The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1918-10-31

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PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, October 31, 1918.
ACCORDING TO THEIR LIGHTS
Savages Ruled by Customs and Ceremonies as Unalterable as Are Be-
W        liefs of the West.
If life in the New Hebrides can be
described in irreducible terms of primitive instinct, it is none the less governed by an elaborate ritual of tribal
ceremony, by the powerful influence of
taboo, by customs as rigid and impregnable as the towering forest fastness.
That the old are buried alive is  as
right and orderly to the truculent savage as that night follows day, or that a
warrior dies by the hand of his enemy
if he does not first speed his own arrow.     Against   this   barrier   of   dark
faiths  and  irnprobed   certainties,   the
wanderer from the West, with his troubled   vision   and   ever-restless   feet,
throws  up  for  himself but  a  flimsy
csunter-illusion of civilization.   Let his
trading schooners make their perilous
voyages through the channels, darting
in and out of the nameless, land-locked
harbors.    Let him spread his net of
commercialism.    Let  him  take  away
pearls,  tortoise  shell,  beche  de  mer,
copra, sandalwood, or perhaps a human cargo destined for the great labor
markets   Bast   and  West,   leaving  in
their place the cheap product of factories,  or,  better  still,  secretly,  guns
and ammunition. The chances are that
one day his fate will find him out. And
If the time should come when he returns no more to that same civilization which betrayed him in an ultimate
need  to  the  savages  of  an  obscure
island whose only costume is a necklace, his death will merely cancel an
outstanding account.—Gertrude Emerr
son in Asia Magazine.
Eight Die In One     Letter From Lieut.
John Konen A. P.M.
In France
No. 20.
Day In St. Cloud.
The Spanish Influenza appears to have taken a firm grip
in St. Clond and many deaths
have occurred. Nine deaths
were reported one day the first:
of the week, five the next day
and on Thursday eight more
were recorded. Whiie Little
Palls lias several hundred cases
very few deaths   have resulted.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDCES—
St.
Aignan-Hoyers,
August 30. 1918.
Mr. Wm. Konen,
Fargo, N. Dakota,
Dear Brother:
I received your letter yesterday and   was glad to hear from
you,   Glad to learn you were all
well, also  received  the photos.
Letter From Jos.
Schmolke In France.
County Sea^Culling-s. | ^^^^^^^^4^°^^
a'. T/-       i      * o     i made   me homesick   to look  at
Simon Kassela of Bowlus was;
u        ui.  u c t   i        n      •.   I them.    I also  received the card
brought   before   Judge   Gerntzi
today and fined $5.50 for assault on the person of John Fillip.    The fine was paid.
There are   now   97   cases   ot
telling me I had to have an order from a Major to get the
shoes. It being impossible to
get anything sent to me now,
even  with an  order, so  kindly
Spanish Influenza among the or-1 take the shoes back.
phans at St. Otto's orphanage.
There are in all about 125 children in   the    institution,   which
Now  I  haye   received  shoes
from the commissary.   They are
GAVE GREAT WRITER THEME
How Patriotic Protest of Gentle-Hearted Man Furnished Inspiration to
Joel Chandler Harris.
In one of his stories of farm life in
Georgia Joel Chandler Harris tells of a
wealthy planter who wanted a few-
acres of original woodland cleared near
a village in which he lived. Labor was
scarce, but he finally induced a thriftless fellow in the village to do the
work—a man who had always been
honest, but a kind of dreamer and
"ne'er do well,"
After a few days the man came to
his employer and frankly confessed
that he could not do the work, although he needed the money. Pressed
for a reason he said that the first tree
he started to cut down was hollow and
occupied by two squirrels, who made
violent complaint at the destruction ot
.heir house. The next was the home of
a chipmunk, with a large family, and
the third was occupied by at least four
pairs of jaybirds. "That piece of
woodland is a peopled city, throbbing
with' life, busy from morning until
night. It contains their homes and
families, they have built and live-
there for years and I have not the
heart to destroy what belongs to these
helpless creatures." And out of that
incident, simple but impressive as ii
was, Mr. Harris drew inspiration foi
one of the most graphic pictures in
all literature.—H. E. Harman, in the
South Atlantic Quarterly.
not what I wanted, but will have
makes a very large   percentage . t0 do for the time being,
of the children who   haye   con-      Haven;t   heard  from   mother
tracted the disease.  At St.   Ga- for a iong time, but hope she is
oriel's hospital there are 15
cas-
getting along' all right. I am
es isolated in the contagious. busy everyday and have now
ward, including several of the plenty to do Things "Sire going
nurses. The situation in Minne-; rapW]y j,eMf. and we are doing.
apolis is evidently yery serious
as a telephone call came to the
local hospital from an institution in   that   city   asking   that
nurses be sent from here to   relieve the strain.
