The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-11-02

              VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, riORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, NOVEMBERS, 1916.
NO. 20
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A Way Around a
Difficulty
By ELINOR MARSH
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Mrs. Haskins had but oue person In
the world to tie to; that was Alice
Neil. The old lady had the usual selfishness of one of her age and condition
and would not on an}' account consent
that Alice should marry.
"But, grandma," argued the girl,
"suppose I many and you continued to
live with me?"
"That wouldn't do at all. No house
is large enough for two families. No,
Alice, you can't marry as long as I
live. I took you when you were a little girl, and but for me you would have
had no home. Now that I have no
home but with you, It is your duty to
remain single and take care of me."
That ended the dialogue. Alice sighed, for she had a lover who was arguing on the other side of the question.
He admitted that Alice should continue to make a home for her grandmother, but he offered to take upon
himself a case of mother-in-law, or,
rather, of grandmother-In-law, which
was worse, and argued that the old
woman should be satisfied with this.
But so long as she would consent to
nothing but Alice's spinsterhood there
was nothing for It except that Alice
should remain a spinster.
Fred Martin, Alice's lover, finally
persuaded her to a marriage which
should be concealed from her grandmother. The old lady was so feeble
that the couple did not expect her to
live very long, and while she did live
this plan would enable Alice to take
care of her on her grandmother's own
conditions. Of course it would be
hard on Fred and Alice, but after all
wouldn't it be better than for both to
grow old separated or better even than
a case of grandmother-in-law, for, so
far as the old woman was concerned,
Fred would be nonexistent.
So the couple were married, and
Fred fitted up a house near where his
wife lived, he taking up his abode in
single blessedness, except when Alice
could visit him. The old lady went to
bed at 9 o'clock, and when she was
asleep Alice would slip out and go to
the home where she really belonged.
They kept a maid, so that if Mrs.
Haskins woke up and Alice wasn't on
hand the maid could say she had stepped around the corner to buy something.
This was not exactly home life, but
as Fred was at work all day, not returning usually till after 7 o'clock, it
was not so bad, and it was not obligatory on his wife to hurry home. By
and by Alice told her grandmother
that she must go to a hospital for a
few weeks, and the old lady was
obliged to remain in care of the maid.
After Alice was discharged from the
hospital there was a period when she
was continually running out for something. But she could not go often
enough for her purpose, so one morning when she was away and the maid
was engaged the old lady answered a
ring at the doorbell, and there on the
step was a three-weeks-old baby.
Mrs. Haskins took the little thing up
in her arms, and when Alice came
home she found her grandmother
dandling it on her knee in a very
motherly sort of way. The old lady
wouldn't consent that the child should
be sent away, so Alice was obliged to
divide its motherhood with her. It
wasn't long before tho one Nvoman
was as fond of the child as the other.
Then one day the postman brought
a note signed by a man who claimed
to be the baby's father, saying that he
regretted parting with it and asking
that it be sent to him. This put the
old lady in great distress. Alice wrote
a letter to the father—at her grandmother's dictation—begging the father
to leave the child where it was, he
being permitted to come and see it
whenever he liked.
This brought a man who gave his
name as Frederick Martin, and after
a conference In which he insisted that
unless they would take him to board he-
would take the child away, Mrs. Haskins consented, and the family was
increased by one man.
After awhile Fred began to pour a
tale of woe into Mrs. Haskins' ear.
His wife had deserted him and her
child for her grandmother. The old
lady was so indignant at the "old
crone," as she called the grandmother,
that she could scarcely contain herself.
Meanwhile the old lady noticed that
Fred and Alice were together a good
ileal, and she wished Fred's wife
would die so that he could marry Alice
and the baby could have a mother as
well as a father. When the pear was
ripe Fred came home one evening and
announced that his wife was "no
more."
He tried hard to appear respectful to
his wife's memory, but found it difficult. This was not remarkable since
the departed had treated both her
husband and her child so badly. Mrs.
