The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1919-03-20

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PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, MARCH 20,  1919.
No. 40.
Solving the
Potato Problem
The farmers of this community have organized on the situation of the potato industry.
This organization will be an
improvement for the entire
community. The organization
is to own a potato-warehouse
at Genola and the farmers can
buy or sell potatoes at all times.
Last season many farmers took
their potatoes back home as
they could not sell them.
In many places of the state
the farmers have organized on
this situation and it has proyed
to be a success, it will also be a
good move for the people of
this vicinity. All farmers are
urged to stand together and
take special interest in this
moye.
A meeting will be held at
Genola on Friday, March 28, at
which a noted speaker will explain the matter of the situation. All directors and all
farmers who are interested in
this matter are requested to attend this meeting.
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County Seat Callings
John Kerich, who recently returned from -service overseas,
received his honorable discharge
from the seryice at Camp Dodge
la., this week.
Edward Stoll of Dent, is in
the city ior a visit with his
mother, Mrs. Gertrude Stoll.
Mr. Stoll has been at a hospital at Perham suffering with
pneumonia. He will remain
here until he has regained his
strength.
Mrs. Jacob Blake left yesterday for Indianapolis, Ind. called by the serious illness of her
daughter, Mrs. P. E. Porter.
Wm. Brausen of Buckman arrived Saturday and visited here
with friends until this afternoon
when he left for St. Cloud.
Interesting
Correspondences
Platte News.
Ten Men Are Held
On Wednesday of last week
ten Bniinerd men, charged with
interfering with W. J, Johnson,
a government officer, while making an arrest in Brainerd, appeared before U. S. Court Commissioner W. A. Fleming, waived examination and were bound
over to the federal court which
meets the second Tuesday of
July in Duluth. The bonds were
for $1,000 each, which were
furnished.
THINK  IN   INTEREST—SAVE	
Photos Ot
Soldiers' Graves
Mr. and Mrs. X. W. Swaser
and baby were visitors at John
Dombovy home Friday evening.
, Bob, Joe and Herman Hoppe,
left Monday for Valley City, N.
D. where they will be employed.
Chas. Otremba was a Platte
caller Friday evening.
Mrs. Joe Matlock called on
Mrs. Paul Pishka Friday after
noon.
Ben Holchopple and Harry
Cofer from Daggett Brook were
in Platte on business Saturday.
Peter Froelich was a Platte
caller Sunday.
Kusty Pilarski spent Sunday
afternoon with the Kuklinski
girls.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Applikaw-
ski from Superiorarehere visiting with her   son   Zymunt   for
some time.
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Esther Shiek and  Rose Kam-
enski were in Platte  Saturday.
Ezdor Holizki wife and children were callers at John
Smolik home Tuesday evening.
Mrs. V. Pilarski and daughter
Julia and Marcline were visitors
at Stanley Pulik home Sunday
afternoon.
The Fallen Have
Not Been Forgotten
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Memorial   Farewell   Service
For Our Boys Who Fell
In   Battle Held at
Sampiguy
Mr. and   Mrs.
and sons Frank
callers at X. W.
Sunday evening.
John Swaser
and Leo were
Swaser   home
American soldiers
Europe, are
buried in
photographed    by    re-
the  American
Graves of
who are
being
presentatives of
Red Cross and the photographs
will be sent without request to
the nearest relatives of the deceased soldiers as soon as possible. No requests for photographs will be answered, as the
photographers will take a prescribed route in their work.
 THINK   IN   IKTli.EST—SAVE	
Conference to End in May.
The doings of the Peace Conference have made such good
progress of late that the present expectation is that it will
end its labors in May instead
of June.
 THINK  IN   INTEREST—SAVE	
Peter J. Girtz returned
home last Saturday from
Fairbanks Minn, in the
northwestern part of the
state where he had been
working in a lumber camp.
Work had to be stopped on
account of too much water.
Mrs. Toney Smith Jr. called
on Mrs. John Lepenski Saturday afternoon.
Math Pilarski wife and children were callers at Ruch Maleski home Sunday afternoon.
Eululia aud Elsie Hayes Called on Mary Kluetsch Sunday
afternoon.
Callers at JohnLepenski Saturday evening were', Frank
Smith, John Gallus, Henry Often, Frank, Harry, Dewey and
Tom Hayes, Clara Litke, Mary
Gallus, Vera Smith and Mrs.
Toney Smith Jr., the evening
was spent in playing games.
TttlKK   IN   INTEREST SAVE	
South Agram News,
At the annual town election
which was. held In the town hall
on Tuesday, March 11th.,
Joseph Kippley was elected
over his two opponents, John
Loidolt and John Nagel. It
was a hard rub just the same,
Kippley polling 14 votes, Nagel
12, and Loidolt 11.
