The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1914-02-19

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VOL. 5.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MIN±n
HAPPENINGS
HERE AND THERE
C. A. Lindbergh will not be a
candate for governor.
The.fire loss in St. Cloud was
about §75,000.
Several county auditors favor
the county assessor plan-
The village of Foley is making a bid for tlie Benton county
fair.
Mrs. Christina Rausch of St.
Martin died last week at the
age of 75.
The State Bank of Kimball
has increased its capital stock
from $10,000 to $15,000.
Brainerd—The infant boy of
Mr. and Mrs. William Bisson
died at Crow Wing Saturday
and the funeral was held on
February 10th.
International Falls—The city
council granted Fire Chief Riley
authority to purchase a life net
and other equipments that are
required, including hose nozzles.
Brainerd—The police of this
city are looking for Nobe Con-
nelley, aged 38, charged with
jumping his hotel bill and leaving the place during  the  night.
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St.  Cloud—The   management
of the Idle Hour Theatre company went over to the state
reformatory last Thursday and
entertained the inmates with
several excellent moving pictures.
Little Falls—A car load of
high-grade Holstein cows and a
pure bred Holstein bull were
received last week at the Ken-
kel farm, southeast of this city,
on route 8. Three pure bred
Poland China brood sows were
received at the same time.
Brainerd—Leslie Bush, the
Athletic pitcher, returned from
Philadelphia last Wednesday
and will leave shortly for Jacksonville, Florida, where the
spring training camp has been
established. Mrs. J . W. Bush,
his mother, will accompany him
as far as Iowa.
St. Cloud—A special train
has been chartered by the
Knights of Columbus at Foley
to be run to St. Cloud on Sud-
day, February 22, when a class
of seventy-four candidates will
be put through the three degrees
of the order in this city.
Kingston, N. Y.—Fifty persons were injured and one was
killed when a freight train near
here struck a large sleigh in
which they were returning from
a dance at Binnewater, tive
miles south of Kingston. Three
of the injured may die. The
others will recover.
Little Falls—A fire broke out
Wednesday morning in the hotel
owned by Mrs. Adele Root at
Ft. Ripley. The llames broke
out in the attic of an addition
used for a kitchen and did damage amounting to about slOO
before it was extinguished by a
bucket brigade.
Brainerd—John Anderson, O.
Knudtson, Even Rud and Hans
Rud were held up by two masked
men Thursday night at the Oak
street railway crossing. The
footpads emerged from the
shadows of a passing log train.
Anderson was stripped of $22
and beaten up with a gun. His
companions fled. The police
have found no trace of the holdup men.
COUNTY SEAT
CULLINGS.
VILLAGE LIGHT
REPORT.
RAMBLING
REMINISCENCE
Following will be found the
report of the Light and Water
Board together with a list of
patrons, and the amount each
paid for the last month.
Juice^sold in Jan. at 10c
Kilowatts $190.00
Juice furnished forvillage
street lights at 4c a Kilowatts     38.04
Total sold in Jan $228.04
Paid L. F. Water Power
Co, for Juice furnished
village duriug month of
Oct. at 4c a Kilowatts   112.60
Total profit $115.44
A. P. Stoll,,
Secretary and Treasurer.
(From the Litte Falls Transcript.)
Representative C. A. Lindberg arrived here Monday
evening from Melrose and left
Tuesday for Washington, D. C.
Mr. Lindbergh was called to
Melrose by the serious illness of
his mother, who had an attack
of erysipelas. She is now much
improved.
Word lias been received in the
city of the serious illness of
Mrs. M. A. Butler, who is
spending the winter in Illinois
with relatives. Her son, W. A.
Butler, received a telegram
while at Coleraine Monday and
left immediately for her bedside. It is understood that her
condition is such that little
hopes are entertained for her
recovery.
The four state roads left in
Morrison county by the state
highway commission have been
renumbered and a blue print of
the roads prepared by District
Engineer A. J. Fenn has been
approved by the state commission and will be presented to
the county commissioners at the
next meeting for their approval.
