The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1915-05-13

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THE   PIERZ   JOURNAL
VOL. 6.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, MAY IB, 1915.
NO. 48.
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ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial interest to
Minnesota Readers,
KILLS HIS WIFE AND HIMSELF
Assistant   Cashier   of   First   National
Bank of Coleraine  Principal  in
Double Tragedy.
Roy R. McQuade, twenty-eight years
old, assistant cashier of the First National bank of Coleraine, murdered his
wife and  committed suiicide.
The bodies were found when the police broke into the house. McQuade
was the son of a wealthy brewer at
Virginia, this state, and removed to
Coleraine from that city two years
ago.
His wife was Margaret Warner of
Tower, Minn.' She was twenty years
old.
No cause is known for the deed.
Bank examiners are going over Mc-
Quade's accounts.
McQuade used a 44-caliber revolver,
from which he fired seven shots. There
was evidence of a struggle, three shots
having been fired into the ceiling.
The wife's body was in a kneeling
position at the side of the bed, with
the head resting on her hands on a
pillow. McQuade's body was found
lying full length on the bed. There
were two bullet wounds through his
body above the heart and a third
through his head.
GASOLINE   TANK   EXPLODES
VaL Hartmann Sr.
Dies at Benedict
Jordan Independent:—Surviving- his aged wife by but a few
days, Val Hartmann Sr. of Benedict, Scott Co., passed away
at the liomeof liis son Valentine
of that community lastThursday,
April 29th, lacking but a few
days of attaining the completion
of liis eightieth year
Jurors Drown
For June Term
The grand and petit jurors for
the June term of court were
drawn Thursday afternoon from
Light In The
Creamery At
Midnight
the list furnished by the county j midnight    last    Sunday
One St. Paul Man Killed and Two
Injured.
Henry C. Ott, twenty-four years old,
was killed in an explosion inside a
gasoline tank on the Chicago Great
Western railroad at St. Paul. His
body was burned almost to a crisp.
George Meyers, twenty-nine years
old, was severely burned about the
face and feet in the explosion, and
George Whelan, thirty-nine years old,
was overcome in attempting to rescue
Ott from the tank in which he was
working.
The three, all employes of the Chicago Great Western railroad, were
engaged in riveting the tank car.
Meyers, sitting on the edge of the
manhole, reached down into the tank
to hand Ott a redhot rivet. There was
a roar that was heard for six blocks,
and a sheet of flame went twenty-five
feet into the air.
THREE COUNTIES VOTE DRY
Chisago, Isanti and Lac qui Parle
Oust Saloons. >
Three more Minnesota counties
joined 'the "dry" ranks following
county option elections in Isanti, Chisago and I^ac qui Parle. The vote in
each was about two to one for prohibition.
Isanti county had been dry through
Wal option elections and the only
effect of the vote was to drive out
wholesale liquor houses which are located at Stanford.
The wet interests say no fight was
made in either of the counties voting.
Taylors Falls and Wyoming are the
only towns affected in Chisago coun-
ey, while in Lac qui Parle the only
saloons are at Bellingham and Nassau.
KILLS   WIFE   AND   HIMSELF
Retired Farmer Quarrels With Spouse
Over Money Settlement.
Following a quarrel with his wife
at a home where she was employed
as housekeeper, Gustave Menz, a retired farmer of Brainerd, shot and
killed her and turned the revolver on
himself.
Five shots lodged in the woman's
head. Menz shot himself in the temple, dying instantly. He was a widower before he married Mrs. Katherine
Hammer, a widow of Centralia, Wash.,
whose acquaintance he had gained
through correspondence.
They were married in December and
Mrs, Menz procured a divorce recently. The quarrel started over a proposed settlement of 12,100.
NEW WOMAN'S REFORMATORY
Site Near Twin Cities Probably Will
Be Selected.
The new state reformatory for
women, for which the last legislature
appropriated $30,000, will be located
near St. Paul and Minneapolis.
This is the opinion of R. W. Whee-
lock, member of the state board of
control. Cambridge, Isanti county, and
Sandstone, Pine county, have made
application for the institution.
Since the appropriation covers only
cost of the site construction will not
begin until the next legislature provides for buildings.
