The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1918-08-29

              VOL. NO. 10.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, AUGUST 29, 1918.
No. 11.
"HOLDS COMPANY
IS BLAMELESS
United   States   Judge   Decides
Suit Arising From Sinking
the Lusitania.
GALLS  DEED ILLEGAL
Court  Rules Cunard  Line Cannot Be
Held   Liable   for   Loss   of   Life
and   Property   in   Torpedoing of Vessel.
New York, Aug. 27.—According to
a decision handed down in the admiralty branch of the United States
district court by Judge Julius M.
Mayer, the Cunard Steamship com-
. pany cannot be held liable for loss of
life and property in the torpedoing of
the Lusitania by a German submarine.
"The cause of the sinking of the
Lusitania was the illegal act of the
imperial German government, acting
through it's instrument, the submarine
commander," declared Judge Mayer,
who held that "the fault, -therefore,
must be laid upon those who are responsible for the sinking of the vessel
in the legal as well as moral sense."
America  to   Demand   Payment.
In discussing suits against the Cunard line, aggregating nearly $4,000,000,
brought by heirs of persons who perished with the Lusitania on May 7,
1915, Judge Mayer asserted that "it
is not to be doubted that the United
States of America and her Allies will
well remember the rights of those affected by the sinking of the Lusitania
and when the time shall come will see.
to it that repartition shall be made for
one of the most indefensible acts of
modern  times."
Judge Mayer went exhaustingly into
claims that the Cunard line was negligent, and dismissed them with the conclusion that the captain and members
of the crew took every precaution justified by the then known facts, both
before and after the vessel was torpedoed. ,
Lusitania  Never  Armed.
"It is, of course, easy now," he declared, "in the light of many later
events added to preceding acts, to look
back and say that the Cunard line and
its captains should have known that
the German government would authorize or permit so shocking a breach of
international law and so foul an offense, not' only against an enemy, but
as well against peaceful citizens of a
then friendly nation. But the unexpected character of the act was best
evidenced by the horror which it excited in the minds and hearts of the
American people."
Judge Mayer declared that proof
brought out in his investigation which
covered a year is conclusive that the
Lusitania was not and never had been
armed and that on the voyage on
which she was sunk she did not carry
explosives.
EASTERN    GALICIA    SUFFERS
Floods Cause Serious Loss of Life and
Great Damage.
Zurich, Aug. 27.—Great damage has
been caused by the continuous rains
and floods in the country around Cracow, Galicia, and' the vast areas of
Eastern Galicia, according to Polish
papers received here.
The sudden rising of numerous rivers and other streams swept away
bridges and buildings and many persons were drowned. The grain crops
have been ruined and the potatoes are
rotting in the ground. Owing to famine conditions, typhus, smallpox and
dysentery are spreading rapidly.
HAS    VISIONS    OF    VICTORY
Foe Military Writer Maintains Teutons
Cannot Lose.
Amsterdam, Aug. 27. — The Ver-
waertz of Berlin, commenting on the
battles In France, says that Marshal
Foch has done his best to bring about
a change in the war situation in the
west, but that he has not succeeded.
Capt. von Salzmann, military critic
of the Vossiche Zeitung, says:
"The defensive battle which now is
proceeding against the numerical superiority of our enemies, as the result
of being strengthened by Americans,
including negroes, already begins to
show the dawn of German victory."
SUGAR SUPPLY IS ADEQUATE
No Additional Restrictions Are Believed to Be Necessary.
Washington, Aug. 27.—No additional
restrictions on the use of sugar by
householders and the public generally
will be necessary, Food Administrator
tijr>jjkv announced, because there is
plenty of sugar to care for domestic
and Allied wants, provided the present conservation measure of two
pounds a person monthly are continued.
Crop Experts to Aid Africa.
Washington, Aug. 27.—Safe arrival
in Paris today of a party of American
agricultural experts en route to Algeria, Tunis and Morocco to investigate and advise those French colonies
on the possibilities of increasing their
agricultural output, was reported in a
cablogram to Secretary Houston. The
experts were sent by the government
at the request of the French high commission here. The party includes E.
