The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-10-12

              B. LINDBERO
VOL. NO. 8.
mttttm.
PIERZ, HORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, OCTOBER, 12, 1916.
NO. 17
Their Engagement
Was Not Broken
By F. A, MITCHEL
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Dora Atterbury was an especially
feminine young lady. Nevertheless she
was very bright. She distinguished
herself at. college and after being
graduated engaged herself to Professor
Ernest Ballinger, a young man equally
brilliant and whose specialty Was biology. Tliey had been engaged some
time when the professor received a
note from his fiancee asking to be released from her engagement for the
reason that she had decided to study
a profession and she considered a
profession for a woman incompatible
with married life. Professor Ballinger
called upon her.
"I think it best," he said, "that I
Bhouli-Telease you."
^^i-iere was a slight contraction of
»«_*J- Dora's brows at this. She had asked
to be released, but preferred that she
should be required to struggle for her
freedom.
"t'ou agree with me, I presume, that
a professional woman has no business
to be married?"
"My reason lies deeper than that,"
replied the professor, unconsciously
falling into a tone used in lecturing to
his classes. "You are aware, I presume, that there are cases of effeminacy in men. Some psychologists hold
that this occurs from environment. I
do not admit this. I consider it the
result of birth accident. Such men are
born effeminate—that is, they partake
mentally of the nature of the opposite
sex."
"I cannot see," interrupted Dora,
"what that has to do with the matter
between us."
"Be patient, and you will see. The
corresponding accident to this In wo-
. men, viragiuity, renders a woman as
much of a freak of nature as a man
who is born effeminate. Viraglnts take
up men's occupations naturally"—
"Do you mean to assert that all women who enter the field of law, medicine, business, are viragints ?"
"No, but I mean that viragints naturally turn to men's occupations."
The views promulgated by her fiance
were evidently not acceptable to Miss
Atterbury. In her features was expressed opposition to his theory, mingled with pain at foreseeing that he
was about to apply It to herself.
"I do not agree With you in referring
these things to birth accident," she
said. "I know a young man whose
only companioning a child was his sister.   He is Y^ry effeminate.
"In this case possibly his effeminacy
came from environment, but I doubt
It. 'In the case of women who possess
traits of men we have analogous cases
in certain birds. After a certain age
the female assumes the plumage of the
male and will destroy the eggs of her
species. This cannot result from en-
\ vironment, because environment could
not alter her plumage."
Miss Atterbury did not at all like
this result of her announcement of the
breaking of her engagement and the
reason she had given for breaking it.
She began to look troubled.
"The upshot of all this," she said, "I
presume, Is that I am a freak of nature."
"That does.'not necessarily follow,"
replied the professor imperturbably.
"Not necessarily, but it is evident
from what you have said that you con-
eider me such."
"My views are not the views of all
psychologists, and not all women who
adopt men's pursuits are viragoes,
though I believe that most of them
are."
"You have not answered my question."
"What question?"
"Whether or not you regard me as a
freak."
"You did not ask such a question.
You said that you presumed the up-
"*shot of my theory was that you were a
freak of nature."
"Do you or do you not so regard
me?"
"My opinion can have no effect on
the truth. If your intention to take up
a profession is the result of birth accident, so be it. My dictum would not
prove or disprove the fact."
There was silence for some moments,
during which the young lady was absorbed in thought.
"Could you love such a woman
freak?" she asked presently.
"Men love their opposites. No man
can feel toward another man as toward a woman."
"It seems impossible," replied Dora,
With quivering lip, "to pin you down
to anything,   If I am one of these horrid freaks you speak of, how Is It that
J^ you could have loved me thus far?"
"You forget that heretofore I have
not so considered you."
"But you do now?"
"Not at all.   Your desire to take up
a man's profession causes me to suspect.    Your taking up the profession
* would  be additional  evidence.    Your
practicing   the   profession   would—in
my  opinion,   mind  you—be  as  good
proof as it is possible to attain in your
individual case."
