The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-09-21

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, nORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, SEPTEMBER, 21, 1916.
NO. 14.
How Is the Ford
Car Made
Almost everybody knows what
a Ford is and what it-looks like.
They are turned out at the rate
of 1000 a day. Only a genius as
manager can handle such a tremendous output.
If you are interested in knowing how it is done.   Come to the
Moving Picture Show
at  Faust's  Hall,  Sunday, September 24th.
How the Ford cars are made
will be shown in addition to the
regular program, at the same
old price.
Man is Struck
By Street Car
Charles Bigle, a resident of
Clearwater was thrown from his
ou_Tgy and sustained several
ttruises when a street car on the
Wait Park line ran into his rig,
demolishing the vehicle.
Bigler appears to be somewhat hazy as to the events that
led up to the accident. He
claims that he was at a local
store and got onto . the wrong
road.
Write Full Name of State
Auto Stolen at St. Cloud
St. Cloud, Sept. 18: R. L.
Gale's Hudson Super Six, new
this season, was stolen from
his garage last night and 'the
police of a dozen cities are
scouring the streets in their
search for the missing machine.
Tbe exact time of the robbery
cannot be fixed though neighbors assert that ^shortly after
midnight they heard the machine being rolled out of a garage
and claim that from the sound
the men were having some difficulty in getting it started.
This morning when Mr. Gale
was ready to drive uptown he
found the lock on the garage
door broken though the doors
had been shut again.
It is-claimed that robbers also broke open the door of the
P. R. Thielman garage but his
Ford car was unharmed.
The Gale car was a. 1916 model Hudson Super Six and had
run about 3,ooo miles. The state
license number was 104846 and
the car was Model H3120. The
car had a blue body with black
fenders. It was equipped with
Firestone Nonskid tires on all
four wheels with an extra Fisk
tire on the running board.
Thrashing Machines.
The flail is the most ancient instrument for thrashing grain, although it is possible that the tramping of the straw under the feet of
horses, oxen and men is a close
second. The Eomans used a machine called the "tribulum," a
sledge loaded with stones or iron
and drawn over the grain 'sheaves
by horses or oxen. The first machine attempted in modern times
for the work of thrashing was invented by one Michael Mengies of
Edinburgh about 1732. Some~thirty
years later Andrew Meikle built a
similar machine. It was not until
the latter half of the nineteenth
century, however, that the thrashing machine reached anything like
its present perfection.
Von Lenbach, tho Painter.
Pranz von Lenbach, the great
portrait painter, painted three portraits of the poet Adolph Wilbrandt.
On one occasion the sitting lasted
through the whole day. The afternoon passed, and dusk came on, but
still Lenbach worked away without
appearing to notice the failing light.
At last it grew so dark that Wilbrandt could scarcely see him. He
called Ills attention to this, but
Lenbach begged him, unless he was
tired, to continue sitting. "But
what can you see of tne ?" asked the
puzzled poet. "Quite the best of all.
Excellent. Sit still, please." And
the sitting only ended with the last
■ glimhle-- of light.
.peed ef the Teal.
Give tt blttewing teal a forty mile
bfeeze behind him, have the little
_ascal dropping down With it, and
he comes so fast as to be simply
unhittable. Some writers have
claimed a speed for him of 150
miles an hour, or 220 feet a second.
The canvasback, redhead and blue-
bill have a way of driving before a
gale, too, that will be found fast
enough in all conscience. Much of
the fascination of wing shooting
comes from the fact that shots will
always be afforded quite beyond the
skill of mortal man.—Outing Magazine.
The name of the state to
which a letter is addressed must
be written in full hereafter,
according to a new ruling of the
Postal Department. The department officials declare that the
regulation will do away to a
great extent with missent mail.
This will materially lessen
the work of the dead letter
office at Washington. Tbe barring of postcards from the dead
letter office also lias greatly
lessoned the volume of material
handled there.
Notice
Old Time Dance in
Fausts Hall Sunday Oct.
3rd for married people
only. Only the old time
dance such as Quadrilles,
Twosteps, and Waltzes
etc. will be danced.
