The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-05-06

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VOL. 6.
THE   PIERZ  JOURNAL
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, MAY 6, 1915.
NO. 47.
STATE NEWS BITS
Various Happenings of the Week
Throughout Minnesota.
Mrs. Val. Hartmann
Pioneer of 1855.
Another of the settlers who
came to the wilderness of Scott
County j'ears before the time of
the great Civil War, passed to
her eternal reward during- the
week, when Mrs. Valentine Hart
mann Sr.. of Benedict passed
away, Mrs. Hartmann and her
husband, who survives her, came
to Benedict as early as 1855 and
took up a claim there. That
community has been their home
ever since. Death was due to
age infirmities, from which she
had been ailing a few years.
Rosalia Dealingler was born in
Germany, Aug. 13. 1835, coming-
to America with her family when
a g-irl of 18. They lived at St.
Louis a year or two, moving-
later to Shakopee. There she
was married to Mr. Hartmann
in the year 1855, the couple gx>-
ing- to their home in Benedict.
They are survived by four sons,
four daughters, 60 grandchildren
md 25 great grandchildren. Tlie
daughters are Mrs. Gregor
Wermerskirchen of St. James,
Mrs. John Seifert of Benedict,
Mrs. Melchior Wermerskirchen
of Pierz, Minn, and Mrs. John
Brunei- of Saskatchewan, Canada. The sons are Anton and
Valentine M. Hartmann of Benedict and P. A. and J. B. Hartmann of Pierz, Minn.
Kills Wife and self
Samuel B. Babcock, a Minnesota
pioneer, for fifty-four years a resident
in the state, who would have been
eighty-five years old in October, is
dead at his home in Minneapolis.
Born in Camden, N. Y., in 1830, Mr.
Babcock, with his wife, left New
York city in 1860 for Blue Earth
county, this state, settling near Medo.
The great Indian uprising and massacre of 1862 occurred while they
were still in the process of settling
on their land and the couple experienced all the adventures and hardships of pioneers in a new country.
For nine years Mr. Babcock remained
on his original holding and came to
have one of the finest farms in the
state. Later he sold his farm and
moved to Vernon Center, where he
lived forr thirty-five years. Five
years ago he moved to Minneapolis
for permanent residence.
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The recent order of the interstate
commerce commission reducing the
rate on iron ore from the Minnesota
mines to Lake Superior ports from 60
to 55 cents a ton will mean a considerable decrease in the state's gross
earnings revenue from the ore lroads,
according to state officials. The Duluth and Iron Range road paid $367,-
000 last year and the Duluth, Missabe
and Northern $441,000. It is estimated that on last year's tonnage the decrease will be about $100,000 for the
two roads.
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April sales of state land in seven
counties resulted in disposal of 10,-
181 acres at an average price of
about $7 an acre, according to State
Auditor J. A. O. Preus. There are
about 150,000 acres still to be put on
the market this year and sales will
take place in the northern counties
every month during the summer and
fall.
4>   4.   -;.
A county option petition has been
filed in the county auditor's office at
Glenwood and that official set June 14
as the date of the county option election in Pope county. More than 1,000
names were attached to the petition,
400 in excess of the necesary number.
The only saloons are in Glenwood, Following" a quarrel witli his
Lowry and Sedan.
.j.   4,   .j. wife, Gustave  Menz, a wealthy
During the last five years the slate   and well known citizen of   Brai-
of   Minnesota   has   paid   $156,135   in, , ,   .
bounties for killing wolves, or an av-'nerd, killed the woman and then
erage of $31,207 a year. There is at committed suicide. The woman
the present time claims on file in the | ...
state auditor's office amounting to a ( was shot live times by tlie hus-
little over $20,000 to be paid on wolf j band Mr and M].s y[enz^ it js
bounties, with only $10,000 available. I
+   +   .j. said,  did not  live  in  harmony,,
Samuel Reid Benham, pioneer tern-, and suit had been instituted  by
perance advocate of Southern Minne-
sota and one of the founders of the | her for separation, lhe court
city of Furibault, is dead at Red Wing. ' i)aci ordered him to pay her $25
Mr. Benham was ninety-five years of
age. He attributed his long life to
the fact that he used neither tea, coffee, liquor nor tobacco.
4.   4.   4.
Judge Arthur H. Snow of AVinona,
who has been on the bench of the
Third judicial district since Jan. 5,
1897, has asked to be retired under
the judicial retirement act. Judge
Snow Is said to be seriously ill and
the request was immediately granted
by Governor Hammond.
