The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1914-12-17

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PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, DECEMBER 17, 1914.
NO. 27.
APPENINGS
HERE AND THERE.
Walter Panders, guest of the municipal lodging house in Minneapolis,
dreamed that he saw a thousand men
in a mad scramble in Bridge square.
In his dream he joined the rush, but
in fact Sanders jumped out of bed,
ran across the room and leaped out
of a second story window. He landed
on his hands and head, fracturing
both wrists and bruising his face. He
was taken to the city hospital, where
physicians said it would take him
two months to recover.
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Samuel G. Iverson, state auditor,
has paid out $4,117.50 this year on
wolf bounties. The counties pay the
bounties and are then reimbursed by
the state. Hake county drew the
largest amount, $1,215, for 144 full
grown wolves and forty-five cubs.
One bounty was paid to a Ramsey
county resident. The state pays $7.50
for a full grown wolf and $3 for a cub.
This fall 531 wolves and forty-five
cubs have been killed in the state.
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For forty-four years Jacob Rouse
has been clerk of the school board of
district No. 1 in Lyon county. He was
first elected in 1870 and has held the
office ever since. He has seen the
district grow from a small one-room
log schoolhouse with but a few scattering pupils to a four-room consolidated school with four teachers in
charge of 135 pupils who have the advantages of domestic science and
manual arts.
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Minnehaha falls, immortalized by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as
"la:ighing waters," was visited one
day recently by his daughter, Mrs.
Richard Henry Dana of Cambridge,
Mass. Although the fame of the cascade has been spread to the four corners of the earth by the lines in "Hiawatha," the trip marked the first time
that any immediate member of the
Longfellow family had gazed upon the
scene.
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Frank Mitchell Phillips, eight-
months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Phillips of Minneapolis, was instantly killed when he fell out of his
baby carriage. The child was sitting
in the baby carriage in the kitchen
and suddenly lunged forward. Mrs.
Phillips, who was preparing breakfast, was unable to reach him in time
and he fell to the floor, breaking his
neck. Death was instantaneous.
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A long, active and well rounded life
came to a close when Major Salmon
A. Buell died at Abbott hospital, Minneapolis. He had been a naval
officer, an attorney, a pioneer and an
Indian fighter, and until just before
his death remained mentally alert at
the age of eighty-eight years. Until
recently he was the oldest practicing
attorney in Minnesota.
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More hunting licenses were issued
in the season which closed Dec. 1
than ever before in the history of
Hennepin county. There were 6,240
big game licenses and 1,302 issued
for small game. Last year's total for
big and little game was 6,234. The
license fee is $1, of which 10 cents
goes to the county and the rest to the
state.
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On the expiration of an agreement
between the United States Steel corporation and the Great Northern company Jan. 1 the M. A. Hanna Dock
company of St. Paul will handle the
Great Northern's ore interests on the
Mesabe range. The ore company's j
deposits are estimated at from 200,-
000,000 to 300,000,000 tons.
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Finding of a heavy wrench with the
handle charred near the ruins of the
Minneapolis and St. Louis depot at
Manchester, which was destroyed by
a fire Nov. 23, in which Mrs. Irene
Coleman, station agent, lost her life,
strengthens the belief that the woman
was murdered and the depot fired to
cover up the crime.
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A fall of eighteen inches from the
sidewalk to the gutter in the village
of Lewiston, Winona county, broke
the neck of Charles Gatzlall, a farmer, forty-two years old, and killed him.
Two girls walking home stumbled
over his  feet on  the  sidewlak.
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While handling a supposed empty
shotgun Clifford Frizvold, aged twelve
years, shot and instantly killed his
brother Burton, aged ten years, at the
heme of their father, Iver Frizvold,
north of Slayton.
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William Lowe, a pioneer resident
of Albert Lea since 1866, is dead at
Greeley, Colo. He had held many
public offices in Albert Lea and Freeborn county.
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John J. Furlong of Austin, president
of  the  state  fair,  is  confined  to  his
. home  with  a broken  arm  as the result of jumping from a moving Chicago Great Western train.
HAPPENING
HERE AND THERE.
FOUR BANK BANDITS TAKEN
Bold Daylight Raid at Kasota, Minn.,
a Failure.
