The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1918-11-07

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VOL. NO. 10.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, November 7, 1918.
No. 21.
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* WHO CAN REFUSE TO GIVE   *
* '-THEM TEN CENTS A DAY *
*   •
* Ten cents a day, used through *
* the United  War Work Campaign *
* agencies, means tho comfort of a *
* soldier or sailor for a day.    The *
* organizations participating  In tho *
* United  War Work Campaign are *
* recognized   by  the   United   States *
* Government  as   part of the   mill- •
* tary machinery that is to render *
* the   Hun   helpless.     Tho   Govern- *
* ment,   raising   Its   own   necessary *
* funds by bonds and taxes, cannot *
* in  this manner finance tho work *
* done   by   the   United   War   Work *
* Campaign agencies.
* Out with your ton cents a dayl *
* **•*•   *   ,   ««*»•_«
—Ke .p Th«m Smiling;—
GIRLS  CAN   DO   MUCH   GOOD
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To Earn and Give   .5  Is the  Pledg*
of Victory Girls.
"Every girl pulling for Victory."
This Is the slogan of the Victory girls.
"Everybody Is doing Bomething to
win the war but me," a fourteen-year-
old girl said. "I'm left out. I can't
buy Liberty Bonds or go to France as
a nurse."
It is for the "left-out" girl who wants
to make a real sacrifice for the men
at the front, that Victory Girls "Earn
and Give" division of the United War
Work Campaign has been established.
Victory Girls Is as much an army
at home as the men in the service are
an army wherever they are called.
Like Victory Boys, they are an "Earn
and Give" division of the United War
Work Campaign. When a girl enrolls
she pledges herself to earn a stated
sum for war work. This means that
no girl, or hoy either, can give any
money that she or he has not earned.
The Department of Campaign Divisions in the National Organization, of
which A. H. Whitford is director, has
appointed Miss Gertrude Gogln, Girls'
Work Secretary of the National Y. W.
C. A„ secretary of the girls' division
of the Victory Girls. Both are working in the campaign in which seven
national organizations are co-operating
—the Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., National Catholic War Council (Knights
of Columbus), Jewish Welfare Board,
War Camp Community Service,
American Library Association and Salvation Army.
To Insure the greatest understanding and co-operation in tho work done
with Victory Girls and Victory Boys,
a director has been appointed to act
for the National Catholic War Council and representatives of Catholic
Women have been appointed in various local committees.
—Kesp Them Smiling—
UNITED LEADERSHIP
WILL BRING VICTORY
Lansing and Lane Endorse Campaign
for Funds for Welfare of America's
Fighting Force*. °
Washington, Nov. 6. — Hearty endorsement is given today by Robert
Lansing, Secretary of State, to the
United War Work Campaign, in a
statement urging support of the drive
for $170,500,000 for the continuation
of soldier and sailor service work by
the Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., National
Catholic War Council (K. of C), War
Camp Community Service, American
Library Association and Salvation
Army.
"The wise policy for a united campaign, which has been adopted by the
patriotic men who are directing the
Various organ!ssations charged with the
welfare of our fighting forces, has my
hearty approval," said Mr. Lansing.
"While they, acting separately, have
done and would continue to do splendid work, combination will greatly
add to their efficiency and usefulness,
I am sure that the American people
•will give to the united effort the same
support which they gave in the past to
the separate organizations. It is
enough to say that it is for our boys
across the sea."
Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the
Interior, summed up as follows: "Under a united leadership in France our
men are making a drive for us, and
under a united leadership In America
we are making a drive for them. May
we be as successful as they have
been!"
—Keep Them Smiling—
YOU'D GIVE YOUR LAST CENT!
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If you came across a man dying for
the want of a cup of hot chocolate or
coffee, what would you do? You'd
spend your last dollar to see that he
Cot it!
Supposing your boy or one of his
on a. foreign field, wounded,
iielp that money could buy.
beg evisfy last one of those
within a dozen miles to do all that
they could for the poor lad—and hang
the expense!
That's exactly what it means when
you donate to the United War Work
Campaign fund which goes to the various war welfare agencies with which
your son is in constant contact. You
are ministering to some neighbor lad
if not your own—or perhaps to many
of them—in the only way that can
really help them in those trying times
•when every bit of comfort is the saving grace that makes the horror and
hardship endurable and keeps them
steady and sane.
Send home and the human touch tc
the lads "over there" in the only way
that is left for you—
Through the Army Welfare Agaa-
Sies!
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County SeaUullings.
