The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1914-08-06

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NO. 8.
PPENINGS
HERE AND THERE
Long- Prairie—Nineteen Todd
county creameries for butter fat
in June paid Todd county farmers $125,000.
- Sauk Centre—A new opera
house will be opened here September 1st. Its formal dedication will be in tlie hands of the
Commercial club of that city
and will be an event of some
importance.
Mahnomen—An automobile
census shows that there are
about fifty cars of all makes in
Mahnomen. Most of them are
in daily use. There are a number in the country that come to
town pretty often.
Little Falls—Supt. F. W.
Dobbyn of the city schools has
secured W. V. Gustavson, who
has been connected with the
schools at Truman, Minn., as
agriculture instructor for tlie
Little Falls high school.
Brainerd—T. H. Brady, a veteran Northern Pacific locomotive engineer ot Bra nerd has
been presented with a badge of
honor bj' the Grand Internation
al Division of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers.
Minneapolis—The state board
of health has ordered the city
of Hopkins to cleanup its alleys.
If the local authorities do not
act the state board will do the
woi7k and charge the costs to
the tax payers,
Brainerd—Mrs. Charles Met-
calf, aged 80, was severely injured when she fell down the
stairs at her home, but fortunately no bones were broken.
She was taken to the Northern
Pacific sanatarium where she is
getting along nicely.
St. Cloud—The 10-year-old
son of J. W. Jeske, a well-to-do
farmer living near Kimball,
dove to his death in Lake Cornelian Sunday. In company
with three other lads the Jeske
boy took a boat out into the
lake and used it for a diving
nyoat. The Jeske boy dove and
failed to come up.
Brainerd—Attending the funeral of her lifelong friend, Mrs.
C. P. Wright, the excitement
coupled with the intense heat
of the day proved too much for
Mrs. I. T. Dean, aged 70, and
she fell dead in the room at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Jull
Wright, where the funeral services were about to begin over
the remains of his mother.
St.CJoud—H. J. Carter, formerly with the Farmers State
bank of this city, has purchased
a controlling interest in the
First State bank of La Porte,
Minn. Mr. Carter was connected with the Fifth avenue banking institution during its first
two years of existence but severed his connection some time
ago.
Catholic Church Dedicated.
The new Catholic church at
Wahkon was dedicated last
week. The bishop of St. Cloud,
in whose diocese Wahkon is
situated, having resigned, Rev.
Fr. Stiegler of Pierz was sent
there as a representative of the
bishopric and to perforin the
duties of that functionary. He
was assisted by the pastor, Rev.
Fr. Van tier Heulst, and a number of students for the priesthood.
COUNTY SEAT
CHUNGS.
(From the Litte Falls Transcript.)
Frank Bzdok of Swan River
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff
Paul Felix and, brought before
Justice Randall Saturday, where
lie was given a jail sentence of
45 days for beating his wife.
, The county auditor is receiving letters from former Morrison county farmers who have
left their farms here to go to
Canada, asking information in
regard to available land in this
county.
After three years of litigation the district court has decided against the towns of Pike
Creek, Agram and Mt. Morris
in the suit over the old bridge
bonds, which was tiled July 25,
1911.
Paul Larson was painfully
injured Monday morning at the
planing' mill, where he is employed. His eye was badly cut
when the end of a piece of tim
ber struck him while it was
being loaded into a car.
On notice from the sheriff of
Chippewa county, Wis., that he
was wanted there for non-support of his family, Chas. LaRose
wets arrested Wednesday night
by Chief Larson and lodged in
the county jail.
Henry Gassert of Pierz, chairman of the board of county commissioners, was in the city
Wednesday and while here
signed up 400 countjr warrants
to pay the bills allowed at the
last session of the board.
The new salary schedule for
rural carriers, setting a maximum of $1,200 a year instead of
the old maximum of $1,100, went
into force Monday in Minnesota as well as all parts of the
country by virtue of an order
promulgated by Postmaster
General Burleson. There are
1,622 rural carriers in Minnesota and of these only 257 will be
increased to the maximum salary of $1,200 a year.
MAKE POTATO
HILL SELECTION.
In Extention Bulletin No. 50,
"The Seed Potato Plot," hill
selection is strongly advocated
for the improvement of the yield
and quality of potato varieties.
To carry out this selection, the
exceptionally vigorous and
healthy plants, which are known
to have started from one tuber
or seed piece, should be noted
in the field and designated with
a stake or some other simple
marker so that they can be
readily found at harvest time.
