The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1914-09-10

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PIERZ  JOURNAL
VOL. 6.
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NO. 13.
BAPPENINi	
HERE AND THER
Tlie new playgrounds at the
Harrison school at Brainerd
were opened to the public last
week with fitting- entertainments
Burglars  forced  an  entrance
to the Verndale postoffice Mon
day   night   and   got   away with
$83.    No clues have been   found
as yet.
Sugar dropped 90 cents per
hundred in the Minneapolis
markets last Wednesday. It is
likely that the grand jury investigations are having their
effect.
Increasing demands for ore at
this time is causing activities
at all the mines on the Cuyuna
range. Several additional crews
have been put on at the different mines.
Earl Christ, a farmer near
Bowerville experimented this
year with a live acre patch of
alfalfa and found that it grew
28 inches in height from the
seed in just 46 days.
Herman Woelm and J. Cameron former subjects of the Kaiser
and King of England and. well
advanced in years came to blows
over the war last week at Melrose and had to be separated
by neutral powers,
Andrew. Grave tg narrowly es=
caped with his life when the
rig he was driving was struck
on a crossing by a Soo train
near Bowlus. The horses were
killed instantly but Qrayetg es:
griped with a scalp wcniucl and, a
broken arm.
Leonard Shelten of Watkins
was badly mangled and later
died from injuries received as
the result pf breaking through
the roof of a threshing machine
separator when up to fix something that had gone wrong with
the machine.
Fire of unknown origin totally
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HAPPENINGS
BEREANp THERE
John Daskam at Onamia has
secured the contract to haul the
schoal children from the territory south of town.
Cash receipts for the month
of August in the shape of fines
at the municipal court at Thief
River Falls totalled $209.79.
That the authorities at Brainerd intend to strictly enforce
liqur laws along the Cuyuna
range, was the admission made
following the arrest of spveraj
alleged miscreants.
Lead dollars were passed on
several business men of Brainerd Saturday afternoon aad
many did not realize they had
been victimized until checking
up at night.
A tight at Bridgeman, in Cass
county, between two men early
Saturday morning well nigh r-e?
suited fatally for one of the
combatants. The tight was be-
tween Ed. Griffith and Louis
Williams. Both men are well
known- in this vicinity, Mr,
Williams having lived at Bridge*
mau for a number of years and
has conducted the store there
for the past few years. Mr,
Griffith. came from. Dakota R
couple of years ago and pur=
Chased the old Williams farm
where he has been living.
Anna Lardy, the 17-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs:   Mike
COUNTY SEAT
CULLINGS.
THE SELECTION
OF SEED CORN.
(From the Litte Falls Transcript.)
Chieaf of Police Wm. Hang
received a call Saturday morning telling him to be on the
lookout for a robber or robbers
who broke into a store at De-
troit Friday night and stole
about $700 worth of clothing.
Theodore Sobiech of Bellevue
was brought before Justice
Gerritz Wednesday on a charge
of shooting one mallard duck
out of season. The complaint
was made fey Chas. Young, vyl]Q
until September 1st, was a
deputy game warden. Sobiech
was fined $10 and costs.
While slacking some lime by
adding water to it Peter Pat.
ueaud of Ripley suffered painful
bums in both eyes Tuesday
evening when the mixture exploded. He was brought to
this city immediately for inedh
cal attendance, and it is thought
that his sight will be saved.
George Halama of Buckman
who was bound over to the district court a short time ago on
a charge of poisoning some cattle belonging to Floren KIoss,
pleaded guilty to the offense
Wednesday afteruQQu and was
sentenced to six inondhs inipris:
onment, but sentence was suspended and he was put on pro-
dation in consideration of the
fact that the man is apparently
rnentaljy itic-ompptent of  realize
Seed corn selecting is not the
simple thing it looks. It is
something of an art, or a game
that must be pla3'ed right in
order  to  get  the  best results,
COMMISSIONERS     (ADDITIONAL
PROCEEDINGS.
WEATaL;} AND
LOCAL NEWS.!  MAPST REPORTS.
The   county   board    met    in |     N. P. Fiehtinger  is a state
regular    monthly    session
Tuesday, September 1st.
A petition of five  per cent of
the voters of Morrison  county,
on fair visitor this week.
Wm. Kopweiler   went   to
Greenwald to take charge of
 a section.
says  C,   P.   Bull, Deparment of! asking  that  a  special  election , „ ^^—
Agriculture, University  of Min-; to  be  held  for  the purpose of      J. P. Virnig,  Adrian Grell  ^on^y
Temperaetur for
county the proposition of  levy- day for the state fair.
ing a one mill  tax  for  the pur-,     Jolm  Macho of   St   QIoud
nesota.       The   man   gathering J submitting to the voters of said and   Adam Virnig left Mon-
seed corn needs to know:
When to select,
Where to select.
| upuu   uue   cunsmeiauuu u. saiu t of Wg brother Frank.