Clerk of Court, A. M. Stoll
issued a marriage license Thursday to Jos. Wieszgocki and Mary Altenhofen.
Mrs. J. M. Blake returned
Sunday evening from a visit
with lier daughter in Minneapolis.
Jos. Henry Bentfeld, son of
Mrs. Henry Bentfeld of Little
Falls was married recently at
Denver, Col., to Miss May belle
Blincoe.
Felix Como, age 56 years,
died last week at his home in
Little Falls, from pneumonia,
brought on by Spanish influenza
from which lie was taken sich
October 24.
F. X. Heroux was striken with
paralysis early last Thursday
morning at his home, but was
somewhat improved last Friday. Tlie right side was effected.
Pier? People Gave
Generously To
Fire Sufferers.
Pierz responded generously
to the call for funds for the fire
sufferers of northern Minnesota.
A total of $290.75 was collected.
Besides that a shipment of
clothing, bedding etc. was
made. Following is a list of
the contributers and the amount
given by each.
Rey. J. G. Stiegler     5.00
Rev. J : G, Wildenberg ...    2.00
Farmers&Merc State Bank 15.00
J. N. Terhaar      2.0p.
Mrs.£ykora.:     L.00
   25.00
  io.oo
 IX).oo
   .    &Q0
     1.00
Pierz Fire Dept 	
F. X. Virnig	
Frank Faust	
Jacob Neisius	
John Joseph ii-.
B. Gross  ___-  ..... 1.00
Hubert Bares  5.00
A.Haskell... -  2.00
Jacob Nohner  2 00
Rich Prairie Milling Co. - 15.00
JohnDombovy   1.00
Wm. Schauble  2.00
Mike Tschida     1.00
Carl  Kapsner  2.00
E. H. Kerkhoff  15.00
F.J.Gilbride   1.00
Henry B. Poepping  1.00
A.Zimmerman    .^. 50c
Nick  Meyer   10.00
Joe Otremba   1.00
Joe  Meyer  2.00
L.Winer   5.00
Math Thommes  5.00
Nick Thommes     5.00
Frank Otremba  1.00
Peter Poster   1.00
John Smith __  1.00
Frank Schraut . ._ 50c
 _   1.00
Bentfeld  3.00
John P. Faust  1.00
Mrs. Peter L. Girtz  «6.00
Math Neisius  50c
Nick Faust   2.00
| Math Hesch  6.00
Wm. Nimsch    50c
John Ziegler  3.00
Susan Wagner  1.00
H. Gassert  4.00
J. P. Langer Jr. ._•  50c
Henry Langer Jr. . 50c
Chas. Sauerer   1.00
Mrs. A. Stumpf  1.00
Mrs. M. Angermeyer  1.25
Mrs. Altrichter  1.00
Mrs. J.  Newman _._ 1.00
Mrs. Johanna Faust __    _ 1.00
Edward Beutfeld  2.00
Henry Terhaar  5.00
J. Kobilka   1.00
J. Borgerding&Co.     5.00
L. Lochn r  1.00
The report came to=
day that Germany had
surrendered and that the
war came to an end at 2
o'clock this afternoon.
Mrs. C. P. Virnig received
word that a second brother,
Peter Keller, of Cold Spring,
aged 19, had died of   influenza.
Mrs. Wm. Batters died last
Friday night after a short illness from pneumonia, brought
on by an attack of Spanish Influenza. She is survived by her
husband and three children. Mr.
Batters, who has been quite ill
from Influenza, is reported to
be much improved.
Coroner S. Trebby was called
to Pulaski this morning to view jLe0 Bul,r
-i •       r mi       *o    • -   i •   Elizabeth
the remains of Thos. Bouietski,
who died there Wednesday from
Influenza.   As no   doctor   was
called, the coroner was sent for
to determine the cause of death,
The deceased was eighteen years
old.   The funeral was   held   at
Lasttup last Friday.
Mrs. Gertrude Stoll has received a letter from her son R.
M. Stoll, who recently arrived
in France, saying that he has received his first appointment, being given his chevrons as a first
class private. Mr. Stoll is located in the southern part of
France and says that the climate resembles that of California. 	
