The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-12-21

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, DECEMBER, 21, 1916.
NO. 27
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News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
Interesting
John   H.   Burns,   president   of   the
John  H.   Burns   Lumber  company,   is
dead at St. Paul.
Miss   Minnie   Miller   of   Rochester,
seventeen   years   old,   dislocated  her
jaw by yawning.
There are 52,921 pupils in the public schools of Minneapolis, 3,122 more
than at this time last year.
John McRiff, aged fifty-five, a Kimball drayman, was accidentally killed
while hunting with a friend.
Willis   A.   Page,   president   of   the
Quaker Creamery company of Minneapolis, is dead, aged sixty-six.
Rev.   John   A.   Macomber,   former
Methodist clergyman of Mankato and
other   Southern   Minnesota   cities,   is
dead at San Jose, Cal.
John Murphy, who reached Brainerd
forty-four years ago by stage coach, is
dead  at his home in that city.    He
was seventy-six years old.
Fred H. Boutwell, for the past seven
years  superintendent of the National
Candy company of St. Paul, is dead.
He was fifty-six years of age.
William   A.   Peterson,   hero   of the
West hotel fire at Minneapolis a number of years ago, is dead in the Mill
City after an illness of four years.
Edward   Dawson,   a   farmer   living
south   of  Good   Thunder,   was   killed
when his automobile turned over while
he was returning home from Mankato.
Carl J. Lagerquist, ninety-five years
old, is dead at Minneapolis.    Among
his survivors are nineteen grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren.
Mrs. Erfid M£D.c______ was instantly
killed at Ellendale when the automo-
bile in which she was riding was
struck by a train on the Rock Island
road.
Charles J. Macbeth, prominent in
the business life of Mankato for years
and father of Florence Macbeth, grand
opera singer, is dead of diabetes. He
was fifty-five years of age.
Mrs. M. D. Rhame, aged eigty-two,
widow of the late M. D. Rhame, for
years assistant chief engineer for tha
western division of the Milwaukee
road, is dead at Minneapolis.
l.uluth housemaids have organized
a union with a charter membership oi
100. Waitresses, cooks and chamber'
maids also belong. Elizabeth Gurley
l-'lynn of New York is organizer.
The biggest co-operative enterprise
111 Southern Minnesota, the Faribault
Packing and Provision company, in
which about 1,000 farmers are stockholders, was dedicated Saturday,
~ More than 2,000 persons attended
the dedication at Hastings of the new
St. Boniface parochial school, costing
$40,000. Archbishop Ireland of St.
Paul delivered the dedicatory address.'
Lyle Kingsley, a member of tha
Spring' Valley high school football
team, is dead as the result of injuries received in a game with Preston
high school near the close of the season.
John J. Gleaeon, ninety years old,
well known in Minneapolis political
circles, is dead. Mr. Gleason was born
in Ireland and came to this country
hi 1847. He reached Minneapolis in
1870.
Asa Paine, widely known Minneapolis business man and good roads enthusiast, is dead at Vancouver, B. C.
Mr. Paine had traveled considerably
of late in the hope of restoring hia
health.
Fred Farnham, aged fifty, died at
Minneapolis one day later than tha
passing of his mother, Mrs. Susan A.
Farnham, seventy-six years old. They
were buried side by side in Lakewood
cemetery.
Official announcement has bee-
made at the headquarters of the Great
Northern Ore Properties of a general
10 per cent increase in wages to all
employes, including those on- a salaried basis. *
Dr. Knut Gjerset, president of the
Park Region Luther college at Fergus
Falls, has been decorated by King
Haakon of Norway with the Order ol
St. Olaf and has been made a knight
of the First Order.
H. E. L. Habighorst, aged sixty, pio
neer St. Paul business man, is dead
Mr. Habighorst was born in St. Paul
and always lived in that city. He had
been engaged in the dry goods and
real estate business.
Pupils enrolled in public schools in
Minnesota numbered 481,583 during
the last year, compared with 466,06(1
the year before, according to the annual summary just completed by the
state department o£ education.
More than 368,000 acres of state
owned swamp land in St. Louis, Lake
and Cook counties are open for sale
and settlement by the filing of final
selections under railroad grants, according to State Auditor J. A. O
Preus.
