The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1918-10-17

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VOL. NO. 10.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, October 17, 1918.
No. 18.
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PERISCOPE FOR USE ON LAND
Enables Observer to Look Over Tall
Obstacles In Spying Out Movements of the Enemy.
The periscope Is being put to about
as much strenuous service In this war
as any other Invention. The old French
saying, "Be silent, your enemies are
listening!" might well be paraphrased
by the Germans to read "Lie low; the
allies are looking!"
A pole periscope of a late design,
which Is extensively used In the armies
of the allies, enables an officer to peep
over tall obstacles, such as houses and
treetops.
The height to which this periscope,
says Popular Science Monthly, can be
run up depends upon the number of
sections of which it is made. The sec-
lions telescope into the bottom tube
when not in use and during transportation, for which a tiny two-wheeled
truck Is used. The truck is pften run
up under the protection of a tree, and
spikes are nailed in, the ground, to
hold the apparatus close against the
tree trunk.' ' It Is the work of but a
moment to turn the crank and send
the telescoped sections up into the air
until the top peeps out over the tree
tops.
In one village on the Somme, a perl-
scope of this kind, set up in a little
protected cove, kept the allied armies
Informed of every movement of the
Germans, who were behind massive
entrenchments at that particular spot.
The body of the truck is built so low
that It can be easily concealed by
brush.
Seagull Made Lightship Home.
Breton reef lightship, off the Rhode
Island shore, has a long record of a
seagull which visited the ship at Intervals. The gull was first noticed
and fed in the fall of 1872, and each
year he brought back his family frpm
tlie far north to the home 'pf Ms
friends at \]ie firetpn reef. "Vyhen
first noticed "'Diet, "was a' full-grown
bird. The bird disappeared In 1896,
which would indicate the life of a
gull is about a quarter of a century.
The keeper of the light kept a record of the comings and goings of
Dick. For the five years previous to
his final departure his arrivals were
October 12, 1891; September 28, 1892;
October 7, 1893; October 2, 1894; and
October 2, 1895, His dates of departure were April 6, 1892; April 7,
1893; April 5, 1894; April 6, 1895,
and April 7, 1896.
County Seat Callings.;Herman Hoheisel
Died at Camp Grant
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Billstein
and children of Buckman were
in the city Saturday visiting- relatives.
Mrs. Clara K. Puller arrived
in the city last Monday for a
few days' visit with friends.
Wm. von Detnares left Monday
for Chokio to attend the funeral
of his brother, Pred von Daina-
res, who died Sunday. The funeral was held Tuesday.
The sawing- season of thePine
Tree mill at Little Palls ended
last Saturday. The mill closed
at noon, after one of the short-
eat runs in its history, April 3.
having been the opening date
last spring. A record of the
sawing season will be published
late;?. A great deal of time was
lost the passed season due to
low water, making it difficult to
float the logs.
ThePord car which was stolen
from the garage of Prank
Wachlarowicz on the west side
a short time ago has been located in Minneapolis, and two
men who took the car have
been arrested and are being
held there. Deputy Sheriff A.
A. Peuger went to Minneapolis
last Tuesday to bring the men
and car to the city.
Word came yesterday that
Herman Hoheisel had died at
Camp Grant, 111., at 3 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon. The remains will be shipped here for
burial.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Men Called For
October 16.
Math. Paust,
Lawrence B. Billig,
John Carl Kapsner,
Prank O. Bolster,
Albert Schlegel,
George Virnig,
Peter H. Froelich,
Prank J. Gelhar.
'—MAKE W.S.S. PLELC-ES-
Loss at Moose Lake
Reported Very Great
A letter from Wm. Tourtillott,
deputy lire marshal, has been
received by relatives here, telling something about the fires
near Moose Lake. Mr. Tourtillott, is now at Moose Lake on
business connected with the office of the state fire marshal.
