The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1917-01-25

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JANUARY, 25, 1917.
No. 32
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Headers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
The St. Paul postoffice handled $12,-
726,824.35 in 1916.
Charles H. Miller, pioneer hotel man
of St. Paul, is dead.
Mrs. Lonora Halloran, a resident of.
Minneapolis since 1S54, is dead.
The Banner hotel at Lamberton has
been destroyed by fire, entailing a loss
of ?40,000.
Sam Gir'ard, seventy-eight years old,
well known farmer of Crow Wing
county, is dead.
Mrs. Christina Hanft, aged eighty-
five, who came to Minnesota in 1852,
is dead at Tacoma, Wash.
Oscar M. Bergstrom, inventor of
many automobile appliances and a gas
engine expert, is dead at Minneapolis.
Malcolm W. Clark, a mining engineer,' formerly of Northfield, was killea
in an automobile accident at Tulsa,
Okla.
With 763,832 cars in or out of Minneapolis in the year 1916 the Mill City
broke all former records in freight
traffic.
I. M. Owene, aged ninety, was killed
at a street crossing at Sleepy Eye
when struck by a passenger train on
the Chicago and Northwestern road.
Mrs. John F. Stevens, wife of the
chief engineer of the Panama canal,
who formerly lived in St. Paul, is
dead at her home in New York city.
A large owl became wedged between two higli tension wires east of
Madison Lake, formed a short circuit
and cut off the lighting service of the
village.
J. C. Mahoney, an employe of the
Minneapolis General Electric company, was electrocuted when he came
into contact with a cable carrying 2,-
300 volts.
Joseph Swindelhurst, a Wadena
county pioneer, is dead, aged eighty-
seven. Mr. Swindelhurst's first child
was the second white baby born in
Wadena county.
Rev. William H. Barkuloo, who
served in the active work of the Methodist ministry in Minnesota since
1869 until his retirement in 1910, is
dead at St. PauJ.
Mrs. M. H. Dunnell, widow of Mark
H. Dunnell, for fourteen years congressman from the First Minnesota
district, is dead at Washington. The
family home is in Owatonna.
Edward S. Quigley, head of the
training department of the state normal school at Mankato, has accepted
an election as assistant superintendent of schools at Los (Angeles, Ca}.
Jospeh Kinney, nineteen years old,
of Swanville, pleaded guilty in district.
court at Little Falls to having shot
and wounded his father and was sentenced to forty days in the county jail.
Bruce R. Stone of Monticello was
elected president of the Third Class
Assistant Postmasters' Association of
Minnesota at the first annual convention of the association at Minneapolis.
John R. Anker, treasurer of the Ken-
ney & Anker Mercantile company of
Duluth and well known throughout the
Northwest because of his lumber and
mining interests, is dead in the Zenith
City.
Mrs. Paul Mass, twenty-three years
old, committed suicide by hanging in
the woodshed at the rear of her home
at St. Paul. She was found by her
four-year-old son, suspended from a
rafter.
Frederick Goodsell, pioneer resident
of Northfield, for many years president of the First National bank of
that city and son of Charles M. Good-
sell, founder of Carleton college, is
dead at Moorhead.
Public ditch work in Blue Earth
county in 1916 amounted to $1,006,320.
In addition approximately 50,000 rods
of private drain tile was laid on
farms of the county to connect with
the public ditches.
"Wet" petitions, containing over
four times the number of signatures
required to put the saloon question
before the voters of Duluth in April,
have been turned into headquarters of
the wets at Duluth.
A Swedish midsummer festival will
be held at Center City, ou the shores
of Lake Chisago, on June 24. The festival will be attended by people of
Swedish de.cent from Minnesota and
North and South Dakota.
Captain Alexander Smith, former St.
Paul man, who became a hero by holding the fort at Altoona pass until the
coming of General Sherman and his
troops, was burned to death in his
home at Jacksonville, 111.
Dr. E. F. Spaulding, superintendent
of the Minneapolis public schools, has
accepted the superintendency of the
Cleveland (O.) public schools at an
annual salary of $12,000 for four years.
His services will begin May 1.
