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PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, September 19, 1918.
No. 14.
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Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers
St. Cloud.—The boiler room of the
Preiss brewery, located in a building
adjoining the brewery, was partially
destroyed by fire.
Crookston.—Rev. J. O. Ensrud, who
for three years was pastor of the
Lutheran Synod church of this city,
has been appointed chaplain of the
naval training school at Great Lakes,
111.
Brainerd.—The Brainerd Co-operative Creamery building has been completed, machinery is being installed
and it is expected the creamery will
be opened in ten days, which will be
made the occasion of a farmers' rally
here.
Red Wing.—Ed Crowley, La Crosse
saloonkeeper, riding on the same train
."xasi the Twin Cities with some draft-
-Wmcn en route to Camp Grant,
pafsed a bottle of whisky among the
boys and was arrested when the train
arrived here. As he was intoxicated
he was allowed to go on paying a $5
fine.
Stillwater.—Work of remodeling the
buildings comprising the old state
prison here, which were purchased by
the Twin City Forge & Foundry company for use in making munitions, is
progressing rapidly. New equipment
and machinery valued at $400,000 will
be installed and it is planned to add
600 workers to the plant's roster, making a total of 2,500 men employed in
making munitions here.
St. Paul.—Attorney General Clifford
L. Hilton has announced the appointment of John Evensall of St. Paul a_
an assistant' attorney general. He will
fill temporarily the vacancy caused by
the appointment of C. Louis Weeks
as state insurance commissioner for
the period that Commissioner John B.
Sanborn is in military service. Egbert
S. Oakley, Duluth, was advanced to
Mr. Weeks' former position of deputy
attorney general.
The fate of 3,000,000 "slacker" hens
in northern Minnesota was decided at
a meeting at University Farm a few
days ago. At that time representatives of the United States department
of agriculture and of the agricultural
extension division of the University
decided upon the extermination of the
non-productive hens of northern Minnesota, which means about 25 per cent
of the hen population, or a total of
3,000,000 birds.
Bemidji.—What is claimed" to be the
best crop of oats ever grown in Beltrami county has just been threshed
by George Miller, known as the "Potato King." Fourteen acres were planted to oats, which came up so thick as
to appear like one solid block, and
produced 1,150 bushels of oats, a fraction over 82 bushels to the acre. Mr.
Miller has in ovjr 60 acres of potatoes this year, and buyers are now
offering $1.20 per bushel to growers.
C. H. Eckles, of the college of agriculture, University of Missouri, has accepted the position recently vacated
by H. H. Kildee, as head of the dairy
husbandry division, department of
agriculture, University of Minnesota.
Professor Eckles has held a leading
place among dairy husbandry men in
the United States. Professor Eckles is
43 years old. He was born in Marshall-
town, Iowa, and is a graduate of Iowa
State College, Ahles, Iowa, class of
1895.
St. Paul.—The Minnesota railroad
and warehouse commission refused to
approve telephone installation charges
proposed by telephone companies, declaring them excessive and unjustifiable. The commission also forwarded
a protest to Postmaster General A. S.
Burleson against making the Federal
order, which provides for a "readiness.
to serve" or installation charge of $5
to $15, depending upon the monthly
rental of the service required by the
subscriber, effective in Minnesota.
The age limit for students entering
the school of agriculture, University
of Minnesota, has been reduced from
17 to 16 years as a war measure. The
reduction in the age limit has been
made in order to open the way for
more Minnesota boys to mako special
preparation for farm work, and was
brought about by the new army law,
cutting the draft age to 18 years. The
school will open Oct. 28 for a five
months' session. Special courses for
shorter periods also will be offered.
"Consumers as well as some dealers
seem to have misunderstood the new
wheat flour regulations," says A. D.
Wilson, Federal food administrator for
Minnesota. "The statement that the
60-50 rule for the purchase of substitutes has been changed to an 80-20
rule seems to be the cause for the
confusion. Many persons believe that
they can now buy five pounds of standard wheat flour with every on* pound
of substitutes. This is not the case.
The 80-20 rule means four pounds of
wheat flour with every one pound of
Bubs*ii»J. ."