■r,     ,   rr    ,, ,       , ,    .   Mrs. John Phillippi  1.00
Frank Knuth  was found last _ ^      ,T      , em
Peter  Nagel   .__-_•__ 500
Thursday   morning in a dying,Nick Lochner  2.00
condition in the barn back of|joe  Schmittbauer  1.00
the  Central Dining Room, used'Arnold Seelen   5.00
F.Rauch  2.00
M.   Riesgraf ... 1.00
Nick  Loschieder  1.00
Anton Jansen     1.00
Henry   Hennen  5.00
lufluenza Claims
Three Pierz Victim
Mrs, John Hoheisel, Mike Braun
And Mrs. John Bednar Fell
Victims To The Epidemic
Influenza claimed its first
Pierz victim last Saturday
morning at half past seven when
Mrs. John Hoheisel died. She
rested easily during the night,
and the sudden end came unexpectedly.
Mrs. Hoheisel was 33 years of
age. Burial took place ino St.
Joseph's cemetery Sunday afternoon. A husband and six
children mourn   her   departure.
by A. R. Longfellow to stable
his horses. He was taken to
the Harting & Son morgue, and
death followed in the afternoon.
A 32-calibre revolver was found
under him with two chambers
empty. A later examination
showed that Knuth had fired a
s.hot in his temple, and a post
mortem will be held. Tuesday
last week he bought a revolver
at the J- Jetka hardware store,
saying that he intended to
frighten away thieves who were
stealing his father's wood. He
had been ill for some time from
tuberculosis and it is said tbat
he has threatened to take his
life several times of late. He
was a member of the lire department and this organization will
make arrangements for the funeral.
A post mortem was held last
Thursday by Coroner S. Trebby
over the remains of FrankKnuth
and a bullet was found in his
head,    The body was  examined
Mrs. Alfred Stoll, and two
children are ill   with   influenza.
Alfred Stoll, who is at the
hospital suffering from an attack of influenza is  improving.
Miss Emma Scott of Hillman
was brought to St. Gabriel's
hospital Sunday suffering from
the influenza. *;
Mrs. Chas. Crowe, who has
been seriously ill from pnenmo-
nia, brought on by Spanish influenza, for several days, died
last Thursday at the age of 34
years.
There was some doubt here as
to  whether   court  would  open
next   Wednesday  owing to  the.)
influenza   quarantine.      County
Attorney  C. A. Rosenmeier te-
Mrs. John Bednar died with
the complications of influenza
Tuesday morning at 3:30, and
burial took place in St. Joseph's
cemetery Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Bednar had been low sey-
eral weeks and her death had
been reported several times.
She leaves a husband and a
large family of children.
Mike Braun, who lived on the
old Gassert farm in Buh died
with influenza last Monday
noon. Had he lived until Tuesday he would have been 30 years
old. He had been sick for some
time and it was known several
days before that he could not
survive. He left a wife and
three children.
The remains were buried in
the family lot in the Spring
Hill cemetery,
lephoned to Judge  Roeser last
by Drs. J. B. Hoist and G. M.A..J Thursday morning and received
Fortier at the
taking parlors,
suicide.
Simonet  under'
The virdict was
j the reply that court would open
| as scheduled.
Peter Tretter  2.00
P. A. Hartmann,  $5.00
Herm. Koering,  1.00
A. V. Hartmann  5.00
Alois Spanfellner,  1.00
Herman Faust,     50c
Jos. H. Virnig,  1.00
Theo. Gross,  \  50c
A. C. Hartmann _ 50c
Frank Grell,  2.00
John Grell,  5.00
J. B. Hartmann,.. 2.00
John N. Faust,  1.00
Mike P. Meyer,  2.00
Eller Bros  2.00
M. Kubitschek,....  3.00
Andrew Kainz  75c
Andrew Tschida  1.00
Fred Preimesberger,  2.00
Law. Boser,  75c
Morrison Lumber Co..  ... 5.00
Jos. Hartmann,     50c
N. H. Maurer  1.00
Jake Duscher, *  2.00
Mike Lokowitsch,  2.00
Eng. Boehm,   '.. .. 1.00L
Mrs.Preiner,  2.00
Fred Rieke, .. ... 1.00
R, M. Duncan ,   ... 2.00
Lawrence Boser  1.00
John Preimesberger  2.00
Wm. Preimesberger,  50c i
Frank Fuhrmann,  1.00■
Henry Gau,  2.00
N. Hennen,  50c
John P. Boser,  1.00
Jeseph H. Grell,  5.00
All the bank's ot Morrison are
taking contributions for the fire
sufferers and anyone wishing to
donate may do so at any bank.
May the good work continue.,
Charity need not always begin |
at home.
Letter From
Raymond Harris
/ From France.
/
/   France, Oct. 4, 1918.
Dear Folks at Home:
Will drop you a
few lines to let you know that
I am feeling fine at the present
time. We have been up and after the Dutchmen again, and this
time I got hit with a piece of
shrapnel which made a slight
wb und in my face. It's not at
all serious. * I think they just
^wanted me to have a little rest.
