The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-06-29

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JUNE 29, 1916.
NO. 2.
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TO MEXICO
Release of Americans Demanded.
LANSING SENDS NOTE
Intentions of Carranza Government Also Desired.
Washington, June 26.—A demand for
the immediate release of the American
troopers taken prisoner at Carrizal,
coupled with a stern notification that
the United States expects an early
statement of the purposes of the Carranza government, was telegraphed to
Mexico  City by  Secretary  Lansing.
The note discloses that the state department received a communication
from the de facto government stating
that the Carrizal fight was the direct
result of orders to attack American
soldiers moving otherwise than toward the border, personally issued by
General Carranza to General Trevino
and by the latter communicated to
General Pershing.
In reply Secretary Lansing requires
that the de facto government transmit a definite statement "as to the
course of action is has determined
upon," through the usual diplomatic
channel, "and not through subordinate
military officers."
Contains   Pointed   Rebuke.
The Mexican communication is construed, Secretary Lansing states, "as
a formal avowal of deliberately hostile
action against the forces of the United States now in Mexico, and of the
purpose to attack without provocation
whenever they move from their present position," despite the friendly mission on which they are engaged, and
which is reaffirmed in the American
rejoinder.
General Carranza is requested to
place himself on record, formally, and
the plain intimation lies behind the
restrained language of Mr. Lansing's
communication that force will be met
with force.
Apparently, however, the Washington government is determined that
the de facto government shall not
evade responsibility before the world
if war is forced upon the United
States.
Conference  at White   House.
The note and the military situation
of the United States were talked over
at the White House by the president,
with Chairman Stone of the foreign
relations committee, Senator Lodge,
ranking Republican member, and
Pfiairman Flood of the house committee on foreign affairs. Representative Copper, ranking minority member
gf tQe house committee, was out of
the city.
After the, conference, which lasted
more than an hour, Senator Stone said
the situation was "exceedingly acute."
President Wilson had felt it neses-
sary to acquaint congress with the
state of affairs and the action taken,
through the foreign affairs committees. It was indicated that he might
desire to address a joint session of
the house and senate in a day or two,
but would not take this final step until the Mexican government had been
given an opportunity to reply.
Speeding  Up  Mobilization.
Tb8 war department Is making
every effort to speed up mobilization
of the national guard. A few companies have been mustered in. In twenty hours, probably, a substantial force
will be en route to the border to back
up General Punston's line.
It may be four or five days, however, before war department officials
would feel safe in withdrawing regulars from the border patrol to form
the cutting edge of whatever force
they may hurl to the support of General Pershing's column, should aggres-
Blve action be ordered.
It seems doubtful that a formal dip-
lDmatic rupture would be forced before adequate military precautions are
possible, particularly as it has been
indicated that quick, drastic action is
President Wilson's desire, should General Carranza force the use of the
army against him,
Man Killed at Ft.
Ripley Yesterday
Ed. Schmeltzer was instantly
killed and his son-in-law, Henry
Pearson, was seriously injured
at about 11 o'clock 3'esterday
forenoon in Ripley town, when
a house they were moving fell
from the jacks, crushing them
between the structure and a new
cement foundation.
The accident occured on the
Hoist farm, 15 miles northeast
of Pierz. The men had moved
a house from its old foundation,
constructed a new foundation
and at the time of the accident
were moving the building back
to the new foundation. The
building was on jacks and had
reached the edge of the new cement underpinning when the
jacks gave way, instantly killing Schmeltzer and badly injuring Pearson. Pearson, it is
said, would also have met instant death but for the fact that
there was a depression in the
cement foundation where he
was working and his body fitted
into this, thus saving him.
Wlilcli Are You?
Someone has said that when
the creator had made all the
good things there still remained
some work to do, so He made
beasts and reptiles, and poisonous insects, and when He had
finished there were some scraps
left, so He put all these together, wrapped it with jealousy,
marked it with a yellow streak
and called it a knocker.