Mr. Tourtillott says the destruc-
Word reached the city this' tion is inconceivable to anyone
morning that a stranger caused, not at the scene of the fires,
ponsidable excitment at Royal-'The entire town of Moose Lake
ton Monday morning. It is said is in ruins and all along the
he was seen mixing with the'roads near the village are
schpol children and continually \ wrecked autoes in which people
waved a handkerchief. The re-: had attempted to • escape. The
port soon circulated that bje floss of life on the farms was ap-
was spreading influenza germs, I palling, according to Mr. Tour-
In the excitement it was   not • tillott,  as the  people  had   no
noted what route the man took
out of town.
A Ford car driven by Helge
Mohl, residing on a farm near
the  Brickyards,   turned   turtle
chance to escape. A man by
the name of Chas. Helden, living 13 miles from Moose Lake,
was in the city Wednesday and
said    that  he  had  lost every-
near the "Y" on the Brainerdj thing except the clothing he
road Monday morning and the wore, His clothes were slight-
driver  was   perhaps fatally in, ly burned,   and  he  stated  that
pred.   Mr. Mohl and DividHarris, clerk of the AmericanHouse,
he had been  fighting  the  fires.
The loss of life was very great
were in the car, but Mr. Harris : in tbe part  of  the  country  he
escaped  with  only  minor inju- came from.
Goats for War Food.
The Hawaiian Island of Knhoolawe
Is to be devoted to lowering the cost
qf living If production of 10,000 goats
for marketing will do It.
The Hawaiian board of agriculture
and forestry authorized Chairman Arthur H. Rice to confer with the governor and land commisslouer 911 a plan
to withdraw the Island from the forest
reserve and offer it for lease. This
has been done, and Chairman Rice has
placed In the hands of Deputy Attorney General Smith the duty of drawing up the necessary papers.
Kahoolawe now produces goats and
sand. It is believed that thousands of
goats of marketable quality can be exported from the island, and a chance
is to be given for some enterprising
rapcher to become the great goat king
of the territory.
ries. The car was returning
from Topeka and when the turn
near the "Y"' was made the
wheel caygjit in the sand, turn;
ing the car over three times.
Mr. Mohl is at St. Gabriel's hospital, where a X-ray revealed a
fructured skull. He is still unconscious and it is doubtful
whether he will recover.
G. P. Kirscher returned from
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Platte News.
The  big fire  Saturday   after
noon costs lots of Damage. Most
of the  people in this neighborhood lost all their hay.
Mr. Morris lost his
buildings and his hay.
nice new
681 Loose Their
Lives In Forest Fire
With More Reports
Coming In.
Prepare For
The Rebuilding Of
Moose Lake.
Moose Lake, Minn.—Appalling as has been the destruction
Moose Lake and Cloquet are'of life and property in this re
now the centers of the harvest gion, the scenes of desolation
of the gruesome toll taken by ! are not to remain. Nature will
the greatest forest tire in the remove every vestige and trace
history of the Northwest. Pif- of the awful ravages of the fire,
ty additional bodies  have   been. Men will remove  the   ruins   of
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brought into the morgue at
Moose Lake Tuesday morning,
Cloquet and Carlton adding another 50 to the total with reports from the Pond du Lac  In
what man has built, will emulate nature and restore what
has been laid waste. Men conversing about what the future
of the town and country is to be
dian   reservation, showing that recall that San Francisco,   Bal-
at least  100   additional   bodies timore  and   Chicago   were   re-
Will be recovered in that section.
The total of known dead so far
mounts to 681.
One hundred bodies were buried in a single grave   at  Moose
duced 'to ashes and restored,
More familiar, close-to-home
instances of towns rising from
what seemed complete annihilation by fire are Hinkley, Virgin-
Lake Tuesday,   shortly   before ja and Baudette and Spooner.
noon. Other community grayes
Were coyered during the morning hours and until late in the
day the services continued,
while motor trucks were bringing in additional bodies from
fire-wasted districts.