Drs. J. H. and  Wm. Newman
our damdest to give the Boche
hell. I wrote to sister Fronie
some time ago, but as yet have
not receiyed an answer, please
tell her to Write. Please send
me some postal-views of Fargo.
Everything  is  moving  along
left last Saturday for Camp Lee j very serenely with the American
Petersberg, Va., to enter the forces here, as you can well
service as lieutenants in the vet- Jud8"e by tl]e trelld oi the American press. Troops are reaching
here from the States in almost
unimaginable numbers and by
now we, the Americans, have a
inagnicificent body of troops
here ready to give Uncle Bill
and his Boche soldiers blue
h- 1.
inary corps.
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Virnig and
family returned last Monday
from several days' visit at
Crosby.
M. M. Buckman will leave tomorrow for Washington D. C.
Mr. Buckman has enlisted in
the motor transport service and
will take up his duties at Washington.
JMfivaTd
rifle and was taken to Halls
hospital Tuesday. The shot
went thru his thumb, striking
him in Jjjie   breast   just   above
re-
Music Is a Moral Law.
There is an intense need forarf, anc.1
above all for music in the daily lives
of our people, and it is through the
public schools that the musical re
sources of the younger gejienit|p£, a(
present. \j\^S ' donnarjt, must be
awakpned.'
Why should our girls and boys being
educated to he good business men ahc
women he denied development of al! .-     •""
higher intellectual and moral side oi the heart.    The   shot   was
their natures? It is here that music;
most directly exerts Its Influence.   Tc^-SlCWd from under his arm
quote the words of Plato:    "Music
ioral law. It is the essence of
llways the possibility, too
r|> Pattis and Carusos art
children and these car
bh to the future fame oi
as orators, poets, writers.
Ill business, nierfT-thefl l$\
lav.e 't .io},-,. choice }$'' sc'liQa.
H) ^s the others.
I sea Pipe Line for Oil.
aimers are loaded with oi:
. can coast by means of un
ies, sometimes over a' mil.
reeord is broken by twe
two and one-half miles long
Jstnlled about seventy milee
mpico. This method of load
1 necessary by the charactet
•t la. the vicinity of the oil
\re    u-e   no   harbors   deej
accommodate tank vessels
ater alongshore is shallow
pr more out to sea.   The oil
the sea bottom and con;
ade with the tank ship al
lend  by  means; of  flexible
The line is fully connect
nnd is then,towed out tp
ig}=^t-lterary Digest.
Flip
About Milestones.
people imagine milestones to
ite   ancient   institutions,    They-
ot  so  really.     The  first  raile-
to be erected, in England were
on. fhe Cambridge road between
kwa.v and Cambridge iu 1727, and
Vis hot until 40 years later that
Wise became at all general.   True
™.re two "milestones," so called,
Wir the date 1700, still standing
•^tt   Tad-aster,   and   the   other
fl_*. nington, Herefordshire.    But
S   not  give   the  distances  to
es graven upon them, being,
-.,.' therefore, merely stone sign-
Weather  conditions  here are
most   ideal   and   conducive   to
health.    We have  here  with us
many men  from California  and
iV    "••      £   TT   .'--,   Ithey   assert   tliaY ttie"^eTt^S?-
ohnson   or  Upsalai
,,   , i-       ,,■     , .,       . ; here at  this season  is identical
shot himself  while   cleaning-a!
^^^^^^^^^^ "  to that of /their home  stale, so
you can draw the comparison
yourself. It's harvest time and
the fields are rich. It's a novel
sight indeed, to see old women
and men of France reaping the
'.;!:^".3 ! harvest, inasmuch as the men of
The local draft board wishes . France—able to withstand the
to express appreciation for the|Strain of war—are at the Front,
assistance rendered in the pastj fighting side' by side with our
by volunteer workers and asks J boys to establish a lasting and
anyone W-O has the time to iron-clad peace for the world.
cqme to, t\e offices at the Court often I wish you were here to
house andhelp out for a day or gaze upon the sights, which to
half day oi any length of time us are nOw becoming common,
they are alte to put in. The France is a very beautiful coun-
board is veto hard pressed with
work and scjiool girls, teachers
Somewhere in France.
