The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1918-12-12

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VOL. NO. 10.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, DECEMBER 12,  1918.
No. 26.
WHAT BOYS SAY
"ABOUT RED CROSS
Since the soldiers overseas have
been informed by their officers that
the American Red Cross will play Santa Ciaus this Christmas for all the
boys in khaki who have no relatives
in the_ United States, Red Cross Headquarters at Washington has been receiving hundreds of appeals. Incidentally the men at the front have
taken this time to express their appreciation for the work done by the
Red Cross "Over There."
Following are a few excerpts taken
,at random from letters Inclosing
Christmas Package Coupons:
"Dear Mr., Miss or Mrs. Red Cross.—I
would appreciate it tremendously if you
would send me a Xmas package. I have
no relatives, and a little something- from
the good old U. S. A. would be appreciated beyond words. The Red Cross has
done so much for us over here, and you
don't know just how we appreciate It
beyond everything else."
An Italian thus addresses his Christmas appeal:
"To Whom It May Concern.—I am in
service in France and, having no people
in the United States, would like to receive a little package from the Red Cross
on Xmas. I am in No Man's Land in a
big woods, and it is raining."
"I have been informed the Red Cross
will send Xmas packages to any soldier
who sends them his Xmas package coupon. I have received so much tobacco
and other things from the Red Cross in
my fourteen months in France I scarcely
like to write again. I am in the hospital
recovering from wounds, and the Red
Cross furnishes us with daily papers,
writing material, tobacco, fruits and recreation."
"I have no one else to send my Xmas
coupon to, so am sending it to you, as
per notice on our bulletin board. If you
send a package I Would appreciate It if
you would inclose a bill for same, for I
would gladly pay it. I don't want to impose on you. The Red Cross is the best
friend we have."
One Red Cross nurse writes:
"Am inclosing the coupon, but please
be sure all the boys at the front get
their packages first, then if one is left I
will appreciate it, as I suspect ail the
others will have something from home
which will make me a little lonesome.
WordB cannot express our appreciation
for the Red Cross."
"The Red Cross Is a great help and
blessing to the soldiers any and everywhere."
"We of th* A. E. F. are constantlr
being shown evidences of the wonderful
work the Red Cross Is doing and are extremely thankful."
"Dear Red Cross Workers.—After w.
left dear old America we thought w«
were traveling away from your kindness,
but we did not. We cannot praise you
too highly for your work. I have no
folks at home to send me a Christmas
package."
"Words cannot express the obligation
we are under for the work you are doing
to help us along."
"I know they would greatly appreciate
any little remembrance. I wiBh to most
sincerely thank the Red Cross for all the
kindnesses and benefits they have b»-
stowed upon our boys."
NO FIXED QUOTAS FOR 1919.
So great is the faith of the American
Red Cross in the American people that
Co quotas have been assigned to Red
Cross Chapters for the enrollment of
members In the Red Cross Christmas
Roll Call. Universal membership ia
the goal. Chapters are limited only
by the number of people in their ju-'
risdictions. The Roll Call will be finished only when every available person, without regard to age or sex, has
been enrolled. Children may join only
through the Junior Red Cross Auxiliaries, and their membership dues are
twenty-five cents a year. The chief
aim In enrolling is not to raise money
but to Increase the membership. Special emphasis is laid upon the regular
membership at $1.00 per year, but privilege will be given to enroll as a Contributing Member at $5.00, Sustaining
Member at $10.00, Life Member at
$50.00 or Patron at $100,00.
THl-   CLIMAX   TO   VICTORY.
Dtirihg. the week before Christmas
the entire American people will have
the privilege of answering the Red
Cross Christmas Roll Call. The response should roar through the laud
With a unanimity that will stimulate
to the uttermost tiie hopes of men in
Oil parts of the earth. It will therefore be the climax of American ideal-
Ism and will usher in ChrlstmaB with
a Red Cross membership approximating the census figures. What the Red
Cross wants is the approval of the
American people of the Red Cross policy, and such approval will have the
highest significance in the eyes of suffering people everywhere. President
Wilson leads the response and passes
along the message, "I summon jrou to
the comradeship."
