The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-09-28

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PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, SEPTEMBER, 28, 1916.
NO. 15.
SWINDLERS OFFERING SOME
GROCERY BARGAINS.
Reports are circulating to the effect
that a smooth-spoken solicitor has
been operating in certain parts of
rural Minnesota. He takes orders for
groceries. He offers sugar and a
few other staples at ridiculosly low
prices. Other articles likely to foe
taken in small quantities are offered
at the usual or at even higher prices.
The staple articles, however, cannot
be ordered without ordering the others. Payment is made when the order
iis given. When the shipment arrives,
however, the "big bargains" are not
included, but a letter somes along
which explains in very smooth term-
that the house is for the present
out of the missing staples and will
ship them as soon as possible. Shipment, though, is awaited in vain, and
the money advanced does not come
back.
RUCKER
S. D. Wood and family made an
auto trip to St. Cloud Sunday to visit
relatives.
Mrs. Frank Withiam and little
daughter Inez of Little Falls visited
Mr. Withiam at Camp Ferguson laist
Friday.
Miss Olive Lewis is attending high
school in Onamia.
Messrs. Finn and Gassert were out
inspecting the road work one. day
last week.
Joe Bollig brings our mail and merchandise out in fine style now with
his new auto.
,  Wesley  Waller has gone to    Dora
Lake.
Mrs. Lawrence Kramer visited
friends in this neighborhood last
week.
Chas: Scott and crew threshed here
last week.
A Game of Blind
Man's Buff
"Yes" said J. L. Judge, the
blind steamfitter, "the blind live
in a dark world, but they now
and then get a flash from the
bright and ludricous side of
life.
Delano, a village on the Will-
mar division of the Great Northern has a blind resident. He can
get around town about as well
as a man who can see, because
he has lived there so long, and
besides be is accustomed to have
others get out of his way. One
evening while I was sitting in
front of the Delano hotel, not
particularly looking out for
blind men, this fellow ran into
me and knocked me off my chair.
For a few minutes the air between was heavily charged with
blue profanity fanned by
the wind of our fists, before each
discovered that the other was
blind."
Sale of School and
Other Lands
ALBANY DEPOT ROBBED
The Soo depot was broken into on
Monday night and about seven dollars
was taken. That the theft was performed by an amateur is the belief
of local authorities who Investigated
the matter. The burglar entered the
depot by breaking the glass in the
east side window and gained entrance
to the office through the door. About
ten dollars in change was found scattered along the floor and platform
which the thief dropped in making
his hasty get-a-way. The empty till
was found hid behind the snow fence.
Marshall Brinkmann notified the
neighboring towns to watch for the
suspected one who was in town late
on the night of the burglary.
HILLMAN.
The Jim Love family moved into the
Boerner house last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Canfield and 'children, who have been living at Christmas Lake during the summer, left
Thursday for Minneapolis.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Drews returned
Friday from a visit at Holdingsford.
Ross Adkinis and Frank Simms of
Sullivan returned Saturday from the
Dakota harvest fields.
Mr. Deidrich came up from Delano
Saturday to look after his interests
here.
Miss Wilmot and Geo. Miller spent
Sunday at Christmas Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Scott left Monday for a short visit in the Twin
Cities.
Don Somer has been working for
J. F. Ryan the paist week.
One hundred and seventy-one officers and men, composing F battery,
First Minnesota field artillery, have
arrived at Fort Snelling after two
months' service on the Mexican border. The battery is composed mostly
of students of the University of Minnesota and It Is reported they will be
released for the opening of school
Sept. 27.
More than 500 veteran employes of
the Great Northern railroad motored
to the grave of J. J. Hill at North
Oaks farm, near St. Paul. With un<
covered heads the veterans placed a
carnation on the grave. After the
services at the mound the veterans
were taken around the lake shore to
the farm mansion, where Mrs. Hill
greeted them.
Samuel C. Gale, eighty-nine years
old, for more than fifty years one of
the leading citizens of Minneapolis,
is dead. Mr. Gale was one of the oldest living graduates of Yale college,
being a member of the class of 1854.
He was one of the founders of the
Minneapolis public library and with
Judge C. E. Vanderburgh gave the
city the site of the present north
branch library.
' One day about ten years ago,
while sauntering around town
(Minneapolis), I was made acquainted with a man by the
name of Jones. After a half
an hours' chat with him, he said
he had to catch a train at the
M. and St. L. depot and had to
find some one to take him there.