When the selected hills are dug,
a second selection should be
made and only productive hills,
with well shaped tubers, should
be preserved. Discard all hills
possessing abnormally tapering, elongated, and deep eyed
tubers. Keep the product of
each hill in a sepitrate receptacle and plant the same as a unit
the following season. In this
way large quantities of potatoes
can be produced Avithin a few
years from one mother hill.
This method of selection has
been practiced on a large scale
at University Farm. Last fall
several hundred hills of Early
Ohio and Sir Walter Raleigh potatoes were harvested separately and this spring the product
of each hill was planted as a
unit. One step further that can
be advocated for the commercial grower was taken, that is,
a careful description was made
of the shape and size of each
tuber planted. The result to
date has passed the most sanguine anticipations. Many hills
have produced only runts of
plants and others have produced
only exceptionally healthy and
vigerous plants. Still others
have given both strong and
weak plants, indicating that
further selection is necessary.
High yield and desirable tubers
probably will not be broduced
by all the rank growing vines,
but it is certain that only unproductiveness canbe correlated
with   the   weakly   and    sickly
 plants.     All   growers   who are
The   saloon   in  the Buckman [ anxious  to  increase   the  yield
VILLAGE COUNCIL   | VILLAGE LIGHT
PROCEEDINGS.
hotel building changed hands
Saturday morning, R. L. Palmer,
the former proprietor, selling
to D. H. Ellis. Mr. Ellis has
been in the saloon business at
different times, having been
proprietor of the New York
cafe at St. Cloud until hishealth
necessitated a change. He
went to New York from St.
Cloud, but luts been at his home
here for the past couple of
months.
Some changes in the police
force have been made and went
into effect at 7 o'clock Friday
evening. William Hang, who
has for several years been patrolman on the West side, be
came chief of police to succeed
James Larson, who was appointed during the administration of Mayor F. C. Johnson,
and who was retained by Mayor
Fortier when he took office. Mr.
Jiang's place as patrolman on
the West side will be taken by |
Bert Boyce.
and quality of their potato stock
should give their immediate attention to the selection of the
desirables hills now growing in
tneir fields.—Richard Wellington, Assistant Horticulturist,
University Farm, St. Paul.
Better the nose on the
grindstone than always in
other peoples business.
S;ipt. Karnes, accompanied
by  Prof.   W.  V. Gustavson,!
the agriculture  instroctor of
Little Falls high school were
Pierz visitors Monday.
Jurors Drawn for Pail Term,
The names of those who will
be summoned for jury service at
the September term of district
court were drawn Thursday
from tlie list prepared by the
commissioners of those liable to
serve and the drawing resulted
in the following names being
selected from this end of the
county:
Grand Jukout.
Henry Tarhaar, Pierz.
Frank Stumpf, Agram.
Joseph Druber,  Agram.
F. J. Juetten, Hillman.
Joseph Hesch, Pierz.
George Kowitz, Buckman.
Paul Virnig, Buh.
Petit J uuoks.
Mike Vieth, Buh.
George Denzen, Buckman.
George Wilson, Ro3'alton.
John Langer, Agram.
Wenzel Ledek, Pierz.
Frank Schmael, Buh.
Chas. Lust, Hillman.
Nick Meyer. Pierz.
John Smith, Pierz.
The village council met in
regular monthly session Saturday evening at 8 p. m. All
members were present.
The procredings of the former
meeting were read and approved.
The following bills were allowed:
Pierz Journal,   publishing   licenses,   notices
and bids for   well     §23 35
State Treasurer,  return
2  per  cent  of liquor
license _.       40 00
Barney  Gross,  advancing fees for witnesses
and mileage in  Karst
cast and two trips to
Little   Falls       14 40
The following agreement was
made with E. H. Kerkhoff'. He
is to publish in thd Pierz Journal the council proceedings and
the electric light and water reports and shall receive the sum
of §20 per year for such publications.
Three applications were presented for the office of village
marshal and engineer, stating
price for which they would
serve per month, as follows:
Wm. Priemesberger, $45: Mike
Tschida. §44.75; Oliver Brunett,
$50. The council appointed
Wm. Priemesberger to the position.
The application of F. J. Hoheisel to sell intoxicating liquors
for a period of one 3rear from
the 3rd day of August 1914, and
terminating on the 2nd day of
August 1015, was granted.
The council then adjourned.
Barney Gross,
President.
J. B. Hartmann,
Recorder.
REPORT.
Following1  will   be  found tlie
report of the Light Board:
Juice sold in July at 10c
Kilowatts $105.50
Juice furnished forvillage
street lights at 4c a Kilowatts     22.OH
Total sold in July $127.58
Paid L. F. Water Power
Co, for Juice furnished
village duriug month of
July at 4c a Kilowatts    60.60
Total profit  *66.98
A. P. Stoll,
Secretary and Treasurer.