This product was so fearful to
contemplate that He had to make
something to counteract it, so
He took a child, the brain of a
man, wrapped these in civic
pride, covered it with brotherly
love, gave it a mask of velvet
and a grasp of steel and called
it a Booster made him a lover
of fields and flowers and manly
sports, a believer in equality
and justice, and ever since these
two were created mortal man
has had the privilege of choosing his own associates.—Ex.
That Storm Last
Sunday Afternoon
The storm which passed over
this end of the county Sunday
was much more destructive than
at first reported. A heavy fall
of hail destroyed a strip of grain
from 'three to five miles wide
south of Buekman. It is not
now known to what length this
path of destruction extends.
Some of the stones were as large
as hens eggs—the regulation
size.
How is Yours?
A city man, familiar with life
in the country, uses the "woodshed test" to determine whether
it is safe to lend a farmer money.
If he finds a good stock of wood
on hand, with plenty of it split
and neatly piled, and some split
very fine, so that it will kindle
easily, ■ he concludes that the
man is forehanded, looks out for
his wife's comfort, does not
spend his rainy days at the store,
and is a good risk. If the woodshed shows shiftlesness he refuses to lend.
TROOPS START FOR BORDER
Ten Thousand Men Will Be Hurried
Southward.
New York, June 26.—Acting on an
urgent request from Secretary of War
Baker, Major General Leonard Wwd
announced more than IS,000 national
guardsmen will leave at once for the
border.
The first to go will comprise troops
from New York, Massachusetts, New
Jersey, Connecticut and one Vermont
regiment.
The crack commands of Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and.
Florida wilj be started fer the border
Tuesday or Wednesday.
More Aeroplanes on Border.
Washington, June 24.—The war department  has . ordered   fourteen   additional high power aeroplanes for border use.
Platte News.
Mrs. Anton Rossa and little
daughter are guests at the home
Qf her brother, Mike Cassey and
family.
Harry Booth departed for his
home at Swan River Saturday,
after having assissted his
brother-in-law, Roy Debolt, for
some time.
Elmer Noe of Swan River is
at present the guests of C.
Reese, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Rychner
visited at the Mike Casey home
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lorentzon and
children attended the party at
Schultzs' of Preedhem Sunday-
Read the Journal ads.
Shy On Sorts
Here is an authentic extract from
the first issue of a western newspaper:
"We bo^i" the publication ov the
Itoccay Mountain Cyclone with some
phew diphphiculties in the way. The
type phounders phrom whom we
bought our outphit phor this printing
ophphice phailed to supply us with any
ptis or cays, and it will be phour or
phive weex bephorc we eaii get any.
We have ordered the missing letters,
and will have to get along without
them until they come. We don't lique
the loox ov this variety ov spelling
any better than our readers, but mis-
tax will happen in the best regulated
phamilies, and iph the ph's and e's
and x's and q's hold out we shall eeep
(sound the c hard) the Cyclone whirling aphter a phasion till the sorts arrive. It is no joque to us—it's a serious aphpliair."
Almost three inches of rain
fell last night.
N. W. Fuerstenberg went
to St. Cloud this morning.
Mrs. Jake Pflepsen of Buffalo is here visiting her parents.
The German State Bank
basement was half full of
water this morning.
Quite a few changes have
been in the ads this week.
How do you like them?
Mrs. F. Smith of St. Cloud
visited with the W.J. Schau-
ble family this week.
Bert Sanborn was in town
early this morning. When
asked how he came so early
he explained that he took advantage of the heavy rain
and simply floated down.
Scoles' strawberries are on
display in Faust's Bros, window. They are so far in a
class by themselves that
those shipped in are not in
the race as far as size and
color goes.
Sanborn Bros, of Hoistein
Park have installed a milking machine to milk their
cows. Who would have
thought some time back
that Pierz cows would ever
be milked machinerically.
(How is that for a new
word ?)
