The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1918-07-18

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VOL. NO. 10.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JULY 18, 1918.
No. 5
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HEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.
Bemidji—The Bemidji Chautauqua
■will be held from August 5 to 9.
Crookston—The Northwest fair will
be held here July 29 to August 2. A
big racing program has been arranged
for the occasion.
Crookston—The Glacier National
park auto tour from Port Arthur, Canada, to the Glacier National park, passed thru Crookston.
Crosby—Austrains, Czechs and other
Slavs on the Cuyuna range are showing great interest in the welfare of
their adopted country and are subscribing almost to a man to the war
funds.
Pelican Rapids—The bodies of Edward Haugen and Mrs. Oscar Koppen
have been recovered In Lake Lida,
three miles north of here. They
drowned when their boat overturned
in the weeds.
Fergus Falls—Supt. W. O. Lippit, the
newly1 elected superintendent of the
city schools of this city, is here from
Jackson, Minn., and will spend some
time in this city conferring with Supt.
Norby and familarizing himself with
the work.
Virginia—James Mullen, a woodsman employed at Camp Five, Cusson,
by the Virginia & Rainy Lake Company, walked into the war headquarters on Main street here and laid
down $1,000 in cash for War Savings
Stamps.
St. Paul.—Ernest C. Hartwell, superintendent of St. Paul schools, has
been appointed superintendent of
schools at Buffalo, N. Y., and has accepted the position, according to
telegraphic reports received from the
New York city.
Sleepy Eye—While the band played
on the street on the Fourth, Gates
Phillips hit upon a happy thought,
that of taking up a collection for the
Red Cross. As a result of the generosity of the crowd, the sum of ?35.40
was turned over to Mrs. Strickler, the
•ecretary.
Graceville.—At a meeting held here
attended largely by farmers frorn this
Bection, resolutions were passed commending the action of congress in fixing the price of wheat at $2.40 per
bushel. Similar meetings were held
at Wheaton, Morris, Choklo, Orton-
ville, Beardsley and Big Stone City.
Moorhead—Swimming In the Northern Pacific reservoir near Dilworth,
Minn., Alex Anderson of Moorhead
was drowned when he dived into a
big stone, rendering him unconscious.
His companions, including two brothers, didn't miss Anderson for several
minutes, and by the time they recovered his body, he had succumbed.
Crookston.—A complete report of
the number of garments sent by the
Polk county chapter of the American
Red Cross to Minneapolis since the
time of the organization of the local
chapter until July 1 numbered 13,155.
This work was done with Mrs. E. A.
Mills as vice chairman. The work
comprised hospital supplies, military
relief, Belgian and French relief work.
Minneapolis—Exactly 519 nurseB In
Minnesota have already signed questionnaires agreeing to enter Red
Cross war service by January 1, according to reports made at a recent
meeting of Minneapolis and St. Paul
superintendents of hospital training
schools and representatives of nursing organizations in the state. Minnesota's quota was set by national
headquarters at 450.
Buhl— Mayor William J. Doyle, is
determined to stop blind-pigging.
Matt Krampotich, owner of a soft
drink establishment, who was recently fined $75 in municipal court for
having 320 quarts of whisky in his attic, lost his license to operate as did
Israel Johnson, running a similar establishment, who was fined $50 on a
similar charge. "Revocation of license
will follow every such conviction,"
said Mayor Doyle.
Keewatin—Mrs. Lillie Bartels, from
Minneapolis, with a party of friends
in a Ford ran over the 8-year-old son
of Dominic Generalli on one of the
principal streets of the village. The
boy darted out into the street just
ahead of the car, which passed over
him with both the front and hind
wheels. Mrs. Bartels became excited
when the accident happened and lost
control of the car, which crossed. the
sidewalk and ran into the front of
the  Barrett building.
St. Paul — Secretary of State
S«;hmahl has received from the reclamation bur-sau of the Department of
the Interior a request for information
Ijegarding Minnesota land that may
lje reclaimed. The letter stated a
fhnd of $100,000 J_as be<%£made available for surveys of lands that may
be reclaimed. It was assumed that
»art of the appropriation will be used
tp investigate drainage possibilities in
.orthern Minnesota, where there are
thousands of acres of swamp land.
