The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1914-07-02

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PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JULY 2,  1914.
NO. 8.
HAPPENING
HERE_AND THERE
Wahkon—Parties were here
recently looking over the steamer Euella with a view of buying
her, but the deal fell through.
It is understood that the boat
will be put into dry dock.
St. Cloud—D. VanDyke, formerly a resident of St.. Cloud,
died last week at the Odd Fellow's home at Northtield. The
deceased was 70 years of age.
He is survived by a widow and
two sons.
Little Palls—Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Chounard, Mr. and Mrs. John
Chounard and Ernest and Frank
Chounard returned Saturday to
their homes at Cloquet. They
were here to attend the funeral
of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Chounard's
son.
St. Cloud, June 30.—Divorced
by his wife a month ago, Fred
Schultz of Rockville, Stearns
Co., came to St. Cloud yesterday, became intoxicated and
then went to the home of his
former wife, beat her and drove
the family out of the house,
later committed suicide by hanging.
Moose Lake—Monday noon,
Axel Hammerstrom, Jr., the ten
year old son Axel Hammerstrom, one of Moose Lake's
prosperous farmers residing live
miles west of town, accidentally
discharged a shotgun, instantly
killing his baby sister, Evelyn,
aged not quiet two years.
Onamia—The village council
designated certain streets as
state road through Onamia.
State road No. 2 will reach the
village on the east, follow
Kathio street, west, down to
the street running north and
south by the school house;
thence west from the Presbyterian church, through Mc-
Clure's addition; across the
river west through the towns of
Onamia and Kathio.
Nearly $1,400 was taken from
the city clerk's safe at Brainerd
Monday night by robbers, after
they had slugged the clerk, who
was in the office at the time, on
the head, knocking him unconscious. The city clerk had been
•working with the board of equal
ization and in consequence was
compelled to work nights at his
office. On Monday night he was
at Avork at his desk with the
vault door open and the cash
drawer exposed.
St. Cloud, June 30th.—Adam
Damm, the employee of Puff's
bakery, who was injured by being cauget in the belts of the
dough mixer on Saturday morning, died in the St. Raphael's
hospital yesterday after enduring most severe suffering since
the time of the accident. All
that is known of the man is that
he has been in St. Cloud for
about 18 years, employed in the
bakery and lived at the Commercial hotel.
COUNTY SEAT
CULLINGS.
(From the Litte Falls Transcript.)
Walter Canfield was struck
on the head Monday night and
robbed of $23, all the money in
his pockets, by two strangers
to whom he had shown his
money. The robbery occurred
just back of the Farrow garage.
The new telephone directory
which will be issued by the
Northwestern Telephone company the latter part of this
week, shows shows some interesting comparisons in the names
it contains, the LaFonds still
leading in point of numbers
with 13. Close after them
comes the Johnsons with a total
of 12. The next highest are the
Halls with 10, and after them
come the Andersons and Browns
withnine each and the Carlsons
and Petersons with  seven each.
Another robbery occurred
lute Thursday afternoon when
an unknown man entered one of
the rooms at the Buckman hotel
and departed with a lady's gold
watch. The man who is suspected was seen and watched
by Chief Larson before the robbery occurred, but when he saw
the man go into the hotel and
sit down in the lobby, he naturally supposed that he was
stopping there, The chief went
into the barber shop in the hotel
and later say the man walk past
the door and it is evident that
he was watching the chief.
APPORTIONMENT
FOR SCHOOLS.
Sunday's Game.
Owing to the condition of the
roads the Wahkon team failed
to materialize, but rather than
disappoint the fans, the management split up the team and
choose up sides. Then the fats
and leans had a battle royal.
The result was a score of 12 to
9 in favor of the fats. We
noticed a few new faces among
the players—not new in baseball-
dom by any means, but in the
positions they tilled. Among
the bunch a few we will mention. J. N. Faust in the box
for the fats, and Frank Marshik
ditto for the leans. Say, you
ought to have seen those wind-
ups and curves. Why, Christy
Matthewson with his famous
"fade-away" wasn't in it at all.
Leo Wermerskirchen and Mr.
Hirt did the honors behind the
stick for the leans, and F. Fer-
dinanson did the same for the
fats.
A double header will be played. One game on Saturday and
the other on Sunday- The con
testing team will be the fast St.
Cloud bunch in both games. Let
every fan remember this and
turn out.