"You suspect"— on the verge of tears.
The professor took her in his arms.
Science gave way to tenderness, and
the debate ended in a multitude o_
kisses.
Miss Atterbury preferred to do away
with all suspicion that she was a
freak by taking a husband instead o.
a profession. He afterward confessed
that ho had arrived at no definite conclusion upon the subject they had been
discussing and only promulgated his
theory to avoid losing her. Wi-ether
or not he was correct, they llyfect naf>-
plly together ever afterw.anj.
That Wild Man
In Richardson
The man who closely answers the description of the
criminal wanted in Itasca county for whom the sheriffs of this
and the surrounding counties
have been looking the past
weeks seems to have covered
his trail in the neighborhood
of Vineland.
He drifted into Pierz Wednesday morning a week ago, and
inquired for work. His actions were peculiar. Nothing
seemed to give him more delight than to m'ake others laugh
by "cutting faces." And he
was an expert in that line. A
clown's business is to make the
crowd laugh, and this fellow
knew how. He quietly volunteered the information that he
was a professional laugh producer, but that he did not dare
extend himself to the top of
his ability in a strange town,
lest they run him in.   -
When John Wallace, Nick
Meyer's butcher, heard about
the new clown, he smiled and
said he knew him. "Yes," he
said, he was in the shop this
|*norning. In Brainerd he is
known as CRAZY JOHN. He
is harmless."
Next he appears in Richardson.
The Transcript of Saturday
has the following:
A man who answers the description of the assailant of
Miss Olga Dahl, Itasca county
school teacher, is wandering in
the woods in Richardson town,
according to a telephone message received by Deputy Sheriff A. A. Fueger Friday morning
from James A. Sanborn, a
farmer of Richardson.
Mr. Sanborn says he was told
to notify the sheriff's office by
a man named Sims, who lives
near the lake, and who has
seen the man several times in
the last two days. He says he
has begged food at several
farm houses and has also come
to the houses to ask for matches. He builds fires in the woods
at night.
The deputy sheriff notified!
Sheriff Gunderson of Itasca
county by telephone and asked
if his county would stand the
expense of a trip to Richardson
to investigate. Sheriff Gundez*-
son told him to notify the farmers in the vicinity to hold the
man, but Mr. Sanborn says the
farmers are afraid of him.
It is thought that he may be
the same man who stopped the
Peterson brothers on the Pierz
road Sunday and who chased
an automobile later. This man
appeared to be unbalanced and
said his reason for these actions was that he wanted a ride.
There are three Sims in
Richardson town and Deputy
Sheriff Feuger's informant did
not say which one notified him.
The authorities are not inclined
to take seriously the statement
that the man may be Miss
Dahl's assailant.
And Monday:
The man who frightened
Richardson town farmers for
the last few days by wandering j
around in the woods and begging for food at farmhouses has
left Morrison county without
doing any harm. Deputy Sheriff Fueger and Clerk of Court
Stoll drove to Richardson Friday afternoon and followed the
man to Vineland, in Mille Lacs
county, where they lost track of
him.
They found a farmhouse
where he had spent the night
and from that point on were
just behind him all the way to
Vineland. He was seen at several farmhouses, the last ones
being in Mille Lacs county, near
Vineland. At Pierz a few days
before the man had asked directions to get to the point
where work is being done on
the state road near Lastrup.
Members of the road crew said
he was there, but did not ask
for work.
The Richardson farmers have
decided that he did not look so
much like the man who shot
Olga Dahl, after all, and that
he was just an ordinary tramp.
People who saw him think that
he is "a little bit crazy."
There are near-lunatics who
enjoy reading the operations of
a spectator's mind, while he
(the actor) is going through
his antics. If this fellow belongs to that class, he must
have had a good time the last
week.
Perhaps he jumped into the
lake and is submarineing for
a breathing spell, while the
chase goes merrily on.