Three hours after they attempted to
rob the First State bank of Kasota by
a bold daylight holdup four bandit!
were captured by Deputy Sheriff C. J,
Norman of Nicollet county, Chief of
Police M. Dempsey of St. Peter and
Marshal C. J. Swenson of Kasota
about eight miles south of St. Peter.
The capture terminated an exciting
chase, in which more than a score of
officers and deputies joined.
The men under arrest gave their
names as James R. McCarthy, James
Peterson, William Murphy and Ernest
Erickson. McCarthy, the ringleader,
is the youngest of the quartet. He is
twenty years old. Each of the others
is twenty-two  years  old.
The four entered the bank. Cashier
O. P. Buell looked up from his work
to find a revolver pointed at his head.
Mr. Buell dropped down behind the
counter and the four men, thinking
he had reached for a weapon, rushed
out of the bank.
ADDITIONAL
LOCAL NEWS
HOPES TO SECURE $100,000
Belgian Relief Committee Now Ha»
$60,000 in Cash Contributions.
Advices received by the executive
committee of the Minnesota Belgian
Relief Fund show wide differences in
the activity among Minnesota communities in raising contributions with
which to buy flour for the famine
threatened Belgians. Some cities are
doing magnificently, while others are
said to be falling far short of what
had been expected of them.
The committee is desirous of securing a total of at least $100,000 in
cash contributions in this state by
Dec. 20, in order to start the flour
shipment to Belgium soon. Only about
$60,000 has been raised to date. Contributions should be sent to the local
bank, miller or elevator agent in
each, community, or to Joseph Chap
man, treasurer, Northwestern National
bank, Minneapolis.
HAMMOND CALLS ON WILSON
President Promises to Visit Minnesota  in   1915.
President Wilson will visit Minnesota in 1915. He announced his purpose in this regard in the course of a
conference he had with Governor Elect
Hammond. ..Mr. Hammond called at
the White House to invite the president to visit Minneapolis on the occasion of the meeting of the Traffic association in that city in March.
The president said he would be unable to got to Minnesota at the time,
as he had already planned to spend
a part of March and April in the Panama canal zone.
The president said he is anxious to
make a trip to Minnesota and that he
expects to visit the state some time
next year.
SLAYS WIDOW AND HIMSELF
WOMAN KILLED BY ACCIDENT
Shot Down When Rifle Relative It
Cleaning Is Discharged.
Mrs. Vernon Turner, wife of a
young farmer of Randolph, was
shot and killed by the accidental discharge of B rifle which Stanton Mac-
elreth was cleaning in the Turner
kitchen. Macelreth is a cousin of
Turner. He said he did not know the
rifle was loaded.
Man Kills Woman When Ordered
From Kitchen.
Gust Palm shot Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett, a widow, at Atwater and then
shot himself through the head. Palm
died instantly and Mrs. Bennett died
half an hour later. No motive can be
learned.
Mrs. Bennett formerly lived at
Hutchinson and has been running a
restaurant at Atwater for some time.
Palm entered Mrs. Bennett's kitchen
and she ordered him out. As she
turned away he shot her.
Palm's only known relative is a son
in Sweden. His wife is dead. He was
forty-four years old. He worked for a
farmer two miles south of Atwater.
STATE   BANKERS   TO   MEET
Relations With Federal Reserve Bank
Will   Be  Discussed.
Bank Superintendent Turrittin has
called a conference of state bankers
of Minnesota at St. Paul Dec. 22
"to discuss matters of mutual Interest." The chief subject of the conference will be the relation of the
state banks, of which there are now
8S2. to the federal reserve bank.
Some state banks have nationalized,
explaining that it made it easier for
them to work with the federal reserve
bank, though the federal law allows
state banks to participate. The conference will discuss how co-operation
of state banks with the federal system can be made easier.
W.   C.  WHITEMAN   IS   DEAD
Was Once Minnesota Editor and Member of  Legislature.
News has been recehvd at Duluth
of the death in San Diego, Cal., of
W. C. Whlteman, for a number of
years a well known editor and state
legislator of Minnesota. Mr. White-
man was owner and editor of the
Herald-Star of Ortonville, this state, up
to four years ago, when he moved to
California and besan the publication
of a commercial paper in San Diego,
lie was a member of the state legislature for one year and a president of
the Minnesota State Editorial association.
