The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-03-18

              PIERZ  JOURNAL
YOL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, MARCH 18, 1915.
NO. 4().
STATE NEWS BITS
Various Happenings of the Week
Throughout Minnesota.
The state land sale at International
Falls resulted in 1,020 acres being
disposed of, according to reports received by J. A. O. Preus, state auditor. "This is a good showing for this
time of the year," said Mr. Preus. "It
Is early yet for the people to get onto
lands while the snow covers them.
Judging from the number of inquiries
received we should have a big year
in 1915. Already 2,000 requests for
information have been been received
in my office. They came from all sections of the state and from the outside."
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At a recent meeting at Sauk Center of those interested in the seven
county fair circuit the dates were
fixed as follows: Todd county, Long
Prairie, Sent. 13, 14, 15 and 16; Benton count'yrSauk Rapids, Sept. 16, 17
and 18; Stearns county, Sauk Center,
Sept. 20, 21, 22 and 23; Douglas county, Alexandria, Sept. 23, 24 and 25;
Pope county, Glenwood, Sept. 27, 28,
29 and 30; Stevens county, Morris,
Sept. 30, Oct. 1 and 2; Grant county,
Herman, Oct. 4, 5 and 6.
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Mrs. Susan J. Clum, a pioneer resident of Minnesota, who was saved
from capture and possible death by
the Sioux in the massacre of 1862 by
timely flight, is dead at her home in
Highwood, near St. Paul. She was
eighty-two years of age and had
lived sixty-one years of her life in
Minnesota, being active in many public movements. Mrs. Clum was born
near Auburn, N. Y., in 1832 and reached St. Paul in 1854.
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Levi Stevens, a resident of Minnesota sixty-five years and father of one
of the largest families in the history
ot the state, is dead at his home in
Newport, Washington county, aged
eighty years. He became a mail car-
riei in what is now Washington county in 1855, his route including Stillwater and Hudson. He was the father of twenty-three children, twelve ol
whom survive him.
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Basil Landroches, ninety-seven
years old, a Civil war veteran and
resident of Minnesota seventy years,
is dead at Centerville. Mr. Landreches
was a native of Canada. He had been
blind since a year after the close ot
the Civil war. For nearly half a
century he was a merchant at Hugo
and Centerville and at one time had
extensive real estate holdings in St.
Paul and Ramsey county.
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. Minnesota carried off first honors al
the National Creamery Buttermakers'
convention in Mason City, la., taking
first prize in the whole milk and separator cream classes and also the
sweepstake prize. There were 631
tubs entered from twenty-three
states. This is the thirteenth year
that Minnesota buttermakers have
taken first honors at national shows.
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Mrs. Angeline Scherfenberg, pio
neer of St. Cloud, is dead. She was
born in Hanover, Germany, coming to
America when a girl. She was mar
ried on Aug. 25, 1858, and with her
husband settled on a homestead a*
Grand Lake, where the couple lived
until the Indian outbreak, when, after
many exciting experiences, they were
forced to remove to St. Cloud.
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August Lundgren, president of the
board of directors of North Star college at Warren, has received information of a gift of $9,000 from James J.
Hill. This makes $10,000 from Mr.
Hill, as he has before donated the
sum of $1,000. Friends of the institution are celebrating.
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The Red River Milling company's
flour mill and one elevator at Fergus
Falls were destroyed by fire. The
mill was a frame structure of 200 barrels capacity. About 20,000 bushels
of wheat and some coarse grain were
destroyed.
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Jacob O. Dahle, one of the early
settlers of Renville, was killed by being struck by a Milwaukee fast train.
He was tossed from the track and
struck on his head on the platform
of the station and died in a few moments.
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For the second successive year
voters of New Richland went to the
polls, expressed their views on liquor
and the result has been a tie. By the
latest tie vote the town remains dry
for the fifth year in succession.
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Warning to fanners of the Northwest to stick to diversified farming
nnd not go in for vast wheat acreages
is being sent out through St. Paul
banks. Country banks are communicating the warning.
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Augustus Sexton, for many years a
leading logger along the £t. Croix and
in Pine and St. Louis counties, is dead
at Stillwater of tuberculosis at the age
of sixty-eight.