TWO   BOYS   ARE   DROWNED
Lads Lose Lives While Playing
Around Lake. y
Raymond and Edward Kopp, eleven
and thirteen years old, were drowned
in O'Dowd lake near Shakopee. They
were the sons of Edward Kopp, a
farmer.
With another boy they pushed off
a rowboat from the shore withoutany
oars. Becoming frightened they jumped into the lake. The third boy
swam ashore.
It    was   well   along   toward
The
commissioners. The custom of j streetlights were out and it
impanelling 30 petit jurors in-1 was very dark. The belabored
stead of 24 was adhered to this juntos of the noisy day had
time because of the trouble it; crouched into their stalls and
The chil-1 saved when tried for the first j the village was as quiet as
dren who had been home to at- j time last February. The grand , the breast when the spirit has
tend the funeral of their mother jury reports June 8, the opening departed. There was nothing
were apprised by the serious da}', and the petit jurors June j to disturb the serenity of the
turn in their father's health that 10. snoring   populace,'  except   the
Following is the list of grand , whisperings  of  a few   belated
and petit jurors,  from this  end ; loiterers.    Suddenly a light was
he might not last long. Before
they had started on the return
to their respectiye homes he had
joined the silent majority, so
they remained for his funeral,
all the children being present
with the exception of one
daughter, Mrs. Brunner of Saskatchewan, Canada. The funeral occurred-on Saturday, from
St. Benedict's catholic church,
and was very largely attended.
Father Hildebrand conducted
service in the church and at the
cemetery.
Deceased was born May 9th,
1835, in Darmstadt, Hessen,
Germany, came to America with
his parents when a young lad.
The family settled inMarystown,
Scott Co. in the year 1853. Mr.
Hartmann soon after took up a
claim in Benedict, where he
worked diligently and faithfully
in opening up the wilderness to
civilization. His marriage to
Rosalia Dealinger was solemnized by lather Benedict, at Sha-
of the county:
GRAND JURORS
John Bollig, Pierz.
Steve Premberger, Pierz.
Frank Przybilla, Pierz-
Wm. Leidenfrost, Agram.
Emil Froehner, Buh.
John Gross, Granite.
Peter Weidenbach, Granite.
PETIT  JURORS
Mat Zenner, Buckman.
Wm. Meyer, Pierz.
John N. Faust, Pierz.
Gust Hoffman, Buh.
G. W. Waller, Granite.
Henry Waller, Agram.
John Boser, Buh.
Matt Meyer, Agram.
Frank Rauch, Pierz.
John Gau, Pierz.
Rucker News.
(Too late for last week.)
The shower at Mrs. S. D.
kopee, on September 4th, 1858, j Woods Saturday afternoon was
the couple living at Benedict ■ well attended and much enjoyed
ever since. Six years ago last ^ by those present. A lively so-
September they celebrated their ;ciai chat was indulged in and
golden wedding. Mrs. Hart- a bauntiful repast partaken of
mann's death occured ou April about five oclock
25th of this year, her husband's
on April 29th. His passing away
was due to poor health of some
years standing, having been
confined to bis bed for six weeks
before he died, with liver trouble.
Surviving relatives of Valen
Hartmann Sr. are four sons, four
daughters, 60 grandchildren and
25 great grandchildren. The
daughters are Mrs. Gregor
Wermerskirchen of St. James,
Mrs. John Seifers of Benedict,
Mrs. Melclior Wermerskirchen
of Pierz, Minn., Mrs. John Brunner of Saskatchewan, Canada.
The sons  are Anton and Valen- visit here witl] ,)i§   mother  aud
There was quite a large attendance at the dance at J. King's
Saturday evening.
Miss Elizabeth Waller gave a
birthday party for Wesley Waller at their home here last Saturday evening. There were over
fifty present and all had a line
time and vote 1 the affair a great
success and wished Wesley many
returns of the occasion.
Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Hoheisel
took in the Karst sale Sunday
and visited at the Zellers home.
Ove Andersen left a few days
ago for Dakota after a pleasant
tine M. Hartmann of Benedict
and P. A. and J. B. Hartmann
of Pierz, Minn.