RED CROSS SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
The American Red Cross has established a manual training school for
Belgian boys at Vaulruz, Switzerland.
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* PEACE MAKES *
* GREATER NEED *
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it Peace Will not ehd the need k
* of tied Cross relief work. On •*:
1c the cohtrary, the proclaiming of *
1k- peace opens new fields of serv-  *
* ice for the Red Cross, and now, k
* more than ever, the American *
* people will be called upon to *
k obey their generous impulses to *
* blftd   up   the   world's   wounds. *
* Membership  in  the Red Cross  *
* affords the noblest outlet for *
k such Impulses. Every American *
1c should answer "Here" to the *
*• Red Crow Christmas Roll CaH. *
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Ignatz Keller is
Killed in Action
Ig_atz Keller is reported as
killed in action in Prance on
Nov. 3. A telegram which reported the fact was sent to
Alois Keller and wife of Mt.
Angle, Oregon, parents of the
deceased, who then sent word
to Mrs. Mike Schraut of the
village, sister of the deceased.
Ignatz was born in 1892 on the
old Keller farm i mile north of
Lastrup, from where they moved to Mt. Angle, Ore., about 6
years ago.
Pour years ago Ignatz' came
back to Pierz and worked for
Mike Schraut on the dray line
until he was drafted. June 28
he was sent from Little Palls,
with a number of other men
from the county, to Camp Grant,
111., where he was stationed until September when he was
transported to Prance.
While in Pierz, Ignatz mentioned a number of times to his
friends that if be was sent to
Prance he would never return,
and it seems as though be knew
of the fact.
He was 26 years of age and
leaves to mourn his death his
parents, three brothers and five
sisters.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
All subscribers, who know
themselves indebted to the
Pierz Journal are hereby earnestly requested to come and
pay their subrcription before
January 1st, 1919. As you
know by our bereavement
we are compelled to place
the Journal in a new management, and for that reason
you are kindly asked to settle your accounts so this can
be done with ease.
Mrs. E. H. Kerkhoff.
Take Down Old Posters
"Take down the old posters"
says A. D. Wilson, federal food
administrator for Minnesota.
"The armistice is signed and
the war is over. ' There is neither purpose nor good psychology
in keeping up the old signs of
war. Take them down and put
up world relief posters instead.
Tbe new posters may be secured
at the office of the food administration."
Will Be World Food Chief,
The appointment of Herbert
C. Hoover as director of relief,
haying charge of the entire food
and relief administration for the
European Allies and the United
States, is under consideration.
It is understood, the offer of
the position has been made in
behalf of the Allies, and is rather favorably regarded by iMr.
Hoover, although no announcement has been made at Paris.
Platte News.
Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Rychner
and family visited with their
home folks Mr. and Mrs. Christ
Reese Sunday eyening.
Miss Rose Gallus went to Little Palls Saturday, where she
Will be employed.
Mr. Showers and son are doing carpenter at the Smith Bros,
farm.
Miss Clara Nelson made a
trip to Little Palls Monday.
Paul Wolff called at the Emil
RaatB home Sunday.
Pred Eyerding and family and
C. Reese visited at the Wolff
home Sunday.
Christ Reese motored to Little Palls Saturday.
Teachers Will
Receive Pa}
County Superintendent M. E.
Barnes is this week mailing to
teachers of the county a letter
from State Superintendent CG.
Schultz regarding the matter of
salaries to teachers during such
periods as schools were closed
by the influenza epidemic. The
letter answers most of the questions the teachers have been
asking and in brief states that
teachers are entitled to pay for
such time that schools were
closed by the local heatlh officer
or by the board because of the
epidemic, providing they were
at all times ready and willing
to perform their duties as instructors; that teachers cannot
be compelled to make up time
lost, but if they voluntarily a-
gree to do so, they cannot demand extra pay.