I voluntered to show him the
way.
Two years later, I was again
made acquainted with Jone. .
This time our meeting was a
sort of a mutual or fraternal
one—a blind meeting a blind.
Yes. I remember you now. I
showed you to the M. and S. L.
depot two years ago, said I.
"The hell you did," saidJones.
"But perhaps you are right. I
remember now that by the voices, there were three of us who
went to the depot; and the third
person must have been your
guide."
POSTMASTERS ALSO  RECRUITING
OFFICERS.
Postmasters in cities except the
first class now have an opportunity of
increasing their stipend by going into
the recruiting business, according to
information given out by Postmaster
General Burleson.
Postmasters securing the enlistment
of recruits for the navy and marine
corps will receive $5 for each enlistment. All that is necessary for the
postmaster to report iis the full name
of the applicant with his qualifications
for enlistment.
THRESHING  MACHINE BURNS.
(Motley Mercury.)
A threshing machine belonging to
John Mudick burned Tuesday at Ike
Stowe's farm southwest of town. Four
stacks of oats were burned with it.
The machine caught fire from sparks
from the engine.
Grain and Produce
flarket Report.
Wheat, No. 1, $1.54
Wheat, No. 2______     1.50
Wheat, No, 8____      1.43
Flax, ._       1.95
Barley __ 80
Rye _    1.10
Oats       40
EarCorn      72
Hay     7.00
Butter, Creamery       37
Dairy       27
Eggs       24
Flour,Royal     4.50
"    WhiteRose      4.40
Low grade flour 1.80
Bran . 1.30
Shorts  1.35
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.50
Ground Feed     1.50
Beans        5.00
Onions        60
State of Minnesota,
State Auditor's Office,
Notice Is hereby given that on November 4, 1916, at 10 o'clock a. m. in
the office of the County Auditor at
Little Falls, Morrison County, in the
State of Minnesota, I will offer for
sale certain unsold state lands and
,also those state lands which have reverted to the State by reason of the
non-payment of interest.
Terms of Sale.
Fifteen per cent of the purchase
price is payable to the County Treasurer at the time of sale. The unpaid
balance is payable at any time in
whole or in part on or before forty
years from the date of sale at an interest rate of four per cent per annum,
due on June first of each year; provided, that the interest can be paid
at any time within the interest year
without penalty. In effect, this means
that the interest money may be paid
any time between June and May
thirty-first without penalty.
Appraised value of timber, when
so stated, must be paid for in full at
the time of sale.
All lands are sold subject to any
and all ditch taxes thereon.
All mineral rights are reserved to
the  State by the  laws of the  State.
Lands on whiiih the interest has become delinquent may be redeemed at
any time up to the hour of sale, or before resale, to the actual purchaser.
Such lands are listed under the caption, "Delinquent Lands."
No person can purchase more than
320 acres of lands as provided by the
General Laws 1915; provided however, that state lands purchased previous to 1915 are not charged against
such purchaser.
Agents acting for purchasers mu_t
furnish affidavit of authority.
Appraisers' reports showing quality
and kind of soil are on file in this
office. List giving legal descriptions
of land to be offered may be obtained
of the State Auditor or the Immigration Commi-sioner at St. Paul and the
County Auditor at above address.
J. A. O. PREUS,
State Auditor.
What an Acre
Jftould Yield
The largest yield of wheat the Department of Agriculture has record
of is a hundred and seventeen bushels
to the acre on eighteen acres in the
state of Washington. The seco_u_
largest yield is a hundred and eight
bushels to the acre on twelve acres in
Idaho. The average yield for the
country last year was seventeen bushels.
The largest yield of oats is a hundred and eighty-four bushels to the
acre on eight acres in Washington;
second, a hundred and _/ixtyjsix bushels on eight acres in Colorado. The
average for the United States is thirty-
eight bushels. The largest yield of
white potatoes is seven hundred and
ninety bushels from an acre in California; second, is seven hundred and
forty-three bushels in Washington.
The average is ninety-six bushels.
Such comparisons might be extended pretty much throughout the list of
agricultural staples. True, the prize
yields are sometimes not commercially practicable, for they involve a
quantity of care and labor that would
be impossible on a large scale witn
anything like the present organization
of agriculture. But it is a happy medium between the pr'ze yield and
the average that means no mortgage
and a good bank account for the man
who hits it.
