The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1914-03-19

              JOURNAL
VOL. 5.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, MARCH 19, 1914.
NO. 40.
HAPPENINGS
HERE AND THERE
St. Cloud—Two children have
died and six are ill from cerebrospinal meningitis.
St. Cloud—St. Cloud merchants will make formal protest
against the proposed increase
in express rates on bread, fruits,
berries and general specials.
Onamia—The local contractors and carpenters look forward to a busy season in their
line, as soon as spring arrives.
Several buildings will be started as soon as the weather will
permit.
Little Falls—J. Greisch and
Barney Burton on Thursday received a bunch of ten Percheron
mares from the National stock
farm near Mankato. The animals are all in tine condition and
average about 1500pounds each.
Sauk Centre—James Cough
ren is having plans drawn for a
building to be jointly occupied
as a Masonic Lodge temple
which will have a lodge room,
banquet hall, club room and
theatre. The theatre will have
a seating capacity of 500. The
structure is to be of handsome
p essed brick and stone and will
be 40x100 feet with an estimated
cost of $32,000.
Little Palls—City Clerk Vic
tor Schallern has received a
letter from Senator Knute Nelson, to whom he wrote some
time ago in regard to securing
two elk from Yellowstone National park to be placed in the
Pine Grove park, Senator Nelson says that he will immediately communicate with Dr.
Palmer, assistant chief of the
biological survey of the department of agriculture. Mr.
Schallern has also written to
Dr. Palmer.
Madelia—Miss Leich, daughter of Nicholis Leich, was found
lying in the road Sunday night.
"When she did nqt return home
from church search was made
for her, Signs of choking were
found on her throat. She was
taken home' and a physician
called, but while she has regained consciousness she has been
hysterical and has not been
able to give a clear account of
the affair. The sheriff was notified and believes that he has a
clue to her assailant.
COUNTY SEAT   •
CULLINGS.
(From the Litte Falls Transcript.)
The Crow Wing county board,
it is understood, parchased two
automobiles, one for the use of
the sheriff and the other for use
by the county surveyor and the
commissioners in going out in
the county on road work.
It is said that Morrison county
has the distinction of having
the largest court room in the
Seventh judicial district. And
when work on the retinishing
of the interior of the county's
building is completed the county
will have, not only the largest,
but the best finished and
equipped in the district.
A petition signed by 105 legal
voters of International Palls,
calling for a vote on the license
question was riled with the city
clerk Thursday by Dr. M. E.
Withrow, Rev. E. L. Heermanes
aud Rev. Father P. J. Killeen,
as a committee from the Law
and Order League, organized
here two months ago. International Falls has 13 saloons,
most of which are owned by
breweries. A peculiar circumstance in connection with the
petition is the fact that a majority of signers are drinking
men who seemed to have gone
on a strike for 5-cent beer, the
price now being 10 cents.
Northeast Granite News.
Miss Francis Gassert who has
been visiting her sister Mrs.
John A. Virnig returned to her
home at Pierz Monday.
Messrs. Noil & Smuda will
have their sawmill running this
week.
Augusta and Nina King, Joe
Smuda, John Noll and George
Fiehtinger were callers at the
John A. Virnig place Saturday.
The party at the J. Kiug home
last Sunday was well attended.
Callers from Pierz were John
Bollig and William Virnig.
Joe is still looking for a housekeeper.
Lewis Gassert who has been
visiting here returned home last
week.    Come again.
FATHER BUH
CELEBRATES.
Ride With Carriers,
Hereafter road commissioners
will be accorded the privilege
of riding with rural carriers for
inspection of roads. The new
rule was announced in the January supplement to the Postal
Guide and is as follows:
''Postmasters at rural delivery offices are instructed to permit road supervisors or commissioners having direct charge of
the highways over which rural
delivery routes are in operation
to ride over the routes with
rural carriers when such road
officials are actually engaged in
the performance of their duties
jn connection with the inspection of the roads,''
The new rule will be of great
advantage especially to county
superintendents of roads who
will be enabled to inspect many
miles of roads daily without
going to the expense of horse
or auto hire.
South Agram News,
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Thommes
visited at the John Eidenshienk
home Sunday.
Those that were in Pierz Saturday were; John Neisius, Jos,
Jansen, J, J, Brummer and
Peter Thommes.
John* Kippley called at the
Brummer home Sunday.
