The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-03-11

              PIERZ  JOURNAL
VOL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, MARCH 11, 1915.
NO. 39.
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE DEFEATED
Seven Hundred
Barrels of Beer
Gflne to Waste
Loses   Out   in   Upper   Branch   of   the
Legislature   by   Narrow   Margin
of One  Vote.
The resolution for submission of
woman suffrage to the voters of the
state was defeated in the senate by
a vote of 34 to 33. This is believed
to foreclose the possibility of the
women of Minnesota getting the franchise before 1920.
This senate holds over and if it is
called on to vote at the 1917 session
on submitting the suffrage amendment
to the people the result probably will
be the same. It is even likely that
two or three members who voted for
the bill will noi^ffo so again.
This means that it will be necessary
for the proponents of the measure to
win the senate elected in 1918, and
whicli will assemble in 1919. Should
suffrage pass that body the amendment will be submitted at the 1920
election and should it be approved
will become effective Jan. 1, 1921.
Thus it will be at least six years before the women of Minnesota can expect to vote.
HOUSE TAKEN BY SURPRISE
Resolution Asks Submission of Prohibition   Amendment.
Taken unawares by the introduction
of a concurrent resolution submitting
to the people in the fall of 1916 a prohibition amendment to the constitution the lower house of the legislature
came dangerously near finding itself
face to face with the necessity of voting on the measure and for more than
an hour a scene of intense excitement
prevailed.
Finally the opponents of the resolution, becoming aroused to the situation, succeeded in postponing consid
eration for one week, but it was a
close call.
The resolution which stirred up al)
the trouble was introduced by Repre
sentative John A. Harimore of Minne
apolis, who voted against county op
tion. Representative Levi M. Davis
of Long Prairie, who also opposed the
county option bill, joined with Mr
Larimore.
REFERENDUM ACT IS PASSED
Measure Approved by Minnesota
House of Representatives.
By a vote of 106 to 12 the lower house
of the legislature passed a bill provid
ing for submission of the initiative
and referendum amendment defeated
at the November elections. There
was little opposition to the bill, but
lengthy discussions regarding several
amendments offered by Representative Christianson of Dawson. These
amendments, Mr. Christianson said:
were intended to strengthen the bill
The only amendment of importance
was one by Mr. Christianson permit
ting the amendment of the state con
stitution when a proposed change re
ceives two-thirds of all the votes cast
on it, or a majority of the votes cast
at an election.
EXPIRES AT STATE CAPITOL
Well Known St. Paul Social Workei
Stricken   Suddenly.
MrS. C. G. Hlgbee, one of the most
widely known social workers and club
women of St. Paul, died suddenly at
the state capitol in that city, where
she was attending a hearing before
the house prison committee on the
bill to establish a woman's reformatory.
She had finished a speech in favor
of the bill about fifteen minutes be
fore she died. The exertion caused
by her speaking brought on an attack
of heart failure, resulting in her
death. About thirty women were
present at the hearing. Mrs. Higbee
was sixty-five years old. She had
lived in St. Paul nearly forty years.
FIRES FOURJiHOTS AT JUDGE
Unknown Person Sought Life of Minneapolis Jurist.
The fact that Judge W. W. Bard-
well of the Minneapolis municipal
court left the bench to get some papers from his office desk probably
saved his life. While he was leaving the courtroom four rifle bullets
chashed through the window back of
him.
One bullet fell at the feet of Swan
Nelson, the janitor, who ran upstairs
to the jail, thibkjng that one of the
prisoners there had fired through the
floor.
No reason for the attempt on his
life could be given by Judge Bardwell.
The bullets are believed to have come
from the roof of a nearby building.
Explosion Kills Workman.
John Christenson, aged forty-five,
was killed and John Anderson was
severely burned when an acetylene
gas tank about which they were working at the shops of the Brown Sheet
Iron and Steel company at Minneapolis exploded. It was caused by a.
kink in the escape hose.
