The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1914-06-18

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PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JUNE 18, 1914.
NO. 1.
HAPPENINGS
HEMAND THERE
On Wednesday afternoon at 4
o'clock occurred the death of L.
W. Connor at his home in the
village of Royalton at the age
of nearly 90 years.
Last Tuesday afternoon at 5
o'clock occured the marriage of
Miss Ada Flint to Charles Graham at the Union church at
Rice. The ceremony was performed by Rev. T. George Gil-
braith.
Little Falls—John Dibble was
injured Tuesday morning while
unloading logs fort he PineTree
Manufacturing company. A log
slipped and rolled on one of his
legs, breaking the bone. He
was taken to the St. Gabriel
hospital.
Oak Park—The violent wind
storm which visited this section
about 10 o'clock Tuesday evening claimed a human life as toll.
Mrs. E. A. Carlson, 55 years of
age, is dead and her husband
and two children are seriously
injured following the destruction of their home by wind.
Brainerd—Crow Wing county's
big tractor and dump cars, contracted for by the county commissioners at their April meeting, have arrived and the ma
chine is attracting the attention
of many of the most prominent
citizens interested in good road
building.
St. Cloud—Theodore Buck of
Roscoe died June 8th at his home
in the village of Roscoe after a
lingering illness. Mr. Buck was
72 years of age at the time of
his death and had been a resident of the town of Roscoe since
the days of the indian outbreak,
having lived on a farm a few
miles from the village.
Staples—Choked and beaten
until unconscious, a 16-year old
boy was then robbed and locked
in a box car in the Dower Lake
yards, one and one-half miles
west of Staples, Wednesday by
a man giving his name as Ben
Sanders and his address as Toledo, Ohio. Sanders enticed the
boy to the railroad yards after
finding that he had money. The
boy, whose name is Ivers, and
who lives at Brainerd, had
loaned the man a dollar just before this, and at this time Sanders saw the boy's money, which
amounted to $15. The boy was
released from the car by a tramp
who heard him gioan as he was
passing the car. Sanders was
arrested by Friesinger of Little
B'alls at Randall.
COUNTY SEAT
CHUNGS.
Alfalfa on Every Farm.
An acre or more of alfalfa on
every farm means 156,000 acres
of alfalfa in Minnesota within
the next year. It means 156,-
000 alfalfa centers where this
most valuable forage crop may
be observed and its great value
learned. It means the seeding
of more than seventy times as
large an acerage as has been
grown with success in Minnesota during the last fifty years.
One acre of alfalfa on each farm
may seem a small beginning,
bu1» the personal experience
gained in handling one acre successfully this year will prove
very valuable if it is found advisable to increase the acerage
next year.—A recent bulletin,
entitled Alfalfa-Growing in Minnesota, may be secured free by
addressing the writer, A. C.
Amy, Assistant Agriculturist,
University Farm, Si. Paul.
(From the Litte Falls Transcript.)
Louis, the 6-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Batters, suffered a broken arm Thursday
afternoon when he fell from a
hammock in which other children were swinging him. Both
bones of the lower arm were
broken.
M. V. Wetzel, M. M. Buck-
man, Hary and Glen Schroeder
and Wilfred Wetzel drove to
Pierz Fish lake Wednesday to
try out a new boat motor which
has been purchased by Mr. Wetzel. The motor is one of the
detachable hind which may be
fastened to the stern of a row
boat.
A 9-year-old boy named West-
berg, living near the brickyards
was shot Tuesday afternoon
with a small calibre revolver
in the hands of a companion,
14 years of jure. Little could
be learned from the boys as to
the circumstances of the accident, but as far as could be determined the boys were playing
together with the revover and
the older boy pointed at his
companion and fired. The bullet entered the boy's head just
above the eye and lodged in the
skull. The hole made by the
ball is a small one and the revolver is thought to be 22-calibre
one. It is thought that the
bullet did not touch the brain
and if complications do not set
in, the injury will not prove
fatal. Tlie boy is resting easily
at present.
A dream was responsible for
John Blechinger insuring his
house a few hours before lightning struck it Saturday evening.
Friday night Mr. Blechinger, a
farmer living a few miles west
of the city in Pike Creek town,
dreamed that his house caught
tire and was burned down. So
vivid was the "dream thai the
first thing he did next morning
was to hitch up his team and
drive to Little Falls, where he
took out an insurance policy on
the building. Mr. Blechinger
did not return home until Saturday evening and arrived just
in time to see a bolt strike the
house as he was unhitching the
team. The bolt did little damage although it tore off a good
deal of plaster and passed
through every roomin the house,
and the owner of the house rejoiced that he had heeded his
dream before he discovered the
damage. Mr. Blechinger's
mother was in the house alone
at the time the bolt struck, but
was uninjured.