4.   4   4
Cyrus Conrad of Sleepy Eye, sixty-
five years old, while driving a street
sprinkling cart was fatally injured
when a front wheel broke, throwing
him to the ground. The water tank
fell on him, breaking one of his legs
and inflicting internal injuries. He
died a few hours later.
4.   4.   4,
J. E. Preston, an expert sent to
Aitkin by a Minneapolis electrical
concern to install a hew engine and
dynamo for the village, was killed instantly while testing the machinery.
Two  thousand  volts   passed  through
his body.
4.   4.   4.
A petition with more than the required number of signers was filed
with the county auditor at St. James
and a special election to vote on
rounty option will be held In Watonwan county June 7.
4.   4.   4.
A eon weighing but a pound and
one and a half ounces was born at
Cokato to Mr. and Mrs. Keinera, parents of nine other children. The
babe seetns to be normal except as to
weight.
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Some Facts About
Corn Planting
For grain production, checking corn
3 feet 6 inches or 3 feet 8 inches, with
3 to 4 kernels per hill, is the method
usually followed in Minnesota, says
A. C. Arny, of the Minnesota College
of Agriculture. Checking the corn
permits cultivation both ways and
gives a better opportunity to keep it
free from weeds than does drilled corn.
When the soil is exceptionally free
from weeds, thb corn may be drilled
to advantage, and the plants should
be from 12 to 14 inches apart in the
row.
For silage, or for bundle-corn to be
fed without husking, a plant every 6
or 8 inches in the row, either checked
or drilled, will produce a larger yield
and better quality than thinner planting.
From 1 to 2 inches is a good depth
to plant if the soil is moist. If there
is no moisture within 3 inches of the
surface, the corn must be planted
deeper. When the season is late and
soil still somewhat wet and ,cold,
planting not more than 1 or 1% inches do?p is important. The deeper
corn is planted the longer the time
needed to reach the surface, which
means that the growing season will be
shortened. The probability that some
plants will not be able to reach the
surface is increased by planting unnecessarily deep. The corn plants cannot be made to root lower in the soil
by dijep planting. The permanent
roots are developed about the same
depth whether the corn is planted 2
or 4 inches deep.
Holstein Park News.
a month alimony until the case
was heard and it was to come up
at this term of the district court.
He saw her attorneys recently
and asked that a reconciliation
be effected. Tenders were made
to Mrs. Menz, but she refused.
She said she wanted a settlement
of $2,100, and Mr. Menz, it is
said, ottered her $500.
Quick Results.
An Irishman was sitting in a station
smoking, when a woman came, and
sitting down  beside him, remarked:
"Sir, if you were :\ gentleman you
would not smoke here."
"Minn," he said, if ye wuz a lady
ye'd sit farther away."
Pretty soon the woman burst out
again. "If you were my husband I'd
give you poison."
"Well mum," returned the Irishman, as he puffed away at his pipe,
"if ye wuz me woife I'd take it."
Platte News.
Many  families around here are having  the  measles.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Richner, Edward
Richner and Lillie Olson, Math Valentine, Frank Schubert and Theo.
Rychner called at C. Reese's Sunday.
Bobert Rychner left for his father's
Westbrook. committed suicide by cut- pl*c« *» Belle Prairie Wednesday,
ting his throat. Worry over a small j Chas. Young and Alfred Richner of
indebtedness is said to have been the   Gravelville  passed   through   here   Sun-
Alva Martin made a business trip
to Pierz  Wednesday.
.). A. Sanborn was a Pierz caller
Thursday.
Bert Sanborn made a trip to Little
Falls Thursday. He had a call to
make for one of his neighbors, but unfortunately it slipped his mind. Anyhow, we don't think she is at home
now.
Wm. Welch and I. G. Brader and
son are visiting at the Martin farm.
They motored down from Wadena last
Saturday.
Mrs. G. P. Martin and Mrs. J. A.
Sanborn attended the shower at Mrs.
S. D. Wood's home Saturday afternoon.
Holstein Park senj a large delegation to the party at G. W. Waller's
Saturday evening. Our crowd would
have been larger had not the Sullivan
jitney bus lacked power to make some
of the hills, consequently arriving too
late to join our caravan.
Pork is Produced
Cheaply on Pasture
Pork is produced from 8 to 10 per
cent more cheaply on pasture than in
th,? dry lot. Last year at the Iowa
Station, with corn at 50 cents, the
feed-cost for 100 pounds of pork was
$3.73 on alfalfa pasture and $4.07 in
the dry lot. After adding the original cost of the pig and interest on the
in vestment, there is left a good profit.
Interesting
Local News
Lucille Love Coming.
The  postoffice  now closes
at 7 p. m.
The   county   dads   had  a
meeting Tuesday.
