The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-11-16

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, NOVEMBER, 16, 1916.
NO. 22
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A Parting
Dinner
By ALAN HINSDALE
"Our marriage," said the wife, "has
been a mistake. The sooner a mistake
Is rectified the better. I am going to
leave you."
"That's not a bad idea," said the
husband. "A bit of freedom from this
new life that neither of us has yet
become used to will give us a breathing spell, and if we come together
again we will appreciate each other
all the more for It."
"That 'If is well put In."
"And if we don't come together
again just think of the fun we'll
have!"
"Fun?"
"Yes. I can remain out at a> poker
party till 3 o'clock in the morning If
I like, smoke and drink to my heart's
content, spend no end of time sitting
on a stool before a glove counter with
a pretty girl on the other side smoothing down my fingers with her soft
hand"—
"If these things are so delightful to
you why did you marry?"
"I haven't come to your own enjoyments consequent on the break yet
You can sit all day beside your mother, holding her hand and listening to
her advice to you how to manage a
husband. Won't that be just too nice
for anything?"
"If you loved me one-tenth as well
as mamma does there would be no
need of a separation."
"Oh, I could never compete with a
mother's love! That is not to be expected. I suppose that's what gives
her a right to tell you just what course
to take respecting your husband. Now
that you're going to leave me, her advice with respept to me will be no
loDger necessary, and I wonder what
you and she will talk about when you
nestle down for a morning chin-chin."
She was inclined to think that, the
one interesting topic being removed,
the chin-chin would be rather dull, but
she did not say so.
"There's one thing I propose to do,':
continued the provoking husband. "As
soon as you are gone I'm going to
take down these curtains. I have endured them simply for your sake.
Ihey shut out the light."
"Indeed, you will do no such thing!"
"Why so? It will not matter to you
whether there are curtains here or
not. I shall make a smoking room of
this, and you have always declared
that when smoke gets into curtains
it's hard to get it out."
"A smoking room of this cozy apartment! Why, I arranged everything
here myself!"
"So you did, and a delightful room
you made of it I remember when 1
first saw it I thought how many delightful seances we would have here.
I little thought that a few short
months would end it all."
"Whose fault Is it?"
"Mine."
"Why don't you do better?"
"I can't. I'm naturally wicked. If
I were not you wouldn't need to
leave me."
"Of course I don't want to leave
you, but you can't expect me to endure
such treatment forever."
"Certainly not. I deserve it all. But
it's sad to think of my having to dismantle this pretty room for a lot of
fellows who will throw cigar and pipe
ashes all over the carpet and"—
"They will do no such thing! If
you're going to have those horrid men
here I—I—won't"—
"Won't go?"
"Yes, I'm going. I have come to
that decision after long and careful
deliberation."
"And consultation with your mother."
This was a home thrust.
"If there is any one who knows
what is best for the child she has
cared for and loved from babyhood it
is surely her mother."
"I agree with you. Therefore the
daughter should never leave her mother."
"The daughter la not expected to
marry a—a"—
"Brute! But we are wasting time.
When do you go?"
"Are you in haste to be rid of me?"
"Not at all. I merely wish to ma^e
arrangements for your departure.
Will you permit me tq see you to your
mother's house?"
"Whq said I was going to mamma?"
''Very woll. I will take you wherever you wish to go."
"You'll have to dine elsewhere today. I have made no preparations for
dinner here."
"Suppose we have a last dinner at
Skinners, with a bottle of that wine
you like so well?"
She hesitated, and he suggested that
she telephone her mother that she
would not arrive till after dinner. This
last reference to her mother, though
highly respectful, called a frown to
the wife's brow. Nevertheless she
went to the phone and sent the message. Then she dressed for the dinner
and came downstairs' looking very
lugubrious.
"Have you sent your baggage?" he
asked mildly.
"No!" she snapped.
They dined with handsomely dressed
ladies and gentlemen to detract their
attention from their troubles, and music soothed them, and the wine warmed them. The dinner was excellent,
and they spent an enjoyable evening
together. When they drove away he
made no mention of the fact that she
had expected to go to her mcther, but
directed the driver to take them to
their own home.