Haskins averred that no respect whatever was due her; that she had been a
soulless, shameless creature, and the
sooner Martin forgot her the better.
As for Alice, she maintained a discreet
silence, which her grandmother attributed to an expectation that she would
take the lost wife's place.
The old lady after this was very impatient to learn that the widower had
proposed to Alice. She was not long
kept waiting for the announcement or
the wedding. After the ceremony she
fell on her grandson-in-law's shoulder
and hoped heaven would punish that
"old cat" who had caused him so much
trouble.
Cattle Shipments
Are Heavy.
Cattle is now going to the
packing bouses at an alarming
rate. As many as 5 to 8 cars
are leaving Genola every week.
The failure of the grain crops
and the shortage of feed compels the average farmer of the
northwest to sell his live stock
to provide the household with
the necessities of life.
It is more than probable that
those who hold their cattle and
especially the breeding stock,
will get good returns during
the next few years. There is a
cattle shortage everywhere.
Because of the blockade, which
prevents the importation of
South American meat, much
breeding stock in Europe, and
especially in Germany and
Austria is slaughtered.
Just now the prices are low,
Everybody is "cleaning up".
There is so much cattle coming
into South St. Paul, that the
yards find difficulty in handling
it.
T-
ndians Awaiting'
Government
Money,
Minnesota Chippewas are ea
gerly awaiting the sum of
§1,500,000, being one-fourth of
the tribul funds of the United
States treasury which awarded
them some time ago. The funds
are distributed on a pro ratio
basis, each Indain man, woman
and child receiving about $150,
which means a big sum for most
Chippewa famifies. The secretary of the treasury has approved the disbursement and a
Washington dispatch states
that it will soon be made. Only
those Indains recognized as
competent to handle their own
affairs will be paid outright,
the amounts due the others be
deposited in banks disbursed on
order of the government Indain
agents.
SULLIVAN
Mrs. Julius Van Kueren visited the school last Tuesday
afternoon.
Merle Look called at Peter
Adkins'  Tuesday  evening.
Mr. Wolfenden accompanied
by two gentlemen from Delano,
was at the lake Tuesday looking at land.
Mr. Poster of Vineland was
buying old rubbers in this
neighborhood Thursday.
Miss Mary Hoppe    left    for
Lynx Was Shot
Neaf^St. Cloud
St. Cloud.— A lynx, common
enough in the frontier days,
but not seen in these parts for
many years, was shot yesterday
by Paul Kleinschmidt, 8 miles
up the river and today is on exhibition in the Thielman Hardware company's window.
The lynx is a large one and
is knowh to be one of the most
vicious of wild animals. The
hunter accidentally encountered
the cat in the woods. The 'animal is to be mounted.
John Hohn Married,
Nick lochner
Died Suddenly.
Nick Lochner, 64, died suddenly last monday afternoon
about one o'clock. He left
Pierz in apparantly good
health about noon for his
farm four miles southeast of
the village. He died with a
paralytic strok while sitting
in a chair. He leaves a widow, three daughters and four
sons. Burial took place
Thursday morning at 10:30.
Suck    Rapids — Wednesday
morning at nine o'clock  at  St. j
Timothy's church of Maple Lake,
Minnesota, occurred the   marri- j
age Miss Augusta Clara Maven-1
camp,   daughter  of Mr.   Henry j
Mavencamp, to John  Hohn    of
this city. A reception was  held
at the home of the bride's   father at noon. After a   short   wedding trip the young couple   will
return   to   Sauk   Rapids  where !
they   will    make    their    future'
home' Mr. and Mrs.   Wm. Hohn
Mr.   and   Mrs.    Chas.   Morgan,
Leon MiUer and Tony   Pappen.
fus   motored   to    Maple    Lake j
Wednesday morning inhere they
attended the wedding, returning:
in the evening.
