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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JANUARY,   4, 1917.
No.29
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.
Idrs. C. E. Lien, pioneer of Willmar,
is dead, aged seventy-four.
A St. Paul firm has received an order for poison fly paper from China.
Dr. Ethelhert P. Geer, well known
St. Paul physician, is dead, aged fifty-
eight.
Four business buildings, one the
largest in town, were destroyed by
fire at Danube.
Mrs. George Pomerleau, sixty-three
years old, an early resident of Minneapolis, is dead.
airs. Samuel Hess, eighty-two years
old, a pioneer resident of Minnesota,
is dead at St. Paul.
airs. Ellen O'Connor, seventy-five
years old, a resident of St. Paul for
fifty-five years, is dead.
Leonard S. Storey, son of H. J.
Story of Puposky, is dead as the result of a kick by a horse.
Mrs. Anna M. Willes, widow of
Charles L. Willes, a pioneer of St.
Paul, is dead, aged eighty-eight.
A new high record in marriage licenses was established in Minneapolis in 1916, when 4,919 were issued.
The First National bank of Mankato
presented its employes with a cash
bonus equal to 5 per cent of their salaries.
Fred Anderson, twenty-six years of
age, shot and killed himself with a
rifle at the home of his parents near
Hastings.
Minneapolis bank clearings for 1916
broke all records, the total being close
to $1,475,000,000, a gain of $134,000,000
over 1915.
L. L. De Rosia, eighty-nine years
old, who recently retired after twenty-
eight years in the hotel business at
Mankato, is dead.
Mrs. Mary Smith Harrison, of Minneapolis, a prominent member of the
Territorial Pioneer Woman's club, is
dead in California.
Robbers entered the saloon of Casey
& Doyle at Minneapolis, broke open
the safe with a sledge hammer and
escaped with $300.
H. H. Cheney, aged sixty-eight, a
resident of Minneapolis since 1866, is
dead from injuries sustained in a
street car accident.
Albert Stromire, a switchman, was
killed at aiinneapolis in attempting
to board a moving passenger train in
the Milwaukee yards.-
Every workman in the mills of tho
Watab Pulp and Paper company near
St. Cloud has received a raise in
wages of $6 a month.
Miss alary J. Wingate, an old time
school teacher and a resident of North
Minneapolis for thirty-six years, is
dead, aged eighty-three.
John Fuller, trapper, sixty years old,
was found dead in the ruins of his
shack in Clough township, Morrison
county, his body burned to a crisp.
Daniel Taylor, formerly of Minneapolis, for many years in the engineering department of the Great Northern
railroad, is dead at Sierra aiadre, Cal.
Two thousand four hundred and six
more persons were born in St. Paul
during 1916 than died. During the
year there were 5,161 births and 2,755
deaths.
William Markoe, pioneer of Ramsey
county, died at his home at White
Bear lake. Mr. aiarkoe was born m
Philadelphia in 1820 and reached St.
Paul in 1856.
Charles Stevens, a firemen for the
Great Northern railway, dropped dead
while climbing aboard his engine in
the yards at St. Paul. He was forty-
five years of age.
airs. Jane Clapp, eighty-five years
old, mother of United States Senator
Moses E. Clapp, was seriously injured
when she fell on an icy sidewalk near
her home at St. Paul.
Nick Sobtzson is dead at Spooner
following a quarrel with Billy Polak.
The shooting is said to have been the
result of an argument over taxes. Polak claims he shot in self-defense.
Arnold Uhler, aged sixty-five, dropped dead while attending Christmas
mass at St. Francis de Sales Catholic
church at St. Paul. Mr. Uhler was a
pioneer resident of the Capital City.
Each member of H company, Second aiinnesota infantry, at Llano
Grande, Tex., received a $1 bill and a
box of assorted chocolates as a Christmas gift from the Mankato Commercial club.
G. Danford Jooste, a graduate of tha
Minnesota Agricultural college last
June, has been assigned to the British
Royal Flying corps and is training
near London for service an the Western front.
The thirty-ninth annual convention
of the aiinnesota State Dairymen's association will be held at Lake City
Jan. 16 to 19. aien prominent in the
dairying industry are scheduled, to
make addresses.
J. J. Flikkie of Shelly, who was
elected representative for the Fourth
district over L. L, Thompson by a majority of twenty-one votes, has b.en
found guilty in the district court, of
Norman county of a gross violation
of the corrupt practices act.
