The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1918-07-04

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VOL. NO. 10.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JULY 4, 1918.
No. 3
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.
Milaca.—The chautauqua just held
here was a success and arrangement!
are being made to guarantee its return next year.
Moorhead.—Two hundred and seventy-five new members have been added
to the roll of members of the Clay
County farm bureau by P. E. Clement
who is doing special work for the local
bureau.
Bemidji—Birchmont Beach, Bemid-
jl's summer hotel, is open for the
summer season. A number of new
cottages have been built this year and
thv-5e artesian wells have been drilled
to supply the hotel.
Stillwater.—Fourteen German alien
.omen from the country surrounding
Stillwater registered before Postmaster B. J. Hosier, who has charge of
that branch of the work, while fifteen
registered before  Chief of Police W.
McNaughton.
St. Cloud.—Frank Plants of Mlnne-
lapolis   was   killed   when   he   fell   60
Ifeet   from   a   smokestack   here.    He
rhad taken a contract to    paint   the
[stack.    He was near the top when a
[section gave way and he fell to tho
[roof,   his   head   and   shoulders \ going
[through. i
Minneapolis.—Bankers of the Ninth
|Federal   Reserve   district   Will  be   organized  into  groups  by  counties  for
the taking of the $26,000,000 in treasury   certificates   the   district   will   be
bxpected  to subscribe for every two
.e.eks from now on.
Hallock.—Walter L.' Knishella,    51,
Moneer of this section, drowned himself in a fit ol despondency. He was
born at Montreal, Can., but came here
[with his parents as a boy, thirty-seven
rears ago.   He is survived by a wife
ind  fourteen  children.
Spooner.—Mrs. Amelia Radell, wife
5f Peter Radell of Spooner township,
lied here of pneumonia after an ill-
iess of a few days. She and her
.usband were the fir.t Inhabitants of
Spooner, having homesteaded the land
Dn which Spooner is located.
Pipestone.—Orders have been received here to close the Omaha railway station and combine it with the
lock Island. The change will be made
^his week. It is expected also the Milwaukee road station will be closed
bid its business combined with the
sreat Northern,
East  Grand  Forks.—Targy Dranky
If the town of Esther was taken before United States Commissioner W.
Murphy on a charge of not having
Registered.    Dranky  claims  that    he
_nnot read or write and    that    he
new nothing of the registration. In
|efault of bonds he was taken to Fer-
js Falls by United    States Marshal
j. e.ssel.
Minneapolis.—Several men are mak-
ig the rounds in Minnesota among
the farmers representing themselves
lis federal representatives and selling
'•farmers' account books," using the
title of "war income tax agent," and
In some instances claiming to bo federal revenue officers. The account
>ook sells for whatever the agent can
ret out of the farmer.
St. Paul.—John C. Seabach, head
.£ the La Grande Milling company,
[Red Wing, was convicted on three
counts of attempting to cause insubordination and disloyalty to the United States by a jury in the United
states district court. Seabach was
recommended to the clemency of the
court. He will be sentenced by Judge
iyVilbur  Booth later.
St. Paul.—The Minnesota Supreme
Murt has adjourned for the summer,
fhe next term will begin the first
|vtonday in October, but one or more
bf the judges will be in chambers
luring the interval, and the majority
pill be occupied nearly a month in
writing opinions in cases remaining
|o be decided. The supreme court
lias heard arguments in 215 cases
Isince January and filed decision In
labout 180.
St.   Cloud.—The divorce case of Joseph Zuleger was reopened in the district court here before Judge Parson.
f The principals live on a farm in Ben-
kton county, near Rices.   The original
peace was tried a year    ago    before
"judge Roeser, the situation being re-
l versed,  the  wife being the  plaintiff.
It  was  decided  that the  contestants
I would make an effort to settle their
I difficulties  and  the  matter was dis-
missed.
St.  Paul.—George    H.    Fairclough,
organist at  the  Church of  St. John
the Evangelist, this city, was elected
President   of   the   Minnesota     Music
Teachers' assoj^tion AW:he close of
the  three  dai^^ convention  at    The
Saint Paul.    James Lang, Minneapolis,  is  first  vice  persident for  1919;
[Miss Edna Hall, Minneapolis, second
Ivice president; John Yeager, St. Paul,
] secretary-treasurer,   and   Henry      E,
[Myers, Willmar, auditor.
