The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-12-14

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, HORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, DECEMBER, 14, 1916.
NO. 26
ABOUT THE STATE
'  flews of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
William Ames is dead at St. Paul
from injuries received when run over
by a street car.
Mrs.   Ole   Lyseth   was   struck   and
killed instantly by a Northern Pacific
passenger train near Pine City.
Ernest F. Guilbert, noted architect,
was   reared   in   Minneapolis,   Is
his home in Newark, N. J.
tRandall,   seventy  years  old,
veteran and first sheriff ot
.ne county, is  dead at Orton-
il Mclnnis, prominent in Repub-
politics in  Northern  Minnesota
lore than thirty years, is dead at
eth.
Irs. H. R. Denny, seventy-six years
, is dead at St. Paul from burns received when her clothing caught fire
from a candle.
Elmer D. Bartlett of St. Paul, well
known real estate man, is dead, aged
seventy. He had resided in Minnesota
sixty-one years.
William C. Smith, forty years old,
was found dead in his room at St.
Paul. Death was due to asphyxiation
by illuminating gas.
Private  R. J.  McAllister, a  former
resident  of  Minneapolis,  is  reported
■*        killed   in   action   with  the   Canadian
contingent in France.
Two thirteen-year-old hoys, sons cf
William Bowman and W. B. Hanson,
k ^    were drowned  while  skating  on  Big
Stone lake near Ortonville.
Nicholas P. Sattler, fifty-six years
old, well known in the carpet and rug
business at St. Paul, is dead. Mr,
Sattler was a native of St. Paul.
The state auditor's department announces sales of 72,384 acres of state
land for $.31,073.84, or an average of
$7.25 an acre during the last year.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Tanner, nearly 101
years old, is dead at her home on Min
Ipesota   Point   at   Duluth,   where   she
'had lived for more than sixty years.
A. L. Chesley, head of a coal company with  branches  in many Northwestern towns, is dead at Minneapolis.    He was fifty-seven years of age.
The Third Minnesota infantry, con-
f sisting of 993  officers  and  men, has
returned  to  Fort  Snelling after  five
months'  service on the Mexican bor-
-\      der.
A. W. Fredericksen, sixty-seven
years old, died at a Hastings hospital
from injuries received when dragged
several hundred yards by a runaway
team.
James F. Cavanaugh, sixty-five
years old, prominent retired merchant
of  Hastings  and  formerly  of  Minne-
>apolis,   is   dead  at  Hastings  after  a
brief illness.
WDr. Shepherd H. King, aged eighty-
two, the first city engineer of Minneapolis and the man who surveyed the
northern boundary line of Minnesota,
is dead at Lincoln, Neb.
The will of Chester A. Congdon of
Duluth, filed in St. Louis county probate court, indicates an estate of $6,-
500,000.    The bulk of the estate consists of ore lands and stocks,
i Nearly   500   representative   citizens
of the* Twin Cities and Minnesota paid
y tribute to Dr. Cyrus Northrop, presi
dent   emeritus   of  the  University   of
Minnesota, at a testimonial dinner.
While shooting at a target with several companions Norris Acklund of
Albert Lea, twenty years old, was
shot and fatally wounded, presumably
accidentally, by a member of the
^       group.
^^^       A boycott on eggs until Jan. 1, 1917,
Bkhas been declared by the Duluth Con-
BPsumers' league and the Duluth House-
^T     wives' league.   An effort was made to
extend  the   ban   to  potatoes,  but it
failed.
L Inheritance taxes of $78,717.80 have
^^^   been paid the state on the estate of
fe|he  late Thomas L.  Shevlin of  Min-
^peapolis.    The value of the estate as
Returned   by   appraisers   was   $3,189,-
¥ A   budget   totaling   $5,139,000   was
tentatively adopted by the board of
regents of the University of Minnesota
and will be submitted to Governor
Burnquist for presentation to the leg-
^        islature.
^L Mrs. Wolter, a Waseca county pio-
1| neer, who is dead at Waseca at tha
Wr  age of eighty-two, left seventy-five di-
^^      rect descendants—ten  children,  fifty-
two grandchildren and thirteen great
grandchildren.
Zerah C. Colborn, who taught the
Indians on the Shawano reservation
in Wisconsin forty years ago, is dead
at Minneapolis, where he had resided
for many years. He was seventy-four
years of age.
Love for his eighteen-year-old niece,
Marie Krupich, whom he had asked
to marry him, is believed to have
been responsible for John Watz of
St. Paul, twenty-seven years old, taking his own life.