The Soo company has announced a new arrangement of
fare between stations along its
Duluth-Brooten line and the
twin cities. Beginning Friday,
Sept. 15, the fare will be the
same as those between Soo stations and the twin cities . via
Albany and the Great Northern
railway, and will enable one to
make the trip all the way on
the Soo. While it will take a
little longer to make the trip,
it will eliminate the danger of
missing connection at Albany
when the Soo train is late, with
out increasing the expense. The
fare to intermediate points is
not affected by tbe new order
of things. The new schedule is
placed on trial  for six months.
HOLSTEIN   PARK.
The weather last week made us
think of winter.
Jess King is dr'ving team for E. Mi
Thompson on the State road.
Little Eugene Undine is staying
with his aunt and uncle, Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Sanborn, while his mother
is  at  Duluth.
'Mr. Dorman drives the school bus
on this route. His bus is just the
thing.
Mrs. Chas. Sanborn boards the
teacher,  Miss   Bredfield.
Alvah Martin was a Lathrop caller
Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. G. King are visiting
relatives and friends in Iowa. Th.y
went by auto.
Donald Taylor is working on the
state   road   with   Lawrence   Kramer.
'Mr. J. A. Sanborn has some fine
watermelons, and what is best, he always remembers his neighbors.
Several from this vicinity attended
the C. A. Jacobs sale Sept. 15.
The Martens family were entertained at C. H. Sanborn's 'Sunday.
Ruby Thompson visited Mrs. T. S.
Look last Thursday afternoon.
E. M. Thompson went after cranberries Monday and Alvah Martens
and C. H. Sanborn went Tuesday.
Work on the state road is progressing slow, but sure, in spite of the
rainy weather.
Mr. H. Smith and road crew are
grading on the Sullivan road.
Pierz Journal—Galley One
HILLMAN,
John Love returned Tuesday of last
week from Bertlti, North Dakota,
where he has been wo-klns,
Miss Julia Leigh returned to her
home at Dora Lake last week.
The Irwin Drews family took dinner
at Aug. Drews' Sunday.
Miss Wilmont visited at the Sum-
mere home Sunday afternoon.
Miss Pearl Miller left Monday for
Onamia where she will attend high
school, also Miss Ol've Lewie of Peavy
Lake.
Wesley Waller left Monday for Dora
Lake, Minn., and Miss Helen Davie of
Little Palls, who has been visiting at
the Waller home at Rucker, returned
to her home the same day..
Mesdames Irwin and Wm. Drews
spent Monday at the Bruber home
in  Rucker.
Mr. and 'Mrs. John Lease and Mrs.
Canfield, all of Rucker, were Hillman
callers  Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ern Goblo were in
the village Tuesday.
Mrs. Wm. Drews left Tuesday for
Holdingsford to visit her parents.
A Week of Many
 Weddings
(Omitted last week.)
This week was one  of  weddj
ings.    There were four of them,
but one of them  was  a  golden
one.
Tuesday was a double-header.
John C. Loidolt was married to
Mary Nespory in St. Joseph's
church inPierz, andLeoSchoen-
berg of Elrosa, was married to
Clara Virnig of Lastrup, in St.
John's church at Lastrup. The
Schoenberg-Virnig wedding was
celebrated at the bride's home,
and was attended by tbe close
relatives. Mr. and Mrs.Schoen-
berg will make their home in
Lake George, Stearns Co
The Loidolt-Nespory wedding
was celebrated at the Loidolt
home in Agram. Mr. and Mrs.
Loidolt will make their home on
the old church farm in Granite,
On Monday morning occured
the wedding of Casper Meyer to
Mary Hoffman.
Casper is the oldest son of
Mrs. Nick Meyer of Agram and
the bride is , the youngest
daughter of George Hoffman of
this village. The wedding was
celebrated at the groom's home
in Agram.
The young couple will make
their home on the old Oscar
Guntber farm in Agram. Casper's wife needn't ever fear
starvation, for her husband is
one of our best potato growers.
Frank Wise and wife celebrated the 50th anniversary of
their wedding last Wednesday.
Their many friends and relatives present at the festivities
and at the dance in Faust's ball
in the evening wished them continued good health and strength
and hoped to be with them to
celebrate their diamond wedding.
A. L. Tanner of Sauk Center,
charged with giving liquor to a
posted man entered a plea of
guilty in district courtyesterday
afternoon and was given thirty
days in the county jail. Tanner
bad been bound over to the
grand jury following a preliminary hearing  at  Sauk  Center.
