The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-02-18

              PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, FEBRUARY 18, 1915.
NO. 8(3.
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers,
BENEFITS MINNESOTASHIPPERS
Interstate      Commerce      Commission
Permits Railroads to Meet Panama  Canal   Rates.
To meet new traffic conditions due
to the opening of the Panama canal
the interstate commerce commission
has permitted transcontinental railroads to establish certain commodity
rates from Eastern and Middle West
points to Pacific coast terminals lower than those to intermediate points
in Intermountain territory, according
to word receiver from  Washington.
The decision is a victory for St.
Paul  and  other  Minnesota  cities.
The decision brings to a conclusion
one of the most important rate cases
in whicli the transcontinental railways ever have been involved and
one of vital interest to jobbing and
manufacturing companies in St. Paul
and the Central states. As a result of
the decision the four transcontinental lines running west from St. Paul
will be enabled to compete with the
steamship lines operating through the
canal and the business interests of
St. Paul and other cities in the Mississippi valley will be enabled to continue in Pacific coast markets.
The order of the commission gives
the railways permission to ignore the
fourth section of the act to regulate
commerce, which contains the long
and short haul clause.
EXTRAVAGANCE IS CHARGED
Resolution in Legislature to Probe
State Fire  Marshal's Office.
Investigation of the affairs and
management of the state fire marshal's office by the committee on public accounts and expenditures is provided in a resolution introduced in
the lower house of the legislature by
Representative G. W. Rodenberg of
St. Paul. Notice of debate was given
and the resolution went over.
After an investigation the committee is ordered in the resolution to
submit a report on the advisability
of placing the office under the direction of the commissioner of insurance.
Charges of extravagance in the office resulted in the proposal for an
investigation, which recites in part:
"An advance payment of more than
$7,000 was obtained for the fire marshal's office from a number of fire insurance companies in September,
1914, for the account of their taxes
on the premiums received in thla
state for the calendar year beginning
Jan. 1, 1014, and ending Dec. 31, 1914,
and payable to the state on or before
March 1, 1915."
ON IMPROVED  FARM  LANDS
Minnesota Senate Favors Loaning of
State School Funds.
By a vote of 30 to 18 the state senate recommended for passage Senator
O'Neill's bill authorizing an amendment to the state constitution providing for the investment of school funds
on improved Minnesota farm lands.
When the measure was reached
considerable opposition developed and
various senators executed parliamentary moves for the purpose of blocking the bill.
Senator R. C. Dunn of Princeton
moved to indefinitely postpone action
on the bill, but his motion was lost
by a 30 to 18 vote. He declared that
the experience of other states in the
farm loan business was summarized in
the figures which showed that there
was only about $o,000,000 invested in
similar loans in other states.
DISCOURAGED BOY ENDS LIFE
Commits Suicide Because He Is Reduced to Lower Grade.
Because he had been reduced to a
lower grade in school, Meyer Baratz,
fifteen years of age, committed suicide at the Unique hotel at Minneapolis. He had been missing from his
home for several days and had registered at the hotel as William Rosen-
feldt. When a maid opened the door
of his room she found a gas jet open
and the body of the boy on the bed.
A note left on a table disclosed his
name and tbe cause of his act.
PUTS THREE ON COMMITTEE
Minnesota House Speaker Names
Mute Schoof*-Probers,
^* The committee to investigate the
affairs of the state school for mutes
at Faribault, in compliance with the
resolution introduced by Representative I.. C. Spooner, has been announo-
ed by Speaker Flowers.
The members are Representative F.
H. Konzen, Hallock; Representative
W. J. North, Duluth, and Representative A. F. Teigen, Montevideo.
Throws Himself Under Train.
While his two companions looked
on an unidentified man threw himself
under the wheels of a Northern Pacific
freight train at Minneapolis. He was
instantly killed and his companions
disappeared,
One Way to Obtain
Ice if River or Lake
Is Not Handy
An exchange gives the following method of obtaining a summer supply of ice on the farm.