Chilcott, in charge of dry. farming,investigations of the plant industry -'bu-
rear
Interesting
Correspondences
South Agram News.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Holieisel
and children called at the J. J.
Brummer home Sunday afternoon.
The Farmers Threshing Rig
Co. started threshing grain in
this vicinity Monday.
Math. Reding an'd Tony Ka-
lusha called on Wm. Brummer
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Duschner
and children and Mr. and Mrs.
McCoy and children were Sullivan lake picnicers Sunday.
Peter Theiss and wife visited
at the Pred Sporlein home Sunday afternoon.
J. J. Brummer purchased 40
acres of land of Jos. J. Gohl of
Buckman last week.
Peter Thommes and wife and
sons Casper and Math, and Mr.
and Mrs. Prank Boehm of St.
Cloud were Lastrup visitors last
Sunday.
Corn is ripening fast and some
are talking about cutting next
week.
Mrs. J. J. Brummer and children visited at the Peter Boser
home Saturday.
Farmers are busy seeding rye
in this vicinity. Can you beat
it?
John Reding is the owner of
a new J. I. Case gang plow.
Recently there was a fellow
down from Hillman who always
said to everybody he met: "I'm
fromMissonri, show me".
The party held at the home of
Geo, Boser was well attended
and all report a good time.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Sullivan News.
Pierz goers Wednesday were:
John Smith and wife and C. J.
Bowen.
Callers at John Britton's last
Thursday evening were Mrs.
and daughter, C. E. Look and
and wife.
Mrs. Margaret Hall has returned from the St. Cloud normal and will teach near Randall the coming year.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sims have
moved into their new house.
Johnnie-Hoskins visited with
Billie Adkins Sunday.
Miss Eleanor Gravel of Pierz
spent a few days with the John
Lewis famil}' at Peavy lake.
The C. E. Look family visited
at Tracy Wallers last Sunday
afternoon.
The White Pine Blister Rust
men have moved their camp
to Bourden, Crow Wing- Co.
Mrs. Britton's health is somewhat improved.
County seat goers Monday
were Earl Smith, Clarence Hoskins and C. J. Bowen.
Miss Ruby Christian was a
lake caller Monday.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDCES—
John Weidenbach of St.
John, N. D. ia here on a
short visit with his parents
and parents-in-law. He is
enthusiastic over N. Dak.
soil and farming. He claims
if the farmers of St. John go
half way with the work and
preparation, the soil will do
the rest towards producing a
good crop.
Letter From Frank
Jaeger In France
July 22, 1918.
Dear father and mother:
We have received
mail this evening and I am  sov-
ry that I didn't get a letter from
you folks to-night,    Received a
letter from brother Nick a   few
days ago and was very  glad   to
hear from him.   He didn't write
very much but says he likes  army life fairly well—so  do  I,    I
like it better every day   here in
France.    We are having  everything pretty well fixed up in the
camps.    I am well  and  feeling
fine ail the time and just as happy as can be.    I was  promoted
a few days ago. I am a corporal
now.    That is why I don't have
to work so much until we get to
working in our shops.    We have
only a few more days before we
go to work in the machine shop.
I thought sure I'd go  switching
but they didn't put me on.   I had
more experience   at   machinist
work a nd so our Captain classed
me as first class   machinist,   so
you see I'll be  working in   the
machine shop in a few days and
yery   glad I'll   be  to    work.
I know I will get a good job
after I get back into the States
again. As I said before that I
am a corporal now and also
kaye charge of the running repair work.
We've gota swell machine shop.
I'm glad I am in the army. It
will make a man   of  me.
I've got a little headache tonight; that's why I make so
many mistakes. Please let me
know whether you received
those $15 I told you about. Be
sure and tell me in your next
letter as you ask me if I would
have money enough. You see
me being corpora/1 now pays $6
a month more and being overseas pays $3 a month more, so I
have all kinds of money.
How are all the young folks!
I wish Mary would send me a
picture of the two little boys.
Also wish you would send some
small pictures, small enough to
put in an envelope. I would like
to show them   to   some French
Forty, 21 years
Old Registered
Forty men who have become
21 since June 5, the date of the
previous registration, registered
with the local draft board at the
court house last Saturday. The
names of those from Pierz and
vicinity are:
Wm. Sauer,
Chas. Otremba,
Ignatz Loscheider,
■    Alex N. Hartmann,
Mike Donek,
Mathias Schommer,
Peter Thielen,
Herbert A. Wood, "
John Ebertowski,
Henry Bollig,^
August Smuda,
Christ Reese. Jr.