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
ALL   CITIZENS  SHOULD  OBSERVE
FIRE PREVENTION  DAY,
OCTOBER 9.
Fighting Minnesota's fire toll with
prevention, the year around, the state
lire marsnai's department. its making
special efforts that all progressive
towns in the state will observe the
iiith annual "Fire Prevention Day"
on Monday, October 9, as fixed by proclamation of Governor J. A. A. Burnquist.
Toward further reducing the annual
rire loss of life and property and
aiding in the Minnesota-made-fireproof
moTement, State Fire Marshal Kobert
W. Hargadine suggests that in live
communities—
Mayors will issue like proclamations
urging local celebrations of the day
—tireless celebrations;
Civic and commercial organizations
will arrange meetings to plan to make
the home town fireproof;
Schools will have appropriate exer
cises—talks on the danger of the
small boy and match, and like coia-
binations;
Men and women will look about
their homes and clear away attic,
basement, back-yard or other accumulations that make for fire danger.
"If Minnesota people will only stop
to think that the nation's fire toll
is 5,000 lives a year and $500 loss a
minute; although two-thirds of the
fires are preventable, fire prevention
day this year will be a big success in
every town," said Fire Marshal Hargadine. "Every person in the state will
join in the movement because sickness and fire are nearest to them—
liable to 'strike home' any day,"
Records in the fire marshal's office
show gradual reduction in the fire
losses in Minnesota, and part of the
credit for the showing is given to the
general observance of fire prevention
day each year in all cities.
Come  in and   take a look  at
our Mackinaws. •
P. A. Hartmann.
LIFE  IN  CALIFORNIA.
The California man gets up at the
alarm of a Connecticut clock, buttons his Chicago suspenders on Detroit overalls; washes his face with
Cincinnati soap in a Pennsylvania pan,
sits down to a Grand Rapids table,
eats Kansas City meat with Minnesota flour, cooked with Indiana lard
on a St. Louis stove; puts a New York
bridle on a Wyoming broncho fed on
iowa corn; plows a five acre farm covered by an Ohio mortgage, with a
-hattanooga plow; when bed time
comes he reads a chapter from a bible
printed in Boston; says a prayer writ
in Jerusalem, crawls under a blank.',
made in New Jersey, only to be kept
awake by sand-flies, the only home
product on his place.—A California
exchange.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Bicyclists have had considerable
trouble on the road between Pierz
and Genola with some rude, thoughtless boys, who throw rocks and clubs
at their _ wheels and at the riders.
They live in and around Genola. If
they do not want to discontinue their
mean "sport" further action will be
taken. Names furnished on request.
—A Reader.
SULLIVAN
C. E. Look, wife and two children
were Hillman callers last Wednesday.
Mr. Dorman was a caller at the
lake Friday morning.
Our mail carrier can now make his
trip with greater speed since he
drives his new auto.
Mr. and Mrs. Linnehan were Pierz
goers Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Chase and son
Cliff arrived Friday and visited the C.
E. Look family until Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Christianson were
Pierz visitors Saturday.
Misses Fern Day, Mazie Look and
Mrs. Chase visited at T. S. Look's
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Smidt of Delano arrived Saturday and are stopping at
Camp Linnehan.
Miiss Mary Hoppe and Adam Zak
attended church in Platte Sunday.
Miss Mazie Look visited over Sunday at home.
Several birthdays of last week,
namely A. Wv. Look, Ole Christianson
and Mrs. Walmark, were celebrated
as one, by a feast at A. W. Cook's.
Mrs. C. E. Look and children called
in the afternoon and spent a very enjoyable time.
Ole Christianson and Edwin Walmark left Monday to work on the road
near Platte.
Don't forget the old
time Dance on Tuesday,
October 3rd.
Paul Felix was a busy man
here Sunday.
Ig. Vonderhaar of Alberts-
ville was a visitor here last
Sunday.
No Pierz names mentioned
among the winners at the
county fair.
The moving picture show
last Sunday evening was a
good one.
Bill Heron of Little Falls
shook hands with old friends
here Sunday.
School will open in district
129 on Monday, Oct. 2nd,
with Nick Staub as teacher.
The village district school
opened Monday morning with
Mrs. John Boehm as teacher.
A marriage license was issued last Thursday to Jos. H.
Dehler and Catherine Lo-
scheider.
Tony Rauch went toSouth
St. Paul last Monday with a
car of stock for the Farmers'
Shipping Association.
