The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1914-12-03

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PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 6. PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, DECEMBER 8.  1914.
SO. 25.
APrENINGS
HERfi AND THERE.
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
DECLARES WA8E ACT ILLEGAL
Judge   Catlin   of  the   Ramsey   County
District   Court  So   Views   Minimum Statute for Women.
Holding the minimum wage law enacted by the 1913 legislature to be un-
constituticnal Judge Catlin of the
Ramsey county district court, sitting
at St. Paul, handed down a decision
ordering a temporary injunction
against State Auditor Iverson and
members of the minimum wage commission from expending further money in the work of the commission.
The ruling also suspends the orders
of the commission fixing a minimum
wage  for women and  minor workers.
Judge Catlin's order makes the
minimum wage law ineffective until
the case has been tried on its merits.
His decision will be appealed to the
supreme  court.
In granting the petition of B. W.
Williams, shoe manufacturer of Winona, for a temporary injunction
Judge Catlin ordered that Williams
be required to furnish $1,000 bond.
"The actual working of the law
would be apt to increase immorality
if morals are dependent upon wages,"
Judge   Catlin   asserted   in  the  ruling.
The law was held to be unconstitutional because it delegated the legislative powers to an appointive commission and placed in that commission a discretion as to whether there
should   be  a  minimum   wage.
"Even the state cannot lawfully
become a 'pater familias' until the
form 6f government has been entirely   changed,"   Judge   Catlin   declared.
The second constitutional ground
on which the court based the decision
was the abridgement of the right of
the individual to contract. The law
interferes with both the employe and
the employer, according to the court.
The abridgement of contract was held
to be in violation of the Fourteenth
amendment to the constitution of the
United States.
HAPPENINGS
HERE AND THERE.
Minor Happenings ol the Week
Throughout Minnesota.
ADDITIONAL
LOCAL NEWS
STABS HER LOVER TO DEATH
Woman Then Commits Suicide by Inhaling Gas.
A stab wound and not a bullet
caused the death of Frank Hansel,
bartender, whose body, with that of
the woman believed to have murdered
him, was found in a gas filled room
at St. Paul.
When the man's body was examined
it was believed he had been shot, but
an autopsy showed that death was
caused by a knife, apparently a thiu
bladed dagger. The weapon has not
been found by the police.
The woman, who committed suicide
by inhaling illuminating gas, was Mrs.
Charles Mattson, said to be the divorced wife of Charles Mattson, a
Minneapolis porter.
A series of jealous quarrels and
hand to hand fights is said by the police to have been the prelude to the
double tragedy.
STATE    OFFICIAL   IS    DEAD
Member of Minnesota Tax Commission
Passes  Away.
Death created another vacancy in
the list of state officials when O. M.
Hall, member of the tax commission,
died  at  St.  Paul.
Mr. Hall had figured more or less
prominently in political life of the
state since 1885, when he became a
member of the state senate from the
Third congressional district. Later
he served two terms as congressman
from  the  district in  Washington.
Governor Johnson appointed Mr.
Hall to the tax commission in 1907
when the body was first created. In
1912 en the expiration of his term he
was reappointed by Governor Eberhart.
Mr. Hall was born in 1S48 at Con-
neaut, O.
WOUNDED HUNTER ENDS LIFE
Finding Returned by Coroner's Jury
at Virginia.
Accidentally wounded in the arm
while hunting, Charles Magnuson of
West Duluth lay alone all night suffering excruciating pain in a shack on
Lake Dinham, near Bllsmere, and, unable to stand it longer, put one of
his remaining cartridges in his rifle
and blew off the top of his head.
This was the finding of the coroner's
jury at Virginia.
Indications were that Magnuson had
shot himself in the left arm. The
wound, however, was not serious, but
may have been exceedingly painful,
while the cold must have been severe.
BELIEVE HUNTERS ARE DEAD
Searchers Fail to Locate Three Missing Men.
The serening party from Ely which
went to the north arm of Burntside
lake and made a search for three
hunters last seen in a canoe on the
lake last week, returned and reported
that all three men probably are dead.