In the following we give the
amounts each school district in
our neighborhood will receive
from the apportionment fund :
District   14  $986 18
17     143 74
19__._     165 52
36     249 93
39     103 60
41     333 08
46     203 50
55     223 28
62     112 81
78     _.    309 53
87 3,446 39
88 .....    934 76
90     145 96
92     110 86
97.'.     130 61
98     167 96
„     112     199 23
,,     124     456 52
,,      127...... _■     159 87
,,     129     165 70
„     134.-     163 44
WHAT TOWNS        STORING CLOVER
WILL RECEIVE. FOR HAY.
Following is a list of the towns
of Morrison county with the
amount each in our neighborhood will receive from the June
settlement, which has just been
completed :
Where clovei hay is put into
the cock, it is advisable to open
up the cocks and permit.them
to air a short time before taking
them to the stack or mow.
If the hay is put into a stack,
ADDITIONAL
LOCAL NEWS.
Reports? are coming in from
all directions that the recent
heavy rains have washed out
the graces leading to the
bridges/ Both Skunk and
Platte inundated all the low-
la nets and meadows of their
valleys the first days of the
week, but their waters have
now somewhat receded and
ttfey are again confined to
their channels.
Giri Chopped Into Pieces,
Staples, June 23rd—A fox terrier, carrying the dismembered
trunk' of a baby girl from a
swamp, has revealed a gruesome
tragedy in Byron township, 12
miles northeast of Staples. Later the dog brought to the 12
year old son of a farmer, Man-
nik, an arm, which like the
trunk had been rudely chopped
tioin the body. The elder Man-
nik reported the case and county attorney Ed. Rogers, deputy
sheriff Mack Kennedy and coroner E. F. Miskella, of Walker,
are on the scene. The baby is
believed to have been 12 hours
old before being killed.
The Trouble With Alfalfa.
An Iowa paper published the
following letter from one of its
farmer subscribers :
If you don't want lots of
trouble don't sow alfalfa. Along
in the middle of June, when the
corn needs, cultivating the most,
we had to stop and cut the
darned alfalfa patch. It was
in bloom three feet high. We
had to haul twenty loads off
of it.
"In July the folks in town invited us in to spend a week attending chautauqua. I suppose
they were glad when they got
my card announcing that we
could not come, because we had
to cut that blamed alfalfa patch
again. Gee, it was hot hauling
that hay.
"Worse still, I was fool enough
to go to work and sow live more
bushels of alfalfa seed. The
only rest I'll get hereafter from
hauling alfalfa will be on rainy
days."
"It got to raining again in
September, and about the first
thing I knew that alfalfa was
three feet high aud all in bloom.
It had to have another haircut.
"Then Barnum & Bailey's circus caflie to town and darn my
buttons if I didn't have to miss
that circus for the first time in
forty years to haul alfalfa. I got
mad then and turned the pigs,
cows and calves into it, and still
the blamed stuff kept growing
to beat the cars. They couldn't
keep it down, but say, they got
fat on it.
"But still this alfalfa hay,
that we sweat so cuttin' and
Stackin' makes mighty tine stuf-
fiu' for the cows these cold
groundhog days. Everything
on the place eats it, except the
hired girl and she han't been
here long.
Agram    $508 02jthe   stack   should     be   started
Buck-dun 1,713 78 upon a bottom of  poles,   brush,
Belle Prairie     989 38 straw,   or   old hay.    Where it is
Bellevue 1,153 73 j placed  directly on  the  ground
Buh     651 95; there  is  bound   to  be   more or
Granite ._ 1,083 97 j less spoiled   hay in. the bottom.
Hillman '__    833 11  Clover hay does not shed water,
Little Falls      596 40jand   it is   advisable • to top out
Lakin 1,737 56 ' clover stacks with rather  green
i
Leigh 1,443 66 | timothy, prairie, or slough hay,
Mount Morris 1,213 08  putting   on enough   hangers   to
Morrill     660 52 to hold the top in place.
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Pierz 1,436 66      There are a few   variations in
Platte 1.562 42 j the   methods of   making   good
Pulaski 1,914 03 j clover hay, but   the real   secret,
WEATHER AND
MARKET REPORTS.
Temperature for
The last week.
Hichardson.
Cutting Clover.
Clover for hay should be cut
as soon as the first blossoms
begin to turn brown. If a large
amount is to be cut with a small
crew, one should begin even
earlier, to prevent the last of
the crop from getting too ripe
before it is cut. The general
tendency, among those not familiar with the method of making clover hay, seems to be to
let it become too ripe before
cutting. The longer any hay
crop is lelt uncut after its bloom
has reached the proper stage,
the more indigestible it becomes.
