The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-01-21

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PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JANUARY 21, 1915.
NO. 82.
STATE NEWS BITS
Minor Happenings of the Week
Throughout Minnesota.
The state normal school board,
through its president, Ell Torrance of
Minneapolis, has announced that it
will not ask the legislature for any
appropriations for new buildings during the coming biennium. The board
is attempting to eliminate the elementary course, which formerly attracted two-thirds of the students at
the five normal schools. While this
process has resulted in a slight dimu-
nition in enrollment the board believes the schools are becoming true
normal schools instead c*f remaining
high schools in part.
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« Minnesota's inheritance tax law, under which nearly $1,000,000 already
has been collected from the estaf- Jff
nonresident decedents, is under Tire
before the state supreme court. The
. case comes from St. Louis county on
the appeal of Melvina W. Graff, widow and executrix of the estate of Edmund D. Graff of Pennsylvania. Mr.
Graff owned stock in the Scott-Graff
Lumber company, with an estimated
value of $332,000 In Minnesota, assessed at about $13,000 for the inheritance tax.
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Alfred J. Boardman, formerly prominent in Minneapolis, is dead in California. Mr. Boardman settled In Minneapolis in 1878 and became extensively interested in real estate and
for some years was prominently engaged in that business. During the
fifteen years of his residence in Minneapolis he devoted much of his time
to public affairs, for six years was
a member of the park board and for
two years its president.
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Every important anti-liquor force in
Minnesota is united in a finish fight
for statewide prohibition. High license, local and county option and
every other halfway measure have
been discarded and at the annual
union statewide prohibition banquet
at St. Paul representatives of the
eight leading temperance organizations in Minnesota pledged their support to absolute prohibition.
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Carlos Avery of Hutchinson, former
executive agent of the game and fish
commission; has been appointed a
member of the commission by Governor Hammond. With the appointment went a recommendation to the
board that Mr. Avery be elected executive agent of the board. He was
appointed to succeed F. B. Myers of
Biwabik.
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Mrs. Katherine Thielen, seventy-six
years old, one of the earliest residents of Minneapolis, Is dead. Mrs.
Thielen came to Minneapolis with her
father, Nicholas Schaefer, in 1850.
They drove from Indiana to St. Anthony with a yoke of oxen. She leaves
four children, seventeen grandchildren iu. 1 six great grandchildren.
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Alfred Dawson Barrett, former prisoner at the state reformatory in St.
Cloud, who escaped and for two years
has been in Detroit, Mich., where he
is said to have been a model citizen,
has been conditionally pardoned by
the Minnesota state board of pardons.
The condition is that he shall not
.violate any state or federal law.
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All cattle for dairy purposes sold
out of the stock yard centers of the
state are to be tuberculin tested, according to the decision of the state
live stock sanitary board following a
conference with a committee from the
South St. Paul exchange and repre-
senatives of the health departments
of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
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Six thousand St. Paul and Minneapolis citizens assembled in mass
meeting at the St. Paul Auditorium
and adopted a resolution declaring it
to be the imperative duty of congress
forthwith to pass the necessary laws
enabling the president to lay an embargo on all contraband of war, excepting foodstuffs alone,
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Mrs. Roxanna G. Smith, wife of
Fred L. Smith, president of the Harrison & Smith company, is dead at
Minneapolis, .mlfte' was born in Saco,
Me., Aug. 4, 1843. She reached St.
Anthony in September, 1857, with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sinclair.
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Henry Harris, ninety-six years old,
is dead at Madelia. He is survived by
hio widow, two sons and-three daughters. Mr. Harris and his wife had
oeen married seventy-three years and
*Ttad lived in the vicinity of Madelia
most ot^mt, time.
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As the curtain fell following an entertainment in which his son had participated with other students of the
Cathedral high school at St. Cloud,
Peter Hansen, contractor, sank back
in his seat lifeless.
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Dr. J. S. Collins, county physician,
reports an unusual showing for November and December in that during
those months not a single death occurred in Houston county from an'
acute disease.
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Total deposits in the state banks of
Minnesota show an increase of $9,777,-
742 in the past year.
Upper Freedhem News.
Mary and Annie Holm visited
at tbe Kaestner home last Sunday.
H. Sclmeider and wife and P.
Johnson spent Sunday afternoon
at tlie A. Enlund home.
Mrs. Moekler and daughter
Evelyn visited at J. Schultz's
Sunday,
Laura Peterson and Annie
Dahlgren called at the H.Schneider home Sunday.