Disbarment proceedings against
Thomas Mohn, an attorney of Red
Wing, wore filed in the supremo court
by Eli Southwick of the state beard of
law examiners. Chief Justice Calvin
Brown issued an order citing Mohn to
appear Feb. 2 to answer the allegation
that he violated his oath as an attorney.
Interesting
Correspondences
Hillman News.
Joe Leigh of Vawter, was
here on business last week.
Mrs. W. C. Penniman and
children left last Thursday for
Dora Lake, where they will visit the former's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. O. C. Leigh, before leaving
for their new home in Anaconda, Mont.
Has any one been missing any
grain lately. Bert Sanborn
was seen delivering some at the
station at day-break two days
last week.
Ben Drews hauled posts from
Andrew Markusons' Saturday.
R. C. Bethel left Saturday for
a trip to the twin cities.
Rev. Upton, of Onamia, and
Rev. Scotten, of Willmar, were
with us Monday and Tuesday.
Rev. Upton preached a fine sermon in the school house each
evening. They went to Rucker
on Wednesday for services
there.
Bert Sanborn, of Holstein
Park, and William Drews went
to Pierz on the passenger Tuesday.
Mr. Aug. Drews returned
Tuesday from Little Palls,
where she had been for some
time with her daughter, Miss
Marie, who is a patient in St.
Gabriel's hospital there.
What has happened to the
Holstein Park correspondent, or
has the Park been vacated?
Brainerd Suffers
Heavy Fire Loss.
Brainerd,— Willaim Gearney
and T. S. Land are missing today and it is thought that they
lost their lives in the fire which
destroyed the Antler hotel in
this city last night. The cause
of the blaze is unknown and the
fire was not discoverd until well
under way. The total loss is
estimated at about $50,000. The
hotel is a total loss. Others
who suffered damage were the
Dulutk Brewing Company, W.
Shange, Joseph Sebert, Louis
Dromen and J. Shaffer.
Rucker News.
Kick From Cow Breakes a Leg.
Herman Ostendorf, living 4
miles east of Freeport, is suffering with a broken leg. Mr. Ostendorf was driving the cattle
out of the barn Saturday when
one of the animals kicked him
on the right leg breaking the
member below the knee. Mr.
Ostendorf is 65 years of age,
but is reported as getting along
nicely, although it will lay him
up for some time.
Mrs. Ernest Goble visitedMrs.
Matt Pint last Friday afternoon.
Leigh Teachout went to Pierz
Friday and to Hillman Saturday
afternoon.
Mrs. S. D. Wood and daughter, Mrs. Roy Probasco, called
at the Goble and Bruber homes
Friday afternoon.
We certainly experienced an
old fashioned Minnesota blizzard Sunday. It snowed hard
all day and a strong northeast
wind piled the snow up in fine j
style.
There were about thirty-five
in attendance at the dance given
Saturday evening by Mr. and
Mrs. John Ferguson and a very
pleasant time is reported.
Mrs. Gates and niece, Miss
Ethel Tuey and Mr. and Mrs.
John Dorman and boys were
callers at Hillman Saturdeiy.
One married young lady in our
neighborhood ought to have a
prize for early rising as well as
kind deeds to her neighbors.
One morning last week she got
breakfast for her "gude man"
and herself and did up morning
work, then went to her nearest
neighbor and finding them still
asleep, built a fire in the kitchen stove to make it warm and
nice for them. We call that real
goodness of heart these cold
mornings.
Miss Pleasant Loop spent a
few clays at home the latter part
of last week, returning Saturday, just in time to take in the
dance.
We understand that there is
considerable opposition all
along the line to the new star
route proposed from Hillman—
the majority preferring the present route from Pierz to having
their mail changed.
Matt Pint went to Sullivan
again Monday to resume his
work of making posts.
Miss Pleasant Loop returned
to the Pint hom^ on Monday.
Tracy Waller went to Lastrup
Monday.
Was Found Not Guilty.
