The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1917-02-01

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, riORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, FEBRUARY, 1, 1917.
No. 33
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.
Interesting
An investigation of labor conditions
In the north woods by the house committee on labor has been ordered.
Louis Zimmerman, thirty-two years
of age, committed suicide by hanging
while visiting relatives at Ihlen, near
Pipestone.
One hundred and sixty-one carloads
of live stock, bringing a total of $211,-
000, were skipped from Pelican Rap-
irs in 1916.
Charles B. Woods was convicted at
St. Paul of the murder of Miss Ella
Johnson and was given a life sentence
In state prison.
The Farmers' State bank of Stock'
ton, Winona county, has been authorized to begin business by Superintendent of Banks Pearson.
New branches of the Minnesota
Game Protective league are being
formed at Montevideo, Sleepy Eye,
New TJlm, Rochester and Tracy.
One young woman, Miss Jacobi Roes
of Sebeka, was among the successful
candidates for registered pharmacist
who passed the recent state board examination.
The University of Minnesota football schedule for 1917 provides for
games with North and South Dakota,
Montana, Indiana, Wisconsin, Chicago
and Illinois.
ilrs. Anna Knutson, 102 years old,
is dead at the home of her daughter
in Blue Earth county. She was born
in Norway July 2, 1814, and was married there in 1844.
Christian Dyerson, ninety-five years
old, said to be the oldest Republican
voter in Minnesota, is dead at Zurn-
brota. Mr. Dyerson cast his first Republican ballot for Henry Clay in 1844.
Two children of Andrew Zupon, four
and six years old, were burned to
death in a fire which destroyed the
Zupon home near Mora. Four other
children narrowly escaped the same
fate.
Victor Anderson, aged forty-six, is
dead at Duluth from injuries sustained
when he was caught by a broken machine belt and tossed to the ceiling in
' the foundry of the National Iron
Works.
Nathan R. White, thirty-one years
of age, brakeman on the Great Northern railroad, was killed at Melrose
when he slipped while alighting from
a switch enT-'ne and was crushed under its wheels.
James McGinty, aged sixty, dropped
dead on a Minneapolis street car. McGinty was the second man to die on
Mill City street cars in two days, J. A.
Johnson having died on a car forty-
eight hours before.
Duluth wets have secured sufficient
signatures to a petition for a wet and
dry election on general election day
Tuesday, April 3. Duluth will become
dry July 1 ne t if th.- ,?ets fail to win
at the con-trig election.
Charles Brady was convicted at Minneapolis of robbeiy in the f rst degree
for holding up Henry Hagerman on
the night of Jan. 6, securing 10 cents.
The penalty is from five to twenty
years in the state penitentiary.
The entire teaching force of the
rural schools of Southern Minnesota
will aid in the movement to save
starving quail and other birds as a
result of a move inaugurated by the
Minnesota Game Protective league.
Mrs. Alamedia MacCreary, who arrived in Minneapolis with her husband
in 1857 and was widely known in the
Mill City, is dead at the home of her
daughter at Big Timber, Wash. Mrs.
MacCreary was eighty-five years old.
The affairs of Virginia, wealthy iron
range town and neighbor of Hibbing,
the world's richest village, are being
investigated by Andrew Fritz, state
public examiner, who recently conducted a similar inquiry at Hibbing.
One hundred and nineteen indictments were returned by the Polk
county grand jury in a session of seventeen days, just ended at Crookston.
More than one hundred of the bills allege violations of the anti-liquor laws.
The royalties on contracts on state
Iron mines for tlie last three months
of 1916, now due, are expected to tqt'sUj
$250,000 and to make a new high r.eg:
ord of more than $400,000 in reyejuis
h-om that source, during the yea.r- juat
ended,
Harry Livingston, forty-five years o,t
age, president of the Jones & Kroeger
Printing company of Winona aqq
prominent in the affairs of the city,
shot and killed himself as a result of
ipelancholia brought on by protracted
ill health.