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Mrs. John Koenig. ninety years old,
who came to Minnesota in the earliest
of pioneer days, is dead at Owatonna.
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Henry G. Farmer, born in Stillwater
sixty-eight years ago. is dead.
Roads are perfect for autoes.
Fourteen below Monday
morning.
Our native cattle is of a
poor beef type.
Jos. Smuda returned from
Minneapolis last week.
Andrew Schnittbauer
caught a wolf last week.
Frank Brandl paid a visit
to Minneapolis Monday.
Stearns County built 55
miles of good road last summer.
W. A. Cook returned from
Minneapolis and Minnetonka
yesterday.
Henry Dengel of Buckman
transacted busiues in the village Tuesday.
John Starr of Buckman
collected a wolf bounty last
Saturday.
Casper Nohner of Hoffman
is visiting his parents over
the holidays.
The cold weather we have
had caused the cement walks
to burst in some places.
This man Fulvermachei
ought to be able to get a job
in Germany just now.
Mrs. Fuerstenberg and
children are visiting relatives in Albany this week.
Albert Feucht arrived last
week from North Dakota, foi.
an over X-mas visit with relatives.
Fergus Falls is withoui
street lights because of tin
empty city treasury to pay
for illumination.
A Melrose business man
was told to have his" scales
repaired after inspection. His
forgetful ness cost him $33.75.
Found—A small, prayer-
book near the Pierz Hotel.
Owner can have by applying
for same at the Journal
Office.
Cass Lake. —Albert Marshik is remodeling his building preparatory to putting
in a stock of groceries and a
meat market.
Plant kind w^ords in the
poorest soil you can find; the
richest man's conservatory
will not be as fine a garden
as yours.
John Goodman and wife of
Wisconsin are here visiting
with the Anton M. Ranch
family. Mrs. Goodman is a
sister of Anton.
Mr. and Mrs. H.A.Nolting
of Hope, N. D., are here visiting with A. Kainz and wife.
Mrs. Nolting is their daughter; her maiden name was
Mary Kainz.
If the Luce electric line
hits all the towns that are
expecting it and subscribing
stock, it will spread like a
spider web all over the state.
We note stock selling and
building prospects are spoken of by the papers at Fairmont, Long Prairie, Sleepy
Eye, Spice r, Hutchinson,
Albany, Swanville, Foley.
Aberdeen and other points, to
say nothing of Cosmos, Cedar
Mills, Manannah. Kingston
and other closeby localities.
ADDITIONAL
LOCAL NEWS.
A very pleasant birthday
party to Jos. Otremba was
given on Thursday evening.
Relatives and neighbors
spent the evening very pleasantly. Cards and refreshments were on the program.
John Zeta, president of tin
Brainerd Sash and Door Co.
and E. W. Thomas, president
of the Lenox Development
Co. of Brainerd were in Pier?
on business the first days of
this week.
Small pox in St. Cloud.
Register of Deeds of Stearns
County is quarantined at his
home suffering with the dis
ease which he contractec
presumably from handling
papers from all parts of tin
county and state. ■
Peter    Pulverniacher    of
Swanville, has been the guest
)f Jos. Jaeger over last Sun-
clay. Mr. Pulverniacher solo
uis farm near Swanville ano
now intends to move to tin
village of Pierz to make his
permanent home here. About
twenty years ago he lived
liere and is well known by
our old settlers.
Last Friday evening Mr. ano
Mrs. S.M.Orton,Mr.andMrs..
H. H. Koep and A. F. Whiteside ot'SaukRapidsjinet witli;
crowd of farmers at the houn
>f Mr. John Findle'near Rice,
and assisted them in organizing   a   farmers   club.        Tin
following officers were elect
[id : President, John  Findle
vice president, Bert Wheeler
secretary and treasurer, Wm.
liioe; director,  Casper Then,
Aug. Sch.eel and L.Gottwalj
Idie members of this club art
very enthusiastic and will di.
all   in  their power to  make
Liieir semi-monthly meetings
interesting and instructive.