Who says quail were dying
out ? Onamia reports the
birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs.
Quail on Tuesday.
Lucas Backes of St. Cloud,
was here Sunday, calling on
friends. He is employed in
a St. Cloud garage.
Chas. Michael's and wife
of St. Cloud came up Monday, to visit at Jim King's in
Granite. Mrs. Michael's is a
daughter of Jim.
The management of the
opera house has changed to
the Universal film service,
which is more satisfactory
than the old service.
Valentine Schraut Sr. of
Pierz was on a visit with
friends in St. Martin and
Richmond about one week.
He says harvest there was
very poor.
Gotf ried Langer of St.Cloud
autoed to Pierz Sunday to
visit his sister Mrs. Anton
Tembreull and his brothers
Henry and John Langer, returning the same day.
Nick Schubert, Joseph Sa-
gorski, John Ebertowski and
Albert Vosen returned from
Wales, N. D., last Friday
morning, where they had been
working during harvest.
Jos. Boilig has purchased
a New Model 1917 Ford auto.
He, accompanied by Henry
Gau, made first trip with the
U. S. mail to Sullivan last
Thursday.
take a look  our
Killed by Fall
Under Wheels
(Little Falls Transcript.)
Jacob Richter, a Pike Creek farmer, was instantly killed at 8 o'clock
Wednesday evening when he was
thrown from a wagon and one of the
wheels passed over his head. The
team became frightened and jumped
and he was thrown to the ground under the wheels.
He was returning from a trip to
Flensburg when the accident occurred. His home is two miles north of
the village of Sobieski. He was 68
years old and a native of Russian Poland. A wife and several grown children survive.
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Come in
Suits.
A. Hartmann.
Marvin Hoppe of Freeport
was shot in the hand Sunday
by the accidental discharge
of a gun in the hands of an
other boy while he was hunting with several companions
near Freeport. He was
brought to Little Falls and is
at St. Gabriel hospital. The
thumb and first finger were
taken off, but the rest of the
hands may be saved.
LOST—$20.00. Finder please
call at the Journal office for reward.
HOLSTEIN  PARK.
Mr.  and Mrs. Taylor visited at F.
Sorums' Sunday afternoon.
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thompson and  Raymond were Pierz visitors Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Smith are rejoicing over the  arrival of a son,  born
September 23.
Mrs. J. A. Sanborn's father and
nephew, who have been visiting here
for some time, left for their home in
Minneapolis last Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Kramer, Mr. and
Mrs. G. King, Mr. and Mrs. J. Girtz
and Mr. S. Perkins visited at the
Jess King home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Rozene of Eldora,
Iowa, are the proud parents of a baby
boy.
Mrs. T. S. Look called at the Thompson and Sorum homes Friday afternoon.
Sunday school closed at Christmas
Lake last Sunday. We hope to have
Sunday school here again next summer.
Mr. Cajacobs did not sell hfe land
but will erect a new house this fall.
We are glad to keep these people
with us.
G. King and w:_e returned from
their trip to Iowa Thursday.
H. H. Sanborn and his mother went
to Hillman Tuesday to take Mrs Sanborn's father to the train. This aged
gentleman visits his daughter every
summer.
Raymond and Ruby Thompson and
Eugene Undine were out riding Saturday and called at the Martens home.
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Bu«y Reader.
Ernest Sutton swears (or
affirms) that he will never
visit Pierz again. He visited
the town the other day, and
he was immediately spotted
by the denizens of that burg
as an indian officer.   Any ex
planations on "Maggie's" part
were futile — they simply
wouldn't listen to him. Rather than be given the "cold
shoulder" in a strange town
"Maggie" took the ties to
Hillman, where he whiled
away the afternoon counting
planks in the new depot platform.—Breeze.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Herron,
Miss Gertrude Stumpf and
Miss Ganon of Little Falls,
came out Sunday to spend
the afternoon with Mrs. A.
Stumpf.
St. Cloud Business College
opens new term October 2nd.
New classes, new students, and
a splendid time to begin. Enter
now for bookkeeping, shorthand and typewritting. CTet
ready for a good position. We
can save you a lot of time and
money. Vath and Allies.
"That Million Dollar
Look." Go and see-this
wonderful Phota'play,
to appear atyFaust's
Opera House Sunday
and get that million
dollar look. Royal Tailor Agency, Barney
Burton, Pierz, Minn.