Mrs. Jennie R. Schadle, wealthy
widow of Dr. Jacob E. Schadle and
once prominent in St. Paul society,
was found dead in her home in ths
Capital City. She is believed to have
ended her life because of losses o_
the market.
Correspondences
HOLSTEIN PARK
Mr. and Mrs. L. Kramer and
Esther visited at the E. M.
Thompson home Wednesday.
Mr. J. Lease sawed wood for
J. R. Taylor, F. C. Sorum, Alva Martin and E. M. Thompson
last week,
Fred Sorum banked the
Christmas Lake school house
Saturday.
T. S. Look went to Hillman
Monday.
The teacher and pupils of the
Christmas Lake school will
give an entertainment at the
school house Friday evening.
L. Dorman was a Pierz visitor Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Sanborn
were Hillman visitors Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Taylor are
enjoying a visit from their
son Arthur from Colorado, and
their daughter, Mrs. Sorenson,
and son from Wadena.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sanborn
spent Monday at G. P. Martin's.
Hillman News.
Mr. and Mrs. John Waytasek
visited at August Drews' last
week Wednesday.
Lars Talberg and Minot Lar=
son returned from a short stay
in Duluth last week.
Mr. Drews called at the Waytasek home Saturday.
Mrs. Love and Miss Bethel
were out calling- Sunday.
Don Somer spent the weekend in this vicinity.
Miss Marie Drews is on the
sick list.
Lars Talberg- shipped for the
northern part or Minnesota last
Monday with a crew of 8 men
and teams.
Those in Pierz this week were:
Jim Love, Aug. Drews, J. A.
and Chas. Sanborn.
PLATTE NEWS.
Cecilia Valentine called at the
Reese home Monday afternoon.
Mr. John Ebert was busy helping Joe Matlock butcher one day
last week.
Mrs. Joe Matlock called on
Mrs. Ebert Wednesday.
A jolly crowd gathered at the
John jEbertovvski home. They
were: Joe, James and Gust.
and Fred Valentine, Christ
Reese and Cecilia and Christine
Valentine. They ail enjoyed
themselves playing games.
Miss Johanna Ebert spent Saturday night  with Miss Brunett.
Correspondent took a walk
down to the river one day stepped sideways and got only one
foot wet.
Christ Reese and John Ebert
called at Platte Sunday evening-.
Mr. and Mrs. John Ebertows-
ki called on John Smolik Sunday afternoon and evening-.
M. Valentine and sons Fred
and Gust were Pierz callers last
Saturday.
Joe James made a trip to
Platte Saturday morning.
Correspondent wishes everybody a Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year.
THE DOG-MAN'S TRUEST FRIEND.
I've never known a dog to wag
His tail in glee he did not feel,
Nor quit his old-time friend to tag
At some more influential heel.
The yellowest cur I ever knew
Was, to the boy who loved him, true.
I've never known a dog to show
Halfway devotion to his friend.
To seek a kinder man to know,
Or richer: but unto the end
The humblest dog I ever knew
Was, to the man that loved him, true.
I've never known a dog to fake
Affection for a present gain,
A false display of love to make
Some little favor to attain.
I've never known a Prince or Spot
That seemed to be what he was not.
But I have known a dog to fight
With all his strength to shield his friend,
And whether wrong or whether right,
To stick with him unto the end.
And I have known a dog to lick
The hand of him that men would kick.
And I have known a dog to bear
Starvation's pangs from day to day,
With him who had been glad to share
His bread and meat along the way.
No dog, however mean or rude,
Is guilty of ingratitude.
The dog is listed with the dumb,
No voice has he to speak his creed.
His messages to humans come
By faithful conduct and by deed.
He shows, as seldom mortals do,
A high ideal of being true.
■—Edgar A. Guest, in Detroit Free Press.
Germany's Intensive Farming,
Germany has an area equal
only to the three states Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri. Yet
Germany produces three-tifths
as much oats, four-fifths as much
barley, six times as much potatoes and nine times as much rye
as we produce in the whole United States. In the last thirty
years German rye production
per acre increased 87- per cent,
while tlie United States increased 10 per cent. German wheat
increased 58 per cent, ours only
14 per a nt; German b.iriey
60 per cent, and the United
States 10 percent; German oats
85 per cent, our own 6 per cent;
German potatoes 80 per cent,
ours 7 per cent. It is a nqtable
achievement for a nation whose
soil resources are poor and
which for the last thirty years
has been thought to be specializing on industrial development.