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William G. Mee of Faribault has
been appointed state hotel inspector
by Governor Hammond to succeed
Alex Crozier, an Eberhart appointee*
Oldest Woman in
the State Died at
Holdingford, Minn
Mis. Elizabeth Watson of Holdingford died last week at the home of
ier daughter, Mrs. Rosanna Morgan.
•She was born in Kentucky in 1803,
making her 112 years of age, the oldest known resilient in the state. She
hail been a resident of Stearns county
for the past 33 years. Her husband
died :S6 yeafs ago. Six children out of
thirteen survive. A great-great-great-
^randchild  survives.
Some Interesting    I Footprints in the
Local News        Sands of Time
Could He Have Done
it in Pierz
At the ending of the municipal year,
Mr. Robert Russell retires with 20 con-,
seeutive years of service on the village board of Rice to his credit.
Ever since the town of Rice was organized 25 years ago, he has served in
one capacity or another on the board,
sometimes as president, again as member, but usually as chairman, and with
his many years of service and his recognized business ability, has done
much to make Rice the hustling little
city it is.
Sullivan News
Henry   Linn   arrived   last   week   and
visited relatives until Saturday, when
he left for Kimball, for a short visit
»efore returning home.
Mrs. George Britton and children
ind Miss Jennie Linn visited at Robt.
Adkins'   Friday.
il rs. Christianson visited with Mrs.
Ford Thursday.
Callers at the Peter Adkin's home
Sunday were Mrs. L. Pint, Mrs. Robt.
Adkins  aud  Mrs. Henry  Rieke.
Miss Jule Mitchell and Mr. and Mrs.
('has. Sanborn were guests at the Mar
tin home Sunday.
Sam Martin visited with Merle Look '
Sunday.
Frank J. Sims and Martha E. Smith
were married last Tuesday evening at
the home of the bride. We extend
hearty congratulations to them and
wish them a long life of prosperity and
happiness.
Perry Van Kuren left for North Dakota Tuesday, where he will be employed.
Mrs. Tom Smith visited with the
Ford and C. E. Look families Tuesday.
Grandma Stangl is seriously ill.
Henry Gau received a carload of Ford automobiles yesterday.
Mrs. John Paulson visited
Mrs. Melhart in Little Falls
yesterday.
Anton Praager of Albany
is here employed  as   buttermaker helper in the Farmers!board the last  north   bound
creamery. steamer at Memphis, he would
'have been drafted   into   tlie
confederate army.
In 1865 Vollmer was  married to a Dav
From the year 1864 to 1869,
the venerable Sitzman was
employed on the Taglicher
Davenport Democrat, Davenport, Iowa. One of the printers working for the Democrat was one Henry Vollmer,
who had come from the south
at the outbreak of the civil
war. Had this Vollmer not
been  fortunate    enough   to
The Duncan family is now
living in the old John Berg
building south of the Smith
meat market.
This is What our     Here is One Good
Districts Get     Way of Ending
The following is the  amounts1 ■'*'
received by the districts in   our
neighborhood from   the   March
settlement:
Dist. No.
14	
Am't Due
$858.05
121.H3
186.51
118.96
468.47
196.75
If it were left to the Journal
to establish and maintain peace
between the powers of the
world, it would propose a plan
as follows:
Throw about 10 millions of
rilles of the different nations into a stream to form the mesh work
of a dam to generate power  for
103.87    an industry of universal benefit.
89.76        Take   two    battleships   from
HUSBANDS
A  cobbler's  wife  once  said  to  me:
"My husband has a past,
But lie is good now, although he
Is not too good to last."
—Cincinnati  Enquirer.
A plumber's wife once did remark:
"My man's the proper type;
He is no dope fiend even though
He  daily hits the pipe.'-'
—Allentowji Democrat.
A  printer's wife once said to me:
"My  husband  wouldn't lie,
He says he's not a baker, but
•He makes a lot of pi."
—Altooua Times, j
A jealous man's wife told me once
Witli a dejected  mien:
"My husband's not a painter,
But he often makes a scene."
—Houston Post.
And she who wed a butcher rich
Remarked  in dulcet tones:
"He has most cutting ways, but  then
He sure brings home tlie bones."
—Chicago Journal.
