The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-11-09

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, HORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, NOVEMBER, 9, 1916.
NO. 21
A Lady       7
In Waiting
And   an   Unexpected,  but
Happy Result
By VIRGINIA BLAIR
Inez, having disposed of her sables in a corner of the dark settee,
took off her gloves and, leaning her
elbows on the table, surveyed the
tea room.
"Girls," she said suddenly, "will
you look?"
Her three companions turned
their exquisitely coiffured heads
with a jerk.
"Of all things!" they ejaculated,
and their amazed eyes met.
"It is Charlotte!" they exclaimed in a second breath.
As if some echo of their words
had reached the waitress at a table
across the room, she turned and,
with perfectly immovable face, gazed on them, but deep down in her
eyes was a sparkle of mischievous
recognition.
Presently she came to take their
order.
"Charlotte Stetson," Inez began,
but the waitress leaned over on pretense of brushing away the crumbs.
"Hush!" she warned. "Nobody
knows me. This is supposed to be
a dark disguise." And she was
away before they could answer her.
Slie brought the soup and chops
and salad and sweets, and they, too
interested to eat, watched the perfection of her service as she filled
glasses, carried trays, placed doilies,
made out the check and pocketed
triumphantly the tip which Inez
maliciously left on the mahogany.
"Where in the world did she
learn to do it?" Inez demanded as
the door of the tea room closed behind them and they made their way
to their motor.
"Charlotte always could do
things," Margaret said. "But why
—why is she doing it—waiting on
tables in a tea room ?"
"Perhaps she has lost her money,"
Mazie Wight suggested.
"Lost nothing," Inez said elegantly. "Why, she can't lose it. Dad
told us only the other night that
nobody made such safe investments
as her father had done."
"Then why?" Mary Lennox demanded, and they shook their heads
and gave it up.
But tho next day they were back
again in the tea room at 1 o'clock.
"Charlotte, you've got to tell us!"
Inez said to the expert waitress.
"Why are you doing such a thing ?"
Charlotte planted the menu card
in front of her friend. "I can recommend the stuffed crabs, madam,"
she said in a mincing tone.
Away she went, to come back
presently with flaming cheeks.
"Inez, Inez," she breathed, "Eegi-
nald Barrett is just coming in. If
he asks you about me, tell him I
have lost all of my money and am
• earning my living this way."
"Ah-ha!" Inez said melodramatically. "Now I know what you are
up to." Then, as a dapper little
man with an upturned blond mustache stood in the doorway, she
whispered, "I'll help you out!"
Eeginald came oVer at once.
"Can you make room for five at
your table?" he asked Inez. His
eyes fell on the trim waitress. He
gasped. "Why—why"— And as
Charlotte whisked herself away he
turned to Inez. "How much that
girl looked like Charlotte Stetson!"
"It is Charlotte." Inez's tone
was lugubrious.   "Poor thing!"
"Why?" Eeginald demanded.
"Why 'poor thing ?'"
"She has lost everything and has
to work."
"Oh, but it can't be!" Eeginald's
tone was dismayed. "I had understood that her money was absolutely safe." He stopped. "I—er—of
course it is very sad."
Charlotte, coming back with the
crabs, received an illuminating look
from Inez.
"Can I serve you?" she asked
Eeginald demurely, and he stammered: "Oh, yes! I'm sincerely
sorry to find you—here—Miss Stet-
.on.*'
"Please don't talk about it."
Charlotte's eyes were clouded, and
her tone of distress seemed so genuine that Inez stared.
The girls delayed long over the
lunch, and "Eeginald delayed with
them, uncomfortably watching Charlotte as she deftly made the tables
ready for afternoon tea.
The room was almost,deserted,
except for the five, when through
the doorway came a big, broad
-shouldered figure. Charlotte, who
was bringing in finger bowls, saw
him first, and her tray dropped
with a crash. Her face was white
as she bent to pick up the little
brass bowls. Her dress was wet.
Her crisp apron was bedraggled.
As the big man sprang to assist
Large Seizure Of
Hunting Equipment
Aitkin, Minn.
One of the largest seizures of
hunting- equipment ever made in
the state, was successfully pulled off early this week by Deputy
Game Warden P. M. O'Neil.
with the arrest of a party of
hunters hailing- from the Twin
Cities, who were doing' their
shooting' in the vicinity of
Wahkon, Cove and Vineland on
the south shore of Mille Lacs
lake.