Mrs. Henry Wuellner visited
at the John Kippley home last
Sunday.
Mrs. Oscar Guenther was
staying with her parents here
last week.
Mrs. Fred Sporlein visited at
the Thommes home Sunday.
The snow is nearly all gone
and the crows are beginning to
arrive.
Clover and rye are in good
Condition this year.
The Right Rev. Joseph F. Buh
of Ely, celebrated his 81st birthday last Tuesday and a few
weeks later his golden jubilee
of 50 years since he arrived in
St. Paul. In spite of his advanced age, he continues, unaided, the supervision of a parish, consisting 300 families, in
that city in addition to visiting
monthly the Indian school at
Tower. Father Buh, as he is
affectionately called, came to
Ely within a day or two after
the railroad was built, to christen a baby, and since then has
had charge of the work here.
He christened the first chiJd
born in Biwabik.—Ely Miner.
Work On Railroad.
Those who have charge of the
matter of selling stock for the
proposed Minneapolis, Mille
Lacs and Northern, which is
planned }o run north from Anoka to the Mille Lacs lake district, report increasing interest
in the road.
People who live along the
route are beginning to realize
something of what the road will
mean to them and are showing
their appreciation of the project by' buying stock and offering a right of way if the road
can be built.
Those who are pushing the
project state emphatically that
they will not undertake to build
the road unless the people want
it and will back it, but that, if
the people want it, they will
build it if it has to be built a
mile a year. It is not a hot-air
line, but is a line which is needed and which sometime will be
built, and that time seems to be
in the very near future.
As an 'investment the Herald
never recommends any sort of a
business venture, but as a splendid thing for the county and for
the towns north of here and as
a direct benefit to the property
owners within three or four
miles off the road, there is no
question of the value of the neAv
road.
The officers of the road, are
serving without pay and no
luxurious offices are being maintained. The money raised is
for building the road.—Anoka
Herald.
VILLAGE COUNCIL    WHEN TO SOW
PROCEEDINGS.        CLOVER SEED.
The old council met in special
Clover  should   invariably  be
session Saturday at 8 o'clock p.; sown  in  the  spring and, under
I
m.    All  members were present' normal    conditions,     compara-
except A. Tembruell. tively early.
The liquor license bond of J Broadcasting the seed and fol-
Frank Faust was read and ac-j lowing with a harrow has been
cepted, granting him the right frequently advised, and is sue-
to sell intoxicating liquors in ' cessful in Minnesota during wet
his building from the 15th day seasons and on heavy soil; but
March  1914  to the   14th day of is  often  unsatisfactory in  dry
March 1915.
On   motion   the   council   adjourned.
C. E. Gravel,
President.
J. B. Hartmann,
Recorder.
A Fata! Accident.
Browerville Blade— Last
Wednesday afternoon the people of this village were shocked
to hear of the untimely death of
John Kolodji, a prominent young
farmer of this vicinity who was
killed while running a saw rig.
As we understand the accident it occured at the Konitzko
farm west of Browerville. It
seems that they were sawing
some timber in two, lengthwise,
for' the put pose of making
sled bunks and the slabs which
when sawed off, w7ere left behind the saw just as they fell.
One of the slabs caught against
the back of the saw and was
thrown with great force hitting
Mr. Kolodji in the chest and
knocked him to the ground. He
tried to get up but fell back, and
was dead iu a very few moments.
Lastrup News,
Theo. Ortmann and wife were
Pierz callers Thursday.'
Jacob Honrmann returned from
the woods Thursday.
Theo. Nathe left for his home
last week Friday.
Chas- Vosen worked for Mrs.
Peter Virnig last week.
Peter Wagner lef' for Dakota
Friday to visit his son Peter.
Lawrence Brummer and Henry
Kingen hauled cord wood to
Gross Bros. Friday.
Mrs. P. Vosen called on Mrs.
C. Thommes Friday.
Charlie   Rieke   sawed
around here Thursday.
wood
Bill Konan, the popular
manager . of tlie Indian Oil
Refining Co., reports the arrival of a fine twelve-pound
girl at his home Thursday
night. Bill says today the
only regret lie had was that
it should have been a boy so
that he could help him in
the distribution of tlie Indian
produce.—Fargo Express.
No Printers in the Pen.