Moorhead.—More than 400 students
[are registered for summer school at
|the Moorhead state normal. Full
[courses in all departments will be offered. Physical training will be provided for all students under the direction of a former army officer.
Crosby.—A 2-year-old child was
[found locked in a box car here by two
[young girls. Along with the tot was
r pocke.book bearing Swanville,
Minn., marks and as a child is miss-
king there, the little one is supposed
Ito have come from that point, where
Fit was sent. How the infant came
(to be in the car is a mystery.
Interesting
Correspondence
Sullivan News.
A Sundberg, wife and party
of seven of Oak Park spent a
few days ot last week at Camp
Linnehan.
Mr. and Mrs. Baisie and sons
were HiJlman callers Tuesday.
Visitors at the Robert Adkins'
home last Wednesday were Mrs.
Grace Britton and children of
Vineland and Mrs. Henry Rieke,
Mr. and Mrs. Will Kingen and
Henry Kingen of Lastrup.
Mrs. Tom Smith and children
were guests at Riley Haskins'
Friday.
Mrs. Marvin Britton and children and Eli Haskins his wife
and son, were visitors at Riley
Haskins' Wednesday.
D. V. Plant left for his home
in Long.Lake Friday.
The T. Wolfenden family were j
county seat callers Saturday.
Hillman callers last Saturday!
were Mrs. C. B. Look and chil- j
dren and Francis Bugbee and I
daughter.
Miss Jessie  Smith spent last
week   at
home.
the    Riley    Haskins
Clias.Berquist, wife and party
of Little Falls, spent Sunday at
the lake.
Jim Pint was a lake caller last
Sunday.
R. Haskins left for Main Prairie Saturday.
W.   R.   Anderson   and   A. J. !
Bisbee of  Hopkins   motored up
to the lake Sunday.
Mr. Hanson wife and party of
Albert Lea are spending the
week at Camp Linehan.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Albany vs Pierz .
A rather snappy game of baseball was played between the Albany and Agram teams last
Sunday. The game was well
played up to the seventh inning
when the Agram boys got too
nervy and run the bases too
freely. Gerving pitched well
for Agram striking out fourteen
men against twelve in Albany's
favor. D. Gainor was the heyi-
est batter on the field striking
out three three-baggers but the
most errors were made by the
Agram boys allowing Albany
one score more. The flqal score
being six to five in favor of Albany.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Bought a Dry Land Dredge
P. L. Poster bougnt a Dry
Land Dredge in St. Joseph last
week. The machine is of the
Caterpillar type and is propelled like the tanks used by
the British army on the western
front.
It can be remodeled into a
"River Dredge" and can beused
for meadow and high-land ditching as well as for lowering river
beds.    It weighs 40 tons.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
John Eidenshink of Agram
and Mrs. John Meyer of Granite were married in St. Joseph's church Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Lydia Westhalter
went to Rogers last Friday to
spend a few 'days with her
daughter after which she
will go to Mankato to attend
Ladies' Retreat of the School
Sisters of Notre Dame of
which her daughter, Sister
A urea, is music teacher. Mrs.
Westhalter will return July
8th.—Albany Enterprise.
The Next Call
July 22, 1918.
Morrison county is called upon to furnish 175 men in class 1,
July 22nd and the four days following. This will about clean
up all of the present class 1,
and those drawn from class 1
after that date will be obtained
from the 1918 class of 21-year-
old youths and from ' the few
men expected to be secured in
the re-classification now in progress. This re-classification will
produce only a few men in the
county.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Hail Stormjt Fargo
Al Smith returned Tuesday
morning from North > Dakota.
He says crops are a complete
failure in the western part of
the state, but a fair average is
expected in the eastern part.
He was in Fargo Monday afternoon when that city was
struck by a hailstorm covering
an ar°.a of one half mile wide
and three miles long. Hailstones covered Fargo streets 4
inches deep.
A report says: Considerable
damage to growing grain within
a radius of five miles of Fargo
was caused by the worst hailstorm ever seen in any section
of the state that struck this vicinity late Monday.