George Redding returned
from St. Cloud Monday, where
he had been employed for some
time.
Ben and Joe Terhaar and Jos.
Gruber were among the Texas
visiters for several weeks.
Mrs. J. J. Brummer and son
William were among the Buck-
man callers Tuesday.
Autos and autoists are trying their best to make their appearance on our most isolated
roads again after a nice vacation, but are haying a rather
hard job of opening up the roads
so early in the spring.
Casper and Math Thommes
were Genola callers Friday
morning. Casper took the train
for some distant point.
J. J. Brummer and son William left for Rochester, Minn.,
Monday morning on business.
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Miss Rose Guilmet and Joe
Sigette visited with the
George Sigette family Suu-
day. They returned to ther^
home at Ironton Monday.
x Following is an article from
a French newspaper, published
on February 5th, 1919, describing the 137th Infantry. Private
George J. Block, son of Gerhar
Block of Pierz, is a member of
this infantry and has sent the
newspaper to his parents who
have handed same to us and we
have decided to publish the following article. It reads as follows:
"Boys, you are going Jiome—
preparing to take the first step
on the long journey to the holiest place this side of heaven,
the place that fills your thoughts
by day and sweetens your
dreams by night.
"But you would not go without a farewell word to these
who must be left behind,—who
came with you but will never return home."
This was the keynote of the
remarkably impressive and picturesque ceremony of Tuesday
morning, this week. A Requiem
Mass in memory of the soldiers
of the 137th who fell in battlea
solemn burial rite for the hundreds of men who not long ago
had to be laid a pay in haste
without even the barest of ceremony a memorial service to the
boys who sleep up there amid
the riven trees of the Argonne,
a token of deep affection rendered by the unselfish living, forgetful now of their own happy
prospects, to the heroic dead.
An ocean would separate toem
soon never again would they be
so near those hallowed graves,
and so they gather there on the
high hill overlookingthe famous
Meuse, to do homage and to say
farewell,
It was a sight nd^. to be forgotten. It is midwinter; and
though but an hour before high
noon, the frozen ground is not
softened and the chill wind
from the war*torn valley sweeps
up across the open hill. And
there you see some fifteen hundred soldiers standing silent,
serious, attentive for an hour,
their eyes all focused on the central scene—the altar and those
engaged about it. Erected there
under a canopy between two
trees and suported on a platform consisting of a large flat
two-wheeled trailer, the altar
is draped in black and surmounted by four great candlesticks
and a cross. The regiment,
from their places on the rising
ground can look down upon it
and beyond it they can see far
below the town of Sampigny,
and then the winding river, and
beyond this other towns to the
north, and east, and south, and
lastly the opposite hills—all
bleak and yet beautiful in the
winter's midday light.
Sudden, y came notes of a
bugle. It was not quite eleven
o'clock. The great concourse
came to attention. It was
"church call," The color guard,
beai'ing the national and regimental colors, followed by the
guard of honor of sixteen men,
was seen moving directly toward the altar. On reaching it,
the colors divided, one to the
right and one to the left of * the
altar, while the guard of honor
faced about in "platoon front"
Again the bugles sounded, this
time "To the Colors" the guard
presented arms and the regiment stood rigid. When the
notes died away to echoes, the
chaplain and his assistants were
at the foot of the altar and the
Requiem Mass for the dead of
the 137th Infantry began. It
was eleyen o'clock.
One hour later the  ceremony
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Grand And
Petit Jurors
The general spring term of
court will open April 14. The
grand jnry will meet that morning at 10 o'clock. April 15 a
number of naturalization cases
will be taken up which have
been pending during the period
of the war. Enemy aliens were
not allowed to become naturalized during the time the United
States was at war and a number
of the cases to be taken- up at
this term are these of aliens.
The petit jury meets April 16.
Judge Roeser will be at Little
Falls for the first week of the
court term and Judge Parsons
will complete the term.
Following are the grand and
petit jurors from this end of the
county.
GRAND JURORS
Julius H. Marschek,
John Kelzenberg,
Math Meyer,
John Gross,
Martin Gelhar,
John Medek,
PETIT JURORS
Jos. Horsch,
Peter Billstein,
F. O. Bolster,
Jacob Nohner,
Peter Lammer,
Gust Hoffman,
Jos. Weis,
 THINK  IN   INTEREST—SAVE	
School Aid Received
County Auditor B. Y. McNairy has received a check for
$12,000 for deficency in state
aid to school districts of Morrison county for the years 1914,
1915 and 1916. Of thi3 amount
the Little Falls district will receive $2,292, Royalton district
$1,845, Motley district $448 and
Swanville district $330. The
rest of the school districts will
receive amounts ranging from
$20 to $15o!