Harvey Kanpem, seventeen years
old, was drowned in Loon lake, near
Waseca, when he broke through the
ice while skating. He was the second
boy to lose his life In Loon lalte in
the past two weeks.
Lastrup People
Visit Iron Mines.
Woodrow, Minn., a mining:
town about 50 miles north of
Lastrup is getting- to be quite
a mecca for Lastrup sight-seers.
Several auto loads have gone
there to study the mysteries of
mining. A party consisting of
P. X. Busseler, Chas. Vosen,
and George Fleischer of somewhere, chaperoned by John P.
Virnig, visited Woodrow last
Thursday. By the courtesy of
the superintendent, who is a personal friend of Fleischer, the
party was allowed to descend
into the bowels of the earth and
inspect the regions from whence
comes our iron. They went
down a "skip" to a depth of 202
feet and saw the miners load the
ore into cars which were unloaded into the "skip" and
raised to the surface. As one
"skip" goes down another goes
up, by counter -balance arrangement. Over 108 carloads were
hauled up by four o'clock Thursday.
The man who manipulates the
"skips" electrically is in a building some distance apart from
the mine. The workings are
timed by signals.
Three large pumps are continually at work to keep the
mine from flooding.
Shortly before four o'clock
they were told that the dynamiters would begin work at four
and that they had better move
up. As the "skips" were all
loaded going up, they had to
climb up by ladder.
It is peculiar that the dynamite shots cannot be heard at
the surface of the shaft, and yet
can be heard at Fleischer's, 1&
miles away. John Virnig says,
it is well worth ones time to
make tbe trip, providing he has
the courage to go down. At the
surface, a mine is nothing more
nor less than a hole in the
ground.
Another party of two cars
went up Sunday.
Village Council
Proceedings
The village council met in regular monthly session Dec. 2nd
and was called to order. All
members were present.
The  following  bills were allowed ;
B. Priemesberger, trip to
Little Falls,    $4 50
Pierz   Merc.   Co.,    locks,
nails, kerosene etc     5 24
Adam   Virnig,    dragging
road             50
M. K. Wermerskirchen rebate on walk,     8 20
J. P. Faust, labor digging
drain pipes,       2 25
Emil Ziegler, labor digging
drain pipes    10 00
The president appointed John
Gau and. J- N. Faust to find a
suitable place for Cess Pool.
Upon motion adjourned.
S. Priemesberger, President.
J. N  Faust, Recorder.
Steal a Horse
And Sell Hide
Auto Theft in
Little Falls
Little Falls: The second attempted automobile ( theft in
two nights has led to' the belief
that an organized gang of auto
thieves is working in Little
Falls. It is past the'joyriding
season and no other explanation can bo offered.
Thursday night the lock was
pried off the private garage in
which Harry Weimer Keeps his
car, but the machine could not
be started because the batteries
had been removed. Friday
night the lock was broken off
the door of H. A. Rider's private garage, but the car was not
harmed because it also had the
the batteries removed and
could not be started.
The moral seems to be that
auto owners who have stored
their cars at home would do
well to take the batteries out of
them or otherwise fix them so
they cannot be started. The
attempts on two garages in the
last two nights indicate that
whoever tried to break into
them intended to steal the cars
and not merely to borrow
them, as joyriding is not a popular pastime in zero   weather.
Freeport Boy Injured
In Auto Accident
Wholesale Houses
Doomed.
Reports come from Brainerd
that all so-called wholesale
liquor houses now operating in
Crow Wing county will have to
go before spring. They are
said to be a continuous unisance
at all hours of days and nights
and that land had lost in value
because of the presence of these
resorts.
Grain And Produce
Market Report
'Yheat, No. 1, $1.61
Wheat, No.  2      1.55
      1.37
       2.60
       75-84
    1.18
      44
      90
     7.00
Wheat, No. 3.
Flax,	
Barley	
Rye	
Oats	
Ear Corn	
Hay	
St. Cloud One of the boldest
horse robberies ever occuring
in St. Cloud took place late
Saturday afternoon when the
horse of Percy Robinson, residing about four miles from town
on the Luxemburg road, was
stolen from Eighth avenue,
near St. Germain street, where
it had been momentarily left
by the owner.
Mr. Robinson, at first suspecting that an accident had
occurred or that the horse had
become frightened and broke
away and did not notify the St.
Cloud police for two hours after
the robbery occurred. Chief of
Police Brick at once went on
the job.
Yesterday afternoon he and
Deputy Sheriff Bettenberg followed out a clue which had
been given. This led them to a
place in the timbers on the
west side of the river near the
Sauk Rapids bridge. They
found a piece of blanket and
the halter which had been used
on Robinson's horse.
