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VOL. NO. 10.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, FEBRUARY 6,  1919.
No. 34.
STATE BREVITIES
Interesting
Correspondences
St. Cloud—Stearns county subscribed $63,532.11 in the united war
work campaign, according to a report
issued by A. G. Whitney, Stearns county chairman.
Thief River Falls. — The district
court)|£8_?-.°ned in this city this week.
T-rereare scheduled but seventeen
cases—ono of the smallest calendars
for some time.
Ortonville — The Ortonville high
school has abandoned its debate this
year because the influenza epidemic
made it impossible for contestants to
hold meetings.
Virginia — Father John Limmer,
formerly of Cloquet, has arrived to assume the duties as pastor of tha
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, succeeding Father W. J. Powers.
| St. Paul.—Inheritance taxes of $731
were paid the state on the estate of
James T. Morris, who died Oct. 31,
jl. 17, in Minneapolis. Property valued
jat $61,238 was left to the widow.
! St. Cloud—A committee has been appointed by the Commercial club directors to work with one appointed by
the Business Men's association on the
question of a new Armory for this
jolty.
\ St. Cloud—Lawrence Notch, a pioneer of Albany, died in the St Joseph
jhome here. He was 87 years of age
■and has been a resident of Albany
since his coming to this country, sixty
years ago.
Thief River Falls—The Soo railway
has again notified its agents along the
Duluth-Thief River Falls line that live
stock will be picked up on Saturdays
instead of Tuesdays hereafter until
further notice.
Crookston. — Shelly, a village near
here, has contracted for a modern
electric light plant. Thomas T. Johnson, owner and manager of the plant,
declared that Shelly could easily support the project.
Rochester—Lieut. George Willard
Furlow, one of Minnesota's two aces,
has arrived home here. Furlow is officially credited with five Hun planes,
and was cited for valor and presented
with the Distinguished Service CrosB.
Aitkin—Mrs. Hattie Safford has received a letter from her son, Capt. Or-
ren Safford, reported missing in
France, who was captured and taken
to the prison camp at Baden, Germany. With a companion, he escaped
from prison, walked across the Black
forest to the Rhine and arrived safely within the Allied lines.
Stillwater—David Bronson, for the
last 64 years one of Stillwater's most
influential business men, died at his
home. He was 85 years old. Mr.
Bronson came to Stillwater in 1856.
He has been Interested in the town's
largest business interests, and at the
time of his death was chairman of
the board of directors of the Lumberman's National bank.
Minneapolis. — J. 0. Bentall, sentenced to one year in the Crow Wing
county jail at Brainerd upon conviction of obstructing the draft, has begun his term. Bentall also is under
sentence of five years in the federal
prison at Port Leavenworth for viola*
tion of the espionage act. An appeal
is pending. He was convicted of draft
obstruction for inducing a farm hand
to neglect to register.
Gilbert—Mrs. Maud Anderson, publisher of the Gilbert Herald, lost the
end of one of her thumbs, while the
weekly Issue of the paper was being
run, when she attempted to rub a daub
of ink off one of the forms. The rag
in her hand caught in the mechanism
and her hand was drawn in, being
badly hurt. It wa3 found necessary
to amputate the thumb about half way
between the end and the first joint.
CroBby—Crosby claims the record
for families of seven children or over
among the towns of its size, about
4,000. It has twenty-three such fam-
ileB, and counting the parents there
are just 331 people in the group. Fourteen of the families have seven children each, two have eight children
each, four have nine children each,
one has ten children and one thirteen.
The last mentioned is Charles G. Heck-
Ala.
Virginia. — The complaining witness falling to press the charge against
Corporal Clarence Carlson, arrested in
Moorhead recently and returned here
on a charge of grand larceny and asking that prosecution be dropped, Judge
Carey dismissed the case and Carlson
was released. It was alleged he secured Red Cross aid through misrepresentation, but the accused disproved
most of the accusations. He is a returned soldier.
Brainerd—A notable array of counsel was on hand in Judge McLenahan's
court here when the case of George
O. Russell vs. the" Northern Pacific
Ratiway company to recover $15,000
damages for injuries alleged to have
been sustained in the local shopB of
Ithe company, was called for trial. Russell's complaint recites that a rnachin-
jist in the shops, cutting a cotter pin
bolt, chipped a piece against a boiler
and it rebounded and struck him in tho
eye breaking his glasses and destroying the sight of his left eye.