RUCKER
Mike is Now Released
St. Cloud—Mike Lokovitch
of Pierz, sentenced by the federal court three months in the
county jail for selling liquor to
an Indian, was released today
and left for his home. "Mike"
has been an ideal prisoner and
the forecast at the sheriffs
office has expressed genuine regret at his departure. The of
f ense was purely a technical one
and no reflection on the man.
He was assisting about the sal-
loon when the owner was out
and the Indian spotter sent in
was so nearly white teat an ev-
pert could hardly tell the difference. When he asked for his
drink he was served as any
other customer.
Mr. and Mrs. John Ferguson
were Pierz visitors Saturday.
Giles Leigh and his sister,
Miss Ina, of Vawter and Mr.
McLeod of Royalton visited at
G. W. Walter's Saturday and
Sunday, returning home Monday, accompanied by Miss Elizabeth Waller.
Mrs. Tomberlin and Mrs. G.
W. Waller gave a surprise
shower for Mrs. Ernest Goble
Monday afternoon at the Tomberlin home. A very pleasant
time was enjoyed by those
present.
Mr. and Mrs. V. Bruber were
Hillman callers Sunday.
Ove and Peter Andersen
have gone to Nebraska to husk
corn.
Little Floyd Dorman was
quite sick for a few days but is
better again.
R. F. D. NO. 3
Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Smith and
family and Miss Helen Davis
took supper at the H. DeRosier
home Thursday.
Mr. Henry Dufort visited at
the Lescault home last   week.
Little Falls callers Saturday
be^m SlotUedday ^^ She Wmjwere Mr- H' Ridlon and dauSh"
^SeTook spent the week!ters and Mr" and Mrs- E- L-
end at home. j Muncy. j
The dance at A. W. Cook's | Mr. and Mrs. H. DeRosier
was well attended. Everybody i and daughter were entertained
had a glorious time. L ... , ■,      __    -     _,.,:
» Mrs. T. S. Look and Miss Ida'at dmner at the   M- F-   Smith,
Look called on    Mrs.    Kramer home Sunday.
Thursday.
Miss Fern Day visited at
S. Look's Sunday.
T.
Among those who attend-ed
the fair at Pierz Sunday were
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Beimert and
C. E. Look was a Hillman' family, Mr. and Mrs. M. F.
caller Monday. | Smith and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Hallowe'en was celebrated by h. DeRosier and daughter,
the children by a party at the (Lora Mae, and Miss Helen
school house. ! Davis.
One day recently one of our.    Mrg  Joe Bthan wa_ ft   p}erz
fellow country men had a job  -aller Saturday
of herding cattle.    While    sit-,    gupt   M   R Barnes    vi_ited
ting on a stump in peaceful si- f1,_tr}ct No   2g Monday   morn_
lence shot gun over one arm, a j
wolf walked up to within six ' Mr. J. J. Saehrs has had his
or eight feet of   him,   winked com husker in ation for a
one eye, smiled pleasantly, .v_-k and find_ that M_ com .g.
then walked away. J. A. nev- v,elding him 68 bushels per
er thought of his gun until too acre
late to shoot.
Dr. T. E. McDormitt and
sons left for their home in Minneapolis. They took home
about sixty ducks.
Qle.-Christianson was a Pierz
visitor Saturday.
Mrs. Frank Schamal is enjoying a visit from her brother
from South Dakota.
Miss Marie Hoppe of   Sullivan   is  visiting  her   sister
i Maggie Hoppe.
j j
You often wonder how' Winkler Bros, of Holding-
others got their start —they ford finished the heating
started at the St. Cloud and plumbing work on the
.Business College. Wermerskirchen     residence
Vath & Ahles. in our village last week.
Prices Of Wheat
Fifty Years Ago,
The present high price of
wheat the result ot short crop
and the tremendous European
demand, has caused a good many
people to arrest that if it goes
to $2 a bushel, which is entirely
probable, that it will break all
records The Journal-Press
has been handed by J. E. Cooling a copy of the Cecil Wing,
of Elkton, Maryland which gives
the price 50 years ago 1866.
