The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1914-07-30

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VOL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JULY  BO, 1914.
NO. 7.
HAPPENINGS •
HE1_AND THERE
St. Cloud—Members of the
North Star Daily Press Association held their midsummer
.meeting; here last Tuesdaj'.
Wahkon—C. M. Halgren went
to Duluth recently and took the
civil service examination for
tlie Wahkon postmastership.
Hinckley—Haying1 is nearly
completed, and the grain will
soon be ready to cut. Tlie hay
crop is very heavy and the most
of it is put up in the best of
condition.
St. Cloud—Mike Rietz, an escape from the Wilmar inebriate
hospital, was picked up by the
police Wednesday night and
^ given lodging in the police
station.
Sherbrooke, N. D., — While
stacking hay last Saturday and
pulling it up with three horses,
the evener broke and struck
. Charles Lee in the head and
face. He died a few hours later.
•He was to have been married
this week.
Detroit—Pelican river bridge,
a quarter of a mile due south of
Detroit on the Frazee road, was
blown out by the Kohler Construction company Wednesday
evening to permit the passing
of the irrigation dredge. Sixty
pounds of dynamite were used.
Fragments  of  the  bridge were
thrown over sixty feet in the air.
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Sauk Rapids—Henry Reichert
aged 15, while working about
Peter Fink's barn, received a
kick on the side of the head
from a horse he was leading to
water. The lad was immediately knocked unconscious by the
kick, and upon examination by
a physician, who was hurriedly
called, it was discovered that
the boy's skull had been fractured.    His condition is serious.
St. Cloud—Servatious Thelen
of Cold Spring died Thursday
at his home in that village at
the age of 77 years. The de-
" ceased was born in Prussia.
Soon after his marriage, in 1872,
Thelen came to this country
and immediately took up his
residence on a farm just north
*T of the village, where he resided
continuously until about three
\ years ago, when he moved into
Cold Spring, tie is survived by
three daughters and two sons,
Mrs. John Beck and Peter Thelen, both of McCluskey, N. D.;
Mrs. Michael Witaman, Nathaniel Thelen and Christine Thelen
of Cold Spring.
COUNTY
AT
CULLING
INVESTMENT IN
FARM MACHINERY.
Postofflce at Denham Burns.
Monday morning the postoffice
at Denham was burned to the
ground, with most of the contents. The mail and a barber
chair was saved.
The building was a two story
frame structure, and was occupied on the second floor by Mr.
Rowe, formerly of Moose Lake
Their entire household furnishing were consumed by flames.
As Denham is not equipped
with a moden; tire lighting apparatus, a bucket brigade was
quickly formed, which did good
work. The hotel across the
street was in danger for awhile,
but this was soon eliminated by
the the bucket brigade.
(From the Litte Falls Transcript.)
Word reached the city Saturday morning of the death of
Mrs. J. P. Leigh at the hospital
at Fergus Falls, where she was
taken some time ago. The remains were taken to her former
home at Royalton Saturday and
the funeral was held there Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
The body of Adam Deurr,
which was found Friday afternoon in the river below the dam,
was buried Friday evening in
Oakland cemetery. No word
was received from his brother,
Julie Deurr, a stoneworker or
contractor in building stone,
who lives at Cleveland, Ohio,
and who was wired as to the
disposition of the remains,
Deurr also had a sister at Buffalo, New York.
Although the practice is quite
common in Iowa, as yet Morrison county farmers have de
livered very little stock in automobiles, but this method locally will soon be the rule
instead of the exception. Chas.
Richner claims the distinction
of being the first local agriculturist to deliver live stock by
autombile and brought in his
load of hogs to T. J. Mathieson
by that method. Mr. Richner
has set the pace and will no
doubt be followed by several
others who have machines and
who can easily arrange them
for hauling live stock.
Joseph Russo died Thursday
morning at 6 o'clock athishome
at 105 Fifth street northeast,
death being due to intestinal
obstructions. He has been in
poor health for sonis time but
has not been confined to his
home. The deceased was born
in Italy 75 years ago and was
married in that country at the
age of 30. He moved to the
United States about 40 years
ago, coming to Minnesota and
settling on a farm at Gravelville,
He lived there for about eight
years, moving to this city 32
years ago. On his arrival in
Little Falls he moved into the
house at 105 Fifth street northeast and has lived in that place
for 32 years. Originally he was
a musician by 'profession and
later kept a small store and
later maintained a truck garden
on his property.
Fire caused by spontaneous
combustion broke out Friday
afternoon about 4:30 in the rear
of the store building one side of
which is occupied by Turner's
Emporium. The tire was caused
by a cloth soaked with floor oil
which had been left lying on a
wooden door which leads into
the basement and which caught
tire from the heat of the sun.