One of the most .flagrant offenses charged against the men,
was the shooting: of game birds
on Spirit Island, which is a government game refuge, consequently the federal authorities
were interested,in the prosecut-
tion of these game law violators.
The men made no effort to
evade responsibility, and cheerfully submitted to arrest and
the confiscation of their hunting
equipment which included 3 row-
boats, 5 canoes, a gasoline
launch valued at $1500 which is
to be turned over to the govern
ment and sold, 18 nets of the
gill and hoop description, 8 guns
1 automobile,- one gasoline hunting lantern, and one spear.
The men paid fines ranging
from $10 to $25 each, and requested that their names be not
published, which request they
were assured wouldberespected.
There are fifteen more cases
pending.
Shot an Eagle
in Self Defense.
Aitkin — On his way to town
from Mille Lacs lake last week,
while walking along the road, a
a man noticed a large bird feeding on a rabbit. He paid not
much attention to it until he
neared the scene of the feast,
when the bird suddenly turned
and flew at him. It was then
that he saw it was an eagle,
and as he carried a rifle he beat
off the first attack, but as the
bird came for him a second time
he shot  it.
He brought the bird to town
with him and exhibited it. It
was of the species known as
golden eagle, weight sixteen
pounds, and measured 7 feet
from tip to tip of the wings.
This man did not want his name
mentioned because he was told
that it is illegal to shoot an
eagle.
"What is done with all the
rye raised?" is a question often
asked around here. The United States kist year produced
49,000,000 bushels. But this a-
mount is only three percent of
the worlds production.
The European war is costing
about $100,000,000 a day.
John A. Stumpf Electric Engineer .of Reeseville, Wisconsin
who was here on a two weeks
visit returned to Reeseville
Tuesday.
The town board of Pierz
will meet in Genola Friday
instead of Pierz.
Not Much.
Church—I understand your wife
apeaks several languages.
Gotham—She certainly does.
"Does she speak any of the dead
languages ?"
"Well, take it from me, there's
no language I ever heard her use
that sounds anything like dead."—
lYonkers Statesman.
Sold Wheat for
$2.25 a Bushel.
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I have sold wheat for a higher price than any mentioned in
your paper last week" said J.
A. Sanborn, when he was in
town last Monday. In 1865 I
sold wheat in Hastings for $2.25
a bushel. The price was really more but that is what we
got. There was no railroad
that far north at that time and
the wheat was shipped south
by steamboat.
I often think of the mistake
of the wheatbuyer when I hauled my last load. Iliad always
hauled about 40 bushels to a
load, and he had formed a sort
of habit of giving us a ticket
for that amount of wheat. My
last load was only eight bushels.
When I went to the bank and
presented my ticket the cashier
counted out the cash for 40
bushels of wheat. That fellow
in the elevater made a mistake,
said I, and shoved the money
back towards him.
"He nor we make mistakes"
said the cashier.
But he was willing enough to
take it after I had convinced
how and why the buyer had
blundered".
Knutson, Gassert,
Brown and Bouck
Are Winners
Take Thief to
Royalton.
St. Cloud, Nov. 3: Clayon
Jaqua, a sewing machine salesman, was arrested here yesterday by the local police on a
complaint issued at Royalton
charging the theft of two auto
robes,"' two mackinaws and a
lady's shawl. With Jaqua at
the time of the theft was another
sewing machine salesman and a
one-armed man selling machine
oil. It is claimed that the
three, who were tiaveling by
auto, stole the goods from a
machine at Royalton. Jaqua
was picked up here yesterday
and the deputy sheriff at Royalton came down to take him into custodoy. Jaqua admitted
the theft and said that the goods
had been hidden near Sartell.
He said they had all been drinking to excess and blames the
booze for their criminal act.
The addresses of the other men
are known to the Royalton
authorities and they may be
arrested later.
On the Spot.
The late Eichard Harding Davis
was once congratulated at a dinner
in New York on his war correspondence work.
"I pride myself most on my fiction," he- said. "War correspondence is, after all,- a good deal of a
bluff.
"The first editor who sent me to
Cuba as a war correspondent said:
"'A war correspondent, Dick,
must be ubiquitous. That means'—
"And he looked at me hard
through his spectacles.