Most Doctors Say
Conditions not Serious
At Little Falls, Minn.
How To Prevent
Forest Fires
Asserting that the enormity
of the forest fires in Moose Lake
district early in October is not
generally realized, blaming the
disaster to a combination of
conditions leading to very rapid
spread of flames, offering preventive and corrective recommendations and urging further
relief for Are sufferers, the report of tbe state committee
named by Governor Burnquist
to investigate and fix responsibility for the fire and suggest
forest fire preyention measures
was made public.
The state committe'e makes
detailed recommendations as
follows:
Educational campaign of fire
prevention.
Enlarged forestry service supplied with more adequate funds.
More severe penalties for fire
law yiolation and more rigid enforcement of such laws.
Arrest of drainage projects,
which tend to increase tire hazards more than to increase productive areas.
Clearance of partially burned-
over timber tracts and other
measures to eliminate dangers
of forest tires.
Vigorous enforcement of existing laws requiring fire-breaks
around towns and other settlements.
State exercise of police power
in a general clean-up of wooded
districts and fire control laws
patterned after those regulating
flood control.
Mayor N. N Bergheim has had
the chief of police call on the
doctors and the visiting nurse
to ascertain the exact conditions in the city in the opinion
of these authorities as regards
the influenza epidemic. The
general opinion is that the situation is satisfactory, only one
of the doctors believing it to be
serious.
Most of the doctors say that
there will probably be a few
cases all during the winter
months and there is a tendency to call all sickness influenza,
when in reality in some instances it is some other ailment.
Miss Augusta Mettel, the visiting nurse, stated that there
are not over 100 cases in the
city and that most of them are
a light form of the disease.
Mayor Bergheim stated that
the ban on dancing cannot be
lifted for a while yet but he
hopes to have the lid off in this
regard by Christinas.
There is little danger in the
schools, according to Mr, Bergheim, the great danger being
from public gatherings.
Hold Your Hogs Is Request.
Because ot the scarcity of labor in the packing plants it is
highly desirable that the lightest hogs be held back for the
next thirty days, according to
an announcement of the United
States Pood Administration.
The normal price of $17.50 per
hundred for hogs at Chicago has
been extended and made to apply to all December shipments.
"The farmer." said Mr. Hoover,
"is running no risk in holding hogs that can be fed
longer with profit, while he does
run a risk of breaking the Market if too many hogs are sent in
before the labor situation in
the packing houses can be improved.
County Seat Callings.
C. Rosenmeier was in Minneapolis Friday on business.
Mrs. Katherine Kerich returned Monday from Wadena after a
visit with her daughter, Mrs. J.
P. Newman.
J. J. Harsch of Pierz was
brought before Justice George
Gerritz Friday charged with as-
sult. He pleaded not guilty and
his trail was set for Dec. 17.
Dr. W. H. K. Moyer received
a telegram Saturday stating
that his nephew, Lowell Peterson, who was an instructor in
the aviation service at Port
Worth, Texas, had been accidentally killed. No particulars
were given.
Detachment Ot American
Troops Is In Coblenz
With the Americans in Prussia, December 9. (By Webb
Miller): American troops are
in Coblenz. A small detachment
at the request of the German
authorities, went ahead of the
main body of the army for occupation of the important Rhine
city. It traveled in a special
train and was due to arrive in
Coblenz at noon. Premature occupation ot the center ot the
American bridgehead resulted
from a written request by the
burgomaster and military commander who asked tbat the
Americans enter Coblenz immediately- after departure of the
Germans.
The judgment ot all Germans,
such as shop keepers, hotel
keepers and the men on the
streets, is that the behavior of
the Americans is blameless.
The American columns are paying the greatest regard to civilian street traffic. No decrees
have been issued which could
in any way alarm the population.
All Breweries Closed.
Breweries all over the United
States ceased operation as a result of a proclamation issued by
President Wilson some time ago
as a fuel saving measure. He
refused to rescind the order on
the plea that the emergency of
war no longer existed.
