The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-04-29

              THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
V^OL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, APRIL 29,' 1915.
NO. 46.
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STATE NEWS BITS
Various Happenings of the Week
Throughout Minnesota.
Mrs. Julia Ryan, aged eighty years,
Is dead at Waterville. Mrs. Ryan
was born In County Cork, Ireland, in
1835 and as a girl went through the
great famine of 1845-46. She came to
Ajherica at twelve years of age and
at New Orleans passed through the
yellow fever scourge and cared for
those afflicted. She was married to
Edward Magner at St. Louis and moved to New Ulm, this state, in 1860,
where her husband was killed in the
Indian uprising and she fled with her
small children to St. Paul. In 1865
she was married to Thomas Ryan and
they located on a farm in the Big
Woods country in Waterville township, where she resided until ten
years ago. Her husband died in 1881.
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George Robertson, former auditor
of Mower county, died suddenly at
Austin. Arrgifments were to be heard
in district court May 1 to decide
whether he should be given a new
trial or sentenced under conviction
of embezzling county funds. Robertson aged rapidly since his shortage
became known. He was auditor of
Mower county twelve years. He
sought election for a seventh term,
but withdrew after his arrest a few
days before election.
+   +   +
Judge Josiah D. Ensign, eighty-two
years of age, has begun his twenty-
seventh year as judge of the St. Louis
county district court. He is the senior
member of the St. Louis county bench
and bar, but is as hard a worker as
his juniors and never missed a session of the court except when on his
annual vacation. Judge Ensign was
appointed to the bench on April 16,
1889, and has been elected each time
his term has expired ever since.
* +   *
Mrs. Marietta Willson, a survivor of
the Indian massacre of 1862 in McLeod county, is dead at the home of
her son, Frank J. Willson, of Edina,
Mrs. Willson was born in Springfield,
N. Y., in 1826. With her husband and
three children she came to Minnesota In 1859 and the family located
on a farm near Glencoe. After the
Indian uprising Mr. and Mrs. Willson
removed to Richfield, where Mr. Will-
son died in 1868.
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Eight new iron mines belonging to
the state will begin to ship ore when
the season on the range opens. Reports received by the mineral land department of the state auditor's office
indicate that the season will be unusually late this year, but that the
total amount shipped will be close to
the output of 1913, when almost 3,-
000,000 tons of ore was sent from the
state mines.
* +' +
Colonel Thomas D. Piste is dead at
the home of his daughter in St. Paul.
He served in the Confederate army as
a member of an Alabama regiment
and after the war was elected to the
legislature of that state. He received
his education at Annapolis. During
Cleveland's administration he was a
supervising architect in the treasury
department.
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Because wheels of both vehicles
were in a rut that thwarted steering
mechanism George Ramthun was
killed when his motorcycle collided
with an automobile driven by Vincent
Dunnett, near Byron, Olmsted county. A young woman riding on the
rear of the motorcycle was slightly
injured.
•I-   *   *
Gustav A. Lund, a native of Sweden
and a resident of Minneapolis since
the spring of 1871, is dead. Mr. Lund
was in the employ of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway company for forty-three years and was
general car inspector foreman for
more than forty years.
+   ■*•   *
Mrs. Eliza Jane Wallace Jones, widow of William Ashley Jones, a pioneer
of the '40s, is dead at Minneapolis at
the age of ninety-four years. She
leaves four sons and one daughter
out of a family of ten, nineteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
+   +   *
The petition for an election on the
question of county option has been
filed with the county auditor of
Nobles county with a total of 1,023
signatures, or 416 more than the number required by law. The election
has been set for Monday, May 31.
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Mrs. Ira Canfield of St. James, seventy-three years old, attempted to
build a fire in a stove that stood close
to the chair to which she practically
was confined. She fainted, it appears,
and met death in flames from the
brand she had lighted.
•5-   +   *
Morley Saunders, at one time prominent as an attorney and for years
city justice of Rochester, was gored
to death by a bull at Mayowood farm
near Rochester, dying in a short time.
His left side was torn open and every
rib but two broken.
