The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1918-06-27

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VOL. NO. 10.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JUNE 27, 1918.
No. 2
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.
Staples.—The local Red Cross chapter is expected to furnish 100 pairs of
socks a month for June, July and August.
Red Wing.—One hund-ted and fifty-
two Goodhue county Class No. 1, selected soldiers left Red Wing for
Camp Grant, 111.
St. Cloud.—The second annual dio-
I cesan convention  in  session here for
two days has closed.   There were 370
I delegates present.
St. Cloud.—John Speath of Green-
kwald was arrested on a charge of
[running a hljiid-pig. He pleaded guilty
[and the of_^_se cost him  $50.
St. Cloud.—The 120 men who are to
_o to Camp Grant, 111., will leave thi.
city on June 28, according to word received from the adjutant general.
, Montevideo.—The ninth annual commencement exercises of the ninth
trade rural school graduates of Chippewa county were held at the high
Bchool. Sixty-two graduates received
liplomas.
The wife and the children had been
[in Grafton, N. D., visiting with friends
for about two weeks. When they returned home they were met with the
announcement that Haljcek had taken
|his own life.
Crystal  Falls.—A    2-year-old    buck
leer came bounding into town a few
lays  ago and, in trying to get over
wire fence in the vicinity of Robert
lunnis', became entangled in the wire
ind was so badly lacerated it died.
Breckenridge.—Tony Holjcek, up to
few days ago, janitor at the local
_ourt house,  committed  suicide here
ay discharging both barrels of a shotgun into his head.   No caure is known
for the deed.    He is survived by the
.idow and two small children.
Warren.—The   summer  meeting  of
^he Minnesota Red River Valley Development    association    and the Red
iRiver Valley Livestock Breeders' association was held here June 20 and
21.    Besides the business ses. ions of
:he  two. associations  a   Loyalty  day
.as pbsprvpcj:
St. Paul— Mipnesgta's bumper crpp
.ill not suffer from depredations of
the I. W. W. or members of other organizations bent on    destruction    of
jrahi in the fields or in the barns. The
j-eason of the formation of the. motor
|;orps of the Minnesota Home Guard.
IThis assurance was given by Adjutant
1-eneral Rhinovv.
kStillwater.—While attempting to sp
Ire a cqivple of horses in a corral at
le  William   Moritz    barn,     Charles
[imnaugh   was   severely   kicked   hy
le of the enraged animals.   His left
rm was broken, while it Is believed
lat he will also lose the sight of Iii.
light eye.   He received a most severe
lick on the right cheek bone, which
|aid open the flesh for several inches.
Mankato.—The.   state   food   administration has asked that, the Minnesota
.rotherhood    of    Threshermen  make
-Very effort to see that, every thresh-
Tg machine, in the state Is fit to do
Its full share in saving grain when the
Ihreshing season arrives.    The organisation is scheduled to meet here June
-5 at which time plans will be made, to
[parry the request, of the food admlnjs.
(ration.
Moorhead.—Perhaps the first volun.
keers among city bred girls to do work
lp  the. fields  this  summer  are  Miss
_nn Huntoon, daughter of Mrs. 1.. A
luntoon   and   Miss   Crystal   Hanson,
laughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Han-
bon of Moorhead. Both Miss Huntoon
and Miss Hanson are Moorhead high
pchool girls and last winter when the
first   talk   reached   them   of  (alls   for
?irls  to   th.e   farms,  they   decided   to
|ry to secure work and do their part.
Minneapolis.—Dr. Marion L. Burton
vas formally Inaugurated president of
_e  University   of  Minnesota  at  the
60th anniversary celebration of the in.
Ititutlon.    Fred B.  Snyder, president
Df the board of regents made the In-
lucting  address  and   Dr.   Kurton  replied. Three former presidents of the
university, Dr. William Watts Folwell,
_r.  Cyrus  Northrop  and   Or.  George
_dgar Vincent, the last, now president
the Rockerfeller Foundation, were
I guests of honor.   The graduating class
I of 1918 were present in cap and gown.
Red  Lake Falls.—The    Red    Lake
[county chapter of the Red Cross society received 100 pounds of yarn and
1 has asked all the women to knit socks
instead   of   sweaters,   there   being   a
eat shortage of socks for the army,
local society will receive the pro-
ceeds of a dance when W. H. Gilfillan
I will open his new motion p^ture the-
' ate^Bfe.   Amateurs, unde#the direction^? Omer Hall, will produce "Her
"lonor, the Mayor'' for the benefit of
the society at the, Lotus theater June
J28 and 29.