County Auditor McNairy has
been advised by the state department of educatian that the
school apportionment for March
1919, will amount to  $12,551.10.
The apportionment is based
on the number of pupils attend*
ing school in the entire county,
the rate per pupil being $2.30.—
Herald. j
 THINK   IN   INTEREST—SAVE	
1000 Casualties in Berlin Riots
Fifth Liberty
Loan is Near
The Fifth or Victory loan is
only a few weeks away. This
is the last loan that we will be
called upon to subscribe to.
The figures carried in the
county papers last week give
the sum-up of what Morrison
County has done during the war.
It shows that our county has
bought a total of $1,651,000 in
Bonds, and donated or given
$78,000 for War Relief purposes.
Figuring our population in
round numbers as 25,000, we
we haye bought a total of $66
worth of bonds for every man,
woman and child in the county.
We have given for War Relief a
trifle better than $3.00 a head;
our assessed valuation for the
county is about $12,000,000; our
property is assessed for one
third of its actual value; this
would give us a real valuation
of about $35,000,000.
The amount of bonds we haye
bought is only about four dollars and fifty cents out ot every
one hundred dollars of our total
wealth, and this has been reinvested in the best securities on
earth—U. S. Government Bonds.
We have given only $2.00 out of
every $1000 of our wealth to
War relief. Who says we have
been asked to give large sums
during the past two years.
In the fourth loan there were
4518 bond buyers in the county
who bought $658,000 in bonds or
who invested on an average a
little better than $144 each.
These figures are for tbe purpose of showing that our rich
county is well able to take the
coming loan and over-subscribe
it, as we have done on each of
the other loans.
We have the wealth—our county was never so prosperous as
now, never were our farmers as
well-to-do. Our banks on the
whole are stronger today than
ever before, even though they
are paying smaller dividends to
their stockholders than they
have in many years.
We   have done our bit so far
in the   four loans.    Let us   get
ready for the fifth and last.
R. B. Millard. County Chairman
 THINK   IN   INTEREST SAVE	
Caught Bringing In Liquor
Rudi Rudolovich of Ironton
was arrested by Indain Agents
The principal news agency in Reed and Myer as he stepped
Germany reports that 1000 per- from a train at Brainerd and
sons were killed or wounded In j was charged with carrying 12
the Berlin riots last week. The' quarts of liquor into dry Indiau
riots were the work of the country. He pleaded guilty up-
"Reds," who tried to take pos- on examination before U. S.
session of the. government and Court Commissioner W. A.
were mercilessly fired upon by Fleming and was bound oyer to
the troops of the government.     the federal court.    .
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Notice to
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Meeti_g Will be Held at Genola
...ON---
Friday, March 28, at 1 o'lock f
The meeting is held for the
purpose of deciding on the size
and construction of the new Potato Warehouse which will be
build.
All Farmers are Urged to Attend!
Local Happenings
OntieWeek
Mrs. Henry Lust is on the
sick list.
A. I. Haskell is a business
caller at the cities this week.
Tony Welle of Lastrup
visited with relatives and
friends at Melrose last week.
Wanted
5,000 bushels of Oats.
RICH PRAIRIE MILLING CO.   adv
Mr. Louis Gross left for
the cities Tuesday where he
will attend business.
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Tomarrow spring is to begin. It don't feel much like
it today.
Mr. and Mr. John Kapsner
of Buckman were yisitors in
Pierz yesterday.
^/-.Tohn Hoheisel went to
Texas to look oyer the country the latter part of last
week. ___—-—
EARLY PEACE
MOVE HALTED
League or Nations Covenant May
Become Part or First Treaty
With Foe.
CHANGES CONSIDERED
Safeguarding    Monroe    Doctrine    and
Other Amendments to Meet the
Views of Different Allies
May Be Incorporated.
Mrs.
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Born—to Mr. and Mrs. Pe
ter J. Girtz Wednesday morn
ing a boy.
Born—to   Mr.    and
Mike Nagel   Tuesday
ing a son.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Nohner left for the cities Tuesday to buy a stock of Spring
Millinery goods.
Elsie Hartman slipped and
fell on the icy walk Monday
in upper town and sprained
her ankle.
WEBSTER'S
Mammouth  package
Garden Seeds only   5^.
THE GOLDEN RULE
P. X. VIRNIG & CO.     ad.
John Kippley of Agram
returned Wednesday from
Iowa where he has been on a
visit with his brother.