"Dig a hole in the ground about
six feet square and six feet deep,
or an oblong hole, providing the
same number of cubic feet, near
enough to the well so that water
may be pumped into the hole
through a hose or wooden trough.
As soon as the ground has frozen hard, pump, say a foot of
water, and allow it to freeze
solid, repeat this operation until the hole is tilled with ice,
cover with straw, put a common
board roof over it, and you will
have a supply of the very best
ice for the following season,
which can be split into whatever size chunks are desired,
and will separate at each layer.
Postoffice is Now
Labor Bureau
If you arc out of a job, or if
you are looking for help of an}'
kind, the postoffice will help
you out. Postmaster Blake has
received application blanks
which when tilled out and signed
will be forwarded to the bureau
of immigration at Washington.
The returns are made to the applicant.
They Don't Stick
There is one thing pecuhar
about the dray business and
that is that those who enter it
soon give it up. It must be admitted that it is hard work and that
the hours of duty are early and
late and extremely hard on the
back. John P. Virnig stuck to
it a long iime, but finally had to
surrender to a sore back from
hard lifting. Tony Wolke gave
it up for the same reason; and
even Christ Langer with his
broad shoulders and heavy
back muscles gave up handling
400 pound vinigar barrels for
the lighter task of  farm   work.
But there is said to be an exception to every rule whicli
proves the rule; and the exception to the rule in this case is no
other than Mike Schraut. And
he does it so easy! Silent and
unobtrusive, almost to the point
of modesty, suave and smiling,
slow but sure and always without the slightest sign of excitability, lie yet makes things
change places with a seemingly
mighty and irrisistible force. He
actually seems to have grown
into the business, and he is now
as permanent a fixture of Main
street if not quite so stationary
as the brick buildings. It is indeed as natural when looking
out of the window to see Mike
go by on a big load of lumber,
or as black as a cyclop from
the forge, sitting on a load of
soft coal, as it is to see the sun
shine. It was whispered around
a few days ago that he sometimes breaks forth into a somewhat joyous song between
here and New Pierz, the chorus
ol which is:
The old drayman of Pierz
and my name is Mike   Schraut,
Tin pretty well oiled and
I'll neyer wear out.
AND HE DOES IT ALL SO
EASY!
Don't Tie to The
Electric Light Posts
Jos. P. Meyer, our policeman
is having consinerable trouble
in keeping farmers from tying
their horses to the electric light
poles. On days when many
farmers are in town it keeps
him busy hunting up owners of
teams to remove the animals to
safer posts. A team tied to an
electric post is liable to cause
enough disturbance to break
one of the high tension wires.
If one of tnem should drop there
would certainly be something
doing in the immediate neighborhood at least.
$150,000 Fire at St, Cloud.
The George Tileston Plour
Mills at St. Cloud burned Tuesday afternoon. The mills were
built 26 years ago.
Locals
John Gerwing of
Canada Here on Visit
John Gerwing and wife, former Pierzites, now living in Len-
ore Lake, Sask., Canada, are
here visiting relatives and old
friends. They came here from
Baker, Nebraska, where they
visited with the Henry Schulte
family. They will remain here
until it is time to begin work on
their farm in Canada. He says
members of the Wolsfeld family
are his neighbors. Recruiting
for the war is going on at a
lively rate in Saskatchawan.
February has ten red letter
days on tlie calendar.
The Luce line surveyors
have reached Long Prairie.
The Mrs. Adolph Stumpf
auction sale netted over
$2,500.
The business men of Staples have organized to boost
the community*
Two deaths occurred in St.
Paul from failing, owing to
tlie sleet ice last Monday.
Ciay county has a record of
1,298 cars of potatoes shipped
during the past year.
Cold Springs is making an
effort to get a potato warehouse built in that village.
Robbers visited the Anna-
dale postoffice and secured
between three or four dollars
for their trouble.