St. Paul.—Reports, without confirm-
I ation are current that the Great North-
lern line between Tintah, Minn., and
'Rutland, N. D., is to be abandoned and
the Soo line used. No towns on the
lline would be deprived of train service
[by the change, which would releave
[many men and considerable equip-
[ment for service elsewhere.
Crookston.—Supt. Davis of this division of the Great Northern railroad
states that he has as yet received no
definite information regarding the
matter of the. consolidation of the
Northern Pacific an"! Great Northern
depots in this city.
Interesting
Correspondences
South Agram News.
Mr. and Mrs. Pred Sporlein
and son Walter and Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Theis of Pierz were in
Parker's Prairie, visiting friends
and relatives last Saturday and
Sunday.
Mrs. Herman Terhaar was in
Ramey last Saturday, where she
visited her daughter Mrs. Oscar
Guenther.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Brummer
and sons Bill, Edward and Philip
and daughter Katie autoed to
Lastrup last Sunday afternoon,
where they visited with the John
Brummer family.
Those that called at the Peter
Thommes' home Sunday evening were: Edward and Emil Nagel, Edward Eidenshink, Walter
and Prances Sporlein, William
and Eva Brummer and Tony
Theis of Pierz.
MissAngela Kippley is attending the summer school at Saint
Cloud.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Platte News
i
Three Weddings
This Week
Those that visited at the P.
Wolff home Wednesday are, C.
Reese, Mrs. Math. Valentine
and baby, Mrs. Bentcer and little son Clarence, who are here
Visiting with relatives IV(r. an<.
Mrs. M. Valentine.
Theo. Rychner and wife and
Robert Wollf autoed to, Little
Fails Saturday,
Mr. and.Mrs, 0. Reese and
son Christ called at the Andrew
Kainz home Sunday afternoon.
Cecil Kelley, wife and children were in Little Falls Saturday.
Miss Joliana Ebertowski was
in Platte Monday.
—MAKE W.S.S. P_EDGES—
Rural Carriers' Convention.
The Minnesota Rural Letter
Carriers' association will hold
their annual state convention in
gt. Cloud on July 14 and 15. It
is expected that 200 out of town
people wUl be present, including delegates aud members of
the association and their fami.
lies. Meetings will be held in
tlie court house. Headquarters
for the convention will be at
the Grand Central hotel.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Little Rock vs. Agram.
A rather one sided ball game
was played Sunday between the
Little Rock and Agram ball
teams.
The Little Rock boys worked
hard trying to run in a score,
but with the twist right in Ger-
ving who struck out most of the
men who faced him and a little
aid from the fielders they only
succeeded in getting to third
base-
The Agram boys delivered
the ball all oyer the field with
only eight strikeouts.
The final score being 14 to 0
in favor of Agram.
Next Sunday the best team of
Albany will battle with Agram
on the Pier2 diamond. A good
game will be played and a large
crowd of spectators is expected.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDC-ES—
R. B. Millard was out here
Monday evening in the interest of the War Savings
Stamps drive.
Traveling-Den are beginning to get scarce. Many of
those in the draft age have
been   called,   and   some   of
Girtz=Medek
Louis Medek, son of W. Medek, and Olive Girtz, daughter
of P. L. Girtz, were married in
St. Joseph's church Tuesday
morning. ^______:——
Anna Girtz was maid of honor
and John Medek was groomsman. The wedding was celebrated at the P. L. Girtz home
in the village.
The young couple will make
their home on the grooms farm,
tiye miles east of the village.
Kurtz-Waytazek
Wednesday morning occured
the wedding of Joseph Kurtz
and Lizzie Waytazek.      ^-^
Barbara Waytazek and Mary
Kurtz were bridesmaids, while
Robert Diedrich and Vincent
Waytazek were best men.
The wedding was celebrated
at the Watazek home.
The young couple will live on
the Kurtz farm in Granite.
