The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1914-03-12

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VOL. 5.
PIERZ   JOURNAL
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PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, MARCH 12, 1914.
NO. 39.
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HAPPENINGS
fl£i_UND THERE
Motley—Ira Felton, who has
purchased the Trolson farm in
Cass county arrived recently
with two cars of stock, machinery and other goods from Owa-
tonna.
Little Falls—The German-
American National Bank of Little Falls, one of tlie oldest
banks in this section, of which
C. A. Weyerhauser is president,
is occupying its new $25,000
home.
Brainerd—Cyrus Bleckley, 56
years of age, died of heart failure Friday morning at his home
here. He leaves a wife and
these children: Louis, Fred,
Wessen, Violet, Eva, Mrs. La
Roy of Brainerd and Mrs. Mary
Auclaire of Kalispell, Mont.
St. Cloud^*A man of giant
stature, with his feet severely
frozen, who seems to know but
very little about himself except
that his name is Anderson, was
brought here by Charles Stick-
ne5', residing near Clear Lake,
who said the man was found in
a shed on the old Burgan farm
under a pile of straw.
St. Cloud—Sauk Rapids and
East St. Cloud were in darkness
over two hours Wednesday
night on account of the snow
soaked wires and the consequent hampering of the feeder.
The "wires affected were running
from power station No. 3 to
Sauk Rapids, and carried a
voltage of 2300.
COUNTY
EAT
CULLINGS.
Notice.
A meeting of the Pierz
Neighborhood Association of
Farmers will be held on the
26th day of March at 2 o'clock
P. M. in Frank Faust's hall,
Pierz, Minn.
This meeting is called for
the purpose to adopt rules
and regulations or any change
that may be voted or suggested.
Also to fix the price per
share to be sold to wouldbe
fanner members.
If possible some speaker
from a state institute will be
requested to attend the meeting.
Farmers and their wives in
the  town of Pierz  and  surrounding  towns  are hereby
urgently asked to come and
help  this   movement  along.
It should also be decided if a
potato warehouse can be built
the coining summer.
Respectfully,
H. J. Vierk,
Robert Gruber,
John Reding,
Magnus Rauch,
Henry Wuellner,
Adam Virnig,
Henry K. Dengel,
Peter L. Girtz,
Committee on Rules and
Regulations.
These Get Certificates.
Out of 120 enrolled at the
teachers' institute last "week 107
got their certificates of perfect
attendance while 13 failed to
secure certificates. The following from this vicinity received
certificates:
Nick Staub
Teresa Meyer
•    Margaret Meyer
Stella Rassier
Cresence Faust
Rose Waninger.
(From the Litte Falls Transcript.)
Christ  Lust of  Hillman   collected  bounties   for   three    full
grown wolves Friday.
A marriage license has been
issued to Joseph Rath bun of
Stillwater county, Montana,
and Elsie Love of this county.
Sunday evening a barn belonging to Ed. Laforce of Ripley town was burned to #the
ground, the barn and a quantity
of potatoes which were stored
there being a total loss. The
fire started from a stove in the
barn which was used to keep
the potatoes from freezing.
Mrs. Ed. Hennen had the mis
fortune to burn her eye with a
hot curling iron Tuesday- The
iron slipped and struck the
lower part of her eye. The
burn is painful, though not serious, and Mrs. Hennen's eyesight will not be impaired by
the accident.
Crow Wing county lias paid
out wolf bounties since January
1st, $1,243. The bounty paid
on wolves there is $11, while in
this county it is only $7.50. The
$1,243 paid iii bounties represents 113 wolves killed. One
man living on White Fish lake
has brought in 13 wolves this
year, receiving $143 in bounties.
Besides the bounty the wolf
hunters are able to realize
about $3 for the sale of each
pelt.
Morrison county may spend
$27,800 on roads this year.
There is a state fund this year
to be divided among the counties of $1,400,000. According
to law this amount must be
equally divided among the
counties. This would give each
county $14,000 from the state,
but this amount is given only
on condition that the county-
spend a like amount on the
roads from its own road and
bridge fund. Some of the money
may be spent to repair bridges,
but the greater amount will
probably go toward road improvement.
Mary Billstein, wife ot John
Billstein, 709 Second street
southeast, passed away Friday
morning at 10 o'clock. Death
was due to a complication of
diseases. The deceased had
been ill for about two and one-
half years and had been confined to her bed for about fifteen
months.
Mrs. Billstein was born in
Richland Centre, Wis.. August
23, 1858, and came to Pierz in
1869. She was married there
Novemver 20, 1883, and came to
Little Falls in the following
May, having made her home
here since that time. ■ She was
a member of, the Christian
Mothers' society and St. Catherine's Bennevolent society.