Rose Hesch Dead.
Rose Hesch died last; Sunday
afternoon with tumor of the
chest, with which she had
been a sufferer for more than
six months, in the 24th year of
her age.
Funeral services and burial
were held Wednesday morning
at 10 o'clock.
Fleetest Animals.
Writers of a century ago were
firm in the conviction that the
greyhound was the fastest living animal; some maintained
that he could run a mile in a
minute. Modern observers,
however, have found that the
best hound is by no means able
to keep pace with a trained
race horse.
A firs1- rate' horse running his
best and not handicapped by
carrying a rider can run a mile
in less than 100 seconds. A
fleet hound, such as those used
in coursing, can run a mile in a-
bout a minute and fifty seconds.
A jack rabbit in nearly as fas. t,
and an antelope is considerably
faster.
List of Unclaimed Letters
iters   addressed *to the
lowing named parties are at the
"From School to Position."
You    want   to be  a  sucess,
therefore  attend  St.    Cloud
business. College.    You   can
Letters  addressed *to the fob | gaVe   from   $40   to   $100    on
; tuition,   board    and    books.
New term Jan. 2, 1917.
postoffice in Pierz and have not
been called for:
Merton O. Smith
Peter Trelenik
Miss Iren Michaelson
Ben Evans
Henry Heuer
Anton Bedner
Buekman State Bank
NEW CHAMPION BEEF RECORDS
World's records were smashed when champion steers at the
greatv International livestock
show at Chicago were offered
for sale in the' auction market.
California Favorite, the little
red calf with the white face,
sold at $1.75 per eaeh of its 1,-
120 pounds. The previous high
price paid for beef on the hoof
was in 1900 at the first international of $1.50 per pound. The
champion carload, that of E. P.
Hall of Illinois, of Angus yearlings, sold at 28 cents a pound,
another world's record. These
yearlings brought $321.08 per
nead.
Forty-nine carloads of the
best beef animals in North
America brought a grand average of $15.91 per 100 pounds in
carlot sale. Thirty-two loads
of yearlings averaged $16.33,
17 loads of Angus yearlings averaged $17.30, seven loads of
Hereford yearlings $15.46,
eight loads of Shorthorns
$15.16. Keen competition was
manifest.
Much interest was shown in
the students' judging contests,
the winners being the boys
from Purdue university, with a
score of 3,970 points, in competition with 14 other colleges.
Iowa came second with 3,950,
others scattering, including
Minnesota 3,386, South Dakota
3,149.
Champion Steer to California
The cross-bred Hereford
Shorthorn steer, California
Favorite, was exhibited by the
university of California. He
was calved October 9, 1915, and
weighed 1,130 pounds in the
ring. The far western university also won, but reserve grand
champion, California Jock, an
Angus steer, calved January 11,
1914, weighing 1,850 pounds.
Neither one of the animals had
a grain of corn. Barley was the
main feed of both steers, along
with oats, bran and alfalfa hay.
There seems no further need of
corn-belt feeders pitying small
grain state feeders.
Local Happenings
Of the Week
John Brown of Rucker
says the beaver which several
years ago began to colonize
in his neighborhood have
all gone.
It has been found that a
few thorough applications of
crude petroleum to the interior of poultry houses will
destroy completely the common red mite infesting chickens.
Wm. Davidson of Hutchinson, and J. K« Martin of
Little Falls were here last
Saturday to inspect the new
bank building. Both Mr.
Davidson and Mr. Martin
are stockholders in the bank.
Florence Vosen ■ of Ocon-
omowoc, Wis., visited with
the Ed Benfeld family this
week. Miss. Vosen is a
daughter of George Vosen,
who formerly lived here.
She is a professional nurse.
The longest continuous
flight of any bird is made by
the golden plover. From
Nova Scotia to the coast of
South Amersca the entire
flight of 2,400 miles is accomplished without pause or
rest.
A device has been orginat-
ed by specialists of the department which promises a
more satisfactory and practical application of«the hot-
water treatment for the prevention of loose smut of
wheat and barley.