Anton Langer and wife of
Cass Lake are here on a visit
witli their parents. Anton told
of a Bemidji brewer who was
compelled to dump seven hundred barrels of beer into the
lake. When the indian lid was
put on in that territory, brewers had-a limited time to dispose
of their stock on hand. It seems
that this brewer, either on account of possessing an inferior
brand of goods, or lack of push,
was unable to get rid of his
beer within the specified time.
If this brewer had kept abreast
with the beerography of the state
he wouldhavefound anoutputfor
his stuff in Pierz and saved the
local speerers some energy, and
further saved the Bemidji fish
the sufferings of a "Katzenjam-
mer."
Grainville is Now
On the Dry List
When the voters of New Pierz
favored incorporation, and elected officers and adopted the in-
phoneous Grainville, tliey also
automatically closed the saloons. The two licenses, issued
by the county do not cover the
sale of liquor in an organized
village. One of the first official acts of president elect Bolster was to tell F'laudy and Peter to give the boys one more
drink and then lock the door.
And so they did.
Grainville Elected
A Set of Officers
Lastrup Creamery
Elected Officers
The Lastrup Co-operative
Creamery elected the following
officers at the meeting last Monday evening :
Jos. Portner, President.
Mike Braun, Vice President.
Directors : Joseph Schubert,
Peter Weidenbach, S. D. Wood.
Treasurer :    Ed. Stuekmeyer.
Secretary :    Theo. Ortmann.
More Farmers for
Morrison County
One of the greatest movements
looking toward settling up the vacant
lands of Northern Minnesota has just
been arranged by the Soo Hue. The
Minneapolis Journal has this to say
of ihe plan:
"A plan for placing 1,000,000 more
persons on the sure crop lands of Minnesota through an education and advertising campaign that will cost more
than $50,000 a year, was announced
today by the Minneapolis, St. Paul &
Sault Ste. Marie railroad1 and the Minnesota Farm Lands ^association, following a  conference yesterday.
A committee appointed by the association Feb. 25 met representatives
of the road in the Soo line offices,
showed that there was fertile land
along the Soo lines in Minnesota alone
that will give 100-acre farms to 110,-
000 families, and asked the road's cooperation  in   settling the  land.
F. F. Murphy, immigration agent
of the road, told the association delegates that the road was enthusiastic
over the plan and would give all the
help possible if the organizations along
the lines would do their share. The
cost to the road1 was estimated at $50,-
000  a  year.
A booklet describing the lands will
be printed at once, an advertising campaign mapped out and every land association and commercial agent will be
asked to join the campaign. The campaign is to begin at  once.
After the conference the delegation
-ailed on Edmund Pennington, president of the road, who assured them of
his  co-operation."
W. E. Mackenzie, secretary of the
Minnesota Farm Lands association,
stated today that all the railroads are
j;oing to be asked to make special arrangements to boost our own state.
The following committee appointed at
the general meeting of the land men
attended  the  Soo Line  conference:
.1. H. McGilvra. Milaca. Minn., president (Minnesota Farm Lands association). Mille Lacs Co.; E. F. Farmer,
Minneapolis, Hennepin Co.; B. J. Bo-
len. Palisade, Aitkin Co.; R. ('. Math-
wig. Warren, Marshall Co.; Jos. H.
Grell, I'ierz. Morrison Co.; C. F. Ber-
line. Mora. Kanabec Co.; Fred Sanders, Detroit, Becker Co.; D. M. Cole,
Duluth, St. Louis Co.; W. If. Mackenzie, Bemidji, secretary. (Minnesota
Farm Lands Association), Beltrami
Co.
A child takes Dr. Miles' .fixative Tablets    without    thinking   of    •'medicine."
Try   them   and   see.     ' :Ydvertlsement.l
The new village of Grainville
elected the following officers
last Thursday :
President: P. O. Bolster.
Trustees: Mag. Rauch, Tony
Jamma and Math. Meyer.
Treasurer: J. T. Harsch.
Recorder:   O.J. Brick.
Local News
John A. Stumpf went to
Brainerd Tuesday to visit relatives.