"'That means/ he explained,
'that the war correspondent must
always say he was on tha spot,
whethor he was or not.'" i
Separating the Sheep.
The soldiers marched to the
church and halted in the square
outside. One wing of the edifice
was undergoing repair, so there was
room only for about half the regiment.
"Sergeant," ordered the colonel,
"tell the men who don't want to go
to church to fall out."
A large number quickly availed
themselves of the privilege.
"Now, sergeant," said tbe colonel,
"dismiss all the men who did not
fall out and march the others to
church—they need it most."—Boston Transcript.
From Transcript, Nov. 8:
With 10 precincts out of 39 in Morrison county still missing, returns at
3 o'clock this afternoon indicate the
probable election ot' Berglund, Carnes
and Rocheleau for county commis-
eioners. Thme Gassert-LaFond fight
in the Third district ie doubtful, with
Gassert leading.
L. D. Brown appears to have beaten H. A. Rider 'for the state legislature, his majority in 29 precincts being 372. The fight between Bouck and
Young for representative-at-large is
extremely close, but returns so far
indicate that Young will probably be
victorious by a small margin . In
Morrison county Bouck leads by 93
votes, but Crow Wing county gives
Young 200 majority so far. The city
of Brainerd is about evenly divided,
giving Bouck 739 and Young 736. Little Falls gives Bouck 454 and Young
374.
Harold Knutson is conceded to have
beaten Donohue for congress. Knut-
son's friends claim that he will win
by a two-to-one vote and the St. Cloud
Times, Donohue's chief supporter,
concedes his defeat.
Morrison county is almost evenly
divided between Hughes and Wilson,
twenty-nine precincts gave Hughes
1,699 and Wilson 1,624. Little Falls
gave Wilson a majority of 116 and he
carried every ward in the city.
The vote in Little Falls was about
average, the city polling 972 votes.
The unusually heavy vote predicted
did not materialize.
The totals for Morrison county,
with 29 precincts out of 39 reported,
are as follows:
President
Hughes    1699
Wilson    1624
Congress
Knutson     2028
Donohue    1455
Representative-at-Large
Bouck  1740
Young  1647
Representative Morrison County
Rider    1480
Brown    1852
Co. Com. 1st District
Rebischke    251
Berglund     303
Co. Com. 2nd District
Rocheleau    548
Moran   414
Co. Com. 3rd District
Gassert     348
LaFond     328
Co. Com. 4th District
Carnes     466
Milbery     174
Late reports show the following to be the winners in the
county:
L. D. Brown,
C. W. Bouck,
Henry Gassert,
J. N. Carnes,
Rocheleau,
Berglund,
E. P. Shaw,
Harold Knutson, defeatedDon-
ahue of Melrose by over 6000.
At the time of  going to press
the presidential vote is still very
close.  California and Minnesota
will decide who will precide over
the • destinies of  the nation the
next four years. With theuncer-
j tainty of the   vote in these two
■ states,   together   with the   vote
\ of the  soldiers at the  Mexican
: border, the  results cannot definitely  be  given  for a week  or
more.
The Soo   line   section  hands
have  received    a  reduction  in
, pay to $1.35 per day.
Haloween parsed off quietly
f ttiis year and no disturbances
1 have been reported so far.
According   to    that  German
' speaker,     liere    last     Sunday,
i Mexico,   with  a  population  of
117,000,000   has   18,000,000   indi-
ans.
The problem is not "Is there
a Positio a" bat "Are you Ready". We: train young men and
women i.n Bookeeping, Shorthand and". Typewriting. Write
St. Cloud! iii-isiness College.
Vath & Ahles.
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
Clarence Benson and. wife of
Little Falls and Charles, John
and Frank Benson of Krem-
lin, Montana visited with the
Jos. Eisel fiinily this week.
John Skoceinski and family made a trip to Little Falls
Monday.
"I am a firm believer in
good stock, and the sooner
one gets it, the better he is
off" says H. J. Vierk.
John Tamala has built a
36 x 60 barn on his place in
Hillman.
John Banach made a trip
to Minneapolis last week.
"Pish" Frank Otremba made
a trip of inspection to Long and
Platte lakes last week. He reports the camps in good condition for the winters sport.