St. Paul—A child conservation dlvL
Ion of the State Board of Health was
1-eated by the board at a meeting at
lie Capitol,    Dr. E. J. Hueaekens of
Minneapolis was appointed director on
1 part-time basis, and the employment
one nurse was authorized.   Because
If limited funds, the scope of the division work will be restricted this year.
I Moorhead—Alfred Erickson, 13, with
double fracture of the skull, caused
Ihen a Northern Pacific switch engine
Truck the oil truck on which he was
/ding,  probably  will die.    His  companion, Henry Hammerud, though bad-
hurt, is recovering.
Interesting
Correspondence
Holstein Park News.
H. H. Sanborn and mother and
Mrs. Arba Waller were Lastrup
callers Friday.
F. C. Somm and Sam Martin
are spending a few days at home,
while -waiting for repairs on
their well drill.
Mr. and Mrs. Eng. Thompson
from Marshalltown, Iowa, are
here visiting their son E. M.
Thompson and daughter Mrs.
Ethel Perkins.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Taylor visited at Philip Anderson's last
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sanborn
were fishing at Peavy lake last
Monday.
Ruby Christian called on Nellie Martin Saturday evening.
A surprise party was giyen
at the Taylor home last Thursday evening in honor of Donald's
18th birthday. A good crowd
attended and all reported a fine
time.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sorum were
callers at the Thompson home
Sunday, also Mrs. Perkins.
The Martin family was entertained at Chas. Sanborns last
Sunday.
Mrs. Edith Waller spent last
Monday and Tuesday at the J.
Lewis home.
Mr. Lewis and -son Jack went
to Lastrup Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were
Hillman callers Thursday.
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Sullivan News.
Ray Sims motored to Lastrup
last Thursday.
Mrs. Robt. Adkins and son
Billie and grandson Robt. Britton drove to Lastrup Friday.
Wm. Lynn was a Hillman caller Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wolfenden and
daughter returned to the lake
Friday after a week spent in
Delano.
A. W. Cook visited the city of
Pierz Friday.
C. E. Look and son Merle were
in Lastrup Saturday.
A bunch of our young folks
attended the dance at Rucker
Saturday night and report a fine
time.
Earl Smith and sister Jessie
visited at the Hoskins home last
Sunday.
D. K. Harting and family accompanied by James Mische 'of
Little Falls spent a few days at
the lake.
Nick Smith and family and
Mrs. Lepinski of Freedom picniced at the lake Sunday.
Sam and Edwin Martin were
lake callers Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Look and
children were guests at A. W.
Cook's Sunday.
R. F. Cook and wife and Robt.
Perry and wife left Monday for
their home in St. Paul, after a
10 days stay at the lake. Some
fishermen—thev took home 48
pike, none weighing less than
2i and up to Qk lbs.
Mr. and Mrs. Linehan were
Pierz goers Monday.
Visitors at the Camp last week
were A. H. Western, E. E. Lilja,
A. S. Dahlmark, C. A. Gustav-
son of Grasston, Minn., Dan
Sunberg, Foreston, Minn, and
C. H. Boyce and wife, Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. Lisle and Buzz Connor of Royalton.
Farmers Warned     I Slashed Throats of
Of Smooth Plan   His Three Children
Warnings are being sent out
against representatives of companies which offer to buy supplies for farmers at unusually
low prices and to sell farm products at attractive prices.
Representatives of such companies ask the farmer to make
a small cash payment and to
give his note for $50 or $100 additional. In return the company is to give its services in
buying and selling for five years.
It is reported that some 700
farmers have already been
caught in this scheme.
The markets division of the
state committee of food production and conservation is responsible for the warning now being
issued.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Leo. Grelhar, of Camp Arthur, Texas, in home on a
visit.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Stock Raiser Gored by Bull
Last week while Thomas Zac-
zowski, a stock raiser residing
near Roscoe, was in the yard,
he was attacked by a bull and
before tlie man could get to any
shelter he was downed by the
angry critter and was being
gored. His watcdog which happened to be near, ran to his rescue, and after a fight suceeded
in driving the bull away.
This dog has been faithful in
more than one. case and the
man's escape was due entirely
to the faithfulness of his dog.