Penalty On Real
Estate Tax Soon
One month remains in which
the last half of the real estate
taxes may be paid without penalty. They must be paid on or
before Oct. 31 to avoid the penalty, which is 10 per cent of
the amount of the tax. If the
first half is still unpaid, no additional penalty will be charged until the first Monday in
January, as 10 per cent is
charged on the entire tax for
failure to pay the first half before June 1. Taxes become delinquent on the first Monday in
January, when the new tax is
due.
Thus, if no payment was
made before June 1, payment
may be made in full any time
before Jan. 1 and 10 per cent
will be charged as penalty.
Half payment cannot be accepted after May 31. But if
the first half was paid on or before May 31, the last half may
be paid any time before or on
the last day of October without
incurring a penalty. An additional penalty of 5 per cent is
added after the taxes become
delinquent Jan. 1 and fees and
other items are added from
time to time after that until
the taxes, if still unpaid, are
collected by the sheriff or judgment is entered against the
property.
County Treasurer Renick
gives warning that the penalty
will be charged promptly on
the first day of November and
that no payments will be accepted after Oct. 31 without the
penalty added. In making this
a rule he is acting as the state
law compels him to do and the
public examiner holds treasurers accountable for infringements of this law even if the
treasurer himself were disposed to make allowances. He
cannot accept payments without penalty after the penalty
attaches.
Mr. Renick also urges taxpayers to make their payments
early instead of waiting   until
PIONEER OF COUNTY _)EAD.
resident of Morrison county for
41 years, died at 11 a. m. Tuesday at his home in Little Falls.
He had been failing for several
months and had been seriously ill for the past few Weeks.
He was 88 years, 11 months old.
Anthony Raymond was born
Nov. 11, 1827, at St. Valentine,
Can. He was married there in
1850 to Miss Mathilda Provost
and left Canada eight years later, moving to Berlin, Wis., in
1858. From Berlin he came to
Minnesota and settled in. Agram town in 1875, later coming
to Little Falls to make his
home.
Mr. Raymond saw service in
the Civil war In Company D.,
10th regiment, Company K.,
21st regiment and in the 3rd
regiment of the Wisconsin infantry.
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
Sale of School and
Other Lands
Andy Fenn was a caller here
Tuesday.
This seems
auction fall.
to be a    great
ANNOUNCEMENT
Commencing with Sunday,
Oct. 15th, only first class pictures will be shown at Faust's
opera house. I am now paying a much higher price for
service, and guarantee my
patrons as good a show as they
can see in any of the larger
towns for the same price.
Come and see the pictures
next Sunday night, and be
convinced that they are as good
or even better than any that
vou have ever seen before.
FRANK FAUST,
Manager, Faust's Opera House.
A heavy frost is nothing unusual these mornings.
Mrs. J. N. Rauch is sick with
.n  attack of pleurisy.
Joseph Fritz moved into their
house, the old Sehr place in upper town, last week.
The Gohl auction drew a
large crowd. The proceeds
amounted to over $2,000.
Mrs. Casper Thommes of
Lastrup visited her sister in
Duluth Sunday and Monday.
Andrew Faust has so far recovered from his recent accident that he can attend to his
office.
J. Sepatol, living on the old
State of Minnesota,
State Auditor's Office,
Notice is hereby given that on November 4, 1.16, 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 ia 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 intereut year
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.
Westbrook place,  turned up an | without penalty.   In effect, this means
Indian arrowhead while plowing last week.
LETTER FROM MRS. KRAMER
Mrs. John Kramer of Vancouver, Wash., writes that she
had visited the Keller and
Hausinger families at Mt. Angel and found them in good
health. "Mr. Keller," she writes,
"has the finest crabapple orchard I ever saw. He certainly
has a fine place. We had wine
with every meal. He has two
barrels left from last year's
crop. He lives only a few
blocks from the finest church
in the state of Oregon. The
weather here is fine.    Thk; is
  prune  picking  season.    There
the last day of grace, as  there I ]s f g°od crop this year.^ We
is always a rush at the treasurer's office as penalty day draws
near.