The Firemen's
Annual
Banquet,
The riremens annual banquet
held in Faust's hall Saturday
evening was attended by a majority of the firemen and their
wives. Progressive euchre was
played at which the following
were winners:
GENTLEMEN:
Lone Hand A. H. Faust
Progressive F. X. Faust
Booby John Gross
other relatives.
Aug. Drews was in this neighborhood Tuesday and Wednesday of last week assessing our
property.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ferguson
visited at M. Benton's, at Hillman, Sunday.
R. E. Cates gave a show at
the Rucker place Saturday evening, it was an excellent show
and well patronized.
There was a dance at the
Rucker place Saturday evening.
Frank Schabel, Mr. and Mrs.
Jos- Virnig and daughters and a
friend of theirs came out to Joe
Zeller's in Frank's new car Sunday.
Corn planting is iu order here
now.
seen in the Farmers creamery.
Buttermaker Bayer, Two Percent Faust and a few other
aroused citizens armed themselves with shotguns, pitchforks,
neckyokesand other implements
of war and at once srrounded
and laid siege to the creamery.
By this time the light had disappeared. After a half hour of
"watchful waiting" the beleaguered churns were searched, but
no incendiary   was to be found.
Nothing was missing as far as
a hasty survey of buttermaker
Bayer could discover
Monday morning the news
spread around thata third creamery firelnid been averted by a narrow margin and loud praises were
heaped upon the heads of those
who had tlie courage to approach the midnight apparition.
Iron crosses were mentioned.
When Math. Thommes heard
of the affair he went home lit a
complacent pipe and sat down
by his south window. He took
long and deep, but easy drafts
and blew the smoke straight
ahead, while he looked at the
creamery and studied the situation from every angle. Rellec-
tion and study must give us a
line on this mysterious visitor,
thought Math. After dark that
evening he asked Hubert Bares
to take a short walk as he wanted to show him who lit the light
in the creamery the night before. Hubert finally consented,
but not before he went to his
bedroom and returned with a
bulging hippocket. "You see'',
said Math, when they arrived at
a certain place near Two percent's, "that fellow is in the
creamery again, but since we
are cowards we'll save a closer
investigation."
A few steps further north or
south failed to show the light.
It was plain that it was nothing
but reflected light. So Math,
was right when he said reflection might clear those under
suspicion.
Interesting
Local News
JGarbage Problem    ,STATE NEWS BITS
Under Investigation, various Happenings of the Week
Holstein Park News.
Mr. Filler and Winkley are
getting out fence posts preparatory to fencing in a piece of
their land. They will have forty
head of steers arrive the last of
this month.
Alva Martin visited his old
friend Bert Sanborn Sunday afternoon.
Miss Nellie Martin  spent the
j week end   with   Miss  Margaret
Great corn weather.
Frank Scheberl bought an
auto.
Mike Schraut is steadily on
the job sprinkling.
Last Sunday was a fine
spring day.
Arthur Lafond and Oliver
Bastien had two Buick demonstrators here Tuesday.
Erstwhile Pierz cigarmaker
Jos. Martini's father died at
St. Joseph last week.
Mike Auer and a party of
young folks were at Pelican
lake fishing last week.
The assessers are around
taking up the valuation of
property.
C. E. Gravel and A. P.
Stoll were Minneapolis visitors Monday.
The Louis Bruininer and
the Chas. Lust fires will cost
the Fanners Insurance Co.
$1,300.00.
J. Grant and family of
Faribault passed through the
village enroute to Onamia to
visit Mrs. A. D. Robinson.
Mary Bolster has returned
from Eden Talley and Greenwald, where she held spring
millinery sales.
George Tompers of Eden
Valley and John Seifert of
Little Falls passed through
Pierz yesterday.
Wm. Hohn of Sauk Rapids
and A. Mathews of Little
Falls shook hands with old
friends yesterday.
Robert Kluge finished the
brick veneering of the M.
Wermerskirchen building in
Upper town last Monday.
P. J. Gau of Granite was
in town Monday and stated
that several parties were at
his place Sunday inspecting
the granite.
Cut this out and save it:
Put twenty drops of carbolic-
acid on a shovel and hold it
over the stove or a tire till it
evaporates in a room. Every
fly will disappear.—Ex.