The convicts of Joliet, (111.)
prison are issuing a newspaper,
The Prison Post, the material
for which is contributed b}7 prisoners. They are compelled to
get it printed outside of the
prison, however, as a search
among the "2,150 convicts in the
penitentiary failed to reveal a
single printer,
Editors were minus also, and
they had to hire the services of
a real estate man to edit the
paper. There are all kinds of
men among the convicts, but as
an exchange remarks, "you
sometimes see a printer enter a
saloon, but not the penitentiary."
If all the world were editors
aud printers, there would be no
need of prison or hell. They
get their punishment here on
earth.
Willie Kingen made a hay rack
Friday and tested it right away,
hauling a load of hay for J. P.
Virnig and said it was good.
seasons and on light soils.
Clover should not be sown too
deeply, and yet it is desirable
to sow it sufficiently deep that
it will neither blow out nor dry
out easily. Under most conditions, either using the grass-
seed attachment to the drill or
mixing the seed with the grain
is to be recommended. Excellent stands of grass have
been obtained by mixing the red
clover with the grain and sowing the balance of the grass-
seed mixtures broadcast. If
grass-seed is mixed with the
grain and sown with a drill, the
drill should not be run more
than from one to two inches
deep.
The amount of seed per acre
will vary slightly with the
method of seeding and the pur
ity and germinating power of
the seed. It is believed that in
general too little, rather than
too   much,   seed   is    sown.    If
ADDITIONAL
LOCAL NEWS.
Robert    Gruber   left   for
Washington last Tuesday.
Billy Anderson is still hauling mail between Vineland
and Onamia.
Hillman station is growing
and will be a town in tlie
near future.
Wm. Kopweiler and Tony
Ziegler went to North Dakota
yesterday morning.
Math. J. Juetten attended
the assessors meeting in Little Falls this week.
W. C. Penniman and Aug.
Drews of Hillman were callers
between trains Tuesday.
Peter Wagner took tlie
train Monday for North Dakota to visit his son Peter.
Crosby went "wet" at the
recent election. There were
209 "wet" and 200 "dry" votes
cast. -     ,
Advertisingmust pay. The
Spearmint Chewing Ctuiu people buy space wherever available, whether in papers or
on sides of buildings. And it
must give them returns on
even those 5 cent sales.
Tom Lamb, formerly of
Vawter, is now living in Ona-
clover is sown separately, itjmia. He bought a 20 acre
should be at the rate of from | tract of land at the outskirt
eight to ten pounds of red or j of the village, on which lie
mammoth, from four to six of
alsike, and from three to four
of wiiite clover.—A. C. Amy, out.
Assistant Agriculturist, Univer
sity Farm. St. Paul.
will build and do some clearing  as soon as  the  frost is
WEATHER AND
MARKETJEPORTS.
Temperature for
The last week.
Highest     Lowest
Thursday 42    10 above
Friday    49 25 above
Saturday    55 31 above
Sunday 55 ._       37 above
Monday      48 31 above
Tuesday 30     13 above
Wednesday..  30 10 above
Temperature same
Week year ago.
Temperature  for   the corresponding week a year ago:
Highest    Lowest
1913 Mch 13th 50___ 32 above
" " 14th....40. . 13 above
" " 15th....33...   6 above
" " 16th'..... 24..    4 above
" " 17th .__.31.__  Oabove
" " 18th   ...40...28 above
" " 19th ....35... 17 above
Grain and Prodnce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,	
Wheat, No. 2	
Flax,	
Barley	
Rye	
Oats	
Ear Corn	
Hay	
Rucker News.
Spring is surely here—George
Wood has expressed his intention of moving his winter crop
of hay.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Probasco
entertained at a "tin wedding'' last Sunday. Those present were :    S. D. Wood,  George
The man who has enemies
amounts to something. He
is a live man. He is a fighter.
People don't kick a corpse.
A live man can swim against
the  current;   a corps  floats
  7s
        1.15
  45
       45
      32
       50
  $5.00
Butter, Creamery ..       88
Dairy       20
Eggs      16
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
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday .   8.40
Friday 8.48
down     without     hindrance. 'Saturday 8.46
God bless our enemies.    We Monday   M 35
Tuesday 8
Wednesday 8.37
love them.    They make life
worth living.—Ex.
South St. Paul
Live StockMarket.