Continuing through the
woods they found the carcass
of the horse, the animal having
been killed and the hide removed, evidently for selling.
Continuing in this clue they arrested Bert and William Bachelor, youths of the age of 17 and
21 respectively.
One of the boys immediately
told the officers that his brother had taken the horse.
"When I asked him what he
was going to do with it he said
he was going to drive it around
awhile and then take it out and
skin it," the brother said.
The accused brother, however, steadfastly held out
against this statement and declared that he was innocent.
The officers took both back to
the county jail to await complete investigation.
The buggy and harness, owned by Robinson, have not as
yet been found. An effort is
being made to locate them and
it is likely that they will be
found soon.
The horse, although the hide
was removed, has been positively identified by the owner
and by Fred Kitowski, the
smithy, who had recently plac
ed shoes on the animal. It
was evident that the animal's
throat had been cut.
The matter has been turned
over to County Attorney Paul
Ahles and a complete investigation will be made before a
formal charge is drawn up
against either of the two young
men.
Butter, Creamery ..      37
Dairy       27
Eggs       34 j pastures,
Flour.Royal     5.00
"    WhiteRose      4.90
Low grade flour  2.20
Bran . 1.55
Shorts  1.65
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.65
Ground Feed     1.50
Beans      5.00
Onions    2.50
John Till, the plaster artist,
who has gathered in barrels of
silver dollars at New Richmond, has moved to greener
having located at
Turtle Lake, Wis., where the
people can secure his plasters
and leave their dollars. Evidently he thinks it a good idea
to move once in a while. The
bus drivers of New Richmond
who have thrived off the patients, have followed and propose to remain in the game
"till" the last.—Stillwater Gazette.
Freeport, Minn.—John Kam-
pa the 18-year old son of A. B.
Katnpa is tangerously near
death today as the result of an
accident. Kampa with a party
of friends was on his way to a
lake near Freeport to skate.
Henry Weichmann, sou of a
prominent fanner at St, Rosa,
driving an automobile at what
witnesses claim ..as an 'excessive rate of speed, tried, according to those who saw the
accident, to see how close he
could come to the group of boys
without hitting them. He swerved from the road toward the
group. Kampa became excited
and was unable to get out of the
way of the machine, the front
wheels knocking him down and
two of the wheels going over
his body. He sustained a concussion of the brain and from
the time of the accident Sun*
day Monday afternoon has been
only semi-conscious. Doctors
Irom Freeport and Melrose have
been in attendance and while
they have not given up hope
they hardly expect that the boy's
life can be saved.
Eye witnesses place the entire blame tor the accident on
the auto driver, charging that
he was going too fast for safety
and that had he continued on in
the road he would have had
plenty of room to pass, the boys
being well at the side. It is
their claim that the driver pulled to the side in order to scare
the other boys. Weichmann is
about 21 years of age and a son
of a prominent farmer. Kampa
is about 18 and is favorably
known in Freeport.
The matter has been called to
the attention of the county officials and if the Kampa boy diea
a criminal prosecution will undoubtedly be started.
Indians on increase.
Washington, Dec. 9: The
American Indian no longer is a
vanishing race, but under improved health conditions is increasing in numbers, according
to the annual report of Commissioner Sells of the Indian
bureau.
There were 209,224 Indians
when the report was written,
an increase of 1,522 over a year
ago. Health and educational
campaigns, the report says, reduced the general death rate
this year from 35.55    in    one
thousand to 23.33,' and cut
down the number of infant
deaths from 2,391    two    years
1 ago to 1,303 this year. Deaths
from tuberculosis were reduced
40 per cent.
Proceedings of
County Board
The county board met in regular monthly session, called to
order by chairman at 10:30
o'clock a. m., all members present.
Minutes of the November
meeting were read and duly approved.
Final hearing on petition for
county road in Buh, Granite
and Pulaski, motion made and
carried that said petition be
granted and said road is hereby
established as a county road.
The following resolution was
then passed:
We, the county board of Morrison county, have examined
bridge No. 1825 over the Mississippi river on state road No. 1,
located between section 8,
township 127, range 29, and
section 32, township 39, range
32, known as the Royalton
bridge, and find the same in
very dangerous condition and
as it serves to carry a very
large volume of traffic it is not
possible to close it, so a new
bridge must be built at once at
an estimated expense of $35,-
000.00. As the entire bridge is
in Morrison county, the expense cannot be divided between two counties as is generally the case with such large
bridges.