Don't forget the old
time Dance on Tuesday,
October 3rd.
The estate of the late Martha A.
Miller of St. Paul has paid to the;
state an inheritance tax of $96,547.05.!
Charles W. Fairbanks, Republican;
candidate for vice president, will!
speak in the St. Paul Auditorium on!
Oct. 14.
Mrs. Alonzo H. Linton, one socially!
prominent in Minneapolis, is dead at|
the home of her daughter at Bronx-;
ville, N. Y.
Oscar Puruseth, fifteen years old,:
and Henning Weme, the same age,!
were drowned in Tamarack lake near!
Bagley while hunting.
Frank Keene, sixty-five years old,]
is dead at Stillwater of a broken neck!
as the result of a fall down the base-i
ment steps at his home.
One thousand wolves have been!
killed in St. Louis county during thej
past fifteen m6nths and approximately!
$15,000 was paid out for bounties.
L. A. Hawks, leading photographer!
of Western Minnesota, was drowned!
In Lake Hendricks, near Pipestone,
while out in a canoe taking sunset
pictures.
Captain Smith W. Fiske, formerly
a well known business man of Minneapolis, is dead at Los Angeles, Cal.
Captain Fiske had a distinguished record in the Civil war.
Three-quarters of an hour before a
child was born at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Emil Hennemaunn of St.
Cloud a three-year-old daughter died
from intestinal trouble.
Arthur Hill, thirty-one years old,
foreman of the switching crew in the
Rock Island railroad yards at Albert
Lea, was instantly killed when crushed
between two box cars.
Charles    Hallquist,    a    Minneapolis
plasterer,  was  struck  by an  automobile and thrown beneath a street car.
He died a few minutes later at the  .
Minneapolis city hospital.
Following a quarrel Peter A. Skrief,
a well known sawmill owner of Black-
duck, was shot by a man said to be
George Sterling, and died before he
could be given medical attention.
Carlo Tresca, Sam Scarlet, Joseph
Schmidt and others, charged with the
murder of Deputy Sheriff James C.
Myron of Duluth, have been taken to
Virginia from Duluth for arraignment.
Professor A. Ruehl, head of the department of agriculture of the Lam-
berton consolidated schools, is dead
at a hospital in that city from injuries
suffered in an automobile accident
near there.
Hans Christianson, a stableman employed at the Campbell Livery company's barn at Minneapolis, was cremated when the building was entirely
destroyed by fire. -Twenty-four horses
were burned.
Fourteen person? were injured when
the westbound gvs aline motor car on
the Chicago Great Western railway
left the track and plunged over a fifteen-foot embankment several miles
east of Mankato.
Theodore Roosevelt will visit Minnesota some time in October, unless
some unforeseen circumstance prevents and will deliver several speeches
in the interest of the candidacy- of
Charles E. Hughes.
Senator James Hamilton Lewis of
Illinois spoke at Minneapolis in the
interest of President Wilson's reelection. Preceding his speech he
held a long conference with Minnesota
Democratic leaders.
The government Indian training
school at Pipestone has opened for
the fall term with one of the largest
registrations in its history. Among
the students enrolled is John Growler,
a first nephew of Sitting Bull.
Discharge of thirty out of thirty-!
three patrolmen in the state forestry:
field service because of lack of funds |
is announced by D. P. Tierney, assist-!
ant state forester. "Other economics!
are being planned," said Mr. Tierney.!
Tryvge Randers, cashier of the!
Fisher State bank, was killed while |
rescuing his four-year-old son who ha. I
run in front of an automobile. Ha;
caught the child in his arms just as.!
the car struck both. The boy escaped |
unhurt.
Cameron R. Rust, clubman, former!
newspaper publisher and president of!
{he Rust-Parker company of Duluth,!
died in the locker room of the North-!
land Country club at Duluth, presum-l
ably of heart trouble, following a!
golf game.
Mrs. Robert Hedges, sixty-eight'
years a resident of Minnesota, is dead
at the home of her daughter at Minneapolis. Mrs. Hedges, who first settled in Rice county, lived for almost
half a century in Faribault. Ten chil-'
dren survive her.
James W. Norton, aged seventy-two,
for half a century a resident of Duluth and conceded the pioneer in the
lumber business there, is dead. Mr.
Norton was identified with the Mammoth Consolidated Mining company
and was president of the Norton Lumber company.