The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-08-31

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, AUGUST 31, 1916.
NO. 11.
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
Farm Your Farm;
Don't Mine It
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
George J. Reichart has been appointed postmaster at Long Prairie.
A $100,000 project, which will give
St. Cloud a civic center, has been
launched.
J. D. Sims, retired pioneer lumberman, is dead at Minneapolis, aged
seventy-eight.
Norman Potter, twelve years old, of
Minneapolis was killed when his bicycle collided with a street car.
Rye sold for $1.20 on the Duluth
board of trade Tuesday, the hlghtst
price ever recorded in that city.
Martin Olson, Moorhead city alderman, paid a $75 fine when found
guilty of violating the prohibition law.
Charles E. Ely, the first white boy
to thread what now are the streets
of Winona, is dead at De Smet, S. D.
Frederick W. Stevens, for many
years Identified with the lumber business in Minneapolis, is dead at Seattle.
Minneapolis has been selected for
the 1917 meeting place of the Minnesota Woman's Christian Temperance
union.
J. W. Houle, president of the Forest
Lake State bank and chairman of the
Washington county board of commissioners, is dead.
Mrs, Katherine Pfeifer, one of St.
Paul's pioneer women, having reached
that city in 1857, is dead. She was
eighty-eight years of age.
Alfred L, May, for fifteen years
prior to 1910 manager of the St. Paul
branch of the American Press Association, is dead at St. Paul, aged sixty-
three.
Governor Burnquist has announced
the appointment of twenty-nine Minnesota delegates to the Farmers' National Congress, Oct. 17 to 20, at Indianapolis,
Twenty head of cattle were drowned
In Lake Winnipegosis, near Dauphin,
when a barge on which they were being transported was capsized by a
huge wave,
There are 798,804 acres of unappropriated public lands in Minnesota, according to official figures just made
public by the interior department at
Washington,
J. J. Farrell, head of the state dairy
and food commission, announces that
the sale of cigarettes on the Minnesota state fair grounds this year will
be prohibited.
A narrow strip of wood was hurled
from a ripsaw at the plant of Schroth
& Ahrens at Winona and penetrated
the abdomen of Robert J. Frey. His
condition is critical.
Rev. Ignatius Toraazln, -aged seventy, who resigned his pastorate at
Albany, this state, a month ago,
jumped to his death from the sixth
floor of a Chicago hotel.
G. H. Drew, a farmer living near
Elk River, died in a hospital at Princeton from injuries received when he
was thrown from his rig when the
horses became frightened.
Creation of a game refuge embracing 13,680 acres along the west bank
of the Minnesota river south of St.
Peter Is announced by Carlos Avery,
Btate game and fish commissioner.
Rev. James C, Byrne, pastor of St.
Mary's church at St, Paul, has been
selected by Archbishop Ireland to succeed Rev. Thomas J. Gibbons as vicar
general of the archdiocese of St. Paul.
George Sanprizos, ten years old, was
drowned in the Mississippi river at
Minneapolis. Four playmates' of the
same age tried to reach him, but
feared to follow him into the deep
water.
An automobile driven by Hunroe
Shandeling and carrying eleven persons, mostly children, to a Jewish
picnic at Ely lake, turned over, killing
one child and injuring most of the
others.
Joseph Tibault, forty years section
foreman of the Northern Pacific at
White Bear, died of heart disease on
a train en route to the railroad hospital at Brainerd. He was sixty-four
years of age.
Two young, small and well dressed
youths tried to hold up Charles Nelson, a Minneapolis cabinetmaker, and
when Nelson ran fired three shots
that struck him in the right shoulder,
arm and side.
According to a statement issued by
State Auditor Preus a new high record will be set this year in Minnesota
production of iron ore despite reductions attributed to the strike on the
Mesabi range.
Rev. Thomas H. Cleland, D. D., pastor of Knox Presbyterian church at
Minneapolis and one of the leading
ministers in his denomination, is dead
at Minneapolis. He was seventy-
three years old.
