The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-09-07

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, nORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, SEPTEMBER, Wc1916.
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Shot Off His
Big Toe Sunday
A little E3ird   SJeed now
and then,
Is relished by the wisest men.
Anton Swazer of Platte returned from a long hunt last
Sunday noon. Chickens were
scarce and his hunting bag was
not as well filled as he expected
it to be when he started out in
the morning. Barney Burton
hunted in Platte the first day of
the open season.
Ill luck had been Anton's lot
all day; and when he stepped
across the threshold of his brothers door, the gun, which he was
carrying with the barrel down,
accidentally discharged and shot
off the biggest one of his toes,
which was then on the inside of
the row of toes of his left foot.
The loss is about the biggest
which can befall any man, in
the toe line.
The loss of a small toe is not
so deplorable, and, may even
be desirable, if such toe bears a
crop of well matured corn.
But toecorn shot into the
ground with a shot gun may
grow and bear again, like acorn
and fieldcorn.
Planting and perpetuating
toecorn by shooting it into the
ground always comes about by
accident. The operation is never
premeditated. To elevate a foot
above the skyline and deliberately aim a double-barrel or repeating shotgun at the small toe
and spontaneously distribute a
corn into space to destroy the
germination, takes considerable
nerve.
Village Council
Proceedings
The village council met in regular monthly session Saturday,
Sep. 2nd, 1916. The meeting
was called to order by the president.
All members were present except B. Gross and P. Meyer.
Motion made and seconded to
accept the plat of the Sisters
addition to the Village of Pierz.
Motion was carried.
The   following   bill   was   allowed:
J. P. Paust, for work on
street, 9 hours,    $2-25
Upon motion adjourned.
S. Priemesberger, Pres.
John N. Paust, Recorder.
Morrison Takes Third
At State Fair
In the central divison of the
state, Morrison county was the
third at the State Pair. Wadena
was first, Washington second
and Morrison third. Morrison
drew $120 in prizes.
Like a Circus.
"How Did you like the State
Pair," asked Tom ot Jim, who
had just returned from the
sights.
"Well," said Jim, "the State
Pair is a good deal like a circus.
If you have seen one, you have
seen them all."
Jos. Jaeger and Tony Langer of Staples motored to
Pierz last Saturday to get
Mrs. Tony Langer, who had
been visiting at the Mr. and
Mrs. John P. Langer home
for the past week.
While our mind is running on
toes instead of feet, we'll take
occasion to tell of a case of inflammatory rheumatism, which
Was entirely cured by the toe
route.
Jimmie Hynes, now Dr. Hynes
of Minneapolis had been afflicted
with inflammatory rheumatism
for a number of years. He had
wallowed in the mud of Jordan
and had floated in the ooze at
West Baden up to the upper
margin of his lower teeth; and
poultices made of hay seed recommended by well-meaning old
women he had used in immense
quantities without giving him
the slightest relief. The pain
continued to shoot from joint to
joint, making temporary stops
of varying lenghts at each joint.
One day old rheumatism made
his quarters in the middle joint
of Jimmie's little toe. Having
occasion to visit the basement
of the old city hospital morgue
that evening, we found Jimmie
sitting on the cement floor, with
a block of wood near his foot
and a carpenter's chisel and a
heavy wooden mallet by his
side.
"Kirk," he burst out as soon
as he recognized us by the low
gaslight, "I've got it. For the
last ten years I've been almost
an invalid with this confounded
rheumatism. I've studied the
disease in all its stages and by
this time I think my idea about
the cause and cure of it ought
to have some weight. The cause
of the disease, I'll leave for others to discourse upon;the cure is
what the sufferer is looking
for. I claim rheumatism can be
cured by surgery, if the darned
thing can be caught napping in
a corner of the body where it
can be separated without endangering the vitals.
Here I have my tormentor
cornered in the middle joint of
my little toe. The cure is easily understood, Get rid of the
toe: get rid of rheumatism. Why
theorize and elaborate about
uric acid diathesis? My cure is
immensely practical. You'll not
find it mentioned in Osier or in
other standard text books. But
medical authors don't write from
practical experience. They
havn't all had rheumatism, I
came down here tonight to cure
myself—to effect an auto-cure.
When it came to the final stroke,
I lost my nerve. I am glad you
came. Do it for me. The instruments are all here, and the
technique of the operation is so
simple that you'll have no difficulty in following it. Now I put
my foot against the block and
hold the chisel against the proximal end of the toe. It is always important to remember
that the point of severance must
be between the disease and the
main body. Now as I hold my
toe on the block and the chisel
against the toe, you as chief
surgeon, swing this sledge and
hit the top of the chisel a mighty whack- That will forever
separate me from rheumatism."