+   *   +
Mrs. Julia Hendy, who would have
been 100 years of age on Aug. 15, is
dead at Minneapolis. Four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and
six great-great-grandcrildren survive
1Mb
Chas. Lust of
Hillman Loses
House by Fire
Chas. Lust, living-about seven
miles east of the villag-e lost his
house by tire about five o'clock
Tuesday evening". The fire, it
seems, started from the roof.
Mrs. Lust, who was home alone
with the children did not discover the fire until she began to
feel the heat from above. When
tlie flames were in full progress,
Chas. came home, but it was
then too late to save much of
the household g-oods. The loss
is estimated at §700.
Play Staged  at the Parish Hall
Meets With Grand Success.
Base Ball Meeting
Last Saturday Eve
A Baseball meeting- was held
last Saturday evening, with the
object of perfecting- a local organization to promote the national g-ame. The following- officers were elected:
Andrew H. Paust, Manager.
R. M. Stoll, Treasurer.
F. X. Virnig-, Secretary.
R. M. Stoll, and Frank J. Gil-
bride were appointed to gather
donations to pay for grounds.
The first game of the season
will be played with Royalton,
on the Royalton diamond next
Sunday.
Last Sunday evening, un Ier
the able guidance of Rev. Fr.
Siegler, local talent scored a
great hit, before a packed house,
in "Dark Before Dawn", and
"Der Dumme Joseph". The former, a Civil War Drama in two
acts vividly pictured the warfare of 1861 and the campaig-n
in the far South. It was redolent with the atmosphere of the
Sunny South.
A southern lad, actuated by
high moral principle enlists at
the outbreak of hostilities under
the federal forces, and as the
war progresses is delegated to
the South as a spy. Captured
he is condemned to suffer the
fate of a spy. Tlie Climax of
the story is arrived at when
the climax of the story is arrived at when the son is poroled
aud allowed to remain at home
under the g-uardinship of his
father who is a staunch supporter of the confederate couse.
The second play of the evening's program, a four act german comedy illustrating typical scenes of peasant and barrack life in Germany during the
eighteenth century proved a roar
from start to finish. "Der Dumme Joseph", a young rustic lad
who is constantly committing
liimself while at home and who
by his stammering is the ever
increasing cause of merriment,
being drafted into the army,
causes his superiors great trouble with his strange antics. After a series of escapades he returns home not "Der Dumme
Joseph," but "Joseph der Un-
teroffizier.
Casper Thommes as "Der Dumme Joseph", did exceptionally
well as a comedian.
Teddy Wermerskirchen as "Little Jim" is desering of favorable
comment, and so is Minnie
Rauch as Joseph's Mutter.
May the 6th will
Be Clean Up Day
Interesting
Causfht Fish
Local News       With His Hands
is    great
May the 6th will be clean-up-
day in Minnesota.
Governor Hammond has issued
a proclamation setting this day
apart for house-cleaning all over,,
This
weather
Julius   Deering   of   Brainerd
growing caught a 22 pound pickerel with
his   bare   hands.     It   was   in   a
Born-To Nick Staub andImar8c1' and tl,e  water wa8 only
six inches deep.
ABOUT THE STATE
News o! Especial Interest to!
Minnesota Readers,
the state. City officials, fire
marshals, public health officers,
school   teachers  and  civic and their   clover   was
Buckman    farmers    claim
Will Change
Pierz Wiring.
The entire telephone system
of Pierz is to be improved immediately, according to an announcement by Wire Chief Snel-
ling of the Little Falls exchange
of the Northwestern Telephone
Company, who is making arrangements to go ahead with the
work.
The entire wiring system will
be put in cables instead of using
ordinary wires as at present and
the switchboards will also be
changed for more modern ones. I J. L. Hohmann, who is also an
The material is on the ground artist, has just finished a life
now for the work and Mr. Snel- like portrait of Father Pierz,
ling was here a few days ago on the pioneer missionary priest,
business connected with the after whom our village was
work. He estimates that it will named,
take  three months   to complete
commercial associations are
asked to help.