Octavia (xoedet of St.Cloud
Bank Overdrafts
Now Forbidden
For Minnesota, the best pasture
crops for hogs are alfalfa, rape, clover VH ited with Anna Jb'clUS last
and combinations of field peas, oats,
rape or clover. The following figures
are given for comparison and also to
indicate the possible value of a good
pasture:
Pork Produced Per Acre
Crop Missouri Kansas Iowa
lbs.    lbs.    lbs.
Alfalfa        591.8    408    741
Ried   Clover         560.7    400    72S
Rape        274       202    865
Oats, peas  anil  rape.     394 966
In all of the above tests liberal
grain rafrbns were fed with pasturage.
At the Minnesota Station last year,
three-quarters of an acre of rape furnished plenty of pasture for twenty
pigs from the middle of June until
frost. They were given, iu addition,
3 pounds of corn per day for each
100 live weight.
Allow an acre of pasture for each 15
pigs, grain being fed. Seed rape now
or later, using four to six pounds of
seed per acre. By making a couple of
.vedings the best of pasture is available all summer.
Good pasture combinations are: rye
(early spring), rape (summer); corn
in field and rape (fall); rye, alfalfa,
corn;  rye, clover, oats and  peas.
Good Bridge
Spans Platte
The bridge which has been
under construction over the
Platte river near the B. Burton
farm has been completed and accepted by the town of Little
Palls and tlie county. Commissioners Lakin, Gassert and Ro-
cheleauand townofficers Sclimel-
zer and Hammer went over the
work Monday and accepted the
bridge, which is said to be one
of the best pieces of work done
in the county. Tlie structure is
entirely of cement and steel and
consists of two  75-foot  spans.
The partners have moved into their j
new   house   and   have   started   house-j It was the    largest   bridge    COn-
keeping.    They have  our sympathy.      j tract   given   out   in   the   county
Everyone   reports   a   good   throat .^    'p._Tran(K;ript
the party, although we must say that
they did put a little too much ginger
into some of the games for our consti-
tutic ns.
South Agram News
Those who visited at the J. J, Brummer home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs.
Jos. Brummer, Mr. and Mrs. John
Brummer, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Brum-
mer and John Eidenshink.
Miss Catherine Loschieder is employed by Mrs. Joseph Jansen.
The Loafer.
They say that I am worthless
and I guess, at least, I be, 'cause
kids and other people's dogs
they all shine up to ine. While
decent men is scramblin' to nail
a dollar lown I spend the best
part of my time in aimless ramb-
lin' roun'. I pity lots of well-
dressed   folks  that  cooly   pass
their  lips,   the   pain   that's  on
Born—To   Mr.     and     Mrs.     Frank
Meier of Spring   Valley,    wis.,   last' me by, the weariness that's   on
week a son.    Mrs. Meier was formerly '
Miss  Otillia   Kippley  of  this place.
Mr. and Mrs. j. J. Brummer and! their eye. In winter, just a
family autoed out to John Boser's of* corner near to some one else's
Bull  Thursday  evening. I
Miss  Creseience    Faust    closed    her   nre! ln SUtnmer-time  a   patch  of
shade the top of my desire. A
gun when fall winds whistle, a
a pole when fishes bite, three
meals, or less if need be,   and  a
cause of the deed.
•j.   4.   4.
County option  petitions  have  been       Mrs. Goo. Sigette  visited with Mrs.
filed  with  County Auditor Lincoln at ' Andrew Kainz Sunday.
Fergus Falls and he immediately call-.    There's a  war brewtna
day   on   their   way
mill at Sullivan.
Mrs.  Geo.  Sigette
to   Johnson's   saw
ed the election for Otter Tail county
for June 7..
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Douglas   county   will   vote   on   the
county option issue May 81.   The petition   contains   1,168   names,   66   per
cent more than the law requires.
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Minneapolis   has   more   than   9,000
automobiles to go on the tax rolls this
iu Platte
town and when it breaks out it will
be worse than the one in Europe. Soo
that your not on the side that's bringing it  on.
Well,   did  anybody   shako  their  feet
around  for  correspondent   at   the   ball
j at tbe big hall Monday evening:
Paul   Finneman  and   1'aul   Kuklinski
attended the assessors' meeting at Lit-
year, an increase of fully 2,000 since   tk> Falls Thursday.
1914.
school in district 131    last    week    on
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Math Schnurer visited
at the John Eidenshink home Sunday.
Fred   Sporlein   is   having   an   addition built to his house.   John and Bar- ,
ney Eller of Pierz are doing the work.   Place to sleeP at nl£llt-    To turn
=========_= a little favor for a stranger  or
St. Cloud, Minn., April 26— a yal> to ^et a tender smile from
Two men, believed to be the duo
who escaped from the state reformatory Friday night and who
are suspected of a robbery at St.