Eugene Tuft, the young man,
in a fight with whom Leo Webber lost his life last fall, was
found not guilty. The fact remains that Webber and Tuft
fought and that Webber died
from the effects of a wound received during the fight. The
wound was made with an instrument which might have been
a screw-driver. A screw-driver
was found where the tight occurred. Pretty good circumstantial evidence. Yet the jury
found him not guilty. According to that, you cannot convict
a man for shooting another, by
eye witness' testimony, because
they didn't see tbe bullet. The
St. Cloud Times says: "There
is a growing belief that Leo
Webber was not killed. The
jury is responsible for this rumor. There are few greater uncertainties in life than a jury."
Leo Schoeuberg and wife
of Elrosa, and Henry Virnig
of St. Cloud, feft by Soo line
Tuesday morning after a
short visit at the Mrs. Peter
Virnig home-
That snowstorm last Sunday covered almost the whole
state with a good thick
blanket of snow. Minneapolis reports a fall of 17 inches,
which, is said to be the hea-
vest fall on record.
Grain And Produce
Market Report
Wheat, No. 1, $1.75
Wheat, No. 2__      1.71
Wheat, No. 3___      1,63
Flax,       2.60
Barley.     95-1.00
Rye      1.27
Oats      5_.
Ear Corn        90
Hay      7.00
Butter, Creamery ,..      40
Dairy       27
Eggs        [30
Flour, Royal —      5.00
"   WhiteRose      4.90
Low grade flour 2.25
Bran   1.60
Shorts  1.70
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.75
Ground Feed    1.75
Beans  _____     5.00
Onions       2.50
Rural Carrier
Examination.
The United States Civil Service Commission has announced
an examination for the county
of Morrison, Minnesota, to be
held at Little Falls, on February 24th, 1917, to fill the position of rural carrier at Hillman
and Bowlus, and vacancies that
may later occur on rural routes
from other post offices in the
above mentioned county. The
examination will be open only
to male citizens who are actually domiciled in the territory of
a post office in the county and
who meet the other requirements set forth in Form No.
1977. This form and application blanks may be obtained
from the offices mentioned
above or from the United States
Civil Service Commission at
Washington, D. C. Applications should be forwarded to
the Commission at Washington
at the earliest practicable date.
Warning to R. F. 0. Patrons.
The R. F. D. carriers complain
that in certain sections patrons
are not doing their duty in keeping the roads open to facilitate
the delivery of mail. Such sections will be cut out, they say,
if conditions are not remedied.
At their request, the Journal
publishes the following articles
bearing on this phase of the service from Postal Laws and Regulations:
Roads on which rural-delivery
service is established shall be
in good condition and so main-
t ained. unobstructed by gates,
and there shall be no unbridged
streams not ford able at all seasons of the year.
Each box should be erected on
the road regularly traveled by
a rural mail carrier and such
position as to be easily and safely accessible tor the delivery
and collection of mail by the
carrier without leiiying his conveyance.
Patrons should keep clear the
approaches to their boxes by
prompt reinovel of snowdrifts or
other obstructions by which the
delivery of mail into them would
be rendered impossible or difficult without the carrier leaving
his conveyance.
Holstein Park News.
Clarence King called at the
Jim King home Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. chas. Sanborn
called at F. Somers Saturday.
' Nellie Martin and Ruby
Thompson cleaned school house
Friday.
Bert Sanborn was a Hillman
visitor Friday.
Alice Perkins of Rucker is
visiting at the E. M. Thompson
home.
Willian Burnham was a Pierz
visitor Friday.
Mrs. E. M. Thompson is visiting friends and relatives in Es-
therville, Iowa.
Several from this way attended the dance at John Ferguson's
Saturday evening.
E, M. Thompson and William
Burnham called at T. S. Look's
Saturday.
J. L. Judge and crew   will
leave for Benson Friday.-
Worst Blizzard
Of The Season
Not for years has this section
been visited by a worse storm
than that of Saturday night and
Sunday. It is estimated that 17
inches of snow fell and as the
storm was accompanied by a
high wind, the snow was piled
in high drifts, making traveling
in the rural sections almost impossible.
Following tbe storm the thermometer took a sudden plunge
downward and Monday morning
at 8 o'clock 20 below zeso was
registered.
The church attendance was
very light Sunday morning.