The only condition that should
be permitted   to   delaj   the cut-
D. D. Daly, the insurance
inspector, was here Friday
looking after business.
E,. C. Scoles and Nick Meyer were county seat business
visitors yesterday.
Monday	
The greatest  objection to Tuesday
a wire fence is   that one can- Wednesday..  76_. above
not sit on it.
Highest
Thursday 80...
Friday   75...
Saturday    65__.
Sunday 70 ..
Lowest
52 above
. 54 above
.  52 above
48 above
, 54 above
56 above
A. H. Vernon and Barney Temperature same
Burton of  Little Falls were Week year ag0
visitors in Pierz Tuesday. _
Temperature  for   the corres-
Marg.  Thommes,  who  has ponding week a year ago:
been in Chicago  for the past Highest   Lowest
two  years,   returned   to  her 1913 June   26....84... 66 above
..90. . 73 above
-.93 58 above
.. 92.. 75 above
..81 66 above
.   7^ 57 above
1,421 19|no matter what the method, is
to cut it at the proper time and|
cure it "in the shade'' as much
as possible, being careful to
avoid a hasty drying up of the
leaves and overcuring. Properly cured clover hay will sweat
either in the stack or mow, but
unless it is unevenly packed and
loose, no alarm need be felt if
it gets warm.
We clip these suggestions
from Extension Bulletin 47,
Clover, by Andrew Boss and A.
C. Amy, which ma}' be obtained
without charge, by addressing
the Agricultural Extension Division, University, St. Paul.
home here Saturday.
It's the glorious Fourth,
but keep cool. You can celebrate without burning powder to heat up the weather.
July
2-,.
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30..
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!-...80...53above
John  J.   G-off of   Duluth,
(raveling representative for Grain and Produce
the  Duluth   Herald,   was  a Harket Report.
Pierz  caller Monday   in  the Wheat, No. 1,      7;.
interest of that paper. Wheat, No. 2
Flax, .
C.   E. Gravel   brought   his Barley	
car   home   from   Onamia   by liye       '"
way of  Milaca, Foley,  Sauk °ats"      ;5;5
T    •.-. it»   •   u     *  r i Ear Corn	
Rapids and Koyalton.  Heavy H. ^
roads made returning by the Butter, Creamery_.__"..      35
7;;
1.45
40
Rucker road impossible.
Dai
ry
South Apm News.
       20
Eggs      la
Round up the haying, and  piourr Best     2.40
then round up the folks and j    "   Straight     2.30
take   a   day   off.      Unbend; Low grade flour 1.50
laugh;    have   a   good    time.  ^rau 1-35
You will be younger when it''
is all over.
i Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.25
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Thommes
ting   beyond   this   point  is pre- !anc] sons Casper and Math, were |
vailing bad weather. in Pierz Friday
The mower should  be started
in  the  eeening  before the dew
Ground Feed.
Potatoes 	
Beans 	
B   u.xw   .--I.U--V-   wi   """.Onions	
John Mischke   building, for-1
Frank Gohl is busy remod-:
1.25
2.00
60
The marriage of Frank Meyer | inerly    occupied    by    Mey^er
of Spring Valley, Wis., and Oti- i Bros, as a meat market. Frank South St. Paul
has fallen or in the forenoon   as  lia Kippley took  place Tuesday
soon as   the   dew   off;  and it is  morning   in    the Joseph's
not wise to cut down   too  much
A Few Short Paragraphs,
It is  said that large scandals
from small talks grow.
Prosperit}' helps some men to
forget their friends.
Perhaps   poets  may   be born,
but liars are self-made.
at one time.—From Extension
Bulletin 47, entitled Clover,
which may be obtatned without
charge b3' addressing the agricultural Extension Division,
University Farm, St. Paul.
church at Pierz.
Separate the cream while the
milk is still warm.
Mr. and Mrs. FrankMeyer left
Friday for Spring Valley, Wis.,
where Mr. Meyer has a farm.
Clover should be cut and be in
the barn before July 4th.
John Neisius has built a new
corn crib and chicken coop.
Mrs. Herman Vierk and Mrs.
Krause visited at the Anton
Rauch home Sunday.
John   Neisius   had a crew   of
Held to Grand Jury.
Robert Olmstead and Roy Gordon, the two boys accused of
holding up Walter Canfield last
Monday evening and robbing
him of $%3, had their preliminary ! men last Monday to shingle his
hearing before Justice Randall new corn crib.
Monday morning and both
waived examination and were
bound over to the grand jury,
their bonds being fixed at $700
each.