The missing men are John Ktlbanen,
Erick Peterson and Joseph Anderson.
Vice Chairman Peter M. Kerst of
the federal reserve board, in making
public the weekly statement of the
Ninth Regional Reserve bank of Minneapolis, disclosed some interesting
figures. The first installment of the
capital stock is now $808,301. The
hist installment of the reserve deposits of the member banks is $7,772,534.
The amount of federal reserve notes
actually in circulation is $175,000. The
loans and discounts total $175,000.
Gold on hand is given as $8,467,950.
Legal tender certificates are $67,591.
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According to the official count W. S.
Hammond's plurality for governor is
12.574, which is just thirty votes more
than his plurality in Ramsey county.
Pluralities of other candidates on the
state ticket were: J. A. A. Burnquist,
lieutenant governor, 47,267; • J. A.
Schmahl, secretary of state, 83,485;
J. A. O. Preus, state auditor, 89,065;
W. J. Smith, state treasurer, 82,388;
L. A. Smith, attorney general, 101,347;
O. P. Jacobson, railroad commissioner,
65,539; George L. Bunn, nonpartisan,
for supreme court, 22,177.
•j.   .j.   .;.
Captain F. G. Marsh, one of the last
Mexican war veterans in Minnesota,
is dead at the home of his-son at
Windom. He was ninety-one years
old. He was born at Windham, Vt,
Jan. 12, 1823, and when twenty-one
years old enlisted in Company I, Second United States regular infantry,
and served in the Mexican war as a
sergeant. In the Civil war he was an
officer in Company B, Twenty-third
Wisconsin volunteer infantry.
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Complete returns from the Sixth
congressional district show Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh defeated
his Democratic opponent, Dr. J. A. Du
Bois, by 3,955 votes. Mr. Lindbergh,
however, fell short of getting a ma-
majority in his district over all opponents by 1,650 votes. T. J. Sharkey,
Progressive, polled 1,836 and O. M.
Thomason, Socialist, got 3,769.
David D. Williams, who fought Indians in Minnesota in 1860 and who
has lived in Minneapolis ever since,
is dead. He was eighty-seven years
old. Mr. Williams was barred from
the regular army by lameness, but
served in the home guard at St. Peter
during the Indian outbreak in 1862.
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After walking fourteen miles in his
sleep, Roy Tower, a student at Carle-
ton college, was found lying unconscious in the streets of Lonsdale. He
is now in the Northfield city hospital.
His clothes were torn and soiled, but
he recalls no experience to account
for that condition.
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Sewall Martin, a iaading farmer of
St. Olaf, Otter Tail county, broke
through the ice on Lake Sewall and
was drowned. The ice was a foot
thick in most places, but where
springs flowed at one point it was
thin and there the skater met death.
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Walter Schultz, a young farmer living near Simpson, Olmsted county,
was found unconscious in the cellar
of his home and died a few minutes
later from the effects of gaseous
fumes emitted by a lighting plant in
the basement.
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The estimated value of Minnesota's
1914 staple crop is $281,203,482.60, according to figures made public by Fred
D. Sherman, immigration commissioner. Estimates were made on corn,
potatoes, oats, wheat, barley, rye, flax
and hay.
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Mrs. Mary O'Grady, aged seventy
years, is dead at St. Paul. For eight
years prior to 1906 Mrs. O'Grady won
first prizes at the state fair, both
for bread and pastry. Since 1906 she
was judge in this department at the
fair.
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Cokato's oldest citizen, Henry
Mooers, is dead. He reached that
place in 1856. Mr. Mooers was a
member of the Minnesota legislature
in the early sixties and was one of
the oldest Masons in the state.
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Jilted by his sweetheart, Vere H.
Mickel, twenty-four years old, employed by an Albert Lea butcher,,
hanged himself with a hitching strap
to a bedpost in his room. He left a
note  bidding the girl  goodbv,
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Raymond Wilson, ten-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. II. W. Wilson of Or-
ton, is dead from injuries received
while engaged in a friendly scuffle
with Martin Rice, a playmate, two
weeks ago.