"Pish" Prank has rented his
farm     and     now     has not
much of anything to do but fish.
John Tamala who has been
employed by the Soo line in
North Dakata, is here visiting
his parents.
Kate Weidenbach returned
from Little Palls last week.
She underwent an operation for
appendicitis.
A "Little German Band" one
which has been here several
times before, came to town a-
gain last Saturday, and played
"Die Wacht am Rhein" and
"DerBlaue Donau Walzer" to
eager listeners. The members
of this band are all bavarians.
Mrs. Hubert Finneman and
daughter Rose of Eden Valley
were visitors at Mrs. John Fin-
neman's of Lastrup last week.
Miss Thresia Sauer who has
been employed as milliner by
Mrs. Anna Vonderhaar for the
past few months, left for her
home in Sauk Center last Friday.
John   Macho    and   wife and
daughter of Phiibrook are here
visiting with friends   and relatives.
Mrs- Frank Zuleger returned
from Duluth last Friday.
P. J. Bollig and son Barney,
and John Kugel visited Peter
Virnig in Little Falls last Sunday.
Grain And Produce
Market Report
Wheat, No. 1, $1.82
Wheat, No. 2_      1.77
Wheat, No. 3       1.63
Flax,       2.50
Barley       80-85
Rye    1.28
Oats      47
Ear Corn       72
Hay     7.00
Butter, Creamery        37
Dairy       27
Rggs       32
Plour.Royal     5.10
"   WhiteRose      5.00
Low grade flour 2.00
Bran . 1.45s
Shorts  1.55
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.60
Ground Feed     1.50
Beans      5.00
Onions        60
What School
Districts Get.
The schools of Morrison
county will get $19,208 apportionment from the state this
year and $499 10 aid for libraries. The apportionment is at
the rate of $3.50 for each scholar and there are 5,488 scholars.
The money will not be distributed to the districts until the
November settlement is made
and the mone3r from the settlement will be paid out at the
same time. The settlement will
probably be ready between November 15 and 20.
The number of scholars, a-
mount of apportionment money
and library aid for each district.
District No. Appor- Libra-
pupils tionment ry Aid
12   29 $101.50 $3.50
14   25 87.50 5.60
36   48 168.00 5.25
39   26 91.00 3.50
46 ....'.. 42 147.00 3.50
55   25,. 87.50 3.50
78   29 101.50 3.50
87   32 112.00 ....
90   23 80.50 3.50
92   46 161.00 3.50
99   48 168.00 3.50
100   12 42.00 3.50
112   17 59.50 ....
127   26 91.00 ' 3.15
129   29 101.50 3.50
131   27 94.50 ....
St. Cloud Boy Killed
With Screwdriver
St. Cloud, Nov. 6: Leo Weber, 19 years old, died in a hospital here yesterday, following
a fight Saturday night in which
his unidentified assailant drove
a screw driver through one of
his eyes, piercing two inches
into his brain. His body showed marks of many stabs with
the screw driver.
Weber, with two companions, Don Lummel and Frank
Kinzler, was on a tandem motorcycle homeward bound
shortly after 11 p. m. Meeting
an automobile containing four
passengers near the "Half Way
House," a few miles west of
the city, the men started to
race. The auto refused to let
the motorcycle pass and finally stopped, two of the men got
out and one of them attacked
Weber with the screw driver.
Two members of the automobile party put Weber in the car,
brought him to the hospital
and drove rapidly away. His
companions took the number
of the machine, but police believe they made a mistake in
copying the number as the
owner cannot be identified by
them, but it is thought that the
number is near enough to enable the police to find the murderer.
List of Unclaimed Letters
Letters addressed to the following named parties are at the
postoffice in Pierz and have not
been called for:
A. H. Vernon.
Prof. H. C. Peterson.
A. A. Mahler.
Emil Leik.
Wenzel Houn.
Nick Haggon.
Jas. Fry.
Albert Borchers'
P. R. Brenner.
The Kimball Post
Office Robbed,
ABOOT IE 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.
Kimball, Minn., Oct. 31: Aft-
! ev blowing the door of the safe
! completely off and rifling it of
its contents robbers got out of
j the postoffice here last night
without being observed by a
' single resident of the town.