"Wheat, white, $3.15; wheat,
red, $3; corn, white, $1; corn
yellow, $1. oats 52c; clover seed
§5.50 and $6. The present price
of clover seed is higher than 50
years ago, but even at the present skyward lift, wheat is a
long way from the price in
Maryland 50 years ago.
That was before St. Cloud
had a railroad, and the price as
given for wheat on Oct. 23, 1866
by the .lournal- Press, was:
"Wheat, $1.10 and $1.20. Now
the price between St. Cloud and
other markets is only a few
cents for freight. Fifty years
ago the freight on a bushel of
wheat from St. Cloud, where it
would have to be hauled, by
team to St. Paul, would probab-
lv be the full difference between $1.20 and $3.15. Minnesota at that date had not become the great wheat producing state, and the amount raised was used for local consumption. The cost of getting it to
market prohibited it from being
an article of commerce. In
tho^e days the farmers hauled
their wheat to the nearest mill,
liai it ground and took the f lour
back home for their own use.
St. Cloud was then the best
trading point north of St. Paul
and Minneapolis, farmers from
as far as Litchfield, Alexandria
Pierz, and Long Prairie hauling their wheat to St. Cloud by
ox teams. Surely the world
moves.
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
Potatoes are still climbing.
Simon P. Brick was an
early caller here Wednesday.
A young son arrived at
the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Jos. Fritz last week.
Wm. Draeger of Sullivan
was a business caller in
Pierz Friday.
The town board of Pierz
will meet m the village hall
Friday November 10th.
Jake Pflepsen and wife of
Buffalo are here visiting
with Mrs. Pflepsen's mother.
Ig. Preimesberger and
family visited at the John
Preimesberger home yesterday.
Mrs. Wm. Schauble left
for Holdingford Wednesday,
for a few days' visit with
friends.
Frank Boehm went to St.
Cloud Tuesday to visit Mrs.
Boehm who is taking medical treatments there.
Jos. Jae'ger, wife and son
of Staples autoed here Tuesday. They came down to
decorate Mr. Jaegers' parents
graves.
According to those who
have tried it, it pays to plow
the potatoe fields now and
pick up those that the digger and the fork did not get.
Some report a saving of 10
to 15 bushels from 6 to 8
acres.
A high school graduate,
ten months in the Little
Kails Business College rnd a
$90 real estate position in
Montana is the record of a
young man.
Ben Olson and Antonia
Kahlluimmer were Pierz
visitors Sunday.
Henry J. Gassert is visiting his sister Mrs. John A.
Virnig of Lastrup for a tew
days.
Frances Cassert jretumd
from the twin cities last
week.
Andrew Will, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Anton Will of
Granite, returned home from
the St. Cabrial hospital of
Little Falls last week, where
he had undergone an operation.
Carl Jacobi of St. Paul
who is traveling salesman
for It. Benz & Son of St.
Paul was a business caller
here last Monday.
PUTS CASH IN HIS SHOE
AND FOOLS FOOTPADS
Mrs. Wood of Mankato
came up last Saturday to
visit her son S. I). Wood in
Granite. She made the trip
by auto. She . is 84 years
old.
The Indian "summer is yet
to come.
Bayonns   (N.  J.)   Man  Takes   Beating,
but Saves His Money.
Bayomie, N. J.—James McLaughlin
■was returning to his home iu this city
-when he noticed three men following
him. He had a roll of bills in his
pocket and believed the trio meant to
hold him up when he got to a lonely
spot.
McLaughlin stepped into a hallway,
took off one of his shoes, placed the
money in it and put it back on his
foot. Then he continued on his trip
home.