Jos. Wolsfeld of Lenore
Lake, Canada, is here visit-
with his uncle, John Donek.
Joseph left here 13 years a-
go with the Gerwings. All
are doing well and do not regret that they went to Canada. "Very little or almost
no war talk in Canada,"
eays Joseph.
Wm. Meyer-has received a
letter from his boys who are
working for the Shevlin
Hixoh Lumber Co at Bend,
Oregon. The boys state
that they are satisfied in
their new locality and that
Bend and the state of Oregon
is a whole is much better
than is Minnesota. For
farming the country around
Bend is no good. They say
that they had not seen a
prosperous looking farm
since they left Pierz.
Grain And Produce
Market Report
C. E. Gravel made a  trip  to
Isle Thursday evening.
John Smith arrived yesterday from Cross Plains where
he has been working on a
farm all summer. He will
stay over the holidays.
LOST—Stove Pipe Manderal
40 inches long, half round one
corner 6 inches square.
J. B. Hartmann.
Aug. Otremba has closed a
deal with Joseph Grosser of
Belle Plain and is now the
owner of section 15 in the
town of Pulaski.
Motion] picture show at
Faust's Opera House Monday night Dec. 25 th instead
of Sunday night.
Wheat, No. 1, $1.55
Wheat, No. 2      1.51
Wheat, No. 3-_.      1.87
Flax, .      2.60
Barley       75 80
Rye    1.17
Oats      42
Ear Corn       90
Hay—      7.00
Butter, Creamery        40
Dairy _- __      27
Eggs ~- -      BO
Flour.Royal     4.80
"    WhiteRose      4.70
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
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
Twenty eight below zero
Tuesday morning.
No show at Faust's Opera
House Sunday night Dpc. 24.
No show at Faust's Opera
House Sunday night Dec. 24.
Heavy storms and cold
weather are reported from
the west.
Today is the shortest day
of the year and winter begins Friday.
Christ Langer has been
working for Faudy Litke the
past few week..
Andrew H. Faust and Jos.
Meyer shot a wolf last Sunday two miles east of town.
|eAug. Drews of Hillman
was caller in town Tuesday,
making some Christmas purchases.
Lucas Weisgram has  written    a  letter  in    which   he'
states that he is  doing   well I
and feels fine.
i
Henry Kingen Jr. of  Morris, Minn., arrived  here  last i
Saturday for a visit with his
father and other relatives.
I
The best  Christmas present for the  world would  be
peace, and stopping the kill-'
ing of thousands of men.
Motion picture show at
Faust,s Opera House Monday night Dec 25th  instead .
of Sunday night.
I
Snow   is   reported  as   far
south   as   Nashville,   Tenn.,
where   6   inches  of   it  fell
Dec, 18th.    What is the  use
of us complaining here.    ■
Here and there a set of
bob sleds coming to town
—and they have to slide on
the rocks. The snow is too
loose for good sleighing.
The golden plover of the
Pacific ocean migrates from
Alaska to the Hawaiian Islands. Its flight takes it
2,000 miles across an island-;
less sea.
E.   B.    Smith    of  Havre, |
Montana visited his  parents '
on the  old Math  Thommes
place,  this   week.    E.   B.  is
employed by the G. N.  Railway Co.
Thirty four below this
morning. The winter is opening more and more it seems.
But that south wind this
morning may blow about a
change in a "day or two.
John Kapsner son of Carl
Kapsner left for St. Louis,
Mo., Tuesday morning to see
his brother Henry who has
been ill. Henry has been in
St. Louis at an institute for
several months.
J. Listberger, received
word that his son-in-law, J.
Roy had died. Mr. Roy was
a civil engineer and was employed here by the Soo line
when it was built through
here.
Jos. Jaeger of Staples
came to Pierz Tuesday to
visit his father-in-law, Aug-
j ust Sontag, who had lived
with him in Staples all summer, but returned to Pierz
last October.