And that was the end of the fracas.
Very Few Deer
This Year.
The first days of the open
season for deer are unusually
quiet this year. The red cap
and jacket, ornaments as well as
protectors to the would-be deer-
slayers, are a rare sight this
year. No reports of good luck
have been reported. Over forty
deer were shot in 3 miles square
less than 10 miles from town
last year, but it is not probable
that there will be half a dozen
killed within 20 mites of town
this year. The causes of the
scarcity 'of the deer this year
are not known.
Mrs. Frank
Boehm Dead.
The Passing of
"Twilight Sleeps".
After prolonged experiment
in many of the leading hospitals
of this country and England,
"twilight sleeps" or the scopol-
amine-morphine method of analgesia for producing painless
childbirth, is now being rapidly
abandoned as unsafe. While
the method in the hands of skillful men is not productive of
harm to the mother, it is decidedly detrimental to the child, a
certain, altho small, number of
deaths among babies occurring
entirely from use. Scopolamine
is a poison. When injected into the mother, it finds its way
into the blood of the child where
it tends to prevent proper establishment of breathing at birth.
There it probably no distinctly surgical procedure in which
the public has so interested itself
as in "twilight sleeps." Articles have appeared iu every
paper and periodical in the
country, many of them by writers who are ent irely ignorant
of the action of drugs. In many
instances physicians have been
loudly denounced for not adopting generally the new method
for relieving women.
One way in which maternity
may be robbed of much of its
suffering and danger is thru
good care and proper preparation during the preceding
months. Moderate eating, instead of the usual "eating for
two," with a small amount of
meat and eggs, along with systematic daily exercise and good
care of the skin, will insure a
mediumsized child and that
good physical development
which make certain easy, rapid
childbirth. Such a procedure
results in the best of health for
both mother and child.
Mrs. Frank Boehm died at 8
o'clock this morning. She was
59 years old. All her children
were at her bedside when she
passed awav. Funeral will be
held at 9 o'clock Saturday
morning.
Cross Plains, Wis.
John H. Virnig und Frau rei-
sten zu Hochzeit ihres Sohnes
Adrian.
Wm. F. Dahmen erlegte auf
Jagdausflug drei prachtvolle
Fiichse.
Albert Pleus zog in sein Haus
in dieser Village.—Louis Scho-
rer zog in das Haus von John
Fell.
Wm. Bollenbeck reiste nach
Sisselton, S. D., zuriick; seine
Frau und sein Fred werden ihm
per Automobil folgen.
Die Gebriider Saeman ver-
schickten letzte Woche funf Car-
ladungen Vieh und Schweine
von hier und erhielten eine Car-
ladung Kohlen.
Xaver   Virnig   verzog   letzte
Woche mit   seiner   Familie   und
samtlichem Gerat   wieder nach
Faulkner, S. D., wo er seinHeim j
aufschlagen wird.
Letzten Montag wurde in Mey-,
er's Halle von den Schulern der
Distriktschule No. 3, unter Lei-
tung der Lehrerinnen eine gut-
besuchte Vorstellung gegeben.
Sie trugen allerhand Spiele und
Deklamation vor und ernteten
grossen Beifall.
Jurors Drawn for
. January Term
The grand and petit jurors for
the January term of court were
drawn Tuesday. The court
opens second Tuesday in January the 9th. The following citizens iii our neighborhood were
drawn:
GRAND
Anton Heschs Buekman.
John Brummer, Granite.
Joseph Gross, Granite.
PETIT
Peter Girtz, Pierz.
Peter Denzen, Buekman.
G. F. Hoffmann, Buh.
Peter Theis, Hillman.
John Gross, Granite.
August B. Dehler. Buekman.
John B. Faust, Pierz.
John Poster, Buekman.
J. P.-Miller, Buekman.
Anton Rauch, Agram.
Frank Konen, Buh.
Joseph Otremba, Pierz.
Indians Predict Mild Winter,
Wenzel Medek is in receipt
of a letter from Frank Marshik which states that unusually cold' weather had
struck Oklahoma and that
the frost had killed all the
late garden truck.
