The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1914-12-24

              JOURNAL
VOL. 6.
PIER£, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, DECEMBER 24. 1914.
NO. 28.
HAPPENINGS
HERE AND THERE,
Railroads In Minnesota can charge
3 cents a mile for the first five miles
of a passenger trip, according to a decision of the supreme court.
The case arose under the Bendixen
2-cent fare law passed by the last legislature. The St. Paul road brought
a suit in the Ramsey county district
court contending that it had a right
to charge 3 cents a mile for the first
five miles of any passenger ticket.
The Bendixen law provides such a
charge can be made for the first five
miles, but the Ramsey court construed
It to mean only when a ticket is for
five miles or a shorter distance. The
supreme court reversed this decision,
and holds that regardless of the distance railroads are entitled to 15
cents for the first five miles traveled
and 2 cents a mile for the remaining
distance.
In its decision the court held that a
carrier may charge 3 cents a mile for
the first five miles of every passenger's trip, and this will mean an increase in passenger revenue to the
railways of the state of about $1,000,-
000 a year, according to careful estimates made by local rate men. Five
cents will be added to the cost of
every ticket for a trip longer than five
miles purchased in Minnesota, if the
railway attorneys recommend a literal
following of the decision.
GIRLS    AROUSE    SLEEPERS
Young Women Prove Themselves
Heroines  in Mill  City  Fire.
Two young women proved themselves heroines in a fire which practically destroyed the boarding house
of H. A. Crow at  Minneapolis.
They fought their way through the
flames in the hallways to the rooms
of the other boarders and did not stop
until all had escaped from the building.
The young women Miss Anna Rosenheim and Miss Amelia Berg, were
asleep in a room or. the first floor.
They were awakened by smoke. They
went into the hallway and found
flames  blocking their  way.
Without waiting to dress they
fought their way to the second floor,
screaming and pounding on doors.
When all had been aroused they
managed to reach the front door and
went into the street. There were
many narrow escapes.
The heroism of Walter Smith probably saved two women and a man.
They were sleeping on the second
floor. He stood on a window ledge
and calmly swung them, one by one,
to a window of the house next door.
VALUED AT0VER $180,000,000
Agricultural Products of the State for
the Year 1914.
The value of the 1914 crops of nine
agricultural products grown in Minnesota, based on Dec. 1 prices, was $180,-
453,170, according to the official report
of the bureau of crop estimates, United  States  department of agriculture.
Following is a summary of the production  in bushels and the value of
the staples:
Products—       Bushels.
Corn    91,000,000
Wheat     42,975,000
Oats    85,120,000
Barley     31,694,000
Value.
$47,320,000
43,834,000
34,048,000
10,797,820
4,668,050
71,400
3,750,400
9,849,600
20,113,400
Rye   . . -   5,245,000
Buckwheat   ..     102,000
Flaxseed      2,930,000
Potatoes   . . . ,30,7SO,000
Hay (tons)   .. 3,294^00
Except for potatoes, hay and corn
the prices this year are materially
higher than those of last. For corn
there was only 1 cent difference, for
potatoes the drop was 20 cents and
for hay it was 50 cents.
FOR VALUATION OF RAILROADS
Commerce Commission to Open Offices
in St. Paul.
The interstate commerce commission will open headquarters in St.
Paul about Jan. 1, 1915, for the purpose of directing the valuation work
now going on along the railway lines
centering there. An engineering force
of eight or nine men will occupy the
offices, which will be in the Lowry
building until the new Merchants bank
is reading for occupancy.
The St. Paul office of the commission will be conducted in conjunction
with that in Chicago, which is In
charge of Professor W. D. Pence.
Valuation work already is proceeding on the Great Northern, where it
was started several mouths ago by a
large number of engineering crews of
the commission, working with the valuation department of the road, and
on the Soo line. The other railways
of the Northwest will be covered aa
soon as possible.