PIERZ WILL
CELEBRATE.
Pierz will have an old time
rousing celebration this year.
The program includes parade,
ball game, races, sports of every
kind, music etc. throughout the
day. The parade headed by the
band and firemen will start at
10 a. m. and march through the
whole^illage.    Floats,  clowns,
THE PRIMARY       1AST SUNDAY'S
ELECTION. BALL GAME.
At the time we go to press the
votes between the candidates
for state senator from this district were so close that the final
result could not be foretold.    It
The ball game Sunday between Pierz and the Royal
Blues of Little Falls resulted in
a score of 7 to 1 in favor of the
former.     Maj.   Morrill   pitched
girls dress^t in white, representing the states, boys on horseback etc., will be in the parade-
See the posters.
Sullivan News,
A. W. Cook was an east side
caller Saturday.
John Bollig of Pierz was visit
ed at the lake Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Smith were
Onamia callers Monday.
Lastrup callers Monday were
Ross Adkins and Fred Lynn.
C. E. Look and family were
guests at the Henry Smith home
Monday.
Mrs. Robert Adkins visited
her daughter, Mrs. Henry Rieke
Monday.
Chas. Sanborn and Miss Ethel
Martin were lake callers Monday
evening.
The town board met at the
clerks office Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Sims
moved into their new home last
Tuesday.
John Britton wife and child
were Lastrup callers Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith,
daughter Annie and son Tom
were visitors at C. E. Look's
Tuesday.
Miss Vine Bobo has returned
to her home in Onamia.
Mazie Look and brother Rodney  called  at Heaghy's   on the
north side of Platte last Thurs
day.
Mrs. John Britton and little
daughter visited with Mrs. Ford
Thursday.
T. S. Look and niece Miss Mazie were Pierz goers Friday and
Saturday.
Fred Lynn was an early morning fisherman at the lake last
Saturday.
Mrs. W. J. Mosgrove Winnipeg arrived Saturday and will
visit her mother, brothers and
sister.
South Agram News.
June 15th—Frank Boehm sold
his farm last week to Joseph
Tuschner of Morton, Minn., for
$8',800.
Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Jansen and
family visited at the Peter Thommes home Sunda}'.
John Eidenshink was in Little
Falls Friday.
Mrs. Fred Sporlein and son
Edward called at the F. Smith
home Sundaj'.
J. J. Brummer is putting a
new cement iloor into Peter
Langers hog house.
Mrs. Peter Thommes returned
home from Chicago Friday.
appears that Stoll and Kling are ; the first five innings and Leo
in the lead in the race for the , Wermerskirchen finished the
clerk of court office. It is rea- game. The game was too much
sonably certain that the follow- one-sided to be classed as good,
ing are the nominees: | So far, tiiis season, every   team
For Governor: W. E. Lee and i that the Pierz aggregation lias
D. W. Lawler. run  up  against  has   been   too
For Congress: C. A. Lind- slow. But look out, a change
berg and J. A. Dubois. may  be  coming,   for next Sun-
For    State   Representatives:
day the boys tackle the fast St.
L.D.Brown,  Louis  Vasaly, C., Cloud bunch.     Now   stick a pin
A.
W. Bouck and Mr. Young.
For  Clerk  of Court:    E
Kling and Alfred Stoll.
For Sheriff: Ed. Tanner and
Paul Felix.
There was no opposition for
the other county offices at the
primary and hence their names
were not put on the ticket.
right here. If they should win
the game Sunday, there is nothing short of the Athletics or
Giants that can stop 'em. The
game will be a good one and
every fan should turn out.
LOCAL NEWS.
Latest Election Returns.
Clerk of Court, Stoll .... 858
„     „      „        Kling... 714
Posch .
..517
Hall..
. .379
Reynolds 237
Felix, ....
.1,005
Tanner, . .
598
Tourtillot,
.    382
Lanerman,
.   255
Rocheleau,
.   235
Monahan,.
.     89
Johnson won the nomination for state senator.
Quack Grass Eradication.
There is not a field of quack
grass in Iowa or Minnesota that
I can not completely eradicate
in six weeks' time, and that
without any spray. Your correspondent can kill his quack
grass   this season   and   raise   a
Creamery Report.
Following- will be found a report of the operating statistics
of the Little Rock Co-operative
creamery for   the   five   month's
business ending  June 1st, 1914.