Wm. Vetsch.
„ —MAKE W.S.S. PLEDCES—
Wozniak Gets Life
entence for Murder
John Tamala of Hillman received a telegram, from Washington Monday evening stating
that his son John had been seriously injured ■ at the western
front in France.
The farewell party held at the
home of Mr. and. Mrs. Adam
Hohn last Sunday in honor of
their son Jacob, who left for
Clamp Grant, 111. was attended
by the famlies of Otto Boser,
TTheo. Nagel, Peter Thommes,
Frank Boehm, Nick Grundhofer
Mike Flicker, Frank Flicker,
Nick Gross, Joe Grell, Nick
Mueller of Buckman, Christ
Morrill, Herbert Smith, Wm.
Boser, Casper and Matt Thom-
jjmes, Phil. Thielen, J. P. De-
muth, J. Losheider, Christine,
Susie and Lena Thielen, Katy
Neisius, Marie Knaps, Sophie
Losheider, Henrietta Grundhofer and Anna Boser.
County Seat Cullings
Frank Kiewel of this city had
his Buick car stolen in Minneapolis Saturday afternoon at 3:30
at the corner of Marquette   and
peopleJiere. I.had   my   picturej Sixth   street     Mr_ Kiewel
taken last Sunday. I   will   send
you one soon.    I will close  for
this time with best regards and
love to all.    Answer soon.
Corporal Frank Jaeger,
Co. B. 39 Engineer,
A. E. F.   Via N.. Y.
Army Post Offices 708.
Thomas Feuchf Writes
Tommy Feucht has written
home from France that eggs are
5 francs a dozen and. a good
meal in a cafe costs from 7 to 8
francs. A franc is about 20
cents. He further writes tibat
the harvest is go6d 'over there.
A good many American binders
are used there, he s; iys, but the
poorer class of p easants cut
their grain by hand .
And It Had a Coll.
An old irishm un and his wife
driving along when the first
auto they had ever seen passed
him at a 40 nr Je slip.
"That old  aag is going some'"
said the  old. man.    "And it has j
a colt too"  udded   the old   lady i
left
the car for a few minutes and
when he returned someone had
made off with it. The police
departments of Minneapolis and
St. Paul are working on the
case and a reward of $100 has
"been offered for the apprehension of the thief. The license
number on the car is 20797.
A marriage license was issued
Friday by clerk of Court A. M.
Stoll to Frank Altrichter and
Gertrude Schraut.
What was reported or rumored to be a hold-up late Friday
afternoon proved only to be an
assault and battery case. Mike
Mush of Wadena and Romeo
Creppeau of Minneapolis were
each fined §5 aud costs amounting to $11.75 in municipal court
Saturdav morning by Judge
Lyon. Geo. Childres, who swore
out the warrant for their arrest
is in the hospital today suffering from a broken leg, received
when he tried to take his car
out of Motor Inn after the sheriff had forbidden him the use of
lit-
A colored man and a   boy   of
as a  mot aveyele   passed a few ! 18 and one of 16 years were  ar-
seconds'iater. j rested recently for breaking  in-
John Wozniak, held for the
murder of three of his children,
pleaded guilty in district court
Tuesday and'' was sentenced by
Judge Roeser to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary
at Stillwater. The children were
murdered while asleep in their
beds early in the morning of
July 12th. Wozniak cut their
throats with a razor, saying that
he feared they would starve because of the crop failure which
he thought was imminent.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Grain And Produce
Market Repof
Choice No. 1 jjNorthern $2.04
Wheat, No. 1, $2.00
Wheat, No. 2    1.97
Wheat, No. 3       1.94
Wheat, No. 4     1.90
Flax,       3.70
Barley    ' .90
Rye    1.55
Oats      65
Ear Corn 1.40
Hay     10.00
Butter, Creamery ..       45
Dairy       37
Eggs _       37
Flour,          5.65
Bran 2.10
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 2.75
Shorts  2.25
Ground Feed    2.40
Beans _>_'__     7.00
Onions     2.50
to a merchandise car and taking
three overcoats and some  hats.