Gordon's father, who lives on
a farm near Philbrook, was in
Little Falls and appeared at .the
says that   he is   reshaping it
over into a postoffice.
Hog Market.
Ave. Price
Thursday 7.95
I here s two ways ot wast- Friday 7'is
ing your   money.    One is lo  Saturday 7.99
spend   it   so   quick   that   it  Monday   7.97
doesn't  have  time to do any Tuesday 8.00
good, and the other is to hold \ Wednesday .
onto it so tight  that it never
gets a chance.
A trip to Little Falls over
South St. Paul
Live StockMarket.
Feeders, steadv, ...$4.30 to 7-C0
Returned From Canada,
the new road shows that good Steers $7.75 to 7.85
work   had   been   done.    ThejCowsand Heifers,$4.25 to -8.75
road was put in good condi- Calve8< steady,
tion,   but   the   recent   heavy
rains have   done much dam
age by washing out in many i
places, where work will have,
to be done over again.
Freeport.-Mrs. Ed.Atkin-| Commissioner H. Gassert
son returned Thursday of I went to Little Falle Monday
last week from her visit with U) an,M"> a mating of the
her daughters, Mrs. Wm.tier-"Icoimffr board of aadit
i wing and Miss Ellen in Canada.
board consisted of:
The
Auditor
hearing,   furnished bail   for his »"»■     She reP°rts haviug e11'
and   both   returned   home joyed her tri]» and visit very
much and  also that a hand-i J l,e> finished then woik the
McNally,clerk of court Kling
aud    commissioner    Gassert.
the
some little  boy was  boni tojfiret part of this week.
son
Monday   noon.    Gordon   is
younger  of  the  two  boys.     It
is    expected    that    Olmstead's ^ aud Ml'S'^ervvin£ 011 the       How many   persons do you
bail will be furnished in a short P*1* of Ma^ the da? betore! know I    A Chicago professor
| she arrived there. They werefl has declared that 600 is the
jail well and happy up thprd] largest number a man can
I when she departed.   Congrat-
tiirie.
, If you   want   anything  adve
tised   without  cost   tell   it  to a ! illations and   best  wishes are
To live long and prosper let
the other fellow do the worrying.
A man's good opinion of himself isn't going to fool St. Peter.
the jackpots that ought to have
gone into the soup pot.
gossip.
Adam's downfall was due to
an apple; but many another
downfall can be traced to a
peach.
Otto Hoffmann and M. Valine   made  a  trip
mly seat Tuesday
know personally, carrying
the names in his head. If
extended hereby to the happy Vull think the I)rofe6sor is
parents. wrong, just sit  down at your
desk or table and writedown
'the names of all the persons
■ John Nabei sold Ids 820
acre farm, the old Kienow
place in Buckman, to Theo.
Pohlkamp of Ryan, Iowa, for
$23,400.
M.   J.  O'Donnell   has   re
signed his position as butter-  7°" kl)(W ;uid who knmv >""
maker at the Farmers'cream- iu_sa.v   five   hour&      Tl:
erv. andStephBayrl, former-  who llave the patience to try
entme   made  a trip  to  the lv* buttel.maker  iu t|u,   Fort out   their   popularity   with
county seat luesday. ^.^ ^^ Qafi been ^ their own memories will find
J. J. Boser, H. J. Vierk and gaged to take his place.    Mr. tnat the aaiuefl  val1 cou
N. P.  Fiehtinger   enjoyed   a Bayrl   will   begin    work   ;lr! t|'^i'inind (juick ami fast for
both   business and   pleasure soon as he can make arrange- «ie first   hundred  or so.   but
Many a  dollar has gone into trip   to   Rucker   and   to   the ments   for a dwelling  house,  after that,   if they   thinkout
Long   Meadow   Stock    Farm and move his household goods "l"' a  ll|i""tt'   they   will   be
last Thursday. here. ...ing some."
Whose Picture Was II?
Three soldiers went at our
land's behest, to fight for the
girls that their hearts love
best: and over the heart as a^*
regular fixture, each fellow
carried his dear girl's picture.
"1 would stake my soul.'" said
one man at night "my love is
as true as the angels bright."
'"And mine." said the second.
"has sworn by all she'll die
a nun if I chance to fall.''
''And mine," cried a third, as
he stood apart. "n<>\
at home with a broken heart."
Then all three swore they
were pearls of pearls, and
brought out   the  piel
true girls. What ma
them swear as they turned
away, what made think t'was
a cold, cold day '. Alack and
alas! t'was a burning shame.
the dear girl's picture
all the same.— I
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