Platte river was very little
higher this morning than last
night. Following very heavy
rains, it always takes from
twelve to fourteen hours before Platte begins to show a
decided rise. But when the
real rise comes, one can easily see it in a few minutes by
marking a place at the edge
of the stream. This is explained by the fact that the
headwaters of Platte are
drained from a comparatively
large area.
Card of Thanks.
Pierz Will Again
Celebrate Fourth
In Grand Style
Fourth of July posters are
now liberally distributed
about town, in show windows
and other conspicuous places
announcing the program of
our grand celebration of the
National holiday. The program includes races, sports
of various kinds, including a
fast game of ball between
Brainerd and Pierz.
Come and see the fun! See
the boys try to catch the
greased pig. This stunt alone
is worth your time coming to
town.
Fireworks and DANCE
during the afternoon and
evening,
Big Strawberries   Raised in
Pierz.
While Pierz may not be the
land of milk and honey, it fs
the land of cream and strawberries. We have the land of milk
and honey beaten. Who would
give a dish of strawberries and
cream for a quart of their blue
milk and a chunk of honey?
Cream is hauled in by the
hundreds of pounds and strawberries as good as can be raised
anywhere, are now growing and
ripening in Mrs. R. C. Scoles'
garden. Some of her strawberries measure as much as four inches in circumference. The
patch was planted last spring
and covered with a straw mulch
•last fall.
In three years Tony Jamma
has had four colts come on
April fool's day. For three
successive years one of his
mares lias dropped her colt
on April first, and this year,
perhaps only by way of imitation, her pulling mate and
otherwise all around good
chum, did likewise. Tony
says that if his mares can
April fool him every year
with a pair of as nice colts
as they did this year, he will
raise no serious objections.
Genola News.
A small cyclone struck near Royalton Sunday afternoon and did slight
damage to farm buildings and' crops,
the damage to the crops being caused
by a hailstorm which accompanied the
wind. The cupola was knocked from
the barn on the farm of A. C. Wilson,
southeast of the village. The storm
looked bad and caused much alarm in
the village as it approached. The
damage to crops was mostly northeast
of Royalton.
There was no wind at Little Tails,
but hail fell for a quarter of an hour.
No damage was reported.
News Gathered
Here and There
We hereby express our thanks
to  the   neighbors  and friends,
who assisted us during the illness and death and burial of our
beloved wife and mother.
Otto Hoffmann,
Pred Hoffmann,
John Hoffmann.
Grain and Produce
Harket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,....- $   97
Wheat, No. 2_.._ „__•      93
Wheat, No. 3...         87
Flax, .,_____.       1.50
Barley    60
Rye ...      83
Oats .      32
EarCorn       65
Hay     7.00
Butter, Creamery       37
Dairy...—.       27
Eggs       17
Flour.Royal :    3.20
"   WhiteRose      3.10
Low grade flour  1.60
Bran  1.25
Shorts. ....... 1.30
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Peed  1.40
Beans ._._--_..-__-_..__     4.00
Onions        60
John Dombovy has returned from Rochester, Minn.
Irwin Drews of Hillman
was a caller in the village
Monday.
Frank Wise has so far recovered that he is able to be
out again.
Lyman Signor of Little
Falls was a business caller
in Pierz Tuesday.
Mrs. C. J. Baker of Spokane, Wash., visited relatives here this week.
Frank Starr of Buekman
has sold his farm and intends
soon to leave for Montana.
The Leary boys of New
Ulm were here Saturday inspecting their farm east of
Lastrup.
Mrs. Chas. Gravel o± Ona-
mia passed through the village Monday on her way to
Little Falls.
Wm. Kramer and wife of
Dent are here visiting with
the Jake Grirtz family of Lastrup.
Leo Waninger of Platte
will leave for Wells, N. D.,
this week where he will work
in a hotel.
Jas. Wittman of Watkins,
Minn., is here spending a
few days with his son-in-law,
R. Kahlhammer.
The freezing point was almost touched a few nights
ago. Last year's heavy frost
was on the night of June 9th.