ADDITIONAL
WEAT^R AND
LOCAL NEWS.)  MARKET REPORTS.
Sunday's Game.
As Manager Faust stated last
week about the game, it was a
good, clean game from start to
finish. The East St. Cloud
team came and were trimmed
up to the tune of 3 to 1. Fol-
lowing was the lineup:
Pierz East St. Cloud
Paul c Welch
Wermerskirchen p Carlson
F. Faust 1 b     G. Peterson
J. N. Faust 2 b
M. Smith 3 b
Christ Morrill s
A. Schauble 1 f
J. Bollig c f
Hass ,_^B
Pierz got 6 hits and 15 strike
outs, while East St.   Cloud  got
3 hits and 6 strikeouts.
Notes.
Wermerskirchen pitched six
innings when he received an injury to his foot. He then took
the third sack and Smith went
into the box.
Both Smith and Bollig are
promising' young men aud some
day will make their mark in
baseballdom.
Frank Marshik makesadandy
umpire.    He knows the game.
Manager Faust is trying to
get a game for next Sunday.
O. Peterson
N. Peterson
H. Peterson
Roth
Homan
Ferville
Following will be found a list
of the patrons of the electric
light service, and the amount
in cash that each one paid for
juice during the past month:
Ang'ernieier  M	
Bares,   Hubert	
Blake,  P. W	
Bentfeld, Adam  . . .....
Borgerding J. & Co	
Brust,   Hubert    	
Blake,   Mrs. J. M	
Boser John  	
Brandl,   Frank A	
Brummer Norbert    	
Burton,  Barney	
Boehm, John store	
Boehm John house	
Boehm Engelbert	
Brisk & Sehramel	
Dombovy,   John  	
Duncan, R. M.   house	
Duncan, K. M.   store	
Eller,   William	
Faust, A	
Faust,   Frank store & hall....
Faust Frank house & sal	
Faust Bros	
Faust John N	
Gau, Henry  	
Grell.   Frank store	
Grell Frank house	
Grell, John H. house	
Grell. John  H.   saloon	
Grell, Joseph H. store	
Grell Jos. H.  house	
Gravel,   Charles   E	
German Sate Bank	
Gau, John house	
Gassert,  Henry	
J. B. Hart.mum '   	
Hartuianh, P. A.   stCre  	
Hartinann, P. A.  house	
Hoheisel, John house  	
Hoheisel,  John   saloon	
Mr. Kast '.	
Kerkhoff, E. H.  Journal	
Kerkhoff, E. H.  house	
Jac Kiewel Brewing   Co	
Koering,  Herman	
Kainz, Andrew   Sr.	
Langer, John  Jr. f	
Lokowitsch,   Mike	
Marshik Frank  	
Meyer,  Joseph	
Meyer, Mike	
Neisius, Jacob	
Xohner. Mrs.   Clara	
N. W. Telephone Exchange Co
Paul, Henry  ....
Preimesberger, John W	
Poster, P. L	
Preimesberger,  Stephen	
Philippi John 	
Rich Prairie Milling Co	
Scoles,   R.   C	
Stoll, A.   P	
St. Joseph's Cong', house	
St. Joseph's Corp.   church....
Staub Nick	
Smith, J. F.,  & Son	
Tembruell,  Christ	
Tembruell, A	
Virnig F.   X	
Virnig, F. X. ft  Co	
Virnig,   Joseph H	
Vonder Haar, Mrs. A	
Wermerskirchen,  M	
F. Wise  '	
Ziegler, John   house	
A. P. STOLL,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Tried to Enter Store.
Some one tried to enter the
Motley Store company's store
| Monday evening but were evidently frightened away before
the}7 were able to make their
way into the building. They
tore part of the screen off of a
back window but got no further
in their attempt.
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N. Borgerding of Melrose
was here on business Tuesday.
The brickwork on the new
school house will be finished
in a few days.
8everal good catches have
been reported by anglers at
Fish lake.
Dr. O. J. Brown and wife
of Little Falls visited in Pierz
Sunday.
Theodore Thielen sold his
house in lower town to Val.
Schraut.
The hunters are beginning
to polish up their guns for
tlie chicken season.
Koch ns Kurtz went west
tlie first part of tlie week to
work during harvest.
Theodore Gross and Jos.
Jaeger are bailing hay and
shipping to Duluth.
It is reported that the game
warden caught a few "soon-
ers" last Sunday.
Ben Faust of Parks ton, S.
D., spent  Sunday   with relatives in Pierz and vicinity.
John Kurtz went to North
Dakota last Monday to work
during harvest aud threshing.