Edna James and Alma Schneider spent Sunday evening at the
Dahlgreen home.
One young man will be sadly
disappointed not seeing bis
name in the paper. Cheer up,
it will be in next time.
Oscar Olson visited at W.
Dahlgren's Sunday afternoon
and evening.
Frank Dahlgren called Sunday
afternoon at P. James' home.
Arthur and Victor Enlund and
Otto Fuhrman hauled hay for
A. Berquist.
A. Enlund called at H.Schneider's Monday.
Miss Mary Cbapin celebrated
her 14 th birthday Saturday.
Quite a number of ber friends
attended and all bad a pleasant
time.
Mrs. N. Hebler, Effie Peterson
and El vera Hott'stedt visited
with P. Tretter and family last
Sunday.
LOCALS
Piatte News,
Miss    Mayme    Wallmark
Sullivan,   returned to   ber home
Sunday after a  weeks   visit at
tbe Chas.Young home inGravel-
ville.
Henry Paul will probably
go to Sioux Falls, S. D. to
take charge of a Bridgeman
Russell creamery. Henry is
a good man for the Company
and was popular with, his
patrons.
A light fall of snow early
Tuesday morning has made
fairly good sleighing.
Verily, who bloweth not
his own horn, shall have no
other blow it for him. The
Farmers' creamery, no doubt
elated over the report that
Bridgeman Russell intends
to move, has taken occassion
to fire a few salutes these
last few mornings. The shots
anywhere across the Atlantic pond might be taken for
the reports of the german
siege guns, but they are only the exhausts of the gasoline engine when starting
up—a faulty explosion so-
called by "gasoline-engiii-
ists."
St. Cloud, Minn.—Rt Rev.
Joseph F. Busch of Lead, S.
1)., was appointed bishop of
the St. Cloud diocese of the
Catholic church, to succeed
Bishop Trobec, who has resigned and will retire from
active church work. The new
bishop is 50 years old
was born in Red Wing where
his mother still lives. He has
°f: been bishop of Lead since
1910 and is a noted pulpit
orator.
BUCKMAN NEWS
West Buh News.
Frank Hesch   of  Minneapolis      O.   R.     Holmstrom   returned
visited at home the  past  week,  from northern Minnesota Thurs-
jday, where he was called   some
A.  A.   Hesch,   Henry   Block ' time in November by the serious
and   John   Sand    drove   to   St. 'illness of bis mother-
Cloud Monday to get 3 loads of
household  goods   for Joe  Hei-
metz who moved here recently.
SJiiivan Ne*s.
Frank Sand returned from a.
visit at St. Cloud  Tuesday.
John Bauer, Wm. Weiling and
John Enderle were in Royalton
Tuesday.
Peter Schreder was in Royalton Friday.
Tuesday will be the annual
Farmers'  creaming    meeting.
Mary, Emma and Clara Mischke, Katie and Barbara Otremba
and Arnold, Victor and Herman
Harold and Steve Otremba
called on Mary Otremba Sunday.
Mary Mischke
Cloud Friday, to
lessons.
left   for   St.
take   sewing
John Bares and Joe Otremba
returned from a fishing trip to
Sullivan Saturday.
Mrs. J. T. Schmid and child
ren leit for Jamestown, N. D.
to visit relatives.
John Poster, John Schmolke,
John Brandl aud Andrew Suess
went to Minneapolis to inspect
tne Luce line R. R. which is
au(j i supposed to be built past our
village. Another meeting will
be held here Tuesday, 1:30 p. in.-
in Mueller Bros. hall. Mr.
will be here himself.
P. A. Hartman  and   wife,
Mrs. M. K.   Wermerskirchen
and da lighter Hildegarde aud
The following parties spent;
Sunday evening at C. Reese's:
Misses Sara Rychner, Marceline \ Mrs. J. B. Hartman left for
Lemay, Eva Young, Helen.Tobns j Chaska last Monday morning
and Mrs.  Ben Richner, Messrs.  to atteud the funeraLof M]U
Wm. Young, Alfred Richner,
Theo. Rychner, John Rutz and
John Johnson. The evening was
spent in dancing.
Misses  Emma
and  Vera Smith
John  Boegeman,   who   died
there last Saturday. She was
la  niece  to   the   Hartman's.
,-, A The burial  ceremonies   were
Reese,   Agnes
and John  La-'lujld     iu     Chaska   Tuesday
Emil Hanson from Minneapolis, Miss Hanson's brother,
and Blarence Olson from Rail
Prairie returned to Little Falls
last Wednesday, after a visit at
J. A. Olson's.
Arthur and Walter Wieland,
Mary Olson, Chas. and Hazel
Johnson were Little Falls callers Saturday.