The entire work in this section probably wU> g^,be completed inside ol
five ytmo.
Federal Authorities Raid Buildings at
Detroit.
Two buildings at Detroit formerly
Used for saloon purposes were raided
by the federal authorities and liquor
Siiid to be valued at 15.000 was emptied into an alley. Heads of barrels
and kegs were knocked in and bottles
wore broken, making a blend of whisky, line brandies and champagne never
seen before in the city. The stream
ot wasted liquor ran freely for half a
block.
HAPPENINGS
HERE ANO THERE.
In the report f de
partment   for   11'. jmmis-
sioner of labor,  W.   . ■;,  makei
riome important reooir.menJations regarding employment offices in .Minnesota. He urges the re-establishing of
the office of superintendent of employment offices, with a sufficient salary
to enable the department to procure
a man specially trained for this work
and capable of developing the state
offices in a scientific and businesslike
manner. He recommends also that
all private employment agencies shall
procure their licenses from the labor
department and that the licenses be
revocable by the department on the
conviction of any agent for violation
of the laws governing employment offices.
* 4-   *
A meeting of potato growers that
promises to be of great import to the
industry in Minnesota will be held at
University Farm, St. Paul, Jan. 7, The
gathering will be one of a series of
conferences held during the week
when the Minnesota College of Agriculture is giving its annual series of
short courses for farmers and farmers'
wives. Besides the meeting of the potato growers there will be conferences
of creamery managers, live stockbreeders, horse, swine, sheep, Short
Horn, Hereford, Holstein, Guernsey
and Jersey breeders, Minnesota Crop
Improvement association, growers of
fruit and county agents.
•}.   4.   .5.
Plea for a larger state appropriation
for the state fair is made in the annual report of the Minnesota State
Agricultural society presented to Governor A. O. Eberhart. by Secretary
John C. Simpson. The state now contributes $15,000 a year, but this should
be increased to $25,000 a year, it is
urged, and in addition provision
should be made for a new live stock
barn to cost $200,000, and for the extension of the grandstand at a .cost
of $40,000.
* +    *
The river and harbor bill ordered
reported by the house committee appropriates $75,000 less for Minnesota
local projects than the estimates submitted by the secretary of the treasury early in the session. Of this $60,-
000 was for work in the beech river
and for the Mississippi between Win-
nibigoshish and Pokegama reservoirs,
$5,000 for the harbor at Agate bay,
and $6,000 for Grand Marais.
* -I-   +
With the side curtains of their
buggy drawn to protect them from the
cold Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rebaume of
Washington township, Le Sueur county, failed to see or hear an incoming
passenger train and were run down on
a grade crossing near the Omaha station at St. Peter. Mr. Rebaume was
killed and his wife was hurt seriously, alhipugh she will recover.
+   +   *
S.   H.   Grefeley,   secretary   of   the
Equity    Co-operative  Exchange,    will j
leave  St.  Paul soon after Jan.  1  for
his home in Winnetka, 111., where he ■
will   look   after  his   private   business, j
I«s   has  bea||ffne  of  the  prominent i
factors in developing the co-operative
exchange at St. Paul.
j.   +   *
Mrs.     John    Shields,    ninety-seven j
years    old,     one     of     the     pioneer j
settlers    of    Mendota,   is    dead.    Mrs. j
Skields   came   to   America   from   Ire-
laid   in   1S50.     She   was   married   to i
.lohn Shields in the same year at Cincinnati,   O.     Five    years   later   they
moved to Mendota.
* -I-    -i-
The Minnesota Canners' association,
is session in St. Paul, voted to make
tbe executive committee of the organization a legislative committee to
keep track of all bills relating to the
canning industry introduced in the
legislature at the coming session.