Schubert=Waninger
Joseph Schubert and Rose Waninger were married in Lastrup
Tuesday morning and their wedding was celebrated at the Waninger home. Futher particulars were not available at this
time.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Burning Up in Nebraska,
The heat wave which hit Ne=
bras,ka several days ago is still
In eyidenge. Go Sunday the
thermometers in Omaha registered 109 in the shade and at
Ord in the same state 112 was
reached at 6 o'clock Saturday
evening. Small grain is badly
burned. No rain has fallen and
the crops there will suffer terribly. The supply of water is
very limited. The heat wave is
said to be the worst experienced in that state in eight years.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Morrison County
Farm Bureau Notes
One hood red and ninety-four
people have joined the Morrison
County Farm Bureau. A list of
members and officers will be
published at a later date.
Fourteen farmers in Morrison
county were supplied with seed
corn from Cokato, Big Lake
and Litchfield. Nine others
were supplied with home grown
seed, which had been picked up
by the demonstrator and taken
to the farm bureau office, where
it was sold to others without
any additional cost.
Grim alfafa, buckwheat and
flax seed have been secured for
farmers on short notice through
the help of the Extention Division in St. Paul.
Eleven hundred bushels of
seed oats were obtained by the
Farm Bureau and farmers asking for seed were rapidly supplied.
Farm laborers have been secured for several farmers and
persons wanting work should
apply at the Farm Bureau office.
Four hundred and eighty-five
barberry bushes have been eradicated in the county which
should eliminate the black rust
from our wheat crop.
Six persons who followed instructions for poisoning cut
worms have met with good success and their crops have not
been troubled further.
Three spraying demonstrations
were given in the county and as
yet the treated bushes are free
from insects and diseases.
Drainage and dynamite demonstrations will be given free
of charge by specialists from
no\v until October 15. Any persons  wishing  such  work  done
i should apply at the Farm Bure-
those   above  the  draft  age j au office
are taking the places of  the| j. j. McCANN, County Agent,
drafted men. ' Little Falls, Minn.
County Seat Callings
A flour mill at Holdingford
has been closed by the federal
food administration' because of
violations of the flour laws. It
is understood that the mill at
Swanville is either closed or a-
bouttobeon similar complaints.
N. I. Lowry, special field a-
gent of the Minnesota Safety
Commission, was in the city
Friday morning checking oyer
the prices of commodities in the
different stores. He especially
priced ice and clothing. An effort is being made by the state
commission to have all the
stores follow the fair food prices. Complaints have! been made
tfb the commission that some of
the stores in the state are asking unfair prices for their goods
and Mr. Lowry is making a
thorough inspection of the state.
He left Friday noon for Wadena
and from there he will go to
Detroit.
Harker Gordon and Louis Gravel, who make up part of the
volunteer ground section division taking special training at
the Carnegie School of Technology at Pittsburg, have recently
been transferred to Fort San
Houston, San Antonio, Texas.
Reports state that the weather
there is very hot, but the gener-
al condition of the gamp satisfactory. Fort Houston has one
of the largest ayiation schools
JO the country and every brand
of flying is taught. The other
local boys have all left Pittsburg with the exception of L.
Pancratz, who is being retained
at the Carnegie school as an in-
stuctor in metal work.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Eradicate that Quack Grass
Many farms in the northwest
are becoming badly invested
with quack grass. The weed interferes very seriously with the
growth of crops. Eradication
of the pest is no hopeless task.
Anyone of the four following
methods is recommended to kill
it:
1. Cut the quack grass for
hay as soon as it is nicely headed out, which will be June 15. to
20. in most cases. Let the new
growth start and plow deeply
by July 1. Be careful to turn
under all parts of the plants.
Then bare fallow through the
season, using the disk harrow
as often as may be necessary to
keep every leaf beneath the surface. This may be twice a week
during the early part of the
summer and only once in two
weeks during the latter part.
Success depends mostly on the
thoroughness of this operation.
2. Cut for hay as directed
above, but immediately, disk
thoroughly and sow to common
or German millet, using three-
fourths of a bushel of seed per
acre. It is important that an
even and thick stand be secured
in order to choke out the quack
grass. Cut the millet for hay
just after it is headed out.
3. Cut for hay and prepare
the land as above, but sow it to
buckwheat, using a bushel and
a half of seed to the acre. Plow
the buckwheat under as a green
manure crop, any time during
the month of September, or cut
for seed if a good crop matures.
4. Plow the quack grass under June 10. to 15. plowing as
deeply as the power will permit.
Make sure that all of the quack
grass roots are covered deeply.