The blaze spread to the wooden
door on which the cloth was
lying and from there up the side
of the building and finally readied the roof. The tire was
quickly extinguished by the lire
companies from the city hall
which was called out after an
effort to extinguish the blaze
with buckets of water had failed.
The greater part of the flames
was between the ceiling and the
roof of the building and no damage beyond a scorching of the
building resulted.
A difficult problem on the
American farm is to decide how
much and what kind of machinery should be purchased. Some
farms are so overstocked with
machinery that the depreciation,
interest and repairs eat up
much of the profits.
Assuming the average depreciation on machinery at 10 percent, and the interest on the
money invested at 6 per cent,
we have an average yearly expense of aproximately $13 on
each $100 invested in machinery.
A man Avho has $1,500 worth of
machinery would have $195 expenses on this alone in interest
and depreciation. If his work
could be done with half this
amount, he could save $97.50.
This would be equivalent to the
interest on $1,625 at 6 per  cent.
A farm of 80 acres cannot
profitably use 4-horsemachinery
because 3 horses should do the
work on a farm of this size. In
bujung machinery too large in
proportion to the size of the
farm unnecessary expense is
added. This comes not only in
the increase cost of the machinery, but also in fhe maintenance
of any extra horses required.
Before purchasing new machinery, it is well to consider
the following questions:
Will the use ot the new machine give me a larger net return from the crops on which it
is used';*
Will the new machine reduce
the demand for man labor?
Where a machine is required
only a few days each year, can
it not be rented more cheaply
than purchased?
Will the money to be invested
return more in some other way?
Has the machine been
thoroughly tiied by others and
found satisfactory?—A. H. Benton, Assistant. Agriculturist,
University Farm, St. Paul.
Karl Kapsner lias built a
handsome addition to his
house.
Making Good Roads.
Willmar people  who heard D.
Ward King, good roads enthusiast  and  inventor  of  the King
road drag, are confident that he
knows what he is talking about.
Mr. King illustrates the  philosophy  ot   the  split   log drag by
a reference  to the hog wallow.
It is the constant   smearing  of
the   hog   in   the   wallow   that
makes   it   water   tight,       The
theory of the splitlog drag is to
invert tlie mud hole, to build up
the road and make it watertight
by constantdragging after every
rain.    Mr. King does not  favor
the steel  drag because it is not
so   well  adapted for   dragging
roads  as  the  inexpensive split
log   drag,   and   he    absolutely
draws the line on a drag with a
seat  on  it.     It requires experience and   skill   to properly run
a.  drag   and   it  is necessary to
walk back and forth on the drag
to  make  it  do the work under
the   varying   conditions   of the
road.      Sand   roads,   he   says,
should be treated with a sprinkling   of   clay    with   a   manure
spreader before   each  dragging
until a sufficient amount of binding   material   has  been dragged
into  the  road.     Just  to   show
people his idea  of road   work,
he manipulated one of his drags
on  the  streets  of that city for
j half an hour.    Mr. King   knows
Herbert   Muncy   of   Little  that   good  roads   can   be made
Falls,   was   a   Pierz   Sunday out of the materials at   home
visitor.
Litchfield Review.
THE BOARD OF
EQUALIZATION.
The board of count}' commissioners with the county auditor
met as a board of equalization
on July 20th. Henry Gassert
was elected chairman and B. Y.
McNairy clerk.
The board then proceeded to
equalize real estate, as follows:
Agram raised 25 per cent.
Buckman  raised   35 per cent.
Bellevue raised 20 per cent.
Hillman raised 20 per cent.
Leigh raised 30 per cent.
Lakin raised 30 per cent.
Mt. Morris raised 30 per cent.
Morrill raised 30 per cent.
Platte raised 25 per cent.
Pulaski raised 50 per cent.
Richardson raised 50 percent.
The following towns were
raised on structures:
Granite raised 33i per cent.
Morrill raised 20 per cent.
Platte raised 20 per cent.
The   following  changes  were
made in personal property:
Household Goods.
Agram raised 10 per cent.
Buh raised 25 per cent.
Buckman raised 20  per  cent.
Granite raised 50 per cent.
Hillman raised 50 per cent.
Morrill raised 300 per cent.
Pierz town raised 10 per cent.
Pierz   village   raised  30   per
cent.
Platte raised 300 per cent.
Pulaski raised 300 per cent.
Richardson   raised,  400   per
cent.
Stallions.
Agram raised 50 per cent.
Pierz raised 70 per cent.