Particular attention will be
paid this year to the removal of
refuse and subbish whicli makes
for fire hazards Robert W. Har-
gadine, state fire marshal, will
notify his deputies to urge that
the proclamation be observed.
The day will be a feature of a
clean-up and paint-up week,
May 3 to 8.
"The annual loss by fire in the
state is appal ing,"' said theGov-
ernor. "The loss arises largely
from carelessness.
"I recommend that public officers call the attention of the
people to the importance of putting their premises in order. I
urge that the schools have tire
drills and discussions of the best
methods of fire protection."
killed.
The truth propably is that the
not   frost    ^r;isb WHS so thick   that the iish
could make  no headway, or  he
was left in a shallow hole when
Jeff" Virnig of Little Falls' tlie W£lter reCeded.   Our money
LEGISLATIVE  SESSION  ENDS^
Few  Important   Bills   Passed  by   Body
Just Adjourned—County  Option
of  Greatest   Interest.
visited his parents last Sunday.
goes   on   the    pickerel   in   six
inches of clear water against all
A good  listener will make .tlle Deerings in the country
more  money   than a  liberal
talker.
Mr. and  Mrs. Adam Billi-r
Women Ends Her Lite
St. Cloud.—Mrs. Martin Moli-
are visiting  with the  Frankito1"' 50 yeals old- wife of a local
druggist aud prominent in worn
an's club circles and other women's   organizations,   committed
Boehm family.
Robert Gruber bought 160
acres of land in sections 33
and 34 in Platte.
Father Pierz
suicide  here April   26th, in the
afternoon at 5 o'clock.
Mrs. Molitor had been ill for
some time with nervous disorders. Yesterday she asked ber
husband to go down stairs to
get some medicine whicli she
though would relieve her pain,
and during liis absence placed
Anton Smith   and  wife of the muzzle of a revolver to her
Mike Auer sold his 80 acre
farm in Buckman to Brandl
Bros, for $2640.00.
Five members of our orchestra played at a dance in
Onamia Friday evening.
the improvements, as the   work
Mr. Hohmann  has also  some
more art work on exhibition at
of revising the wiring system is  ..     „   ,,      T>  ,      . ,
J the Golden Rule show windows.
a big one and it will entail a considerable expenditure of money. '
One hundred and two subscribers are served through the local
exchange.
Little Falls News
(From Transcript.)
Mrs. A. Dominick will leave
tonight to join her husband on
his farm east of Pierz The household goods were sent out   today
^    -.  and the family will   make   their
tions of  an old   Reo   and   bord J
home  in   Hillman town  in  the
A Home-Made Auto
Bradly, S. D. April 20:   Parts
from  a  cream   separator,   por-
car and other bits of machinery
especially devised for the purpose were used  by Hugh   Scan-
future.
Steve   Adams,   a   farmer   of
Ian and RossKinyen, two young . Culdrum. dropped dead Tuesday
men of this place, in the manu- at his home, death being caused
facture of a brand new model of by apoplexy. Medical atten-
an automobile, which was given dance was summoned from   this
CLEAN UP!
Notice is hereby given that all
property owners must make a
thorough cleaning up before
May 10th, 1915. All ashes, garbage, tilth and rubbish must be
taken to the village dump
ground.
Board of Health.
Fergus Falls. — The judges
Nye of Moorhead. Parsons of
Fergus Falls and Roeser of St.
Cloud held a conference here and
decided to appoint W.E. Frazee
a member of the Detroit water
and light commission to succeed
W. L. Taylor, whose term has
expired.
a tryout todas7. The car ran as
smooth as any of the high priced
machines in the market and has
many advantages not to be found
on the ordinary car.
No doubt one of the advantages of this machine, because
parts of it are taken from cream
separators, is that it will separate cream from pure unadulterated milk, in addition to the ordinary road work and regular
contributions to the garagist.
It is not unreasonable, then, if
this machine becomes a success,
to expect to see farmers funnel
milk into the radiator ;>nd catch
cream and butterfat from the
exhaust pipe.
city, but he was dead before the
doctor arrived. The deceased
was about 55 years of age.