William T. Cox, state forester, has
been elected vice president of tho,
Society of American Foresters, au g.w
ganizatipn pf trained foresters of the
United States and Canada, whose annual convention has just been held in
Washington.
Coleman Keeley, for forty years section farema.n on the Great Northern
railroad and born.the same day as its
late president. James J. Hill, is dead
at his home in Euclid, near Crookston.
Mr. Keeley was a pioneer of the Red
River valley.
Correspondences
Sullivan News
Correspondent has been sick
but is now ready for duty.
Johnnie Kramtner of Pierz is
visiting his brother Lawrence
a few days.
Miss Pern Day has returned
from her vacation which was
spent at her home in Rush City.
School opened again Monday.
H. Hoskins was a Hillman
caller Friday.
Tom Smith drove to Onamia
Saturday.
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A Large crowd  attended  the
dance at A. W. Look's Saturday
night everybody reports a  tine
time.
Lawrence Karmmer and Ross
Adkins were Lastrup goers Sunday.
Illif Walmark took in the
dance at Platte Saturday night.
A great many of the people
of this neighborhood are on the
sick list.
Tom Smith spent Monday at
C. E. Look's.
Hillman News.
R.  C.   Bethel   returned Wed
nesday  from a business  trip to
Minneapolis.
Mr. Wolfendon left for home
last Friday, after transacting
business in this vicinity.
Irwin Drews spent a few hours
with his sister Marie in Little
Palls last Friday.
A carload of lumber for the
Zendbeck Lumber Co's new yard
was unloaded here last week.
Mr. Zendbeck is in charge of the
branch here.
Mrs. J C.Love received word
..io -day of the serious illness of
her fattier. She left at once for
his home in North Dakota.
Rev. Thomas Scotten returned
Saturday from Rucker, going to
Mt. Morris the same day.
Sullivan Lake was well represented in the village Monday.
Find Some Remains
of Braitierd Victims
Brainerd, Minn., Jan. 25. —
Search of the ruins of the Antler, hotel burned in the big fire
last Monday, has brought to
light charred pieces of a human
body believed to be that of William Deering, steamfitter, who
perished in the lire along with
Thomas F. Lamb, Northern Pacific flagman. In the ruins where
the washroom of the hotel once
was, the fragments of a
human body along with a key
ring and eleven keys identified
by Julius Deering, one of the
dead man's sons, was found.
Nothing was identified as belonging to Lamb. It develops
that Deering, after removing his
trunk from the burning hotel,
returned to get an overcoat and
this action is belived to have
cost him his life. The search
continues, all fragments of bodies found being turned over to
Coroner Nelson.
Booker News.
Rev, Upton, who preached in
t • Prt'-oylariaii church at Onamia, Cove and Wahkon, visited
iii this vicinity a few days last
week, accompanied by Rev. T.
Scotton. Rev. Upton preached
to an interested congregation
at the Ferguson home Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
Mr. and Mrs. John Dorman
visited the Ray Bruber family
last Sunday.
Wm. Goble and Mrs. Arba
Waller visited at the Lewis
home Sunday.
School will begin again Monday Febuary 5 th.
Mr. and Mrs. Joh,ii Ferguson
spent Mpnday evening at Arba
Waller's.
Victor Bruber left; last week
for the cities, where expects to
work until spring.
The. new mail route from Hillman is to be rural route, althou
it will come but three times a
week for a time, but it is promised that it will be a. daily route
as soon as arrangements can b,e
made and business is sufficient
to warrant it. It is a move in
the right direction.
Rose o e Quarantine.
St. Cloud, Minn., Jan. 25—An
outbreak of diphtheria in the
Roscoe village school has resulted in the closing of the institution and the threatened
closing of the entire village to
outside traffic.
A physician, summoned to
take care of one of the pupils
in the school, discovered dyph-
theria, and on investigation he
discovered twenty-four cases had
developed in the school. An
order was immediatelv issued
that the school close, to prevent
further spread of the disease.
It is also thought that it may
be advisable to isolate the village in order that transients may
be prevented from carrying the
contagion to other parts of the
country.