Andrew Tschida, formerly
of Philbrook, is building a
dwelling house on thev lot
back of Wm.   Filer's  house.
The Soo line is distributing new rails along the line to
take the place of those which
were broke by frost last
winter.
Elizabeth Block, Clara
Hesch and Hubert Stangl
are attending the summer
session of the State Normal
school at St. Cloud.
A horse and colt were
killed by lightning Sunday
afternoon on the J. Mueller
farm three and one-half miles
southeast of Buekman.
Typewriters for rent, $2 a
month or three months for $5
in advance. Machines shipped
day request is received, Little
Palls Business College, Little
Palls, Minn.
Herman 011 m a n, well
known as an old potato buyer, is here visiting. He came
directly from White Tail,
Montana, the home of his son.
Corpus Christi was appropriately solemnized here last
Sunday. A large crowd attended church and, headed
by the band, inarched to the
cemetery.
On account of the cool
weather, flies and mosquites
have not been very numerous. But they will come.
They have their days as well
as the dogs.
High School students and
eighth grade graduates finish
your education at the Little
Palls Business College. Your
opportunity is now. A,good
position is waiting for you.
Get a catalog.today.
Four Critters Killed
By Lightning
Jos. Dahmen lost three steers
and a cow by lightning during
Sunday afternoon's storm. A
peculiar thing about the accident
is that a distance of about four
rods separated the critters from
one another. And yet the four
were killed by a single bolt. The
only possible explanation which
can be advanced for the simultaneous death of the four animals so widely separated is that
the current was carried by the
four to six inches of water in
which they were standing.
Water is a good conductor of
electricity.
What It Costs U. S.
It is costing §100,000 a day to
keep the American army in Mexico. Thus far the cost has been
$10,000,000.
When the state troops are mo-
gbilized it will cost |the overn-
ment $250,000 a day.
The American soldiers are the
best fed of any troops in the
world, the cost of food being 30
cents a dav for each soldier.
ABOUT THE STATE
News ot Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Toldj
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
Eight horses for sale on easy
terms.    Jos. H. Grell, Pierz.
In general rye does not
look as well this spring as
it ought to. It seems to be
scraggy. Henry Wuellner
has about the best piece of
rye which has come to our
notice.
A heavy thunderstorm
passed over the village Sunday forenoon. A sharp report about half-past ten indicated that lightning struck
close by. The electric current was turned off   all  day.
Henry Dollmeyer of Dix-
ville had the misfortune of
breaking his leg one day last
week. While operating a
stump-puller, something
about the machine broke ana
hurled a pieeeof iron against
his leg with sufficient force
to cause a fracture.
Paul Noah, for forty years
a resident of Morrison county, came here with Barney
Burton Tuesday morning.
Mr. Noah is a veteran of the
civil war. He is of a military turn of mind and waxes
enthusiastic when speaking
of prospective trouble with
Mexico.
Andrew Moehrling of Burlington, Iowa is here visiting his nephew, Henry
Wuellner. In speaking of
the crops Mr. Moehrling
stated that corn, rye and all
kinds of small grain looked
about as promising here as
they do in Iowa. The heavy
rains, he says, prevented the
farmers from working the
fields of Iowa, "with its soil
so black and rich," at the
usual time. They nevertheless expect to get a crop of
corn. If they get a crop
there, then why should we
worry.
WANT TO SELL—Three finely
improved farms all adjoining,
about 18 miles northwest of
Pierz. Will sell for cost of improvements. All handsome living places on fine road. Pine
clay soil in high state of cultivation. If you want a fine farm
home, command See them, and
you will want one of them.
Write Dawes Farm Land Co ,
Brainerd, Minn. 2-8t
WINNERS   IN    MINNESOTA
PRIMARY   RACE.
Senator—Kellogg, Rep., Law-
ler, Dem.
Governor — Burnquist, Rep.;
Dwyer, Dem.