The state commission have numbered the roads as follows: No.
1   runs    south    from    Hillman
through Mt.   Morris  and Lakin  ,
b Faust, A.
and west just north of the South   Faust,  Frank store & hall.. ,
Following will be found a list
of the patrons of the electric
light service, and the amount
in cash that each one paid for
juice during the past month:
Ang-erineier  M       SI 00
Bares,   Hubert         9 30
Blake, J. M         1 60
Bentfeld, Adam  1 00
Borgerding J. & Co	
Brust,   Hubert	
Boser John  	
Brandl,  Frank  A	
Brummer Norbert    	
Burton,  Barney	
Boehm, John store	
Boehm John house	
Boehm Eng-elbert	
Brisk & Schramel	
Dombovy,   John  	
Duncan, R. M.   house....,
Duncan, R. M.   store	
Eller,   William	
These dull pre-election d ays are
not interesting to the professio
nal spearers. Don't you remember boys, how years ago, the
office seekers at least a month
before election announced their
candidacy through the bowl
that cheers ?    Stir that memory
Dibu
CONVi,,
The  district  court   wih
vene in this county February 2b.
Following are a few cases inour
neighborhood:
- Stella Brandenburg vs. .John
Schaefer, R. C. Scoles and And.
Suere.
Jos. II. Grell vs. Paul Piachka:
of your's  with a poker and seel John Neld, garnishee.
line of the county through Royalton and into Elm Dale where
it turns north for a short distance and west into Swanville.
No. 2 connects with the road to
St. Cloud and Royalton and
runs north through Little Falls
to the Crow Wing county line
and connects with the Brainerd
line. No. 3 runs from Swanville
for a short distance and then
east through Little Falls to
Pierz and northeast from Pierz
through Granite and Richardson, connecting with the road
to Onamia. No. 4 runs northwest from Little Falls through
Randall to Lincoln, connecting
with the road to Staples. All
other state roads are  annulled.
Granite News.
Mr. and Mrs. Muellner spent
Sunday at Ricke's.
Robert Kahlhammer went to
Pierz Tuesday.
Miss Stella Rassier visited
with her sister Saturday.
The two parties held at Gerhard Block's and John Schom-
mer's were well attended- All
departed at a late hous. Say,
who was the fellow that lost his
balance and fell headlong in the
snow ?
Mike Schommer took a trip
to Sauk Center last week.
Adam Becker and two daugh
ters   visited  at   Portner's   last
Saturday.
Henry Rieke called on John
Muellner.
Boys, did you see anyone go
home after twelve Sunday night
with a dog?
Mr. and Mrs- Joe Eisel spent
Sunday at Girtz's.
Little Evelyn Virnig fell from
a chair this week and cut her
lip.
Johnnie Kerich of Little Falls
is visiting at A. Will's.
Miss Stella Rassier was pleasantly surprised Sunday- The
evening was spent in dancing.
Music was furnished by the
Portner orchestra. The crowd
broke up at a late hour and all
report a tine time.
Faust Frank house & sal	
Faust Bros	
Faust John N	
Grell,   Frank store	
Grell Frank house	
Grell, John H. house	
Grell, John H.. saloon	
Grell, Joseph H. store	
Grell Jos. H.  house	
Gravel,   Charles   E	
German Sate Bank	
Gau, John house	
Gassert,  Hen ry	
J. B. Hartmann	
Hartmann, P. A.   store  	
Hartmann, P. A.  house	
Hoheisel, John	
Mr. Kast	
Kerkhoff, E. H.  Journal	
Kerkhoff, E. H.  house	
Jac Kiewel Brewing'   Co  	
Koering',  Herman ,
Leese,   Mike 	
Marshik Frank  	
Mueller,  N.  H	
Meyer,  Joseph '.	
