The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1914-01-29

              PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 5.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JANUARY 29, 1914.
NO. 33.
HAPPENINGS
HERE_AND THERE
St. Cloud—Daniel E Whitney
formerly of this city in the firm
of Noble & Calel, has purchased
an art and furniture store in
Brainerd, where he plans to engage in the furniture and undertaking business.
Brainerd—Coleman Howell, a
foreman of the Northern Pacific Railway company at St.
Paul, died Monday at a local
hospital and the remains were
shipped to St- Paul. He was a.
widower, leaving three daughters.
St. Cloud—In attempting to
catch a ride on a street car trailer, Leo Albers, aged 10 years,
slipped and fell underneath the
ear, the wheels passing over
his right leg, which will have
to be amputated.
Little Falls—A short canvass
made by Val. Kasparek among
-the merchants and others indicates that it will be possible to
secure enough money for shipping charges on two elk to be
shipped from Yellowstone park
to tlie local park.
St. Cloud—The banks have
shown a healthful growth during the year 1913. In the state-
ments issued by the rive local
institutions, subject to the call
of Saturday, the total deposits
are $3,236,687.78, an increase of
?339,871.87 over the same period
a year ago.
Long Prairie—The Womens*
club of the village is planning
to build a public skating rink
A committee from the club consisting of Mrs. Van Valkenburg,
Mrs. Sutton, Mrs. Tufts, Miss
Liedl and Miss Lewis has been
delegated to look after the arrangements.
St. Cloud—John W. Lawler a
prominent farmer of Maine
Prairie-, living four miles northeast ot Watkins, was instantly
killed at that village on Monday when he was struck by train
No. 107, the coast train on the
Soo road. His team of horses
were killed at the same time.
Foley—The funeral of Mrs.
•Thomas Connelly, the Benton
county pioneer, was held from
St. Patrick's church in the town
of Minden, Tuesday. Mrs. Connolly had died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. James Bran-
ley of Eden Valley. She was
85 years of age and was born in
the county of Gallway, Ireland.
Swanville—The Farmers' Cooperative creamery building
burned to the ground Tuesday.
The fire started in the engine
room and spread rapidly to all
parts of the building. The fire
department saved some of the
contents of
COUNTY SEAT
(From the Transcript.)
A marriage license was issued
to John Sehr and Susanna Lochner Tuesday.
A marriage license was issued
Monday to Frank Shubert and
Maggie Sagorski.
Arthur Reynolds will open a
a restaurant and quick lunch
counter in the building next to
Carl Bolander's office on the
West side. Mr. Reynolds is fixing the building now and will
open for business February 1st.
At 8:40 Sunday night fire was
discovered in the liquor room
of the Eugene Pilon saloon on
First street northeast and before it could be gotten under
control did a damage of over
$2,000 to building, fixtures and
stock.
Louis Gross of Pierz was
brought before Justide Gaudet
Tuesday charged with assault
and battery on the person of
Joseph Schraut. He pleaded
guilty to the cluirge and was
fined $10 and costs, amounting
to $15, with an alternative of
30 days in the county jail. The
fine was paid.
While getting out of a buggy
in front of the Ideal laundry
Monday, Mrs. Barbara Kime,
who resides on the farm of A.
P. Meister near this city, had
the misfortune to slip and fall,
breaking two ribs on the left
side. She was taken to the
farm after receiving medical attendance. Mrs. Klime is a sister of Mrs. Meister.
Charles Dumont, age 20 son
of Dr. N. Dumont of this city,
was killed by a train at Sault
Ste. Marie Wednesday night
while en route home to this city
from a visit at Montreal. A
telegram received by his father
this afternoon brought the news
of the young man's death. Letters carried in his pockets had
served to identify the body. No
details of the accident were
given in the message.
Old Fiddlers In Contest.
De Kalb, 111., Jan. 20.—Play
ing on fiddles which have furnished the music at many a
country dance and church social,
32 contestants, last night, entered the 26 competitions at the
second annual De Kalb county
fiddlers' fair.
Some of the old tiddlers were
so inspired that they did not
want to stop playing and had
to be forced from the stage
when their turn was completed.
Jay Fowler, 76 years old and 6
feet 6 inches tall, was the most
coispxuous of the contestants.
He was the fiddler at all func-
t ons    in   this    locality    ioty
PIERZ CREAMERY
ANNUAL REPORT.
OPERATING STATISTICS.
171
Pounds of cream   received
098,235
Pounds of milk   received..
91,500
Butterfat       in
cream      179,820.26
Butterfat       in
milk          3,192.87
Total   butterfat   rec'd
183,013.13
35.75
3.48
Butter shipped          218,165
Butter sold   to
Cash sales               1,778
Total butter  made....