Peter Meyer Had
A Close Call
While talking about guns,
hounds, wolves and about hunting in general, Peter Meyer, the
blacksmith, dropped into a reminiscent mood and told this
story:
"A number of years ago while
working in a lumber camp, 12
miles east, I was sent to town
one evening on an errand. I did
not start on the return trip until about 10 o'clock- The night
was dark and a fairly stiff northwest wind urged me into a brisk
walk, which was sometimes
quickened into a run, to keep
me warm. After crossing Hillman creek, near the present site
of the bridge, a wolf's long howl
from across Tomala's hill broke
the silence of the night. This
gave me no little uneasiness as
the dismal and blood-curling
howl was almost straight ahead.
After examining my rifle to see
that the repeater was in working order, I decided not to turn
back. Presently another wolf
gave signal by a shrill howl
close behind me. I kept up a
dog-trot for the next mile or
two. By that time no less than
about 25 wolves were in signal
communication with one another
all around me. They seemed
to work in a circle and coming
closer.
When about a mile from the,
camp, where the road lead
through a ravine and where
overhanging boughs made it
doubly dark and ominous, I
could hear the wolves cracking
the underbrush as they crouched
around preparing for an attack.
The odds were heavily against
me, but being so close to the
camp, I hazarded a shot in the
direction of the closest one. The
report of the gun had a magical
effect, for their feast song came
to an end before the reverberation of the shot had died away
among the pines. That ended
their howls for that night.
What would have happened
if the camp had been a mile
further away, I do not know.
It is more than likely however
that I should not now be here
to hammer an anvil chorus, or
relate this tale."
The creamery well is still
uncertain of its fate. Dynamite has been used in large
quantities to dislodge the obstructions in the casings, but
without results. The prevailing opinion is that digging a new well is the only
remedy for the existing trouble.
Local Happenings
Ofjhe Week.
Poor roads.
That Sunday storm put the
quietus on the au tos for this
season.
Chattel mortgage blanks
for sale at Journal office.
H. C. Smith of Sullivan
spent Tuesday night in Pierz.
Leo Bently is canvassing
this end of the county in the
interest of The Transcript.
The Columbia auto bus
was conrpelled last Monday
to resign in favor of the horses.
The contract to haul the
ice for the Farmers' Creamery was let to John Banach
lor $115.00.
Monday morning was  the
coldest  one  of  the   season.
While not the coldest one in!
fact—28 below—it  was  the
coldest in feeling.
John Mamer and wife of
New Trier, and N. J. Terhaar of Avon, spent Sunday
here at  the  B.  G.  Terhaar
home.
i
Chas. W. Bouck of Royal-1
ton, member  of the  legisla-j
ture from this  district  is re-j
ported to be very sick  with
pneumonia.
i
Mr. and Mrs. Theo.  Cross
returned home from  Stearns
Co. last we,ek  after visiting !
friends  and  relatives  there
for several days.
Felix Kobilka, son of John
Kobilka of lower town has
bought the interest of his
father-in-law, Joseph Med-
ved, in the Little Falls house
FORETOLD  BY  DREAMS,
And now it is certain that
the indi ans and   muskratsi
have  lost  their  reputations!
as  weather prophets.     The
bark is  no "longer  loose  on
the  trees—it is   frozen    on
solid as a stone.
Steve Preimesberger, Tony
V. Hartmann and John Gau
went out huntiug jack rabbits the other day and got:
one. And yet they say the
country is full of 'em.
The man who was
falsely accused will
soon come to Pierz.
Watch next week's
Journal for particulars,
Pete Bares ventured a trip
to Little Falls Sunday morning.. He made the inward
trip in 40 minutes, but had
to give in on the way home
when he reached Christ
Fausts' place. The good uncle hauled him home through
the drifts.
The jurors who came home
Saturday night for an over
Sunday visit were in a dilemma Monday morning. When
they left the county seat Saturday under promise that
they would return for service Monday, the storm was
'not taken into account.
However, when the auto bus
failed to show up Monday
morning, they scurried a-
round and found someone to
drive them in. It is hoped
that a lenient judge did not
fine them for contempt of
court.
Two   Singular  Cases   In   Which   Slea$
Warnings Came True.