Nick Rassier, at one time
the landlord of the Pierz Ho
tel, renewed acquaintances
here last Saturday. Mr. Rassier is now running a saloon
in St. Joseph, Stearns Co.
Karl Kapsner wishes that
Mr. Oft Borrower <t Never Return would return liis wire
strecher, potato hiller and
gear for his drill. He does
not care to go after the articles himself.
Joe Ries left Monday for
Minneapolis to visit his family. He will drive an auto
from Minneapolis to Baker.
Mont., his  former home
In response to inquiries sent out
from the Municipal Reference Bureau,
General Extension Division, University
of Minnesota, information is being eol-
lected as to the methods of disposing
garbage   in   Minnesota   municipalities
Throughout Minnesota.
The state fair board at Its regular;
meeting at Hamline voted _a>- budget;
of $12,000 for a two-day auto race pro-;
The <:reat  majority of towns dispose    *ram- insuring one of the be
of their garbage by hauling it  to the
city clumps where it is buried or burned.'
Several villages ami cities feed all
or part of their garbage to hogs. The
municipalities in this classification are
.-instill, Fairmont, Fairbault. St. Cloud,
St. Paul, South St. Paul, Wabasha,
White Bear  Lake. Winona.
Chisholm, Duluth, International
Falls, Minneapolis, Thief River Falls,
an I Virginia dispose of their garbage
by incineration. The Chisholm plant
handles about 60 tons of garbage a
month, the Virginia plant 200 tons a
month. The reeonl of tlie Minneapolis incinerator for 1914 was '>i),r>4;\
tons.
Village Council
Proceedings
The village council met in adjourned meeting- Wednesday,
May 5th. All members were
present.
The proceedings of last meeting- were read and approved.
The   following-  bills wore   allowed:
Win. Preimesberger, wire to
Fritz Ricke's house $5.00
P. L. Poster, iron rods [60
lbs. and work   8 60
A motion to regulate water
service was not finished.
Adjourned.
BAtiNEY GROSS,
President.
J. 13. Hartmann,
Village Recorder.
Notice To Clean Up
The residents of Pier/, ar hereby requested to clean up their
yards of ashes, tin cans, rubbish
and all inllamable material of all
kinds whatsoever before May
15th.
By order of the lire chief
F. Paust, Fire Chief.
May, I.',. -22, to 211.
GENERAL
MARKETREPORTS.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,     1.40
Wheat, No. 2       L88
Flax, 2.       1.80
Barley      60
Rye      l.i'l
Oats       1-
Ear Corn       63
Hay $5.00
Butter, Creamery ••      37
Dairy       27
Eggs       17
Flour, Best	
"    Straight      3.50
Low grade flour L.80
Bran       1.40
Shorts    1.45
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans      2.00
Onions        80
South St.
Paul
Hog Market.
Ave. Price.
■ cards to be seen in the West this:
year. This budget will permit a large:
i purse for the 150 or 200-mile event;
planned. A committee is at work onj
the speed program and will be pre-!
pared to announce the details in a!
few weeks. Because of the wide in-j
terest being shown in dairy Short-!
horns a class in these was added to!
the premium list.
+   +   +
Three hundred public gardens to bei
used  by   the  poorer ;s  of   DuJ
hub have been platted b
Prince and Park Manager Cleveland.!
Each plot of ground is thirty feet!
square and each gardener will be giv-j
en the privilege of fencing in his own]
lot. Applications for the use of the!
gardens will be made to t;
ciated Charities. The land used is
part of the city's holdings for park
purposes.
+   +   +
Henry W. Hun'ington, an early resident of Minneapolis, who was at one
time a well known lumberman, ended
his own life in lhe barn in the rear
of his home in the Mill City. Mr.
Huntington was seventy years old
and had lived in Minneapolis since
1S65. He retired from business sev-
eral years ago and recently suffered
a stroke of apolexy which caused him
much suffering.
+   +   +
About forty employes in thc laboratories at the state university and Mankato.   as   well   as   practically   all   the
field staff in the  division of prevent
able  diseases,   have   been   dlschai
by the state board of health  because
of lack of funds.   The main laboratory
will elose  May  IB.    The  Pasteur institute  and   the   DulUtfa   laboratory   will
continue because of local support.