Jos. Rassier and Jos. Miller
from Little Falls were out here
the past week putting up fence
posts on section 7 which Mr.
Rassier owns. They expect to
begin in earnest in   tbe   spring.
Tbe Wieland Bros, sawed   the'
wood for school   No.    101    last
Friday. Six cords in 50 minutes.
Cool off boys.    You'll not   earn
money at that rate.
A. Carlson has been hauling
fence posts for Rassier   Bros.
Chas. and Edward Johnson,
Henry and Gilbert Olson called
at H. Wieland's   last  Friday.
Henry    Olson    called
Johnson Sunday.
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The Young People's meeting
at the Lutheran church, which
was held at P. A. Bloom's Saturday evening, was well attended by boys especially.
Joe Hortsch and wife returned,
from a visit with Mrs. Hortsch's
sister who is ill, at St. Cloud
Wednesday.
Mrs. Frank Beckman's brother from Iowa has purchased  the
Luce  fjen Lindberg place,   consideration $67.50 per acre. We   understand Mr. Lindberg will live ou
Geo. Waller and wife of
Rucker visited at the J. R.
Taylor home last Tuesday]
Mrs. Ole Christianson visited
with Mrs. G. E. Look Saturday
afternoon.
Quite a crowd from this vicinity attended the dance at
Vineland Saturday night.
Chas. Sanborn and wife visited at the Martin home   Sunday.
John Britton was a lal e caller Sunday.
Ole Christianson, wife and
baby were guests at Peter Adkins' Sunday.
John Smith left for Dakota
last week, to be  employed.
Frank Sims came to the town
clerk's   office   Monday   with   a
wolf which he caught in  a  trap
1 near his home.
Rieke Bros, have moved their
engine to the Robt. Adkins
place and will be readv to saw
in a week.
Miss Edna Lynn and Julius
Van Kuren were married by
justice J. A. Sanborn Manday
Jan. 17.
John Britton and wife were
Onamia visitors Monday.
Christ Grest of Little Falls
is selling fruit trees in this vicinity.
Lost—a perfectly good wolf
with a big bushy tail and attached to a large steel trap.
Anybody finding same please
notify Chas. Sanborn.
ABOUT THE STATE
News ot Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
FLOWERS NAMES COMMITTEES
Sixteen   of   His  Opponents   in   Speakership  Fight Are Selected for
Chairmanships.
Lizzie Sitzman of Little Falls
is home on a visit with her parents.
Well, our saloons   are
on Sundays   again   and
pinski and  John Rutz called at morning. After   the   funeral\g.reat help to our bur«?
closed
it's   a
Theo. Rvchner's Sunday.
We hear that Miss Mary Sigette is again employed at Pierz.
Sorry to see you go.
Tbe Pierz butcher, Th. Brisk
was a Platte caller Sunday.
.Peter Johnson recently sold
his farm to Mike Casey of Swan
River. Pete has now gone to
Mispob to look at land.
j the parties from Pierz visited
relatives in St. Benedict
where tlie mother of P. A.
Hartman, J. B. Hartman and
Mrs. Wermerskirchen lives,
and who has beeu ill for the
last year or more.
Saturday morning at 1:34
o'clock a. in. first quarter of
the moon.
In order that another wild Talk is cheap—except over
fowl refuge may be established the long distance telephone,
on  tbe  northern   shore  of  the
Gulf of Mexico, the Rockefeller Peter J. Gau Jr. of Cam-
Foundation has purchased an rose, Alberta, Can., is here
85,000  acre tract  of land in the ou a visit with   his
Earl Kohler of Freeport is
our new buttermaker. Mr. Kohler will move his family here
Feb. 15.
L. M. Jacobs will move to
Sauk Centre soon where he will
be employed as buttermaker in
the creamery there.
tbe place the   coming  year-
Among the Sunday callers  at
R. A.   Bloom's   were:   Mrs.    C-
Ekwall,     Mrs.
ss  Hanson.
[Nelson,     Mrs.
Mrs. A. A.  Hesch   called   on j
her sisters,   Mrs.   Joe   Heimetu
and Mrs.   Henry   Block   Tburs
day.
Mr. aud Mrs. Borchers and
Mr. and Mrs. H. Schneider were
entertained at dinner by Mr.
and Mrs. H. Wieland last Sun-
d.ty.
L. E. Gottwald
Rice visited  Mrs.