+       'I"      -7-
William C. Smith, former assessor
of Ramsey county and a brother of
the late Robert A. Smith, who was
mayor of St. Paul several years, is
dead. Mr. Smith was born in Boone- j
ville, Ind., about eighty-one years ago. I
•:-  •*■  +
Angus McPhee, ninety years old,
one of the earliest settlers in that section of the state, is dead at Sleepy
Eye. He reached there from Canada
at a time when there was no railroad
in the country west of St. Peter.
* *   *
Mrs. Sarah J. Williams, eighty-one
years of age, is dead at Minneapolis,
her end coming less than a month
after the death of her husband. Mrs.
Williams came to Minnesota in 1857.
+   *   *
Fire starting over John Satter-
Strom's store at North Branch wiped
out the main busines block of the
city  with  a loss estimated  at  $100,-
000.
4.   4-    4.
Thomas Phelps, eighty-five years of
age. who was in turn a pioneer in
California. Minnesota. Wisconsin and
South Dakota, is dead at Minneapolis.
•;•  •:-  *
Statewide prohibition workers and
sympathizers will meet at a banquet
In St. Paul .Ian. 12.
* *   *
The new $18,000 schoolhouse at
Backus has been destroyed by fire.
Out and In.
Stella—When will Nella come out iu
society?    Bella—As   soon   us   her   parents break in.—New Vork Sun.
DDIT10NAL
LOCAL NEWS
ADDITIONAL
LOCAL NEWS.
Eighteen below zero the
last two mornings.
Henry Virnig took the
train for St. Paul Monday
morning.
"Feed tlie Birds" is the
appeal of the Audobau society.
Casper Braun and wife and
daughter visited relatives in
Adams last week.
Frank W. Marshik, who is
teaching at Kimball, is home
to spend the holidays.
Henry Solinger left yesterday to spend Xmas with
his mother at_Melrose.
Mike Tschida and family
have moved into rooms above
the John Schaefer bakery.
Theo. Stumpf is sawing
wood with a saw outfit he
bought from  Frank   Rauch.
Mrs. Gregor Mueller of
Little Falls was in the village Tuesday visiting friends
and relatives.
John Stuekmeyer and wife,
Math. Zierer and wife and
Mrs. Herm. Koering went to
Little Falls yesterday on
business relative to the Zierer
estate.
Mathilda Gollnick, sent to
Stillwater in 1907 for the
murder of her husband, has
been adjudged insane upon
an examination at the state
prison and has been taken to
the Fergus Falls hospital.
A double robbery Thursday night at Little Falls,
netted the thief or thieves a
complete outfit of wearing
apparel, including a valuable
coon-skin overcoat, from the
Victor Clothing company's
store and four revolvers,
three or four dozen pocket
knives and possibly some razors from the Adams & Love
Hardware company's store.
Whether both burglaries are
chargeable to the same man
is not known.
Flugen and another man
were arrested Tuesday at
Little Falls charged with
causing a fire which destroyed an outfit car at Darling
and which endangered a
whole string of cars. Flugen
was arrested here and the
other man vat Randall and
both were released. Flugen
was let go this morning and
stayed around the station
for a time and was later
found, according to the railroad authorities, feeding a
tire which was burning a
merchandise car on the house
track in the railroad yards.
Following closely upon the
announcement of the Luce
Electric line to build into
Benton county next year
through Glendorado and into
Foley, comes the statement
on good authority that the
'. Potter Electric railway company will also build into
! Benton next year. This line
would hit Gil man and Ramey.
opening up a large territory.
The electric line will probably be built from St. Cloud
to South Haven connecting
with the Soo line at that
place.
PERSONAL PROP-     INTERESTING
ERTY TAXES.   CORRESPONDENCES
Two hold-ups in one night
in Little Falls last week.
Mrs. Fred Stangle of St.
Cloud, who recently underwent an operation, is recovering.
The next session of the
state legislature will convene
at St. Paul on Tuesday, Jan.,
5, 1915.
Mr. and Mrs. Math. Sigette
of Cold Spring are here on
a visit with his brother Geo.