A heavy charge of nitro was
iused to blow the safe, a big
■11 affair, and it was so forcible that a typewriter in the
office was completely wrecked
- - f other fixtures were damaged by the force of the explosion.
Stamps worth between $25
and $30 and about $5 or $6 in
small change were taken by
the robbers. It was stated by
"---oral residents this morning
that they had heard the explosion but it is presumed that this
is not to be relied upon owing
to the fact that the time varies
in each individual cose.
John Klein, a resident of St. Paul
for sixty years, is dead, aged eighty-
four.
Theodore G. Brekke, twenty-three
years old, killed himself at the home
of his father near St. James.
H. S. Tanner, a pioneer Hastings
business man, is dead at De Land,
Fla., at the age of eighty-three.
Mrs. Freeman Doud, seventy-seven
years old, the first white woman to
make her home at Bemidji, is dead.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the sawmill of the Mullery-McDonald
Lumber company at Duluth, causing a
loss of $80,000.
The Clay County State bank of Hit-
terdal has received authority to do
business, making the 1,300th state
bank in Minnesota.
Martin J. Lins, formerly sheriff of
Winona county, has been appointed
chief of the special agents of the
Great Northern railway.
Samuel White, who arrived in St.
Paul in 1855, is dead at Hastings, to
which city he removed several months
ago.    He was seventy-nine years old.
Clarence Young, twenty-four years
old, was killed at St. Cloud on receiving 2,300 volts of electricity through
a high powered wire on which he was
working.   '
C. C. Baker, superintendent of the
Albert Lea schools, was elected president of the Minnesota Educational association at the annual convention at
St. Paul.
Edward Lampman, eighty-five years
old, the oldest conductor in the employ of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul railroad, is dead at his home
in Minneapolis.
Michael Kavanaugh, the "Poet of
Pillsbury A" mill at Minneapolis, is
dead at Cork, Ireland, where he went
three years ago to visit relatives and
childhood friends.
William Dawson, St. Paul real estate man and son of William Dawson,
one time mayor of St. Paul, is dead in
the Capital City. Mr. Dawson was
born in St. Paul Aug. 2, 1862.
Emil C. Grieve, thirty years old,
was instantly killed when an automobile in which he was riding skidded
on a curve three miles north of Osseo
and threw him against a telephone
pole.
The directors of the St. Paul Union
Depot company have unanimously
agreed to build a station in St. Paul
to cost not more than $11,000,000, instead of $15,000,000 as originally
planned.
Government receipts in Minnesota
during October from internal revenue
sources fell off about 20 per cent compared with the receipts in October,
1915. The total receipts for the month
were $303.603.68.
James Gardner, village marshal of
Osseo, who was shot recently in a
fight with Frank Odenbright, is dead.
Odenbright is held in the Hennepin
county jail and will be charged with
murder in the first degree.
The business district of Donnelly
was virtually destroyed by fire, damage estimated at $300,000 resulting before apparatus and firemen from Morris and Herman, rushed to Donnelly
in automobiles, halted the conflagration.
Fred E. Norlander, nineteen years
old, son of Fred C. Norlander, St.
Paul contractor, was fatally injured
when the machine he was driving
overturned. He died in the St. Paul
city hospital two hours after the accident.
The state supreme court has declared valid the initiative and referendum provisions of the charter
adopted by Duluth in 1913, also the
ordinance passed under the charter in
June, 1916, prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor in the city.
The state highway commission has
sent to the secretary of agriculture at
Washington a recommendation that
out of the money that the federal government is to give to Minnesota for
good roads $137,500 be devoted to the
Twin Cities-Duluth highway.
The state tax commission has announced increases in assessed valuations of Ramsey county property
owned May 1 by the late James J. Hill
of $1,337,118 on personal property and
$8,372,471 on moneys and credits over
the county assessor's respective returns.
Minnesota began November business
with a cash balance of $6,140,489.71.
The revenue fund balance was $3,528,-
430.84. During October the receipts
were $1,914,905.94 and the disbursements $2,939,000. The last figure, included the October school apportionment of $1,500,000.
R. W. Hargadine, state fire marshal,
has received word from a deputy at
St. Cloud that a woman in.that city
had confessed that she set fire to the
house in which she was living to
frighten her husband into moving to
a more desirable location. She is under arrest, charged with attempted
arson.