The deceased leaves to mourn
her death, besides her husband,
John Billstein, seven children,
Leo J., William J., Mrs. Wm.
Ellenbecker, lien. C, Agnes,
and Louis and Eva, all except
Louis being of this city, he having been employed for some
time at Moorhead. She had one
sister, Agnes Roch, and three
brothers, Hubert Kingeji of Frazee, Henry Kingen of Lastrup,
and   Peter   Kingen of this city.
She   leaves   also   three  grand
children and  a   number   of nephews    and     nieceis,     including
Sister CUaitas, O. S.B.. Fairfax-
THE RESULTS
OF THE ELECTION.
Following will be found a list
of the names of the successful
candidates together with the
offices for which they ran at the
election held last Tuesday.
Platte Town Ticket.
Supervisor for 3 Years
Christ Reese
Supervisor for 1 Year
Paul Kuklinski
Town Clerk
C J. Smith
To.wn Treasurer
Henry Waninger
Town Assessor .
John Nelson
Justice of the Peace 2 Years
C. J. Smith
Justice of the Peace 1 Year
Chist Reese
Constable for 2 ^"ears
Frank Brisk
Granite Town Ticket
Supervisor for 3 Years
Joseph Schmidtbauer
Town Clerk
Otto   Hoffmann
Town Treasurer
P. J. Gau
For Justice of the Peace
P. J. Gau
Agram  Town Ticket
Supervisor for 3 Years
J.J. Brummer
Town Clerk
H. J. Vierk
Town Treasurer
Herman Terhaar
For Assessor
Frank O. Bolster
Justice of the Peace
Henry Wuellner
For Constable
F. X. Boehm
Buckman Town Ticket
Supervisor for 3 Years
Math Zinner
Town Clerk
J. A. Dengel
Town Treasurer
Joseph Hortsch
For Constable
T. A. Hesch
Town of Pierz
Supervisor for 3 Years
Magnus Rauch
Town Clerk
C. A. Virnig
Town Treasurer
Frank Faust
For Justice of the Peace
Joseph L. Hesch
For Constable
Ed. Bentfeld
Town of Buh
For Supervisor 3 Years
Henry Kruschek
Supervisor for 2 Years
George A. Hoffmann
For Town Clerk
Frank Konen
For Town Treasurer
John Boser
Village of Buckman
For President
Joseph Grundhoefer
For Trustees
Peter T. Mueller
John Mueller
Jake Poster
Town Treasurer
.     ,_     L. A. Billig
Town Clerk
J. A. Janson
THE RECORD
OF THE DAIRY.
T. C. Wing, the Hancock
insurance agent, is in  town.
Andrew Suess and Martin
Hartman of Buckman were
callers here  yesterday.
No doubt a good many of the
old buttermakers and creamery
men of Minnesota can remember
the Winnebago Farmers' Cooperative Creamery. Winnebago
used to be the center of dairy
meetings some eight or ten
years ago, but that was when
the local cooperative creamery
was in charge of a competent
buttermaker.
Some years ago the farmers
started kicking about their old
buttermaker, who finally got
disgusted and resigned. Then
came the change ; poor butter,
mismanagement and dissatisfied
patrons. Thecentralizers started a bu3ring station aud at first,
were paying just as much as the
farmers' creamery, for almost
any kind of cream. The farmers
refused to be bossed and said to
h with   the   creamery  and
sweet cream.
What is the situation today?
The writer has called on a business man at Winnebago twice
since the first of February, and
on each occasion noticed the
blackboard in front of the station marked: "Cash for cream.
Todays price 22c."
The first time we thought it
was a joke and passed it up, as
New York was quoted at 29 cts.
On our second trip there Febr.
20th, we thought we would investigate, and found that this
was all that butterfat was worth,
"since the tariff was taken off
butter", as the buyer explained
to me.
This is the system that the
worthy (?) editor of the Blue
Valley Bulletin claims can pay
more than a good co-operative
creamery. The tariff seems to
be a good argument for a cen-
tralizer that will pay 22 cents
for butter tat, when New York-
is quoted at 30i and 31 cts.
There is plenty of cream
around Winnebago right now to
make from 80 to 35 tubs of butter, if it were all brought to the
creamery, but the farmers are
apparently satisfied with what
they
blame the tariff.
During the week just past a
Farmers' Short Course was held
at Winnebago, and a lot of prominent men from the School of
Agriculture were telling these
same farmers how to raise two
spears of grass where one grows
now but, to my knowledge, none
even made mention of how to
get 33 cents for butter fat, instead of 22; viz., by organizing
a farmers' co-operative and
sticking to it  like glue.
Yours truly,
An Old Minnesota Buttermaker.