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John Beckley, pioneer farmer and
apiarist of Rice county, died at Xer-
strand, aged ninety years. Mr. Beck-
ley was a leading agriculturist of
Southern Minnesota.
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Two   Galicians   crossing   from  the
American   to   the   Canadian   side   on
Rainy river broke through the ice, and
were drowned.
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Mrs. Isabel C. Henderson, who came
to Minnesota sixty  years ago, is dead
at     Minneapolis,     aged     seventy-one
years.
Ice is again going out of
Skunk and Platte.
Tlie East bound soo passenger  is nearly always late.
Jean L. Boerner has been
appointed postmater of Hillman.
Mrs. D. A. Hoover of Albany visited here a few days
last week.
Henry Goulet has been appointed postmaster of Onamia.
Peter Feucht and Albeit
Bayerl returned to Argyle
this week.
John Mishke in having
his building coated with galvanized sheathing.
The white fish season is
on and a few good catches
have been reported.
Wm. Faust of Minneapolis,
and Fritz Falsted of Canada
are visiting in the village.
J. Martini of St. Joseph
visited his son the cigai
man, over Sunday.
Jos. Jaeger sold his farm
east of the village to Frank
H. Kinimerinan of Parkston,
S. D.
Almost everyone overslept
Monday morning owing to
the dark and foggy atmosphere.
Louis Eller left Mondfiy
for Greenwald to assist hit-
brother Paul in his harness
business at that place this
week.
The open season on musk-
rats and other fur-bearing
animals is from Dec. 1st, to
April 15th.
The state legislature will
be asked to provide for a
1915 census. The last state
census in 1905 cost $65,000.
Joe. P. Meyer has been appointed village marshal, to
fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Win. Priemesberger.
Scarlet fever is reported to
be in the neighborhood.
Strict quarantine regulation
should be observed to prevent the spreading of thk
fatal disease.
Christ Block of St. Cloud
went out the 44th season and
got a deer. He never fails to
get a deer he says. Can
Louis Feucht or John Gross
equal that record.
A. W. Cook reports that
land buyers are coming into
the Sullivan lake country by
the dozens. He expects a
railroad to be built through
there in a short time.
Miss Otillie Weiner ofBow-
lus spent last week visting
the Wm. Schauble family.
Miss Weiner returned home
Monday accompanied byMiss
Lillian Schauble.
Soo Agent, 1). A. Hoover
took a few days leave of absence on Thursday of last
week and went to Wahkon
to look after his land interests there. He spent one day
hunting for deer but found
none. He returned to his
duties on Monday.—Albany
Enterprise.
ADDITIONAL
iTHE NEW
LOCAL NEWS.      VILLAGE TANK,
Mike Leese was a Pierz
caller yesterday.
Farmers are beginning to
haul wood to town.
Theo. Grossis busy recruiting his lumbering crew for
the winter.
John H. Grell has bought
new bar fixtures for his saloon.
Long distance telephone
calls now require 1 cent revenue tax.
The new owner of the Jos.
Jaeger farm will take possession March 1st.
Bob Wanninger and Wm.
Kingen drove to Fritz Her-
wes' place yesterday to buy
seed oats.
A few indians came here
from Mille Lacs lake last
Monday to do some dealing
iu our stores.
Monday is generally a big
day for traveling salesmen.
Over a dozen came with the
afternoon train.
Marriage licences have
been issued to Erwin Drews
and Emily Bruber and to
William Unger and Minnie
Stefien.
Mrs. Emil Leick, daughter
of John Kobieka died yesterday morning of scarlet fever.
She was 25 years of age, and
leaves 2 children.
Klein, the monument man,
is here again. He follows
the dead—and marks the
place where bleach their
bones, with marble and with
granite stones.
Jos. Blake left for Sauk
Rapids by train from Little
Falls Tuesday evening. Henry Vondenhoevel hauled tne
household goods yesterday.
Jos. will run a saloon in
Sauk Rapids.
C. E. Gravel's new office is
completed and the safe was
moved in Saturday. It was
quite a task to move the
strong box. They should
have taken the money out
first,
A. W. Cook of Sullivan
took tlie train for Minne-
tonka Monday morning.