Extensive damage -was done
to war gardens in Fargo and
Moreliead, Minn., by the storm,
which lasted approximately 15
minutes.and completely covered
the ground with hailstones the
size of marbles.
Later reports indicate that
the storm coyered a much larger
area than at first reported. The
damage is variously estimated
at from one to three million
dollars.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Bakery Broken Into
Little Falls—The Kieber bakery was broken into Sunday
night and the till robbed of $17
in silyer change. The back window of the building was opened,
after which the thief crawled in
and and unhooked the back
door. He than broke into the
main room of the building by
breaking the lock on the door.
The till,was the main object of
the thief's visit and all the
money in it was taken, amounting to §17. A sack of money a-
mouriting to $60 near the cash
register was overlooked by. the
thieves. It is suspected that
the money was taken by local
people who saw Mr. Kieber put
the money in the till the night
of the robbery.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
The Happy Farmer Life
It is easy enough for poetically inclined orators to picture
the bliss of a farmer's life. But
nobody knows better than the
farmer what tommyrot that poetic stuff is.
The average farmer lives a
hard life, and his family a hard
life. Thousands and thousa'nds
of farmers and their families
practically work the whole year
round for a little more than
clothes to wear and enough to'
eat and a place to sleep. This
is especially true in the east.
Every farmer and his family
support a city man and his family. And, as a rule, the city
man and his family work less
and live better and have more
advantages and more pleasures
than do the farmer and fclie
farmer's family.—Los Angeles
Examiner.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Mrs. Steve Preimesberger
returned from La Crosse yesterday where she had been
visiting the past three weeks:
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, _ ___      B.70
Barley  ___ .90
Rye _ _.   l.§5
Oats 1      65
EaK.orn 1.40
Hay _     10.00
Butter, Creamery ..       45
"       Dairy       37
Eggs  1       28
Flour,     5.65
Bran   2.10
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 2.75
Shorts _ 2.25
Ground Feed .     2.40
Beans  __     7.00
Onions      2.50
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Somewhere in France
Bulletin from the Rear
It is officially announced that
the Germans have taken Cas-
toria, the British war offiice admits it, but doubt their ability
to hold same.
A later bulletin states that
the strain of their rear is tremendous all along the line.
The Germans have tried to
suppress the report but it slipped out and-the British got wind
of it.
The Germans now realize the
value of a scrap of paper.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLELC-ES—
Fifty Receive First Communion
A class af fifty received first
holy communion in St. Joseph's
church last Sunday. There were
32 boys and 18 girls. Their
names follow:
Boys
Bolster John
Block John
Brummer Joseph
Eidenshink John
Fleckenstein Alex
Fredrich Cirrell
Faust Raymond
Flicker Herman
Flicker Alfred
Gohl Edward
Gelhar Paul
Hartmann Alphons
Kandl Leonard
Kapsner Felix
Kerkhoff Milton
Litke Alfred
Meyer Hubert
Meyer Alfred
Meyer Peter
Seelen William
Seelen Hubert
Sehr Nicholas
Smith Anton
Stalpes Mathew
Staub Frank
Tomala Engelbert
Tomala Joseph
Virnig Edward
Virnig Theodore
Weiss Alphons
Waytasek Engelbert
Zierer Henry
Girls
Angermeier Philomene
Faust Regina
Grell Anna
Hartmann Elizabeth
Huver Mary
Kobilka Alvina
Karst Mary
Kruscheck Mary
Litke Helen
Millner Rose
Nellas Frances
Otremba Rose
Pauser Christine
Rauch Helen
Stumpf Philomene
Terhaar Euphemia
Temberull Eugenia
» Theser Mary
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Alfred Wermerskirchen of
Duluth is here visiting relatives. He will return to Dull, th next week--~_-_
S. Preimesberger while in
Little Falls Friday bought a
Buick car from H. Rider.
What Schools and
The Towns Get
Following are the amounts to
be paid   to   each   town,   school
district   and   village   of   Pierz
from the June settlement.