This bull was known to be vicious at times but the man did
not suspect that it was loose
and he was attacked without
warning.
He suffered a broken arm,
broken leg and several broken
ribs, as well as bruises and cuts.
Mr. Zaczkowski is a brother of
Mrs. Gerhart Brunning of Little Falls.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Bound Over to the Grand Jury
JohnWozniak, who murdered
his three children last Friday,
was arraigned before Judge Lyon Monday afternoon on a
charge of murder in the first
degree. He was bound over to
the grand jury.
Under the statues no court
has the power to test a man's
sanity until he is indicted.
County Attorney C. Rosenmeier
and L. W. Vasaly consulted
Judge Roeser at St. Cloud Monday morning and the court instructed Mr. Rosenmeier to prepare an order for drawing the
jury. The county attorney is
trying to get the matter disposed of as soon as possible.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Mrs. A. L. Preimesberger
and family of Menasha, Wis.
returned home Monday after
visitiug relatives and friends.
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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, __.__.        3.70
Barley  .90
Rye    1.55
Oats      65
Ear Corn 1.40
Hay     10.00
Butter, Creamery ..      45
Dairy       37
Eggs       32
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
Little Falls, Minn., July 13th.
Probably one of the most gruesome sights ever witnessed in
Morrison county met the eyes of
Coroner Trebby this forenoon
when he viewed the remains of
three children, killed by their
father, John Wozniak, who had
slashed their throats with razor
while laboring under the delusion that owing to poor crops
the little tots would starve to
death.
John Wozniak, who lives a-
bout six miles southwest of Little Falls near the village of So-
bieski, has been acting queerly
for several days. Although he
has an excellent farm of 100 a-
cres, well stocked, he believed
that the crops would be poor
and that his children would
starve. Early this morning he
called the two older children
and told them to go and milk
the cows. Four other children
were in one room asleep in different beds. Mrs- J. Wozniak
stepped out of the house for a
few moments and this was evidently a chance Wozniak was
waiting for. While she was absent Wozniak took what is believed to have been a razor and
cut the throats of three of the
children as they lay asleep. The
children are: Tilla, 8 years old;
Louis, 5 years old, and Walter,
aged 6. He did not touch the 8
months old baby in a cradle
near by. He then went to the
kitchen and washed his hands
and was walking about the kitchen when Mrs. Wozniak returned. She soon realized what had
been done and screamed. Peter
Wozniak, a brother of the man,
living close by, heard the
screams and came to the home.
He asked his brother what he
meant and John replied: "Hang
me it you want to." This was
all he could get tire man to say.
Peter then took him to their
mother's place a mile away and
telephoned to the sheriff, who
immediately went out and got
the man.
Sheriff Felix states that when
he told Wozniak that he was
wanted, he answered, "All
right." He made no resistance
but refused to do any more talking. Sheriff Felix then notified
Coroner Trebby, who went to
the scene of the crime accompanied by Drs. E. L. Fortier
and F. H. Hoist and county attorney Rosenmeier. Evidence
of the crime was secured and a
number of neighbors questioned
regarding the murderer. Coroner Trebby will hold an inquist
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock
and several witnesses will probably be summoned. The coroner ordered the bodies brought
to Little Falls and they are at
the Simonet morgue.
Mrs. Wozniak, who is still in
a hysterical condition at the
home of her husband's brother,
is of the opinion that her husband used a razor. The officers
found one razor in the house
and an empty razor case, but
the second razor, which he is
believed to have had, could not
be located. Neighbors state
that Wozniak has been brooding much of late. Mrs. Wozniak
has been ill for some time and
was prepairing to go to Rochester for an operation next week.
Owing to the dry weather the
man has been brooding oyer
poor crop prospects and imagi-
ed that his children would
starve. He had just completed
a large new residence on the
place but had not moved into
it.   He is considered well to do.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Frank Hortsch of Morrill
was an early caller Monday
morning.
John Endres, formerly of
Buh, now of Browerville
called here Friday.
Entertainment
To_be July 26
The Morrison county quota
of men in the July draft will
leave on July 26 for Camp Wads-
worth, Spartanburg, S. C. Fol-
loping is an incomplete list of
men from Pierz who will leave
on the 26th, and there may be
some changes in these.
