The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1919-04-17

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VOL. NO. 10.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, APRIL 17,  1919.
No. 44.
ENORMOUS YIELD
IS ANTICIPATED
Total Spring and Winter Wheat
Crop May Reach 1,100,-
000,000 Bushels.
GREATEST ON RECORD
Agricultural  Department Figurea %i_i.
cate   That   American   Farmen_|
Will Receive Upwards of
$2,500,000,000.
Washington, April 15.—The total
spring and winter wheat crop grown by
the American farmer this year promises to be the greatest produced by
any nation in the world history, Agricultural department figures showed.
With the estimated winter yield of
837,000,000 bushels, announced a week
ago, department estimatel on the
spring wheat crop bring the total for
all wheat up to 1,100,000,000 bushels
this year, and it may run beyond this
figure.
The only crops ever approximating
this were the 1913 winter yield in Russia of 838,000,000 bushels and a single
billion bushel yield in tbe United
States.
The promised 1919 yield, with the
guaranteed price of .2.26 per bushel
fixed by the government, means a return of approximately $2,500,000,000 to
the farmers. Should the price of wheat
drop, it is pointed out, the government
would have a big sum to make up.
Little chance, however, is seen for
such a drop this year. Russian production, which in years past has been
about the same as the United States,
does not now figure in the world market. Hence the world's supply still
will be far short of needs until Russia
resumes its former place as a wheat
producing nation.
Another factor which officials here
say will tend to prevent a drop in
wheat quotations is the cheapening of
money in every part of the world. The
American dollar, for example, is worth
only half as much as it was in 1913,
according to government statistics and
the pound, franc and lire have dropped
as much or more in value.
Therefore officials are confident the
government will not be obliged to buy
millions of bushels of wheat at a loss.
YANKS ARE BACK FROM ITALY
First U. S. Troops Arrive In New York
from Genoa.
New York, April 15.—The first
United States troops to come home
from Italy have arrived here on the
steamer Duca <_'Aosta, which sailed
from Genoa March 29, .
•Units aboard were 332nd infantry,
field and staff, detachment of headquarters company, supply company,
machine gun company, Companies A,
B, C, D and I veterinary detachment
and detachment of medical detachment, total 47 officers and 1,595 men.
RAINBOW   DIVISION    LEAVING
Part of Organization Sets Sail from
France for Home,
Brest, April 15.—Four ships have
sailed from France for America with
a part of the Rainbow Division.
The entire Rainbow Division is expected to arrive in Camp Pontanezen
from the front at once. The latest
arrivals include the 117 th Sanitary
train, Battery F, 150th Artillery of
Indiana; headquarters; Companies A
and B, 149th Machine Gun Battalion
of Pennsylvania; 117th Field Signal
Battalion of Missouri.
WITHDRAWS  OFFER  TO
BUY
Not
United   States   Government   Will
Purchase British Ships.
Washington, April 15.—Withdrawal
by the United States government of
Its offer to purchase the American
owned interest in British tonnage hfeld
by the International Mercantile Marine
and which a British syndicate previously desired to buy, was due to
conditions surrounding the company's
contracts with the British government.
It was learned that Great Britain
had the right to requisition the fleet
at any time.
MINNESOTA    LAW    IS   VALID
Federal Supreme Court Upholds Act
Requiring Sidetracks.
Washittton, April 15.—Constitutionality J,^nie Minnesota sidetrack law
of 1913, requiring railroads to construct and operate adequate sidetrack
facilities for industries along their
lines, was upheld by the supreme court
in deciding appeals taken by the Chicago and Northwestern railroad in proceedings growing out of the construction of a spur track in Springfield,
Minn,
New Ship Line to Buenos Air. i.
Buenos Aires, April 15.—The Lloyd
Braziliero announces the inauguration
of a new steamship line between New
York and Buenos Aires. The first vessel to be engaged in the trade will be
the Uberaba, which will leave Buenos
Aires for New York early in May.
Police Hear of Theft.
Chicago, April 15.—Police had their
ears   to  the  ground.    Thieves  made
away with  $300  worth  of  sounding
tepajda,
Liberty Loan
Meet Dates
Prom April the 21st to May
5th inclusive Loyalty meeting's
will be held in Morrison County
Minn. The 5th Liberty Loan
will be discussed. Matters pertaining- to the reconstruction of
America and Europe will be explained.