Neisius, Jacob	
Nohner, Mrs.   Clara	
N. W. Telephone Exchange Co
Paul, Henry	
Preimesberger, John W	
Poster, P. L	
Preimesberger,  Stephen	
Philippi John 	
Rich Prairie Milling Co	
Scoles,   R.   C	
Stoll, A.   P	
St. Joseph's Cong-, house	
St. Joseph's Corp.   church....
Staub Nick	
Smith, J. F.,  & Son	
Tembruell,  Christ	
Tembruell, A	
Virnig F.   X	
Virnig, F. X. &  Co	
Virnig,   Jos'eph H	
Vonder Ha_r, Mrs. A	
Wermerskirchen, M	
F. Wise	
Ziegler, John   house	
A. P. STOLE,
Secretar}' and Treasurer
if you can't recall how every
candidate's pre-election ambitions and aspirations were gratified beyond measure by the adoration and homage of an almost
endless retinue of the knights
of the spear'? These knights
were ever ready and eager at a
moment's notice to obey their
leader's call to duty at the bar.
The discipline and precision
with which these orders were
obeyed might have put the maneuvers of even the Kaiser's great
soldiers into the shade. At that
time they were known as "suckers;" and fortunate they were its
45 I such, for they themselves wield-
2 20 i ed tlie spear with unerring aim.
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95 ! Good spearers,   like poets,   are
i
1 00 | born not made. A man with a
natural aptitude for this means
of deadlihood may, by close attention to details and opportunities, gather now and then a
semi-jag; but he cannot trot with
the fellow whose genius creates
Alert, suave,
well-oiled and unassuming, past-
3 00
2 40
1 10
95
1 60
1 50
1 00
1 80
2 10
3 40! opportunities
8 90 j
7 90
Walter Novak, Frank Novak
and Caroline Novak vs. Gustav
Hoffman.
Mary Noll vs. John Noll.
Rice State Bank, a corporation, vs. Frank Starr, German
State Bank, garnishee.
John Dombovy vs. Joseph
Boser
Pos.
the weatn.
Anna Faust u.
taking violin lesson.-,.
Read John F. Smith's a_
tion bill in this paper.
The  school   board   held  a
i
special meeting last Monday
evening.
M. Wermerskirchen went
to Sullivan lake last Monday
morning.
The ice  harvest over,  tlie
Temper*
>V,
Temperature   for   i,
ponding week a year ago:
Highest    Lowes.
1'.U;; Feb. With.  ..28 _.    5 below
State of Minnesota vs. August -marketing of   the   crop   will
Smuda.
Annual Report
come later.
First quarter last Tuesday
the 17th. New moon will bt
of the Little Rock Co-operative llyxt Tuesday the -24th
Creamery, which has been in J0]m Boser had his auto
operation since July 14, 181_.      ; out  last   Tuesday.     Not  bad
! for a Minnesota February.
Nick Karst sold 21 head of
cattle to Nick Meyer, who
shipped to South St. Paul last
Sat. i relay.
14th-
...85.
14 above
13th.
.. 84_.
l."> above
18th .
... 34..
14 above
17th
...38_.
18 above
18Ui
.__38_.
.30 above
19th .
...33..
. 24 above
No. of  patrons  57
No. of month   operated  SJ_
Pounds of cream received  99,773
Pounds of butterfat   received.. 28,024
Average test of cream  28.69
Pounds of butter shipped  33,397
Pounds of butter sold   patrons 264
Pounds sold at cash   sales.... 63
Total pounds  of butter made.. 33,724
Pounds overrun  5,100
Percent overrun  17.81
Average price received  29.02
Average price paid for butterfat  27.71
5,100   pounds   overrun  at 29.02
cents per pound    SI.480 02 i '>OgS
Running  expenses  721  81
Clearence  750 21
The signs seem to indicate
better times for Pierz. Conversations among fanners
almost invariably lead to the
various breeds of cattle and
l 50 ' masters of the latter class tread
1 ,,0j to their accustomed place, with j Cost  per  pound of making
3 30 ' a nimble   tread and enter  their
2 lo conversation wedge almost ere
, ™ the victim is aware of his pres-
2 90 ence. A sort of a hypnotic
2 10 j suggestion  and a confident and
'expectant   look   at   the   empty
1 00 j
I
l so, bar never fail  to  produce  the
coveted  goods.    But    alas, his
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12 30 |
5 60 days  are  rapidly  passing.    Of
1 °°i the vast horde of these parasites
2 go 'which once infested the village,
2 40  only a few remain and tive more
, ln years will  mark the extinction
l oo of the species.