Wiriffna.—E. G. t^an, principal of
the Medford, Wis., schools for _ev-
eral years until last spring, now of
Dover, Minn., was instantly killed and
his wife fatally injured when a Chicago & Northwestern passenger train
struck their automobile on a crossing
near Dover.
St. Cloud.—Maurice Kohn, a Holdingford merchant, was arrested by
State Food Inspector J. A. Anderson
on the charge of shipping eggs unlit
to use, brought here and fined $100
and $10.75 costs. Kohn blamed employees for not "candling" the egga
.progeria
Interesting
Com.
ondeoces
Platte News.
Prank Wolff and wife were
callers at the Fred Everding
home Sunday.
Christ Reese and son Christ
and Elmer Noe motored toLittle
Palls Friday.
Miss Clara Nelson is employed
at the Ulrich Debolt place.
Prank Wolff and daughter
Mary made a trip to Little Palls
Thursday.
The Rychner family and Mary
Skochinski visited with Mr. and
Mrs. C. Reese Sunday.
Mr. Hoffmann is busy threshing in this vicinity now.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDCES—
Sullivan News,
Roy Vaux was called toLittle
F;tlls to be examined last Thursday.
22 of the 18 to 45 men registered in this town Thursday.
We just heard of the birth of
a boy baby to Mr. and Mrs.Will
Kingnon of Lastrup, also little
girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Smith of Main Prairie. Mrs.
Kingnon formerly was Maggie
Adkins and Mrs. Smith's maid-
eu name was Jennie Lynn.
C. E. Look and wife, T. S.
Look and Miss Ida Look were
at the county seat Friday and
viewed the war trophies, which
came through on the train that
day.
Mrs. Grady and Mrs. Tom
Smith were callers at Midland
land Friday.
Mrs. Robt. Adkins has just
returned from a trip to Minneapolis and vicinity with Mr. and
Mrs. Baisie.
Mr. and Mrs. Dodge and their
daughter spent the weeks end at
Dodge Inn cottage.
Those who spent Friday at
Bowens were Mr. and Mrs.Lock-
owitch of Pierz, Mr. and Mrs.
Leo Abel and family of St.Cloud
and Mr. Riemer of St. Cloud.
Mrs. Wolfenden and nephew
spent the week end at the lake.
They were accompanied by Mrs.
W's sister, Mrs. C. JR. Mean of
Howard Lake, who will spend a
few weeks in the Wolfenden
cottage.
Miss Jessie Smith spent Saturday with the Riley Hoskins
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Linehan have returned after spending a week in
St. Paul.
Lastrup and Pierz goers last
Saturday were C. J. Bowen, Julius Popolick and  P. Walmark.
Messrs. Edw. Thompson and
Phil Anderson were lake callers
Sunday.
Mrs. Dr. Davis and little son
is visiting her mother Mrs.Mean
a few days.
Mrs. Tom Smith visited at C.
E. Look's Sunday.
Bert Sanborn, Roy Vaux. Peter Adkins and Claude Look are
on the committee for the Fourth
Liberty Loan.
Mrs. Grady left for Brainerd
Sunday and will visit her sister
Mrs. Scott, who is in the hospital at that plaee.
Raymond Harris
Writes from France
Dear Mother, Father,
Sisters and Brothers:
I will write you a few lines, as
I have got the time. I was waiting to get a letter from home,
but no success. Am getting into our rest place and so have
time to write'. We have been
pretty busy the last three
months. I suppose you folks
heard about the Fourth Division having such good success,
and remember, I am one of the
Fourth Division. We sure did
giye those dutchmen hell, ;ind
still they don't realize that they
are going to be cleared off of
the map. And thank the Lord,
been in three months and didn't
get a scratch.
Dear folks at home you know
I can't write much because the
letter might get lost and get into german hands, and sure I
don't want those dutchmen to
get any information. So if you
don't get a letter from me for a
while, don't worry, because we
haven't the time to write. I
heard thev had quite a blowout
on the Fourth Division having
such good success.