221,133
Overunlbs             38.120 perct. 20.84
Cost of making butter  per
.0192c
Average price received for
29c
Average price paid for but-
.3163c
RETURNS FROM
STATE OF IOWA.
FINANCIAL   STATEMENT
Rksources
Balance on hand cash,...
Butter shipped to N. York
Sales   to   patrons, butter,
supplies and  gasoline..
Cash sales at creamery...
Gasoline sold	
Supplies    sold    to    other
creameries	
Supplies on  hand	
Shares sold	
Butter   ou   hand   1595 lbs
at 31 J_ cents a  pound...
Credit with J.   G.   Cherry
company	
$226 90
62,604.64
$410 92
619 51
18 25
Total resources     $66,503 00
Liabilities.
Butter  on   hand last year
and tub   lost   last   year
(341.55 and 21.54)	
Paid    patrons
for butterfat 57,465 01
Paid    patrons
by butter and
supplies .... 410 92
Paid       patron
account share
in      sinking
fund  13 00
Paid for startermilk	
Buttermaker and   helper's
salary	
Secretary and   treasurer's
salary	
Officer's   fees	
Freight and   dra3rage	
Supplies	
Expense on ice	
Miscellaneous	
Paid into sinking fund...
Accounts   receivable	
Balance	
Peter Theiss visited in Shipley county, Iowa, the last two
months, and reports that he prefers Minnesota to Iowa as a
state to live in, but that the
Iowa farmers are receiving higher prices for their labor. Only
forty miles from Omaha, which
is said to be a much better market than South St. Paul, Shipley county farmers receive about
two cents more for beef and
pork than we in Morrison county. Distance from market is
partly responsible for this difference.
"We are far behind Iowa, in
the stock raising industry, "said
Mr. Theiss, "and those of us
who pride ourselves on our good
stock couldn't hold a candle for
some of the farmers I visited in
the Hawkeye state. Very few
creameries are seen. Land is
worth from $150 to $175 an acre,
836 69 and to secure adequate returns on
... m 1 their investment,   farmers   are
4o4 00 I '
beginning to adopt what might
S024_jbe termed an intensive system
l 50 : of raising  and  fattening hogs.
One of  their  experiments is to
raise  three  litters of  shoats a
year from  one broodsow.    Our
climate  here,   our  winter  food
supply, and the labor involved,
wou ldnot justify emulatingtheir
methods   on our comparatively
cheap land.    Dollar for  dollar
invested, we  are making  more
money than our Iowa brothers.
Iowa farming,   compared   with
57 888 93 Morrison   county    farming,   is
180 67 like comparing the skyscrapers
1
of Chicago with ordinary villa-
'■ ge buildings.    Where real estate
240 00 costs several thousand or more
94 50
198 57 dollars a front foot, it is cheap
3,300 67 er to  buy a small lot and build
1^0 89
high, or on  the intensive plan;
2,284 12 in villages it is cheaper  to ex-
46 22 tend buildings in the horizontal
166 19
  directions,   than    towards   tlie
BUCKMAN CREAM-    ADDITIONAL
ERY REPORT.
Receipts
S363 09
Total     $66,503 00   clouds.
SINKING   FUND
Balance on hand January
1st 1913	
Received on account of
shares sold	
One cent levey on butterfat
received during the year
183,013 pounds	
The  farmer  on a highpriced
40  or 80  acre farm,   must  dig
$209 95 ilar(] anci deep to get returns on
467 00 n's investment, while the farmer
on a half section of  cheap land
gets the same  returns with less
1,830 12
labor.
Pounds of cream received
Pounds of milk received..
Average test of  cream....
Average test of milk  	
Butterfat in cream	
Butterfat   in   milk	
Total butterfat   received..
Percent of overrun	
Pounds   overrun	
Butter   made    	
Butter shipped :.
Butter sold to   patrons ....
Butter sold locally	
Average price received...
Average    price     paid     to
patrons	
Money received for butter
Money on hand from 1912
Money received from other
sources	
Total ..
440,553
42,825
25.3
3.9
111,679
1,697
113,376
21.7
24,66f>
138,842
137.428
1,304
310
28.4
31.4
#39,271 78
590 12
184 42
-40,046 32
WEATHER AND
LOCAL NEWS.   MARKET REPORTS.
DlSBUKSEMEN-TS
Paid for  butterfat	
Buttennaker's salary	
Secretary's salary	
Treasurer's salary	
Officer's   fees	
Fuel	
Ice	
All other expenses including buttertubs, salt, labor, oil, freight, dray-
age, etc	
N ew Invest m e n rs
Refrigerator	
Telephone share   and   box
Culture can	
Building   a    storage   and
weighing room	
Painting building	
Work on    well	
Storm windows	
Heating stove	
835,520 07
1,420 00
220 00
60 00
64 00
319 62
83 30
1,501   46
$301 65
39 10
8 00
207 94
60 35
14 20
7 25
35 00
Total	
Balance on   hand.