What  to  do  with what he se- petition, s.ime was rejected upon
lects. j the grounds that in the opinion'     Jos-   H-   ttre11   and Frank
Seed  corn  should be selected j of the board the said petition is Macho   were   Saturday busi-
The last week.
Highest      Lowest
Thursday 60   44 above
Friday   70 35 above
Saturday    71  54 above
 70 ..      49 above
H^H^HtS above
pose of building a sanatorium;
upon  due  consideration of said
Tuesday
85 ...
t3 .ti
Wednesday.. 61 42 above
spent  Sunday   here  as   the'r-.*..^..  +
 A .* ,._._ /_ A1   _ „..    ,      ; I emperature same
Week year ago.
Temperature  for   the corrcs-
earlj, adds Mr. Bull, with emphasis on the early. The corn
growing   se
not a legal petition.
ness visitors at St. Cloud.
Petition for the formation of      Carl Bolander aud family
season   is   shorter ift j ft new school district out of dis- Qf Little Falls, spent Sunday
Minnesota than it is   in Iowa or"j trict No. 84 in the town  of Mt.' afternoon in  Pierz and vici-
Liardy gjr., qf Cole]   Spring, was; j ing theser4.pusRes.sp,f fheoffense,
drowned at PjMef Raver falls,
last Friday. The young lady
had finished her work at about
9 o'clock in the evening and
went to the river with a number
o/f cqnipaniqus, tq view the tajls..
Sjhe was, standing on a platform
at ths edge of the dam and ac-
cidently slipped and fell into
the stream  with   the  above re-
fflie conditions of his probation
were that he pay the costs and
to keep out of trouble. Hi^
father was appointed probation
qfrjeer.
At about 2 Q'olock Thursday
morning Patrolman Boyce
saw two men carrying some
lumber on their shoulders, walk-
(Jestroyed. the partners! Cq:oper-1 the.   bpdy   was  ta^eu,   frqui tJie
a_tiye creamery at.  Sauk Rapids i water abgqt half an hour  after
 fcg   east   on    Broadway.     He
suits.    The  water   was shut off j thought \t a peculiar- proceeding
as soqn as sqqn,  as pssibje ajd, j ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ fflQniin|f>   so
Ordered   them   to stop.     When
Thursday morning. T-he total
loss is estimated at $5,000 with
an insurance of $11,500, The
company will immediately re-,
place the burned building with
a new fire proof structure.
A special election was held
at Onamia in school district No.
40 to vote on the question of
bonding tjie district fqr $2,000
-fqi- tlie purpose Qf constructing
a school house and uurchasin-
necessary equipment. The proposition carried unanimously.
If the advisory board of the
state tuberculosis commission
acts favorably on the recommendation qf the site committee of
the Belti-ainiTKooghiching'Hubbard counties; sanitarium board,
the $50,000 hospital, whicu is
soon to be built, will be located
at Lake Julia, near Puposky.
Two children, aged 3 and 4,
were playing on tlie Great
Northern tracks at Ninth avenue north St. Cloud, when the
passenger train came along and
was detained qecouse the older
qne qf the t\vo was trying to
pull the qtlier 9ft" the track The
engineer, seeing the two children, applied the brakes and
stopped the train just a few feet
from the two children and they
were removed from the path of
the train by Sergeant Lengas.
 Be spoke   the   men dropped the
she had fallen in, but it was tqo[iumqer and toqk to their   heels,
late,
During the electrical storm
Monday morning the barn of
Herman Schweiters three miles
west of New Munich was struck
by a bolt, setting the hay in the
mow afire and killing a valuable
horse wlnclj Mr. S}chw§}ter-S, wa_s,
wateping in the barn, jsjehvyep
t,ers. vyas, rendered UBgonseious
from the shock but was soon
revived after being carried out
by his family. The barn was
burned to the ground and about
80 tons of hay. in if.     His grain
0n examination the lumber
proved to be several long pieces
of dressed boards commonly
used in making partitions. It
is the opinion of the police that
the boards were taken from a
car which had b,een switched
fntq the lqcal yards. No clue
to the identity of the men could
be found.
Onamia Hews,
(From the Lake Breeze.)
Qarl Beimert and Ed.  Liscolt
of Pierz, visited over Sunday at
stacks standing  near  by would ] the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. A
Gravel of this place.,   Mrs. Gravel is a daughter of Mr. Liscolt.