Sept. 22, 1918.
Dear folks at home:
No doubt you
know by this time that I am over here. I wrote voti, a letter
while I was in England.
Well I must say [I've seen
quite a little scenery since I
left camp in America. The
people here in France are very
nice. They certainly give us a
good reception where-eyer we
go. France also is a.nice country- I have a notion to stay
here after the war.
Must say I am having a time
trying to learn how to talk
French. I've learned a few
words like "Good morning and
Good evening, Mr. aiid Mrs."
and a few others.
The weather seems Ito agree
with me here. Altho^ it rains
about every other day I feel better now than I eyer did
Life here in France reminds
me of Canada when 4. used to
sleep in the straw stack or hay
loft. Here we sleep in billets,
in other words, in barns and
sheds. We have plenty of
straw to sleep on besides a. bed
sack. From 5 to 10 sleep in a
billet. We haye a good time
and the best of care is given us.
We also get good and plenty of
food and are allowed light wine
and beer
If sister Marian asks why I
don't write tell her it is not as
handy to write here as it was in
camp back home, but that I will
write to her soon, also to Frank.
This is all for this time. If
anything new turns up I will
write again. Best regards to
all. Your loying son and
brother,
Joseph Schmolke
State Aid For
Morrison County
Schools|17,735.25.
'The Morrison county schools
will receive $17,735.25 as their
share of the state aid this year.
There are 5,457 pupils in the
schools who receive the state
aid of $3.25 each.
The apportionment has not
yet been distributed among the
various districts.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDCES—
Local Happenings
Of fhe Week
FEW AS  MERCIFUL AS THiS
To  Be Hoped That. Baby Skunk Will
Remember Later in Life How
His Life Was Spared.
  Tho other night a whole family of
! skunks paid a marauding visit to tho
Clicks   are     beginning    to   chicken house of our next-door neigli-
flv <-r.i-.-i j bor.   That is to say, the other members
•>  boULU\ ! of  the  family  were  marauding;  we
TT ■•'"_•       figure that the younger ones just went
Hunters are preparing   for j aiong because they were too young to
" Those that visited with the
Reese family Sunday evening
were, Frank Wolff and wife,
Theo. Rychner and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Kainz ahd
family and Jo Kainz, Paul
Wolff and the Misses Mary
Wolff, Rose Gallus and Mary
Schochinski, all report a fine
time.
Mr. Morris visited with the
Wolff family Wednesday night.
He left for Sherbern, Minn, the
next morning,
Miss Mary Wolff called at the
Rychner home Tuesday afternoon.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Editors Would Be Paid.
big game.  .
Now is the time to get out
the road drags.
Mrs. John Boehm is on the
sick list this week.
It is reported that Nick
Thienes had arrived safely
in France.
Mark Koby of Royalton
shook hands with old friends
here yesterday.
Frank Faust and Frank
Mischke went out for a duck
hunt Wednesday.
Chas. Gravel of Onamia
spent several days in the
village visiting with his son
0. E.
The Boehm barber shop in
upper town has been closed
for a week on account of
John's illness.
be  left  at  home   alone.    The  event
proves to us that one little skunklet,
at least, had no idea that he was out
after chickens, nor that his presence ,
would not be perfectly welcome at his j
destination.
Tlie big skunks got several nice, fat j
pullets, but not without creating a lot!
of commotion among the survivors. In-1
deed,; the latter were so vociferous that j
the foraging party considered it wise j
to decamp precipitately. And they!
went so hastily that they overlooked j
the youngest member of the party.
Why didn't the little one leave with j
the rest? Because he had found a nice, I
warm, soft hen's nest to lie down in, !
and had gone sound asleep in it! And j
he was sleeping peacefully and inno- j
cently when our neighbors found him j
in the morning!
And do you know what kind of neigh-|
bors we have?   Two fat pullets I
had  lost,  but  they  woke  that  little I
skunk up and sent -him home to ins I
mamma.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A number  of  our  exchanges
haye been  speculating on what
would happen if the government
took over the newspapers. Well
the first  thing the subscription
price would  be raised   about 50
per cent, and  tlie sheriff  would
be   kept    busy    chasing   delinquents; the next,  step would be
to raise wages about 25 percent
and editors and reporters would
be placed on a salary  that haven't  had a cent they  could call
their own for six months.    The
merchants who  fail to get their
"Jeff" Virnig was here
Friday to get his sister Marion to work for him during
a spell of the flu.