Towns
Agram * $   480.10
Buekman 2,893 14
Buh   1,357.83
Granite   1,051.44
Hillman      860.54
Lakin 1,299.90
Leigh   1,107.05
Mt. Morris      684.58
Morrill  1,234.26
Motley      742.74
Pierz ' 1,400.86
Platte 1,286.90
Pulaski   1,132.04
Richardson  1'096'47*
Pierz Village    $204.60
School, Districts
12 ,....: $ 173
14  274
17  161
18  239
19  219
28   186
36  511'
39  204
40  2,496
46  247.
55  291
56  177.
62  329.
66  141.
71  296.
78  157.
80  459.
83  56.
84  163.
87  339.
88  1,379.
89   242.
90 .. <.. 127.
91   101.
92  137.
96  384.
97  167.
98  .. 190.
99  196.
103  37
104 .._.._   151.
108  142.
112  116.
113  _ __ 349.
115   218.
116  238.
119  157
123  333.
124  185.
125  650.
127 ...'.  126.
128  190.
129  175.
131  171.
133  246.
134  204.
137  258.
138  __ 239.
139  291.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Chopped Feed,
(Farm Stock and Home)
70
98
41
71
34
24
89
11
07
81
88
91
95
8G
40
97
57
18
21
98
28
59
69
80
05
82
26
08
14
31
77
67
70
65
25
40
06
5.0
46
40
97
85
87
46
13
97
48
45
45
Paint is a necessity; not a
luxury.
Is next winter's food supply
■seasoning?
Set the corner post in cement
and save many a cent.
Even this late in the season a
forage crop may be sown with
fairly good chances of success.
If short, try it.
Time to lay plans for the saving and curing of at least a two-
years supply of seed corn. The
Indians used to figure on seven.
Let's be at least partially as
forehanded. Let's not repeat
the costly experience of 1917-18,
Explain to the hired man who
still believes in deep cultivation
just why shallow work is better
—that it lets the surface feeding
root alone to connect with the
abundant food supply in the
space between the corn rows.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Unless _tll past experiences
fail, there is no longer  need1
for worry  now,   on  account,
of   the  drouth.     It always
rains on the Fourth of July.
Local Happenings
Ofjthe Week
That Monday night rain
helped some.
Mrs. Jake Pflepsen of Buffalo is here visiting her
mother.
Louis Medek lost a two-
huudred dollar horse last
Saturday.
Mrs. Adolph Stumpf and
Mrs. Peter Virnig returned
from their visit last Monday.
Gertrude Grell will play
in Little Falls with Bill
Blake's Orchertra tomorrow.
Mrs. Mathilda Geltel of
Spring Hill is visiting with
the Otremba families with
whom she is related.
Mrs. Adlalaide Sykora is
now employed in the German State Bank. Mrs. Sykora is a sister to A. P. and
R. M. Stoll.
John Thommes returned
from South St. Paul yesterday when he had been working on a state road.
John Hennen of Calvary,
Wis., is here spending the
Fourth with his brother Nick.
Miss Klinger of Buffalo, N.
D. is here visiting with the
Aug. Otremba family.
A four year old son of
Casper Braun had the misfortune to break his arm Friday evening.
On account of the drouth
and failure ©f clover, there
is a great scramble for hay
stumpage this year.
John Moellers and family
of Hoople, N. D. visited with
the F. X. Virnig family last
Tuesday. They were on
their way to St. Paul, by
auto.
Nick and Wm. Konen of
Fargo arrived here late last
evening. They say the storm
at Fargo was not as bad as
reported by the papers, as it
struck only the city. But in
the city, they say, hailstones
lay six inches deep when the
storm Nwas over.
A group of soldiers in the
aviation section of the army
past through Little Falls
Tuesday afternoon with a
tri-plane enroute from Minneapolis to Bemidji, where
they will give demonstrations
on the Fourth of July. The
men are all from the Overland building, Saint Paul,
where they are trained.
My friend help the editor
in his wild eyed search for
news. When your friends
come to see you, if you are
not ashamed of it tell him;
when a baby arrives fill your
pockets with cigars and come
and tell us about it. If your
wife licks you come in let us
see the scars and tender our
sympathy through the paper;
if your mother-in-law has
died don't be bashful about
it, give in the common place
news. In short whatever
makes you feel proud, sad,
lonesome or glad submit it
to our twenty-four karat wisdom, see our Trial-tad locks
part and stand wm • n Is with
gratitude.—Exchange.