Where a letter has been tor
a year and a quarter before
being returned to the writer is a
_^_^__^_^_^___^_^__ question that Father Van der
of the earliest settlers of St. j Hulst would like to solve On
Cloud, was discovered there'Mav V6> 1913 Patller Van der
Saturday by laborers employed
in digging   the   trench   for the
have burned too only for the aid
of seyeral neighbors who cam§
and help save them,
A complete skeleton in a plain
wooden box, believed to be  one
Illinois, Corn has less time to
ripen here than it has there.
Therefore, if one would get seed
that has ripened before that1
time. There is only one way to
do be sure of this, and that is
to go into the fields before time
for a killing frost aud get the
right kind of ears that are ripe
at that time.
The place to select seed corn
is in the fields of standing corn,
not in the corncrib along about
spring seeding time, or after
the com is in the shock, If one
selects corn from the crip—after
feeding from it through the
winter—he gets culled corn,
and the planting' of gulled corn
gives a crop of culls. Secure
from ears that carry the butt
diameter well toward the tip,
that have straight regular rows i
of uniform kernel.^ extending
welf over tip and butt. The
last point is one to be insisted
upon—that the kernels should
extend well over the butt. Corn
with wide and deep furrows between the rows of kernels, and
corn that shows chaffy and
pointed tips, indicating low
feeding value and poor germinating and keeping power, should
be passed by. Look for the
deep and well filled kernel, A
good dent kernel will be somewhat wedge-shaped, about half
again as broad at,the top as at
the bottom. Again ears with
large cobs are to be avoided.
One should select twice as
much seed corn as the area to
qe planted cabs for, because in
going over his selections later
he will throw out much that at
first seemed good, and the ger-
m ana tion test to follow will
eliminate still more.
Having selected his corn, one
must store it for curing. There
are two necessary conditions
for thisi
A circulation of nil* about
each ear to carry off the moisture.
A temperature above freezing
until the corn is thoroughly dry.
Morris; tee same  was  granted,  nity.
Hearing granted on following
.... . .    .,. ,, '    Two sons of PeterSolinger
petitions  ot   freeholders  to  be, °
.   „ e .    , ,. . . , came up from Melrose Satur-
set of! from one  school district '
. day to open the chicken sea«
Gerhard  Block from district
No, 188 to district No. 46. [    Mrs.   Parrow  and  Mrs. T.
Final   hearing on  petition of  Davis of Onamia were guests
J. N. Rauch to be  set  off  from at the F. O. Bolster home last
district  No.   14  and   No. 78 to!Monday.
district No. 46, same way  duly 1     -»*•     l. ,r    *       1
' J        -y,     Miss trances Kastanek re-
granted,
The county agrees to pay one-
half cost of bridge in town of
Pierz, over a branch of the
skunk river.
The  following   bills  were allowed:
Christ   Paust,   work on
state road No. 3     $62 85
Prank    Kippley,     contract on county road
No. 3     358 90
H. Gassert, milage   and
committee   work	
AndrewHerum, mileage
committee work	
D. Rocheleau, board  of
equalization. .„-	
D.  Rocheleau,   mileage
turned home from St. Cloud
Sunday, where she had been
employed.
Peter Simon of Chicago,
aarived Sunday at the home
of Math. Thommes' for a
weeks' visit.
C. Wengler and wife of
Chicago are here visiting Mrs.
ponding week a year ago:
Highest    Lowest
1913 Sep     4 75 .. 56 ab
" " 5 90. .60 above
" " 6....91... I 9 above
" " 7. ... 84.. 62 above
" " 8 70... 45 above
" " 9  ... 72.... t9above
H    10 68.. .55 above
1.05
1 08
1.25
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,	
Wheat, No. 2	
Flax,	
Barley    50 to 55
Rye       78
Oats       12
EarCorn       60
Hay $5.00
Butter, Creamery	
Dairy        20
Eggs      18
Flour, Best     8.20
"   Straight      8.10
Low grade flour 1.60
Bran 1.35
Shorts .jHHHH     1
Wengler's parents, C. A. Vir-jCracked Corn 80 pounds.... 1 in
^^^^^^^^^^^^^™ ' Ground Feed.. 1,10
I nig and wife.
11 60!
26 60
13 40
1 40
Mrs. Mary   Meyer of  Ag-
Potatoes
Beans ...
15
2.00
Village Council Proceedings,
ram hauled tlie first potatoesjOnions ... .        60
to the McGenty potato warehouse last Monday.
Theresia Filer returned
from Greenwald last Monday
after a several weeks' visit
with her brother Paul.
Mrs. Chas. Goldsmith,Miss
Ruth Kundtson and Misslna
Malone of Onamia were Pierz
The   village   council   of   the
village of Pierz met   in  regular
monthly   session   on   Saturday I shoppers last Saturday,
evening, September 5th.