This is the worst outbreak of
diphtheria in Stearns county
during the present winter.
The United States Produces:
Seventy-six per cent ot all the
corn grown in the entire  world.
Seventy-five per cent of all
the cotton.
Seventy-two per cent of all
the oil.
Fifty-nine per cent of all the
copper.
Forty-three per cent of all
the pig iron.
Thirty-seven per cent of all
the coal.
Thirty-five per cent of all the
tobacco.
Twenty-six. per cent of all the
silver.
Twenty-four per cent of all
the wheat.
Twenty-one per cent of all
the gold.
More than this, the United
States contains a third of all the
wea-lth of the civilized world.
. Anton Bauer left last Tuesday for St. James where he
will probably make his permanent home.
Bought Lastrup Harness Shop.
Louis Eller has bought the
harness business inLastrup from
Peter Busseler and, will take
possession about the middle of
February. With his father's
business so well and satisfactorily established here, upon
which he can build, Louis cannot fail in the new field. And
this brings to mind that Lastrup is growing. Only a few
years ago, the cattle which furnish the. raw,hides now carried
in stock there, might have grazed on the land upon which now
stands the shop.
State Fire Marshall's
Report From 1916.
The second annual summary
of tire loss in Morrison county
as prepared by Robert W. Har-
gadine, Minnesota State fire
Marshal, shows that the people
of this county are wide awake to
the necessity of fire prevention.
The summary shows that during the year ended December 31,
1916 there were 25 fires in Morrison county, with an aggregate
loss of $23,255.
During the corresponding 12
months in 1915 there were 25
fires and the loss aggregated
$32,300.
A decrease of 0 fires and
$9,045 in losses.
The individual reports as
checked up by this department
for the year 1916 show beyond a
doubt that while there was considerable loss from fires it might
easily have been still greater.
It is evident that the people of
Morrison county, individually
and collectively have taken
proper and necessary precautions to safeguard both private
and public property from fire
loss, by reducing the amount of
inflammable material to such
an extent that the interest of
the entire community have been
well maintained in the preven-
of fires.
Grain And Produce
Market Report
Wheat, No. 1, __ $1.55
Wheat, No. 2 _     1.51
Wheat, No. 3       1.43
Flax,        2.60
Barley _.   95-1.00
Rye _>_      1.27
Oats ____  _     50
EarCorn.      90
Hay       7.00
Butter, Creamery _ •_ ..      40
Dairy       27
Eggs  _..      30
Flour, RoyalL ___ J ._    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
Contagious Abortion.
Stockmen and dairymen are
urged iu a new Farmers' Bulletin, No. 790, to inaugurate a
systematic campaign against
contagious abortion.
Already the annual losses
from this disease amount to
millions of dollars, and unless
its ravages are checked it is apt
to equal tuberculosis, which is
thought to stand first ainoung
animal diseases in point of
economic loss.
Details of the disease and  its
i
treatment are given iri the bul- i
letin referred to, which may be :
secured upon application to the!
United States Department of,
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
List of Unclaimed Letters
Letters addressed to the following named parties are at the
postoffice in Pierz and have not
been called for:
Mrs. Mary  Boden,   In  Care  of
John A. Cross Lastrup, Minn.
Miss  Gertrude  Johnson, Buck-
man, Minn.
O. C. Martinj Buekman,
Buekman State Bank, no address.
The following are letters addressed to Pierz, Minn.:
Esther Anderson,
1218 So. 5th. St.
Mr. Ed Annensen.
Mr. _. Mrs. Fred Brenner.
Mrs. Mimmie Anderson.
Ben Evans.
Henry Heuer.
Jos. Houn.
Ernes Heuer.
Lewis Cahs.    ,
E. E. Wauser.
Miss Iren Michaelson.
Local Happenings
Ofjhe Week.
There will soon be a new
telephone directory.
Checkers now seems to be
a favorite game.
Wm. Eller is giving his
harness shop a new roof.
Wm. Hohn of Sauk Rapids
has bought a Buick auto.