Theo. Gross finished cutting j)osts and firewood near
the new station Johnsdale,
east of Pierz. He has two
carloads at New Pierz now.
0. E. and S. T. Look came
down  from  Sullivan  Saturday  morning.     Roads  were
bad  and it  took  them  nine;
hours to make the 18 miles.
John Girtz will leave for
North Dakota soon to take
up painting again. He was
employed at the Theo. Gross
lumber camp all winter.
Miss Catherine Stumpf
left Tuesday for Milwaukee,
Wis., to visit her sister Mrs.
Grover Schmitt, who underwent an operation at that
place.
Christ. Morrill left for
Krimlen, Mont., last week,'
where two of his uncles live.'
It is said that he intends to.
make application to join the!
U. S. navy.
Chas. Schmolke of Morrill
was in town Monday and had
a talk with a representative
of the Luce line in regard to
the progress of the enterprise.
Leo Tembreull arrived here
last week from Zumbrota,
where lie had been working
in a cheese factory. He has
accepted a position in a
cheese factory in Stanton,
Minn.
Pierz must be a pretty
good wheat market because
George Fleisclihacker of St.
Mathias came downwith three
loads Monday. Three of his
sons came with him und each
is about 6 feet and 6 inches
tall.
J. M. McGenty, the East-
side potato man, lias purchased from E. P. Long the
lot on Second avenue between
the M. A. Leisen house and
that erected by Prof. Williams. Mr. McGenty will
move the Magnussen house
onto the lot.—Journal Press.
Rivers are Great
Drainers On The
Taxpayer's Pocket
Rivers and creeks are drain
ers in more ways than one.
They drain the valleys and
meadows of surplus water and
in that they perform a useful
function. But rivers and creeks
must be crossed [for how else
could we get to the other side?]
and sometimes criss-crossed.
Bridges must be built and
kept in repair and in that the
streams are mighty drainers on
the pocket of the taxpayer.
Ex-townhoard Joe Otremba
says that the town of Pierz has
no less than seven bridges
across Hillman and Skunk, besides a dozen or more across
smaller streams. These small
streams cannot well be dignified
with the name of river or creek.
About half of them work only
in the spring and now and then
in the summer after heavy rains.
But like petty human individuals they make a lot of noise
and disturbance so long as they
have the where-with-all. They
gurgle, roar and fret through
their narrow channels and bump
their shoulders against the
neighboring shores, harrow
feelings and tear wounds agape
especially when there is danger
of loosing their bearings on account of a change in the course.
They all run madly in the same
direction and each seems to
want to out distance the other
at the finish.
Broader and deeuer streams
are not disturbed by every
freshet. They meander majesti
cally and tranquilly through
peaceful, fertile valleys, and
occassionly overflow with sufficient kindness to refresh the
flowery meadows by the wayside.
And as they near the final
gult and combine with other
streams to foi m the river of
Jordan, whicli stream we must
all cross, by • bridge, [for how
would we get to the other side]
or otherwise, the flow is gradual
ly retarded until they seem to
blend with and become part of
the infinite. But lets get back
and pay the taxes towards the
bridge and road fund. Dreaming about the rivers will never
build bridges.
Some Interesting     Who Owns the
Local News    Land? That is
County Schools
Get $12,003.60
The schools of Morrison couuty will get Sl-_,003.60 from the
state at the March apportion
ment, according to notice received Wednesday morning by
County auditor McNairy from
State Superintendent C. G.
Schulz.
The report of County superintendent Barnes to the state
shows that there are 5,716 pupils in the schools of Morrison
county and for eaeh of these
pupils S..10 will be paid to the
district they attend.
The money has not yet been
received by the auditor from
the state treasurer, but will be
ready for distribution to the
districts March 15 to "20.
Pierz was full of  Last rubers last Monday.
St. Patricks day next
morning.
Albany will soon have a
Co-operative creamery and a
tailor.
It is said that tlie surveyors of the Luce line are now
near St. Michaels.