Fred E. Wheaton, chairman of the
Democratic state committee, who has
just returned from a trip to the Pacific coast, announces that Democratic
state headquarters will be opened
shortly in the Radisson hotel in Minneapolis.
Extract from article by H. F.
Hollis, U. S. Senator from New
Hampshire.
John Brown lives on a farm
in the Middle West. The soil is
heavy and black, but it has been
exhusted by a process of crop-
ing which is more like mining
than farming. Everything has
been taken from it. Nothing has
been restored. That is why the
owner, grown rich from soil exhaustion, has sold out and
moved to town.
The bare purchase of the
farm has taken nearly all of
Brown's savings. The buildings
leak; fences are down; machinery is lacking; some of the land
needs draining; the rest needs
fertilizer.
Brown's neighbor is prosperous. He has treated his land like
a farm, not like a mine. He has
used good seed, bought good
stock, laid drain pipes, and
purchased commercial fertlizer
by the ton. At the end of the
year his barns are full and his
crops are safe from the weather
while Brown's crops are meager, and further reduced by frequent wettings.
Celebrated Their
Silver Wedding
Martin Gelhar and wife celebrated the 25th anniversary of
their wedding last Tuesday.
After the ceremonies at church,
at 9 o'clock in the morning, a
reception was held at the Gel-
has home, which was attended
by a large number of friends
and relatives. August Utecht,
brother to Mrs. Gelhar, and
wife of Stillwater were present.
The   many  friends   of Mr.   and
i
Mrs. Gelhar sincerely wish that
they  may help  celebrate  their
golden wedding 25 years hence.
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
Sullivan News
After finding no work in Dakota, D. W. Sims and son Frank
and Li. Pint and son Jim have
returned home.
Mrs. Arba Waller and Miss
Powers of Rucker, called on
friends at the lake last Thursday.
Fred Lj'nn met a bear in the
road near the Haywood place
last Friday—as he had no gun—
he gave the bear lots of room
and did not persue him.
Mr. and Mrs. Berner, M. E.
Barnes of Little Falls and R. C.
Bethel of Hillman were lake
callers Friday.
A Hennepin Bridge Co. man
was in this vicinity Friday soliciting orders for culverts.
Mrs. Lynn was a Hillman visitor Friday.
Wm. Droger drove to Lastrup
Friday and invested in a brand
new wagon and—a dog.
John Britton was a business
caller in Pierz Friday.
Miss Margaret Cook left with
the stage for -tucker Saturday,
where she visited Miss Elizabeth
Waller until Tuesday.
Mrs. C. E. Look and children
visited at Chas. Sanborn's Saturday afternoon.
Tne school board met at the
school house No. 1'Saturday to
sign contracts for hauling children on the Smith route. Tom
Smith was the lowest bidder.
Mrs. Ford and daughter, Mrs.
T. S. Look, Mrs. C. E. Look and
children picniced at Logan Sunday, also called at the Randall
home.
The Misses P. Kuelin and
C. Gross of Madison, Wis.,
who had been visiting here
with the Henry Schneppen-
heim and Nick Lochner families autoed to St. Paul last
Sunday to visit Sister Pan-
kratia O. S. B., from there
they will call on Father Werner at Hastings, before returning home to Madison,
Motton picture show at
Faust's Opera House every
Sunday night at 8:30-.
South Agram News.
Mr. and Mrs. Math. Schnurer
aud family visited at J. ,i. Brum-
mer's Sunday.
Aug. Meyer and family, Ludwig Bednar, and Fred Bpoerlein
and son Walter were among the
Pierz callers from this vicinity
Sunday.
Mrs, John Eidenshink returned from the Little Falls hospital
Sunday afternoon.
The barn dance held in Math.
Meyer's new barn Thursday was
well attended and enjoyed by
all.
Frank Kippley returned from
Minneapolis Saturday night for
a short visit with his parents.
He left again the evening.
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Hanson
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Edw.
Miller and Misses Eva and Katie Brummer visited at Spoer-
leins Sunday.
School will begin in dist. 131
next Tuesday, with Miss Anna
Gerding as teacher.
Miss Elizabeth Block will be
the teacher in dist. 122, known
as the Peter Theis district.