Buh   one  added   to   Schmidtbauer $100.
Cattle.
Agram,    two-year   old raised
25 per cent.
■ Sheep
Buckman raised 100 per cent.
Farm Tools and Machinery.
Buh raised 50 per cent.
Buckman raised   50   per cent.
Granite raised 100 per bent.
Hillman raised 50 per cent.
Leigh raised 100 per cent.
Lakin raised 100 per cent.
Mt. Morris raised 100 percent.
Morrill raised 400 per cent.
Pierz raized 33i per cent.
Platte raised 100 per cent.
Pulaski raised 200 per cent.
Richardson   raised    GOO    per
cent-
WaGONS   AND CARRIAGES.
Buh raised 50 per cent.
Buckman raised 125 per cent.
Granite raised 200 per cent.
Hillman raised 100   per   cent.
Leigh raised 100 per cent.
Lakin raised 100 per cent.
Mt. Morris raised 200 per cent.
Morrill raised 200 per cent,
Pierz raised 25 percent.
Platte raised 50 per cent,
Pulaski raised 100 per cent.
Richardson   raised    100    pet-
cent.
Vt'TOMOBILES.
Agram, add one to each of the
following:
John Leidolt one at., s2Sj 00
F. O. Bolster   one   at    160 00
M. Thommes one at..    165 00
Buh add one to Theo. Thielen
$283.00.
Granite add one to John Brummer $283.00.
Goods and Merchandise.
.Morrill raised 50 per cent.
Pierz raised 50 per cent.
Creameries.
Freedhem raised to $450.
Buckman raised to $500.
Buckman,   Schmolke's  raised
to S500.
THE DROUGHT
BROKE ITS BACK.
The long hot spell broke it's
back lastTuesday evening, when
the temperature dropped from
90 to 52 within a few hours.
The three weeks of scorching sun
with consequent damage to grain,
was almost intolerable. There
have been short periods of hot
weather in other years; but for
real dry, parching, wilting,
brooding and life-destroying
calm, that of the last three
weeks puts all others within the
memory of the oldest settlers
far into the shade. In the panting cattle and poultry standing
among crisping grass under
the shade of wilting trees; in
the arid grinding against one another of the cornleaves in an
ephemeral breeze; in the dull,
short and subdued rasp of the
locust; in the drooping and dust-
covered   vines   of   the    potato
and   garden    vegetables in
everything and everywhere
brooded the despair of moisture.
Several evenings, a cloudy corner in the sky promised rain
and a good nights sleep; but we
rose again the next morning
from a sweltering and restless
couch to begin another day under a broiling sun. The slight
sprinkling on the 22nd, the 27th
and 28th scarcely settled the
dust. It will take much more
rain than that to raise DUST
enough to settle the bills next
fall. In the meantime we must
be content to let the weather
conditions furnish us such ready
ADDITIONAL
LOCAL NEWS.
Keep the tools in  a  shed.
Millet should be cut just
before the seeds begin to
form.
Don't forget shade and
cool, clean water during
warm days.
Sometimes a man is luckier
to miss what's coming to him
than to get it.
Where the annual raiufnli
is less than 21 inches, dry
farming must be adopted.
Lawrence Kramer and J.
King left for the North Dakota harvest fields Tuesday
morning.
Wilson Hayes Sr. of Platte
bought a new McCormick
binder the first part of the
week.
WEATHER AND
MARKETJEPORTS.
Temperaetur for
The last week.
Highest      Lowest
Thursday 85    50 above
Friday   90 54 above
Saturday   91 50 above
Sunday 95..       (34 above
Monday    93 65 above
Tuesday 90 58 above
Wednesday.,   78 52 above
The village council will
hold its regular monthly
meeting next Saturday evening.
Temperature same
Week year ago.
Temperature   for   the corresponding week a year ago:
Highest    Lowest
1913 July   24....71... 43 above
"     "       25.—71. .58 above
"     "        20..._>:.__. 57 above
27. ._. 82 . .  55 above
"     "       28 73... 44 above
"     "      29.... 87... 59above
"     "       30.__.90.._69abovc
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,      90
Wheat, No. 2	
Flax,       1.;;:,
The   St. Joseph's   society Barley         \o
and'the   Foresters   will meet Rye       \c,
iu   regular   monthly   session >2ats
next Sunday.
      33
EarCorn       50
jHay $5.00
Wilson and Wm. Hayes of! Butter, Creamery ..      35
Platte left Monday morning
for North Dakota to work
during  harvest  and  thresh-
made conversational phrases as  ing.