Grain And Produce
Market R
eport
What will the winter be?
Many are asking the question
and weather prophets of all varieties are making an effort to
answer the question.
Last fall the Montana Indians'i
predicted a hard winter and
their predictions were fulfilled.
This fall the same Indians say
the signs point to a late and o-
pen winter. They take many
natural signs into consideration,
among them being the light
husks on the corn this year, the
fact that oak trees have borne
no acorns, the buffalo berry is
light, muskrats have not begun
to build their winter houses,
fur-bearing animals have thin
coats and the bark on the poplar tree is loose.
Arrested for
Theft of Wheat.
"St. Cloud—George Ogg residing in Morrison county, was arrested by Sheriff Dan Craig of
Benton county, on a warrent
by Jake Thoen, charging him
with stealing 16 bushels of wheat
from Thoen's barn.
Ogg was in the northeast section of Morrison county, a considerable distance beyond Buck-
man, when the sheriff found him.
He was brought back to Benton
county and admitted the theft
of the wheat, but desired to get
bonds. He was turned over to
a deputy and went back to see
father to see whether or not
bonds would be furnished.
As Ogg entered the barnafter
dark the offense is of larceny
in the second 'degree and subjects him to the grand jury
Thoen places a value of $22 on
the wheat.
Holdingford Girl
eriously Wounded.
Wheat, No. 1, $1.R4
Wheat, No. 2     1.80
Wheat, No. 3       1.67
Flax,       2.60
Barley  __      90-95
Rye:	
Oats	
Ear Corn	
Hay _	
Butter, Creamery	
Dairy	
Eggs 	
Flour, Royal	
"   WhiteRose.,	
Low grade flour	
Bran . 1.4f>
Shorts  1.55
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.75
Ground Feed     1.50
Beans ,     5.00
Onions   ■   60
1.34
50
72
7.00
37
27
32
5.20
5.10
.2.00
Emmet Mark
Buys Circus.
While in the cities this week
Emmet Mark purclmsed the big
Barrett & Zimmerman Circus,
including the 59 trained horses
and preforming ponies, Strain-
Spitz dogs, 22 wagons, big tent
and everything belonging to
the circus with the name, good
will and contracts of performers, trainers, etc. This circus
showed during the summer at
Duluth, Superior and the range
towns and has been a popular
attraction for many years, and
will be improved and brought
right up to date by Mr. Mark
for the next season.—
Willow River Farmer.
Mr. Mark is known to all the
older settlers as he conducted
horse sales throughout this section for many years. He now
makes his headquarters at
Willow  River.
Frances Kocumba, a 12-year-
old girl, living near Holdingford, was seriously wounded
when a shotgun in the hands
of her little brother was discharged, the charge entering
the girl's leg. The leg muscles
are badly lacerated and while
at present she is feeling comfortable, attending physicians
are unable to predict what the
result may be.
According to the story the
brother was playing with' the
shotgun while the girl was on
the porch some 30 feet away.
The boy pulled the trigger and
the complete charge entered
the girl's leg. She dropped unconscious from the shock. She
was brought to the St. Cloud
hospital where the wounds were
attended to and is said to be
resting comfortably today.
Lost Dog Returns'
1.8 Miles to Home
From Morrison countj' to Duluth the distance is 158 miles,
quite a hike. But it was not
too far for a Llewellyn setter
dog to trot after being lost on
a hunting trip two weeks ago.
At the home of A. M. McEwen,
grocer on Duluth Heights, two
children waited ten days for the
return of their pet from a hunting trip. They had given up all
hopes a few days ago, when the
dog came back,
J. P. Bilbane of Walker borrowed the setter from Mr. McEwen to take on a hunting trip
in Morrison county. Bilbane
lost the dog on the first day out.
This was two weeks ago. Neither Mr. Bilbane no Mr. McEwen
saw the setter until a few days
ago when he trotted into the
yard of the McEwen place on
the Heights.