All  members present  except
John N. Faust.
The  following   bills   were allowed:
Wm. Priemesberger 215
feet   of   service wire
for   Wm.   Schauble's
Mrs. Jos. Preiner and Mrs.
Andrew Kainz left for St.
Paul Saturday to visit their
daughters who reside their.
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. I'ru e.
Thursday  	
Priday 8.62
Saturday 8.56
Monday 8.56
Tuesday	
Wednesday 8.50
J.Gasser and A.Miller and
wife  of   Kimball   spent   the
first clays of the limiting sea-
house        $2 50'son in Pierz as guests of F. W.
-.J
30 90;
39 47
Eighth avenue north   sewer  ex-
Hulst mailed a letter to his
brother at New York who was
en route to Europe. As tlie
addressee   had.   left  New   York
tension, by the contract recently before file letter reached that
let to the Thill, AJanning, Wha= place the letter could not be
len company of La Crosse, The delivered, and should have been
cofiim was hurried crosswise in
the alley, and was down six
feet deep, between Seventh and
Ben Sweater of Holdingford passed a few hours in
Pierz last week.
Eighth avenues on Eighth street
north. According to estimates
made by medical men who saw
the skeleton, the person was
past middle age when it was
buried.      The   teeth    and   hair
were   still   present   and   only i
returned to the writer after the
j time given on the corner of the
envelope was up, but the letter
did not reach Father Van der
Hulst until August 13, 1914, or
over a year and three months
from the time the letter was
mailed.
Westinghouse Electric
Manufacturing company 5 meters	
Insurance on village
property for 81,050..
Council then adjourned.
Barney gross,
President.
J. B. Hartmann,
Recorder.
Do il Now,
Alex Hartmann  left Mon-
A Question oi Ownership.
By an extraordinary feat of
nature the Missouri river some
nights ago cut off 595 acres, almost a section of land from
South Dakota and placed it over
on the Nebraska side. Several
persons claimed that the land
immediately became "new land"
iu Nebraska, and they tiled on
it and expect to hold tke property, which is valuable. The
Missouri river is the dividing
line at this point, near the town
of Tabor, South Dakota.
If you wish to study the art
of seed corn selection from a to
; z, write to the Extension Division, Department of Agriculture, University of Minnesota,
and ask lor Extension Bulletin!
No. 9.
"short
Marshik.
Miss Helen Younk, lady
clerk at P. A. Hartmann's
si ore, has taken a week's vacation to visit her parents
near Royalton.
Henry Paul who has been
laved off with a badly
wrenched back for tbe past
ten days, is slowly recovering.
Nick   TliO'iunes   left   Mbl -
■rlay for the state fair.    Upon
(his return be will drive back
!a  new   Ford   car  for  Louis
Priemesberger.
South St. Paul
Live Stock/Market.
Steers . $7.7.-, to 7-5
Cows and Heifers,$4.25 to ..6.75
Calves, steady,..    |5;50 to  9.78
Feeders, steadv,...$4.30 to
How much better it would
It   contains   a  whole; be to form a ring and let the
course"   on   seed   corn  decadent   kings   fight  it   out
selection.
Next    week    is   ^vM   corn
among themselves, while the
people could continue to dig
for a living iu an honest
way.
week, so   designated   by the
governor  in a   proclamation      J. N. Faust   and  wife and
recently  issued.     You.  Mr. Leo Wermerskirchen made an
Farmer, be sure and attend to auto trip   through  southern
this matter, as it is highly im- Minnesota last week.    "Talk
PLATTE NEWS.
Mr.and Mrs. John Boser called
at tlie C. Reese   home last Mou-
da> evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Rycbner
and Theo. Miller of St. Paul
called at Theo. Kychner's last
Sunday.
Mrs. Frank' Kluetch and children and .Miss Emma Reese visited with Mrs. Geo. Sigette last
Sunday.
John Xoe aud Peter Dryer of
Swanriver came here Saturday
to C. Reese's.
Rob. Waninger says he beard
the "Deutsche Kaiser" shooting
Saturday night.
Misses Tillie Olson and Agnes
Smith hauled cream ' hem
last Friday.
Sara and Theo. Rychner were
in Pierz Monday afternoon.
Platte is at war at the present time with the prairie chicken-, with heavy losses on both
sides.
Marie E. Bolster left Mon-
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Mike Flicker and sons Jo- portant,   not   only  for  your about good roads,'' says J. N. 1',' * ., , ,,
in]    ,, t      _ ,"   '+„j._ isephand Frank left Monday own  good, but  also that  of •"thirty  miles an hour or so,
an early stage of  deterioration.' '   for tin4 slate fail'.
the entire community.
wouldn't even jar yoi
^00 line to open the  fall
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