With the dissipation of the
smoke and with the sun shining
radiantly once more, the spirits
of the people are reviving. Good
food and warm clothing and
sleep after a night- of horor,
have  been  factors   in   causing
Firefighters and   those  living : Moose Lake folks to take a dif-
Indla Facing Hard Task.
. More tlian 337 years would be required, to bring under Instruction al]
the girl,   of sphool age Jn the Bom.-,
bay presidency,  at the 'present rate
(>r. .IkB^^. according to a report just
i&sJJ H&e Int-M city.   The percentageofsefioolgirls to the total feminine
population was 1.5 a year ago,  and
Bombay Is one of the leading preslden-,
cies mf India with regard to women's. Wetzel,   A.   Clarence    Batters,
education.    For the/United Provinces
it is estimated that nearly a thousand
The people around here all
worked hard and fov.ght the, but
it is still  burning at  this writ-
his  farm  ne'ftr  Freedhem Wed- j ing and  may cause   much  more
nesday   and   reports   that  the damage,
tires in thf towns of Platte  and      T ,     ,, , _,; ,
,  • John Noe auct  son Elmer left
Ripley jare under control   and for their  l]ome in Swan  Riyer
no more danger to property is Sunday morning. They were
anticipated unless the fire visiting with the Reese family
breaks out unexpectedly. There la-st Friday and Saturday
were about 200 men in tbe vicinity of Freedhem when Mr. Kirs-
i
Cher was there, all fighting the day.
forest fires.    Other reports from
Tbeo. Rychner  and wife motored to Little Falls last Satur-
Mrs. Prank Wolff and daugh-
the   burned   over districts. ar# |ter Mary viaited with Mrs-Cecil
that the-  fires   ar-e   well   under, Kelley Monday afternoon.
control in all sections.    Some
pf  those   from   the   city   who
h Iped  to extinguish   the  fires
were   Arthur   Simonet,   M.   V.
Frank WodfE was a Pierz caller Saturday.
years will have passed, before any iuler
quate system of feminine education
will have touched the entire population, unless new plans are adopted.
All   Should   Adopt   This   Motto.
Tlie League to Enforce Peace has
adopted _. new motto, which is: "Win
the Next War Now." The object of
the league is to win the next war by
so organizing the world that there will
be no next war.
Richard Burton, Bly Murphy,
Angus Thomas, Peter Newman
and B. Burton.
Mrs. C. F. Christiansoii left
Friday morning for a weeks'
Miss Rose Gullus returned
home from St. Cloud last week,
where she had been emplo3red. .
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES-
A Bit Twisted.
A squad of recruits was practicing
communications down a line of men in
open order formation. One message
was: "Hard pressed on left; send
. re-enforcements at once." To the
Visit to -Superior, Wis., aild j amazement of the officer in charge this
Vivo-ina   Minn     to visit.   rAlnJ is how it rench«d him:    "Hard up on
vngma, Minn., to . isi.  leia   left. ^^ tliree^0lIars nnd four cents
tives and friends. I Rt once."—Buffalo Commercial.
in districts bordering on the
fire-swept districts are praying
for rain. The fire which caused
the greatest life and money loss
in the history of the state is not
burned out; only lying low,
waiting a wind of sufficient velocity to send it roaring through
the hardwood and Jackpine. of
the Minnesota top o' land, a
section easily accessible to the
present dormant element.
John de Rossiere, an engineer
of Duluth is today named as one
of those who risked his life to
save others. Last Saturday he
drove his train through 25 miles
of flame-swept timber, picked
up 25 refugees, and today is in
a hospital where physicians say
he will loose his sight because
of burns as he peered from his
cab window, watching the track
ahead for fallen trees.
The fire started near Bemidji,
where fire has been smoldering
for weeks. Fanned by the high,
wind, the flames swept across
the state toward Duluth, cutting a swath 50 miles wide thru
cutover lands bounded on both
sides by a chain of lakes.