Platte Church
Burned Monday.
L -J
John Skochinski was in town
Tuesday tnorningf and reported
that Platte church was destroyed by tire Mondav afternoon.
The fire started in the dressing
room and was discovered about
3 o'clock. The building- is a
total loss. John says a new
church will be built.
Limb is Broken Second
Time When Banker Falls.
Herman Terhaar, the popular
New Munich banker, was
brought to Melrose last Thursday suffering with a broken
limb that has just healed from
a break made several weeks a-
go. Mr. Terhaar had barely
been allowed to walk about the
house and he slipped while going from one room to another
breaking the leg at the place
newly healed.
Fishing Tiiroul. the Ice.
Fishing through the ice is
now the chief pastime of our
sports. Platte river is said
to be litterally studded with
fish houses. Up to date Louis
Feucht, Norbert Brummer and
John Smith, all veterans in the
art of luring the wily pickerel
to the dangling minnow, seem
to be entitled to first honors.
They claim to have speared
over 700 pounds in one day,
while a party of six, in the
same locality the same day
speard only seven. Louis claims
there is money in it. Every
stab gives him a hsh which nets
Him not less than 20 cents.
Died in Auto.
Edward Brand' a farmer residing east of Sauk Rapids,
died at the wheel of a Ford car
Sunday afternoon when driving
to Mayhew Lake, accompanied
by Barney Moog, a neighbor.
Brand stopped tbe car and
told Moog that he thought he
was choking. He started to
climb over the seat into the
rear of the car, when his body
fell limp over the rear of the
seat.
A Family of Plasterers.
Buekman has a family of
plasterers. The old man, John
Kappes, now living in Oregon,
is a plasterer, and so is everyone of his seven sons. With
generations of plasterers behind him, what will the seventh
son of the seyenth son be?
Which Would You Rattier Be?
An auto driver delights in
hearing himself called a ^chauffeur." Chauffeur is a term which
was originally applied to robbers, brigands and "scorchers"
infesting the Rhenish provinces
a little over a hundred years
ago. Th eir practice was to
hold their victims' feet to the
fire until they revealed the
place where their property was
hidden. Their language was a
mixture of German, French,
Hebrew and Flemish. The most
famous of their leaders was
"Schinderhannes" whose real
name was John Buckler. Every
Pierz boy must have heard terrible tales of "Schinderhannes.r'
He was captured, and with 26
members of his band was guil-
latined by Napoleon Bonapart
in 1803. Getting down to brass
tacks,' either "Scorcher" or
"Schinderhannes", correctly in-
terprete the caliber of the average chauffeur.
Farmers Insurance
Annua[ Meeting.
The Pierz Farmers' Mutual
Insurance Co., held their annual
meeting last Tuesday. The
following directors were elected:
H. J. Vierk,
F. O. Bolster,
John P. Langer,
Mag. Rauch,
Anton Jamma,
P. J. Gau,
Emil Froehner.
Officers elected by the directors:
President,
Mag. Rauch,
Vice President,
H. J. Vierk,
Secretary,
F. O. Bolster,
Treasurer,
Anton Jamma.
Weddings During 1916.
The following weddings  took
place here during 1916.
Joseph Schraut-Catherine Bollig
Frank Kastanek-Anna Nimsch.
Joseph Fritz-Frances Kastanek.
Edward M. Glaser-Josephine
Langer.
Andrew Smidthbauer-Hilda Kin-
gen.
William Girtz-Anna Kobilka.
Math Lochner-Dora Hoheisel.
Frank Sitzman-Anna Mueller.
John Feider-Hildegaard Wer
merskirchen.
Frank J. Thienes-Helen Younk.
Anton Ziegler-Mathiida Meyer.
Hubert Wise Elizabeth Ziegler.
Albert Stepen-Mary Dengel.
Casper Meyer-Mary Hoffman.
Leo M. Schoenberg-Clara Virnig.
Wenzel H. M'aurer-Frances Kobilka.
John Otremba Tracy Marchik.
Joseph' H. Debler-Catherine
Loscheider.
Frank Pohlkamp- Catherine
Suess.
Christian Seelen-Susie Otremba.
Nick J. Meyer-Prances Gassert.
Old Time Prices Not
In It With Present
A man who is engaged in
farming makes the following
comparison of the real purchase value of the farm product
of today as compared with that
of some years ago.