April 24th, 1919 has been set
as the date for said meeting- at
Lastrup, Minn. Meeting- will
be in the Village Hall and commence at 8:00 o'clock p. m
Chairman, John Rausch, Pierz,
route 3; speakers, N.N. Berg*
heim and E. P. Service.
April   26,    Agram,    school-
Chairman, J. J. Kepply; speak'
ers, L.  W.   Vasaly   aud    Joe
Moeglein.
April 27, Buckman Village-
Chairman, Prank J. Mischke;
speakers, A. H. Vernon and W.
E. Olson.
May 2, Preedhem—Chairman,
O. E. Strand, speakers, N. N.
Bergheim and Mrs. L. D. Brown.
May 4. Pulaski—Chairman,
John Skohinski, Pierz route 3,
speakers, L. W. Vasaly and E.
A. Kling.    Meeting at 8 p. m.
No meeting has yet been arranged for the Village of Pierz.
 think in interest—save	
Don't Vote The States Dry
Following is a poem written
by Private Raymond P. Winter
of Melrose, Minn., who is still
one of the America Expedition*
ary Forces in France. It was
printed in the Melrose Beacon.
Fiom far across the ocean,
We are sending an appeal
About a thing that's going on
To tell the Way we feel.
We left the good old U  S. A.
To go to do or die,
And since the   boys have   gone
away
They want to vote her dry.
We left the  town in darn good
shape,
The day we said good by,
And   we're coming   back again
'Tout Suite,
Or know the reason why.
We came over here  to do a job,
And  here we're going to stay
Until everything is   all squared
up
In a Yankee Dqodle way.
It makes   one sore  to   hear'em
say,
Well I guess  she's going dry.
And   to think   we  can't   do  a
thing,   .
No matter how We try.
When we sailed away and came
across
We left our town to you
To take good care of everything
Is what we expected you to do.
Don't put   our home town on a
bum,
While we're  away in France,
Why   not   wait till   we all   get
back
And give the boys a chance.
If they   vote her   dry and   dim
the lights '
And put the ban on beer,
What are you   going to tell the
boys
When they   come home   from
over there?
When we get back and meet old
friends,
It Will be a grand "Hellow,"
And I guess we'll all go straight
to bed,
For there   will be no place to
go.
This is the voice of all our pals,
Who are   lighting   tooth and
eye;
Do us a favor,
Don't vote the old state dry!
—Pvt. Raymond P. Winter.
To the Majors
Of Morrison Co.
Shipping Association
Annual Meeting
My dear Major: The  annual    meeting  of  the
As    you     know,    after    the ! Genola Farmers Shipping Asso-
Fourth Loan there were a large  ciation was held   on  March 28,
number of Blue Cards turned in ;the report was read,  and found
to Liberty Loan Headquarters-
Over 700 in fact. By hard work
on the part of the Central Committee and myself, this list has
been cut  to  about  150  names.
The Central Committee for
the 9th Federal District, at Minneapolis, has asked us several
times to publish the list of Blue
Card men in the county papers.
The Central Committee had a-
bout decided to publish these
names, but felt that it would be
no more than fair to give the
Blue Card men a chance to re-
deed themselves in the last, or
Victory Loan, which will be
held on Tuesday, May 6, and
then publish the names of the
Blue Card men.
However, the names of all delinquents in the Fourth Loan
have been printed and Copies of
those lists are at Liberty Loan
Headquarters, and can be seen
by anyone who wishes to call.
I am also sending one of these
lists to all Majors in the county
today for reference.
Our county score was over 96
per cent in the Fourth Loan—let
us make it 100 percent in the
Fifth and last.
Cordially yours,
R. B. Millard
County Chairman.
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Meeting of the
Soldiers & Sailors
A meeting of returned soldier
and sailors of Morrison County
will be held at the City Hall, at
Little Falls, Saturday evening,
April 19, at 7:30 o'clock, to consider the advisability of forming an organization. The meeting is called by a committee
asked to act by the Board'of
Commerce, of Little Falls, and
all returned,soldiers and sailors
in the county are urged to attend Matters of mutual interest will be discussed.
Committee.
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Platte News,
Johanna Ebertowski returned
home from Little Falls Thursday where she had been visiting
with relatives and friends for
some time.
Miss Rftse and Clara Litke
called on Miss Rose Gainor
Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. X. W. Swaser
and baby were callers at John
Swaser home Saturday evening.
Mrs. Frank Kluelsch and
daughter Delia and son Walter
were visitors at Walter Hayes
home Sunday afternoon.