Herman Vonderhaar made
a business trip to Minneapolis lastSaturday and returned
Monday.
Owing to the short time
between election day and
press day, the returns cannot
be published this week.
The town of Agram raised
$150. town revenue, $600.
road and bridge fund; and
$50. poor fund and $300.
road fund.
Why don't some of our
boys rise to the occassion
and plant a record breaking
acre of corn and earn a trip
to Washington.
The railrood committee of
the commercial club of Little
Falls reported at the meeting
Monday night that $3,400
had been subscribed for the
proposed Little Falls to
Pierz line of the Central
Minnesota railway. Nothing
has been heard from President Potter of the railway
company.
J. J. Gross was appointed
Tuesday by the county commissioners as one of the appraisers of state and school
lands in Morrison county. A
new appraisal of these lands
is made every few years,
three appraisers doing the
work, one to be appointed by
the government, one by the
state and one by the county.
Jos. H. Grell has put 63
new settlers into this country in the last 3 years, and
as county agent for the Minnesota Farm Lands Ass'n,
should double that number
of new settlers during the
next three years. The Soo
is doing all it can to settle
this country and has already
offered the agents more than
the committee asked for.
Fodder-corn, corn grown
thickly, is a cheap feed, and
contains considerable milk-
producing substance. It gives
best results when fed in connection with clover or alfalfa. Fodder corn yields au
abundance of feed per acre—
from three to six tons of
cured fodder—and a crop
can be produced in three
months. It is a splendid Blip-
pliinent to the hay crop.
Two deaths, a mother and
child, resulted from a shocking fatality in the home of
John Verkennes of Brainerd
on Friday morning. Mrs.
Verkennes, alone iu the
house with her child, a baby
girl fifteen months old. attempted to revive a dying
fire in a heater by pouring
kerosene upon it, and an explosion followed which instantly killed the child and
so badly burned the mother
that she died about 12:30 in
the afternoon.
The Question
Hans Peterin, for 22 years a
resident of Mille Lacs county,
owned land on the shores of lake
Onamia. In the course of time
the lake dried up to a certain
extent and several hundred acres
of land were "made"' on account
of the recession of the shore
line. Five squatters located in
this 200 acre tract and claim it
as their homestead. Hans Peterin claims the land to the new
water line; the squatters claim
the land from the old water
line. The court has issued an
order restraining tlie squatters
from living on the land until the
| cases shall have been tried on
their merits.
STATE NEWS BITS;
Various Happenings of the Week
Throughout Minnesota.
It Is The One
That is Loose
The most important bolt ou
the automobile is the loose bolt,
says Henrv Gau. In reply to
the offer of $5.00 reward for the
correct answer to the query
"Which is the most important
bolt on the auto," hundreds of
answers came in and all read
about like this: the missing
bolt; the lost bolt; the bolt you
are looking for etc. Remember
that the lost bolt, the missing
bolt, or the one you are looking
for is no longer on the auto,
and therefore can be of no importance.
Platte River
Miss   AgnM    11 olmst roiii.      win)     has
lias been visiting at tlir bone of O. H.
Holmstrom, returned to bei home at
Minneapolis Monday.
Miss Sophia Bchnleder, .who is employed at ('. Johnson's, visited at the
parental home Sunday.
Herman Behnledei was pleasantly
surprised Saturday evening by a number   of   his   friends,   the   occasion   being
his birthday. A dainty loach was serv-
ed at midnight and everyone enjoyed
a soeiable evening.
The skating on Platte river is about
gone for this year. Either snow or
water ou it every fime we go down to
try our luck. Oh well, snow makes a
line cushion to fall on. Some good anyway.
The auction at Bergquist's last week
was not too largely attended as the
election drew a large share of the
crowd. Some of our young boys were
sadly disappointed though, when they
failed to "land"' the horse they bid
ou.
The Wieland Bros, have quit sawing
woo.I for this season. Roads are too
1'oor to haul the rig around.
O. B. Holstrom WSJ a Little Falls
caller  Monday.