The young people of this vicinity had a pleasant time at Fish
Lake Sunday afternoon, which
was enjoyed by all.
Many farmers will start seed*
ing rye this week.
.N.Carnes appointed
Co. Commissioner
Math.  Thommes   made   a|    J-N. Carnes of Royalton
trip to St. Cloud yesterday.   Iwas this afternoon coun=
"Can do almost anything,"
means, "Can do almost nothing"
be an expert stenographer, bookkeeper, banker or salesman.
Write to the Little Falls Business College today.
Genola News.
Miss Julia Kobilka, who has
been employed at Duluth, has
been visiting at her home the
past week. •
Mrs. Herman Bentfeld and son
Louis left Tuesday for Wisconsin to visit relatives.
Sister Genima, O. S. B., formerly Miss Wilkis, was the guest
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Wilkis and family.
Mrs. Thomas Kobilka went to
Greenwald Monday.
Miss Mary Bolster now has
fall and winter hats for sale at
the F. O. Bolster store in Genola.
SisterCarithas O. S. B. visited
With Magnus Rauch and family
Monday. Sister Carithas was
Miss Katderine Kingen.
Mrs. F. Litke and family and
Mildred Friedrich motored to
Morrill Sunday.
List of Unclaimed Letters
Letters addressed to the following named parties are at the
postoffice in Pierz and have not
been called for:
Mrs. Savanah Salervi,
Miss Susan Franke,
Dr. John F. Skurrier.
Joseph Fritz has bought
the Sehr lesidence in upper
town.
Henry Fruth of Albany
transacted business -liere last
week.
Tom Hayes, formerly of
Royalton, now of Frjizee, mo-
tered here Tuesday.
George Lakin son of the
Fred Lakin of Royalton motored here Tuesday.
Threshing engines are beginning to pipe in early
morn and late at night.
Math. Mueller and son
spent last week at St. Joseph's hospital in St. Paul.
Chas. Feucht of Perham is
here on a visit with his brother Louis and other relatives.
Hubert Brust and family
have moved into the Peter
Poster building in upper
town.
A laundry in an eastern
town advertises: "Don't kill
your wife. Let us do the
dirty work."
Peter Langer repo.rts that
he threshed 11 1-2 bushels of
wheat, 27 bushels of oats and
21 bushels of rye per acre.
Mike Meyer and 'bis son
returned last week from Fra-
zee, where they had been
working since early spring.
Albert Zubregel came up
from Greenwald Saturday
and spent S una ay at home.
He reports the country about
Greenwald flowcU-d from recent heavy rains, and that
ditches are very much in demand there.
Frank Thienes of Brainerd
and J. S. Thienes and son
John of Little Falls left for
Glasgow, Mont., last week,
where they will visit relatives. They expect to spend
a month on the trip and will
return by way of Glacier National park. The trip will
be made by automobile.
The Journal sent out a
number of statements to delinquent subscribers, which
must be attended to at once.
While the amount is a small
matter to each subscriber,
the sum total of all amounts
to several hundred dollars.
At the present price of paper
and other material we cannot
afford to carry any "deadheads."
Auditor McNairy will call
a meeting some time this
week for the purpose of appointing a successor to the
late Fred H. Lakin. The
chairmen of the towns of Lakin, Mount Morris, Morrill,
Buekman, Bellevue and Two
Rivers and the presidents of
the village councils of Buck-
man, Royalton and Bowlus,
will constitute the board that
will select the new county
commissioner.
Wedding Dance.
Everybody  is  invited to  our
wedding dance  in Faust's Hall,
Monday eyening, Sept. 11th.
11-2 John C. Loidolt.
ty commissioner, to fill
the vacancy caused by
death of Fred Lakin.
Four Head of Cattle
Killed by Lightning
Just before going to press,
the report came in that John
Dahraen of Granite had lost
4 head of cattle by lightning
this morning.
Five were struck, but one
recovered from the shock half
an hour later.
Jacob Duschers house, occupied by Mike Priglmeier
was also struck, but no damage was done.