Tuesday.
and   wife   of
Faul   Hesch
parishes of Cameron and Vermillion, La., at a cost of approximately $225,000. The tract is
intended as a feeding and nesting ground for the use of birds
during the winter and as a pre
serve where they may be protected from hunters and other
enemies.
Messrs. George Kiewel, A
F. Coslosky and George
Moeglein of Little Falls returned Friday night from a
trip to Minneapolis where
they had gone as a committee to look into the Luce
electric line proposition. The
committee members state
that they looked into the
matter very   thoroughly and
parents.
his   brother
Ben H. Scheper of Lake Henry was in our burg the last of
the week.
moving
Docken     Bros,   are
their grain to Pierz.
Ed. Kahl  returned   from   St.
Cloud Monday from a visit with
He lives   with
Joseph,  who   is   running   a
butcher shop. He reports flnejbis sisters, Agnes and Mary.
weather   and    just* enough
snow- for good sleighing.
Warroad, Minn.—Engle <fc
Sou, who are drilling a six-
inch well for the city, struck
a strata of coal at a depth of
200 feet.   They   had   drilled      Math Thoiiimes will   move
through eight feet of it up to'to town about   the   first   of
6 o'clock last   evening,   and March,
are still in the   same   forina-
James A. Dengel returned
from Minneapolis   Monday.
Albert Dehler has a cow tbat
gives 16 quarts of milk. That's
going a few.
tion.
Born-
-to Peter   L.   Poster
An enormous cheese was recently made at Martinsburg, N.
Y., for  exhibition at  the Pana-
Jos. Jaeger and wife, re
turned last Saturday from a
week's visit at Cass Lake with
their daughter, Mrs. Anton
Langer.
An airship passed over
Pierz at 10:30 Saturday night.
Wm. Konen says he distinctly heard tlie whirr of the
propellers, which for a time
he mistook for the rumbling
of a freight train, until he
saw the ligiit of the aeroplane at an altitude of about
3000 feet. Wm. claims he
called John Grell out and
both witnessed the airship
for over 10 minutes when it
disappeared iu the east.
Neither Wm. Konen nor
John Grell are given to trivial prevarication (to state it
iu plainer terms, their reputation for truth and veracity
has never been questioned)
but when it comes to stating
that an aeroplane passed over Pierz at half past ten at
night, in January, there is
good reason to stop and ponder over the why and where-
for.
The ice harvest is  in
and wife, last week Monday,
a son.
full
the
inCalifornia this year. It weighs | village papulation is busy
nearly    seven   tons,
ma-Pacific exposition to be held, swing   and    about   half
A   parcel   post   shipment  of|!
in height, is over twenty five
feet in circumference and 10(5,000
pounds of milk were required in
its manufacture.
;>o,000,000.    Ihe use ot the parcel post system for the shipment      As tlie  curtain fell   following
"jof gold  from government mints an  entertainment  in   which his
made a trip over 32 miles   of! gold   coin   was  recently   made
road  already   in   operation.!flom tlle mint at Philadelphia
They seem to   be   favorably jto Boston- The Parcel contained
impressed and will  make   a
detailed report at   the   Com
mercial club meeting    to    be j is  gradually  increasing.     For-[son participated with other stu
held Monday evening.
Ice in Fish lake is 22 inch-
esthick.
measures j hauling    and    packing    the
feet, transparent chiUy stuff. The
light fall   of  snow   came   at
the right time  to   reduce the
cost of brawn and hauling.
meeting
creamery
Mou-
i
merly   the   express   companies; dents   of   tbe    Cathedral   high
did this for the Government but school, at St. Cloud, Peter Han
I they   are
planted.
being    rapidly   sup- sen, contractor,  sank    back
I his seat lifeless last Friday .
The     Farmers'
officers had a
day.
John Kapsner  and   Frank
deutist
South Agram News.
John Eidenshink and wife visited at Matii Sei nuivr's Sunday.
Jake Leidenfrost and Win.
Brummer called at the Thommes home Sunday.
Wm. Leidenfrost and wife
visited at the F*. O. Bolster
home Sunday.
Agnes Terhaar is on the sick
list.
J. J. Brummer and John
Hesch called at the Theo.
Stumpf home   Sunday   evening.
John Stumpf and wife visited
at Frank Boehm's Sunday.