The opening of the sawmill
was unusually late this season,
a comparison of the record for
the past 20 years showing that
only twice has the opening been
later. In lt<99 the latest opening \ of 7:30 a. m
in the 20 years is recorded, April
29, and in 1896 it opened April
20. The earliest opening on record in that time was five years
ago, in 1910, when sawing was
begun March 24.
Mesaba   are   here  on a visit
with Mrs. Smith's parents.
Ignatius Priemesberger of
Staples came down last week
for a few days visit with his
parents.
Two inmates of the St.
Cloud reformatory escaptd
last Saturday and are still
at large.
The first thunder Shower
this spring passd over Pierz
and vicinity last week Thursday night.
Theresia Virnig is home
after a several mouths stay
with her brother "Jeff" in
Little Falls.
C. F. Gravel and family attended tho funeral of Gertrude- Blake in Little Falls
Saturday.
John Stumpf left for Morris Monday, from whicli place
he will go to Watertown,
Wis., to work as an electrician.
John L. Gross bought a lot
of John Priemesberger east
of the Frank Wise home and
is building a dwelling house
on the same.
mouth   and pulled   the   trigger.
Her death was instantanious.
.Mrs. .Molitor was formerly
president of the Sixth District of the Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs, which
made her a vice-president In the
state organization.
Beginning next Saturday,
May the first, tlie R. F. 1).
carriers will leave th« post-
office at   12:30   p. m.  instead
Mrs. Ben   Winkelmaun of
Cromwell, Minn., arrived last
Saturday,  for a  weeks' visit
[with   her  parents,   Mr.   and
Mrs. Frank Marshik.
Warning.
Illegal   fishing   in Skunk and
Platte rivers must and will be
stopped. In the past years Iish
ennen have come long distances
and seined tish by the hundreds.
We are on the lookout. Anyone
caught fishing with a net. will
be promptly prosecuted. Any
one driving through town, suspected of being on ah illegal
lishing trip, may meet a game
and tish warden at the river. We
have telephones-
Acuam Farmers.
A Pretty Good Stunt
H.   Reinke,   a   real   estate
man, is said to have paid a tine
■ of $25.00 and cost, amounting to
' Si's.:,o by check, in St. Cloud for
i disorderly conduct, and stopped
■ payment of check after his re-
. lease.
Try Journal   want ads for results.
Mrs. Chas. Geer dropped dead
Thursday morning at her home
on a farm about four miles east
of Royalton. She was dead when
medical aid reached her. Death
was caused by heart trouble.
She had been apparently in good
health when her husband left for
town that morning.
Gertrude Louise Blake, daughter of Matt Blake, died Thursday morning at her home, 405
Fourth street southeast, after
an illness from rheumatism. She
was 13 years of age and had been
a student at St. Aloysius Ger
man Catholic school.
GENERAL
MARKETREPORTS.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
'Vheat.No. 1,      1.48
Wheat, No. 2       1   12
Flax,         L80
Barley:  —    65
Rye    101
Oats       5d
Ear Corn       B0
Hay $5.00
Butter, Creamery ..       37
Dairy       27
Eggs       17
Flour. Best	
"    Straight      3.50
Low grade flour 1.80
Bran 1.40
Shorts    1.45
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans  --     2.00
Onions        60
The thirty-ninth session of the Min-j
nesota legislature has passed Into his-j
tory after a session which began onj
Jan. 5.
The closing hours in both houses;
were devoid of unusual features, the;
final scenes being tame compared to!
the spectacular events of other j
A large number of unimportant bills
were passed, but objection was made'
to consideration of measures of
eral interest.
The legislature passed but few important laws. County option vied with
the boxing bill for premier honors.
Appropriations were reduced more
than $1,000,000 from the 1913 record,
the state revenue fund levy was reduced nearly 1 mill and the una!
school aid was decreased despito
house opposition.
The economy and efficiency bill, for
the reorganization of the state system of civil administration, never
came to a vote and the report of the
public education commission authorized by the 1918 legislature and
omniendlng a reorganization of tho
state common school system was entirely Ignored.