Farmer Jones said to us "Fifteen years ago when I was on
the farm. I needed a binder.
The binder those days cost
$114.95, or thereabout. I had
no money and had to give my
note, or get trusted till the fall.
When the fall came I had to
sell
3 of my best cows at $17 $51.00
5 tons of hay at $3 _...    15.00
25 bu. of potatoes at 20c      5.00
50 bu. of oats at 25c     12.50
1 hog, 300 lbs. at $4.25....    12.25
36 bu. of wheat at 60c...    19.20
Or a total to pay for the
binder with $114.95
Today this same amount of
farm produce so to speak will
run about as follows:
3 cows, $65  $195.00
5 tons of hay at $8     40.00
25 bu. of potatoes at $1..    25.00
50 bu. of oats at 50c    25.00
1 hog, 300 lbs, at $9.25..    27.75
36 bu. of wheat at $1.85    66.60
total  $379.35
This would buy at the   present high prices:
1 binder $135.00
1  wagon      85.00
1 buggy      70.00'
1 bob sled     30.00
1 suit of clothes     20.00
1 overcoat     18.00
A coat for the   farmer's
wife     21.00
Total    $379.00
"So you see," this man added
"even though there are people
who make more from our produce than we do and people who
really should be satisfied with
much less than what they make
on- our wheat, stock, etc., in
the finished product, we are not
so bad off."
Living without Electricity—
is living without 50 per cent of
life's possibilities.
Electricity on the Farm.
Particulars of Charles -Hatter's
Death.
Charles Hauer, of Cass Lake,
age 54, dropped dead this morning at the home of his son, Chas.
Hauer, Jr.
He was visiting there during
the holidays. At 10:15 this morning he was about to go down
town and his daughter-in-law
called him back to watch the
baby for a moment. She went
to another part of the house
and shortly afterward heard him
fall.
He lay near the stove. She
summoned neighbors and they
worked over him, trying to restore breathing.    It was useless
Here is what an electrical
engineer says four or five cents'
worth of electricity will do on and he died in her arms- The
the farm, if electricity were doctor called gave heart failure
available for the    rural    com
as the cause of death.
Mr. Hauer was a building contractor for the government,
building many houses for the Indians on the reservation. He
was a member of the Catholic
church.—Brainerd Dispatch.
Grain And Produce
Market Report
munity:
Milk ten cows.
Churn twenty pounds of butter.
Separate 1,400 pounds of
milk in a cream separator.
Do two large family washings.
Heat an electric flat Iron for
half an hour.
Run a sewing machine for
four hours.
Make griddle cakes on an
electric griddle twice.
Pump water enough to last
the family two days.
Sharpen an ax or scythe on
the grindstone six times.
Light a 32 candle-power
lamp an hour a day for five
days.
Make five slices of toast
every morning for four mornings.
Not long ago we read with
considerable interest an adver- Rye
tisement of an    electric    light Qats	
plant for the farm that, so the j?     rjorn
advertisement said,    could   be ^
installed for less than $500.        |Hay__—	
Putting the assertions of the Butter, Creamery
electric engineer and  the    ad- Dairy	
vertisement together,  it's    not Eggs	
difficult to arrive at a-    conclu- piOUr" Royal
Interesting
Correspondences
Sullivan News
Illif Walmark was a business
caller in Pierz Tuesday.
Lawrence Kramer and Alois
Banard were Lastrup callers
Saturday.
Maggie Look spent the weeks
end with Margaret Cook.
Quite a crowd attended the
dance at Riley Hopkins Satur-
night.
Tom Smith and family visited
at Kramer's home Sunday.
Platte callers Sunday were
Joe Popelick, Vance Borash,
Joe, Katie and Paul Poppe.
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Look were
lake callers Sunday.
Callers at A. W. Look Sunday were Miss Ruth, Blanch
and Edwin Walmark.
Mr. and Mrs. Kramer spent
New Years with the Thompson
family.
A crowdof young folks from
the vicinitv attended the New
Years dance iu Vineland Monday night.
Edwin and Loyed Walmark
were visitors at the Hoppe
home Monday evening.
Peter Adkins gave a card
party Monday evening. Those
present were Fred Lynn, Jim
Pint, Ross Adkins and Joe
Otremba.