Andrew Kainz and Walter
Hayes were among the Lastrup callers Monday.
Mary Kamenski returned
home last week from St. Cloud
where she had been working for
some time.
that there was a balance on
hand of $714.11 which is more
then is necessary for the sinking fund so it was decided to
pay a dividend at the end of
next year, that is a dividend
will be paid to all stock holders
according to the amount of
stock he has shipped and who
has paid his membership fees
of $1.00. The report shows that
from 32 <rars shipped in 26
shippment_ with a balance pn
hand of $129.22 the gross receipts for stock sold were
$61,859.66. The expenditures
show that.money paid to Farmers manager's commission paper, poles, help at yards freight,
Commission, yardage, and feed
at St. Paul, amounted to $61,-
059.18 or a balance in the treasure of $800 48 or $714.11 after
all checks have been returned.
Farmers should make it a
practice to list their stock as
early in the week as possible
for the following Mondays shipment as we could often ship
had we had a load listed in time
Do not depend on someone else
listing his stock for a load and
on Monday morning you bring
in a load of stock that was not
listed and evidently be over
crowded or keep thern over till
next shipment or worst yet if
you have them listed and don,t
bring them in which case the
association loses heav#y.
We would advise farmers to
order the South St. Paul Daily
Reporter and keep posted on
the market. And not give your
stock away to an individual
buyer merely because you get
your check at the yards and
knoW what you are getting per
pound. The man who sells the
stock pays the buyers running
expense audgives him a mighty
good living besides. We are all
in favor of a Farmers Creamery,
grain elevator, potato warehouse so why not put our stock
on the central market ourselves
and practice our Non-Partisism
and cut out the middleman
J. J. Kippley, Mgr.
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Notice
All
must
the alleys in the village
be cleaned and rubbish
hauled to the dumping ground
next week beginning Monday,
April 21 to Saturday the 26.
Village Council.
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State High School
Board Examinations
Grammar and
Frank Kluetsch was in Pierz Composition
Saturday.
State High School Board Examinations will be conducted in
the Pierz School, District No. 14.
Anyone wishing to attend should
notify the teacher in time so
that adeguate preparations can
be made. .
• Following is the program:
TUESDAY MAY 27th.
American History        8:00 a.m.
Spelling 10:15 a, m.
2:00 p.m.
.
Esther Sheik aud Andrew
Skochenski were Platte callers
Wednesday.
WEDNESDAY MAY 28th.
Arithmetic 8:00. a.m.
Geography 2:00 p. m.
Nick Staub. (teacher.)
The Liberty
Bond Marval
(From Little Falls Transcript)
One of the cities which invested most heavly in Liberty bonds,
and which might therefore be
suppose to have cut down its
sayings bank deposits, has, according to recent reports, $30,-
561,000 more in the banks than
it had a year ago.
This represents a net gain for
the year of about 6 per cent.
Thus the Liberty bond purchasers, far from depleting the citizens, sayings, are actually credited with being the cheif cause of
their increase. While putting
scores of millions of dollars into
the government securities, the
people got so in the habit of
saving that they had millions
left over.
This is thrift indeed, of a sort
which has become the usual
thing in a country fomerly noted
for its prodigality. The experience here recorded could probably be duplicated in the majority of American cities, if anyone
took the trouble to go into the
records. It is a good indication
of the financial readiness of the
nation for the forthcomming
loan and a good reason for investing in it liberally, without
the fear formerly entertained by
so many citizensof 'going broke'
if they brought a bond or two.
People don't go broke on bonds.
They saye monyonthem, directly and indirect,
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St. Cloud Concern
Buys First Bonds
Morrison county already has
a nice start on the sale of Fifth
Liberty bonds. To the Retail
Hardware Mutual Fire Insurance company of St. Cloud goes
the credit for the first subscription to bonds ot this issue in
this county, their president, C.
F. Ladner, making a subscription for $5,Q00 worth of bonds
through   the local    committee.
-Herald.
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Grand And Petit Jurors
X.
are
k.y
Farmers  in  this vicinity
busy   with   their    field    work./
Plowing  and  seeding  is in full
swing.
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The grand jury has reported
at 10 o'clock Monday morning,
the opening day of the spring
term of district court at Little
Falls. They were charged byj
the court and retired to thel
grand jury room, offer which
the preliminary call of the calendar was made and the jury
and court cases sei. The petit
jury reported at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and the jury
cases were then started.