Stillwater—A. C. Staples, brought
back from Chicago on a charge of
passing forged checks here, pleaded
guilty before a Justice of the peace
and waB held to the grand jury in
$1,000 ball. Staples gave checks on a
Seattle bank in which he had no funds.
Crosby—The mining men of tha
range and the presidents of the several
villages will meet at the Armory and
dlBcuss ways and means to have employment ready for the Boldier and
sailor boys when they come home. All
the boys have found work so far and
the idea is to form an organization
that will look after the matter,
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Platte News.
Mike Maslawski who bad
been here visiting: with his sister Mrs. John Swaser ior a few
weeks retnrned to his home in
Swan River Pridav.
Mrs. Walter Pelowski called
on Mrs. P. Kluetsch Thursday
afternoon.
The dance given at Matt Valentine home Saturday evening-
was well attended.
Andrew Kainz was a Pierz
caller Saturday.
Mrs. P. Kluetsch visited with
her sister Mrs. Walter Pelowski
Friday afternoon.
Rose Ganior the teacher from
Platte spent Saturday and Sunday with her folks at home.
Walter Pelowski was in Platte
Sunday.
The dance at Mike Deering-
home Sunday evening was nicely
attended and a good time was
reported.
Callers at Mike Brisha home
Tuesday evening were: Frank
Brisk wife and children, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Pilarske and son
Edward and daughter Flornce,
Frank Segorski and Nick Schubert, the evening was spent in
playing cards.
All correspondents are requested to please sign their
name to the copy.
Holstein Park
A Red Cross meeting was
held at the J. A. Sanborn home
Wed. evening January 29 th.
Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Johnson
and Richard's visited at E- M.
Thompson's last Saturday evening.
Mrs. Martin and Edwin, spent
Sunday afternoon at the Thompson home.
H. H. Sanborn was a Lastrup
caller Monday.
Merle Look, Elroy Vaux' Ruby Christian and Lena Zarnes
spent Friday evening at the
Lewis home at Peavy Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Arba Waller are
the proud parents of a baby boy
born Feb. 3rd. Mrs. Lewis is
caring for her daughter Mrs.
Waller and baby.
Mrs. Batdort and daughter,
who have been visiting at Rockford have returned home. They
had the Flu while down there.
There will be a Red Cross
supper at the Christmas Lake
school house on Feb. 14 th, in
the evening. A short program
will be given every one is invited. Come and see who can eat
the most. The proceeds will go
for the relief fund.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Taylor
visited at A. Johnsons at Peavy
Lake one day last week.
South Agram News.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dusch-
nerandchildren, GrandmaDusch
ner, William and Adam Brummer visited at Eidenshink's Sunday evening.
John Redding and son George
were county seat callers last
week.
John Eidenshink and William
Brummer were among the Pierz
callers Saturday.
Henry Boser was a Little
Palls busip^iitfaller last week.
Annual Creamery
Meeting Thursday
Lastrup Co-op. Creamery held
their annual meeting last Thiirs-
day. The report of the crekm-
ery shows business increased\to
an extent of $12,000 more tha^
in the vear 1917.
The  following  officers    were
elected:
President,
Peter Weidenbach.
Vice President,
Barney Faust.
Secretary,
Theo. Ortman.
Directore,
Louis Brummer,
Geo. Tretter and
Adam Hohn.
Liberty Loans And
War Savings Stamps
The announcement that a fifth
Liberty Loan is on the way reminds us that fourot these loans
have already been floated, as
follows:
First. $3,035,226,850
Second 4,617,532,300
Third 4,176,516,850
Fourth 6,989,047,000
Total.—$18,818,328,000
\n addition to this, there was
secured, up to November 29th,
from the sale of War Savings
Stamps, the sum of $905,000,000
which, added to the sum yielded by the Liberty loans, makes
our totel bonded war indebtedness nearly twenty billions of
dollars.
Buy From Home Merchants
Here are some good reasons
why every farmer and citizen
should support home interests
by trading with the home merchants:
1—The home merchants does
not deliver goods to you in a
damaged condition.
2—The home merchants spent
the money you give them at
home and help build up the community.
3—The home merchant helps
to create a market for the thing
you have to sell.