A  marriage   license    was j
issued Saturday /to  Stephen
Furdt and Rose Kobilka.
Born—to Mr. and Mrs,
Mike Gritner last Saturday
a son,
A young drayman arrived
at the John P. Langer home
home last week. j
Frank Grilbride and family
visited in Duluth a few days
this week.
John Schaefer has sold his
bakery    building    to    Nick,
Meyer. |
Math  Thommes   returned:
from    Little   Falls  Monday
where he served as a juror.
Father Stephan of Rice is
recovering from a severe at*
tack of inflammatory rheumatism.
A. H. Faust left for the
twin cities last Monday to
buy his stock for the coming
season's trade.
Wm.   Draeger    who  lives j
between Sullivan and   Vine-
land, was  a   business  caller
in our village Friday.
One    of John Kastanek's
sons saw six  wolves   in  one
day last week.     They  were!
in  two  packs  of   three   in
each.
The creamery well is  now
Groundhog Day.
Friday is Groundhog Day. According to an old saying he will
coiiie out, and it he can see his
shadow, will crawl back into his
hole  for six  weeks more!    The \dnS to a depth   of  about   18
or twenty feet.   The digging
is done by Mike Ts.-;;_da and
same  idea is  expressed in  the
german verse:
Wenu's   am   Lichtness    stiirmt   und
schneit,
1st der I. ruhling nicht mehr wait;
1st es abar klar und hell,
__omm,t der Lenz uoch nicht so schnell.
Dachshunds.
The dachshund is a long, narrow dog that spends all its time
growing in one direction.
Its face" is so far from its
stomach that it has to hire a
guide so its meals won't get
lost. And it has to start eating at 3 in the afternoon to get
its food to its appetite by dinner
time.
The dachshund isithe only dog,
known that can stand on the
front porch and sit down in the
kitchen.
One-half of a dachshund can be
coming home and the other half
still going up town.
The dachshund sags badly in
the middle because it has only
a few legs. The only thing
that makes a dachshund jealous
is a centipede.
The Farm Tenant.
John Bollig.
for
spring Stock.      H
visit   rii;   _tyl ;w in
c.-igo befor« retaining.
a is
Rev.   Father   Tokar_  of
~ ' j Platte,   left   last Friday for
Farm renting is a curse whose•jSwan River .to take charge of
worst effect are lowered fertil- that parish. It is thought
ily and inefficient farm methods,.; that until  the Platte church :
"Jr
The jenter is not a normal   tar- j jg • rebuilt, mass will be held
there only once a month.
Frank Thienes went to
Minneapolis this morning to
attend the auto show.
The Farmers' Shipping As.
sociation will hold the annual
meeting in (ieiiola next Monday. It is said that speakers
had been engaged to speak
upon the subject of co-operation and to explain the benefits derived therefrom. S. P.
Wimmer of Albany will come
if possible.
mer. The transient nature''of
his living makes maximum'pro-
duction impossible. He is often
not a meat producer, because he
is not on one farm long enough
to build up a herd o"f livestock.
He is a grain farmer, and a
grain farmer is a sapper of fertility. He is engaged in the
pastime of hauling the fertility
of his landlord's soil to market.
With approximately one-half of
the farm lands of the country in
the hands of tenants, America
is cashing is her land fertility
at an amazing rate.
GUNS THAT SAVE LIFE.
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They Are Used For Shooting Lines   .»]
Vessels In Distress.
The three and six pounders withj
which all the seagoing cutters of •
the revenue service are armed nowj
are used to shoot lines to vessels inj
distress, states the Popular Science;
Monthly. For years they had serv-j
ed as nothing more than ornaments!
on the decks of the cutters, for it'
never was necessary to use them inj
the enforcement of customs and!
navigation laws. They were carried]
mainly for their moral effect.
These guns have been found far!
more effective in line shooting than!
the line guns formerly carried—!
small brass cannons of the type seen i
at life saving stations along the!
coasts. Although the cannons were ]
in use for many years, they were'
never entirely satisfactory. It was
almost impossible to aim them with
any degree of accuracy, and accordingly line shooting with them was a
"hit or miss" matter in the majority
of cases.