I afhsin the hospital at present,
but am up and around.
This/is fine life back here,
plenty to eat and drink and a
nice soft bed with a white
spread to sleep in. Catherine
I think the way it looks now the
Kaiser is coming to his senses.
He has got about enough of this
war. It takes the United States
boys to fix him.
How is everything around
good old Pierz?
I am writing this letter at the
Red Cross Y. M. C. A., with a
nice hot cup of cocoa before me,
waiting for it to cool so I can
drink it. Well here she goes.
No, not yet. Still too hot. Ha,
ha ha. I've drank more cocoa
at this place than I ever drank
in my life.
1 received a letter from Joe
Nimsch a few days ago and he is
in just about the same boots as
I am—expecting to go back to
the States any time. He wrote
that he is quite a ways from the
front lines but he thinks he will
sharpen his bayonet soon and
operate on the old Kaiser.
So you see everything is going along fine and the way it
looks we may soon start for
home; so don't worry.    •
Best regards to all my old
palls and tell them to write.
Hope my letter will reach you
in the best of health. Will close
with best regards to all. Your
loving son and brother,
Raymond Harris.
Election Returns
It is impossible to get the exact votes at the writing, but it
is conceded that all the old
courthouse officers were re-elected excepting Judge Shaw.
Miss Batzer defeated Boehm
for Superintendent of  schools,
Burnquist was re-elected Governor.
It is said that influenza can.
be transmitted by kissing.
People who must continue
kissing should first don gas
masks.
The   food   administration
says: "No more   game   than
be eaten should be killed."
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Good sportsmen and good patriots will observe this   rule.
The Mrs- Wm. Batters,
whose death is reported under the heading of County
Seat Cullings, was known
here before her marriage as
Mary- Schub..
Drayman John P. Langer
moved into his new house
in middletown Tuesday. His
brother Henry moved into
the Frank Gohl house vacated . by John yesterday.
These were jobs of draying
they can't collect- for.
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Local Happenings
Of the Week
NOTICE
All patrons on route 4 who
buy $2.00 worth of stamps
this month, and who have
not used-them by May 1,1919,
I will buy' them back at
double price. This is to do
away Vith picking up frosty
pennies in the winter.
R. C. Scoles.
Hunters should remember
that patridges are protected
until 1920.
Frank Zuleger and son
Leo returned from N. Dak.
last Friday.
Miss Katherine Berg left
for Duluth last Saturday, to
be employed.
John Dombovy made a
short visit at Holdingford between trains last Friday..
August Neisius went to
Onamia Friday and returned
Saturday.
John N. Faust and wife
took the train for Dututh
last Thursday.
Henry Preimesberger did
the shaving in John Boehm's
barber shop last Saturday
night.
A. Haskell made a business trip to the cities Monday and returned Wednesday.
Mrs. Jos. Athman of Elrosa visited her son Ben in Lastrup last week.
Frank X. Faust enlisted in
the moter service of the U.
S. army and left for Camp
Sheridan last Saturday.
Mrs. J. Feider and baby,
who visited relatives here
for some time returned to
their home in Duluth last
week.
A man who has been married fi've times is reported to
be dying from a nervous
breakdown. Not very astonishing.
Henry Kingen returned
last week from North Dakota,
and has again taken his
place as attendant of John
Grell's bowling alley.
Wm, Kingen of Pulaski
will sell his stock and machinery at auction next Tuesday and move to N. D., where
he has rented a farm.
Presumably driven down
by the forest fires three weeks
ago deer are said to be plentiful north and east of here.
Wm. K. Johnson of Mt. Morris reports that he saw three
on his way from his home to
Hillman. A number of bear
have also been seen.
Say,   Mr.    Liberty . Loan
Bond   subscriber!     Do   you
realize that  if   you   do   not
pay   your    installments   on
your bond promptly that   it
makes an enormous hardship
on the bank.    Someone   has
to  pay the   installments   to
the government and if   you
don't the  bank  does.    They
are  handling  thousands   ofi
bonds,  consequently failure!
of subscribers to pay prompt-!
]y hits the bank pretty hard.!
So square   up   your   pledge j
promptly.    It will   make   it
easier for yourself and easier
for the banks.    Do it now.
GIRL
WONDERS
They  Are  Giving  the  Huts
France the Touch of Home-
Being There Means Much.
m
't was in a hut aX one of the training schools in France. He was a noncommissioned officer. He had been in
France for eight months, and now was
back from the front as an instructor.