We followed instructions. With
a tremendous swat the chisel
sank through with a dull cartilaginous sound, and the severed
toe flipped off into a dark corner
of the basement and rolled down
a rathole. The rats got the
rheumatism, but Jim hasn't had
a rheumatic pain since. If you
don't believe it, ask him yourself, when you next go to Minneapolis. His office is at 52 S.
3rd street. He will show you
where the toe was before the
operation. No, the authorities
do not yet realize the possibilities of surgery.
Felix Plattl Died Sunday.
Little Palls—Felix Plettl died
Sunday evening at his home
from tuberculosis of the lungs
and throat after an illness of
about a month. The funeral was
held in Little Falls yesterday
morning at 9 o'clock, Rev. J. P.
Altendorf officiating, and interment was in Calvary cemetery.
An Auto Breaks
Horse's Leg
Adam Virnig lost a valuable
horse last Friday afternoon. It
had to be kiiled on account of a
broken leg, caused by having
been struck by a passing auto.
The driver refused to make good
the loss, and by the time Adam
could get the machinery of law
into motion the car had left the
country. It bore an Iowa license.
Thirty Years Ago.
Little Falls—Senator Buck-
man intends to cut about 3,000,-
000 feet of pine logs on Skunk
brook this coining season and
now has a force of men at work
building two dams on the stream
to make log driving easier in
the spring. He also let a contract for the banking of a large
amount of his logs on thePrairie
river, where he had camps of
his own last winter.
" Mr. Wm. Butler was called to
Chicago on Sunday by the death
of one of his sisters.
Henry Neuman of Rich Prairie
has contracted with Ph.H.Gross
for the purchase of the Little
Palls house.
Pays For Clothes
With Bogus Check
Rice, Minn.—C. Pollach, alias
C. Burch, a smooth stranger,
drifted into town Tuesday and
victimized several of the business places by issuing forged
checks.
At L. G. Crains' he bought a
suit of clothes, telling Mr. Cairns
that his name was C. PollacU
and his resemblance to the
family residing near here by
that name being enough to pass
for his identification, a check
issued on the Rice State Bank
was accepted. At Janski Bros,
he bought a rain coat paying
for it with $a check signed C.
Burch. Shortly after he left,
these merchants became suspicious and calling up the bank
found that no such person had
any funds deposited there. At
the post office he endeavored to
cash a money order but was refused when he could offer no
means of identification.
He then ' departed for St.
Cloud, but left the suit he had
purchased at Cairns, so they
were nothing out. He induced
L. H. Clepper the constable,
who also conducts an automobile livery, to take him to St.
Cloud and paid him with a
check. He escaped at St. Cloud.
The Charivari.
Book Agent Proves
to Be Light Fingered
St. Cloud.—A warrant was issued this morning for the arrest
of E. J. Duquette, charged by
Mrs. Elizabeth Mence, his former landlady, with taking property not his own.
Duquette was in the city selling books and was accompanied
by his wife. Thev had a room at
the Mence home and it is her
claim that when they packed up
to leave last Thursday that thev
took with them considerable
property that did not belong to
I them. The missing goods are
valued at $1C0 and include a
valueable stickpin, a revolver,
pillow slips and other articles
of household equipment.
The "shivaree" was introduced into America by the
French of Louisiana and Canada.
Of course "shivaree" is a corrupt, contracted form of charivari, the French word, but its
meaning is the same. The charivari began as a regular wedding serenade, but came to be reserved only for unpopular marriages.
The council of Tours, at the
begining of the seventeenth
century, forbade this form of
serenade, the penalty being excommunication from the church,
but this did not put an end to
the practice.
Mild Winter Foretold
by Red Lake Indians
Bemidji,—Oak trees have no
acorns, squirrels areseldom seen,
muskrats have not started to
build, fur bearings animals have
thin coats and bark on trees is
loose: so it will be a mild winter, Indians on the Red Lake
reservation predicted today.
Good Ears From
Good Stalks, Rule
Select mature ears of good
size from stalks which under
competition are of superior vigor. This is the rule that P. J.
Olson of University Farm, St.
Paul, gives for the selection of
seed corn with a view to improving varieties.
In selecting seed ears from
standing stalks, three all important points should be taken
into account: Maturity of ears,
size of ears, and vigor of the
stalks from which ears are taken. If, however, attention is
concentrated upon maturity a-
lone, a very large number of the
selected ears will be undersized.
The result after a few years is
likely to be a small-eared strain
of corn with lowered yield. One
should be earful, therefore, to
select mature ears of good   size.
Thought for the average grower who does maintain a corn
breeding plot the most effective
method of increasing yielding
capacity is selection from vigorous stalks, one must be earful
not to select from stalks which
owe their vigor to their favorable location. A stalk growing
alone in a hill appears more vigorous than one which shares the
hill with two other stalks, not
because it is inherently better,
but because it has less competition. Selection from stalks thus
favored will be of no avail, if
one desires to produce a strain
of corn with increased vigor.