B;.rney(Tross returned from
Dora lake, where he has been
arranging the machinery of
a saw mill for O. C. Leigh.
Mosquitoes have their uses.
my friend. They have the
only process known for getting anything out of some
men.
Rolling  stones  gather   no
Temperaetur for
The last week.
Highest     Lowest
Thursday   75    00 above
Friday   82 61 above
Saturday ....   80  57 above
Sunday 30..       58 above
Monday    83 57 above
Tuesday 88_...   62 above
Wednesday..  82    63 above
Temperature same
Week year ago.
Temperature   for   the  corns
ponding week a year ago:
Highest    Lowest
13 July
31.
_ "it above
Aug
1.
...82.
. 52 above
o
...88..
. ."> t above
3.
.. 86.
. 57 above
4.
...80
."'1 above
5 .
... 84.
._ 64 above
(i.
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.. 57above
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
'Vheat, No. 1,	
Wheat, No. 2  B3
Flax,         1.30
Barley	
Rye       57
Oats.. 	
EarCorn       60
Hay  $5.00
Butter, Creamery ..
Dairy       20
Eggs      16
Flour, Best     2.50
"   Straight      2.40
Low grade flour 1.50
Bran 	
Shorts   L.40
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.35
Ground Feed     1.35
Potatoes        To
Beans        2.00
Onions ~fl^|^^^|i_H
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Pi
moss, but   their is  money in|Thursday 8.48
rolling them off you rfieldsand  Fridiiy-
converting   them   into building material.
Last Friday morning Mai h.
Bolster sustained a fracture
of his right arm while attempting to crank his father's auto. The engine "bn< k-
fired" and caused the fracture
of the boy's arm.
. . ■^■^■■■8.20
Monday t_._8.13
Tuesday  _.7.60
Wednesday 7.58
Another Way To Look At It.
South St. Paul
Live StockMarket.
Steers $7.75 to
Cows and Heii is,.?!.25 to ..6.75
Calves, steady, $5.50 to  9.75
Feeders, steady, ..   $4:80 I"
Never Scold Children.
Sixty Days In Jail.
V.   B.   Frutli   of   Fruthville,
town of Mayhew Lake, in Judge
Robbers'   court   .Monday tnorn-
The Itasca Iron News says:
The closing up of northern Min-j Never sco|d children, but
nesota saloons is not a question ;su|;L.r|y ;m(l qujetly reprove.
whether the country would be ,Do not elni)|oy 8bams, except
better off without saloons or; jn supreme cases. The sufl
not. It is a question whether ing is acute; it hurts self-respect
the government has the right in the chi|d to reprove a child
to entice men to enter the busi-1 before the family; to ridicule it,
ness in this territory and theojto trea(i.down its feelings ruth-
contiscab.- the value ol their' lessly, is to awaken iu its bosom
property at a time when the In !ma_ighaut feelings. A child is
dian is not a part or parcel ot defenseless; iie is not allowed
the greater portion of the ter-; to ar},.uo He Ls often tired,
ritory involved. If the govern- condemned and executed in a
ment had protected the Indian'8econd. He tinds himself of
when he was the sole occupant little use. He is put at things
ot this territorry or nearly so, j lhr doesn't care for, and with-
and instead ol granting govern- j 1)eld from things |le does like,
ment licenses enforced  the   law | He [a made tbe   convenieno
ing, was found guilty of brutally horswhipping his aged moth- there would be some merit in^,.^.,, up people and is hardly
er and was sentenced to 60 days enforcing the treaty now. In a supposed to have any rigbl
in jail. Judge Robbers refused measure the saloons or the Cept h corner, as it were: he is
to grant the option of a tine, breweries back of them have sellt ,lit|lL.r iU1d tl,it|,er, made to
ordering that the man put in brought this on themselves by sjL down or stand up at every-
full two months in the county meddling into politics and hav- body's convenience, but'his own*
jail at St. Cloud. ing   the   firm   belief   that they  _« snubbed and catechised  until
Pruth came home a few  days  were the whole thing,  but   that  be learns to dodge  government
before in an   intoxicated   condi-  does not justify the enforcement  ;U1(1   eiude   authority,   and then
tion and upon finding the   front  of    the     bewhiskered      treaty,   whipped for being "such  a
door   of   their   little   store   at   Neither does it justify   the gov- that no one will believe him."
Fruthville   locked   he   stormed   eminent   in   taking  away   from
into   the   house    aud    brutally  this section tlie right to disj
whipped   the   aged   woman who
is almost 80 years old.
of the   liquor  question,   according to our rights as citizens.
Tii
will re-open a musl
Allgust   In'