RUSSIAN LEGION
IS AUTH
Army Bill Carrying Over Twelve;
Billion DoHars Is Passed
1
By Senate.
ACTION IS UNANIMOUS!
Measure  Gives  President  Wilson   Un-!
limited  Authority to  Increase the
Army  by  Further Draft Calls j
So As to  Insure Success.
Washington, July 1.—The Senate
has passed tbe army appropriation
bill, carrying ?nore than 51_,000,0()0,-
000 for the prosecution of the war and
conferring authority on the president
to raise as large an army as may be
necessary to insure final victory.
There was not an  opposing     vote.
The bill had been before the Senate
almost continuously for five days.
Russian  Legion Authorized.
An important amendment added to
the bill authorized the President to
raise a Russian legion in the United
States to be composed of friendly
aliens  of . that  nationality.
As the amendment was originally
presented by Senator King of Utah,
it proposed the raising of this legion
for service only in Russia, eihter independently or with any American
troops that might be sent there. But
the provision limiting the field of
service of this proposed mission to
Russia was withdrawn by its author
after objection by Senator McCumber
of North Dakota.
Specific   Draft   Defeated.
None, of the appropriations for the
army's part in the war for the fiscal
year, beginning July 1, was reduced
by the Senate. Instead it increased
many items, approved without change
the House clause clothing the President with unlimited authority to increase the army by further draft
calls and added scores of important
legislative riders.
A futile effort was made by Senators desirous of specifically ordering
an army increase. An amendment by
Senator McCumber of North Dakota,
proposing to "direct" the President to
enlarge the army to 5,000,000 enlisted
men as speedily as equipment and
clothing could be obtained, was rejected, 45 to 19, and an amendment
by Senator Fall of Ne.w Mexico, proposing an increase of 3,000,000 meu
went out viva voce.
Many senators, however, fearing
this action, and the rejection of tha
Fall amendment to extend the draft
age limits to 20 and 40 years would be
misinterpreted, declared in voting
they were only temporarily postponing
action in accord with the War department's request for two or three
months time to submit the enlarged
program.
FIND   ERRORS   IN   CHARGES
Millers Admit Federal Trade Body Re.
port  Is   Mainly  Fair.
Minneapolis, July 1.—Charges of
war profiteering made by the Federal
Trade commission in. a report which
was aimed most drastically against
the meat packers, included the flour
milling industry in the commission's
criticism. I
Minneapolis millers, to whom was
shown a copy of the 'commission's report in full as applied to flour milling declared the report was a fair
statement in the main, although It
failed to take into account the extremely unstable condition of the
wheat and flour trade since war broke
out in 1914, and further gave a wrong
impression of profits and cost data
in 1917 before and after government
regulation   was   established.
Millers pointed out that the commission had appeared to make Its
statement of conditions as shown in
the first six months of 1917 apply to
the entire year, in face of the fact
that government regulations through^
the Federal Food" administration did!
not begin  until  Sept.  10.
EXPORTS  HAVE  FALLEN  OFF!
Trade Balance for Past Year Is About;
$3,000,000,000.
Washington, July 1.—The United!
States closes its fiscal year as a par-|
ticipant in the. great war with a tradej
balance of approximately $3,000,000.-!
000. !
Exports for the flseal year will to-1
tal $6,000,000,000 as compared withj
$ .,290,048,394 in the twelve month.!
ended June 30, 1917. Imports increas-i
ed from $2,659,355,135 last year toj
about $3,000,000,000 this year.
Such a showing was regarded a?!
very gratifying by government experts and no uieasiness is felt becaus >
the trade balance declined $630,693,-
209 as compared with 1917.
Draftees Fail to Pa-s Tost.
Winona, Minn., July 1.—More-than
10 per cent of the 160 drafted me >
sent to Camp Grant from Winon .
county last week under the June ca'!
have returned home, having been rejected by the medical examiners a'.
that camp as physically defective. It
is said the physical test given th ■
ri--frfl men at Camp Grant is mac'i
more ri .id than at other camp. t>
which Minnesota conitingen.. h.v.
gone. A large percentage of rejections arc Icing made from all districts. 1 ,    .   . .
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