Disk the land down well and
plant to fodder corn, using half
a bushel to three-fourths of a
bushel per acre. Sow in rows
42 inches apart, cultivate frequently until the corn is high
enough   to   shade   the   ground.
Totals of the
County Vote
The canvassing board has
completed its canvass of the e-
lection returns and the following figures of votes recieved by
each candidate in the county
are official:
GOVERNOR
Burnquist   1948
Linbergh  2201
REPRESENTATIVE
McDonald     455
Woolley *     983
Knutson   2333
SENATE
Brown 1943
Gardner   1355
Swanson    1211
LEGISLATURE
(at large)
Bouck   1628
Jacobson  2011
Young     902
For County
Hammerbeck     743
Metcalf.  ...*     318
Perry   1612
Sheldon   1188
Wilson     579
SHERIFF
Carson     372
Felix  2414
Larson  1918
JUDGE OF PROBATE
Kemp     __   1615
Lyon   1171
Shaw    1785
CLERK OF COURT
Lakin  1185
Posch  1144
Stoll  2343
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
Boehm  1836
Batzer 2609
Szperski    782
Zipoy     874.
COMMISSIONER 5th DISTRICT
Chock     513
Lundberg     354
Vanselow     318
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Threshermen to
Meet Next Week
There will be a meeting of all
active and a few of the retired
threshermen of Morrison county, Tuesday, July 2, at the Red
Cross assembly room in the
First National Bank building at
Little Falls. This meeting is
called for the purpose of discussing the problems of the
threshermen and to agree on
the fixed price of threshing
grains.
The government control or
supervision of threshing operations is to aid the farmers and
threshermen in the problems of
threshing at a minimum loss in
grain during the period of the
war in which industrial affairs
are in such a disturbed condition.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
A young daughter arrived
at the Alfred Herold home
Saturday morning.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Grain And Produce
Market Report
Choice No. 1 Northern $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.       28
Flour,     5.65
Bran 2.10
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Local Happenings
Of the Weekl
John Simon of Little Falls
was a caller here Friday.
Wm. E. Faust has sent a
card stating that he had
landed safely in France.
H. Kroetsch of Spring
Lake, Canada is here visiting
his daughter Mrs. Herman
Wilkes.
Frank Vosen writes from
Alberta Canada that crops
there are almost a failure on
account of lack of rain.
The boys to leave for training camps this week were
given a reception in Faust's
hall Friday evening.
Frank and Nick Jaeger,
sons of Jos. Jaeger of Staples
are both in the army, and
Math, the third son registered June 5th.
IYARDS PLANNING
FOR BIOJPLASH
At Least Eighty-nine New Ships
Will Be Launched On
July 4th. i
HELPING TO WIN WAR!
Celebration of Independence Day Will
Be Made Notable by American Build
ers Breaking All World s Rec-
cords for New Tonnage.
Put  the land   back into fodder ,
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 2. ro
corn the second year if the era-i Aborts _ 2.25
dication  is not  complete.—An-1 Ground Feed    2.40
drew Boss,  Minnesota Experi- Beans      7.00
ment Station. Onions     2.50
Henry Athen of Genola,
who was arrested last week
on complaint of Henry Rcch,
was sentenced to 40 days in
the county jail.
Jos. H. Virnig and John
Dahmen returned Monday
from Alabama. They say
that the south is very patriotic.
Two Automobiles in good
mechanical condition for sale
cheap. . Inquire of John
Harsch.   Cenola, Minn. 51tf.
Dan P. Quinlivan of St.
Cloud shook hands with old
friends here yesterday. He
is well known to all .the old
settlers.
Henry Terhaar and wife,
and Gerhard and Antonia
Wilkes motored to Manoh-
men last week and spent a
few days there visiting relatives.
A. Prellowitz of Argyle,
who formerly lived on. the
M. Herold place is here visiting with John Kobilka. He
says they expect a poor crop
on account of lack of rain.
There will be a ball game
between the Albany team
and the Agram nine on the
Pierz diamond, next Sunday,
June 30. A good game is expected.
Jos. Jaeger and wife, and
Tony Langer and wife of
Staples visited at Math Valentines and John P. Langer's
last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Koop of
Brainerd, Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
Berg, Mrs. Gertrude Stoll and
Mrs! A. Sykora of Little Falls
and Ed. Stoll of Dent, spent
Sunday here visiting at the Mr.
and Mrs. A. P. Stoll home.