Little Falls has 300 cord
of crushed rock on hand to
be used in street repair work
during tlie coming season.
It is now reported that cannonading  in the  North  Sea
had  driven   large   shoals of j
fish into the rivers and canals of Holland.
T. B. Walker wants men
to work in the woods near
Bemidji. Thirty thousand
acres m;ist be cleared before
the snow goes.
A. L. Wilkins, the poultry
man of Park Rapids, installed
a two thousand egg incubator
on his farm near that place,
last week.
It seems that Mrs. Scoles
had some objections to her
husband again entering tlie
ice business. She will attend to that business herself.
The  Gr. N. are making an
effort to resist the order compelling them to install stock
■ scales at different  towns  in
the state.    A test  case is being heard at Fergus Falls.
The sleet storm of Saturday made walking almost an
acrobatic stunt. A fellow
had to be pretty good on his
pyis to keep right side up.
The heavy coat of ice broke
the branches of some of the
fruit and shade trees.
A New Dray Firm
Christ Langer Sold
Out to John And
Henry Langer
Langer Bros, is the name of
the new dray firm and is com
posed of Henry Langer and
John P. Langer Jr Christ Langer sold his horses, wagons,
etc. to them Saturday and the
new owners began business
Monday morning. Henry worked
for Christ for the last year and
is familiar with the work.
Christ and his brother Alois
will buy their mother's stock,
machinery, etc. and run the
farm. The two strong and willing workers ought to make
things go.
Village Electric
Light Report
Following will be found a list
of the patrons of the electric
light service, and the amount
in cash that each one paid for
juice during the past month:
Following   will   lie   found the
report of the Light Board:
Juice sold in Jan. at 10c
Kilowatts $223.05
Juice furnished forvillage
street lights at 4c a Kilowatts     16.80
Total sold in Nov $239.85
Paid L. P. Water Power
Co, for Juice furnished
village duriug month of
Jan. at 4c a Kilowatts   104.20
Total profit $135.65
A. P. Stoll,
Secretary and Treasurer.
"Too Late" Said The
Attorney General
The delegation which went to
St- Paul to protest against incorporating New Pierz, were informed that they were too late
to stop the proceedings. They
>vere further told that their on-
ly recourse now was to wait until after election and then bring
action against the officers.
Card ot Thanks.
We hereby express our sincere
thanks for the $50.00 received
from the Farmers' creamery for
our work at the two fires.
Pierz Fire Department.
Use the Newspaper.
Teachers in the country and
village schools do not realize
how much they cau add to the
good name and reputation of
their school and neighborhood
b3' sending frequent school notes
to the local newspapers. There
is no better way to interest the
people in the school, or the teachers and students in the work
of building it up than to publish
the good things concerning it.
There are   enough interesting
happenings  each   week   in  the
school and in   the neighborhood jVooder Haar. Mrs. A.
,   Wermerskirchen.  M.
to   make  it a  very   newsy   and
readable letter, and there is
enough talent in each school to
prepare such a letter. Teachers
would find it a pleasant duty and
the school and community would
gain much in interest and enthusiasm and accomplishment,
if the practise of writing short,
spicy articles for the newspapers were put into effect in every
school and neighborhood. The
fact that the newspapers gladly
publish such correspondence
should induce teachers and pa-
Anijenneier  M	
Bares,   Hubert	
Bentfeld, Adam  .. 	
Bor^erdin^ J. & Co	
Brust,   Hubert	
Blake,   Mrs. J. M	
Boser John  	
Brandl,   Frank A	
Brummer Norbert    	
Blake, J. M.  postoffice	
Burton,  Barney	
Boehm,  John store .   ...   	
Boehm John house	
Boehm Engelbert	
Boehm Frank	
Brisk & Schramel	
Benedictine Sisters	
Dombovy,   John  . .. .	
