The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1914-02-12

              PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 5.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, FEBRUARY 12, 1914.
NO. 35.
HAPPENINGS
HERE^ND THERE
Royalton—Bert and Charlie
Leigh came down from Berlin,
N. D., Wednesday morningf to
see their mother, who is seriously
ill at St. Cloud.
Royalton—J.W. Rathbun, of
Columbus, Montana, who has
been visiting here for the past
two weeks, has been having a
hard time with the quinsy.
Wahkon-—A man from North
Dakota was here last week looking over the Rex hotel with a
view of leasing it. He went to
Duluth to confer with the
owners of the property.
Royalton—Jesse Leigh arrived Monday night from Montana
on a visit to relatives and old
acquaintances. He has been
away from Royalton the past
six years and has been living at
Columbus, Mont.
Brainerd—The matter of having gas supplied by a plant
built by St. Cloud capitalists,
as expressed in the ordinance
recently passed by a 6 to 4 vote
of the council, is at present in
the hands of Mayor R. A. Hen
ning for consideration.
^■Brainerd—C. P. Petit of Vern-
dale was fined $50 in municipal
court for an infraction of the
game and fish, laws, having
transported fish as baggage.
The fish Avere seized in transit
by Deputy Game Warden W. H.
Onstine. Mr. Petit paid his
tine.
Little Falls—Representative
C. A. Lindbergh has been called
from Washington by the serious
illness of his mother at Melrose.
Mis. W. Butler was called to
Melrose from Minneapolis Friday by the illness of her mother
and a trained nurse has been
engaged to care for her.
St. Cloud—Mrs. Christina
Miller, aged 48 years, died last
Thursday at St. Raphael's hospital having been ill for several
weeks from heart disease and
dropsy. Deceased was the daughter of of Simon Thull, formerly
a resident of this state, and has
lived in St. Cloud and vicinity
nearly all of her life.
St. Cloud—The claim of Greg-
or Smolley against the estate of
Gregor Hlebaena for the sum of
$850 for alleged damages done
to timber and meadowlands has
been dismissed in Probate court
by Judge Klasen for want of
jurisdiction. In his claim Smolley alleged that Hlebaena had
negligently set fire to certain
timber lands belonging to him.
VILLAGE COUNCIL
PROCEEDINGS.
The regular monthly meeting
of the village council was held
at the village hall at 8 o'clock
p. m., on Saturday, January 7th.
All members present except
M. Wermerskirchen.   -
The proceedings of the last
meeting were read and approved.
On motion the following  bills
were allowed:
B. Gross, two days witness fees and rent for
pound yard 1 year     $14 80
E. H. Kerkhoff, services
as health  officer	
Frank   Faust,   services
as health officer.	
Jos. H. Grell, merchandise 	
Rich Prairie Milling Co.,
coal, phone and livery     63 51
Case of  the Village vs.
Nick Karst, costs and
milage       47 77
Little Falls Water Pow-
Co. juice for  January    112 60
On   motion   the   council  adjourned.
C. E. Gravel,
President.
J. B. Hartmann,
Recorder.
COUNTY SEAT       |THE PAROCHIAL     'WILL EXTEND       (ADDITIONAL .WEATHER AND
CULLINGS.I    SCHOOL BURNED. THE LINE.        LOCAL NEWS.   MARKETJEPORTS.
Temperature for
The last week.
5 00
4 00
1 70
Build State Road in Morrison
County.
In a letter recently received
from J. K. Martin, of Little
Palls, we are informed that the
county commissioners of Morrison county at their annual
meeting, designated as state
road the road laid out in that
county to connect in that county
to connect with the road in
Mille Lacs couuty, which has
been designated as a state road
by the Mille Lacs county board.
He also states that $2,000 was
appropriated by Morrison county to be expended on opening
up the road through 33, 34, 35
and 36 in the town of Richardson. With a little help from
the town of Richardson this
road ought to be worked and in
fairly good condition by next
summer. As the road, to within half a mile of the Morrison
county line, in this county, is
now in a passable condition, the
opening of the four miles in
Richardson as stated in Mr.
Martin's letter, Onamia will be
greatly benefited, as a number
of farmers ai"e located in that
vicinity will find Onamia the
nearest market place who heretofore were compelled to go to
other markets.—Onamia Lake
Breeze.
(From the Litte Falls Transcript.)
Sylvester & Nichols of this
city have figured up the volume
of their business for the year
1913 and find a substantial increase in all departments of
the business. The increase is
particularly noticeable in the
ice cream sales.
The formation of a corporation to open a bank at Upsala
has been practically completed
and it is probable that the new
institution will be doing business within a few weeks. Little
Falls men and residents of
Upsala and vicinity will hold
stock in the new enterprise.