The honor of being tin
oest bread baker in a com
petition where more than 1,-
■)0() girls were contesting liar
fallen to Miss Helena Fier-
golla of Sauk Rapids. The
announcement was made Sat
urday by the agricultural
division of the University ol
Minnesota, under whose direction the bread baking contest was carried on through-
jut 'the state during the lasl
eight months. Miss Fiergolla,
whose percentage was 1)1.2,
will receive a free trip to
Washington, 1). C, in addition to a cash prize of $'25
and a fifth share in the class
prize of $25.
The saloons that will be
closed under the order of the
government owing to the
fact that they are in the
much mooted "Indian country " and come under the
1855 Indian treaty will not
receive the unearned portion
of their liscense money back,
according to the city attorney of Bemidji. " Under
ordinary conditions councils
in cities in which saloons
have been operated, but are
voted out. may refund un-
ised liscense money but as
the Bemidji saloons are put
out of business by the law. a
treaty which they have always violated, it cannot be
returned."'
VILLAGE TANK
IS SET UP.
The new village tank was
filled with water last Friday
evening and has been on the job
ever since. It was thought that
the bottom would leak like a
garden sprinkler the first few
days, but from tlie time the water was turned in until now, not
more than a quart of water escaped. The man who set up the
tank claims that with reason*
able ventilation, it should last
not less than 20 years.
Forty Hours Devotion,
Forty hours devotion held
in St. Joseph's church, began
Monday afternoon, and closet'
this (Thursday) morning. Rev.
Win. Gum per, Breckenridge,
Rev. J. P. Allendorf, Little
Palls, Rev. E. Steinath, Belle
Prairie, Rev. S. Schermers, Melrose, Rev. E. Scheuer, Holdingford, Rev. Jos. Janski, Bowlus,
Rev. H. Klein, Lastrup, Rev. F.
Hinnenkamp, Sauk Center, assisted Father Stiegler during the
services.
Christmas Greeting,
Do all the good you can;
By all  the means you  can:
fn all the ways you can;
In all the  places you  can;
At all times you can;
To all the people you can:
As long as ever you can;
John Wksley.
Drews-Bruijer,
Erwin Drews and Emily Bru-
ber  of   Hillman,   were  married
ist week at the home of   J.   ('.
Sural 1 in Little Falls. The
poung couple left the same day
for a short honeymoon trip tt)
points in the western part ot
[state. They will make their
home on a farm in Hillman.
Ot interest to Wood Buyers and
Sellers.
By request we publish below two sections from Chapter 560, General Laws ol
1913.
Sec. 5. Standard Measurement of Wood.—In all contract
for sale of wood, the term
"cord" shall mean 12 cubic feet
jf wood, in four foot lengths;
and if the sale is of ''sawed
wood,"' a cord shall mean 110
cubic feet when ranked, or 160
cubic feet when thrown irregularly or loosely into a conveyance for delivery to the purchaser; aud if the sale is of
"'sawed aud split wood,'1 a cord
shall mean 120 cubic foot, when
ranked, or 17") cubic feet when
thrown irregularly and loosely
into a conveyance for delivery.
Sec. 9. Whoever, in buying,
shall take a greater  number of
 cubic    feet   to    the	
cord, than is herein allowed and provided, or in selling,
shall give any less number, shall
be punished by a fine of not less
than ten dollars (#10) nor more
than one hundred dollars ($100),
or by imprisonment for not less
than ten (10) days nor more than
ninety (90) days in the county
jail, and the cost of each proceeding.
CORRESPONDENCES
Rural Route No. 3
Mr. and Mrs. DeRosier spent
Tuesday at tne Sweney and Le
Blanc homes.
Frank Shamel is constructing
a poultryhouse 1(3 by 40. Frank
says his poultry business is a
paying proposition.
Jos. Ethen has sold several of
his Y. S. automatic separators
in this vicinity.
Frank Wingenburg and daugh.
ter spent Wednesday at M. F,
S nith's home.
Mrs. Bay aire's and daughter
of Virginia, Minn., are the guests
of Mrs. Bayaire's brother, E.
Li.scault.
Viola Muncy, who underwent
au operation for appendicitis is
convalescent.
Mrs. M. F. Smith, MissNettit
Schermerhorn, Mrs. BazaireanU
laughter and Mr. and Mrs. E.
^escault spent Saturday  after-
toon at the H. DeRosier home.