+   +   •*•
The Crookston school of agriculture
lost $6,000 by some one's mistake in
engrossing the educational appropriation bill signed by Governor W. S.
Hammond. An item to provide funds
for connecting the school with the
Crookston water supply system, which
appeared In the bill which ps
both houses of the legislature, was
not Inserted In the engrossed bill.
+   +   +
The county option committee of Hlg;
Stone county has Just hied with thoj
county auditor petitions with a sufll-!
cient number of signers, requesting!
an election be called immedia-
The date set is June 14. The fight;
in that county no doubt will be muchj
closer than the elections held in other!
counties. Only two villages are dry,;
Odessa and Correll.
+   +   +
After   ten   hours'   deliberation   the!
jury In thc $43,000 damage suit of tt'.j
('.   Cllbert   of   (irand   Rapids   against;
the    Minneapolis    and   Rainy    River;
Railroad   company   gave   a   verdict   Ini
favor of (he railroad.    Gilbert all-
the destruction of tl
of   timber    by   fire   In    August,
caused by sparks from a locomotive.!
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The annual business meeting of the!
Minnesota   Public   Health   a
will be  held  at  Dayton ooms,'
Minneapolis, at noon, May IK. Charles
M. de Forest of the National Association for the Study of Tuberculosis
will discuss the Red Cross seal campaign. Officers and directors of the
association will be elected.
+   +   +
Governor Hammond has drawn no
salary since be became the st.
thief executive on .Ian 4. He has J2,-
333.40 to his credit on Ihe state auditor's books. This is the first time in
the knowledge of the auditor's clerks
that a governor has neglected to draw
his salary each month.
+ + +
During April, 1915, the first month
of the navigation season, 10,294,530
bushels more of grain were shipped
from Duluth than in the corresponding month of 1914. The Increase was
in wheat, oats and corn. Rye fell off.
Receipts show an Increase of more
than 1,000,000 bushels.
+   +   +
Mrs. Helen .lanet Horton, who was
a territorial pioneer and had llv<
Minneapolis si: Is dead.    She|
was the widow of John Harvey Horton, at one time one of the most prominent real estate men of Minneapolis.
+   +   +
County option petitions carrying
names of 1,730 petitioners have been
filed with thc auditor of Marshall
county.   June 7 was fixed as the elec-
LADIKS:
Lone Hand      Mrs. F. X. Virnig
Progressive  H.Werinerskirchen Bisic  Retzlaff were   „.uests   of
Booby Anna Schultenoven ] Mrs   Zellers Sunday afternooll
After   a bouutiful   repast   at ■ =  ■■
midnight, dancing-completed the      Keep posted  by   reading  the
program | fournai's    "Busiuess    Locals"]    Try Journal   want ads for re-
Cajacobs.
Mr. and   Mrs.  Chas-   Sanborn
took dinner and  supper   at the
jCaJacob home Sunday.
column.
i suits.
and   Thursday  -     7.^;,tion <late     Warren and Oslo are tbe
_   _   biggest towns ln the county affected,
return to Pierz in his own ear. j Friday < .i<
He exnec-ts to make  the trip!Saturda* 7lT
,rt   . Monday i A*
m 8 or 10 (lavs. rp J
Tuesday t .20
Fred Miller of Alexandria. Wednesday 7.-Q
while driving a car struck a  South st   Pau,
dog and lost control of 1ns nia- j ^ StockMarket.
chine,   turning  it over.     \l<-
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The petition asking for a vote on
the liquor question in Pennington
county, signed by 840 voters, baa been
filed with County Auditor Anderson
and the election called for June 14.
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Minnesota's    1915   crop   of   winter
wheat   will   be   1.170,000   bushels,   or
j about 200.000 bushels more than tbe
1914  crop,  according   to   the  govern-
-      rs.
was   l-mnVd    under   the   car GoTOandHeH - to     675 ( ment crop forecast for Mar
■:-  +
McKercher,
and his jaw bone broken, but (/;ihvs. stead} $5.50 to
he will recover.
Robert   D.
Duluth   hu-
Feeders, steadv, ...$4.30 to 700) mane officer, has been named chief of
' police of tbat city.
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