Notice
Have opened up a
first class Dress Making
ing shop at the Golden
Rule.    Anna   Kemper.
 \
o Lengthen the  Life  of
the Binder.
A binder left in the field from
one season to another will last
at best three or four years,
whereas, with proper care a
binder should do good work for
ten, fifteen, or even twenty
years. The same kind of thing
may be said of almost all farm
implements.
Before long, winter will be
here, levying its tax upon
farm implements left in the
open. This is the time, therefore, to make plans for housing
farm machinery.
The saving in value of machinery in one year will almost
pay for the cost of a good
machine shed.
FOR SALE
I have my house in possession
again and will seH it cheap.
Call at my bakery. \
John Settler.
LOST—$20.00. Finder please
call at the Journal office for reward, ^v.
Pickpockets get
$130; One in Jail
One man is in jail awaiting a
hearing and the police are looking for two others as the result
of a robbery on train No 14. at
the local station Thursday night
in which three men took a wallet containing nearly $130 and a
railroad ticket to Minneapolis
from tbe pocket of Robert Ober-
schmid, a sheet metal worker,
who has been employed by W.
H. Ryan in work at the Lincoln
school.
The man who was arrested
was taken to the Buekman hotel
after the other two had escaped
by Jack Anker, night clerk. He
gives his name as J. A. Bean,
but telegrams and letters which
the officials believe come from
his wife in a southern city and
which are apparently appeals
for money are addressed to J.A.
Berman. He was arraigned before Municipal Judge Lyon Friday morning and his hearing
continued until Wednesday. He
had $27 concealed in his clothing.
Bean, or Berman, got on the
train ahead of Oberschmid and
the other two followed. In the
vestibule they jostled him and
one is thought' to have picked
his pocket and handed the wallet to Bean. All of them then
jumped to the platform and the
one who was thought to have
the wallet ran. Bean threw bis
raincoat on the platform and
joined the chase and it is said
that the wallet was under the
coat. Later he picked them up
and left the depot.
Shortly afterward Mr. Anker
saw Bean enter the hotel by a
side door and run upstairs. He
had no room, but each of the
others had one,. They are registered as R. C. Mars-blai of Des
Moines, la., and G. Wilson of
St. Paul. Hearing ot the robbery, the clerk became suspicious
and went upstairs. All three
were in Wilson's room, the
other two having entered apparently by a rear entrance. A_
he had no description of the
robbers he went back to his
desk.
A few minutes later Wilson
came into the lobby and started
to write a letter. Mr. Anker
left a man who was in the lobby
to keep him from getting away
while he went upstairs again.
There he found that Marshall
had climbd out of a window and
swung down from the roof by
some electric wires, but found
Bean, whom he arrested. While
he was upstairs Wilson was
allowed to walk out of the front
door. Neither Marshall nor Wilson has beed found.
Although Bean had only $27
in his clothing, the police believe that he met the other two
by arrangement in Wilson's
room and divided the money
with them. They are believed to
be members of a gang which is
"making" the county fairs
throughout the state and a list
of county fairs, with dates, was
found in Bean's pocket. They
came to Little Falls Thursday
afternoon.
Bean was positively identified
by Oberschmid and a man who
saw the robbery as the one who
picked the coat and wallet.
Transcript.
His Greatest Handicap.
First Golfer—What's your handicap?
Second Golfer—Being obliged to work
for a living.—Detroit Free Press.
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
For Sale.
1 Binder McCormick
1 Drill,
1 Double seated Buggy
1 single Buggy-
Some     household
goods.  For particulars
call at  my     place     in
Granite.
C.   E.   Hankammer.
A new sign now adorns the
post office.
Chas. Mast of Sullivan was
a visitor here Monday.
Mrs. Joe Miller of Little
Falls is visiting relatives in
Buekman.
Miss Sand, the milliner of
Little Falls, visited friends
here Sunday.
Tony Wolke and family
are now living in their home
bought of Mrs. Vosen.
No dog talk this year.
Dogs can't demonstrate their
ability for the lack of material.
Gregor Mueller and wife of
Little Falls visited at the Jos.