Sigette of Platte and other
friends. They will spend
Christmas in this vicinity.
Little falls.— The Elks
have decided in securing a
pair of elks from the B. P. (),
E. and appointed ai soliciting
committee to go after the
$225 necessary to get the
animals.
Jos. Gutman of Manitowoc,
Wis., who has beeii here for
some time on a visit with his
brother-in-law Anton Rauch
and other relatives, left for
his Wisconsin home Tuesday
morning.
South St. Paul.—For the
first time since the South St.,
Paul livestock exchange was
opened in 1887, the receipts
of hogs for a year passed the
1,500,000 mark Thursday.
The receipts of 8,800 head
Thursday was responsible for
the figure named. The years
total is expected to reach
1,600,000.
Four more officers were on
duty on the day and night
that the Indian payment was
made at Onamia and bootleggers found it a rather
shaky business to dispense
of firewater to the Indians.
It was the most quiet and orderly payment ever made
there for some time, both at
the time of making the payment as well as the days
following.
A. A. Poehler of Hender-
s )u, a former state senator,
is said to be a candidate for
the position of member of
the state board of control to
succeed Charles E. Vasaly of
Little Falls, whcse term expires on April 3 next, and it
is said that he has received
the indorsement of a large
number of leading Democrats. Vasaly's reappointment is opposed by the
Democratic state organization
it is said.
Quite a scandaL was created a few mornings ago by
one of our best known citizens beating his wife up.
Several of the neighbors
claim to have seen the incident. vVe withold the man's
name as he promised his wife
that it will never happen
again and as he is now
ashamed of his actions he
should not be condemned
too seriously by other husbands. It was at least 6:30
in the morning, and eye-witnesses delare that he not only
beat his wife up. but actually
had the fire going and coffee
pot on before the surpmea
lady could get to the kitchen
and fully realize how badly
she had been beaten.—Ex.
West Buh News,
VILLAGE OP PIERZ.
Bentfeld Elizabeth  S 5 10,
Boser, John J.   7 67      Sleighing; seems to be coming
Borgerding J. Co  117 28 s)ow   but  sure.   it   will have to
Brisk M.K. Co  --<> hurry   to   give  us   a    "White
Blake, Mrs. Jake  2 7.')  Christmas."
Boehm, John,  28
Bridgeman & Russell  11 66
Bares, Hubert-.  11 66
Bentfeld, Julia .-_  2 ">4
Burton, Barney  44 10
Bergerhausen, Franziska 2 10
Duncan, R. M	
Duscher, Jake	
Mr. A. Bloom has been hauling- wood to the school at Dist.
Xo. 104 for the past weel:.
A number   of   people .spent a
very   pleasant   eve ling    at   H.
10 08  Wieland's last  Wednesday. 'I he
2 12  occasion being   Mrs.   Wieland's
Eiler Win     115 56  birthday.
Paust, And  106
Faust, John N  75
Faust, Herman  )! 42
Paust, Prank  14 90
Faust Bros. Co  ."> 68
German State Bank  Yfrl 48
Gravel, Chas  11 00
Grell,Frank  6t> 70
Among the Little Falls visitors Saturday were Mr. Christ
Johnson, Hazel and Charlie
Johnson, Gilbert Olson and
daughter Mary, P'illmore Holmstrom and Walter Wieland.
The  program   given    at   the
Gilbride, P. J  I  (Hi  West. Buh school, Dist. 104, last
Grell, Joe H  69 9B  Saturday evening,   was   largely
Gross, John L.  '.I 4,")  attended and every one enjoyed
Gau, Henry   238  the program.    The teacher Miss
Gassert, Henry  18 28   Hanson, states that Santa Claus
Grell, John 11  .... 9 49 ' certainly was good to  her  that
Healy, R. G  1  45'evening and she wishes lo thank
the patrons   lor  the   very   welcome present.