Duncan, R. M.   house	
Duncan, K.  M.   store	
Eller,   William	
Faust, A	
Faust,  Frank store & hall....
Faust & Wolke	
Faust Frank house & sal	
Faust Bros	
Feucht,   Louis,	
Faust John N	
Gau, Henry  	
Gross Theo	
Grell,   Frank store	
Grell Frank house	
Grell, John H. house	
Grell, John  H.   saloon	
Grell, Joseph H. store	
Grell Jos. H. house	
Gravel,   Charles   F.	
German Sate  Hank	
Gau, John house	
Gassert,  Hen ry	
Healy K. T	
Hartmann, P. A.  house	
Hartmann, P. A.   store  	
J. B. Hartinann	
Hesch Math	
Hoheisel, John   saloon   	
Mr. Kast	
Kerkhoff, B. H. house	
Kerkhoff, E. H.   Office	
Jac Kiewel Brewing   Co	
Koerinjr,  Herman	
Kainz, Andrew   Sr.,   	
Kapsner Carl	
Langer, John Jr.w	
Lokowitsch,   Mike	
Marshik Frank   	
Meyer Val and Peter,	
Meyer,  Joseph	
Meyer, Mike	
Neisius, Jacob	
Nohner, Mrs.   Clara	
N. W. Telephone Exchange Co
Priemesberger Alois	
Paul, Henry  ....
Preimesberger, John W	
Poster, P. L	
Philippi John 	
Preimesberger,  Stephen	
Poser Geo. Jr	
Kich Prairie Milling Co	
Scoles,   K.   C	
Stoll, A.   P	
Spanfellner.  Alois	
St. Joseph's Corp.   church. ...
St. Joseph's Cong, house	
St. Joseph's school,	
Staub Nick	
Schauble. Wm	
Smith, J. F..  ft Son  	
Tembruell,  Christ	
Tembruell.  A	
Virnig F.   X	
Virnig. F. X. .v  Co	
I Virnig,   Joseph H	
F. Wise	
Ziegler, John   house.
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Business Block of
Bowlus Distro>ed
by Fire this morning
A tire early this morning
burnt almost an entire business
block at Bowlus. A saloon,
hardware store, implement shop,
grocery store and general merchandise store were totally destroyed and the hotel was damaged to some extent. The fire
started in the grocery at three
o'clock. The cause of the fire
is not known.
LYNDON A. SMITH.
May    Become    Justice    of
Minnesota   Supreme Court.
Farmers' Creamery
Business Is Fast
Increasing
Buttermaker Mayer reports a
steady increase in the cream receipts.
Math Thomas draws the biggest check. His last one was
$55-00 for two weeks' cream.
The report of such an income
10 years ago when dairying In
this section was in its infancy,
would have caused extreme
doubt and consternation among
the populace.
Will Vote On License Too.
Little Palls voters will decide
whether or not they wish to retain the 18 saloons in the city
at the soring election, March
16th. A petition circulated by
the "drys'" authorizing the clerk
to place the issue on the ballot,
bears the signature of twice the
needtd ten per cent. It is not
generally believed the saloons
will be voted out, but the dry
workers are very hopeful.
SMITH   MAY  BECOME  JUDGE
Minnesota  Attorney General  After Supreme Court Vacancy.
The successor to Justice Philip K
Brown of the Minnesota supreme
court, who died recently, will be
named probably from Southern Minnesota, according to statements mail*
by Governor W. s. Hammond to delegations which have waited on him In
the past week regarding the appointment Judge Brown lived al Luverne
and was the only Southern Minnesota
member of the bench.
Possibilities  considered   for thi
pointmcnt    include  Attorney   del
Lyndon A. Smith, M.  E.  Mathews of
Marshall,  Judge   Nathan   Klngsh
Austin  and  three  former Democratic
state   senators.  John   Moonan  of   Waseca, Julius A. Coller of Shakopee nnd
Albert Schaller of Hastings.