1 90 '
3 10
1 00
4 80
55
1 50
1 30
1 00
1 40
75
95
Rucker News.
Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Louis
A. Soltow, one little chick.
Mrs. John Donek and Mrs.
!Jos.  H. Grell  left yesterday
butter- 0214cjfor   Cross   Plains and   other
financial statem ; points  in  Wisconsin.    They
intend to be gone about two
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200
Butter shipped        $9,563 58
Butter sold lo patrons	
Cash sale; for   butter	
Total   reielpts	
Less freight   and dray-age
Net   recei pts	
Notes  payable	
Share sales	
43 weeks.
9,786 m\     Mr,   Bayerl   of   Wisconsin
54i 28 visited   in Pierz a. few   days
9,245 61
2,825 00
1,275 00
Total      $13,345 61
Henry   Kramer   of   Royalton
visited  Geo. Waller  the tirst of
oo; the week.
2 00 j
3 70 |     Irwin Drews of Hillman spent
3 00 several   days of   the past   week
3 30.sawjng-   \VOOrJ in  this neighbor
1 00'
Disbursements.
Cost of building	
Cost of   machinery	
Supplies,   etc	
Gasoline	
Fuel	
Installing  machinery	
Buttermaker's salary	
Officer's salary	
Paid patrons for butterfat
including  sales	
Balance on hand	
$1,683 44
2,298 01
491 10
69 66
02 6a
100 00
412 50
185 00
7,932 28
110 97
Events of the World
Years Ago.
What occurred  on these dales
long years ago.
Feb. 13.—China becomes a republic 1912.
Feb. 14. — Bell patents Telephone 1876.
Feb. 15.-The Battleship Maine
sunk 1898.
Feb. 16.—Port Donelson surrender 1862.
Feb. 17.—Printing was discovered in 1477.
Feb. 18.—Jefferson Davis inaugurated 1861.
Feb. 19.— Phonograph patented
by Edison L878.
Grain and Prodnce
Harket Report.
.; hood with   his gasoline outfit.
85
1 80
2 10
3 00
9 70
1 60
75
17 80
1 00
95
Sullivan News.
Sam Martin visited with Merle
Look Saturday.
Louis Gassert and Joe Smuda
of Pierz called at the lake last
Monday.
Nick Meyer of Pierz was at
the lake on busines last Tuesday.
T. S. Look was a Pierz visitor
last Thursday and returned home
Saturday.
Merle Look was a business
caller in Lastrup Monday.
An Italian fur buyer was in
this neighborhood Friday.
Our teacher being sick there
was no school last Thursday and
Friday.
C. E. Look was a Pierz caller
Saturday.
Tracy Waller, wife and sister
Elizabeth drove to Pierz last
Wednesday.
Donald Taylor called here last
Thursday.
Mrs. Clara Benton and little
daughters Lucile and Irene, visited at the Waller home the past
week.
Emily Uruber spent Tuesday
and Wednesday at Jas. Tayler's,
returning Wednesday.
this week. He was on his
way home from a visit with
his son Albert, whom lie reports much improved.
Ice is an item of expense
to our persecuted saloonkeepers, which is never taken into account by the advocates
of higher license and of stricter obedience to law.