"kriegen wir bald wieder regen"
or "are  we going  to have some
rain pretty soony''
Frank Waninger and crew
are excavating the basement
Sunday's Game,
Next Sunday, August 2nd, the
powers that be, or in other
words the manager of the local
nine, has promised us something
extra   good   m   the   line of base!
Dairy . 20
Eggs       |t,
Flour, Best      2.10
"    Straight	
Low grade flour 1.50
Bran     1.35
Shorts   1.40
Cracked Corn 80 pounds I
for tlie new site for the drug Ground Peed     1.25
store south  of the Columbia Potatoes       50
Hotel. Beans 	
lOnions        60
Commissioner Gassert returned home last week Friday from   Little Falls, where
ball.    The East St. Cloud   boysjlu' »l)ent four ({i[^ attending
are coming.    Do you know what  the equalization meeting
that means? It means just this.
Those who saw the games here
a few weeks ago between the
Nemecs of St. Cloud and our
boys, pronounced the games as
being first-class and awayabove
the average. Well, it is said
that the eastsiders are even better than the Nemecs. So now
you know what you can expect
—a rattling good game of ball.
Come out ye fans and yell.
iii Open 6,000 Acres.
Washington, July 22: Within
the next few months 0,000 acres
of United States land in St.
Louis, Koochiching, Beltrami,
Itasca, Hubbard, Cass, Crow
Wing and Aitkin counties will
be open to settlement.
Both tile house and senate
have passed a bill providing for
the restoration of this land,
withdrawn for use in connection
with the Sandy lake reservation some years ago, atu't it will
be sent to the president for his
signature within a few days.
The date for opening these
lands will be named by the secretary of the interior. Settlers
now on the land will be given
the preference in the  matter   of
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
(rive   the   hogs   salt   audi
Ave. Price.
Thursday  _.
, Friday 8.40
ashes,   especially   hard   coal j Saturday .
ashes, and an occasional dose .Monday 8.42
of copperas  and  sulphur in
tlie slop.
Farmers say that a good
rain two weeks ago would
have made an oat crop of
from 50 to 75 bushels per
acre.
lion. C. B. Buckman and a
party of friends of Little
Falls, passed through Pierz
Sunday morning en route to
tlie lakes northeast  of  here.
Jos. F. Faust and wife of
Cross Plains, Wis., are here
visiting relatives. Jos. F. is
a cousin to Frank, Andrew
and Christ Faust, and his
wife is a sister to Hubert and
John Bares, Mrs. Peter Virnig and Mm A. M. Ranch.
Frank Sterr his wife and
(laughter Annie of .Mt. Morris
autoed to Pierz last Sunday.
They visited at the John
Stuekmeyer home and in the
afternoon they and the Stuekmeyer family   went   to Last-
ruesday 8.42
Wednesday 8. 15
South St. Paul
Live StockMarket.
Steers    ...$7.75 to.
Cows and Hei fe.s,$ 1.25 to _ .6.75
Calves, steady, $5.50 to   9.75
Feeders, steady, ...$4.80 to 7.00
Granite raised to $500.
Morrill raised $450.
entry for 90 dajrs after the date  r ip;   from   there   Mr.   Sterr
of opening. and family returned home.
Joseph   Russo who died iu
kiltie Falls, was  well known
Morrill, Ramey,raisedt. il,,lv   h.v  the   old settlers   as
Royalton raised to $800. "Little   Joe."'      He   came   to
Pierz raised to $15 Gravelville 40 years ago. and
Add P.O. , Pierz, stock [from   there    went    to   Little
and merchandise, full   value  15,-   Palls 82  years ago.     lb-
d value $2,000. ;l musician, playing the harp
Later   he   kept
Marriage licenses were issued Sat (inlay to Levi Sweeney and Annie Kammermeier
and to B. C. Winkleman and
Marie Marshik.
Wallaces'   Fanner   claims
that in the corn belt   and
far   north   as   Canada,    the
average cosl   of   raising  and
marketing   wheat   costs    the
fanner 02 cents a bushel.
The indians of Mil]
that were here with blueberries the first part of last
week and promised to come
again, came last .Monday with
200 quarts, which they sold
to one man.
Our fanner are in theuiii
of harvest.    Rye and barley
ut  and some Is  stacked.
(>ats are   now being  cut and
wiieat will be the last.    N
the time is coming, when you
will see grain stacks i.
direction.
aud   violin.
Orel the rye. or whatever a small store near the Little
catch crop you use. started Falls House, where he also
as soon after harvest as you sold garden truck raised on
can. | his property.
Got His Share,
Watermelons   art-
plentiful around Ubar that farmers are feeding them to the h
We   had   several   this  week.—
Obar (N co) Progre-