Mr. and Mrs. 0. A. Olson and
children Olga   and   Arthur,   are
11  ^ i visiting   Mr.   Olson's    brother,
Hesch, Math  7 4B
Kubitschek, Math  3 CD
Koering, Herman  23 (S2
Kerkhoff, E. H  2 62
Karst, Nick,	
Kiewel Brewing Co  5 13 * Gilbert.      Mr.   O.    A.   Olson   is
Langer. Christ  1 6pJfron, Kensett, Iowa, and intends
Lust, Henry  * a-jto   locate   in    Minnesota    now.
Meyer, Jos. P-  s()!Must  be   that   Minnesota   is   a
Meyer, Nick   4 #Lretty   ,ood   st:ite   a{ter   aj| so
Meyer, Val & Pete  Hid
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Mueller, N. H	
Marshik, Frank	
Mund, John,	
Newman, Mary...	
Nelson, Frank         1   71
Nolmer, Clara       1  8fi
Neisius, Jacob * 46 20
Pavlu, Albert,  90
Priemesberger, Win..        1   27
Priemesberger, St. & Fr.     18 :>\
Bierz Creamery Association        10 09
Philippi, John       1 01
Peterson, J. C. (receiver
of J. M. Blake store)..
Poster, Peter L	
Paul, Henry	
Poser, Geo. Jr.	
Poser, Lorenz     J
Stiegler, Rev. J. G	
Stoll, A. P.,	
Schraut, Mike	
Schmidtbauer, Mike,...
Scoles, R. C. 	
Sc li wan k I, Fran k	
.Smith, J. F.	
Stangl, Frances       1
Tembreull, Christ	
Virnig F. X. & Co _.
Von der Haar, Anna	
Vosen, Elizabeth  .	
Winer, L.	
Wermerskirchen,Mary ..
Wise. Frank	
Wilkes, B. H. 	
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Boehm, Prank   4  7.)
Boehm, Frank X.  5 51
Brummer, J. J.  7 (H">
Bolster, F. O.,  Hi ;S7
Eidenshink-, John  7 9o
Faust, Christ  9  lb
Gendreau, Paul  14 08
Gruber, Jos  12 42
Hesch, John  14 01
Jansen. G. A ... 16 21
Janisch, John,  6 91
Kandel, Frank  4 90
Kippley, John  10 09
Kippley, Wm   4 97
Langer. Peter  7  17
Leidenfrost, Wm  13 2-<
Loidolt.John  19 62
Langer, Lizzie  7 0JJ
Meyer, Math  11  42
Meyer, Nick"   12 89
Neisius, John..       li] 45
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many people from other   places
are coming.
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1  50      Mr.   Frank   Beckman   was
3 f,o' Pierz called last Saturday.
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Mr. Wieland hauled wheat to
Pier/, Monday.
Art and Walter Wieland called
at the Schneider home last
Sunday.
Miss Hilda Hanson, teacher
of Dist. 104, returned to her
honie near Little Falls to spend
Iter Christmas vacation.
If a person would have cared
to enjoy a queer sighl i he-
could easily have witnessed one
last Sabbath. At about 2:20 p.
m., a procession consisting ol
three representatives of the
masculine gender and ditto of
feminine, was seen slowly wending its laborous way from the
school house southward. All
were loaded with the leniaining
ornamentation and requisites of
the Xmas program. One of the
males had the audacity to wear
a straw hat. This parade was
a sigh worth seeing.
Mr. Alfred Johnson who at
tends high school at Little Falls
is spending his Christmas vacation at home. Mr. Edwin who
attends college at Fergus Falls
is expected some time this
week.
GENElu
MARKETREPORTS.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,      1.12
Wheat, No. 2       1.10
Flax,        1.15
Barley   _.
Rye        96
Oats      40
Ear Corn ....      60
Hay 	
Butter, Creamery ..
Dairy	
Rggs    !