Considerable rock is being
hauled.to the city and delivered
to the Water Power company
each day but it was evident that
enough would not be delivered
unless more teamsters started
hauling and Friday the company
decided to raise the price to
$4.50 per cord of 15,000 pounds.
The Dairy Cow's Ration.
Since it is important that a
cow should have enough feed to
satisfy the appetite, the proportion of coarse feed to grain must
be adjusted to her actual needs.
Roughage, in a general way,
should be fed according to her
size, allowing two pounds of
hay per hundred weight when
it is only roughage used. When
silage is fed, the general rule
may be to feed one pound of hay
and three pounds of silage per
hundred weight and the balance
of the nutrients needed should
be provided in concentrates, except that when roots are fed
they will take the place of a
part of the grain at the rate of
ten pounds of roots for one
pound of grain. These direction are only general, as in
practice it will be found that
spare, big-bodied cows will take
relatively more roughage.
For complete feeding directions write to the Division of
Dairy and Animal Husbandry,
University Farm, St. Paul, for
their booklet on feeding dairy
cows—T. L. Haecker, Dairy
and Animal Husbandman, University Farm, St. Paul.
The parochial school house, at
an estimated value of $10,000,
was destroyed by fire at an early
hour Tuesday morning. The fire
was discovered by 10 year old
Nick Sehr, who called Joseph P.
Meyer. Joseph immediately
spread the alarm. Both the upper town and lower town fire
bells summoned the firemen, who
forced four streams of water into the burning building incessantly for two hours without any
appreciable effect ort the progress of the flames. The framework was totally destroyed and lis.
only the partly collapsed brick
walls remained as shocking re-
mindeis when daylight came.
A menace to the safety of a
number of children, who came to
take a look at the smoking
ruins and the ashes of their
schoolbooks, the walls and
chimneys were brought down by
means of dynamite explosions.
The loss in furniture, books etc.
is estimated at $5,000, making
a total loss of $15,000, covered
by $6,000 insurance. The origin
of the fire is unknown. It started in the northwest room of the
second floor, while the heating
plant in the basement was cold.
Electricity could hardly have
caused it, as the light wires en
tered the building on the east
side.
It is with a good deal of pleasure that the Herald announces
the completion of plans for the
building of the new Minneapolis, Mille Lacs & Northern railroad north from this city to the
north from this city to the
country around Mille Lacs lake.
The new line has a traffic
agreement with the Minneapolis
& Northern, which has been in
operation between Anoka and
Minneapolis for most of the
past year successfully, by which
it will gain entry to  Minneapo-
Today is Lineolns birthday.
Get good seeds for next
season's crop.
Tlie village water wasn't
missed until the well ran
dry.
One family lost SI.t.OO
worth of schoolbooks in the
fire.
Rev. J. G. Stiegler took
the train to St. Cloud Tuesday.
Foley—Miss Mary Macho
returned to St. Cloud Tuesday after a short visit at the
Allies home.
The line will run from Anoka
north until it reaches Ogilvie,
in Kanabec county. Here it is
proposed that the line branch.
The wrest branch will pass
through Onamia, in Mille Lacs
county, and on up the west
shore   of   Mille   Lacs   lake   to j
Crosby,   in  Crow Wing county,  Argentina   COM   COITling    FaSt.
where large mining projects are
fast becoming developed.
Last Monday just one dozen of traveling salesmen arrived in Pierz on the afternoon train.
Central Granite News.
Tony Will and family visited
at the Mike Prieglmeier home
last week.
A sewing machine agent was
busy repairing machines in this
vicinity last week.
Ben Athman and family visited at Tony Welle's last Thursday.
Gross Bros, returned from
their camp Saturday.
Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Fuest-
enberg Sunday a daughter.
Hubert Virnig and family visited at the Math. Ziegler home
Sunday.
A crowd of young people gathered at the  John Da Inn en home
The east branch of the new
road will touch Wahkon, on the
south shore of Mille Lacs, and
other points on north to Aitkin.
It is expected that active
work on construction will begin this spring.
A map published iu connection with the foregoing article
in the Herald shows that the
proposed new line joins the Soo
at Wahkon and leaves it at
Redtop, passing through Op-
stead, Eastwood, Malmo, Glory,
and Attica, to Aitkin. The
west Hue passes from Oaamia
through Viueland, Neutral, Es-
don, Bay Lake and Klondyke,
to Crosby.— ^noka Herald.
Cheaper Binding Twine.