When he got to a lonely spot, at
Avenue C and West Eleventh street,
the three men pounced on him. While
two of them held him tightly the other
-went through his pockets, but found
mo money. A half hour later Mclaughlin was found in the gutter, cut
sind beaten.
"They bent me up all right," Mc-
TLaughl'm said at tbe police station,
"'but I fooled them on the money que§.
-.tlon."
Grain And Produce
Market Report
'Vheat, No. 1, $1.77
Wheat, No. 2     1.71
Wheat, No. 3____      1.56
Flax,       2.40
Barley       85-90
Rye ...   1.26
Oats      45
EarCorn 1     72
Hay     7.00
Butter, Creamery ..       37
"       Dairy ._        27
Kggs       26
Flour,Royal      5.10
"   WhiteRose      5.00
Low grade flour 2.C0
Bran . 1.45
Shorts   1.55
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.60
Ground Feed     1.50
Beans      5.00
Onions        60
HILLMAN
Those visiting Pierz last
week Wednesday were Andrew
and Iver Israelson of Mt. Morris, Victor Bruber, John Brown
and daughter Marie of Rucker.
Mesdames Aug. and Irwin
Drews were in Pierz last
Thursday.
Miss Iona and Giles Leigh of
Royalton are visiting in the
neighborhood.
Mr. and Mrs. Arba Waller
were in town Thursday last.
Mrs. W. C. Penniman and
children returned from Foley
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Bruber
visited at Irwin Drew's Sunday
afternoon.
Those calling at the Love
home Sunday were Miss Mildred Wilmont, Ben Drews and
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Drews.
Chas. Scott finished threshing for Mr. Penniman Monday.
Geo. Waller of Rucker took
the train to Pierz Monday.
Stanley Penniman of St. Paul
arrived Monday for a visit with
his brother William.
Use More Potatoes
In Bread Making-.
Washington, Oct. 17.—More
general use of potatoes in making bread is recommended by
the baking specialists of the department of agriculture. Bread
containing boiled and mashed
potatoes was found during experiments just concluded to be
as nutritious asordinary bread
and to have quality of remaining fresh longer.
The department believes that
in localities where there is a
surplus of potatoes, or where
they are cheap, much economy
can be practiced at this time by
reason of the high price of
mheat flour, and that even in
localities where the relative
market prices of potatoes and
Lour are sucli that there is no
economy in substituting potato
for flour, the individual flavor
and keeping quality of potato
bread should make it desirable
as a variant in the   family   diet*
Report of school district No.
46, Agram for the month ending
Oct. 27.
No. of days taught 20-
No. of pupils enrolled 32.
Average daily attendance   27.
Those neither absent or tardy
the   entire   month   were,    John
1 Bolster, John Block, Julia Block,
I Frank Langer,  Albert   Langer,
j Eva Rauch, Marie Rauch,   Josephine Rauch, Elizabeth Rauch,
| Max Rauch, Euphemia Terhaar,
| Philip       Terhaar,        Gertrude
: Stumpf, Agnes   Stumpf,   Frank
Stumpf, and Julia Stumpf.
Those absent or tardy more
than one day were Susan Bol-
i ten, Otio Bock: Loretta, Edith
and Helen Leidenfrost and Fe-
iia Stumpf.     ■
!.va Rauch, Gertrude Stumpf,
and Agnes Stumpf were perfect
in Spelling tUe entire month.
C. A. Measure,   teacher.
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.
Felix Gaetr, Hastings pioneer, is
dead after a brief illness at the age of
seventy-three.
The Rockefeller Foundation has
given $100,000 toward the $500,000 endowment fund of Hamline university.
Eugene II. Burnand, who had been
in the grain inspection service of tha
state for twenty-five years, is dead at
Minneapolis.
Mark Julson, aged twenty-two, was
knocked down and fatally injured by
an automobile at St. Paul. Pie died
an hour lat_r at the city hospital.
Automobile burglars who raided the,
Hutchinson Bros.' department store at;
Faribault secured furs and women's!
furnishings valued at nearly $2,500.