The following bills were
then allowed:
Grading County Road
Andrew Kainz  $45.00
Supplies State Road No. 3
P. H. Hartman  16.30
Rich Prairie Milling Co.. 39.40
Barney Burton  16.80
Wm. Trampe  ,  18.00
Blacksmithing
Kasper Thommes      8.45
Work State Road No. 8
George M. Hoffman  21.00
Ben   Olson      6.75
John Burlowski  11.25
Roy Probasco  12.60
Theo. Hoheisel   18.00
Chas. Wood      3.37
Geo. M. Hoffman  13.50
Victor Bruber  54.00
John Fischer  '.  88.30
Math Schurer  12.00
Jos. Gruber, filling grade.. 50.00
Herman Boser   14.86
John Schmidtbauer  49.95
Jacob Santag   26.10
John L. Boser      8.10
Adam  Virnig   23.10
Peter  Virnig   43.75
John Donek, Sr     6.30
Mike Thommes   34.65
Work on County Road
Paul  Virnig      2.70
Jos. Tschida  12.00
Geo. Boser    31.70
Lorenz Boser  21.05
Edward Konen  12.35
Jos. Boser  19.00
Adam Becker   62.80
Repairing Plows
Meyers Bros     3.20
Concrete Culvert
P. L. Poster  775.00
y2 Cose State Bridge No.   2363
P. L. Poster  631.00
Contract Bridge 1779 & Culvert
G. W. Waller  912.00
Mileage   and   committee
work, H. Gassert     7.00
SULLIVAN
Tom Smith is the owner of a
brand new horse which he purchased of Henry Pierce.
C. E. Look and Wm. Lynn
were Hillman callers Wednesday.
H. C. Smith and son John
were Pierz goers last Tuesday,
returning home Wednesday.
Lawrence Kramer and Al.
Menarky visited the county
seat Thursday.
Stewart and Glenn Oliver
were lake callers Saturday.
John Smith, Perry and Millard Van Kuernen spent Saturday evening at the Peter Adkins home.
Miss Fern Day was an over
Sunday visitor at T. S.   Look's.
Tom Smith was an Onamia
caller Friday.
The Dorman, Martin, Hoskins and Look children had a
skating party on the lake Sunday. There was some fine skating.
Earl Smith spent Sunday afternoon at the Riley Hoskins
home—What?
Mrs. Ford and daughter and
little grand-daughter visited at
T. S. Look's Sunday.
Fern Dorman and Edwin
Martin took dinner with the C.
E. Look family Sunday.
Miss Ida Look called at E.
M. Thompson's Monday.
Carl Meyer and Frank Otremba left for Sullivan this morning.
Andrew Schramal of Pulaski visited in Duluth several days last week.
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
Twenty six below zero
this (Thursday) morning.
And anyhow, why should
a muskrat or an indian know
anything about forecasting
weather?
Little Falls is said to be
full of smallpox. If that is
the case Pierz will be sure to
get them.
The officers of the farmers
creamery had meeting Monday afternoon.
John Nelson of Wadena
was killed by the bite of a
horse.
Frank Wise was around
the village last Monday
morning the first time since
last March.
Vanloon,     thf    lightning
rodist,   called here  Monday.
This fine weather stirs  even
a  lightning  rod man    from
his winter sleep to ambition.
John Tamala and wife are
visiting their daughter Sister Levina at Avon.
Henry Gaureports the sale
of a Ford car to John Tamala, Henry Lust, Robert Hop-
pke, H. H. Ross and a Del-co
Light system to Gross Bros,
of Lastrup.
Wm. and John Leidenfrost
and Adam Virnig and John
Eidenshink were county seat
visitors Monday.
Allowing animals to harvest corn saves the labor of
of cutting, husking, hauling
to the feed lot, and hauling
the manure back on the land.
Oscar Guenther vi sited at
the Herman Terhaar home
Sunday and called in the
village Monday. Oscar says
he is doing well on his 40
acre farm in Morrill.
"Woodrow" is his name
and he seems to be pretty
firmly planted and rooted
on party lines.
St. Cloud Business College will save you from $40
to $100 on board, tuition and
books. We teach 20th century Bookkeeping, and Banking, G-regg Shorthand and
Touch Typewriting.
A. L. Janker, alais "Happy" who visited with P. J.
Bollig the past few weeks
left Tursday for Mankato.
He spent the last days at
camp Linnehan hunting and
fishing.
John Shinko of Pulaski,
whose son was killed in Milwaukee, sold his farm, the
old Frank Novak place to
John Malanowski. The sale
included land, stock, and
machinery.
Arthur Taylor came all
the way from Denver, Colo-
iado, with a Ford Roadster
to visit his parents, Jim Tay-
1 >:. and wife of Richa -dsmi
Actual time on the road,, deducting stops etc., was eight
days. Considering that early mornings are cold and
disagreeable and that the
evenings darken early, the
run from Grand Canyon and
the Pike's Peak country was
made in a remarkably short
time.