The dog showed signs of exhaustion from his long trip, but
is resting now.   ■
Beware of Stove Fakir
Keep a sharp lookout for the
stove fakir; he is headed this
way; they are a smooth oily set
and unless you are very careful
you will 'ere long be classed
amoung the suckers. The Donnelly Star says of them: They say
these fake stove peddlers are
again touring the country. The.
Country press is warning everybody against them, but it is
likely they will find the usnal
crop of suckers. Just make up
your mind you will not spend
any money with them nor with
any other traveling fakir, and
you will be safe.
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
Brainerd Gets Convertible Paper
Bought Very Few Horses.
The horse buyers here Tuesday bought very, few horses.
They claim the farmers here
hold them too high. On the
other hand, those who offered
horses for sale and took them
home again claim that these
buyers wanted them for nothing.
A buyer here about a year a-
go s'aid that the horses are always hard to buy from those
who raise them. "The raiser
of a horse" he said, ''always
puts an exorbitant value upon
it. Prices governed by local
conditions are always high on
horses, and do not fluctuate according to the horse market.
The local prices are always
governed too much by what this
or that man will get for a horse
from his son, daughter or close
neighbor. He gets what he
asks, and that to a certain extent establishes the local price.
The horse market is a good
deal like the cattle market.
The animal must fulfill certain
requirements to bring a certain
price. The value the owner
puts upon ahorse, does not represent the actual value of the
horse in the market, any more
than the farmer can set the
price of cattle in South St. Paul.
A large paper mill, employing 200 men is being constructed
in Brainerd by the Nonthwest-
ern Paper Company, which also
operates a big mill in Cloquet.
About 250 men are working on
the new plant which will begin
operation early next spring.
This is the first mill of this kind
in the United States, being a
convertible, mill in shape to be
changed at short notice from
the making of print paper to
that of book paper.
• A few months of faithful
study in the Little Falls Business College will place you on
the road to success. You can
get a good position as soon as
you complete your course.
Manganese.
Manganese is one of the substances which had long been used in
the arts before its existence as an
independent metal was recognized.
From prehistoric times.it was employed as a coloring material, but it
was not known to be a distinct metal
until 1774. In India the primitive
smiths used it as a flux and as an alloy for holding iron and bronze.
Liquor is now banished in
25 states.
"European War" pictures
at Faust's Opera House Sim-
day.
Jos. J. Hennen of St. Paul
spent Sunday with his
father.
With all the clover hay
cut here this summer, there
is not much of it offered for
sale.
County commissioner J. N.
Carnes of Royalton called
here early yesterday morning. He was on his way to
Rucker.
Nick Meyer and Frances
Gassert were married Wednesday morning. The wedding was celebrated at the
grooms home three miles east
of the village. The young
couple, will live in Oregon.
Bert Boise of Little Falls
spent Thursday in Pierz.
He was on his way to Onamia. It was said that he is in
the employ of a detective
agency.
See the War pictures at
Faust's Opera House Sunday Nov. 19th.
Forty hours devotion services were held in Lastrup
Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday and were largly
attended.
Frank Com mens, who has
been employed here on cement work for the past four
months, left last Monday for
Great Falls, Montana.
Math. Valentine, Jr. and
Christ Nelson of Platte left
last Monday for the northern
part of the state, where they
will work in lumber camp
during the winter.
L. A. Jaeger, a former
resident of Pierz, now of
Canada, arrived here yesterday morning to attend the
Meyer—Gassert -wedding.
"I came over a thousand
miles to drink Kiewel beer,"
said Leonard. "There is
only one thing I like better
than Kiewel beer, and that
is more of it."
And now the town and the
village are two separate organizations. C. A. Virnig
has been appointed clerk to
take the place of F. X. Virnig, and Frank Heigl has
been appointed supervisor
to fill the place occupied by
Tlieo. Gross. F. X. Virnig
and Theo. Gross, residents of
the village could not serve
on the town board under the
new regime. The new
board will hereafter have all
meetings in Genola.
If you want to BE what others ARE, enroll for a complete
course at the St. Cloud Business College. We can save you
from $40 to $100 on your course.
Vath & Ahles.
Strayed—from my place a
dark red June bull calf.
FIoLder may notify Ed. Ernst,
Pi^rz, Minn. Will pay for
the keeping.