Then come along the baker's wife
With   cheering   smile   aglow:
"1  find some comfort in this life,
'Tis he who makes the dough."
Cut This out and
Paste it in Your Hat
A contract  with  a  minor is  void.
The law compels no one to do im-
lOssibilities,
It is fraud to conceal  a  fraud.
A signature with a lead pencil is
good in law.
A returned check is not a receipt;
and a. receipt  is not  always conclusive.
A principal is responsible for the
act of his agent.
An oral or ''word of mouth.'' agreement must lie proved by evidence, bat
a written agreement proves itself. This
is why general contractors should not
be expected to take bids orally. They
should get  written bids.
Mrs. Jos. Preiner and
daughter visited the county
seat Monday on business pertaining to the Preiner estate.
Mrs. Schauble and daughter were stage passengers
to Little Falls Monday morning, where they took the
train to the cities.
John Boehm has rented the
vacant lot south of Koerin'g's
shoe store, where he will put
up a one story building for a
pool hall and barber shop.
Peter Langer says he made
application through the local
postoftice for a hired man
three weeks ago, but had
not received a  single   reply.
Judging from the number
of loads of lumber andshing-j
les hauled to our lumber
yards, there will be considerable building done the coming summer.
A quarter section of farm
land near the village of
Paynesville was transferred
by deed recorded this morning for a consideration of
$106.25 per acre.
An organization of 300
farmers in Todd county decided that they could do better by trading at home and
have pledged themselves to
patronize the home merchants.
Mrs. Jake Pflepsen and baby and Theresa Spanfellner
left yesterday morning for
Buffalo, Minn., where Mr.
Pflepsen is employed as buttermaker in a Co-operative
creamery.
A couple of picture en-
largers are again causing the
women to examine the album
for tin types taken when
tliey were young and beautiful. If they chance to find
such a picture they enlarge
upon it.
About as good a way to
study human nature is when
you are driving on the public
road. If a man is willing to
observe the laws and the
courtesies of the road, he will
duly give his share of it when
meeting another, and shows
he is willing to do the gentlemanly thing about it. But
when you approach one who
takes   every    advantage    of
the name of I
In    the   cou
events a bab
who was namj
mer Jr. Whi
Vollmer horn
lowing two
Sitzman   ofte
Vollmer on hi
him creep and
steps.   The    bl
played marbles
and caught  fi
other Davenp
Today Hem-
is one of Iowa]
liant statesme
ton.
Sitzman's chi
tion is based o
quaintance ai
with congress ii
mer. The hone
young statesm
does not fall
every man.
New Post
Fo
Mrs. John Muske has received the
appointment as postmistress of Swanville. Mrs. Muske received the highest everage at the 'civil service examination held some time ago, ami therefore received tlie appohitmiit. l'ost-
mistiees is a misnoiiomer for Mrs.
Muske. Since she i. a Mrs., why not
call  her  a   post-Mrstress.'
South Agram News
FOR SALE—A new wardrobe cheap.
40-1 Mrs. A. P. Stoll.
Frank   and   Henry   Kippley   returned
home from the woods Sunday morning.
Roads are in a poor condition now
days.
Those who visited at the John Kippley home Sunday were Bernhard Terhaar, Mrs. Henry Wuellner and daughters Louise and Ida and Eva and Katie
Brummer.
Many   children   are  sick   iu   this   vi-   Barley	
cinity  with pink eye.
Jos. Jansen called on Jos. Duschner
Sunday.
J. J. Brummer will commence building Frank  Kandel's new barn Mondav.
Those who visited at the Jos Dusdi-! Butter, Creamery	
ner  home    Wednesday    evening    were
Mi. and  Mrs. J. J. Brummer, Mr. ami   EjJffS         11
Mrs.   John   Kippley   and   Bertha      and   FlouriBest       3.60
Jake Leidenfrost.
Mrs.   John   Reding   was  operated   up
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78      124.71    each tuition and put them into a
sort of an international harbor,
to be released only upon tlie
consent of all. Dismantle all
the other battleships, cruisers
etc.
These dismantled ships would
be transformed into merchant
marine vessels and incidentally
end the senseless arguments
about the ship purchase bill
and the ship subsidy bill. A
number of the fast cruisers
would be rebuilt into passenger
boats to carry starving Belgians
and Poles to the fertile tields of
Canada. Brazil or Argentine.