Mrs. Cook has been at Min-
netouka several weeks taking care of her father who
is sick.
Win. Golgert of Platte reports that Mr. Magnon of his
neighborhood is not lost according to last week's report,
but that he had gone away
on a prolonged visit.
There are good hopes for
an open winter. It is said
open winter's nearly always
travel in pairs. The one
coining will be the mate to
the last one.
Miss Angeline Wermerskirchen. who is taking a special course in music at the
Villa Sancta Scholastica Academy in Duluth. came home
last Thursday to spend
Thanksgiving day with her
parents. She returned Monday to resume her studies.
Tlie new village tank is here
and will be set up in the course
of three or four days. Workmen
are now busy taking down tlie
old tank.
There will be no water on tap
during the time of setting up the
new tank, but tlie pumps will
work for from 5 to 15 minutes
at 8 o'clock in the morning, 1
in the afternoon and 7 in the
evening. Have your tubs ready
then and draw off enough to
last you.
VILLAGE TANK       GENERAL
RUNS DRY.   MARKET REPORTS.
tettei From Keller.
A letter from Alois Keller,
Mt. Angel, Oregon, accompanied by a newspaper clipping
states that Theresa Keller was
married to Bruno Ruet a few
weeks ago. Keller admits that
Minnesota is in many respects
:i better state to live in than
Oregon. Minnesotans, he chums
are more active, ambitious, and
"gewichster"; even the mosquitoes there lead a life of indolence. Keller himself might by
this time have fallen into drowsy lethargy, had he not taken a
suiplnsof Minnesota wit and
energy with him.
He concludes with a wish
that God would spare them for
a short visit with their old Pierz
friends.
West Buh News.
Oh! ah! y;i! Well, we area-
live again. Had a nice sleep
over the holidays and are feeling tine and dandy. How is
everybody ?
Miss Hilda Hanson called on
Mrs. Geo. Swanson last Friday
afternoon.
Edward   Johnson   came
from Dakota Saturday.
iiouic
A cave-in in the new village
well Monday morning caused a
dry town for a few hours. The
block of earth broke the feed
pipe from the well to the tank
and as a result the water in the
tank ran into the new well,
which is now over half full.
Those who opened the faucets
for water and got only anempty
wheeze,   sighed: 'Tis   true,
you never miss the tank till the
pipes run dry."
The new well is now 00 feet
deep and contains 30 feet of
water, whicli will have to be
pumped out before digging can
'oe resumed.
Lake Twelve News.
H.C. Smith and son Earl were
Onamia callers Saturday.
The Thanksgiving danse at
Tom Smith's old place was well
attended. A good time was enjoyed by all. Hut there were no
hobos to drink the beer.
Tom Smith wife and child and
i'Yank Sims were visitors at the
H- O. Smith home Thanksgiving day.
Robert and Peter Adkins were
Onamia callers Saturday.
Julius Van Huren and Fred
Lynn were in Onamia Saturday
o i business.
Robt. Adkins, H. C. Smith,
J. Vanheuven  and   Fred   Lynn
hauled sheep and cattle to On,i-
iiia Saturday.
Jos. llustak   wis a   caller
Henry Smith's Sunday.
at
Henry   Pierce   was a Sullivan
lake caller Sunday.
Mrs. Rob. Adkins motored to
Vineland Friday.
A ohilil takes the Tab
lets    with
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John Rassier of Little Falls
and his brothers from St. Cloud
and St. Joseph called at tlie H.
Wieland home Sunday and while
there they looked over their
land and bought in section 7.
A person might easily get lost
in this country lately since the
surveyor has been here. Lines
are very much changed.
James Johnson went to Swan
River where he will be employed
this coming winter, instead of
to Little Falls as before chronicled.
The last threshing of the sea-
son will be done by Mr. Ridlon
we believe. We heard that tine
old whistle today. It sounded
the death knell of the grain
slacks-
an event which took place at
least two months before recorded. We're a little late in answering the newrs concerning this
"went and been and gone and
done it" but—we should worry.
Wm. Balms is the proud own
er of a new manure spreader.
Some one else also believes in
easy days.