4—The home merchant contributes his money for good
roads and other enterprises
that make life better for every
farmer and citizen.
5—The home merchant does
not ask for money until you
have had a thorough opportunity to examine the goods.
6—The home meachant is your
friend in adversity and in prosperity. He is interested in
everything in which you are interested. He wants to see you
do well and is always willing
to help.
Weather a Sudden Change
After the month of January
being calm and mild, the thermometer went down to 30 below
zero Monday night. It looks
as if the month of February
would make up what was lost in
January. Although the autos
have been used in every month
of the winter so far.
Brainerd Man
Shoots Himself
Brainerd, Jan. 31:  Grief over
the death of a son who was bur
ied here Wednesday, today caused Judge G. W. Mantor to shoot
himself.
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cities onl
left for the
less last week.
Frank Flicker and family
visited with the Reisgraf
family a few hourslast Tuesday.
Rose Reisgraf spent a few
pleasent days with Miss Brunette at the John Yanish
home.
Mrs. Schneppenheim
Died Monday Morning
Mrs. Henry Schneppenheim,
of the village died at her home
Monday morning at 5 o'clock.
The deceased has been ill a
month only when death has cal-
led^her. She was born at
S p ringfie Id""Corners, Dane
County, Wis., in 1854, being 65
years old.
Henry Schneppenheim and
family, Father Werner being
the baby, came from Dane
County, Wis., to Pierz in 1878,
which was at that time known
as Rich Prairie; Mr. Schneppenheim settled near the old
John Stumpfs farm, where he
had a blacksmith shop. Later
he moved to where the J. B.
Hartmann's store is at present
sited. From there he moved
with his family to the present
place, where the good old mother Schneppenhei m laid her tired head to rest. And a most
loving heart stopped to beat
and bleed for her own now bereaved and for the many others
who experience her loving help
and her cheery smiles and words.
Mrs. Louis Kobilka, Mrs.
Frank Schainal and Frank were
born in Pierz. Father Pancratia a particular friend of the
family, and much more that to
Sr. Pancratia and Father Werner, both of whom he helped to
reach the good of their vocations
deserves, particularly the gratitude of the .family, and was especially remembered by Mrs.
Schneppenhiem who remembered him as often as occasions offered themselves and was not
slow to make them. May God
rest his soul, so deserving of
the gratitude of the bereaved
family. She was laid to rest
yesterday morning in St. Joseph
cemetery at 9 o'clock.
She leaves to mourn her death
her husband, and six children,
being, Father Werner, O. S. B.,
Sr. Pancratia O. S. B., Mrs.
Louis Spanfellner, Mrs. Louis
Kobilka, Mrs. Frank Schainal
and Frank X. Schneppenheim
and 12 grand children and one
gieat grand child.
Card of Thanks
We hereby express our sincere
thanks to the Rev. Fathers
Stiegler and Pingler and all the
others, especially those who
have been so kind to our good
mother when sick, and to us
with their sympathies for the
loss we all feel so keenly in ber
death.
Henry Schneppenheim
and children.
Leo Waninger returned
Tuesday from France. He
was drafted February 26th,
1918 sent to France in May
and served in the U. S. army
there for seven months.
Leo was wounded on the left
arm a few months ago but
it has healed and is now able
to use it again.
Math Riesgraf was called
to the bedside of his mother
who is criticially ill at Duluth. Mr. Riesgraf returned
Saturday having poor hopes
for her recovery she is over
eighty years of age and has
the best of care from her
own daughter SisterElizabeth
at St. Anns home.
Will Construct
Buildings Here
--^John G. Anderson, contractor
of Little Falls  has  taken    the
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contract to construct a store
building here to be built by
Frank Faust. The building will
be 60 by 100 feet and will be used to house a general merchandise business. Mr. Anderson
states that he will take a crew
of men to Pierz sometime in
March to commence on the construction fo the building. Mr.
Anderson will also build a modern house for Mr, Faust at the
same time.
Epidemic Ot Flu
Raging At Foley
Spanish influenza is again raging in Foley and vicinity. A-
bout one hundred fifty cases
have been reported during the
past week, which all seem to be
a milder form. The attendance
in the Foley schools has dropped down to 70 per cent of the
usual number.
County Seat Callings.
The county commissioners
held their monthly meeting at
the court house Tuesday.