Agnes and Fred Ellison, who have
been confined to their home with scarlet fever, are able to be about again
and we all wish them a speedy recovery  of  their  entire  strength.
Among the Little Kails callers Saturday were James, Charlie and Hazel
Johnson, Henry. Mary and Gilbert Olson,  Walter  Wieland  ami  Miss  Hanson.
Grandma Swanson .lied Thursday at
the home of her son Charlie Swanson,
of Freedhem, death being due to old
age. She came here to this country
from Sweden at the age of 70 and
has lived in Freedhem ever since. 8he
leaves to mourn her death three
Charles, August and Oscar, as well as
a host of friends. The funeral will
be h >ld Monday at 2 p. m. from the
Swedish Lutheran church of Freedhem.
C.  Kohs aiol son  Wm.. spent  tl"
ning at  u. Olson's  last  Tuesday.
Swanson of Freedhem was a
business caller at Little Falls Saturday.
What's   the   matter   with   Freedhem
and   West   Buh!     They   did   have   two
■'substitute-.'' and  a "News  Moi
once,   and   now   we   never   hear   from
them  at  all.    Wake op folks.  Da
titnl and
monger''   work   and   its  almost
spring too.
The state highway commission has:
sliced the road and bridge fund among;
the eighty-six counties of Minnesota.!
None of the counties will get the max-:
imum allotment of 3 per cent this;
year, amounting to $44,400. and thirty
counties will get the minimum allot-:
ment, $14,800. Ramsey, Hennepin and:
St. Louis counties, by far the biggest;
contributors to the state fund, each!
v. Ill get back $35,000 in state aid. This!
is the same allotment as they receiv-;
ed in 1914, when the total road and;
bridge fund was $80,000 less than!
this year.
+   •!•   +
Willie, thirteen-year old son of!
William Young of the Beaudette!
hotel, was run over and killed by an:
eastbound train on the Canadian;
Northern while he was riding on »'■
gasoline speeder between Pitt and!
Beaudette. The boy was run over in
September, 1913, and at that time;
lost his right leg near the hip.
+   +   +
Nelson's store at Triumph hus again
been entered by burglars and about:
$1,000 worth of goods stolen, the largest part being silks and jewelry. The;
burglary was conducted in a similar!
manner to that perpetrated in Octo-!
ber. A speeder on the Northwestern;
road was used in getting away and it;
was found near Butterneld.
+   +   +
West Pierz News.
The school in district 7h will
be closed for a few days, owing
to the bad condition of the
roads. Mr. Hohmanu will return Monday and if roads permit will teach Tuesday.
Andrew Seelen's car arrived
on Saturday 6th. Eight teams
hauled his {foods to the so-called
Stumpf farm, whicli he now
owns. Mrs. Seelen and children arrived yesterday.
Jos. Ethen is busy hauling
lumber for a large barn, which
he will build when tlie season
opens.
Miss Marg. Thommes made a
very pleasant call on their new
neighbors—her visit was intended for Miss Cassle Smith, who
recently moved here with her
folks from Austin, Minn.
While a freight car from a
South Dakota point was op<
at the Grainville yards, recently, the tirst thing to jump out
was a wee little mouse. It had
learned that the town was incorporated.
GENERAL
JHARKETREPORTS.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,      1.28
Wheat, No. 2       1.24
Flax,        1.7d
Barley    ..
Rye	
Oats	
Ear Corn 	
Hay $5.00
Butter, Creamery ..
Dairy       27
Eggs        10
Flour, Best	
"    Straight	
Low grade flour  1.H0
Bran  ..1.40
Shorts    ..1.45
Cracked Corn 80 pounds	
Ground Feed... 	
Beans   ..
Onions  ..       «50
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday. 	
Friday  	
Saturday	
Monday	
Tuesday  0 60
Wednesday . ..6.60
South St. Paul
Live StockMarket.
Steers	
- and Heifers,&4.25 to .
Calves, steady, $5.r>0 to
Feeders, steadv, ...$4.30 to