*
The colored man was arrested
at'Staples and the other two at
Moorhead. The car was broken
into between Northtown and
Elk River. After their arrest
they were brought to this city
and a hearing held before Judge
Lyon. The colored man and the
boy of 18 were bonnd over to
the grand jury and the younger
boy will probably be taken up
before the juyenile judge or
the matter of all three will
probably be disposed of Tuesday when Judgi- John A. Roeser
of St. Cloud comes to the city.
The negro claims that the boys
stole the coats and the young
men claim that the colored men
did the work. The boys liye in
Minneapolis.
If Mayor N. N. Berghei'm,
secretary of the county fair association, is successful in negotiations now being carried on
with the war department, Little
Falls will have an aeroplane
for the county fair in this city
Sept. 16 and 17. Mr. Bergheim
is now corresponding with the
officials of the department in an
attempt to have an aeroplane
here with men to give flights on
the last two days of the fair
Sept. 16 and 17. The machine
will not be taken unless flights
are given, however, and Mr.
Bergheim will ask that men be
sent from the aviation school in
the Overland building, Minneapolis.
On Sept. 16, the day that
Governor Burnquist will speak
at the fair, the stores and other
business places of the city will
be asked to close at 11 a. m. and
remain closed the rest of the
day. On that day the Home
Guards will also give an exhibition drill at the lair grounds.
The fair management is also
attempting to have a pavilion
for dancing erected at the,
grounds but is not certain that
this can be accomplished in the
short time before the fair opens.
Local Happenings
Ofjie Week
Nick Thienes is now located at Camp Shelby, Miss.
The village district school
will open next Monday.
J. Worms of New Munich
was here on business Wednesday.
Ed. M. Lafond and family
are frequent evening visitors
in Pierz.
Harvest
P. Solinger and J. Listberg-
er made a trip to Holdingford
Tueaday.
The new telephone directory has a Genola Brain Co.
listed as a patron.
Casper Thommes of Fort
Randan, N. J., is home on a
week's furlough.
There will be mass in the
Red Cross church in Pulaski
next Sunday, September 1st.
Ill
Mrs. A. Stumpf received
word that her son Pvt. John
A. Stumpf is on his way over seas.    '
Miss Mary Vogel of New
Munich arrived yesterday,
to visit her sister, Margaret
Vogel.
Owing to some misconnec-
tion in the transformers of
the lighting system the village was without juice l-ast
Thursday night.
Faust's Hall
Frank Kleutsch sold his
farm in.Platte to M. Gaynor
of Agram for $55.00 an acre.
Frank has not yet decided
where he will move.
C. E. Gravel is installing
motors into the mill and will
hereafter run the mill by
electricity. He intends to be
running in a week or ten
days.
September
Peter Leeb and Ger. Block
of Agram made an auto trip
to Freeport, steams Co. last
Sunday. Peter thinks the
corn is earlier down there
than in Lastrup.
Mrs. Aug. Young and
children returned to their
home at St. Cloud Tuesday
after a week's visit with the
Peter Nagel family in the
village.
C. E. Gravel sold the Rich
Prairie elevator in Genola to
Taunton, Getchell &. Co. of
Minneapolis. H. J. Wilkes
was retained as manager for
the new firm.
Al. Channard, living on
the N. N. Bergheim farm intends to sell his stock and
machinery at auction and
move to Aitkin the middle
of October.
Rein.havt Stumpf passed
thru Gwnola la-J . Thursday
firing a locomotive. On account of shortage of trainmen
on the Soo, he was put into a
deferred class.
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.
Fairmont.—A $l,400-a-year postoffice
is at stake on the outcome of a civil
service examination. The office at
Truman is vacant.
_ St. Paul.—Eighty-five of Minnesota's
eighty-six counties are said to have
county agents. Douglas is reported
to be the agentless county.
Virginia.—Julius Misholin, arrested
at Gilbert for seditious talk and
bi-ought here, has been returned to Gilbert for a hearing. Federal agents
Will investigate his case.