THE STATE PRISON    MADE
LARGE PROFITS
Besides saving millions of
dollars to Minnesota farmers
in low prices for binding twine
and farm machinery the state
prison at Stillwater made a net
profit of $731,678.66 in the last
two years, according to a statement by Warden C. S. Reed.
The net profit for the year
ending July 31 was $336,050.03
on the twine plant, and $44,-
777.33 on farm machinery after deducting $33,119.90 as
"profit and loss" largely because of the experimental department's expense in developing new machines.
For the previous year the
twine department profits netted $275,890.74 and the farm
machinery $74,960.56.
Mrs. Leidenfrost Dead
Mrs. Barbara Leidenfrost,
one of the Pierz pioneers, died
in the St. Joseph's home in St.
Cloud last Friday at the age of
87 years. She had been at the
home about two years. The remains were shipped here and
the funeral was held Monday
morning at 9 o'clock.
The deceased was born in
Austria. The family came to
America at the close of the Civil war in 1865. They settled
first in Dane county, Wis., and
removed later to Pierz where
they made their permanent
home. Mr. Leidenfrost died
about six years ago.
Six children survive to
mourn the loss of the mother.
They are John, Leopold and
Wilhelm Leidenfrost and Mrs.
Clara Vurbig and Mrs. Adam
Virnig, all of Pierz, and Mrs.
Mary Roch of Minneapolis.
Wooden Headed.
Jn a village cricket match the
local butcher was batting, when a
ball bumped up and hit him on tho
head, from which the wicket keeper
made a catch.
"How's that?" yelled the wicket
keeper.
"Hout," said the umpire.
"But it 'it me on the 'ead," protested the batsman.
"Hi don't know where it 'it you,"
responded the umpire. "Hi didn't
see it, but hi knows tbe sound of
wood, so hout you go!"
had ripe strawberries at my
^on Charles the other day.
Best wishes to all my Pierz
friends.
Hillman News,
Miss Inga Hanson returned
home  last  week.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas Sanborn
were Hilman callers last Thursday.
Mrs. W. C. Penniman and
little daughter left Friday for
Foley.
Miss Emily Nelson of this
place and Wm. Nelson of Mil-
aca were married in Little
rails Saturday. They were given a lively charivari in the
• evening.
Miss Willmont and Ben
Drews visited at the Irwin
Drews' home Sunday.
J. F. Ryan was in the village
Monday, also Bert Sanborn.
M. Larson, who has had a
crew working on this end of the
.tate road, has broken camp.
Irwin and Ben Drews each
took a load of cattle to Genola
Monday for shipment.
Wm. Penniman has a crew of
men at work plowing.
One year in high school, nine
months in Little Falls Business college and a Dakota real
estate position at $75 a month
:s the record of a nineteen year
old boy.
Grain and Produce
riarket Report.
'Vbeat, No. 1, $1.61
Wheat, No. 2      1.57
Wheat, No. 3       1.50
l^lax,       2.25
Parley       75-80
Uye    1.11
Oats      40
RarCorn-.       72
Hay       7.00
T.utter, Creamery ..       37
"     ■ Dairy       27
Rgfgfs       26
Flour.Royal     4.70
"   White Rose...      4.60
Low grade flour 2.C0
Bran . 1.40
Shorts  1.50
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.50
Ground Feed.     1.50
Beans      5.00
Onions        60
There is nothing that looks
better than a good crop of
pumpkins peeping out from the
pigeon grass.
Dr. R. T. Healy and Peter L.
Meyer are preparing to build
on the lots north of the pumping station.
With three buyers at the
station, Genola is beginning to
assume the aspect of a potato
town.
M. V. Wetzel and wife and
Mrs. John Gans of St. Cloud
visited at the Gravel home last
Saturday.
Threshing machines are beginning to close in. The smoke
of eight to ten can be seen on
clear mornings.
Hardly any flies this fall!
Perhaps the clean-up campaign
will soon put the fly in the -ex-
slinked class.