Alfred Reinhard, who
formerly lived on the Ben
Rose place has rented the
old Fleckenstein farm from
Frank Grell.
Tin. Vetsch of Alberts-
ville has bought the old
Herm Block place from Ben
Rose. The price was $80.00
per acre.
IT'S ALL IN THE STATE OF MIND.
(The following verses were given to
the editor of Trench and Camp by a
lieutenant colonel of the British army,
who said lie caused a copy to be placed
in the hands of every soldier coming
under his command):
If you think you are beaten, you are;_
If you think that you dare not, you don't;
If you think  you'd like to win,  but you
think you can't,
It's almost a "cinch" you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you've lost,
For out in the world you find        /
Success begins with a fellow's will:
It's all in the state of mind.
Full many a race is lost
Ere even a step is run,
And many a coward fails
Ere even^his work's begun.
Think big, and your deeds will grow.
Think small,' and you'll fall behind.
Think that you  can,  and you will;
It's all in the state of mind.
tf you think you're outclassed, you are;
You've got to think high to rise;
you've got to be sure of yourself befora
You  can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger, or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the fellow who thinks he can.
ad. copy in until press day would
-MAKE W.S.S. PLEDCES-
J. Listberger spent Sunday
in Holdingford.   ,
"■ -3~&€$&-v&Ms •^-^-4^SL,on
tires and would be a  pity  if '
it would freeze up now. '
Fourteen deaths from Influenza in St. Cloud Sunday
and Monday.
then be hauled up before the
Council of Defense and our printer who hired out for two weeks
and quit his job in a week would
sent to Stillwater for about ten
or any otlilrs who can give
their servicfe are asked to apply. Gauzejnasks are on hand '
for those wh desire  the
for use
board
wliie.
try,   with its  historic scenes—
citadels and   chateaus, some of
which date   back centuries.    In
the next  town to  us there  is a
famous   French   prison,   where
m   and; tnany of tlie  French nobles of
any who wig may obtain   them, t^he. early ages were imprisoned
a,ssi£tuag     the jama   put to death.   I have had
the pleasure of  being escorted
through this place  with a guide
who pointed, out and explained
every thing to me.
There's a large Aviation Training Camp near us, so it is natural that  every day we  see hundreds of planes flying above us.
There  seems  to  be a constant
drone  from  the   motors of   the
planes.   We have become accustomed to   this, but at the same
The churcljfair has   been: time I cannot help thinking what
postponed to\e   last   week;a wonderful, sight it  would   be
in November] tor t&QS^ at home who have nev
er seen such a sight;
Passing through here daily
are large, trains. A "large"
train to an American seems
nothing, but to a Frenchman or
even an American, in France, it
means volumes. This fact is
due to* the absence ot large
trains here. Even first-class
trains here are but "dinkies"'
compared to American carriers.
The American government has
taken hold of" tbe railroad proposition and now have inaugurated practically   an entire new
years as. a deserter.    It  looks I aquaintences here  the   past
and I ^w0 wee^s  returned  to   her
home Tuesday.
' Happy John Schmolke was
like   a   good    proposition
we're for it.—Ex.
-^AIARE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
A warning"ag^Lmst   agents ,in t[l« village yesterday after-
canvassing from door' u, J^orj1100u iu tllB interest  of   Jos.
for  publications  purporting 'l/o^r<__u. didate   for   county
to be issued by the   govern^ treasurer,
ment is being sent out by the
United States food   adminis-
Historic Spot for Wounded.
Where Eevolutiomu'y soldiers stood
/ooking across the Hudson nnd watched
the British evacuating New York in
         1783; where Robert Fulton worked on
Mrs. A. P. Stoll entertained h screw Pr°P°1)pr tot ste,m vc;5*els m
i ISO"; where leading royalists and their
ladies, and later the forefathers of the
nation gathered in many a brilliant
social mansion at Castle Point, Ho-
bokeu—American soldiers wounded in
the great war will be nursed back to
health. The beautiful old home was
offered to the government several
months ago by Richard Stevens, and
military authorities have just taken it
over formally. 'William Bayard, familiarly known as "Weeping Willy," a royalist, owned the land .and Castle Point
when the Revolutionary war started.