No. of patrons at present.... 52
Pounds cream received  74.7 U
Pounds butterfat    received.. 20,304.7
Average test of cream  27.165
Pounds butter shipped  25,24'J
Pounds butler sold to patrons 154
Pounds butter cash sales.... 48
Pounds butter on hand  fiO
Total pounds butter made.. . 25,511
Pounds overrun  5,206.3
Per cent overrun  20.4
Average price paid   for   butterfat   27.17c
Average   price   received   for
butter    shipped  25.21c
5,206.3    pounds   overrun    at
25.21c yielded  SI,312.51
Running   expenses  896.10
Clearance  416.41
Cost   per   pound   of making
butter  .0351
G. J. HODOKFF,
Secretary.
Mike Kiewel is camping at
Fish lake.
Bridge and road troubles
never wear out.
The mosquitos are making
the season's debut.
Keep all your windows
wide open all night.
Frank Marshik of Kimball
is home for the summer.
Peter Tretter has received
a new threshing engine.
The largest locomotive in
the world weighs 853,000
pounds, or about 427 tons.
Mrs. Henry Vandenheuvel
came up from Watertown
last Monday to get her daughter.
Mrs. Elisabeth Welle attended the Primus-Athman
wedding in Spring Hill last
week.
Ferdinand Terhaar had a
toe amputated in Regina,
Canada. He infected the toe
by trimming a corn with a
razor.
A glass of water placed in
the bottom of a piano, will
holy) to prevent the wood
warping, and to keep the instrument in tune.
There   does   not   seem  so
much   variation in the price
of wheat as in   former years.
Prices this year have hovered,
close to the 80 cent mark.
WEATHER AND
MARKETREPORTS.
Temperature for
The last week.
Highest     Lowest
Thursday 75    50 above
Friday    75 51 above
Saturday     72 50 above
Sunda3' 70 __       51 above
Monday    76     43 above
Tuesday 80     54 above
Wednesday..  76  59 above
Temperature same
Week year ago.
Temperature  for   the corns
ponding week a year ago:
Highest    Lowest
12_...82___ 57 above
13 85. .58 above
14 80--. 59 above
15.... 90.. 61 above
16 85.._ 57 above
17 78 50 above
18 92. ..48 above
1913 June
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Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,      79
77
1.85
15
	
	
	
.... $5.00
35
....      20
       15
...    2.80
...     2.20
Wheat, No. 2	
Flax,	
Barley	
Rye	
Oats	
Ear Corn	
Hay	
Butter, Creamery .
Dairy	
Fggs	
Flour, Best	
"    Straight	
Royalton News,
Mrs.   J.   P.  Chance  and   son
Jerome  of   International   Falls
good crop of corn if he will just  are visiting at the home of Mr.
plow it very deep, disk thoroughly, then harrow thoroughly and
plant to corn, harrow again and
then use the corn cultivator
thoroughly through the season
and the only quack grass that
he will have in the Held will be
a few spears in the hills. Now,
the next season he should again
plow deep, and give the same
form of cultivation, and plant
to corn. If he will be most
thorough with his work, he
will be entirely rid of the quack
grass.
P. B. CRANE,
in Wallace Farmer.
How To Kill Gut Worms.
Cut worms give some indication of being prevalent again
this year. A good means of destroying them is to mix up a bran
mush poisoned by paris green or
lead arsenate to attract the
worms. This material is made
up in about the following proportion :
One gallon of water.
One pound of bran.
One half tumbler of molasses.
One spoon lull of paris green.
Enough to color bran, or two or
three spoonsfull of arsenate of
lead.
Mix thoroughly and scatter
about the plants where cutworms
have appeared.
The arsenate of lead is in
some cases preferable to paris
green, because it is not so easily washed off.
Many varieties of cutworms
climb, and hence ordinary paper
collars around the stems are not
always satisfactory.
Summer begins  next Sunday.
World's Wheat Crop.
Of our three great crops, corn,
the most valuable, interests the
eastern merchants least, says
the New York World. It does
not travel, but is fed on the
farm. Cotton pays our bills
abroad; we exported $600,000,000
worth of cotton and cotton
goods last year- Wheat means
bread for our people, freight for
railroads and big sums in foreign exchange. Hence there is
the keenest interest in the possibility of a wheat crop running
above 950,000<000 bushels, exceeding last year's yield by
200,000,000 bushels and mount-
ing to one-quarter of the world's
production.
and Mrs. I. Gilbert.
J. N. Carnes and son Norris
and Isaac Wilson returned last
Wednesday after a several days'
fishing trip at Mille Lacs.
A tire alarm was turned in last
Thursday morning at 1 o'clock
when fire was discovered in a
barn on theGottliebScblag farm
north of town. Owing to the
distance from the hydrant, it
was imposible to reach the burning building with the hose. The
building was totally destroyed.