¥.',
Story of a
Lady Killer
By GERALD GREEN
* _.;
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Having passed through a siege of ty.j
plioid fever, when I became convales-l
cent my hair began to come out.   I at!
once had my head shaved and ordered!
i
a wig.    The wigmaker, a Frenchman,!
measured my head and before del-art-!
ing asked:
"Blond, noir or rouge?"
I   understand   nothing   of   any   Ian-1
guage  except American  and did not!
know -what he was talking about.   Buti
there Is a dislike in all persons to ac-l
knowledge that they do not understand'
or do not hear or cannot see.   I looked
at the man as though I was deliberating on what he said, then replied:
"Oul, rouge."
This seemed to satisfy him, for he
bowed himself out without another
word.
"I wonder what he said to me?" I
mused after he had gone. "Was it the
price he was speaking of or the time it
was to be finished?"
I found out what he had said when
the wig came in. It was a beautiful
red. I abused him for having made a
wig of such a color, and he expostulated with the usual French shrug and
gesture.
"Monsieur, I ask you If you have It
blond, black or red. You say I make
him red."
Seeing that I had authorized the color, I said no more, but paid for the wig
like a man. The price being $25, I
could not afford another one and subjected myself to wearing it till my ov. n
chestuut locks should reappear.
It was about this time that I received
an anonymous note written in a Yeoman's hand. The writer said that she
had seen me on a sickbed In the hospital and had been impressed with my
appearance. She plastered tbe communication over with a lot of stir"}
about my intellectual, pale brow ai_i
other features. What ber object was I
did not know, but I did know that
there were emotional women in the
world who are silly enough to do just
that sort of thing.
However, since she gave me no clew
to her identity, I paid no attention to
her letter, tossing it into the fire and
thinking no more about it.
When I had forgotten it a married
lady friend of mine told me that she
desired to introduce me to a friend of
hers. "I think," she said to me "that,
to use a slang phrase, you have made
a mash. I think the lady admires
you."
"Has she ever seen me?" I asked.
"Of course. How could she admire
you without having seen you?"
"Oh! Her admiration doubtless only
exists in your imagination."
Nevertheless I was flattered. This
was the second case of admiration of
which I was the subject, and I began
to feel quite Adonis-like. It seemed to
me, after this last conquest, that every
girl who came near me was struck
with me. I waited impatiently for
my friend to introduce me to my victim, but nothing came of it, and I was
beginning to settle down to the opinion that I was not, after all, a lady
killer when another woman friend of
mine said to me one day:
"I  would like to know whether or
not you carry a love potion about you."
"Why  do you  say  that?"  I asked,
my finger ends tingling and my heart
increasing Its be;:t.
"Oh, nothing.   A friend of mine"—
"Well?"
"A friend of mine was going into
raptures over you the other day."
"What did she have to say about j
me?"
"I don't think that the flattering!
things said of persons should be re-|
peated to them any more than the dis-j
agreeable things."
That is all I could get out of her.
By this time I felt sure there was;
something about my appearance that!
attracted the fair sex. I stood before a!
mirror trying to discover what it was.|
It seemed to me that if my own black j
locks decorated my head I would be!
passably good looking, but my sorrel j
top, I considered, spoiled the whole, j
Then it occurred to me that these!
"mashes" had been made since I hadj
donned it, and it struck me that thisj
must be the secret of my success.
One evening at a dinner the hostess j
came to me and said she would Intro- j
duce me to the lady who was tv be my!
companion at table. She took me toj
one who the moment she saw me!
started and shrank away from me. I
uoticed that her eyes were fixed on my
wig. The hostess looked at her in astonishment, but the other, recovering
herself, took my arm, and we marched
together to the dining room. Passing
a mirror, I saw that my face and my
wig were both very red.
My dinner companion, when seated,
turned from me for an animated conversation with n man sitting on the
other side of her. She scarcely spoke a
word to me during the dinner.
This treatment brought me to my
senses, and I resolved to make an investigation. Before I got through I
knew more than I wished to know.
All these women who admired me
were one—my demure companion. She
had seen me in the hospital and. being
aggressive instead of retiring, had
written me the anonymous letter. She
had seen me with black hair falling
over white temples. Meeting me at the
dinner parly, she saw my sorrel wig.
The effect was not only disenchanting,
but irritating.
Months later 1 appeared before her
in my own natural hair. She had by
this time recovered from the shock occasioned by the wig, and I had little
difficulty In completing my coacniest