In line shooting with the modern
rapid fire guns a projectile about six
feet in length is used. The end,
which is inserted in the gun, is a
cylindrical piece of soft steel slightly smaller than the bore of the gun
and about a foot in length. It is
tapered down to a rod about a half
inch in diameter and five feet ar
more in length. There is a forged
eye at the end of the rod to which
the end of the line is tied.
The line is a loosely twisted hemp
rope about the size of a wash line.
About 1,500 feet of it is woven back
and forth around wooden pins set in
a receptacle the size of a trunk,
known as a "faking box." After
this operation the box is turned upside down, and the framework holding the pins is withdrawn, leaving
the line ready to be "fed out" without becoming tangled. Prior to the
insertion of the projectile in the
gun the first twenty or thirty feet
of the line are dampened, so as to
give it more elasticity and lessen the
danger of it parting. A cartridge
containing about ten ounces of black
powder is inserted in the breech of
the gun, which is then aimed and
fired.
To Remove a Cork.
When a cork is tightly held in
the neck of a bottle and no corkscrew is at hand the cork may be
removed in the following way: Hold
a cushion or pillow against the wall
or the door jamb, using the left
hand for this purpose.
With the right hand gently but
firmly strike the bottom of the bottle against the cushion, being careful to strike it squarely and not on
the edge of the bottom. With every blow the cork will be forced
slowly out by the pressure of the
liquid inside. At the last spurt,
which discharges the cork, one must
be quick to right the bottle so that
none of the liquid is spilled.
Julius. Caesar.
Caesar was assassinated March 15,
44 B. C., and was at the time of his
death fifty-six years old. It is not
alone as a military genius that his
fame endures. By ahnost common
consent he was the most remarkable
all round man of antiquity—masterfully great not only as general, but
as writer, statesman and administrator. In addition to these high
accomplishments, he was a great
mathematician, philologist, architect and jurist. His conversational
powers were extraordinary, and
from all accounts he was in his manner one of the most attractive of
men.
This winter is by all the
old settlers conceded to be
the coldest within their
, memory. This is perhaps a
delusion. Temperature or
rainfall average up the same
in given numbers of perhaps
10 years. The explanation
can be found in the fact that
I the old settlers feel the cold Polish Catholic church to
more than they did some John Rinwelski of Swan Riv-
years back. er.
Mike Schraut received a
letter a few days ago from
Mrs. Keller, which states
that Mr. 'Keller had been
pretty sick the past few
weeks, but that he was some
better at the time of writing.
Report all items of interest
to this office. They will be
appreciated and each item
will help to make the paper
that much more interesting.
We can not get all the news
but by your help we can get
the lion's share and that is
what we wish to do. We
want all the news that is
news.
Miss Agnes Ebertowski,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Ebertowski of Platte,
was married at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning at St. Adelbert's
An Ancient Prescription.
Medical prescriptions are often
hard to read, and there is one in
the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, which is particularly
bothersome. It is on stone and
dates from about 1500 B. C, making it no doubt the oldest prescription in America. Men of science
say that the Egyptian physician who
prepared it was prescribing precious
Etones, finely ground, for fumigation
in cases of hysteria. And, as often
in later times, a much more expensive remedy was prescribed for rich
people than for the poor.
Handling Baked Fish,
Place in bottom of pan two strips
of cheesecloth, three or four inches
wide and long enough to extend
three inches over side of pan, first
dipping cloth in melted butter (or
olive oil) and being careful to keep
the ends extending over pan clean.
Place fish on this and when done
take hold of ends of cloth and lift
fish out of pan on to platter. The
cloth can then'be easily .pulled from
under, leaving the fish in perfect
shape.	
True Way to Be Humblo,
The true way to be humble is not
to stoop till you are smaller than
yourself, but to stand at your real
height against some higher nature
that shall show you what the real
8mallness of your greatest greatness
.8.—PhillipB Brooks.
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