Pierz Village Separates from Towns
At the special election today it was voted that the village separates from the towns
of Pierz a nd Buh, by a majority of seven votes.
Motion picture show at
Faust's Opera House every Sunday night at 8:30.
Born—To Mr. and Mrs.
George Held last week, a
son.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed.Schwankl
and children of' Richmond
are here this week visiting
with Mr. Schwankl's parents and other relatives.
"" Sister Charitas O. S. B. of
Richmond came to Pierz last
Friday to visit with relatives
and friends. She is a sister
to Mrs. Ed. Schwankl.
During the last year 203
farm buildings were destroyed by fire at a loss of$299,120.
A fire in a farm building,
owing to the lack of fire protection, always means a total
loss.
Mrs. John Feider, who underwent an operation for appendicitis in a hospital at
Duluth last week Wednesday, is doing as well as can
be expected, so her mother,
Mrs. M. K. Wermerskirchen
reports.
Mike Meyer, Jos. Janorski,
Math. Neisius, Math. Bednar,
Nick and John Meyer, who
have been working for the
Nichols & Chisholm Lumber
Co. at Frazee, returned home
last week.
Mrs. Katherine Tischbierek,
sixty eight years old, died -Jon-
day evening in' St. Raphael's
hospital as a result of stepping
on a rusty nail at her home in
Duelm last Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Tischbierek fait pains
immediately after injuring her
foot, and aphysician was called,.
He was unable to help her and
she was removed to the hospital
at St. Cloud on Friday: Her
limb was removed Saturday
afternoon but gangrene had already set in and soon spread
throughout the system.
Motion picture show at
l^aust's Opera House every
Sunday night at 8:30.
News Items From ':
Our County $eat
Fred Stangl of St. / Cloud
spent Sunday at the homje of his
sister, Mrs. F. G. Ruth, on his
way to Minot, N.  D,
Mr. and Mrs. Geo ge F.
Moeglien, Jr., and children and
Fred Coenenmadean autcVnobile
trip Sunda^toSt. Cloud, Mora,
Mille Lacs lake and Branaerd.
They found the roads in first
class condition everywhere ex>
cept between Mora and Wahkon,
on the shore of Mille Lacs lake.
This strip wasrought, but everywhere else the roads were all
that could be desired.
The police were called to
arrast a supposed hold-up man
a few miles east of the city on
the Pierz road Sunday evening,
but when they found the man he
proved to be under the influence
of liquor snd apparently only
wanted a ride home. He stood
in the road in front of Joseph
La Fond's automobile as he was
returning hsme from Little Falls
and, according to Mr. LaFond,
ordered him to atop or he
would shoot. He did not stop,
but notified the police from the
nearest house. Tne man who
tried to stop him was brought
back to Little Falls and later.
He said he had been left there
by the party he came in from
Pierz with.
Little Falls.—County Auditor
McNairy has.received has suply
small game hunting licences and
is accepting applications for
licenses now. The permits them
selves cannot be issued until
next Monday, as the law forbids
issuing them until three days before the chicken season opens.
The season opens Sept. 7. These
licenses give the 1 older right to
shoot chickens, d:.cks and other
smell game. The fee for a resident of the state is $1 and for a
non-resident $10 and the holder
may hunt anywheaein the state.
Two applications have alread3r
been received by Mr. McNairy,
the first from Ernest G. Anders
of Little Falls town and the
second from F. J. Buessler of
Granite.
Little Falls.—Strangled by
turning on his face on the pillow of his cradle, the 6 months-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Irving
Peddley of sontheast Little
Falls town was found dead by
his parents shortly beiore noon
Saturday.
The child had^been left with
a 12 year old girl while Mr. and
and Mrs. Pedley were away
from home for a short time. The
girl put the baby in his cradle
after he had gone to sleep aud
when the parents returned he
was still in the cradle and they
supposed, as had the girl, that
he was still asleep. Later they
found that he was dead and called Coroner E. L. Fortier.
Grain and Produce
flarket Report.
ITALY DECLARES
WARONGERMANY
Rome Sends Formal Notice
Through Swiss Agency.