Faust and Jos. Bollig homes
last Sunday.
George Sigette has bought
the old Ign. Preimesberger
place in upper town from L.
Spanfellner.
Miss Teresa C. Meyer opened an eight months term
of school in district No, 39,
last Monday.
J. J. Linehan and wife of
Sullivan passed through here
Monday on their way home
from the State Fair.
Hill-FrankOtremba reports
having seen a young deer in
his yard last week. He did
not molest it. Frank says he
is a poor hunter, but a pretty
good fisherman.
Miss Lillian Koll returned
from her trip to Morgan, Minnesota, where she had been
visiting at the home of her
sister, Mrs. John P. Welter
for 7 weeks.
Miss Teresa Meyer, who
had been visiting at St. Cloud,
St. Augusta, Long Prairie
and other points for the past
two weeks, returned on Friday. She was accompanied
by her niece, Lorraine Hiemenz of St. Cloud.
C. E. Hankammer of Granite has rented his farm to
Geo. J. Tretter, and intends
to move to the southern part
of Iowa within the next two
weeks. He offers some machinery and household goods
for sale.
Miss 1 Anna Koll arrived
here last Saturday afternoon
from St. Joseph's Convent, in
Milwaukee, Wis., to visit a
few days at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Koll. She will be accompanied back by her friends, the
Misses Francis and Clara
Krusheck and Agnes Loidolt,
who will also join the St.
Franziscan order at Milwaukee, Wis.
George and- John Vosen of
Kremlin, Mont., visited their
mother in Lastrup last week.
George reports prosperous
times in Montana. "They
sometimes consider us as living in the "Dry Belt," said
George, "but we get rainfall
enough to raise our crops.
Land is cheap there compared with the producing
quality and returns of land
in other sections of the country. I can pick up a quarter
section close to town for
$1,800.
One Acre of Corn
Costs 30 Bushels
It takes 30 bushels of corn or
12 bushels of wheat at ordinary
prices to pay for the production
of an acre of corn or wheat on
a Minnesota farm. Such yields
of wheat pay the farmer for his
labor and for rent on his land,
but give no profit in addition.
The sure way to secure a profit
is to increase the yield. This
may be done by making the soil
more productive through the
growing of leguminous crop
such as clover or alfalfa,
through the keeping of livestock, through systematic rotation, through better cultivation
and through the use of better
seed.
Andrew Faust is laid up
with a sprained foot.
Karl Kapsner made a trip
to St. Cloud Monday.
J. Levandosky of Graham
cycled here Wednesday.
Pierz seems to be experiencing a building boom.
The officers of the Farmers Creamery had a meeting
yesterday.
Wonder why the numerous
Koops in Brainerd never got
the idea of naming one of
their boys "Chicken."
C. D. Gilbert has let one
mile of grading between sections 24 and 25 in the town
of Granite to Jos. Kurtz.
The Little Palls Business
College is a Business University
Where young people specialize
in business and g_t good positions.  Get your catalog today.
Anton Meyer left for Little Falls last week, where he
will attend business college
the coming year.
Misses Gertrude Stumpf
and Mary Moller spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. Adolf
Stumpf. They returned to
Little Falls the s_me day.
The first heavy or killing
frost came last Thursday
night, when the temperature
dropped to 29 degrees. Corn
and garden vegetables are all
wilted.
John Leidenfrost had a hive
of bees, honey and all stolen
last Sunday, evening. A lot
of them came back, John says.
Perhaps the thief found out
he got stung and turned 'em
loose.    ,
"Prom School to Position."
Do not wait another day before
arranging for a course in bookkeeping, shorthand «and typewriting at the St. Cfoud Business College.-W> can save you
$40 to $100 on your course. Positively the best school for all
farm boys and girls. Write Vath
and Ahles.
Mrs. Adolf Stumpf received word that her sister, Mrs.
S. Niedermeyer died in the
St. Joseph's hospital in Mineral Point, Wis. Mrs. Niedermeyer was well acquainted with the old settlers of
Pierz. She was the owner
of the! Wm. Leidenfrost farm
years ago.
LOST—A ladys purse
containing a small sum
of money between Genola and Tony Rauch's
place. Finder please
leave at tha Journal
office. x.