"I dreamed that the ship was in'
a heavy sea, that a big wave came
over her bows, pressed down upon
her, and then she rolled over on her
starboard side and disappeared."
This is not an extract fr-dta a
story. It is evidence, given on oath,
during the inquiry at London into
the mysterious disappearance of the
Waratah, the vessel which, on her
second voyage mysteriously disappeared in, July, 1909, and has never
been heard of since. And so impressed was the passenger with the
vision that he left the vessel at Durban, from which point she continued on her ill fated voyage. Thus
one more was added to the extraordinary coincidences in which dreams
have figured.
The third Lord Waterford was
able to verify a story of an extraor-
fiinary dream coming true. Talking
one day with the landlord of the
inn in the village close to Curragh-
more, a man rushed up and said
there had been a murder on the
hills. "Then it must he the little
one," said the landlord, at which
Lord Waterford, not unnaturally,
became very suspicious. The laud-
lord proceeded to explain that in
the night he dreamed that two men
had come to the inn and that the
taller of the two had murdered the
shorter with a very curious knife.
He told his dream to his .wife,
who laughed at him. But, to his
horror, the men he had seen while
asleep came to the inn, and one
used the curious knife to cut up his
food. They left, and soon afterward news of the murder arrived.
Search was made for a tall man answering to the landlord's description, and one was quickly arrested.
In prison he confessed he had murdered his short companion.—Pearson's Weekly.
Humbug.
The word "humbug" had its origin as follows: Among the many issues of base coin made from time
to time in Ireland there was none so
worthless as that made by James
II. at the Dublin mint. It was
made of whatever metal was the
easiest to get, lead, copper, pewter
or brass, and so low was its intrinsic value that 20 shillings of it
v.as worth only twopence sterling.
The soft mixed metal of which that
worthless coin was composed was
known to the Irish as "uimbog,"
pronounced oombog, meaning soft
copper or worthless money. Thus
the phrase 'Tiumbug" originated by
a person saying: "That is a piece of
uim-bog." "Don't try to pass off
your uim-bog on me."—Exchange.
A Big  Difference.
From the parlor there came a
crash that brought the careful
housekeeper downstairs at unusual
speed.
"Sarah," she said, "did you break
something?"
"Yes, ma'am."
"What was it?"
"One of those green vases, ma'am.
But it only broke in two pieces."
"You stupid girl," said the careful housekeeper. "It is gone, so
what difference does it make whether it is in two pieces or two hundred ?"
"All the difference in the world,
ma'am, as you would soon find out
if you had to pick up the pieces,"
said Sarah.—Exchange.
When Love Got a Chill.
"Chrissie and me have had a
row," said the young man, murdering grammar in the intensity of his
grief.
"Why, what's up ?"
"Well, you know Chrissie's a
schoolteacher, and—I mean I can
stand a bit, but there's a limit."        |
"I don't understand. What's the!
trouble exactly ?"
"Why,- I promised to meet her!
last night at 7 under the clock, andj
I couldn't get there till 7:30. Andj
when I arrived—would you believe!
it?—she asked me if I'd brought a|
written ' excuse from my mother, j
Isn't that enough to put anybody!
off ?"—Exchange.
Lake In a Volcanic Ring.
On the island of Ninafow, half-j
way between Fiji and Samoa, is a|
volcanic ring inclosing a crater con- j
raining a lake two miles in diame-j
ter. Toward the sea the ring is j
bordered with walls of black cliffs j
200 to 300 feet in height. An erup- j
tion in 1SS6 formed a peninsula on-
the eastern side of the lake. While j
the ocean outside is trembling and j
thundering under a heavy wind the'
lake remains smooth or is simply
wrinkled with ripples or wavelets. »
Did Him Honor,
"Did you read that interview with
Dubwaite in the morning paper ?"
"'Yes. If s positively brilliant. I
had no idea Dubwaite was such a
smart man."
"Ifeither did he.' I hear he wants
to present the reporter who wrote
it with a suit of clothes."—Birmingham A_re-Herald.
Don't Forget to attend the social DANCE at Faust's flail, held Monday, January 29th, 1917,