Joe the same evening, entered
the station and saloon at Avon
yesterday. Two suits and an
overcoat were stolen from the
station and some change and two
bottles of whisky from the saloon. At the station the men
opened a freezer of ice cream
that had been received on a late
train and sampled the contents
a youngster or a gal, to grin
with them that's grinning, and
weep with them that weep, to
never mind my enemies and like
my friends a heap, to never hurt
a woman's heart, nor do a man
a wrong—I ask for nothing else
except—to drift and loaf along.
CLEAN DP!
Notice is hereby given that all
property owners must make a
thorough    cleaning   up    before
week.
Otto Miller of Jordan is
here for a few days on business.
Christ Faust is treating liis
buildings with a coat of
paint.
Theo. Thielen and family
motored to the county seat
Tuesday.
John Boehm is surprising
his barber shop with a coat
of paint.
The town board of Pierz
will hold a meeting Tuesday.
May 11th, at 2 p. m.
Slushy roads last Monday
morning made autoing kind
of skiddy.
Lena Flicker won tlie gold
watch last week at the Booster store.
Frank Boelim and R. S.
Stumpf were Little Falls callers Sunday.
Mike Vogel went to Free-
port Saturday to visit his old
home for a few days.
Miss Gerfrude Stumpf returned home, after a weeks
visit iu Little Falls.
Lucille Love Coming.
John Sehindler of Calio,
N. J)., arrived yesterday to
visit relatives in Buh.
These rains promise good
pasture and an increased
milkfiow for a time   at least.
A force of men and teams
were at work the first days
of the week leaveling the
parochial school grounds.
A. P. Stoll and family and
Mrs. Adolf Stumpf autoed to
to Little Falls Saturday, returning Sunday evening.
Arthur Wittani, boiler-
maker for the N. P. R. R. Co.
was in Pierz calling on his
friend R. S. Stumpf.
A. M. Reimer and family
of Little Lalls autoed to Pierz
and visited with Mrs. Adolf
Stumpf.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Billig of St. Cloud visited
with Mrs. Billig's parents
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boehm
last weeb.
Ignatz Keller of Mt. Angel,
Oregon, is here for the summer, or rather, as long as the
old Minnesota climate suits
him.
Put in a few acres of rope
for your hogs. An acre of
rope will pasture 15 to 20
hogs from June until it freezes up.
Alois Langer bought the
old Henry Voekel place in
Granite Tuesday and he intends to move onto the same
in a short time.
Quite  a happy   bunch  of
If you should happen to overdraw your bank account, don't
get excited if your banker tells
you about it and requests that
the matter be fixed up at once.
During the past several mouths
both national and state banking
departments have been taking
measures looking to the curbing
of the overdraft evil. The practice has been flagrant in man}'
communities and depositors frequently check on the bank when
they have no funds deposited
therein. The new rule is that no
further accommodations can be
granted to depositors, in the
form of overdrafts, because the
practice is unlawful and when it
has been allowed in the past the
cashier of bank doing so, was
held personally responsible.
During the past few years the
overdraft privilege has grown
to such an extent that the banking departments have considered it advisable to prohibit it
entirely. Banks generally allow
the advancement of funds, when
it is arranged for, but look- with
favor upon the new regulation,
which does not permit their depositors the overdraft- — Exchange.
ABOUT THE STATE
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News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers,
WALL MAPS OF COUNTY, $1.50
The new wall map of Morrison
county, mounted on paper, taped
sides, well made in every way, only
$1.50 each at the German State Bank,
Pierz.
Warning.
,, May 10th, 1915. All ashes, gar j Platte bo>* weie iu the vil'
liberally. They then stole aj bage, tilth and rubbish must be |laSe last Fnd;l>'' All had a
handcar and  rode  to  Melrose,'taken    to    the    village    dump  P'^'PY time.     They  were un-
Illegal fishing in Skunk and
Platte livers must and will be
stopped. In the past years tish
ermen 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. Anyone driving through town, suspected of being on an illegal
tishing trip, may meet a game
and tish warden at the river. We
have telephones.
Agk.am Farmjers.
GENERAL
MARKET REPORTS.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,     1.46
Wheat, No. 2       1  18
Flax,        1.80
Barley     00
\iyc    L.05
Oats       18
EarCorn       50
Hay $5.00
llutter, Creamery ..       37
Dairy       27
Rggs       17
Flonr, Rest      3.60
"   Straight      3.50
Low grade flour 1.8C
Bran  -.1.40
Shorts   1.45
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans      2.00
Onions        60
South St. Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
Thursday	
Priday	
Saturday   —
Monday 7.-1
Tuesday 7.2<>
Wednesday 7.25
where they are reported to have ground.
boarded a freight train.