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
Bank deposits at St. Paul have
gained $5,089,695.67 since the first of
the year.
Republican state headquarters have
been opened in the St. Francis hotel
at St. Paul.
Mrs. Charles P. Plow was burned
to death when fire destroyed her home
at St. Paul.
Joseph Hines, four years old, was
run down and killed by an automobile
at Rochester.
Fred J. Babcock, for twenty years
a prominent business man of South
St. Paul, is dead.
Duluth is in the race for the location of the government's proposed
$11,000,000 armor plant.
John Hage, a butcher of Climax,
was killed when the automobile which
he was driving ran into a ditch.
Michael Kane, eighty-five years old,
one of the earliest pioneers of Winona
county, is dead of heart disease.
John F. Brouwer-Ancher, a resident
of Minneapolis for forty years and
prominent in mercantile circles in the
Mill City, is dead.
Alpheus B. Stickney, railroad builder, who died at St. Paul Aug. 9, left
an estate of $430,000, according to a
will just admitted to probate.
The St. James mine at Aurora,
where the strike of Mesabi range miners started about three months ago,
is again working two shifts.
Despondency over ill health is believed to have caused Ralph Walters
of Minneapolis to end his life by
jumping into the Mississippi river.
Monroe Matthews lost his balance
while at work on the roof of an elevator under construction at Minneapolis and fell 100 feet to instant death.
Mrs. Leonard Kimball, wife of Leonard Kimball of the Kimball-Storer
company, is dead at Minneapolis,
where she had resided for half a cen-
turtf.
Since Jan. 1, 1858, when it became
a state, Minnesota has received $316,-
892,383 and disbursed $311,435,434.48
in cash. Available cash now totals
$5,456,948.52.
Proving too heavy for a condemned seventy-flve-foot bridge at Pillager a traction engine fell forty feet
into the Crow Wing river. No one
was injured.
The janitor at the Aitkin high
school rang the school bell the other
evening when the night blooming ce-
reus blossomed out in its first appearance In four years.
Monday, Oct. 9, the forty-fifth anniversary of the big Chicago fire, will
be officially designated as Fire Pre-
venton day in Minnesota, Governor
Burnquist announces.
George Fontaine, ninety-four years
old, is de'ad at St.. Paul. Mr. Fontaine reached that city from Canada
in 1848. For many years he was associated with James J. Hill.
Four men were injured, one perhaps
mortally, when an automobile owned
and driven by Charles Hauser of
White Bear overturned and dropped
from a ten-foot embankment.
Miss Bertha Reuper of Minneapolis,
nineteen years old, mistaking a can
containing rat poison for soda, mixed
the material in pancakes and ate one.
Death followed in a few hours.
William H. Rainsford, who made his
mark in the drama as leading man for
Olga Nethersole and other stars, is
dead in Minneapolis, where he conducted a motion picture studio.
Mrs. William Irving and her six-
year-old son were found dead in their
home near Kelliher with bullet holes
through their heads. The coroner's
jury decided it was a case of murder
and suicide. . .   .
John Haisley, eighty-two years old,!
a pioneer of St. Paul, was knocked;
down and fatally injured when struck j
by a street car. He died at the St. j
Paul city hospital several hours after j
the accident.
Shot through the abdomen by the!
accidental discharge of his revolver,]
Hywood Fraser, seventeen -year - old j
Duluth boy, was wounded fatally while j
fishing in Cloquet river and died following an operation.
Another state ticket is in the field!
in Minnesota, entered by the Indu3-|
trial Labor party, which is the Min-j
fcesota name for the Socialist Labor j
party. John P. Johnson of St. Paul!
is the nominee for governor.
John Devereaux, a resident of Minneapolis since 1866 and one of the
well known contractors in the early
days of the Mill City, is dead. Mr.
Devereaux was ninety years of age
and was a native of Ireland.
Minnesota will receive approximately $1,250,000 as an inheritance
tax from the estate of James J. Hill,
railroad financier. It will be the largest in the history of the state. Probate court officials of Ramsey county
so.declared when they learned that a
preliminary inventory of the "empire
builder's" estate shows holdings totaling approximately $40,000,000.
Dance in Faust's Hall Tuesday Evening, September 26.    Music by Cafferelli Orchestra,