Fairmont.—Rain put electric lights
out of business in a part of the south
end of Fairmont, rendered roads practically impassable and knocked out
threshing for several days to come.
Mankato.—The rainy weather of the
past two weeks has seriously, interfered with the plans for shock threshing, and it is likely that there will be
considerable loss from damaged 'grain.
Wabasha.—The Big Joe mill has
rented the river ferry from the city
for two years and will operate it!
shortly. Automobilists may now cross j
the Mississippi between Red Wing!
and Winona.
St. Cloud.—An investigation by thej
local food administration disclosed!
fifty-three sacks of wheat in the barnj
of John S. Nett, representative fromj
the Second precinct of the Forty-sixth!
district,  in  the town  of Farming.
Minneapolis.—Forty acres of land!
near Two Harbors, Minn., on the north ]
shore of Lake Superior and within!
one and a half miles of a railroad sta-i
tion, was given away as a prize, at aj
chicken dinner and lawn--social here.!
Winona.—Gustav Wagner, 59 years!
old, was severely injured at a local j
elevator. While removing a belt -from j
a pulley his clothing became en-!
tangled. He was whirled around several times before the belt, snapped and
released him.
St. Cloud.—There will be no new
Grand Central hotel for St. Cloud at
the present time. D. S. Hay ward has
received from the government a refusal to his request for the necessary
permit. The hotel was to cost $213,-
000.
Pipestone.—Archie S. Funk and J. S.
McCullion, well-known residents of
this town, were killed when the automobile in which they were riding
turned turtle. Their bodies were
found under the car a few hours after
the accident.
Winona.^-Because, they state, Engineer A. F. Gaulke of the Gould Grain
company was discharged and the company failed to' grant the other employes a raise from 3Zy2 cdnts to 45
cents an hour in wages, the rest of
the force at the elevator walked out
and refuse to go back unless their
engineer is reinstated and they get
the increase.
St. Paul.—Mrs". John Wulf and Henry Stroeh of Luverne have been forced
to return to regular trade channels
some excess canning sugar which they
procured through a mail order house,
under orders from C. H. Christopher-
son, food administrator of Rock coun- .
ty. In lieu of punishment under the
food control act for hoarding, each
made voluntary contribution of 515 to
the Rock county Red Cross chapter.
St. Paul.—Grave labor conditions will
confront Minnesota soon, it was announced by the State Public Safety
commission following receipt of a call
to furnish 18,390. of the 1,000,000 unskilled laborers wanted immediately
by the government for its war industries. The state's quota was announced in a communication from Arthur H. Fleming, chief of the state
council section, Council of National
Defense.
St. Paul.—Minnesota not only has
helped to win the war but has added!
a large figure to her own wealth!
through the war gardens planted in;
the state this year, according to a re-j
port just, issued by the National War|
Garden commission, Washington, j
which placed the number of Avar gar-!
dens in the state at 80,000. The value!
of the produce in them, according toj
a preliminary estimate by the com-!
mission, will amount to more than!
$8,000,000.
St. Paul.—Potatoes at $1.50 a bushel!
to consumers aud $1.20 a bushel to!
dealers is a fair price, according to|
the -linneapolis price listing commit-]
tee of the United States Eoo
istration, which has quoted a flat rate!
of $2 a 100^ pounds of home-grown po-j
tatoes to dealers and $2.50 for 100!
pounds to consumers. Report's from
Minnesota potato grow ing districts declare that potatoes grade better this
year than for twenty years past, and
that the state's potato crop will bring
millions of dollars. Hennepin county
alone values its potato crop at a total
of .$4,600,000. The great demand for
Minnesota potatoes in the South and
East also is given as a reason for the
boost in price, the State Food Administration said.
Hokah.—Dan Brown, who is the defendant in a damage suit for $5,000
started by Editor H. E. Wheaton because of a beating Brown is alleged to
have given him, through his attorneys
at J~i Crosse, has served notice that
a suit for slander would be com-
iuc_.--d.
St. Paul.—H. E. Carny received notice from Donald Cotton of St. Paul,
regional advisor of the war industries
board, that he has been appointed as
vice chairman of. the building material division for sub-region No. 1,
which lies south of the Minnesota
river.
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