"The Offensive," seems to be
the great objective in Europe.
rihe belligrents are changing
about in taking it.
The Soo line claim agent
spent several days here last
week adjusting claims against
the company. One claimant
was short 96 bushels of flax
shipped  to   Duluth.
Be a bookkeeper and stenographer. There's a position
waiting for you. Good work,
good wages, if you attend the
St. Cloud Business college.—■
Vath & Ahles.
When the foam of the pails
of beer served at the Gohl auction was blown or poured on
the ground, it was eagerly
swallowed by the tame ducks.
The result was drunk ducks.
Three hundred and fifty-four
retired Minnesota school
teachers today got their first
pension from the state fund.
Minnesota is one of 33 states
in the Union now pensioning
their teachers.
The clover seed crop is heavy
this fall. Mike Flicker threshed
53 bushels from 15 acres, and
Kummermeyer is said to have
threshed a little over 4 bushels per acre on the old John
Vosen place.
White bridges will be the
common color if the recommendation of the state highway commission is followed.
One principal advantage of
white is that it can be seen a
greater distance than other
colors.
Henry Schultz of Albany,
picked up a twenty dollar bill
a customer had dropped on the
floor in an Albany saloon and
put it into his pocKet. When
\ entering the jail door the bill
dropped from his sleeve where
he had concealed it. He got
60 days.
"Forty years ago a hunter by
the name of John Keoch lived
in a dug-out on the Peschel
place over yonder. About the
time a fellow by the name of
Chas. Smith, who homesteaded
the old Altenhofen place, was
shot on the land I now own
near here," said P. L. Poster at
the Gohl auction. Whether or
not Smith was shot accidentally was never found out.
FOR SALE—A good water
heater, have no use for it.
—Frank Brandl.
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 whiuh the interest has become delinquent may be redeemed at
any time up to the hour of sale, or be-"
iore 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 Commii-Sioner at St. Paul and the
County Auditor at above address.
J. A. O. PREUS,
State Auditor.
FORT   RIPLEY   STORE   DESTROYED BY FIRE
The confectionery store, billiard room and restaurant at
Ft. Ripley owned by Harry
uaskel was completely destroyed by lire early Monday
morning. The Are was discovered about 2 o'clock after it
nad a good start and it is not
Known  how  it originated.
The stock was owned by Gas-
kel, but the fixtures were the
property of C. B. Clouse and
tne building was owned by
Fred Tuimont. A barber chair
which belonged to Walter Mcpherson, formerly of Little
Falls, was destroyed. The total loss is at least $1,500 and
only a small amount of insurance was carried.
HIDES CASH IN ATTIC
Heirs of the late Frank
Kuhn, who died recently at his
home on a farm in the Bavarian settlement between Richmond and Cold Spring are
making diligent efforts to locate money which the old man
is believed to have hidden at
various points about the farm.
About $1,200 has already been
found hidden in an attic and it
is thought that several thousand dollars more may be found.
Kuhn had no faith in banks
and never deposited the earnings of his farm in any banking
institution. The farm has always been paying property and
nothing can be learned of the
disposition Kuhn made of his
money. For the past two years,
since the death of his wife,
Kuhn has been living alone,
while his son lived on an adjoining farm.
SOW ATTACKS BOY
Two small St. Cloud boys
passing through a yard picked
up a young pig. The squeals
of the pig brought the mother
to the rescue of her offspring.
She viciously attacked the boy
and but for the other boy and
the dog might have killed him.
In her attack the sow used
both her teeth and hoofs.
Bart J. Goodwin, widely known Min-j
neapolis real estate man, is dead.
Mrs. Amelia Timme, aged seventy,'
a resident of St. Paul since 1857, isi
dead.
Eugene R. McCall, twenty-six years!
old, a Minneapolis attorney, is dead;
of infantile paralysis.
James A. Cavanaugh, formerly ofj
St. Paul, was killed in an automobile]
accident at Helena, Mont.