P. S.—We still   have   more   to
say, but will wait and see if  we
escape the   wastebasket.
Village of Pierz
For President
Barney Gross
For Trustees
Frank Marshik
John L. Gross
J. N. Faust
For Treasurer
Andrew Faust
For Recorder
J. B. Hartmann
For Justice of the Peace
A. Sitzmann
For Constable
Ed.   Bentfeld
VILLAGE LIGHT       ADDITIONAL WEATHER AND
REPORT.        LOCAL NEWS.   MARKET REPORTS.
Following  will   be  found the
Full   moon   and   a   total
| a yard long this year.
This freezing and thawing
report of the  Light and  Water eclipseof the moon last night.
Board   together  with   a  list of j
patrons,   and  the  amount each ,       Hie village tally sheet was
paid for the last month.
Juice sold in Feb. at 10c
Kilowatts $160.95 |
Juice furnished forvillage | weather is hard on the   clov-
street lights at 4c a Ki- j er.
lowatts _15^!|    John Schmolke sold 40 ac-
Total sold in Feb..... $186.55 res   to   Henry    Terhaar   for
Paid L. F. Water Power
Co, for Juice furnished
village duriug month of
P'eb. at 4c a Kilowatts
Total profit $98.15
A. P. Stolt,,
Secretary and Treasurer.
$28.00 an acre.
TheWestinghouseair brake
ftft ,Q' was   patented   42   years ago
  last Thursday.
Luther Burbank, who pro-
'duced   tlie   Burbank   potato.
Temperature for
The last week.
Highest      Lowest
Thursday 35   31 above
Friday  33 _.) above
Saturday   30 18 above
Sunday 32..        PJ above
Monday      33    6 above
Tuesday 30      13above
Wednesday..  31     5 above
was 65 last Saturday.
The Monitor destroyed the
Following will be found a list  „, _,, ,
Merrnnac  52  years ago last
of  the  patrons  of   the electric
light   service,   and   the amount
in cash that each   one   paid for,
juice during the past month:
Angermeier  M.
Bares,   Hubert	
Blake, J. M	
Bentfeld, Adam  . .
Borgerding- J. & Co.
Brust,   Hubert	
Berg,  John P	
Boser John  	
Brandl,   Frank A.
Monday.
Onamia and   Wahkon are
'wet" for another year, while
Temperature same
Week year ago.
Temperature  for   the corresponding week a year ago:
Highest    Lowest
1913 Mch  6th.... 14...   4 above
"     "    7th 15. . 10 above
"Mch   8th    5... 16 above
"     "     9th. ...40.. 32 above
10th 42.._ 35 above
11th ..._40-_.24 above
12th ....50...32 above
ii
      i   85
         8 80
95.
1 00|
         35'P. Berg house to John Prei-
■■■■     200 '"esberger.
x??|     A   cloth   dampened    with
Brummer Norbert      1 00   alcohol   sllOllld   be    the    Only
Burton,  Barney	
Boehm, John store '.
Boehm John house  1 00
Boehm Engelbert  1 (X)
Brisk & Schramel  95
Princeton went "dry,"
Jos. H. Grell sold the John
2 10 tinner   used   to   clean   piano
2-20
keys.
A California!! is the inven-
Qrain and Produce
Harket Report
Wheat, No. 1,	
Wheat, No. 2	
Flax,-	
Barley	
Rye	
Oats  	
EarCorn        50
Hay $5.00
Butter, Creamery        35
Dairy       20
86
78
1.40
40
45
!Eggs  -»::
Dombovy, John        i io tor of a pan to be attached to ; p]our 3est a og
Duncan, K. M.   house	
Duncan, K.  M.   store	
Eller,   William	
Faust, A	
Faust,  Frank store & hall
Faust Frank house & sal. .
Faust Bros	
Faust John N	
G
any broom to catch itssweep-
1 10
1 60
i 6o ings.
3 30!
5+o'    John Saplital of Iowa, the shorts 120
JJ new owner of the Louis Span-|Cracked Corn 80 pounds....1.20
j qq fellner place, one mile north . Ground Feed     1.25
"    Straight      2.20
Low grade flour 1.50
Bran 1.15
rell,   Frank store         3 20   of    the    village,
Grell Frank house.
Grell, John H. house	
Grell, John H.   saloon...
Grell, Joseph H. store
2 (.0
1 90,
S 70 |
1 60
this week.
moved   here Potatoes
Beans
Onions
2.00
60"
1 "for a day,  followed   with  a Farmers'Creamery
3 00
Thomas   Feucht   returned
Rust will   disappear from
Grcii Jos. H. house       2 50 steel, if  soaked iu  sweet oili
Gravel,   Charles   E	
German Sate Bank	
Gau, Join, house      i oo! rubbing with fresh lime
Gassert,  Henry         1  10
J. B. Hartmann         1 80
Hartmann, p. a. store       9 oo | home Tuesday froin   Onamia
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	
Butterfat Harket.