Selection must be made from
stalks which have been subjected to the same conditions as
their neighbors and whichh in
spite of that fact are more vigorous than their neighbors.
One Fourth of Land
Should Be in Corn
One-fourth of the tillable land
in Minnesota, should be planted
to corn every year. Unfavorable
conditions in 1915 should not
discourage Minnesota farmers,
for in the last five years the
average corn crop has produced
twice as much feed to the acre
as the average oats crop. At
least 3,000,000 acres of corn
should be planted in 1917, and
there will be needed 500,000
bushels of seed corn to plant
this acreage. It will add 15,000,
000 bushels to next year's crop
if the seed is selected from the
field and safely stored before
cold weather.
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
Rucker News.
Four school boys from Little
Falls, George Parshall, Willie
Melbourn, Sudger Pratt, and
Willie Crowe, who have been
working for Prank Withiam on
the state road have returned
home for school.
Miss. Sadie Benton left the
Probasco home last week where
she has been staying for some
time, for her home in   Brainerd.
The heavy rains have put a
partial stop to the road work
here.
Some still have hay down and
it isn't drying very  fast  either.
Miss. Evelyn Bruber has gone
to Little Palls to attend high
school.
Mrs.Arber Waller has enjoying the company of a couple of
old friends from Rockfore lahe-
ly.
Miss. Hazel Grier returned to
the home of her parents near
Estevan, Canada last week.
L. Winer was out here last
Saturday buying stock.
Find Body of Woman
in River at St. Cloud
St. Cloud, Sept. llvThe body
of a woman, apparently about
60 years of age, was found in
the Mississippi river yesterday
morning near what is Scherfen-
berg's island, five miles south
of the dam. There is as yet no
clue to her identity. The body
was badly decomposed as to
make a description impossible
and three articles of jewelry
will be the only clues on which
the officials can work. There
was a gold watch and chain, a
gold ring with an initial "C"
inside and a baby ring fastened
to the watch chain. The women
was about five foot four in
height and of average size.
But for the restlessness of a
bunch of cattle belonging to Mr
Schrefenberg, the body might
not have been found yesterday.
The cattle were being pastured
on land belonging to Spencer
Hunt on the river bank and
Harry Hunt was assisting in
rounding them back from forbidden territory. Some of the
herd waded out into the river
and around a fence. Young
Hunt followed them and in the
water, caught in an eddy, he
discovered the body.
The Sherbourne county officials were summoned and Coroner Page of Elk River made an
examination. He ordered the
body buried and interment was
made at Clear Lake.
J. A. Brown Died at Rochester.
James A. Brown, for many
years a resident of Little Palls,
died at a Rochester hospital Sunday evening. During a period
of temporary insanity, brought
on by a nervous breakdown
deceased caused his own death.
He had been failing in health for
about a year.
Isle Advance—There is some
talk of trying to obtain an
electric service in Onamia,
Wahkon and Isle from the Little
Palls water power plant, by
way of Pierz. The Advance believes it a proposition worth
looking into.
Maht.   Wetzsteins's
Auction   is   on  Tuesday,
September 26.
/Tony Ziegler and wife left
for Aberdeen, South Dakota,
Monday.
Don't forget to attend the
County Fair at Little Falls
this week.
E. Wurst of Greenwald attended the wedding dance
here Tuesday evening.
Joseph Butweilerand wife
of Freeport, attended the
Schoenberg-Virnig wedding
here Tuesday.
School started last Monday
in district No. 19, with Miss
Theresia Hoerner of Brainerd as teacher.
Henry Vandenheuvel returned last week from the
northern part of the state,
where he had been doing R.
R. work.
Frank Ernst of Cresco, la.,
visited with his brother Ed.
for Beveral weeks and returned to his home last Monday.
School will start in district
55 next Monday, September
18, with Miss T. Lahr of St.
Cloud as teacher, for an 8
months term.
The Public and Parochial
schools of St, Cloud, will
open not until October first,
on account of the spread of
infantile paralysis.
. Wm. King of Iowa is visiting his brother in Granite.
Mr. King likes this country
so well, that he has about decided to sell out in Iowa and
move here.    /
Motion picture show at
Faust's Opera House every
Sunday, nightat 8:30.
"Mrs.Frank Schneppenheim,
who had been here visiting
with the H. Schneppenheim
family and other relatives
for the past three weeks, returned to her home in Sutton, N. D., Monday.
Wm. and John Meyer left
for Bent, Oregon, this week,
where they will work for the
Nichols and Chisholm Lumber Co. The company has a
large tract of timber land at
that place, which will give
employment for several years.