Warden Henry Wolfer of the
state prison has announced
binder twine prices tor the season of 1914 as follows:
Standard 500 feet to the
pound, Ti cents per pound; sisal
(white,) 500 feet to the pound,
71 cents per pound; standard
manila  550  feet   to the pound,
St. Cloud—Herman Nielan
a pioneer of Stearns county,
died last Thursday at the St.
Joseph's Home, at the age of
78 years, after an illnes of several months. Mr. Niehind had
been an inmate of the home for
the last five years, with the exception of a short time during
the summer when he made his
home with relatives near Free
port.
Little Falls--A load of coal
hauled Tuesday by the Kiewel
Brewing company for one of its
downtown business blocks was
weighed on the city scales.
The load hauled by a single
team, weighed 13,080 pounds
gross. The tare was 2,090
pounds, leaving a net weight of
just ten pounds less than five
tons and a half.
Sehr-Lochner.
John Sehr and Susana Lochner were married in St. Joseph's
church, Tuesday morning by
Rev. J. P. Stiegler. Math Loch
ner was  best   man   and   Marg
j Sunday.   The evening was spent |9 cents ^r  Pound;   manila  6(0
feet to the pound, 10  cents   per
pound; pure manila, (350  feet to
the pound, 11 cents to the pound,
We have enough snow now for all   f.   o.   b.,   Stillwater.    The
| fine  sleighing and  the farmers ! price is cut one-half cent  below
last year's charge on  sisal  and
dancing and playing games. It
was rather cold, but all report
a pleasant time.
More thau 1,000,000 bushels of
corn have beeu received in the
United States from Argentina
since the removal of the tariff.
It is the tirst corn ever imported from this country and the
competition of it with American
corn has caused a marked decrease in price of corn in the
east. One manufacturing concern has contracted for5,000,000.
James A. Patten, of Chicago,
one of the foremost corn dealers,
says he looks for the appearance of ioreign corn on the
western markets and that it will
cause an increased production
of beef on acccunt of feeders
being enabled lo buy cheaper
grain. The price of the Argentina corn is from four to five
cents a bushel under that of
Chicago corn on the same market.
Highest     Lowest
Thursday     7     1 below
Friday     5    6 below
Saturday      IbeL.   2* below
Sunday 9 bel      2^ below
Monday      2 bel „_ 20 below
Tuesday     0 bel.. 19 below
Wednesday..   6 bel.. 32 below
Temperature same
Week year ago.
Temperature  for   the corresponding week a year ago:
Highest   Lowest
1913 Feb. Oth 9... 15 below
" " 7th.... 20. . 11 below
" " 8th.... 18... 4 below
" " 9th.... 24.. 1 below
" " 10th ___30.._ 9 above
" " 11th ....10... Soelow
"     "   12th.... 4... 22 below
Grain and Produce
Market Report.
Wheat, No. 1,      7'.)
Wheat, No. 2         77
Flax,         1.10
Barley  40
Rye          pi
Oats      31
EarCorn      45
Hay   $5.00
Butter, Creamery        :i7
Dairy       20
Eggs       23
Flour, Best       2.30
"    Straight      2.20
|Low grade flour  L50
Bran    ..1.15
Shorts     l._0
Cracked Corn 80 pounds.... 1.20
Ground Feed..      1.25
Potatoes ..	
Beans        2.00
Onions        (}0
Do Likewise Here.
Milaca is surrounded by three
creameries within a radius of a
few miles—Bock, Foreston and
Pease.     Each   of   these cream-
/Farmers' Creamery
Butterfat Market.
The   average   price   paid   for
eries is also co-operative and as . butterfat at the Farmers' Cream-
their  reports  show,   have been  cry  durim*r   th«   last week  was
t ,      _ri -i _m      ;-7» cents,
successful..   While   the  Milaca i
'are all  busy hauling  wood and
' hay.
creamery   is   the   largest of the ' ■
four, due lo its early  start  and I _ .     _
larger   territory,   each  one has|S0Ut      St.   P3tll
made creditable showing and
doing its par in building up a
great dairy country. It isa
credit to ttiese creameries   that
Hog Market.
standard.      The
Ave. Price.
, Thursday 8.27
prices   on the j they can work in harmony  with   Friday  ..8._
other three grades are the same. 1 each other, as the success of the   Saturday _."__8.88
A  discount   allowance   from j creuinery   busines   depends   on   Monday  8.32
Wednesday   to have  some den
tal work done.
the success of each.    The   managers of   the   Milaca   creamery
Tuesday  ..8.45
Wednesday 8.45
Mrs. Frank Kapsner Dead.