Six hundred and eighty-five automo-l
biles were stolen in Minneapolis dm--;
ing the first nine months of 1916.
Fire which destroyed the property.
of the East Grand Forks Brewing'
company entailed a loss of approxi-i
mately $40,000.
A. R. Cook, fifty-three years old, a'
rural mail carrier, is dead at Mankato
from injuries received in an accident
near Walnut Grove.
Jack L. Oakes, whose residence is
given as St.. Paul, was killed in action
in Europe, according to the latest Canadian casualty list.
W. C. T. Hamilton, Minneapolis
heating and ventilating contractor,
died suddenly at Winchester, Mass.,
where he had been visiting.
The First battalion, First Minnesota
field artillery, which has been at Fort
Snelling since its mobilization in June,
has left for the Mexican border.
Fergus Falls has no further use for
a city lockup. The building, which
cost $5,000 several years ago, is to be
remodeled and used for housing electric light apparatus.
# Robert Becker of Minneapolis, twenty-three years old, was fatally injured
when his motorcycle skidded and
crashed into a street car. He died a
few hours after the accident.
The shipments of iron ore from the
docks at the American Head of the
Lakes for the season ending Sept. 30;
shows an increase of 9,535,710 tons
over the same period last year.
With potato digging in Itasca county
well under way it is estimated some
fields are running more than 200 bushels to the acre. The average, it appears, will be between 150 and 200.
Mrs. Owen Glynn is critically ill in
the Minneapolis city hospital from
nervous breakdown caused by the
death of her six-year-old son, who was
killed in her sight by an automobile.
Minnesota potato growers have filed
a complaint with the interstate commerce commission that the Great
Northern railroad will not furnish
them enough cars to ship their potato
crop.
Samuel H. Maelon, sixteen years old.
is the youngest student at the University of Minnesota, and James E.
Moore, a school teacher, forty-seven
years old, is the oldest. Maelon was
born in Russia.
W. C. Christiansen, a farmer living
near Edina, was killed instantly and
his wife was seriously injured when
their buggy was struck by an east-
bound St. Paul road passenger train
on a crossing at Hopkins.
Nine of the twelve presidential electors nominated by the Progressive
party last March have withdrawn their
names from the state ballot and efforts are being made by Progressive
party leaders to get the other three
off.
According to an announcement by
J. J. Opsahl, president of the Red
Lake Northern Railway company,
construction of the line from Bemidji;
north to Warroad will begin next year!'
and 100 miles will be completed in;
the next two years.
Mrs. George H. Christian, a promi-;
nent figure in Minneapolis church!
work, social work and society fori
many years, is dead at Rochester fol-i
lowing an operation. Mrs. Christian!
was ono of the pioneer school teach-;
ers of Minneapolis.
The St. Paul and other roads havej
appealed to the United States supreme!
court from a Minnesota supreme court;
decree directing them to discontinue;
charging $1.50 a car for switching onj
the tracks of the Minneapolis Eastern!
railway at Minneapolis.
G. A. Kyle, St. Paul civil engineer,;
has been appointed by the Chinese;
government engineer in charge of lo-'
cation and construction work on the
new $60,000,000 Chinese railway system to be financed by the American
Internationa] corporation.
The Northern Pacific road's twentieth annual report, just issued at St.
Paul, shows gross railway operating
revenue of $75,939,230.65, an increase
of $12,767,578.05 over 1915, a new high
record in the history of the road. The
fiscal year ended June 30.
The state began October business
with $7,165,322.51 in the treasury—the
largest Oct. 1 balance on record. De-,.
spite indications that unusually heavy
disbursements this month may pull
the funds down to $4,000,000 on Nov.
1, treasury officials said, the state will
not be compelled, as in former years,
to go into the market and obtain a
short term loan of $2,000,000 or ?3,-
000,000.
DANCE    IN
FAUST'S    HALL    MONDAY    OCTOBER,    16. TICKETS,    SO    CENTS.