The fact that the breweries
are closed will have no immediate effect upon the ultimate
consumer. Beer will still be a-
vailable over the bar.
When the stock begins to run
low, the retail price will depend
upon the action of the brewers.
It is believed, however, that the
stock will not be exhausted before prohibition becomes effective July 1.
Nearly 40,000,000 barrels of
beer are held in store against
the coming drought, the brewers
say.
Deleption in Paris
End of this Week
The peace delegates of all the
powers are expected to reach
Paris by the end of this week.
The date for opening the Interallied Preliminary Conference,
howeyer, will not be set until
after President Wilson arrives.
Paris is becoming more congested every hour. All hotels are
filled to capacity and cots have
been put up in bath rooms.
> Prices for eveiytning are skyrocketing. The aspect of the
entire city has changed within
a fortnight from War to peace.
Stores are displaying big electric signs for the first time in
four years. Shop windows are
showing more civil and less
military apparel. New theaters
are opening throuout the city.
The receiving taxicabs are at a
premium and the subway is constantly crowded.
Soldiers Are Not
Strong for Farming
It would take a first class
mind reader to find out what
Uncle Sam's soldiers want to do
when they get back home.
It is stated that only 10 percent have desired to become a-
grarians, but want to go back
to their jobs.
A clipping from the Minneapolis Daily News of Dec. 5 reads
as follows:
NO FARMING FOR HIN
Stopping a soldier at random
on the street produced this conversation:
"What are you going to do
when you get back home?"
"Why, go back to my old job,
of course.    I'm a.machinest."
' Suppose somebody else has
the job—maybe a woman?"
""Well, that would be tough
luck for them. I don't want to
shove anybody out of a job. But
I guess I've done my bit over
here, and tbe government won't
dump me out of the army without a job."
Congress is talking about giving you a farm out west."
"Farm—hell! I don't want a
farm. I've seen enough of the
bloomin' countryside, and mud.
Iv'e slept in shell-marked wheat
fields and I've plowed up a
couple hundred acres with my
boots!    No farm for me."
One million pounds of wool
held by Minneapolis middlemen has just been purchased
by the government at 50 to
70 cents a pound.
Two-Cent Stamps Again.
Repeal of the increased postage rates has been approved by
the U. S. Senate finance committee.
Amendments to the war revenue bill we're adopted to abolish the increase on second class
rales, with a proviso that the
rate shall be li cents per pound
beyond a 200-mile radius, and
also for repeal of the extra cent
per ounce postage on letters.
The change in second class
postage under the committee's
amendment would become effective upon enactment of the bill,
while that reducing first class
pastage rates would be effective
July 1. next.
America's Food Facts
The public eating places no
longer need use substitutes in
bread or other bakery products.
However there is to be no relaxation of the rule limiting the a-
mount ot bread to two ounces
per person for each meal. Nor
must toast be used as a garniture or served under meat or
served with the first course.
Local Happenings
Of the Week
The village council held
regular monthly meeting last
Saturday evening.
The snowstorm Monday
brought with it about 6 inches of snow.
The Leader of Pierz buys
all kinds of raw furs at highest market prices.    Adv.26tf
Several autos on roads going north and south got stuck
in the snow Monday.
This morning the thermometer registered ten degrees
above zero.
John Virnig left for Sullivan this week, where he is
going to stay for the winter.
The Soo line passenger
train was two hours late last
Monday on account of the
snow.
Private George Merkling
from Pierz is among those
severely wounded in the casualty list of Saturday Dec. 7.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Gendreau of the town of Little
Falls visited here at the M.
Angermeier and Peter Girtz
homes last Sunday.
The service in St. Joseph
church was very largely attended Sunday. We are informed that between 200 to
300 persons received holy
communion.
Father Van der Hoist sends
card of thanks to all the
people of Pierz that donated
for a new alter for his church
at Onamia, especially to Mrs.
Angermeier.
The skating season is announced as officially open.