Levi Vixie of Viking was
seriously injured Wednesday
evening at 6:30 o'clock about
four miles south of Little
Falls when his motorcycle
collided with an automobile
driven by E. J. W. Donahue
of Duluth.
Mrs. Wm. Dehler and two
children of Oregon are here
for a short visit with Mrs.
John Newman and other relatives. Mrs. Dehler is a
daughtei of th?
Wise of Brainerd.
Dehler family i ••
the west about 20
Washington, June. 24.—The launch-!
Ing of the largest number of ships of!
the greatest aggregate tonnage ever!
put into the water in one day will!
make, celebration of July 4 this yeai-j
notable for all time.
Independence day's contribution to
the merchant fleet on which the world
is depending for victory over the Germans will be at least 89 vessels with
a capacity of 439,886 deadweight tons.
In addition enthusiastic workmen are
straining every nerve to complete six
other hulls in time for them to join
in the splash that will be. heard
around the world, which would make
the total tonnage 470,886.
The conservative estimate of launch-
ings to take place on the day Americans venerate, more than any other
is one-third more than the entire production of seagoing tonnage in "United
States yards in the fiscal year of 1915-
16 and exceeds by 42,050 tons the.
launchings for 1901, the record prewar year in American shipbuilding.
The Shipping board's banner, construction month of May will be eclipsed in one day, both in number of ships
and in tonnage.
Thirty-seven of the hulls, expected
to be launched will be steel, with a
tonnage of 254,686. They will include
the 12,500-ton cargo carrier, William
Penn; the 12,000-ton Challenger, of
the same type; the three sisters, Independence, Victorious and Defiance,
all of the 11,800-ton class; three refrigerating ships of 9,400 tons each,
and eight of the 8,800-ton freighters.
The Lake Pearl, a 2,300-ton vessel,
which is to take to the water on Lake
Michigan, will have the baby honors
of the day. The average tonnage of
the steel vessels is 6,883.
With the exception of the 7,400-ton
Beechland and two others of 4,000
tons, the 52 wooden hulls which are
to be launched are of the 3,500-ton
type.    Their total tonnage is 185,200.
The Pacific coast vessels, totaling
250,700 deadweight tons. The East
will be a close second to-the West,
making ready for 38 launchings from
yards on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts,
27 of which will be wooden vessels,
11 steel vessels, totaling 76,486 dead
weight tons, making a grand total, of
172,186 deadweight tonnage. .The
Great Lakes will launch 14 steel ships
totaling 47,700 deadweight tons.
MAY BE   AIMED   AT   FRANCE
Washington Hears Berlin May Make
New Peace Move.
Washington, June 24.—Warnings by
British Foreign Minister Balfour
against statements by Count Burian,
the Austrian foreign minister, and editorials in Austrian and German newspapers, all bearing on the question of
peace negotiations, have put officials
here on their guard against what has
come to be known as a German "peace
offensive."
Up to the present the. "peace offensive" has not manifested itself in
Washington and officials are inclined
to believe that, as has been intimated
in some of the Austrian new-papers
the movement has been directed or is
likely to be towards France.
U-BOAT   LOSSES   INCREASING
L.te   -Oiin
The Wm.
!i -re for
years ago.
Divers Are Being Sunk Twice as Fast
as  Foe Can  Build.
Paris, June 24.—Two-thirds of
the German submarines launched are
already at the. bottom of the sea, according to a statement made to the
deputies of the under-secretary of the
navy.
"And/' continued the under-secretary, "we are destroying them twice
as fast as they are building them."
Two Minnesota Boys Drowned.
Coleraine, Minn., J%ne 24.—Cleary
Somers, 12 years old, and Martin, his
brother, sons of Michael Somers,
hotel-keeper at Calumet, Minn., were
drowned in Mud Lake, near Marble,
while playing in a boat which had no
oars. They became frightened as the
boat drifted from shore and decided to
swim to land. They sani_ in dou.
water.
Refuse to Gjve to Ludendorff Fund.
Amsterdam, June 24—Declaring that
the name of General Ludculorff to
German workers is synonymous with
pan-German ideas of peace by violent-/,
and with the postponement of those
reforms in government which would
secure us liberty at home, the trade
union organizational at Bielefeld, Germany, have refused to join a local patriotic committee in tlie collection qi.
money for the "Ludendorff fund" for
wounded sodierg. The refusal td par'
ticipale was made In a statement issued to" the public,
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