John K. Truax, an early resident of!
Hastings and a brother of the late!
Abraham Truax, is dead at Farming-i
ton, Wash., at the age of ninety -three, j
Thirty automobiles were stolen ini
the Twin Cities the past week. Outj
of this number, thirteen have not been j
recovered, according to police stati3-|
tics.
Guy Ewing, superintendent of thai
Mille Lacs county schools, is dead atj
his home in Princeton. Mr. Ewing|
began the work of teaching in Prince-!
ton forty years ago.
According to a telegram received in!
Minneapolis from Billy Sunday, the:
evangelist, he will visit the Mill City
in November, 1917, to conduct an
evangelistic campaign.
Miss Geraldine B. McGrorty, for
twenty-six years a teacher in the St.
Paul public schools and for the past
two years principal of the Randolph
Heights school, is dead.
If the widow of Nels Olson, pioneer
Minneapolis grain dealer who died
Oct. 18, marries again before Aug. 1,
1921, it will cost her $35 a msnth, according to the terms of Olson's will.
Edward Rolant, champion potato
grower of Pipestone county, has completed the season with a, total harvest
of 8,275 bushels from a sixty-acre plot.
His sales averaged more than $1 a
bushel.
Samuel Kleinberg, aged twenty-
eight, committed suicide at St. Paul
by drowning himself in the Mississippi
river. Disappointment in love and
other troubles are given as the cause
of the act.
Work on the new $250,000 high
school at St. Cloud has been stopped
temporarily by a strike of the workmen of various trades. Sixty men quit
when two nonunion, workmen were
put to work.
Rev. John Sinclair, the seventeenth
Earl of Caithness, well known in
Presbyterian circles in Minnesota, is
dead at Redwood Falls. Heart disease
was the cause of death, following years
of failing health.
H. S. Quiggle, deputy state superintendent cf ban: 3, has tendered his
resignation, effective Nov. 1, to accept
a position as cashier of the Bankers'
Trust and Savings bank, in process of
organization in Minneapolis.
Potato growers of the Northwest,
especially of Minnesota, will demand
concessions from railroads east of Chi:
cago at a hearing before an examiner
of the interstate commerce commission in Minneapolis Nov. 23.
Michael A. Gerber, former Minneapolis alderman and father of the municipal baths in the Mill City, is dead.
He had been engaged in the printing
and binding business in Minneapolis
for more than twenty-five years.
The campaign to raise a $500,000 endowment building fund for Hamlino
university is under way. Ten thousand circulars have been mailed to
prominent Methodists of Minnesota
and 15,000 more will be sent out.
John Pendergast, forty-nine years
old, and Edward J. Lorentzson, thirty-
four years old, both of Duluth, were
drowned in Big Rice lake near Kim-
berly while hunting ducks. Both men
were connected with a Duluth theater.
Marian, four-year-old daughter ^of>
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Malley of Duluth,]
was found drowned in five inches of j
water less than fifty feet from her,
home. The child had fallen into a'
three-foot hole dug for a concrete pil-i
lar.
B. W. Du Bois, aged fifty-eight, com-,
mitted suicide at his home in St. Paul
by turning on the gas. Losses in the|
grain market,- coupled with the fact
that his young wife is said to have
left him two weeks ago, probably;
caused his act.
Seventeen children, the oldest only
twenty years of age, have been born
to Mr. and Mrs. Peder Anderson of
Bygland township, Polk county. Tho
mother of the children is forty-two
years of age. All but two of the children are li.ing.
Doctors W. J. and Charles Mayo of
Rochester will lead a pilgrimage of
physicians of the United States into
South America to facilitate friendly-
relations with the medical profession
of those lands, if the plan of the
American Clinical congress materializes.
SO"
There   Will   Be A   Dance   In   Faust's   Hall   Monday   gventng,   November   6.   Price SO Cent^.