Mrs.    John    Hoppe
Platte visitor Tuesday.
was
sion that farm life can be made
much more desirable than it is
at a cost far from prohibitive.
—Meridian (Miss.) Star.
Wheat, No. 1, ■__„__■ $1.80
Wheat, No. 2  1.76
Wheat, No. 3   1.68
Flax, —- 2.55
Barley       85-90
  1.28
  50
  90
  7.00
___.. 40
  27
  30
  4.80
  4.70
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
Wheat dropped  six cents
Tuesday.
Horseradish is a native
England.
of
BAFFLING   PROBLEMS.
at Melrose.
The price  of butterfat  is
holding up.
The week and year
the same day.
began
the
Posers  That   Man's  Brain   Has   Never!
Been Able to Conquer.
For the man to whom the mysterious appeals there is no lack of
problems   which   have  baffled  the
cleverest brains for generations and
in many cases for long centuries and
still remain as far from solution as
ever.
If he is mathematically inclined
. lie can win immortal fame by solv-
Peter Solillger spent Xmas] ing the problem of how to "square
the circle." The cleverest brains of
all ages and countries have wrestled
in vain to discover exactly the relation between the circumference and
the diameter of a circle.
One Dutch professor gave nearly j
fifty years of his life to the task, j
He worked out the equation to ove?:\
700 places of decimals and was then |
little nearer the end of his calcula-j
tions than when he began.
No less elusive is the square root j
of two. Thousands of years in thej
aggregate have been spent in en-;
deavoring to make this calculation, i
It .has been worked out to 111 j
places of decimals by one cnthusi-l
ast, but the exact square root re-1
mains and probably always will re-1
main unfound. {
Ever since the days of the phara- i
ohs scientists have been searching!
for the secret of changing base met- j
j als into gold, but the "philosopher's!
I stone" has always proved a will-o'-!
n 11 „     ,1        -, , ; the wisp in its tantalizing elusive-!
Cold weather does not seem nes£. ^ altll0Ugh Ediso * d_cW_a:
the da}' of its discovery was drawing
near, it still seems as remote as
ever.
Countless men, too, have been
driven to despair and almost to insanity in their efforts to discover
perpetual motion, and the man who
finds its secret will certainly win a
fame greater than that of Newton
himself.
Among historical questions to
which the world has vainly sought
an answer are the following: What
was the real fate of Louis XVII. of
France, the boy who is said to have
Betwix and between
sleighing and wheeling,
P.  L.  Poster  visited
county seat Tuesday.
Carl Thiele of Der Nord-
stern is here on his annual
visit.
Jos. Chamaroski of
aski visited the county
Tuesday.
Pul-
seat
to hinder the carpenters from
their work.
Faust   of
St.   Cloud
Mrs.     Albert
Buekman left for
Tuesday morning.
Peter and Stephan Gravel
visited their grandparents at
Onamia over Sunday.
Henry Benfeld of Pitzel-
town (New Munich) visited
here a few days this week.
"   WhiteRose	
Low grade flour 2.20
Bran . 1.55
Shorts  1-65
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.65
The man who has just found Ground Feed 1.50
out that he cannot aifford poor , nn
light has completed  his    first Beans  "    I'Si
lesson in economy. Onions..--.__     —ou
Rucker News.
Ave. Anderson left for Hubert, Neb. last Friday after a
pleasent visit with his relatives
here. He expects to remain
there at work till spring.
Mrs. Berhta Hohn and children of Motley, and Mrs. O. D.
Culver, and Mrs. Dora Hendrick-
son and little drnghter of Nevis
returned to their respective
homes Wednesday of last week.
They spent Xmas at the Goble
home.
Mrs. John Dorman is on the
sick list.
Victor Bruber sawed for Ar-
ehie Robinson Friday.
Raymond Cates, Frances
Tomberlin and Cecil Tuey left
last week for Itasca Co. woods
to work for George Waller.
Mrs V. Bruber visited Mrs.
August Drews of Hillman last
Monday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Probasco
visited Mr. and Mrs. Math Pint
and Mr. and Mrs. jRav Bruber
Sunday.
Ben Drews ate supper at the
Bruber home Monday.
John Ferguson has finished
his cabinet work viz;- making
over his sleds into new ones.
The Probasco and S. D. Wood
families celebrated New Year
day at the Wood home.
Hubert Brust is again employed as hostler at the Columbia Hotel, in pladeof Joe
Otremba, who is taking a
layoff.