ABOUT THE STATE
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News ot Especial interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
ELECTION     RESULTS     IN     MINNE
SOTA.
President—Charles E. Hughes has
lead of 250.
United States Senator—Frank B.
Kellogg, by 50,000.
Governor—J. A. A. Burnquist, try
more than 100,000.
Lieutenant Governor — Thomas
Frankson.
Secretary of State — Julius A.
Schmahl. *
State Treasurer—Henry Rines.
Attorney General—Lyndon A. Smith.
Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner—Ira B. Mills.
Associate Justice Supreme Court-
James H. Quinn.
The Republicans won eight of the
ten congressional contests, the exceptions being the Fourth, where Carl C.
Van Dyke, Democrat incumbent, defeated Dar Reese by 10,000, and
Thomas D. Schall, Progressive incumbent, in the Tenth district.
Thomas Van Lear, Socialist, was
elected mayor of Minneapolis by a
majority of 3,500 over Otto Langum,
sheriff of Hennepin county, who was
supported by the citizens' mayoralty
committee, an organization composed
of members of all parties other than
Socialist.
Six business houses were destroyed
by fire at Isanti, causing a loss of
$30,000.
■ E. T. Muckey, sixty years old, a machinist, committed suicide at Minneapolis by inhaling illuminating gas.
Mrs. Mary E. Heffelfinger, widow
of the late Major C. B. Heffelfinger, is
dead at Minneapolis, aged eighty-one.
Burglars entered the Goetting department store at Rochester and made
away with goods valued at more than
$1,000.
After taking her usual afternoon
walk Mrs. Mary Rosiwal, eighty-three
years old, returned to her home in St.
Paul and died a few minutes later.
August Swanson, employed at the
Meacham mine at Crosby, lost the
sight of both eyes when his pick
struck a stick of dynamite while at
work.
Leo Weber, nineteen years old, is
dead at St. Cloud after a fight in which
his unidentified assailant drove a
screwdriver through his eye, piercing
the brain.
Chester A. Congdon of Duluth, Republican national committeeman from
Minnesota, is critically ill with pleurisy at St. Paul. His condition is regarded as serious.
Billie Kelly, a militiaman from-Zum-
bro, this state, was partially paralyzed
when he struck his head on the bottom when he div- 1 into a lake near
camp at Llando Grande, Tex.
Minnesota has just cut the biggest
melon in its history for its schools. It
is the November apportionment of $_,-
950,909 of special state aid. Every
county in the state participates.
Ferdinand Willius, formerly German
consul, city official and banker of St.
Paul, is dead at San Diego, Cal. Ho
was eighty-six years old and had been
a resident of St. Paul sixty-one years.
Frank Valesh, for many years prominent in labor circles in this state, is
dead at Graceville. He formerly was
mayor of Graceville and also had been
connected with the state department
of labor.
New charges of irregularities in the
affairs of Cass county, with a demand
for the removal of five county commissioners, have been filed by three residents of the county with Governor
Burnquist.
Gust Erickson, Ely miner, shot and
seriously wounded his wife and killed
himself. When Mrs. Erickson began
lighting the kitchen fire Erickson fired
a bullet into her back, according to
the police.
Royal H. Ripley, for the last eleven
years contracting freight agent in Minneapolis for the Santa Fe railroad and
widely known in railroad traffic circles, is dead in the Mill City, aged
sixty-seven.
Miss Nora Hallinan, a well known
teacher of Sibley and Carver counties,
is dead of burns sustained while burning leaves in a yard. She was thirty
years of age and a member of a prominent pioneer family.
Representative Edward Indrehus of
Foley is the first of the legislators
chosen at the recent election to announce himself as a candidate for
speaker of the house in the legislature
convening in January.
With Fred Smith, the chauffeur, dead
at the wheel, a motor car in which
five girls from St. Margaret's academy
of Minneapolis were riding, struck and
seriously injured Adam Kramer, careened three blocks across a railroad
track, over curbstones and among
trees on Como parkway, St. Paul, finally striking a tree and stopping.
None of the girls in the car was injured.
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