John Fuhrmann, it is said,
has arrived at New York
lately and is expected home
any time.
Under the government
orders the operators of all
telephone exchanges are not
allowed to give out the time
of the day. All subscribers
of the telephone exchange
are requested not to inquire
of the operators for the time
of the day as they are not
allowed to do so.
Wanted
5,000 bushels of Oats.
RICH PRAIRIE MILLING CO.    adv
Wm. Leidenfrost bought
the 120 acre farm from Anton Theser. Anton has
bought a farm in the state of
Texas where he will move to
in the near future.
The first light thunder
shower accompanied by a
high wind passed over the
j>! village last Friday night at
about 10 o'clock. A few
chimmeys were blown down
and gates torn from their
hinges.
If it turned 20 below in
August, your horse would
probably die; because his
summer coat would not protect him. It wouldn't protect
you either. Select a hide
now when the fur is thickest.
Lewis J. Eller, Agt.        adv.
Paris, March. 18.—Since President
Wilson returned something has happened at the peace conference and the
"speeding up" program for obtaining
immediate peace with Germany
through the preliminary peace treaty
has been sidetracked.
After lying dormant for a month during the president's absence the old
League of Nations covenant is being
brushed up and shows signs of life.
The interest has suddenly switched
from making peace to revamping the
League of NationB covenant.
House Confers With Allies.
..Efforts are being directed to shape
theNjovenant so as to insure its acceptance by the supreme council and
win l^ie approval of those Americans
•who/are demanding its amendment.
Colonel House conferred with Lord
Robert Cecil, Leon Bourgeois, and the
American delegates and reported to
President Wilson. It is conceded that
some of the suggested amendments
can safely be adopted, for instance,
those safeguarding the Monroe doctrine and fixing conditions which will
permit of the adherence of the late
enemy powers.
Early Peace Moves Checked.
It seems that the whole speeding up
campaign for an early peace next
month is shattered, as with the covenant not even accepted yet by the
Allied and associated powers, and with
the neutrals yet to be heard from,
there is small chance that it can be
made palatable for everyone and revised coincidentally with the date tentatively set for the completion of the
preliminary peace terms, March 20.
One of the five powers had hesitated to accept a distinct impression
of the right of secession from the
league.
Leaders' Absence Causes Delay.
This is not the first! occasion time
has been wasted through the absence
of the leaders.
While Lloyd George was in London,
Marshal Ferdinand Foch and the Allied military men drew up military
terms allowing the German army between 250,000 and 300,000 conscripted
men. But the moment Lloyd George
arrived he upset the proposition by
putting over a scheme reducing "their
forces to 100,000 men on 12 year enlistments. Had Lloyd George communicated to the peace conference his
views before coming to Paris again,
several days might have been saved.
PEACE  ONLY  0M  14 POINTS
Erzberger Says They Are Only Terms
on Which Germany Will Sign.
Copenhagen, March 18.—If the Allies load the" peace treaty with conditions going beyond President Wilson's
14 points, the German national assembly will have to refuse its assent
to the treaty, Mathias Erzberger, head
of the German armistice commission,
declared in an address at a Berlin
meeting in favoring the formation ol
a real League of Nations, according to
a dispatch. The matter then would
be left to a referendum of the German nation, he said.
TO   RESUME   SALE   OF   BEER
Eastern Brewers Will Proceed On Advice of Council.
New York, March 18.—The Lager
Beer Brewers Board of Trade of New
York, representing 42 brewing concerns in New York and New Jersey
announced that on advice of counsel
its members would resume at once the
sale of beer containing 2% per cent
alcoholic content. This was forbidden
by a ruling of the Internal Revenue department, which interpreted President
Wilson's proclamation effective Dec.
1 last. i
SAYS GOOD-BYE TO RAINBOWS!
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Pershing Reviews and Addresses 20,-!
000 Men of Division.
Coblenz, March 18.—General J. J. |
Pershing has said goodby to the boys j
of the 42d Division. In a farewell j
address to the troops of the Rainbow j
unit, who are preparing to start for ]
home the first week in April, the j
American commander-in-chief wished j
them all good luck in the peaceful!
occupations into which they will go j
on the other side of the Atlantic.
To  Disband Medical Corps.
Washington, March 18.—Dissolution '
on  April  1  of the volunteer medical |
service corps, with its membership of j
more   than  56,000   physicians,  Is  an-!
nounced  by the  Counci^jf National
Defense, under which the corps was
organized.    The names of all  physicians whose applications for membership   were  approved   will   be   turned
over  to  the  surgeon  general  of the
public health service and thus will be
accessible should need for their aerv-
Ices arise in the future..
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