Following are the grand and
petit jurors from this end of the
county.
GRAND JURORS
Jul H. Marshek, Pierz.
John Kelzenberg,, Buckman.
Math Meyer, Agram.
John Gross, Granite.
Martin Gelhar, Buh.
John Medek, Hillman.
PETIT JURORS
Joe Horsch, Buckman.
Peter Billstein, Granite.
F. O. Bolster, Agram.
Jacob Nohner, Pierz.
Peter Lammer, Granite,
Jos. Weis, Buckman.
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Local Happening's
OTthe Week
All roads lead to Pierz.
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paper.
Next Sunday is Easter
Sunday and Lent will be
over.
A. P. Stoll was a business
caller at Little Falls Tuesday.
Joseph Rauch of Agram
bought an Oakland six this
week.
F. A. Nelson of Little
Falls called on trade here
Tuesday.
Born—to Mr. and Mrs.
John J. Boser of the village
last Saturday a daughter.
Henry (xau unloaded a
carload of Ford cars this
week and sold a touring car
to George H. Reding. ;
Math Thommes left for
Rochester last Monday,
where he will undergo medical treatment.
The Parochial School was
closed .this week on account
of the Easter holidays.
School will open next Tuesday April 22nd.
Weather conditions are
very changeable Tuesday
morning a cool and high
wind forced many of our
farmers to come to the yil-
lage with their fur coats on.
All the parties intending
to build new houses in the
village are hoping for a
change in weather, so that
they can start. So far only
the foundations have been
dug.
Jos. Lochner and Lewis
Poster returned from the
woods on the shore of Lake
Superior last Friday where
they had worked in a lumber camp all winter. On
the way home they made a
short call at Duluth.
A. V. Hartman has trad&d
in his old Ford bus to H.
Gau for a Ford Ohassic
which he has remodeled into
'a modern bus.    He can now
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DIED
The one year old  daughter of
Mr.   and   Mrs. John Bares died
i   at  their  home  yesterday at 12
Xo'clock.    Burial will take place
...  ,   ,,     ,,        „ ,-,     , in  the   St.  Joseph cemetery at
Nick Mueller of Buckman pierz  Prjday  morning at 9  Q,
was a Pierz  business  caller ci0ck.
last Monday, _T„,-_ ,_ h.--__si-sa._—
Tuesday night we had a Mrs. Herman Bentfeld relight snow storm and quite turned from Little Falls
a frost. ' Wednesday.
give you first class service
and made the first trip to the
station yesterday morning.
Peter L. Poster has bought
the old frame building opposite the Farmers' and
Merchants' Bank of Frank
Faust and will move the
same to his lots on the North
side of Jos. Meyer's place on
Edward street.
Oai-1 Jacobi of St. Paul, representing Geo. Benz and
Sons, was in Pierz lapt Friday for the first time after
his illness. He is one of the
oldest traveling salesmen
on the road and has been
employed by Benz and Sons
Mrs.SumnerRice ofRacifi Jfor the past 37 years.
Wis., sister to Mrs. Peter L J Qna'tnia is again publishing
Poster, whose maiden name^ newspaper by its own force.
was Mary Karel, died the first The game paper has been
part of this week as we are publisiied at Princton for
informed. Deceased leaves the pagt year aud is caned
to mourn her death her aged MUle Lac8 Lake Breeze of
mother, Mrs. Frank Karel of wllick Harry T. Boyed ' is
Pierz, her sister Mrs. Peter L- p^blistier.
Poster of the village and two
brother Theodore and.Ehman
Karel.
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paper.
Mankato.—Henry Hochstein, 28, son
of a farmer living near Mapleton, took
his own life here.
Hastings.—Chris Gilbertson, an inmate of the state hospital here, is,
dead. His body was taken to Broo ten; j
Minn., for interment.
Moose bake. — The cornerstone ofj
the new St. Andrew's chapel was laid I
recently. The ceremony was per-,
formed by the grand lodge of Masons.:
Hastings. — A. F. Heath, for many ;
years employed by the Gardner Mills j
here, has gone to Guttenberg, Iowa, as i
manager for the Phoenix Milling com- j
pany.
Brainerd. — A Central Minnesota!
baseball league is about to be organ-;
ized. Six towns are expected to bej
represented. They are Brainerd, St.!
Cloud, Little Falls, Staples, Ironton i
and Crosby.