I. J. Wallmark,
Leo Ebertowski,
Felix Marsh ek,
John Gwiasdoske,
Elroy M. Vaux,
Geo. Englert,
Aloysius-Weisbrick,
John J. Eisel,
Peter H. Bares,
John Fuhrman,
John Dillenburg,
Mike Hiegel,
Frank Brunette,
Wilson Hayes,
Joseph Janorschke,
Theo, A. Hesch,
Fred Mueller,
Anton N. Smith,
—MAKE W.S.S. PLELC-ES—
Food Administration Convention
A County Food Administration convention will be held at
the court house, Little Falls,
Tuesday, July 23 at 2 p. m.
Field Agent, Frank T. Wilson
of the Federal Food Administration will be present to address the convention and will
also answer questions in regard
to rulings issued by the State
Food Administration.
J. K. Martin, Morrison County Food Admimistrator is endeavoring to communicate with
all organizatidns in the county
urging them to have a representative at the convention as
the meeting is to be of considerable importance. All Local
Food Administrators have been
directed to be present at the
convention and invitations are
being sent out to food dealers
throughout the county, to pastors, school teachers, hotel, restaurants and boarding house
keepers, farm clubs, woman's
organizations, churches and fraternal lodges, the idea being to
have someone there representing these different organizations
so that they in turn can disseminate information obtained by
them to the members of these
various organizations throughout the county, it might happen
that some may be overlooked
in sending out invitations. Failure to receive such invitations
does not mean that the organization or person is not invited.
A representative meeting is
wanted and all who are in a
position to attend should do so.
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Farm Bureau Notes
Seventy-four farmers met at
the court house in Little Falls
Wednesday, July 10 to discuss
the price of threshing grain.
The majority of those present
fayored a charge of 4 cents for
threshing oats and barley and
6 cents for rye and wheat.
A committee representing the
farmers will meet with a committee re presenting- the threshermen Wednesday, July 17, at 2p.
m., in the Red Cross assembly
room,First National bank building.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
YOUR
Third Payment
ON
Your Liberty Bond
IS DUE
JULY 18th
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Local Happenings
OTthe Week
Grrain cutting started yesterday.
Nick Hennen visited in
Miles City, Mont, last week.
E. L. Robinson of Onamia
is making a short sojourn in
Pierz.
J. J. Roch of Zuinbrota,
Minn., was a visitor here yesterday.
Mrs. Tony Wolke is visiting with the Jake Pflepsen
family in Buffalo.
Anton Zimmermann made
a business trip to Rogers the
first days of this week.
A heavy rain shower fell
in Agram early last Monday
morning but not in Pierz.
Mrs. I. Preimesberger and
children of Staples were visitors here a f6w days this
week.
Tony Ne spore left for
Hibbing, Minn, where he intends to work in the iron
mines.
Mrs. Lorenz Frichels and
daughter Marie left last Saturday for Loretto, Minn, for
a week's visit with relatives
and friends.
Alois and Math Solinger,.
and J. F. Michaels of Melrose visited Peter Solinger
here this'week. . They started for Duluth by auto Wednesday.
A. Saurer of Albany is the
new manager of the Borgerding Lumber yard. J. N.
Terhaar is taking a short vacation, after which he will
take a position in the German
State Bank.
Ttiere will be no question a-
bout your future success if you
are trained in the Little Falls
Business'College. This college
is one of the most completely
equipped business schools in
the entire country. Beginning
salaries of sixty to a hundred
and twenty-five dollars a month
is the record of our students.
Send for catalog.
Jake Pella of North Dako-
to is here on a short visit.
He says crops look well in
the eastern part of the state
but need rain within a few
days to save them. Wednesday at 5 o'clock in the afternoon the thermometer registered 95 in the shade in Fargo. *
F. F. Kippley, of Pierz,
Minn, was a visitor on July
11th at the big exhibit of
Southern California products
maintained free to the puclic
in the Los Angeles Chamber
of Commerce. He also attended the lectures and moving pictures that are part of
the daily program. The exhibit is the largest of any in
the country maintained by a
commercial organization.