MARKETREPORTS.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,      1.25
Wheat, No. 2       1-23
Flax,       1.75
Barley --    •":>
Rye    1.06
Oats       #5
EarCorn       00
Hay $5.00
Butter, Creamery ..      35
Dairy       27
Eggs    I
Flour, Best      3.80
"    Straight      3.20
Low grade flour 1.60
Bran  1.33
Shorts   1.40
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans      2.00
Onions         00
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday  —6.76
Friday 6.7a
Saturday 	
Monday 0.77
Tuesday	
Wednesday	
! Przybilla   called   on
Mover   yesterday.
South St. Paul
Live StockMarket.
Steers	
<B and Heifers,$4.25 to ..6.75
Calves, steady, $7i.r>0 to
Feeders, steadv, ...$4.30 to 7 00
Speaker Flowers has announced his
list of committee appointments for
the 1915 session. Out of the 130 mem-
ban of the house flfty.-six are committee chairmen and of this number
Speaker Flowers recognized sixteen
of the sixty-three men who opposed i
him for speaker and voted for Sam;
Y. Gordon.
Representative James Dwyer of Min-|
neapolis was appointed chairman of
the temperance committee. Two years
ago Mr. Dwyer voted against county
option and other temperance measures.
Two new committees were added to
those of the previous session, a committee on census and another on for-;
estry.
The more important chairmanships!
are as follow*:
Agriculture and Horticulture—John'
W. Papke.
Appropriations—L. C. Spooner.
Banks and Banking—J. H. Eriek-i
son.
Drainage—G. W. Burrows.
Education—George  P.  I-attin.
Elections—G.  B.   Bjornson.
General   Legislation—E.     11.    itihp
nack.
Grain and Warehouses—L. A. L.vrt-
iard.
Labor—T. J. McGrath.
Public Accounts and Expenditures
—('. I,. Sawyer.
Public Health—G. W. Rodenberg.
Roads and Bridges—C. \V. Bouck.
State Census—S. Y. Gordon.
Taxes and Tax Laws—T. H. Girling.
Temperance—James   Dwyer.
Towns and Counties—T. J. Green.
Workmen"s Compensation—John B.
Sanborn.
BILL FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Measure     Introduced     in     Minnesota
Upper House.
With the introduction in the upper
branch of the legislature by Senator
Sageng of a woman suffrage measure,
similar in character to those introduced by him in former years, the fight
on one of the most important questions that will come before the legislature this session began. Senator
Peterson's county option bill was
brought before the senate last week
nnd with the bill introduced by the
Otter Tail, senator the two topics that
will take up a great amount of the;
lime of both senate and house '
been launched.
The woman suffrage measure calls!
for an amendment to the state constl-:
tution and provides for a referendum:
vote.
Lieutenant Governor Burnqulst an-;
nounced the senate committees. The'
important  chairmanships  are:
Judiciary—Frank E. Putnam, Blue
Earth.
Banks and Banking—Harry F. Weis,
itur.
Municipal Affair.;—Georje H. Sullivan, Washington.
Cities of the First Class—James D.
Denegre, St.  Paul.
Agriculture—N. J. Holmberg, Renville.
Education—Henry N. Benson, St.
Peter.
Finance—A. J. Rockne, Zumbrota.
Civil Administration—F. A. Dux-
bury, Caledonia.
County optionlsts are In the majority In the temperance committee, the
elections committee is favorable to
woman's suffrage and the labor committee radical in Its membership.
MAJOR HALE DIES ON LINER
Former    Minneapolis    Postmaster    Is
Stricken   Suddenly.
Major W. D. Hale, former Minneapolis postmaster, died of heart disease
aboard the Pacific mail steamer
golia, bound from San Francisco to;
Honolulu according to a wireless;
message transmitted via the
port. Major Hale, a'-companied hy his;
wife and son William, sailed from San;
Francisco Jan. 9 and was bound for;
the Orient. He was seventy-eight!
jears old.
Major Hale served an aggregate or;
approximately   fifteen   years    iii
terms  as   postmaster  at   Minneapolis!
and retired last May.
DRAINAGE BOARD NEEDS AID
Governor Urges an Emergency Appro-;
priation of (2,000.
In a special message to the legislature Governor Hammond recommended;
that an emergency appropriation of|
$2,000 be made for the state drainage!
commission to pay for publishing the:
commission's annual report and for;
salaries and other expenses in thej
department up to April 1.
Governor Hammond transmitted a
letter from E. V. Viiiard, engineer of
the commission, showing tbat on Dec.
28 the commission had but $551.75. He
estimated that the expense of publishing the report, salaries and other office expenses up to April I wvuld be
$2,475.
Don't forget to attend the DANCE in Frank Faust's hall, held on Wednesday January the 27th, 1914,