But remember, small boys
and girls, nobody has officially authorized the opening of
the fall drowning season. Ex
The street lights in the
village have been out of order for some time. It was
said the voltage was too high.
A crew of men of the Water
Power Co. of Little Falls
were here the later part of
last week to make repairs on
the line.
A surprise party held at
H. H. Ross home in Buh
town last Thursday evening
in honor of the 36th birthday of Mrs. Ross was well attended by friends and relatives. The evening was spent
in playing cards and singing.
All that were present enjoyed the party and when departing for their homes wished Mrs. Ross that she may
live to celebrate many such
birthdays.
John Dombovy received a
letter from Raymond Harris
in France Nov. 1, stating he
was wounded Sept. 30 and
was in the hospital. On Oct.
13 Raymond wrote another
letter saying he was expecting to be sent to the front at
any time. A telegram stating Raymond Harris was severely wounded on Sept. 30
was received by John Dombovy Dec. 9, which shows the
telegram being nearly six
weeks later than Raymond's
first letter arrived and ten
weeks after he was wounded.
RED CROSS RELIEF
IN THE FAR EAST
Bring   Food   and   Supplies   to
Czecho-Slovaks in
Siberia. I
THE American Red Cross has become very active in that part of
Russia surrounding Vladivostok, and the prompt medical assistance
rendered that distressed country has
resulted in saving thousands of lives.
The rescue work done by the Red
Cross for the Czecho-Slovak refugees
has assumed prodigious proportions
and is daily becoming greater in scope.
Cabled advices received from Vladivostok report that more than 20,000
Czecho-Slovak refugees, 4,000 of them
children, are now being cared for by
the American Red Cross at that city. In
addition to this relief work, the cables
state that the Red Cross Medical organization is attending hundreds of
wounded Czecho-Slovak soldiers who
have reached Vladivostok after weeks
of the most desperate fighting against
the pro-German forces.
The condition of the refugees, who
were found living in tents and freight
cars along the Chinese Eastern Railway west of Harbin, was pitiable. A
majority of them are farmers, though
there are many coal miners and railway employees in the number, people
who were driven from their homes by
the Bolshevikl, and some German and
Austrian war prisoners.
The work of administering to the
wounded Czecho-Slovak fighters, who
steadfastly refused to recognize the
Bolsheviki-German peace, and relieving the distress of the homeless civilians was started the moment their
plight was brought to the attention of
the American Red Cross. The relief
work was directed by Charles K. Mo- ,
ser, American consul and head of the
Red Cross chapter at Harbin. American Red Cross chapters at Tokyo and
Shanghai also gave valuable aid.
While waiting for instructions from
America, they went ahead and raised
funds in Vladivostok which provided
temporary relief for both soldiers and
civilians.
On authorization of the American
Red Cross, Dr. R. B. Teusler, head of
Entrance to American Red Cross Hospital at Kiev.
St. Luke's Hospital at Tokyo, hurried
to Vladivostok with necessary hospital
supplies and perfected a medical organization to care for the incoming
wounded soldiers.
This organization, which was complete from a medical and sanitary
standpoint, consisted of a base hospital
with a bed capacity for 200, one rolling
canteen, two sanitary trains, one field
first-aid unit and a disinfecting train.
Dr. Teusler cabled that there were,
in active service with his unit fourteen j
American and seven Japanese doctors!
and fifteen American and seventeen |
Japanese nurses. All the American j
doctors are volunteering their services. I
Dr. Teusler said he hoped to enlist j
thirty additional American doctors and;
fifty American nurses in the Orient.
MOBILE   HOSPITALS AT FRONT.
It is the task of a mobile hospital to I
advance to the front lines with the]
troops to give first aid treatment to I
the wounded. The mobile hospital |
unit from base hospital No. 20, Uni-j
versity of Pennsylvania, were com-i
mended by General Pershing for the!
courage they displayed under shell j
fire. Two Red Cross nurses were in-!
eluded in this special distinction for!
their bravery and devotion to duty.
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