Bemidji. — Resolutions favoring the!
issuance of $250,000 bonds for the con-i
-struction of roads in Beltrami county j
were adopted by the Commercial club j
after a thorough explanation of the!
proposed routes by Highway Engineer;
Snyder.
Glyndon.—H. L. Webb, postmaster I
at Glyndon, has resigned and will devote his entire time to his farming
interests, as under a ruling of the
postoffice department a postmaster
must personally attend to the duties
of the office.
Crystal Lake. — Mark J. Barney, a
local business man, is arranging to
embark in the raising of rabbits for
their furs and meat, and is putting in
an extensive plant. He expects to
raise Siberian, New Zealand and
Flemish rabbits.
Stillwater.—Seventy-one sacks filled
with old clothes, collected by the Red
Cross in Washington county during a
week's drive, were shipped to the National Red Cross in New York recently for distribution among the war«eu£-
ferers of Europe.
St. Paul. — Ending their four days'
stay in St. Paul with a trip through
the state penitentiary at Stillwater,
the 250 boys and girls who won the
visit and a short course at the tmlver-
sity farm school in rural club work,
have returned to their homes.
Winona.—F. Quale, formerly instruc-
Btructor of sciences and commercial
Isrw at Augustana college, Canton, S. •
D., has been elected superintendent of
the consolidated school at Lewiston,
the pioneer institution of the kind in
Minnesota. He will succeed Superintendent H. F. Schulte.
Moorhead.—J. Howard Hess, Moorhead architect, was selected by the
board of education to draw the plans
tor the new Third ward grade school
building. The building will have
eight classrooms, a principal's room
on the second floor, and two large
play rooms in the basement.
Brainerd. — The city is advertising
for tenders for $300,000 in waterworks
bonds to be sold April 28 at a special
meeting of the city council. Interest
will not exceed 5 per cent, and the
bonds, which will be in $1,000 denominations, will mature at stated periods
up to July 1, 1949. The building of
the water plant will save the city from
purchasing a fire truck.
Thief River Falls.—J. H. Hay, who
resigned the superint'endency of the
local schools after long service and
whose resignation started a controversy between his friends and enemies, announces he has accepted the
superintendency of the Warroad
schools for the coming year, at a salary above that which he was receiving
Jn this city.
\Red Lake Falls, Minn.—Application
.oi a charter to start a fourth bank
at) Red Lake Falls has been made
b$ Walter J. Quesnell and others, and
'a hearing will be held by the state
securities commission at St. Paul,
April 29, to decide the matter. The
name of the new bank will be Citizens State bank, and it will have a
capital of $25,000 if granted a charter.
St. Paul.—Minnesota casualties in
the world war numbered 7,450, according to a preliminary estimate
made by Lieut. T. Glenn Harrison, intelligence officer, to Adjt.-Gen. Rhinow.
Lieut. Harrison is compiling war records of Minnesota men and has tabulated the casualty lists as made public.
Minnesota men. in service totaled
about 98,000, and the name of one
man in each ten will appear on the
complete casualty list, Lieut. Harrison predicted.
Minneapolis. — Rev.     Stephen     J
Schatz,  who   resigned  the   pastorage
of  St.   Cyril's   Catholic  church  here,
following several threats against his
life made by parishioners has left for
his home in Montgomery to await another  appointment.    After  a  conference with Archbishop Dowling, Father ,
Schatz  gave  out  word  that  no  new ;
priest will be sent to St. Cyril's church j
for the present.    Subsritution of the.
English language for the Slovak in the j
teaching of the cathechism was listed ;
as    one    grievance    against    Father j
Schatz  in  anonymous  letters  he  re- j
ceiled.    The   priest's   life   was   held;
imperiled  unless  he  left the church j
before May 1. i
St. Paul.—After many unsuccessful j
attempts, Mary Haustad, 46, wife of;
an Otter Tail county farmer, committed j
suicide, by hanging Wednesday at the !
Fergus*.Falls state hospital, in which I
she was a patient, the state board of j
control was advised.
St. Paul.—E. A. Martner, Minneapo-1
lis, has been named to the new chiropractic board by Governor Burnquist.
Other appointments were W. H. Vree-
land   of   St.   Paul,  P.  D.  Peterson of
Spring Valley, Dr. J. Conkler of Du-,
luth, and R.  C. Edwards   of   Fergus;
Falls.   The terms range fro.m 1Ww'to !
five years,
EASTER DANCE in Faust's Hall Monday, April 21st, 1919.