The two boys are sons of
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer of east
Pierz.
Henry Dahlmeier and family of Mayhew Lake came to
Pierz last Tuesday, to visit
relatives and old time friends
and at the same time attend
the golden wedding of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Weiss.
Lyman W. Ayr of Little
Falls was one of the speakers
at the annual meeting of the
Minnesota Territorial Pioneer's association at the state
fair grounds Thursday afternoon. A large picture of Mr.
Ayr appeared on the first page
of Thursday morning's St.
Paul Pioneer Press. Mr. Ayr
has lived in Minnesota longer
than any of the pioneers, having been the first white child
born in the state. He was
born at Lake Pokegama, near
Pine City, 84 year ago.
Motion picture show at
Faust's Opera House every Sunday night at 8:30.
ABOUT THE SI
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
John J. Sullivan, for sixty years a
resident of St. Paul, is dead.
Edwin J. Porster, prominent Minneapolis insurance man, is dead.
John Peterson, sixty years old, is
dead at Minneapolis of Infantile paralysis.
Stomach trouble has caused the
death of four children in Brainerd in
two days.
Frank Sorentino, thirty-four years of
age, was shot and fatally wounded by
Mill City holdup men.
Fire swept the Kelly-Steinmetz
Liquor company at Minneapolis, causing a loss of approximately, $150,000.
Hugh Duffy, seventy-two years old,
a hack driver of Grand Forks and
East Grand Forks for forty years, is
dead.
Dynamite exploded under the entrance of the First State bank of La-
porte wrecked the building and caused
loss of $2,000.
James E. Haggeman, Northwestern
Minnesota's tallest man, is dead at
Fergus Falls. He was nearly seven
feet in height.
Dr. W. G. Brede of Minneapolis Is
dead from septic pneumonia following
infection from a boil in the scalp at
the base of the skull.
Dick Grant, until two years ago
track coach at the University of Minnesota, has been appointed national
director of athletics for Cuba.
John Newman is dead In the Minneapolis city hospital following a
plunge from the Washington avenue
bridge into the Mississippi river.
First day attendance records at the
state fair for the past three years
were broken Monday when 92,617 persons passed through the turnstiles.
L. G. Shackford, pioneer traveling
salesman of the Northwest and department manager of the St. Paul
Rubber company, is dead, aged fifty.
Deposits at the St-. Paul postal savings bank have passed the $800,000
mark, the highest point they have
reached Blnce the inauguration of the
bank.
After swallowing fly poison Roy
Hagenbach, eighteen-months-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Gottfried Hagenbach,
residing near Hawley, expired in a
hospital.
John Holquist, sixty yeyars old, a
state fair visitor from Forest Lake,
dropped dead on the street at Minneapolis while on his way to take a train
for home.
Andrew Hoass, a Jackson business
man, was drowned in Fox lake. He
was attending a Sunday school picnic
and was in bathing with two other
members of the party.
To supply the initial demand for
moving crops the Ninth Federal Reserve bank of Minneapolis has issued
more than $1,00J,000 worth of currency during the past week.
August Wall, thirty years old, a St.
Paul machinist, shot and probably
mortally wounded his wife, Ericka
Wall, twenty-eight years old, and then
killed himself during a quarrel.
A survey of the Red Lake Northern railway across the Red Lake Indian reservation has been completed
and the plates have been filed with
the department of the interior.
Julius Moersch of St. Paul was reelected president of the Minnesota
German-American alliance in annual
convention - at St. Paul. More than
one hundred delegates attended.
The breaking of a window strap
caused Clym Acaluk, thirty years old,
to fall from a sixth story window ot
the Railroad building at St. Paul to
instant death on the street below.
Minneapolis has 11,266 automobiles
that the city assessor considered taxable this year, a gain of 3,665 since
May 1, 1915. Only 150 motorcycles
were found by the assessor and his
-eputies.
While playing in a stack of oats
Vith his seven-year-old brother, the
two-year-old son of Herman Thornton,
a farmer near Erskine, was burned to
death when the older boy set fire to
the stack.
Ninety-two days from the time he
planted Northern Minnesota grown
seed full grown, well developed ears
of "Minnesota 23" corn were gathered
on the farm of Cod Kimball In Crow
Wing county.
Because the only horse he owned
had died, Frank Gutzera, an eighty-
year-old farmer living near Cold
Springs, is UBing a wheelbarrow to
take his cream to Collegeville, eight
miles distant.
A survey of mining operations on
the Iron Range indicates that labor
troubles have greatly decreased. A
report that the strike formally is to
be called off could not be confirmed
from I. W. W. leaders.
A severe wind and rain storm
which at times approached tornado
proportions, descended upon Winona,
uprooted trees, shattered windows, unroofed small buildings and blew down
a large icehouse before it subsided.