Am feeling very good  at   the
present time, but have   one   of
those big boils on my right   hip
which bothers quite a   bit.   Am i
a little tired at present, but am i
getting tough, so that lifter   an j
hours rest I am good for another ten mile hitch. Ha ha.
Be sure and  don't   forget   to ■
write.    With love to you all.
Pvt. Raymond Harris,
Co. 258 Inf. 4th Dlv.
American Expeditionary Porses.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES--
Las! Monday Was First lay
Of Small Game Sease
The Small Game hunting sea-1
son opened Mondjy and the fol-1
lowing   licenses   for hunters in
this neighborhood have been is-!
sued:
T. S. Look,
M. W. Vogel,
S. T. Lepinski.        i
Andrew-Faust,
Frank Faust,
Frank X. Faust,
F. X. Virnig,
A. P. Stoll,
P. G. Gil bride,
John Boehm, .
R. T. Healey,
Simon Zak,
Joe Brandl,
John Sitzman,
Prank Mischke,
Peter P. Blake,
Peter Sitzman,
Edwin E. Martin,
W. C. Gout,
Nick Faust,
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Genola News   •
Anton Friedrich arrived from
Fargo, N. D., for a visit with
his family.
Mike Leese is working in the
potato warehouse  this   week.
Rev. Father Kline left on the
east bound train yesterday.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
DANCE
Given by Ladies of Red
Cross on Friday Evening,
Sept. 20th, at Faust's
Hall. Good Music.
Everybody come. A good
time is assured to all.
Introduction Committee.
Tickets 75c.
Loan Slackers
Will Face An
Investigation.
Buy your bonds on the installment plan.
The new order No. 44 of the
war board, empowers directors
of the safety commission in
every county to subpoena witnesses and compel them to testify concerning the financial condition of any citizen refusing to
take the amount of Liberty
Bonds allotted to him by the
local campaign committee.
It was adopted after reports
from counties, which showed
such refusals and„pointed to the
lack of'authority to take action
against the alleged slackers.
The Government plan of buying bonds is better for the
farmers and business men, than
borrowing the money outright
of your banker. By buying on
the Government plan, each
bond-buyer can pay in installments, so that in four or five
months his bond is entirely paid
up. When you go to the polls
on September 28th, to buy your
bonds, pay down at the time,
10 per cent ol your ali'ottment,
then you can pay 20 per cent on
November 21st, 2U per cent on
December 19th, 20 per cent on
January l.th, ana '60 per cent
on January _Uth.
Another good thing about
buying on the installment plan
irom the Government is tiiau
you pay the same rate of interest on deferred pavment as the
bond bears.
Tins is a Democratic affair,
and is one of the reasons,, why
you will be asked to go to your
polung piace.    If  you  are   not.
prepared to pay. down 10 per
cent, sign your card and make
arrangements with your banker, but as far as possible buy
your bonds on the installment
or Government plan-
—MAKE V/.S.S. PLEDGES—
County Seat (Mliip.
Dr. and Mrs. Forest Staples
of Howard Lake were in the
city Monday on their way to
Sullivan.
A. D. Wilson, state food administrator, who was at the fair
Monday, took advaatage of the
occasion to visit the Samuel
Hammer beck farm. This farm
is -Operated under the direction
of the state university farm section and is one of the model
farms of the state. Mr. Wilson
was a guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Hammer beck at 6 o'clock dinner.
Dr. Fred Hoist has enlisted
in the medical service of Uncle
Sam and has been ordered to
report at Camp Cluster, Battle
Creek, Mich., next week. Dr.
Hoist has the rank of first
lieutenant.
Miss Julia Virnig of Pierz
was in the city Friday and left
on tbe evening train for St.
Cloud for a short visit. She
will also visit with relatives at
Melrose and Minneapolis and
will be away about a week.
Henry Wuellner has had his
farm in sec. 23, township , 40,
range 81, recorded as Golden
Acres farm.
Please call for your
Liberty Bond at the
Farmers and Merchants
State Bank.
Liberty Loan.
The time has come  for us  to
show what we can and must ac
complish on Liberty Loan day,
the 28th of  September 1918, for
our brave soldiers in Europe.