HOSTILITIES DATE FROM NOW
Nations   Practically   in   Conflict   With
Presence of  Emmanuel's Army
in the Balkans.
Wheat, No. 1, §1
Wheat, No-  2     1
Wheat, No. 3---       1
Flax,        1
Barley	
Rye  1
Oats	
Ear Corn	
Hay     7
Butter, Creamery •
Dairy	
Eggs	
Flour, Royal	
"    WhiteRose	
Low grade flour	
Bran    	
Shorts 	
Cracked Corn 80 pounds-
Ground Feed	
Beans 	
Onions	
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Rome, Aug. 28.—Italy has declared
war on Germany, It was announced of-
:ficially here.
Berlin, Aug .28.—The following official announcement was made here:
"The Italian government has declared through the Swiss government that
it considers .itself from Aug. 27 at war
with Germany."
Italy and Germany have been drifting steadily toward war. In fact,
Italy's formal declaration amounts to
little more than official recognition of
a state of affairs which already existed. The declaration became inevitable when Italy recently sent troops
to Saloniki to co-operate in the campaign of the entente allies on the
Macedonian front, as Germany is directing the opposing forces and has
troops on this battle line.
Italy's position in regard to Germany has been an anomalous one
since Italy, withdrew from the triple
alliance May 23 of last year and declared war on Austria. Although by
this act she arrayed herself against
her former allies, Germany and Austria, she remained officially at peace
with Germany until now.
Other indications of approaching
war have been observed in recent
weeks. It was reported unofficially
that Germany had taken charge of the
defense of Trieste. A more definite
indication was the severance last
month of the last tie between the nations.
BOLOARS SPREAD OUT,
London, Aug. 28.—Heavy fighting
continues between the entente and
the Teutonic allies in the Macedonian
theater from the region of Lake Ochri-
da, eastward to Kavala on the Aegean,
but with results beclouded by diverging statements of Berlin and Paris.
Berlin reports that Bulgarian forces
operating to the west of Lake Ochrida
have captured Malik in Albania and
that along the Struma, King Ferdinand's men are approaching the mouth
of the river.
Paris admits the Bulgars have taken all except one of the forts at Kavala on the Aegean, but says the newly acquired positions-have come under
the fire of British warships.
London reports the capture of 200
yards of a German trench north of.
Bazentin la Petit and a further gain
northward of Ginch;-. Berlin says that
British attacks south of Thiepval,
northwest of Pozieres and north of
Bazentin le Petit were without success.
Paris records only the repulse of
German attacks along the line held
by the French.
The Russians, for some time inactive in the Riga region, again have
started an offensive. However their
efforts to cross the Dvina river southeast of Riga and also near Friedrich-
stadt failed, according to Berlin.
In the Carpathians, Petrograd
chronicles a fresh advance at Kovarla
mountain, near the Hungarian border.
Infantry fighting on the Isonzo front
is at a standstill, but the Austrians
are heavily bombarding Italian posi-|
tions along the river and at Vallone. j
ARCHBISHOP SPALDING DEAD:
Noted    Catholic    Prelate    Expires   atj
Peoria,   III.
Peoria, 111., Aug. 28. — Archbishop!
John Lancaster Spalding, a noted prel-j
ate of the Catholic church in Illin is j
and a resident of Peona consecutively!
since .1877. when he was elected to!
the position of bishop of the newly;
created Peoria diocese, died at his;
residence here.
He had been ill for a number of i
years, having suffered a paralytic j
stroke in 1906.
Archbishop Spalding received na-|
tionwide notice when President Roose-j
velt named him as one of the arbitra-l
tors to settle the anthracite coal!
strike in 1902. He was the author ofi
several books dealing with labor topics j
and also wrote several works on re- j.
ligious , questions. '
Bishop Spalding was born in Lebanon, Ky., June 2, 1840.
FEDERAL   WAR   RISK   PAYS
Government Bureau Brings Net Profit
of. $2,237,859.
Washington, Aug. 25.—Since its establishment nearly two years ago the
bureau of war risk insurance has
brought a net profit to the treasury
department of .?2,237,S59, Secretary
McAdoo announced.
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