There   are   thousands   of
cords of wood  rotting on the j
Wood, Victor  Bruber  and their j ground    between    here   and'g^^ ~"~
families. |Ona,nia,and presumably over Cow» a_*d _feiVers^.25 to     .'-'75
Did you  seethe lunar eclipse \ ,!le eutire  timbered sections Calves, steady, ....§5.50 to  9.75
Wednesday  night?     It was  an  of this end of the state up to, Feeders, steadv, ...$4.30 to 7-00
especially  fine  specimen—most  the Canadian boarder.     Witli 	
noticeable at about ten o'clock,  wood  rotting   on the ground
so near, and fuel wood selling
licre   at   almost    prohibitive
prices —so   high   that   it   is
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kramer, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Perkins
called at the A. Leigh home last
Sunday.  .
Frank Muellner and wife and
daughter Lena and Alfred Rich-
era   visited at John Muellner's,,
,  ..last   Sunday at Lawrence Kra
tell ,
mer s place.
Ferguson's are breaking camp
and will soon be back in their
home here.
Fii'man News.
Sam Perkins  and wife   spent
place last   Sunday.     Can't
how   the   evening   was   passed.
Correspondent wasn't there.
Miss Frances Gassert visited
with her sister Mrs. B. Faust
last weekFriday and at Kingeivs
home Saturday and Sunday.
The young people from the
Waller and Grier homes attended
the masquerade dance at Vine
land Saturday.
Mr. and   Mrs. John Grier left
Thursday   for   Randall,    where
they  will  visit  relatives.     Mr
Grier  will go  to Canada   from
Miss     Magdalena     Muellner there,
spent Friday evening with Hil
Robert Busseler is on the sick
list.
degarde Kingen.
Miss Leua Muellner left for
Pierz Saturday, where siie will
work for her brother Math.
Call again Pierz boys, and fry
the thing of last Sunday over
again.
Charlie Vosen is working for
Fred Wolke.
Both sides of the track between  Hillman and Onamia j Onamia, where he wrote sev
T. C. Wing passed through
here Monday  on his  way to
Bert Sanborn passed through
here Saturday on his way hone
to Richardson.
Alice Perkins spent the week-
visited at James Taylor's   home
last Sunday.
John Brown and son, Willard,
were Hillman callers Friday.
cheapet to buy coal mined
and hauled here over a thousand miles—where is the rub?
Every newspaper wants to
publish tlie news. The better the paper the more prosperous it will be.  Local news
items are   hard to run down.1
Everything is quiet   now	
election is over.
Ernest Biallas returned from
Granton, Minn.,Saturday, where
he had been   looking after land.
I Ernest is very enthusiastic over
I Northern Minnesota.
Alvin Mohler, Arthur Vanal-
stine and Christ. Btnerson were
callers at Tore Emerson's place
How many  times  have you,
dear reader, been approached
.Sunday.
A large crowd gathered at the
Mohler home last Monday night,
by the newspaper man tor an ,-,,_. ^
J l   l The evening was spent in games
item  of news  and told  him and banj0 playing.
your knew  nothing of inter-j     A1  .    .. .,    ,_,,..
_,    ,    , .        ...        .       ■    Alvin Mohler killed two very
est.     Probably  at   the  time ,        „        m„__.i 1 •   *
J large coons luesday and in try
your family were away on a ing to capture one of them alive
visit or some one from out of Alvin found out that he did not
lown was visiting at your have any string or sack to take
home. Of course you didn't l,im wiUl- After holding Mr.
mean to deceive the scribe, Coun ^ a while he found out
. 1     _   .1      t',at coons  were fond of   biting,
end with her sister,   Mrs. Law-! yet   when   you   received   the        ,    ,_ ... ,..
_, J and after getting  one of his hn-
rence Kramer. pape]r   yoll     wondered    why g^  b:ul!y   CMewed   up_   Alvin
Mr.   and   Mrs. L.   A.  Saltow   your family and your friends gave him a few taps on the head
were not mentioned.    A good which ended his coonship.
way to avoid all of this is toj    MatU. Juetten called on Anton
kindly inform us of the facts Gruber Monday.
or drop  a  note in the post-'     ■   n „ .,     _       _,   ,
1 l I    A. O. Mohler was a Buckman
office to the paper.    The one caiier Thursday.
item may not amount totnucli.
Onamia   has   all   the   ear- but several columns of such      Gust   Bel St Paul   is
are lined with  cordwood and jeral John Hancock insurance'marks  and atmosphere of a news  is  the life  of a  local here for a visit with his broth-
ties, policies. regular frontier town. paper.    See • er Peter.