He hadn't seen a girl of his own kind,
a girl like his sisters, for weeks.
And there she stood behind the can-.
teen counter in this big, roomy, com-!
fortable hut.
He'bought a bar of chocolate. Then!
he drifted over to the group around!
the piano. Presently he went back to j
the canteen for a package of cigarets. |
He strolled to the reading table andj
leafed over a magazine. Again he re-!
turned—this time for a cake of soap j
and some tooth-paste.
For a moment' the rush at the can-!
teen was over.' He loitered at thej
counter and looked at the girl. She j
smiled. So did he. Then he blurted!
out what he had been trying to say for!
20 minutes:
"Gee! But it's njce to see a girl j
like you!"
There are girls like that all over j
France—in camps, in towns, in the!
big cities—even at the front itself.!
They are serving the canteens, run-1
ning restaurants, handing out hot choc- j
olate or coffee, pies and d-Ughnuts.
They are giving the huts a look of!
home—putting bright curtains at the
windows, posters on the walls, making
flower-gardens at the doors.   They are
mending for the soldiers.
But, most of all, they are just being
there! They talk about the things
that sound like home. Perhaps they
know the very towns and streets and
girls that these boys &iow. They bind
together home and France! They ara
the girls beside the men behind the
guns!      /
Without the organizations whose
uniforms they wear, these girls could
accomplish nothing. However eager to
help, they could not even travel as
individuals.
But with the backing of these established, recognized and regulated bodies, they can work wonders.
When you think of war as a brutalizing force, think of American womanhood working with the soldiers in this
war—then give to support the organizations which make this possible.
—Keep Them Smiling-—■
U. S. VOICES VICTORY SPIRIT
By James  Cardinal   Gibbons.
America, through her soldiers in
France, has voiced the spirit that leads
to victory. They are our sons and .
brothers; flesh of our flesh, and the
spirit that inspires them inspires us
also. We have sent them across the
sea to fight—but we have in heart and
in soul gone with them. We are determined that they should know that
the''people at home are fighting with
them, standing with them, shoulder •
to shoulder. America in this war l»as
clone what no other nation ever did.
She has. carried the presence, the atmosphere of home into the camps
across the seas, that everywhere the
soldier may realize there are fatherly
hands to help him, motherly hands to
console him, friendly hands to entertain him.
—Keep Them Smiling—v^—
DOUGHNUTS FOR DOUGHBOYS
From  "Soup  to   Salvation"  to   "Piety
and Pies."
Of all the seven great war welfare
organizations combining forces for the
United War Work Campaign of Nov.
11-18, none is more popular than the
Salvation Army, first in the field since
the first Salvation Army force of fourteen men and women landed in France
on August 14, 1914. When the United
States got into the war, Salvation
Army action was just as prompt.
The Salvation Arniy, like the Y. M.
C. A., seeks to do for the boys whatever needs doing. Its workers supply
doughnuts, pies, coffee, chocolate, tea,
all sorts of physical comforts to the
soldiers, free at the front, again like
the Y. M. C. A., at small cost elsewhere, sjrice they speedily learned!
that the British and American soldier!
resents any suspicion of charity. Theyj
do mending, nursing, hospital orderly!
work, where and whenever needed.!
They keep the religious element al-j
ways in sight, but never intrude it; !
they regard it always from the prac-i
tical aspect. The old slogan of "Soup;
and Salvation" has been replaced by;
"Pies and Piety," or, as the soldiers!
themselves put it, "Doughnuts for;
Doughboys," but this represents but aj
small part of the Salvation Army work.!
Th3 last to ask aid from the public,!
the Salvation Army, which borrowed!
money in America, London and Paris j
for its first overseas equipment, now!
needs its pro rata share of the $170,- j
500,000 asked through the United War!
Work Campaign.
—Keep Them Smiling—
*    $    *    :ii    *    .     .      .     *   *    *   *   *   *   *!
* KEEP SOLDIERS HAPPY       *j
* WHILE IN THE* HOSPITAL *'
*   *
* The   morale  of a  wounded  sol- *
* dier suffers severely unless he can *
* be   entertained   in   some   manner. *
* That's     why,     whenever     there's *
* "anything doing" about the hospi- *
* tals, all the men who can walk or •
* limp  or  lean  upon their stronger *
* "buddies" form a pleased yet sor- *
* ry procession toward the place of *
* entertainment.    The growing need *
* of    hospital    entertainment    is   a *
* potent appeal   in the  United  War *
* Work Campaign. «l
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