The Minnesota legislature
met at the Capital in St.
Paul Tuesday noon. Governor Burnquist will give his
inaugural speech today, then
the girding out of will begin,
Miss Lillian Schauble who
is teaching at Annamoose N.
D. spent the holidays at
home.
Delco-Light makes it possible to retire to—instead of
from—the country.
Jacob Zapareka of Two
Rivers passed through here
Friday on his way to Platte.
Wm. Kopweiler left yesterday lor Sebeka, where he
will work on his father's
farm.
been buried in the temple prison?
AVas the Chevalier d'Eon man or
woman? Was Louis Philippe, king
of* the French, son of the Due d'Or-
leans or of an Italian policeman?
Is the Austrian Archduke Johann
Orth, who is said to have died at
sea in 1900, still alive, as so many
believe ?—Philadelphia Ledger.
Jake Leidenfrost left for
Little Falls Thuesday  morning to  enter  the
College.
John P. and Henry Langer
attended the Chas. Hauer
funeral in Brainerd last Saturday.
Math Gau of Two Inlets,
Minn., brother to P. J, Gau,
died at his home last Saturday night.
Gross Bros.' store and P.
Gross' living rooms are now
electrically lighted with
Delco-Lights.
Wessel Wolke of Lastrup
made us a visit last Tuesday,
manages to come down about
once a year.
Proverbs of Savages.
The proverbs of savages are
shrewd and pithv. The Basutos sav,;
"The thief catches himself;" the;
Yorubus, "He who injures another;
injures himself;" the Wolofs, "Be-j
fore healing others heal yourself."!
Business In Accra they sa_y, "Nobody is twice!
a fool;" among the Oji, "The moon!
does not grow full in a day;" "The;
poor man has no friends." A Pash-i
to proverb says, "A feather does not;
stick without gum." Others are,!
"A razor cannot shave itself,"!
"Cross the river before you abuse!
the crocodile," "Perseverance al-i
ways triumphs," "The thread fol-i
lows the needle," and "Preparation j
is better than afterthought.'—West-j
minster Gazette.
Mrs. . Arnold Nagel left
Wednesday morning for
Sauk Centre to visit her
daughter, Mrs Wm. Schrei-
ner.
Swanville—Klyde Kaliher
broke two knuckles of his
third and fourth fingers of
his left hand while playing,
the first of the week.
JosHortch, Frank Otremba
and Carl Meyer passed thru
the village Wednesday morning on their way to their
happy fishing grounds at
Sullivan. They traveled by
wagon loaded with camping
outfit.
Schools in District 132 and
78, teachers Anna and Vera
Thought Well of Themselves.
Gibbon wrote in his. dairy: "I amj
the greatest historian that ever;
lived. No one can equal me in this j
direction."
Victor Hugo wrote to Bismarck:
"The giant greets the giant, the foe
the foe, the friend the friend. I
hate thee furiously because thou
hast humbled France. I love thee
because I am greater than thou art."
And Wordsworth said of the
"swan of Avon:" "There is an immensity of trick in all he wrote. If
I had a mind I could write exactly,
like Shakespeare."
A Grudging Spirit.
Much depends on the way a thing
is done. An act which might be
taken as a kindness if done in a
generous spirit, when done in a
grudging spirit may be felt as harsh
and even cruel. When Ben Jonson
lay ill in poverty the king sent him
a paltry message, accompanied by a
gratuity. The sturdy, pain stricken
poet's reply was: "I suppose he sent
me this because I live in an alley.
Tell him his soul lives in an alley."
—Samuel Smiles.
A Change.
"That young Stebbins boy says
he's goin' to the city to make a
name for himself," said the village
gossip.
"I don't blame him a mite," said
the village postmaster. "I always
said his parents had no right to saddle a youngster with such a name as
Adoniram Ebenezer." — St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
One Disadvantage.
Potts—It is a great deal better to
Gerding, will not open their own your own., home aud not have,
Schools until Tuesday Jan. 9,  to££tts- Well.  ye?s, in a general
1917 on account of the ill
ness of their sister, Mrs.
Fred Kressly.
way it is, but it lias its disadvantages. A fellow can't go round driving nails anywhere he pleases in tlie
woodwork of his own home, you
know.—Boston Transcript.
Remember there will be a DANCE held at Faust's hall on Monday, January the 8th, 1917.