The powder mills would be
seized and the store ot explosives on hand would be used to
blow up all the fortifications
of the world. And if there were
an}- dynamite left use it to blow
out the pine stumps of Minnesota's cut-over lands.
All the cannons of the    world
would be recast into plowshares,
fence wire and posts,    farm   im-
lples   set i pigments etc., ; nd    transported
free of charge to the great Siberian wheattields which are
awaiting the touch of the agri-
culturist to produce an abundance of golden grain.
Each nation would be allowed
a militia of about 20,000 men
for the purpose of controlling
insurrections, revolutions etc..
and the first duty of this combined army would be to bluff
the warring Mexicans into submission.
An international jury would
be appointed, based upon the
plan of the Reichstag, the House
of Lords and Commons, or our
own congress to decide all controversies. A requisite quality
of members of this body would
be the possession of good jud«,r
ment and common sense.
All the tarilT laws would be
repealed.
But why suggest more? If the
above ideas are crude and chimerical, why not put the highbrows now building 42 centimeter guns, to work to perfect the
plan? It wouldn't take  long.
ABOUT THE STATE
News o! Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
LIQUOR  FOES   MAKE  GAINS
Twenty-four   Minnesota   Towns   Vote
to Go   Dry—Only  Four Change
to the Wet Column.
received
ifer from
Otremba
to is   the
who be-
keep  a
le.    "Af-
od stock,
farmers
named of
o.    Such
Id   have
loping
on   come,
Id   Pierz
fill an  or-
There is not enough sunshine to get the snow away
quickly. Old Sol keeps iu
hiding behind the clouds too
much to bring us spring
roads in short order.
GENERAL
MARKET REPORTS.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,     L85
Wlieat, No. 2       t-83
Flax,        1.85
.     65
1.06
.     48
50
$5.00
37
Rye	
Oats	
Ear Corn
Hay	
Dairy __
"    Straight      3,50
on  tor a tumor at the Little Falls lio's  I Low grade flour 1.80
pital last  week.
.Tolin Kippley was a Pierz
unlaw
A New Method
Bran . 1.40
: Shorts   1.48
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.10
Ground Peed     1.40
Beans      2.00
Onions        60
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price
Only twenty-eight of the 182 cities
and villages in this state which voted]
on the liquor issue in Tuesday's election made a ehange In their attitude
towards the saloon. Of these tv. ■
four joined the dry column, while four
which had been dry elected to become wet again.
Rochester  was  the  largest city   to
vote and an unusual interest
played there, more than 2,000 ballots
being cast.    Tho wets won by a ma-(
Jorlty  of  seventy-seven,   while  a  year,
ago they had  164 to the good.
Only two towns of any size cha
from wet to dry.    These were  u
na, the county seat of Wadena county, and Jackson, county seat of J
son county.   In both the drys won by
comparatively narrow margins.
Island, Goodhue county, went dry for
the first time in its history by a majority  of thirty.
In an election marked by the hi
lesl   vote   ever   polled   in   the   village
White  Bear remained   wet.    The  wet
and dry light drew to the polls a total
of 168 votes.
The dry towns that went wot are
alt small, Adrian, Nobles county, being; the largest, with a population of
1,200.
East   Grand    Porks   did   not
Proctor,  St.   Louis  county,   a   railroad
Junction  and shop town   near  Duluth,
furnished a surprise by goim
to  180.
The gains  made by  tin-  drys.  however, were not as heavy as
or the year before and tin- wets main-,
talned    license    in   eighty-six   towns,'
Which   voted   nut   te
ty-seven  dry  towns also seemed
ed with present conditions.    The
sage of the count]
thought,  would  lead  many  of  thi
places to oust saloons, l"i!   the  ranks!
held   well   despite
although  the  dry   fi
tern   nil,  this  is  below   prei
ords.
PROHIBITION    BILL    KILLED;
Minnesota   Senate   Defeats   Statewide;
Proposition.
Statewide prohibition by  li
enactment ibeckj
bill   was   d I    in   the;
state senate by a vote or 60 to  17.