Governor Hammond will make the
appointment shortly. Men close to
the governor pick Lyndon A. Smith
as a strong favorite.
Barney    Bollig   returned
home  alter a  three   months
visit witli   relatives at Madison and  Cross  Plains,   Wis. J
He says  they have over two'
feet  of snow there.    All rel-1
atives  and friends are   well
and happy.
GENERAL
MARKET REPORTS.
+ + + •!•+ + + + + + + + + + +
1,929,745 RED CROSS
STAMPS TOTAL SOLD.
St. Paul. Keb. 15.—Throughout Minnesota 1,989,746 Red
Cross stamps were sold in the
Christmas season, according
to a report made for the trus-
tees of the Minnesota Public
Health association by Or. II.
W. Hill. There are still (8,000
stamps from which no return
has been received. After a 10
per cent reduction, which goes
to the national organization,
the association will have $7,000
for use in fighting tuberculosis.
The annual meeting of the association will take place in
Minneapolis in April, the date
to be decided later.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,      t.36
Wheat, No-2       LW
Flax,        1.70
Barley     88
Rye    U12
Oats       50
EarCorn       bo
Hay $5.00
Butter, Creamery ••      37
Dairy       W
Egg*      U
Flour, Best      8.60
"   Straight     3.50
Low grade flour 1.80
Bran 1.35
[shorts   1.40
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans       2.00
Onions        00
A. P. STOLL.
Secretary and Treasurer.
T. H. Peterson of Gilbert
was badjy injured Friday,
when he fell while working
witli a power saw. tutting his
left wrist almost through the
ratlins bone. He is at the
Little Falls hospital, where
the thumb  of his  left   band
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday   6.90
Friday 6.71
Saturday 	
Monday 8.51
Tuesday 6.40
Wednesday 0.40
trons to encourage it.—Monte-[was   amputated   at   the  hist
video Leader. ioint.
South St. Paul
Live StockMarket.
■a 17,75 to 7 35
Cows and Heifers,$4.25 to ..6.75
Calves, steady,.
Feeders, steadv, ...$4.30 to 7-00
SCORES EQUIPMENT AT FAIR
Association Secre'Ty Speaks for $290,-
000 Appropriation.
Declaring that Minnesota has "the
worst live stock equipment of any
state fair In the country," .1. (.'. Simpson, secretary of the State Pair association, appeared before members of
the house committee on the state fair
to urge a bill appropriating among
other items $200,000 for a fireproof
live stock  barn.
The bill, which has not as yet been
introduced in the house, asks for a
total appropriation of 5-
The bill to change the date of the
primary election from the second!
Tuesday in .lune to the second Mon-j
day in September was recommended I
for passage by the house in commit-;
tee of the whole, after a lively debate.
The bill, which was Introduced by!
Representative Anton Borgen of Duluth, is intended to give farmers k
er opportunity to cast their n
BILL   TO    ABOLISH    SENATE!
Measure  Would   Give   Minnesota   Leg-!
islature   Only  One  House.
Senator  W.  A.  Campbell  intro<i
in the senate his bill to submit a
-titutional amendment  abolishing the:
state senate and substituting for the!
two houses of the legislature a single;
bouse with 100 members over which!
the   lieutenant   governor   would
side.
This reorganization of tlie legislature has been dis* '>r several
years It is not likely that the bill
will get beyond the state senate.
DITCH    CAVEIN    KILLS   TWO
Men Are Buried by Earth Fall While
Laying  Tile.
<'arl Lau.sten and Victor Johnson,
employed In ditching and laying tile
near Sherbum. met death from Injury
and suffocation when they were
buried in a cavein.
Emil Anderson, the contractor, had
just left the excavation when the accident occurred.
Two  Dead  in  Toledo   Fire.
Toledo.  O..   Feb.   14.— Two  persons
were killed and two seriously injured
when a terrific gas explosion wr-
• two-story store and apartment bouse.