Mrs..Frank Kapsner, aged 80
years, died suddenly last Tues
day morning. She arose in her
usual good health, but was taken
with a paralytic stroke about 9
o'clock and died within a quarter of an hour later. Mrs. Kapsner was born in Linz, Schlesien,
Germany, March 3rd, 1834. In
1873 she with her husband aud
children came to Pierz and settled on the place on which she
died. She leaves her husband,
her sons John, August, Karl,
Rev. P. Leonard, Avon; Rev. P.
Xavier, New York; and daughters Rev. Mother Cecilia of St.
Benedict convent; Ven. Sr. Aux-
ilia, Sr. Loyola, St. Paul; Sr.
Leonarda, Long Prairie. Funeral services and burial will take
place Saturday morning at 10
o'clock.
these  prices range   from   one-
John Kerich of Little Falls is eight to one-half cent per pound;
maid, i vlslUnZ Wltl1 the Tony Will fam- one-eight cent discount  on  notjliave  on)y   tne   ^st  of feeling
lyn°W" 'less   than   3,000   pounds,   one-   toward   the   other    creameries,   SOUtfl   St     PclUl
Mr. and  Mrs. Peter Gau left .fourth   cent   discount    on    all i aiul   eadl   creameiy should feel .,        mA4ma4
reKuvelosepl,klstweekt0Visl iorders not less *■■ 10,000iti,at tl,ey are ii"workin*for>   Live Stock Market.
pounds, und one-half a cent per, tne coimnon eood and iend ti,eir '
The wedding was celebrated   at
the Lochner home in  Southeast
\
Pierz.
A Mental Nut.
(Contributed.)
Can you crack  it?    Two sis-
John Gross is fishing at Platte  pound on carload orders
lake. Prices are   guaranteed   to be
John Weidenbach  is working as low as prices named   by  any
at   the  Gross & Son  lumbering other  jobber   or    manufacturer
best efforts toward the general
development of the dairy industry.—Milaca Times.
Steers  $7.75 to 7.88
Cows and Heifers,£4.25 to ..6.75
Calves, steady, $5.50 to  9.75
Feeders, steadv, ...$4.30 to 7-00
ters were  sitting  on the corner camp near Onamia.
of   a   very   busy street with 30,    A fareweU party was held at j quality, or lower,
apples apiece.    One selling two the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. J.j
apples   for  one  cent   the other Gau in honor of their son Peter
selling threeapples for one cent, j who left   for Camrose, Albarta,
I purchased one   cents   worth Canada.
for   twine   ot   equal   grade   or  rQrgjgl)    ^{gf    \fo*)^    f|jJWt
SCHOOL REPORT.
Report  of school   in  district
of each   lady   thereby   getting      Say, boys, don't forget to buy No.   104  for   the   month ending j ir0m New Zealand  and   Austra-
Henry Terhaar Dead.
Henry, the ten year ol I son of
Mr. and  Mrs. Herman Terhaar,
jeen   shipped   to   this country   ... .,     , .    ,     ....
*v J   died   at  2   o clock   Wednesday
Since the reduction of the
.ariff on butter from 6 to H
. eiitsa   pound,   much   of it has
five apples for two cents.
I told the sisters wl)3' not one
of you sell all the apples at the
same rate of five for two cents?
a supply of stamps, next Satur-; February 6th 1911.
day is Valentine day.
Number of days  taught.     20
Number of   pupils   enrolled    2.
Average daily attendance._     17
Those perfect   in   attendance
Mary,    Hilda   and   Ida
Henry G_u sold two Chev
Whereupon they replied,  if  we rol«t antos last week—one to|were;
Christ Tembreull and  one to Olson.    Those absent   two days  value  assigned   to   the   butter
Theo.     Thielen.    He  claims or   less were:
iia, especially to Pacific coast
ports. Before the close of 1913
il was estimated that 794,011
pounds has been brought in
from these two  countries.    Tlie
morning, after a brief illness.
Burial will take p.ace in St. Joseph's cemetery Saturday morning.
sell tive apples for two  cent we
lose one cent.
Happy John in Florida,
Georges Kohs,   was  _4^  ceQts a pound.    Some'     Best regards toall my friends.
T i i i, •  i • . th-it thara will hp -i  short-urn  Lester Nelson, Alfred .Johnson.    ,   .
I have   been   thinking  where  mat tneie win oe d snoiuige » > dairymen are auxious as to what Am now at Fort Myer.   Weather
Elmer Bloom. LI vera Beckman. J
j effect   the   reduction   of   tariff is  line   here   and   everything is
will have on butter  this coming green and flowers are blooming.
year. Jd MOLKE.
should the loss come in and find & the Chevrolet and Ford
the same true. But where dose ears the coming season owing
the loss come in. to the heavy demand.
and Julia Ekwall
Hilda Hanson.
Teacher.