Miss Viola Muncy returned
from Little Falls last Wednesday where she has received medical treatment.
"'Went and been and gone and
done it'" Was sadly mistaken by
our Freedhem neighbor over
that way. We referred to the
rumors of wedding bells which
we had heard and not to what
our neighbor fondly thinks. We
always try to keep abreast of the
times. If we acddently went
back a few days to rehearse the
events  of  ancient   history,   we and Walter Wieland, Chas.John
did not   refer back   to medevial  son.   Arthur Peterson   and 1
history as our "up to the minute  rick Rhyan called at the Gilbert
in   news"   neighlxm  did a while Olson's home last Saturday eve-
ago when he (or she) mentioned  ning.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,	
Wheat, No. 2	
Flax,	
Barley        ;,o
Rye  .__
Oats      40
EarCorn       80
Hay $5.00
Butter, Creamery ..
Dairy       20
Eggs      1:1
Flour, Best	
"    Straight      3.10
Low grade flour 1.(50
Bran	
Shorts  1.40
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     l.lu
Potatoes        -JO
Beans       2.00
Onions        (50
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday   7.21
Friday 7.30
Saturday 7.21
Monday 7.12
Tuesday 6.85
Wednesday 8.85
South St. Paul
Live StockMarket.
Steers §7.75 to 7.85
Cows and Heifers,$4.25 to .  8.75
Calves, steady, $.").50 to  9.75
Feeders, steadv, ...$4.30 to 700
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Mr. Nordstrom and family
of Gravelville called at the C.
Johnson home Thanksgiving.
Wonder if any one has found
that chamois skin which was
lost by a young man from West
Huh some time ago? If so they
will greatly please this young
man if they return it to him, as
he needs it.
Mr. Holmstrom   was called to
Roseau,   Minn.,   shortly  before
Thanksgiving by the serious ill
ness of his mother.
Sometimes it will happen that
a persons live stock will break
down fences or jump over them
and get away, but I wonder is it
necessary to have them out all
the time, especially when they
busy themselves in the corn
stacks at the neighbors.
H.   Wieland    bought   a corn
shredder   last   week.     Us easj
work  husking  corn  now. Lei
the engine do it.
A couple of ladies from this
neighborhood decided to "see
Pierz'' one day last week. They
started out on a load of grain,
but were overtaken by Mr.Grell
and given a ride the rest of the
way. We wish to say that Pierz
has at least one kind hearted
man.
What's the matter with upper
Freedhem? Haven't heard from
you for some time. Rub the
sleepy seeds from your eyes and
come again.
Wonder what's the matter with
old winter." Came once nice and
tierce,    then    disappeared    and
instead came   weather astonishing like spring.  Spoiled skating
too, which was worse than anything it could have done. M daughter
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Mr. and Mrs. Wieland, Arthur ^^ yurintf
Platte News.
A   fair sized   crowd   attended
tlie dance  at Sigette's  Thanks-
giving and everybody had a good
time.    Excellent music was fur
dished by a gentleman from Su
perior.
Misses Addie and RoseFleish-
nacker, Miss Eisel and Math.
fiisel and Geo. Fleishliacker
visited several days at theFrank
Kluetsch home.
Chas. Young  and   family and
Mr-and   Mrs.  Kid Ion   and Miss
Helen Johns   of   Gravelville  at
tended the Thanksgiving dance
here.
There was a dance at the A.
Schramel place last Friday evening.
Anthony Rychner of Wyoming
is up here lor a few days hunting.
Take notice Theodore Brisk
the Pierz butcher was at Platte
Sunday.
Mike Trettel of Royalton visited last Sunday with his sisters
Airs. Math. Kowalzek and Mrs.
Joe Gaida.
Miss Vernie Smuda and little
sister leave Tuesday for Minneapolis.
Say, what's this we hear about
somebody getting scared out of
the woods. He! Ho ! Hi! Ha !
Make a mountain out ot a mole/
lull.
Mr. am Oeorge  Sigette
visited at Frank Kluels
Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. John 15 nski
left Monday for an extended
visit at the Twin cities and Silver lake.
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doing  when it  becomes  km
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