Lieutenant Governor—Frank-
son, Rep.; Thorson, Dem.
Secretary of State—Schmahl,
Rep;  no Democrat named.
State Treasurer—Rines, Rep;
no Democrat named.
Attorney General — L. A.
Smith,  Rep;   no opposition.
Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner—Ira B. Mills, Rep;
0. A. Hedin, Dem.
Justice of Supreme Court—
Anderson and Quinn, Nonpartisan.
In the congressional contests
all the present members seeking renomination appear to
have won out, except in the
Fifth district, where Congressman , Smith was defeated. In
the Sixth district, where Lindbergh retires, Harold Knutson
of St Cloud secured the Republican nomination.
Thomas Van Lear, Socialist,
led the ticket for the nonpartisan nomination for mayor of
Minneapolis. Otto Langum will
be his opponent at the November election.
In the option election at Duluth saloons were voted out by
200 majority.
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Byron J. Mosier has been appointed
postmaster at Stillwater.
S. R. Keith of Minneapolis was
drowned while fishing in Willow river
near Hudson, Wis.
The National Editorial association,
in session at New York, selected Minneapolis as its place of meeting next
year.
Albert Bavry, a homesteader of the
Togo region near Hibbing, reports the"
discovery   of   rich   iron   ore   on   his
claim.
The John Addison Porter prize of
$500 was awarded to Dr. Richard I.
Purcell of Minneapolis at the Yale
commencement.
By a majority of sixty-six the city
of Virginia voted to reduce the number of saloons from forty-nine to
twenty by Jan. 1, 1917. .
Frank Jackson, an old resident of
Hibbing, was instantly killed by the
accidental explosion of eighteen sticks
of dynamite he was carrying.
M. A. Smith of St. Paul, aged thirty-
seven, was drowned in White Bear
lake. He was reaching for a fallen
oar when he fell out of the boat.
Mrs. Rebecca PI' iimer, who reached
Brooklyn Center, this state, in 1854, is
dead at Minneapolis. She was a member of the Territorial Pioneers' assc
ciation.
Robert Seiberlich, Minneapolis insurance man, has been appointed state
boxing commissioner to represent Minneapolis in succession to Michael L.
Molan, resigned.
William Kaiser, one of the proprietors of the Faribault Journal and
postmaster of Faribault from April 1,
1899, until last February, is dead at
Eagle Rock, Cal.
John Kovrik of St. Paul, fifty-three
years old, stopped a runaway team
headed toward a group of children,
but he received injuries which resulted in his death.
Police Captain J. A. Weare of Minneapolis, charged with accepting
bribes for the protection of vice, was
acquitted by a jury in the Hennepin
county district court. ,
A near tornado swept over Crooks-,1
ton and vicinity, causing considerable!
damage. Silos on several farms werej
blown down and the grain warehouse!
at Shirley was wrecked.
Martin H. Clapp of St. Paul, super-!
intendejjtof telegraph of the Northern]
Pacific railway, has. been chosen pres-j
ident of the Association of Railway!
Telegraph Superintendents.
For the second time within a yearj
burglars broke into the supply house!
of Parke, Davis & Co., wholesale drug-j
gists of Minneapolis, and took nar-|
cotics worth probably S.5,0Q0,
Governor Burnquist gathered in the!
largest number of votes in: the Henne- j
pin county primary, his official total!
being 27,805, and his majority over!
Samuel G. Iverson being 22,484.
Thirty thousand dollars' damage j
was done by a fire which swept the!
downtown section of Cambridge. The I
fire department pump broke down and J
aid was sent from Minneapolis and!
Isanti.
George McCormick, fifty-five years
old, employed by Martin Maher, a
farmer of Marshall, Dakota county,
was killed by lightning during a heavy
rain storm. Five horses also were
killed.
Journal ads bring results.
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Don't Forget to attend the GRAND DANCE Tuesday, JULY FOURTH at^Faust'sJJjUl