Wm. Blake, who is with the
46-piece band which left Camp
Dodge a few weeks ago for a
tour of the country, writes that
he is now in Nebraska and will
go to the States of Kansas and
Missouri from there. The organization has an eight weeks'
trip before it.
PRICES   HAVE   BEEN   VERY   HIGH
IN THAT COUNTRY DURING
THE WAR
EVERYTHING      IN        FOOD      AND
SLOTHING LINE IS VERY
HARD TO GET
The Misees Eugenie and Josephine
Sand have received a letter from a
cousin who lives in a little village in
Luxemburg. This is -he first letter
he has been allowed to send to his
relatives here since the beginning
of the war in 1914. He stated that
the suffering among the people of
Luxemberg during the war period had
been intense aud that the surviving
residents are haggard and starved
looking. Prices have been very high
and food and clothing are scarce even
at exhorbitant prices. He says that
the price of shoes has been 500 marks,
or $125; a suit of clothes has been
$250 and almost impossible to obtain
at that price, and 200 pounds of flour
has cost as much as 1,000 marks.
XCELLENT PROGRAMS PROVIDED
FOR TWO-DAY SESSION
FEB. 11 AND 12
FIRST  MEETING TO  BE   HELD AT
ELKS' HALL AND ^ECOND
AT HIGH SCHOOL
Unclaimed Letters at tlie
Pierz Postoffice
Mr. N. B. Briggs.
Mr. and Mrs. Da vice M Dodge,
E. L. Gilleert.
Clara Meberle.
The 10th annual convention of the
Central Minnesota Dairymen and But-
termakers' association is scheduled to
be held in Little Falls on Tuesday an<i
Wednesday, Feb. 11 and 12.
A splendid program has been 4r-
ranged for the two-day session, including interesting discussions of
dairy problems, which will be of special interest to the farmers of the community. There will also be some excellent exhibits of dairy products.
The first day's session will be at
the high school at 7:30 p. m., and will
include several interesting addresses
and music. A play will be given by
the high school students after the
meeting for the delegates who attend.
The name of the play has not yet been
decided upon and for this part of the
program an admission fee will be
charged to the public.
The second day's session will be in
Elks' hall and will begin at 10 a. m.
At this meeting the annual address of
the president, George Baltes, of Mier
Grove will be heard, in addition to
several other prominent speakers. The
afternoon session will begin at 1:30
and besides the addresses of several
speakers election of officers will be
held.
In the evening a dance will be given
in Elks' hall for the delegates, Falk's
orchestra furnishing the music. There
will also be a special feature at the
Milo theater for the entertainment of
the visitors.
1    A full program of the two meetings
will be published later.
Local Happenings
Ofjhe Week
Rex Muncy of Little Falls,
was at Genola Saturday on
business.
Mr. Henry Gleiden of
Brooten was here on business
Friday and Saturday.
The Pierz Co-op. Creamery
Ass'n. held their annual
meeting Tuesday.
The ice haulers are busy
hauling ice from Fish lake,
W. M. Vogel of Genola
was a business caller at St.
Cloud last week returning
home Monday.
- Toney Nespore left Tuesday for Casselton, N. D.,
where he will be employed
for the coming season.
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cheapest see
34-4 Andrew Faust.
Miss Marie Bares was a
guest at the home of Mrs.
Jacob Blake of Little Falls
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E.
Gravel spent Sunday at Little
Falls with relatives.
Geo. Merkling is employed
as bartender at the John H.
Grell saloon.
The Pierz boys are coming
home slow but sure. Still
many eyes are looking patiently towards France.
John N. Terhaar returned
Sunday from a trip to Estel-
line, S. D. where he visited
with his brother Edward for
a few day.s
Miss Clera Leidenfrost
who has been very sick with
the flu is recovering slowly
hope she will soon be out
and around again.
Mrs. E. H. Kerkhoff returned from Little Falls yesterday where she has recevied
.medical treatments the past
few weeks.
A good move was made
Tuesday when the village
streets and road between here
and Genola were draged.
This makes the roads a solid
passage with very little snow
which can also be used for
cars.
Matt Nelles and John
Boehm back from the Rio
Grande Valley, Texas.
~They say it is the finest
country they have ever seen
and everything is absolutely
as it was represented to
them by the local agent F.