Our boys stand in battle line
struggling for right and justice,
day by day, whether rain or
shine, heat or cold. It is our
great duty, especially the farmer, for he is the only one who
can supply the food, therefor
we will stand in the second line
behind the front with our loads
of grain, pork, beef and fruit so
that the brave soldiers of America may not weaken but with
courage and endurance may attained our aim and return to
America with the crown of victory.
In return we at home, as brave
workers and sons of America
must struggle thru hard labor,
day and" night if necessar3', in
order to support bur soldiers
and carry on our work at home.
Our brave soldiers on the battle field shall not suffer thru
any fault of ours., Hence we
must save in every way and
give towards the government
whether in money or property,
nothing must hinder us. Our
Goyernmeut knows and realizes, that without the, farmers
and food we cannot win the
war.
Therefore  one  and  all  come
on the 28th day of September to
our voting place in order to buy
your Liberty Bond.
Conrad Stangl,'
Major, Pierz.Township.
The allotment  committee for
the township, of Pierz is :
Christ Virnig,
Magnus Rauch,
William Meyer,
John Mischke,
Robert Gruber Jr.
John B. Bednar,
Conrad Stangl, Chairman.
Major CJ. Srnith of Platte
township has chosen for his allotment committee the following:
E.'E. James,
John Nelson,
Walter Hayes,
Jos. Matlock,
Christ Reese.
They will hold a meeting in a
few   days   and  make  out  their
allotments  for the  township of
Platte.
,   —S_D__Id -S-S-A- 3HV-I—
Please call for your
Liberty Bond at the
Farmers and Merchants
State Bank.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
NOTICE
School in Genola will
start Monday. Children
which do not belong to
the district will not be
allowed to attend.
School Board,
There are good schools and
poor schools just as there are
good stores and poor stores or
good farms and poor farms.
They are not all alike. Go
where there is plenty of everything that is up to date to work
with. The best is the cheapest.
Send for a catalogue of the
Little Palls Business College.
"Prom  school   to  Position."
Get  your business  and   shorthand education at the St. Cloud :
Business  College.     A   strictly;
high-grade and reliable institut
ion.    Send for catalogue.
Vath and Ahles
Local Happenings
OHhe Week
The leaves are falling.
Chas. Gravel of Onamia
was here on business Thursday.
Franz Fronzelc will move
to St. Cloud next Saturday.
C. A. Nye and P. T. La-
motte of Minneapolis hunted
chickens in Granite this
week.
According to word received, Private Jos. Schmolke arrived safely over seas.
Casper Thommes of Lastrup went to the hospital at
Little Palls, Thursday, for
surgical treatment.
Mrs. Adolph Stumpf received a card that her son
John arrived safely in Prance.
The A. Haskel family
moved into the rooms over
the postoffice Tuesday.
Freida, little daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Schraut,
is seriously ill and was taken
to St. Gabriel's hospital Tuesday evening.
Tony Friedrich and sons
returned from North Dakota
last Tuesday.
Geo. N. Levry of New Ulm
was here the first days of
this week looking after his
arm interests in Granite.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Please call for your
Liberty Bond at the
Farmers and flerchants
State Bank.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Which Should Be Used?
"Shall I advertise with space
or locals. " asks a business man
of an old established newspaper.
The editor answered: "If you
are going to advertise a shoat
for sale, a few lines of local are
enough. If you have a $5,00O
or $10,000 stock of goods, a few
lines will not convey the impression to the people that you
want conveyed." Greatest stock
of goods at Smith's" would lead
the reader to ask why Smith
did not .take an ad more in proportion to his stock. Take
space to correspond with the
business you conduct and you
will create an impression on the
public that will be a lasting
benifit. It has been truthfully
said that" the effect of a good
advertisement never dies. —
Eagle "Neb." Beacon.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDCES—
Council leafing
Regular meeting of the village
council held Saturday evening.
Resignation of Steve Priemesberger accepted, and H.
Gassert appointed chairman in
his place. Following bills were
allowed:
Little Palls Water Power
Co. Juice for Aug.       $87.60
Jos. P. Meyer police
salary,
A. P. Stoll salary and
stamps,
H. Gassert trip to Little
Falls,      X
N. W. Telephone Co.,
Meeting adjourned,
F. X. Virnig, Recorder.
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8.00
3.50
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United States Officials Publish
Actual Proof of Bolshevik
Treachery.