Senator   James   A.   Parley's   re
tion for a special commission ol
islators to study the civil admin
tion problem  and  report   in   1917   wan
carried  in the house and a $2,000 appropriation   made.     This   is   the   only
result   of   the   protracted   reorganization agitation.
Regulation   of   Telephones.
The Mlnnette-Burrows tclephon
giving   control   of  all   telephone
panles   in   the liroad
and   warehouse  commission   wa
only advance legislation as to publk
utilities.
Several   constitutional    amendl
were  submitted,  among  them   the   In
itiative and referendum,  but a  large
number    of    bills    proposing    amendments  were   killed.
The   1916   legislature   cost  th>
payers   of   Minnesota   exact iv
139.88   When all bills are paid. Il
Ing  expense  accounts  and   final   clerical work, the total will be Inert
by several  thousand  doll
Credits  available for legislate
penses   were ol    which
$::l'I,000 was appropriated  at   the  be
ginning of  the  session.  Th'
restored by the state auditor from the
1913     appropriation     was     $4,x
while    there    were    refundments    of
$93.80.
The  bill   prohibiting  the   affiliation
of the  1'nlversitv  of  Minnesota with
the Mayo foundation was not rep'
out in the house and did not bei
a law.  There now  is  nothing  to  prevent the board of regents of the university from making any agreenv
desires  with the  Mayo trustees.
BOXING  BILL. BECOMES LAW
Governor    Hammond    Signs    Measure
for Ten-Round   Bouts.
Governor Hammond has signed the
boxing bill authorizing ten-round boxing bouts in St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Duluth.
The  law  provides  for a  state athletic commission of three mAhibi
license   boxing    clubs   and
contests,  of  which   there shall   bi
more than twelve yearly in •
The  governor  named  as  two  of  the
three     commissioners     to     regulate
bouts   Frank   B.   Thompson.   Bt   Paul,
anci   George   I\   Douglas.   Minneapolis.
Mr.   Douglas   announced   he   will   not
serve.    The  third   commissioner  will
be a Duluth  man.
The governor vetoed the bill prohibiting the killing or sale of frogs
and the measure abolishing the office
of hotel inspector and placing the duties under the dairy and food commissioner.
Governor Hammond signed fifty:
bills and thus ended a grist of 385,;
as contrasted with 594 approved or:
rejected two years ago by Governor:
Eberhart.
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday	
Wm. Priemesberger has
bought a lot of liis father
west of the Frank Wise place
in upper town and will put
up a dwelling house on same.
A 5-foot alligator was found
frozen in tlie ice of Mud River jpriday  " :;1
in Andersonville   last Satur- Saturday 7.81
day and many  people visited  Monday J
that part of tiie town bet ween Tuesday	
that   time  and   Tuesday  tO;Wedpesday -
view the reptile.   Lt was prop-' "
.   ,.,      .     '   . .   South St. Paul
erly   interred   luesday witi.
all the   ceremonies   due to a
	
Live StockMarket.
■   ■            |7 ?!
creature that   had stray* )Ws;uul Heifers,$4.25 to „l
far from its native haunts.— Calves, stead <>.b0 to
Aitkin Independent Age. Feeders, stead v        -    10 to 7-00
BUDGET BILL PASSES SENATE
Carries   Appropriations   of   $5,688,293.
for Next Two Years.
The state department budget, carry-]
ing an aggregate appropriation for the]
next two years of $5,688,298. which Is:
.74 less than the appropriation;
of 1913, has passed the upper branch-
of the leglslat
Among   the   items   are   $55,000   for!
the   state   board   of  health;   $100,000!
for county sanatoria, under state advisory commission for consumpt
highway   commission,   $100,000,   and
i for each of the two years to]
aid  in the construction of tbe   Snell-'
ing-Como sewer system to serve the:
state fair grounds.
Twenty-five Autos Burned.
The garage and agricultural establishment of A. W. Wilson at Hastings,
containing about twenty-five autoa
and a large quantity of farm i
ments and supplies, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
«U 320,000.