At Moose Lake the havoc
wrought by the blaze was most
complele, although the loss of
life in the town itself was low,
because the inhabitants, warned
by the approach of the fire,
took refuge in the icy waters of
the lake.
Brainerd, Bemidji and Aitkin
escaped destruction, partly because the wind died down and
through heroic work of volunteer tire fighters.
The heaviest loss of life was
in Moose Lake and vicinity.
Five mills are all that is left
today in Cloquet of what was
yesterday a city of 9,000 persons. Their homes are a smouldering ruin, every residence being burned, but warning of the
approaching lire came intime to
allow the people of the town to
depart.
Twelve trains of the Northern
Pacific railroad, some passenger coaches, some box cars and
flat cars were made up at Carlton, when it became kuownthat
there was no chance to save the
town, onto which the people
were loaded and taken to Duluth.
ferent view of the future from
what they saw Sunday. The
day following the fire, stunned
and bewildered, they saw nothing but gloom and hopelessness.
Survivors have lost property
and relatives and neighbors,
but they have cause to be reassured that tlie whole world is
kin. In their time of tribulation, they have the assurance of
so many agencies offered, that
the people are overcome with
gratitude. Neighboring towns,
Superior and Duluth, the Twin
Cities and the great* state of
Minnesota, will - not allow
Moose Lake to vanish from the
earth.
Bodies of 17 men, women and
children, literally baked to
death in a root cellar on a farm
.about four miles west of Moose
Lake were among the horrifying finds reported last night;
and on another farm 14 bodies
were taken from a well where
the unfortunates sought safety
from the flames only to perish
by drowning.
Twenty- One Towns  Burned.
Death toll by today reaches
1000 and ten thousand square
miles is laid waste by the tire.
A property loss of 10,0,000,000
is estimated.
Twenty-one towns have been
destroyed. The towns totally
or partially destroyed are:
Cloquet,
Moose Lake.
Kettle River.
Lawler.
Adolph.
Munger.
Five Corners.
Harney.
Grand Lake.
Maple Grove,
Twig.
Barnum.
Mathews.
Aitkinson.
French River.
Cliff qu:
Carleton.
Brooks ton.
Breavator.
Pine Lake.
Pine Hill.
Joe Doty of Royalton was
here on business Monday.
Mike Braun bought a pure
bred Shorthorn Bull this
week.
Farmers are busy hauling
hay from the Bice Lake
marshes.
George W. B. Leroy and J.
Sturm motored up from New
Ulm yesterday.
It is reported that Christ
Beese of Platte had lost 70
tons of hay by fire.
C. W. Bouck of Boyalton
looked in alter his political
field here yesterday.
Ed. Buff of the "Soldiors
Home" is spending a few
clays in the village visiting.
John Stuckmeir visited for
a few days at Chokio and
Graceville aud reports good
crops in that country.
A marriage license wasissued
yesterday to Chas. Isaacson and
Marie Leidenfrost.
Peter Loscheider, who has
been employed as blacksmith
moved to Rice Tuesday, where
he will work for Steve Preimesberger.
Guy A. Biddle, who spent
several days in Pierz last
spring, was one of- the victims of the fire near Twig-
yesterday. A high wind was
blowing and trees were falling across the road at various
points. Driving through the
thick fog, a heavy tree fell
on him and killed him instantly.
St. Cloud Journal Press: Congressman Knutson, who has
been ill with influenza, has recovered and is back to work.
He writes that he does not expect to come home until a few
days before election, as he is
busy looking after the wants of
his constituents and backing up
the president in winning the
war.
Your first install=
ment on Fourth Liberty Loan is due and
must be paid by Sat=
urday Oct 19th.
Genola  News
A surprise party was held at
the home of Mr. Henry Stumpf's
in honor of Mrs. Stumpf's birthday. All those attended are:
Mr. and Mrs. J. Hagen, Mr.
