will lay him
up for some time.
The potato warehouse has
been a very busy place during
the past few weeks. Several
carloads of tubers have been
shipped in order to provide
room for and the firm is maintaining a good market. Prices
average up well with other
towns, when the difference in
freight rates is taken into consideration.
A Good Road Builder.
Henry Gassert says that J. L.
Metcalf believes in good roads.
He split-log dragged the stretch
between his place and the city
limits of Little Palls three or
four times the last two weeks
and put it in first-class condition, considering the bad
weather and poor condition of
the roads where no such work
was done. Henry says the
split-log drag properly used,
works wonders. There should
be more Metcalfs.
St. Paul Live Stock.
Steers §6.50 to
Cows and Heifers,* L50 to _.7.25
Calves, steady, $6.00 to 10.(K)
Feeders, steady, ---S4.50 to 7-75
Rucker News.
Some Strong Men.
They were talking about
strong men at a little informal
party in Duluth the other night,
says the News-Tribune. A Duluth resident had a guest with
him, a stranger in the city. All
the men were joining in the conversation except this man and
all had told some story of feats
of strength they had seen.
"Havn't they any strong men
in your .section of the countryr"
asked one of the party, wishing
to make the newcomer feel at
home.
"Well, 1 had a brother once
who was pretty strong." said
the stranger in a hesitating
lone of voice. "1 saw him start
up a flight of stone steps once
with lour grain sacks full of
buck-shot on his back, and believe me that load was so heavy
he mired up to his knees at
every step.''
The supervisors of Granite
and Leigh held a joint meeting
Thursday at the post office, to
decide what could be done to
make the road between here and
Hillman passable. It was decided that the two towns must
try to put it iu shape as speedily as possible. Two crews are
now at work 0:1 it.
Mrs. Sanborn's Sunday school
class enjoyed a very pleasant
Hallowe'en party at Long Meadow Stock Farm last Saturday.
There Avere just a dozen little
folks there.
Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Lamothe
of Minneapolis came out the
tirst of the week- and are stopping at Louis Saltow's Christmas lake home.
H.J. Ferguson has been sawing this week.
The young people of the neighborhood celebrated Hallowe'en
at the old C\rus place, and a
fine time was enjoyed. Tbe
rooms were decorated iu true
Hollowe'en style, with corn,
jack-o-lanterns, black cats, etc.,
and the evening was spent in
playing seasonable games. Mr.
and Mrs..). A. Sanborn chaperoned the affair.
Geo. Waller  made a  bu.si
trip to Little Falls the first part
of the week.
Mrs.'P. S. Look- paused through
here Tuesday on her Avay to
Sullivan.
Of course tin- "grown ups''
had to have a Hallowe'en party
too, to be in style. They met
at the Ferguson home, and while
perhaps they had a quieter time
than the others, everyo:
to have enjoyed thet very
much.
Hrin Goble has disposed of
four  head  of  young  stock   for
S140.
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