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Ihe irump
Card Mine
By GUV HALLECK
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I had worked iu the Trump Card!
mine, where they were taking out gold j
in paying quantities, and had invested;
my savings in it. I had subscribed fori
my stock when the owners were form- j
ing the company and they needed rnon-i
ey. Consequently I got a good lot of!
stock for very little cash. Three hun-i
dred and fifty dollars was all I had,:
but it bought rue 10,000 shares of stock, j
The "lead" on which the value of the j
mine depended soon died out, and tb.i
mine appeared to be worthless, but the i
incorporators knew of paying veins;
which ran in our direction and believed i
that some of them extended into ouri
property. So they held on until a richj
vein was discovered ou adjoining prop-!
erty, and there was a fine chance by i
digging down a hundred feet to strike j
the extension. But those interested in j
both mines kept the secret from out-!
siders, and our managers got on to it
only from their neighbors trying to
buy us out.
I was completely ignorant of all this.
One morning I was told that the company had no more work for me, it having collapsed, but since the original
owners did not like to see me lose anything they would buy my stock at what
I had paid for it. I thanked them, but
told them that I saw no reason why I
should not suffer with the rest, and I
would put the certificates away and
consider them charged up to profit
aud loss. But tljey insisted on making
me whole, and I, unsuspicious, sold
them my stock.
For some time after this, so far as I
knew, there was nothing doing in the
Trump Card mine. Occasionally there
was a quotation at from 3 to 5 cents a
share on the mining stock exchange.
One evening while walking by the
property I was surprised to see some
workmen coming out of a hole in tlie
grolmd, carrying their dinner pails. 1
asked one of them if they had been
at work, but he was a Norwegian and
spoke no English. In fact not a man
of the lot could understand a word I
said.
If I had simply discovered that work
was being done in the mine I would
not have become suspicious. But that
the owner had thought fit to employ
only those who could not communicate with inquirers seemed singular,
especially since when I was working
for them their men were mostly Americans.
Looking at the sales list of stocks
that evening in the newspaper, I saw
more sales of Trump Card shares than
1 had noticed for several weeks previous, though the price had only advanced a fraction. I wondered if something was going on. That night I lay
awake thinking.
I sent my wife to linger In the neighborhood of the mine and watch. She
saw nothing unusual. There was nothing alive in it so far as she could see.
The same night I went to the property and sat on ft stump near by till
2 o'clock in the morning, when a cart
loomed out of the darkness and passed away into the darkness again. 1
noticed that it was without a creak. I
knew enough about mines to believe
that it was carrying ore, and the axles
were muffled.
The next day I went down to Denver, where I pro urcd an interview
with a man wl::> had held a lot of
Trump Card stock, but had sold it at
a small profit before the mine collapsed. I told him that I could give him
a pointer ou a prospective rise in a
certain stock and secured a contract
from him that if I named it and he
bought and made a profit he was to
give me 40 per cent of his gains. Then
I told him that I believed there was
something up in Trump Card.
He consented to make a small investment in it by way of observing its effect on the market, and, being busyj
himself, committed the matter to me. j
I found that the only stock to be had!
were scattered shares held by those j
who considered their investment aj
dead loss, and most of these did not!
care to sell at the present lowT market j
price. This strengthened the confi-j
deuce of my backer, and when I pro-!
posed to go about among the former j
stockholders and pick up the stock .at j
private sale, paying an advance on the!
market price for it. he assented.
In this way I got what stock did not!
belong to the original owners, and!
then I began to bid for paore on the ex- j
change. Some stock caine out, and my j
backer feared that we were buying a 1
lead horse. But it turned out that thej
ring had sold some stock to 'prevent!
the price from going up. This they did j
because some of them had not got all j
the shares they wanted.
When I had bought all the shares my j
backer would stand for and had put;
buck   the   money   I   had   received   for!
those the managers had so kindly relieved me of, I was obliged to await
developments.   They   came   one   day
when there was a scramble for Trump
Card  stock  on  the exchange,  and it
went up  like a  squirrel climbing the
trunk of a tree.   My wife, who was as
much   absorbed   in   the   matter  as   I,
came to me with the papers giving an
account of "A Stir In Trump Card"
and threw her arms around my neck,
delighted.
Evidently the secret, whatever it
was, had come out. The company had
struck a new vein not connected with
any other and was getting out ore that
assayed $300 to tho ton.
I reaped a small fortune, but after
all I was disgruntled because I did not
got revenge on those who had bought
my stock for a song when they saw
fine prospects ahead.
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