Harsh, Mr. and Mrs. Kelzenberg, Miss Meyer Miss Ma-
ble Hanson, Mrs. Predrich and
daughter Mildred, Mr, and Mrs.
H. C. Wilkes, Mrs. Hennen,
Misses Kate and Prances Block,
Reinhart Hartman, Joe Hartman, Jim Wermerskirchen, Will
Hagen, Wm. Vogel and Mr.
Peter Nagel. The evening was
spent dancing, playing games.
After a swell lunch all departed
reporting a good time.
Mrs. Anton Friedrich -went to
Pargo for a few days visit.
Miss Mildred Priednch and
Miss Mable . Hanson arrived on
Saturday's train from Fargo.
Nick Meyer of  Pierz shipped
carload of poultry Tuesday.
ILLUMINES  FACE  OF WATCH.
Small Electric Lamp in Glove Enable.
Wearer to Tell the Time at An/
Period of Night.
A combination of glove, wrist watch
and illuminator is the invention of B.
F. L'ockwood, Oakland, Cal. .The glove,
as shown  In  the  illustration,  has a I
pocket where an ordinary pocket watch'
may be inserted. A small electric lamp
is placed beside the pocket, so that the
face of the timepiece may be visible
in the dark. \
Splendid Work of Light Vessels.
The United States maintains light
.essels on 51 stations, and there are
a number of relief ships, so that the
regular ships may be brought in for
repairs. Some of these positions are
of the greatest importance to mariners, as, for example, the Nantucket
Shoals light-vessel, moored 41 miles
from land,' for which most of the
transatlantic vessels steer in approaching America, and the Diamond Shoals
light vessel, moored in 30 fathoms of
water 13 miles off Cape Hatteras and
marking the most dangerous locality
on the Atlantic coast of the United
States. These larger ships are full-
powered vessels, capable of returning
to their station, and they each have
a crew of 15.
Airplane Forest Patrol.
The forest service is talking already
of using airplanes to patrol forests
and give timely warning of fires. This
is but one of the services to which the
plane will be put following peace. That
big American army of aviation will
not be content to remain on terra fir-ma
after its vivid experiences in the air
under the most trying conditions. It
will create a demand for air service;
and the wonderful improvements
brought about through the exigencies
of war will be turned to peaceful pursuits.—Rocky Mountain News.
Rabbits.
The question that has long agitated
the Australians, how to relieve the
ranch country of the pest of rabbits, is
in a way to be answered now that the
British government has ordered shipments in great quantities, presumably
for rabbit pie, or stew, or something
of that kind—delicacies that hunters
like to tell us about, but which seem to
lose their enticing flavor when prepared in the environment of the domestic kitchen. England does not want
the skins, and the Australians would
sell them at a bargain if ships could
be had to take them away.—Providence
Journal.
Arrayed Against Him.
"Jibway told me he had some visi*
tors at his home—two of his wife's
relatives and another guest who was
a friend of his."
"Do you suppose he Intended for you
to infer that the relatives were not
-lis friends?"
"I presume so. I don't see how he
could regard them as other than enemies, in view of the fact that Mrs.
Jibway had money when he married
her -and he didn't have a cent."—Bir-■
mingham Age-Herald.
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Nopey! This
back yard seaside
vacation ain't
patented; try it
yourself.
In These Days.
"How's politics."
"Looking up.   Three gentleman care I
didates are doing my reaping for me
and a couple of lady candidates are
helping mother put  up  preserves."—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Turning Down a Youngster.
Methuselah protested on his eight
hundredth birthday:
"I don't feel a day over forty-five,"
he assured the recruiting sergeant.
Lifts Fifteen Times Own Weight.
An   electric   magnet   weighing   only
seven pounds that will lift 15 times its
own weight has recently been invented.
It is intended for use in machine shops.
Almost Identical.
Wigway—It makes me hustle to pay
my rent.
Harduppe—The question ot reat
kee£s.,_me moving, too.