If it were not for the high
cost of cows and feed, dairying would at this time be a
gilt-edged   proposition",   es-
following officers and  directors ; pecially    for    buttermakers.
were chosen: One way   to meet   the situa
tion is to raise all promising
Total	
At   the   annual
..   .    $13,345 61
meeting   the
Wheat, No. 1,	
Wheat, No. 2	
Flax, ..	
Barley	
Rye	
Oats	
Ear Corn	
Hay	
Butter, Creamery _.
Dairy	
Eggs	
8 J
70
1.42
40
46
82
4.5
16.00
;J7
20
President—C. W. Miller.
Vice-President—C. J. Perkins
heifer calves and grow alfal-
Sec. and Treas.— G.J. Hodorff: fa, two phases which are be-
Directors—F. J. Popp and J. ing adopted in many sections.
V. Hill.
Buttermaker—G. Shoquest.
A Letter From L Brinkman
Alvah   Martin   spent   Friday
night  at   Geo.   Waller's,   being
day.
; Home-raised     cows,     homegrown  feeds  and a boost in
ithe   price   of  certified    milk
will   put   the   dairyman   on
Kasy Street.
We   are  getting (5,000 pounds 	
of milk a  day,   and indications:
point to about lo.ooo 0.- i_,ooo New Parochial School For Pierz,
pounds a day this summer.
The day before yesterday   we j
had our  meeting.     Mr. Tbelier
is   again   manager    and   I
Flour, Best      2.80
"    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
Farmers' Creamery
Butterfat Harket.
The average price paid lot
butterfat at the Farmers'Creamery dating the last week was
291 cents.
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday    	
Friday	
Saturday	
Monday	
Tuesday -
At a meeting held by the iiiem- JWefaeaday 8.39
bers of St.   Joseph's   congregii
i tion last Sunday, it was decided  South  St. Paul
i to build a new parochial   school' Live StockMarket.
cheese maker.    Uur   business in! .   , ,         _   .
„ .,     D,     . „„,„.' f,,„. to take the place ot the one des-   bfeers *7.7o to
among the Pierz callers ot that  10151 was as follows- '/-, , it •,-        ..   .- .
troyed by tire last week. Father  CoWBUnd Heifers
Calves, steady,..
South Agram News.
Joe Gruber and J.J. Brummer
were in Little Falls Monday.
Fred Sporlein lost a cow last
week.
Joe Gruber and John Nagel
were in Platte Thursday after
lumber.
Pounds milk received 1,446,815
Pounds cheese made 145,266
Money paid to patrons $21,647 86
Average price per 100
pounds for milk paid
during the year  1  29
Feeders, steady, ...$4.30 to 7-00
1
Stiegler exhibited plans for   the
new structure which will    be   of
solid brick-, two stories high, 76
feet   wide,   *0   feet   long,    with
full basement, and will   coutain
eight rooms.    The  sight for the      Minnesota   is   the   healthiest
building   has   not  yet been deli-   state   in    the   union.      A death
nitely  selected,   but  it  is more  rate of 10.7 per 1,000 population
A Healthy State,
Card ot Thanks,
We hereby express our sincere than likely that it will   be   built so   the   census   bureau   tigu
thanks and appreciation of   the upon the   churchgrounds  south- .show.    Wisconsin is the nearest
! kind neighbors aud   friends   for west of the parsonage and   fac- competitor with a death  rate of
Joe Gruber  will build  a large   their   assistance    and   acts   of .      ^   ejwt   ^   weg(.  stfeet 10.<J per 1,000.    Only two towns
k-,m i,, .-nrimr                                     kindness   during   the   hours of . .
our   deepest   sorrow   following U"olk "" '^i:1 " so°" :is   tlle ln   U,e. COUntry   ,,aVe   a  loW""
the death of the late Mrs. Frank condition   of   the   ground   and mortality   rate   than    tlie   twin
Katie Bednar is employed at
'Joe Gruber's place.
Kapsner.
-The Family.     I weather permit.
cities
Don't Forget to Attend the DANCE at Faust's Hall, Monday the 23rd day of February 19M.
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