Before returning home, Mr.
Kippley expects to visit several of the many other places
of interest in southern California. Los Angeles, Cal.
item.
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Platte News
CAN TAKE OVER
ALL WIRE LINES!
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Senate Passes House Resolution;
Giving the President That
Authority.
ACTION IS UNCERTAIN!
Cabinet   Officers   Intimate   That   Gov.!
ernment May Soon Take Advantage of the Powers
Just Granted.
"Washington, July 16.—President Wil-i
son's request for authority to take over
and operate telegraph, telephone, cable
and radio lines has been granted by
congress.
By a vote of 46 to 16—the minority
all Republicans—the Senate adopted,
without amendment, the House resolution granting such power for the period of the war.
All Amendments Defeated.
All attempts to amend or modify the
administration measure which passed
the House July 5 by a vote of 221 to
4 were defeated. Amendments by Senator Watson of Indiana to except telephones and press wires from the resolution were defeated respectively, 41
to 20 and 39 to 21.
An amendment by Senator Gore of
Oklahoma, Democrat, to limit action
regarding telephones to long distance
wires was voted down, while an amendment by Senator Reed of Missouri, designed to secure unrestricted use of
public facilities was twice rejected.
Although the statements of the cabinet officers indicated that the powers
might be used as soon as granted,
there has been no announcements as
to just what the President intends to
do or when.
During debate on the resolution it
was said the government would take
over only trunk lines and connecting
systems, leaving to their owtr-Mianage*
ments the thousands of rural andsr_f?HI~
independent systems throughout the
country.
CHINA WILL  BUILD  VESSELS
Shanghai    Yard    to    Construct    Four
Ships for United  States.
Washington, July 16. — China has
been added to the list of nations building merchant ships to help defeat Germany.
The Shipping board has awarded
to the Chinese government yard at
Shanghai contracts for four cargo vessels of 10,00 tons each,and took options for the building of 80,000 more
tons.
The entire program will involve the
expenditure of perhaps $30,000,000. Approximately 35,000 tons of steel will
be shipped from this country, but the
engines and other equipment will be
built in China.
25 AMERICANS DIE IN ACTION
Latest Casualty Lists Carry Names
of 68 Wounded.
Washington, July 15. — The last
army casualty list shows: Killed in
action, 14; died of wounds, 1; died
of accident and other causes, 2;
wounded severely, 46; missing, 8;
total, 71.
The marine corps casualty list
shows: Killed in actifin, 11; died of
wounds, 5; wounded severely 17; total, 33.
The following Northwest names appear on the lists: Corp. Edward
Hoyck, St. Paul, killed in action; Private F. W. Sinner, St. Paul, severely
wounded.
AMERICANS   GO   TO   LONDON
Wounded   Soldiers   Are   Said   to   Be
Given   Best  of  Care.
London, July 16.—American wounded are now arriving in London in considerable numbers from the sections of
France where the Americans are brigaded with the British. They reach
the various main line stations on British hospital trains together with hundreds of British wounded with which]
the trains are laden.
The American soldiers already are I
receiving the best of care and are be-!
ing visited by American women mem- j
bers of a committee formed to look!
after them as soon as the hospital au-!
thorities give their permission.
Those that  visluU at Ike C.
Reese home Sunday were:    Mr.
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DESTROY  3,856  FOE  PLANES;
British Army Fliers on Western Front!
Drop 3,233.
London, July 16.—In one year onj
the British Western front the royal!
air force has accounted for 3,233 en-|
emy airplanes.
In the same period the naval air-!
men shot down 623, a total of 3,856.
During this period, 1,904 British ma-'
chines were missing.    Ninety-two  of
these were working with the navy.
TO GET HOME NEWS BY CABLE
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Dance in Faust's Hall Tuesday, July 23rd.   FREE for the Drafted Pqpj
American Fighters In Franco Will Be
Kept Posted.
New York, July 15.—Arrangement.
to distribute neighborhood news to al
of the fighting forces abroad have been
perfected by the foreign press cable
service bureau of the Committee on
Public Information. This new featui ?
is derigncd to give American soldiers
such news as they might expect to re
ceive in letters from their relatives if
the mails could be depended upon.
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