Friends of the mi
disappointed, believing it would  mus-j
ter at least twenty-eight sup-
Senators to the number of nin«
who   favored   county   option
tin   prohibition  bill  and  the result  Is
taken  to Indicate  that  a   majority  of
that   faction   in" the   upper  house
decided   to   give   the   new   law   a   fair
trial before supporting any more drastic   temperance   lerislation.       If   the
vote   is   any   Ind   .   of  sentiment
bill  proposing b
amendmec
submitted  to the people will  meet a
like fate.
MILL CITY MAN  ENDS  LIFE
Locals
Rough frozen roads are
good tor the blacksmith and
buggy builders.
Mike Smith has comfortably installed himself onto the
old Math Thommes farm.
Nick Hennen    has   moved
iuto his house in upper town.
A wide-awake merchant over at
Spirit Lake had an advertisement in
one of the local newspapers, that for
originality   lias   anything   beaten   to   a
frazzle.    He  offered  a  $1   hat   to  each   rrjlurS(jay _ „6.48   Tlie house  was    formerly
farmer   who   would   drive   with   a   road   „ J— -.- -
drag  to  his  store  and   return.    To  tho   Fnd^ b.O*3   C.pied  by  dri.ggl.St      DlUlcaiL
farmer who drove the farthest, a *S hat    Saturday b.OD .
A new State Bank lias been   8aid to l
Pioneer   Restaurant   Proprietor  Leapt
From   High   Bridge.
A leap from the railing of the Marshall avenue bridge  between St
and   Minneapolis   to   the   ground
led the life of William
A. Mather, pioneer restaurant man ot
Minneapolis.
Mather, fifty-seven years old, has*
been in the restaurant business in
Minneapolis for twenty-live years. He
was slightly ill for several days and
a nervous breakdown, caused by the
worry over a change In his business
affairs, is believed to have prompted
the act.
IN FIRST SPECIAL MESSAGE
Governor Hammond Urges Passage ot
Economy    Bill.
In his first special message to the
legislature :   Hammond
tbe   passage   of   the   efficiency   and
economy bill reorganizing the pr
,  of  state  administration.    The;
message    touched    on    tbe    various
phases    of    state    government    and
pointed   to   the   increased   efficiency,
and gi onomy that  will 1
evitable  under  the  proposed  system.;
Saves   Mother   and   Sister.
Leroy    Laughan,   fift< rs   of
age, rescued  his  mother and  tv.
year-old   sister   from    their   burning
home   at   Minneapolis.     The   fin-   is
was to be given.    Of course, this did   Monday (>.60j      •    "   heated stove after Mr. Laughar.
those he meets, and holds the|not ■***■ h:uiliu- °» ,lr;,s >» a was°"-,Tuesday ti.(50 organized at   Sturgeon Lake,  to work leaving the rest of the family
If  that   merchant  can succeed  in  get-   tit„i„„,j^,, RAft! i>- * i-       i •   i    r    w    asleep     xh° •>/»"«• »-»■ «i«w>»~««"i
dnesday b.tx> pnie county, ot   which I.  V,
Bouck of Royalton is  presi
road for his  own selfish self.
ting the  fanners to  respond  to  his  in- i
 ,   nlli;  uu,   tanners  to  respond  to  Ins  ill-i
often to the  great discomfort   vitation,   he   will   have   done   more   to-;
of those he meets or will not Uv:"'ls gettiag the road draffi<ed tha" ' Soutl' 5t- PauI
( lot   ot*  the  tool  road  laws  that
allow  them  to pass,   we are:been passed.—Ex.
almost sure to think of pork 	
in connection with such drivers.—Ex.
have
dent and Fred Hales of Sauk
Live StockMarket.   ^ idg js  thfl ;.    The
Steers $7.75 to 1 ....     .    ,
~ -,tt -r      *• --   new concern is capitalized at
Cows and Hen a to -o.o '
Henry Gau received a   car Calves, steady.       *; 75 $12,000.    It will   begin b
The house was destroyed.
of Jb'ords yesterday.
Feeders, steady, ---§4.30 to 7-00 ness in a few d
Semimonthly Pay Day BUI a Law.
Governor Wintleld S. Hammond
has signed tbe bill requiring all
public   sei pay
their    employes    s This
measure  h
calendar for si
is attempts at its passage were
defeated.
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