PAID IN GERMAN GOLD
Documents   Show    That    Lenine   and
Trotzky Received $25,000,000 from
the German Government as Reward for Their Duplicity.
Washington, Sept. 16.—The United
States government, in the first installment of an amazing series of official
documents disclosed through the committee on public information, lays before the world proofs removing any
doubts that Lenine and Trotzky, the
Bolshevik leaders, are paid German
agents—if indeed any doubts remain.
* Secured in Russia by American
agents, these documents not only show
how the German government through,
its imperial bank paid $25,000,000 in
gold to Lenine, Trotzky and their immediate associates to. betray Russia
into deserting her Allies, but give added proofs, if any be necessary, that
Germany had perfected her plans for
a war of world conquest long before
the assassinations at Sarejevo, which,
as the world is now convinced, conveniently furnished her pretext.
These documents further show that
before the world war was four months
old, and more than two years before
the United States was drawn into it,
Germany already was setting afoot her
plans to "mobilize destructive agents
and observers" to cause explosions,
strikes and outrages in this country,
and planned the employment of "anarchist's and escaped criminals" for the
purpose.
German   Staff  Planned   Details.
Ranking in their sensational nature
with the notorious Zimmermann note
proposing war with Mexico and Japan
on the United States, these documents
lay bare a new strata of Prussian intrigue, a new view of the workings of
kultur to disrupt the Allies, standing
between the world and kaiserism.
These documents show that the present heads of the Bolshevik government—Lenine and Trotzky and their
associates—are German agents.
They show that the Bolshevik revolution was arranged for by the German
great general staff and financed by
the German imperial Bank and other
German financial institutions.
They show that the treaty of Brest-
Litovsk was a betrayal of the Russian
people by the German agents, Lenine
and Trotzky; that a German-picked
commander was chosen to "defend"
Petrograd against the Germans; that
German officers have been received
secretly by the Bolshevik government
as military advisers; as spies on the
embassies of Russia's allies; as officers
in the Russian army, and as directors
of the Bolshevik military, foreign and
domestic policy. They show, in short,
that the present Bolshevik government
is not a Russian government at all,
but a German government, acting solely in the interests of Germany and betraying the Russian people, as it betrays Russia's natural Allies, for the
benefit of the imperial German government alone.
COAL  OUTPUT  IS   HAMPERED
Great Britain Suffers From Shortage
of Labor.
London, Sept. 16.—A shortage of
labor by the withdrawal of large numbers of skilled miners for the army
is given as a cause for the decline in
the output of coal by a correspondent
of the Press association, who has been
touring the coal areas, investigating
the coal shortage.
The secretary of the Northumberland Miners' association stated that
owing to the dearth of labor the internal equipment of the mines was lit
need of repair, making it difficult to
get coal away from the surface.
HOLDUP   MEN   GET   $26,000
Two Auto Bandits Rob Paymaster of
Illinois Mine.
Peoria, 111., Sept. 16.—Highwaymen
held up the paymaster of the Grove-
land mine in Tazewell county, hear
here, and escaped with $26,000.
The robbery was committed by two
men who were in an automobile.
Detective Gustine of the Peoria police force, who was with the pay<-
master, was wounded.
Killed in Kansas Robbery.
Arcadia, Kan., Sept. 16.—One bandit
was killed and another wounded and
taken prisoner in a skirmish with
citizens following a raid by three
men on the Home State bank hero.
On the body of the dead robber was
found a draft registration card from
a Kansas City, Mo., board, bearing
the name of Pete Marrazzo.
Work on  Loan Tax  Bill.
Washington, Sept. 16.—Consideration of the administration measure
designed to stimulate the sale of
Liberty bonds, which was |
the House, was taken up by Un.
ate committee. Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury Leffingwell explained
the' purposes of the bill to the committee which plans to report it to tiie
Senate without delay with a view to
its passage before the Fourth Liberty
loan campaign is begun on September 28.