Spangler. Mr. Nelles says
it's sure the land of corn and
honey. He has bought a
peice of land down there.
The boys say it is the finest place in the country for
raising hogs and cattle as
they can pasture 4 to 5 head
of cows on one acre of pasture all the year around, and
hogs run on alfalfa and rho-
des grass all the year around.
They raise all kinds of
fruits such as oranges, lemons, grapefruit and berries.
John says, boys have a run
down with Mr. Spangler and
look it over for yourselves
on Feb. 20th.
FAVORS
ELECTIVE BODY
Canadian Proposal Calls for Congress Representative of
All Nations.
LABOR LEADERS BUSY!
Plan     for     Establishing     Legislative!
House Composed of Men Directly
Elected  by People Is Under
Consideration. I
: Paris, Feb. 4.—The Canadian minis-1
fer of justice, Charles J. Doherty, whoj
has preroposed to the peace confer-!
ence that an international people's |
house of representatives be formed,!
said: '
"Whence is that power of influence -
to prevent war to be derived if not
from the peoples inhabiting the different states, whose every interest demands the suppression of war? The
weak point in all plans so far discussed is that the action of states is
to be controlled, restrained or influenced in conferences of those states
themselves, to the exclusion of other
peoples, who are to be affected by the
decisions reached.
War Affects All.
"It must be remembered that it is
not merely the peoples of states immediately concerned who are affected
by war, but all mankind.
"How can the world be made safe
for democracy more surely than by
entrusting a share in the future
guardianship of safety, purchased at
bo great a price, to a body representative of the world's democracy, the
members of which have been selected
by that democracy? Inclusion in the
league of a body in which the world's
people would act through their representatives democratically elected for
that purpose by popular vote would
not prejudicially affect the, powers to
be exercised by the states under any
other plans proposed. Moreover, within the body itself each state would
find legitimate protection in adequate
representation therein of its own people.
Peace Time Functions.
"The most important function of the
suggested representative body would
be to exercise in times of peace constant influence upon states in their relations with each other,, tending to
keep them from those differences
which give rise to conflict and make
war imminent. It would perform that
work of investigation, discussion, deliberation and legislation, which would
take the form of the adoption of recommendations addressed to the individual
states."
A project for the establishment of a
representative body, elected directly
by the' people of the nations of th e
world to sit in conjunction with the
proposed international labor bureau is
being quietly discussed among some
of the labor leaders in Paris.
SENATOR   MOSES   SKEPTICAL
Predicts Failure of the League of
Nations Plan.
Washington, Feb. 4.—Failure of the
league of nations plan was predicted
to the senate by Senator Moses, New
Hampshire.
"Just as the congress of Vienna
failed to create a confederation in Europe which lasted, so the present
peace conference will leave us free
from worries like a leagne of nations,"
Baid Moses.
FOUR GRAND DUKES SLAIN
Noted Russians Said to Have Been
Executed by Bolshevlki.
London, Feb. 4.—A dispatch from
Helsingfors quoted a Bolshevik official
statement from Petrograd as announc-
Orand Duke Paul Alexandrevitch,
Grand Duke Nicholas Mickhailovitch,
Grand Duke Dimitri Constantovitch
and Grand Duke George Mikhailovltch
had been executed by rifle fire.
DISCHARGE  RULES   MODIFIED
Men   With   Sickness   or   Distress   at
Home Will  Be  Released.
Washington, Feb. 4.—General Pershing has been authorized by the War
department to send home for immediate discharge from the army any drafted or enlisted men who presents convincing evidence of sickness or other
distress existing in his family.
ADMIRAL    BOWLES    RESIGNS;
Severs His Connection With Emer-i
gency Fleet Corporation
Washington, Feb. 4.—The resignation of former Rear Admiral Francis
T. Bowles as assistant general manager of the Emergency Fleet corporation waB announced by the Shipping
board.
Lowry Declines to Serve.
Indianapolis, Feb. 4.—James Lowry, president of the National Amateur
Baseball association and who was recently elected" vice president of the
National Baseball Federation at Cleveland, in a statement, said that he
wants nothing to do with the last
named organization and has written
Tom Nokes, the secretary of the body,
that he will not accept the place. Mr.
Lowry said the National Baseball Fed-
oration "seemed to be trying to write
the obituary of the National Amateui
Baseball association."
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