Flour, Best	
"   Straight	
Low grade flour 1.60
Bran     	
Shorts  1.40
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.10
Potatoes 	
Beans      2.00
Onions        60
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday   6.99
Friday  ...6.09
Saturday ..6.82
Monday  _
Tuesday I
Wednesday  6.98
South St. Paul
Live StockMarket.
Steers $7.75 to 7 -5
Cows and Heifers,$4.25 to __6.78
Calves, steady, $5.50 to  9.75
Feeders, steadv, ...$4.30 to 7 00
Platte News.
Home and Baby
Burned at Tamarack
The  3-year-old   child  of  Mr.
Well, correspondent had visions of a sleigh ride Sunday.
But by Monday they had faded
away. Wonder if we get the
white mantle by Xmas. That
reminds me; 1 wish you all a
Merry Christmas, and a happy
New Year.
There will be a New
Year's dance given at
Geo. Sigette's Thursday,
Dec. 31th. Everybody is
invited to attend.
Mrs. Ben Richiner visited in
Little Palis tin- past week.
Walter Madson of Swan
lii ver is visiting Pete Johnson
this week.
Miss      Ma reel ine     Le     May,
teacher     in     Dist.    71,     closed
school Friday    for   two   w<
vacation.
Theo. and Sara Rychner \ is-
Ited at C. Reese's Sunday afternoon.
Ed. Ryclmer and Tillie Olson
called at C. Reese's Saturday
evening.
Nagel, John     .
Otremba, Jos	
Otremba, Aug ...
Otremba, Frank ...
Ranch, .1. N	
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and Mrs. O. C. Elkins of Tamarack was burned to death  Tuesday morning and  the   home en
tirely  destroyed.      The   father
and   mother   and    the     tatter's I which all creditor* of the
,, ,      , ii      u 4      Ueoedeut mav present   claim-,   airaiust
brother had gone to the barn to I, .   '   .
H Ins   estate   m   this   court,   be   and the
(Puh. I).-.-. 24, 31, and Jan. 7.)
Okdkk     Limiting    Timi.   ro   l-'ni.
CLAIMS AMI     I OK   IIlAKINT.  Till  K
Estate of Mary Zuleger, formerly
Mary Grell.
STATE OF MINN I.
County  of   Morrison        J
Iu Probate Court.
In the matter of tl of  Mary
formerly   Mary   Grell,
nt.
Letters of adminiatrati '<)fore
having been granted to Frank J.
Zuleger.
It is Ordered, That the time within
milk, leaving two children
asleep. The house is supposed
to have caught tire from an
overheated stove.
Piojariy Taxes Goniinjed
same hereby is limited to three months
from and after the date hereof; and
that Saturday the 27th day of March,
1915, at lOo'clo.-k a. in., in the Probate
Court Rooms at the Court House at the
city Of I^ittl.- I'alls in said count
and the same hereby is, fixed and ap-
i pointed as the time and |jjac: for hearing ii|X3n and the examination, adjustment and allowance of such claims a.
shall be presented within the time
aforesaid.
i Stumpf. Ueinhart.__.... 1
(Sporlein, Fred  7  11 .,  ,,
I Thommes, Mike  1" '.i'.' publication of ti,
Rauch, Joe ._     In """'  'fhommes. Math...    . 16 74  Journala» provided by law.
Renneberg, Ed     10 86jTerhaar Herman  12 17     t>-^di>-
Uauch. A. M.       10 26§Theser,'Won  -
Stumpf. Ed      Q 01  'fheser. Titos.  I
Stumpf, Frank     13 94y|erk, H. J   10 7:,
Schnurer.Math       7 co  \-jerk. Herman  10
Stumpf. Mrs. Theresia..      6 15  Vorath. John  tending til
Stumpf, Theo       1 58 Wuellner, Henry  s home for the lioli
K. K. SHAW.
Judge of Probate.
Thomas ruicIiI
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