Carl Beimert has erected a
iiew hog house, one of the largest in the country.
Mr. aud Mrs. H. DeRosier ano
-Jr. and Mrs. Muncy spent last
.Wednesday eve at the E. Les-
jault home.
Louis Gassert Sundaycd at
tile Stumpf farm.
Ed. Johnson is employed at
c.ie Nordstrom place.
F.J.   Wingenburg   and  T. H.
diggins were Little Kills callers
Friday.
Cha.s. Kohs was a Pierz caller
vVednesday.
East buii News.
Miss Theresia Banach visited
at the Emil Froehner home last
Tuesday.
^Johu Toiuala seen a wolf last
Sunday morning whilt driving
to church.
Pelegia Tomala is sick with
pink eye.
John   Meyer   is   on    the   sick
list.
Mr. and Mrs. John Reding Jr.
tud Mr. J. Reding Sr. called at
i lie John Banach home last
Thursday.
Wonder what Santa Claus will
j ring me this year.
E. Ferdinandson Dead,
It was reported here yea ter-
iay that Bd. Ferdinandson, who
JOUght potatoes in New Pierz
in July aud August, was injured
in Morris Tuesday while working as brakeman for the N. P.
R. R. Co., and that he died at
iiis home iu St. Cloud Wednesday morning.
Before going to press the
Journal was informed that the
report of the death of E. Ferdi-
nanson had been "somewhat exaggerated". It was a fellow by
the name of Frederickson, who
got killed. If there is anything
in a name, Ferdinansou had a
close call.
A   Desirable  Aequain.
Russian Footwear.
There   is   more   handsome   footwonr
worn in Russia thnti anywhere else In
the world.
GENERAL
MARKET^.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,	
Wheat, No. 2      1.01
Flax,        1.40
Barley   ..
Rye       ;i4
Oats       40
Ear Corn	
Hay  _.
Butter, Creamery ..
Dairy       27
Eggs    ;      -27
Flour, Best	
"    Straight      3.10
Low grade flour 1.60
Bran  1.35
Shorts   1.40
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.10
Potatoes        20
Beans        -J.00
Onions        80
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday   6.99
Friday 6.09
Saturday 6.82
Monday   6.74
Tuesday 6.89
Wednesday 6.98
South St. Paul
Live StockMarket.
Steers $7.75 to 7.86
Cows and Heifers,$4.25 to _.6.75
Calves, steady,,.. Sa.SO to 9.75
Feeders, steady, ...$4.30 to 7-00
Mrs. J. VV. Cameron of
Royalton, met with a painful
accident Wednesday evening.
She was going to ber borne
just east of town and when
near Nick Yonnk"s farm she
met an automobile and tbe
deadlights frightened her
horse, whicli shied and tipsel
tbe buggy into the old sand
pit. In the fall Mis. Cameron's leg was broken. Tbe
automobile vent rigid on
and Mrs. Cameron was compelled to lie there for about
an hour, when a son of M i.
Younk discovered her. She
was at ouee taken to lhe
Voiink home and the doctor
sent for.
A deliberate attempt was
made at How ird Lake on
Monday to wreck lhe Great
Northern coast flyer No. 1 o,
which passes through there
about ti a. in., and is d[tf in
Minneapolis an hour Later.
Tools stolen from the tool*
house of the company were
used on a section of the track
about a mile east, where the
angle bars and spike
removed from two rail
lengths. The tools and the
spikes were left by wrecl
near the track. Tbe engine,
tender and mail ear v
railed, but did not go down
the grade, whicli is steep at
that point. No one
jured. There were four men
in the mail car. but all
caped with nothing more
serious than a shaking up.
Au investigation has beew
start-
Mr    Ba.'kii:in-l9  that  Jimmy
Why. I wonl'ln't know htm.
Settler- '■ would.   Jim U
one of our richest citizens now.—Wa**v
Auto License Time at Hand,
Automobile  ov ine-
sota   must   secure   new    license
for  their machines before
January 1st. Tlie present lie
tags were for a period of   t
years—1912-13 14—and the time
limit   for which they h.
l.muary   1st and
old licenses  on ter   that
date    will   maki
. liable to prosecutic tary
of   State   Schmahl
ue about 100,000 nev
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