Stock on  hand....
$674 49
39,862 94
183 48
524 53
Officers Elected  For
Ensuing Yeah.
PRESIDENT
John Kelzenberg.
VICE PRESIDENT
Peter J. Mueller.
SECRETARY
August IJ. Dehler.
TRE\SURER
Joseph Hortsch.
DIRECTORS
Math Zenner.
John L. Dehler.
George Docken.
John Poster.
John Mischke.
The
Total   receipts       $2,507 07 j
Paid Out of Sinking Fund
the building.    The years a?0i     A.   B.   t riftin won
company   carried  about   S3.000 the   '•Old   Arkansas  Traveler"
Payment on note	
Interest	
Fixtures and fittings	
Insurance 	
Ventilation and   work   o
same	
Cesspool, lumber,  etc	
Rent for storage room....
Miscelaneous	
Dividends	
Balance in sinking fund.
Peter Waschbusch Dead,
00 74i Peter Waschbusch died at five
102 61 o'clock  yesterday   morning   at
30 °°! the highly advanced age of 88
135 50 years, at the home of his daugh-
2740 ter,   Mrs.   Herman   Froehlich,
25 00
2 35
with who he had made his home
164 66 the  passed 29  years.    He  was
1,208 **' born  in   Trier,   Germany,   and
Total S...     12,507 07 :came   to  Chicago   in   1853.     A
Officers Elected   For THE;taHor b?   trade>   l,e  built and
Ensuing Year.
PRESIDENT
insurance which only partially
covers the loss. A modern
building is about completed and
the company had expected to
occupy it within a few weeks.
Work will now be rushed on the
new plant.
contest.
W. A. Cook intends to
plant about $50 worth of
fruit trees the coming spring.
He says the apple trees
planted in his neighborhood
3 or 4 years ago bore heavily
last fall. The soil seems to
be adapted for fruit of all.
kinds.
Mrs. J, P. Berg Dead.
Mrs. John P. Berg died Saturday morning at 3 o'clock. She
was a daughter of Berhard Bollig of Pierz. Born in Cross
Plains, Wis., in I8t39, she came
to Pierz in 1878 and was married
to John P. Berg in 1892. She
leaves her husband, her father
and eight children to mourn her
death. Funeral ceremonies were
held at the St. Joseph's church,
Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock,
under the auspices of the
"Christian Mothers Society."
Theo. Thielen.
VICE-PRESIDENT
Mike Flicker.
SECRETARY
Carl Kapsner.
TREASURER
Math Thommes.
DIRECTORS
Theo. Gross.
Christ Faust
Henry Krushek.
John L. Boser.
Joseph Ethen.
C.  C.  Lisle,  of Royalton,
Farmers' Creamery Report.
Following  is  a   report of the
Pierz   Farmers'   Creamery   for
the month of December:
Number of patrons  142
Pounds of milk received  4,084
Pounds of cream received         31,784
Average test of milk
cream
Butterfat in milk         15.1.41
Butterfat in cream      7.78(3.55
Kansas City merchants lose
$100,000 a year to shoplifters.
Math. Ziegler of Granite
saw three wild ducks flying-
down Skunk Tuesday.
Simon Brick and Carl Ja-
cobi were transacting business in Pierz Tuesday.
Tlie poultry ratious of New
York city amounts to 273,-
972 pounds a day.
The Pierz Fire Relief Association will hold its annual
meeting next Saturday evening.
There are 860,000 automobiles in the United States,
exclusive of commercial
trucks.
Mrs. John Stuekmeyer and
daughter Mary left for Duluth Tuesday, where Miss
Mary will be employed.
A. W. Cook and wife of
Sullivan returned Thursday
from Minneapolis where Mrs.
Cook underwent an operation. They had been away
about six weeks.
The change from the warm
rain Wednesday to the snow
storm of to day was hard on
the noses. Tlie icebed mder
the soft, moist snow makes
ideal sleighing.
John Hoppe, Jr., lliff Walmark and John Gustavson,
who have been working in a
lumber camp at Limo, north
of Brainerd returned home
last week. They have made
arrangements for a social
dance at Vineland next Saturday, January 31st.
Peter Theiss has this hard
nut to crack: A farmer sends
three daughters to a grocery
Avith eggs. One has 10, the
next 30 and the last 50 eggs.
They must all sell the eggs
at like prices and must return with like sums of money.
How is it done?
J. M. McGenty, the potato
I man, left contracts at both
banks, Jos. H. Grell's, P. A.
Hartmann's and at Journal
office. Those interested,—
and all farmers should be—
may step into any of the
above places and contract for
as many acres the coming
season as they please. A potato warehouse is an absolute
necessity here.
Temperature for the Wirt.