He retired from the country and the
property was confiscated. In 1784 John
Stevens, who had served as a colonel
in Washington's army, bought it. Since
that time Castle Point and the mansion
have been in the hands of the Stevens
fa'mily.
a number of    ladies at   her
j home last Friday evening in
honor  of   her   mother. Mrs.
Leo Beach.
•   Mrs. Frances Smith of   St.
Cloud who had visited among
The four year old   son   of
^r. and  Mrs.    Frank   Bares
-ration.    Publications issued !fell from a bycle whi]e   rid.
by the  government  are   al-Jing  around the   house   last
ways given away or sold  atiSuuday and run a sliver thru
cOst except in the case of cer
tain school text books, prices
which range from 20 to 50
cents. Publications the fake
agents are selling are sold for
as.high as $4.75.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
A collection will be taken for the relief ot  the
—MAK&.S.S. PLEDGER—
Mrs. Petv Netainger is
si<?Jjj.,
F, X. Vim? spent Sunday
with his son_eo in ■ Minneapolis.
J. H. VaiDon, the lightning rod artt is here on
business.
railroad system for France. We (fire sufferers in the
haye American locomotives run-.northern part of the
ning here now for our own sup- state.   The   names    and
ply and convenience, as pell as amounts of givers  will be
the French and the French peo    published  in the  Journal
pie stand  in amazement  as our  next week.
cars go by  and gaze upon them       If you have old clothing
as we did in the States when the  mattresses, shoes, and in .
first autoes came out. ;short   anything    in   the
As time is -precious and my line of   wearing   apparel
important   duties  are   pressing which  can  still" be   made
me for attention. I will close for use of, you are requested
now, promising you more inter-  to    leave at
his cheek,
If Frank Brandl should
get the flu, and with John
Boehm in bed, the male populace of the village would
soon resemble the be whiskered bolsheviki.
Jos. Chamaroski and (rus
Huberts of Pulaski were in
the village yesterday. Joseph's new house, 28 x 30 is
under roof and will be ready
to move into before   winter.
The roads are in worse
condition now than at any
other time this year. They
are especially bad between
Genola and here, A six inch
covering of gravel now would
be the thing.
<5jc.T-.,
SOMETHING.   MORE.
"The staff of life is all very well."
"Well?"
"But most of us want a swaser
Stick  now-a-days."
A couple of   steeple  jacks
Jazz Music Gets Recruits.
"Do you know what"gets recruits?" i
asked Commander W. T. Coun of the U. j
S. S. Recruit, the wooden battleship in j
Union square, the other day, according!
to Karl K. Kitchen's New York letter j
in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I'll j
tell you in one word—jazz. I have j
watched a good many recruiting meet-!
ings and I have found that the young!
men are more stirred by the jazz music,'
of our ship's band than they are by the j
'Marseillaise' or 'The Star-Spangled!
Banner.' They will stand with bared!
heads during the playing of our nation-!
al anthem, but 'The Strutters' Ball' orj
'The Shimmie Schnabble' will send j
them scurrying up the side of the ship!
to our recruiting officers. There is!
something about jazz music that gets j
under their skin. It seems to have a j
greater effect upon their emotions than j
any other kind of music."
The World  Has Moved On.
There was once a pathetic ballad in
 Which 1 lie lines "Ti  was leu  -
Faust's arrived here Tuesday   after- wh,'!l tlK' '""<u' of ll!" village gave her
esting   letters  in  a  few   days.  Opera     house,    where    it noon looking Tor a job paint-  tlK. t0 nuich futu,.t. miSl:1T.
Wishing to hear from you often  Will   be boxed    and    ship=i»g    water    tanks.     Finding  u jt «ere written lie prophecy
, j   _.__■•     i ... _i _.    -i t i 'would be  Cor  (he belle to be in the
and real soon, I remain as ever., ped  to those who Will see'that no buildings here    were munition faetory and tin; young mii-
Your brother, itoitthatit reaches   the'too high for our local   paint- lionniro (1,,in= herolc a-va* ror the
.        !_._._■ safety of democracy.    Such is the for-
JOHN KONEN.      sufferers. ers they left for other   parts,  ward movement of the world.—Seattle
I Post-Intelligencer.
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