It is thought the fire was started by hoboes, who were sleeping
in the barn, as Mr. Schlag was
awakened by his dog barking
and running towards some wood
along the railroad track
A pretty wedding took place
Wednesday evening at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Ellis in
Langola, when their daughter,
Miss Ruth, became tlie bride of
Ira Muncy. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. T. Galbraith
at 8 o'clock. The bride is well
and favorabl}' known in Royalton and vicinity, having taught
school in Morrison and Benton
counties for the past few years.
Mr. Muncy, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. William C. Muncy of Belle-
vue, is a prosperous young
farmer.
Low grade flour 1.50
Bran . 1.15
Shorts   1.20
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.20
Ground Feed     1.25
Potatoes 	
I Beans       2.00
lOnions        60
Tlie basket social and dance ,
held   last   Monday   evening j =—	
netted   the   base   ball  flub South St. Paul
$48.00.   A few of the baskets Hog Market.
sold for $5.00. .       ...
Ave. Price.
Bertha, Theresia  and Ru- Thursday  _..7.77
dolph Winkler, and Ben A lber J**8* p9
, n rr   •   i *    * «_.  i i    Saturday <.90
and George Knight of Hold- Monday ? 8?
ingford  attended   the social Tuesday..
Wednesday 7.82
South St. Paul
Live StockMarket.
Steers $7.75 to 7.85
CowsandHeifcrs,$4.25 to ..6.75
Calves, steady, $5.50 to  9.75
Feeders, steadv, ___$4.30 to 700
Monday evening.
Get up early these fine
June mornings and inhale
deep draughts of fragrance
while the robins are singing
on the bough.
S. R. Elwood, representing
the Brand nursery of Faribault, is here taking orders
for fall delivery.   He reports
,   . ,   x Work on tlie new com-!
business as being good. . . r..,.     „ „   ,      ,
° ° dam at Little   tails has been
AndyPeterson, whose home ' progressing   rapidly   during
is at Alexandria, and who re- the past few weeks, although
presents VV. L. Perkins & Co. the   water  has  been higher
of St. Paul, was here waiting this  year   than   for   several
on the trade tlie last part of years past.    The work which
last week. ' is being done now, is on the
dam   proper,   tlie  work  this
It is reported hundreds of
On Monday afternoon last
week Edward Olson, aged 22,
son of O. C. Olson of Brainerd,
prairie
eggs
summer  being   on  tlie  east
Mr. and Mrs. R. Y. Watson
chickens   and
6b  ,wmg  only.     I he  side   wall
were destroyed by the recent ,      . .  .   ,   .
J        • , has been completed for some
heavy  rains.     Ihe old  hens ,. . .    ao -    , , .   . .
J , time and is 28 feet high and
and cocks are air ady gather- ,„ -    . .. . ,     . .,    ,
J ° 18 feet thick at the base nar-
mg in large flocks. .    f ■ ,   ,_.
6 fa rowing to  four and   one-half
Be careful of your "minu-jat the top.
tea";   they are  precious, so'
don't waste them.    Here is a
long list of things you can do
in a minute, so   be careful of
your minutes
Schraut-Weidenbach.
Nick Langer has been appointed a member of the police force of Brainerd.
The   marriage   of   V.
In a  minute  Schraut Jr., and  Annie Weiden-
you can be born, get married, j b;i^1] took place Tuesday morn-
get run over, tell your right'in* ;,t 9 °'clock in the St. John's
. ... ,    i church   at   Lastrup.     Gertrude
name, pay a bill, propose, be ,   ,, ,. ,_. ..
1    J '      ' Schraut and   Catherine W■>
and children ot Royalton left  accepted, be rejected, kiss I
for   San   Diego,    Cal..   near  wrong girl, sit down on your
was picked up unconcious on: wnere   they   expect to   make silk hat, lose your money, eat acted as best men. The wedding
the Oak street road. io.rand. theil.  home     ftoyalton   pec-L toadstool instead of a mush-]was   lield at   the   Weidenbach
one-half miles east of Brain- ple wiU  gadly   |mga  them aB  ,.()0m have your tooth puUed, home  and  w;is  tended  b
erd,    where   he   had   fallen tl        were   ol(1   reBldent8  of U r, igB your Mn (large number of invitedI friends
from his motorcycle and was fa lwali     aU(1  h;ive , h) £        £        ; £*«£££-    The afie.
dragged over forty feet.   His Memh here.   We uuderetand ^ a    ,, ^ ^ ^ fly! ^n^  cTrd '
skull  w;is   fr;ii-1 nred and    his   n    ^ i\?   i_ ._ ■ i. .    •     .1
bach were bridesmaids and John
Weidenbach and Joseph Schraut
skull was   fractured aud
collar bone broken
playing and
that Dick will engage in the paper, make your will (we|dancing in bowery built for that
manufacture of  ice there.— could), write a popular song. PurP°~