Boakd of Health.
der the   leadership of "Billy
the Devil."
South St. Paul
Live StockMarket.
Steers $7.75 to
sand Heifer-
Calves, steai
Feeders, steady, _.-$4.3u to 7&>
IRON ORE RATES EXCESSIVE
Interstate   Commerce   Commission   Is'
sues   Order   Affecting   Carriers
on  Minnesota  Ranges.
The existing rate of 60 cents a long;
ton on iron ore from mines on th'
sr.bi range in this state to vessels at;
Two Harbors and Duluth and Al-;
louez Hay, Wis., was pronounced un-;
reasonable by the interstate
merce commission and tbe Oreatj
Northern and other railroads wore or-;
dered to establish a rate of not more1
than So cents.
No Hurting was niade by the commission on the rates from mines ln
the Venn ill ion and Cuyuna raj
but representatives of the Cuyuna
range, however, the commission's report declares, said during the progress of the case that even If no order
is entered with respect to that r
the rate for the Mesabt would be controlling.
The case is one of the most important decided by the commission In
il months. The Great Northern
alone carried 13,000,000 long tons of
ore to docks from Minnesota mines in
1913.
The report says the United States
Steel corporation indirectly controls
the Duluth and iron Range Railroad
company and the Duluth. Missabe and
Northern Railway company and owns
the larger portion of ore shipped over
thein, and that this fact "demam
strict interpretation of any standard
of reasonableness which is adopted*
although the right of these roads to
earn a fair return upon the property
devoted to public use is not questioned."
It was argued that a rate in excess
of a reasonable rate would be tantamount to a rebate to the United
States Steel corporation and that was
not contradicted  by  the carriers.
The commission's investigation disclosed immense earnings by the
roads.
TWIN   CITIES   WIN   VICTORY
Commerce   Commission   Turns   Down
Proposed Rate Increase.
The so called S3-cent scale of rail
road freight rates from points east
of the Mississippi river and north of
tin Ohio and Potomac rivers to St
Paul and Minneapolis was found res.
sonable ln a decision handed down by
the interstate commerce commission
aud the 90-cent rate proposed by the
railroads serving the territory was
found not Justified.
The railroads are ordered to main-
tain the 83-cent rate for two years
and are required to maintain the rail
and lake and rail class rates on the
same sort of traffic, which shall not
exceed or be lower than their
ent 21-cent scale of differentials over
the rates contemporaneously ln effect
at Duluth. The proposed 28-cent
scale to the Twin Cities was found
unduly dtscriminat-ry in favor of Duluth.
SUES THE PULLMAN COMPANY
State   of   Minnesota   Seeks   to   Collect
Tax   of  $23,000.
An Important suit has been fill
the Ramsey county district court at
si Paul bj Attorney General L. A.
Smith against the Pullman company
to collect $23,000 gross earnings taxes under the 1913 tax law.
The company has dsiputed the claim
and tendered the state only $3
Under the old law sleeping car corn-
paid a 3 per cent tax on intrastate business sly. The
1913 law increased this to B per cent
and was to include all business done
in  Minnesota by the company.
The company claims that this act
brings the law ln conflict with Interstate traffic laws.
TWO   COUNTIES   VOTE    DRY
First   Results  Under the  New County
Option  Law.
l.yon   and   Kanabec   counties,
taining three saloons each, have voted!
dry   in   the   first  elections  under the!
new couni law.
In   Lyon  county  the  vote  wa^
wet  and   1,773  dry-    In  Kanabe<
favored  retention  of the saloon and:
853 were opposed.
BODY CUT  IN^TWO  BY SAW
Boy Killed in His Father's Mill When
Caught   in   Belt.
John Posten of Aitkin, son of Rich-:
ard   Posten,   was   instantly   killed   in
bis father's sawmill at Palisade tt
ln oiling the saw, he was caught in a
belt   and   thrown   against   tbe   saw's'
edge.    His body  was  cut  in  two at;
the breast.
FIRE KILLS THREE CHILDREN
Home Near Werner,  Minn., Burned in'
the   Night
Three children, ranging in age from
one   to  fire   years,   were   burned   to
death  In  the  home  of  their   father,
John  V.  Lund,  near  Werner,   fil
miles north ot Bemidji  on  the  Red
Lake Una
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Dont forget to attend the DANCE at Frank Faust's Hall, on Tuesday, May 11th, 1915.