Average New York quotations
for the past week have been 3_c
Nohner, Mrs.   Clara	
are   getting   aud   simply I N. W. Telephone ExohangeCo
3 50
1 00
1 30
2 00
2 2)
75
1 70
1 00
1 50
2 90
1 00
3 3)
35
where he had  been   working
in the woods.
One of the saddest looking
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
men we've   seen   in   a   long j Thursday _ _   _ __._8.28
time dropped into   our  shopjFi-iday  8.87
the other day asking for   the Saturday  __8
customary two-bits for a bite j Monday  _r_8.85
to eat.   He   was   down   andiTuosday  -8.40
i , ,'   .____ ..    ij   . 'Wednesday	
! 70 out, and he admitted it.   But
surprise   when
1 IX)| imagine our
as
1 oo
1 00 j
1 60
he told us on inquiry that he
had been ruined by advertis-
South St. Paul
Live StockMarket.
ing.    We    pondered   deeply steers. „^$7.75 to 7.86
i 7i)' over this and, we  must   con-j Cows and Heifers,|4.25 to . 6.75
somewhat  taken|Calves, steady, — $5.50 to 0.75
aback    as    we    have    been
"my competitor done   the advertising."—Ex.
Paul, Henry	
Preimesberger, John W.
Poster, P. L	
Preimesberger,  Stephen
Philippi John	
Rich Prairie Milling Co
Scoles,   R.   C	
stoii, a. p      3 5o|fess,   were
St. Joseph's Cong, house         2 80
St. Joseph's Corp.   church....       -1 10
staub Nick      ioo preaching the need of adver-
s.mth, J. p., & son       ll° Using,   intelligent   advertis-
Tembruell,   Christ         14]   . •.*=.--__.       •<
Tembruell,  A         _.*«,   l_g, _t all   times.       _ e_,     COll-
Vimig f. x       -»oo,tinued the   poor  old   wreck,
Virnig, F. X. &  Co         5 60
Virnig,   Joseph H         150
Vonder Haar, Mrs. A  65
Wermerskirchen,  M       15 00
F. Wise  1 50
Ziegler, John   house  75
\  P  STOJLL John   Weiss    returned   from
ary ami Treasurer. Sullivanlake Saturday, where
he had been fishing. He reports
a good catch. While there he
caught one fish that weighed 2;J
pounds, and one that weighed
lb pounds.
Theo. and Jos. Gross intend
to leave for Canada in a few-
weeks.
Hubert Virnig and wife and
Elizabeth Hoerner visited at
John Uahmen's Sunday.
Central Granite News.
Spring will soon be here.t
Henry Gau called at the Peter
Gau home on business last week-
Wednesday.
The Platte lake fishing ' 'gang"
consisting of John and  Joseph
Gross,   Peter and  August Gau,
returned, from   the  lake Satur-;     Pred   D;ilimen is  wolu-;ng for
day.    They report a very small   M|. .   M;ill)   Gl
catch.
Ben Athmann and wife visited
at Tony Welle's Monday.
Theo. Gross, Lucy Gross aud
Annie Weidenbach called at
Gau"s Thursday.
Hubert Virnig drove to Pierz
with some stock last Thursday,
which he sold to Nick Meyer.
Peter   Weidenbach   visited at
Joseph   Schmidtbauer-  Sunday
afternoon.
;     Mrs.   Hen   Athmann   left   for
The butter order of New York  Meiers Grove Saturday,   where      Hubert Virnig and family were
city amounts to 380,822   pounds 8be will   visit with   friends and  vi-itorsat   the Mrs. Peter   Vir-
every day. relatives. "** uome Sunday.
Feeders, steady, ...$4.30 to 7.00
Darning Needle Causes Death.
Her death last Monday
morning after a short illi,
caused much speculation in
the neighborhood. The postmortem held revealed a darn*
ing needle in the tissues Bur-
rounding the heart. All who
saw the location of the needle
agree that her early demise
was due to carelessness. It
is thought that while doing
duty as a domestic, she
thoughtlessly cushioned the
needle iu her breast after
darning her socks, and that
the sharp-pointed steel was
irresistably drawn to the vital
organ by her large hearted
and magnetic disj)0_ition.
Her milk was rich in butterfat and she was one of Henry
Dengel's best cows.
Two childreiiof one family
of Melrose  died   last   w<
with I'o-spinal-ineningi-
tis—a very  dangerous,   <
tagious disease.