Highest     Lowest
Thursday     7    18 below
Friday  24     7 abort
Saturday    10     9 below
Sunday     8   14 below
Monday	
Tuesday	
Wednesday ..
25    5 below
27   1_ above
33     9 above
The Market Report.
Wheat,No. 1,      77
Wheat, No. 2         75
Flax,       1.37
Barley   45
Rye       46
Oats      31
Ear Corn       45
Hay _  $5.00
Butter, Creamery       37
Dairy        20
Eggs       25
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 	
Beans       2.00
Onions  ___        60
Butterfat Market.
Tlie Average during the week
was 31c
South St. Paul Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday  8.03
Friday  8.07
Saturday. 8.11
Monday 8.26
Tuesday 8.18
Wednesday  8.18
St. Paul Live Stock.
Steers $7.75 to 7.85
Cows and Heifers,$4.25 to ..6.75
Calves, steady, $5.50 to  9.75
Feeders, steady, ...$4.30 to 7.00
opened   a   tailoring    establish-      Total Butterfat	
ment and married the following Total Butter made.—
year.    Prosperity  smiled   upon Overrun,	
his efforts, until  the memorable Overrun, per cent	
tire of 1871 swept away his en-  Average   price    paid
tire possessions.    The shop was      for butterlat	
rebuilt on the foundation of the  Average price receiv
old building    and the  business!     ed for  butter	
was continued  until 1877,  when \ Paid patrons for but-
7,941 96
9,550.00
1,608
20.26
West Buh News.
H. Wieland  sold  a  horse  to
John Reding of Pierz last week.
Mr. Holmstrom is at Roseau
county, called there by illness
of his mother. We understand
she is improving now.
Peter Vanherke has served as
an alarm clock in this neighborhood for some time past, as he
has been hauling tamarac unto
his new place fur improvements.
You have heard mothers say to
fathers : "Get up and start a
fire, I hear Pete going by for
tamarac, so improve the opportunity and hop out."
Louis Schultz has returned
from Canada, where he has a
claim, to take charge of his fathers farm in Belle Prairie.
Guess he found batching lonesome and came home to enjoy
some of mothers cooking once
more, or maybe the cold made
his toes feel chilly and he came
home to have mamma attend to
his socks. If Louis would only
get for himself a nice thrifty
wife, all those inconveniences
would be over with. Women
are handy  creatures, or  as one
para-
sits.'
he bought 80 acres of land in
Buh, on which the log house he
built is still standing. Mrs.
Waschbusch died 29 years ago.
Funeral service and burial
will take place in Lastrup Friday morning.
terfat	
Henry  Olson   came  up   from
Rail   Prairie   Saturday to   help
i.is brother,   J.Olson,   who has'nob,e
too   many   fresli   cows   to   take  t.i(t. >,
j care of them alone.
3J 81        ...     _,      ,  ,      , ,   ,   ■ Walter  Wieland   is ready   for
Mike Nagvl  has been helping , .
...        ,        wood  sawing now,   and anyone
Charley  Johnson   haul hay last      . . .       '     . , .
, who   wishes their   wood sawed,
'-   week. !    ... ... ,
will   find him   ready to  accom-
H. Wieland has purchased an  modate them.
other 40 acres of land in section
.935
18  Buh   township.     It  adjoins!    Emery Lindberg is home from
It was   reported  last week
that Peter Theiss of Hillman
had sold his farm. When the 120 which he purchased, and
asked about it Mr. Theiss wbich will make a line stock
answered:    "It   takes money  ,;um-
I to buy whiskey and it   takes     There   was a surprise  on  G.
A twelve pound boy   came'money   to   buy   my farm.     1, Beckman   a week  ago-    Every
know   nothing    about    this one enjoyed a fine time.
deal. Minnesota is good Will Kohs and Arthur Wie-jweek. By the looks of their
enough for me after return- land attended the nine cent sale woodpile they don't intend to
ing from Iowa, where I spent and t,,e  roller ■*»«■»  IWty in freeze.
to the Henry Welle  home in
the hospital at Little Falls,
where he underwent an operation for appendicitis.
A. M. Carlson hauled oats to
Pierz last week.
H. Wieland  hauled wood  last
About   50   workmen    are
who  for  several   years  was Lastrup Monday morning.
with the First National bank 1
>,       1
of that village, haspurchased !
George L. Galley's  furniture P°«nanentl*    employed    in . 1
stock and  will  conduct   the ***!*% St Paul s  cathedral
business henceforth.
Little Falls Saturday.
want   to  be   buried
places I visited."
I    Mr. and Mrs. Borscher visited
in some I     Christ Johnson took a load of at   ti,e   Chas.   Kohs  home   last
hops to town Saturday. Sunday.
Don't Forget to Attend the DANCE at Frank Faust's Hall next Tuesday, February the 3rd, 1914,