The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1917-02-22

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, nORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, FEBRUARY, 22, 1917.
No. 36
ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Interesting Women Cry for      Carload of Mail
Correspondences     Food in New York      Burned on Track
Rucker News.
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
Alexander der Hoppe, seventy-seven
years old, is dead at Stillwater.
Carl Lambert, eighty-two years old,
for forty years a resident of Hastings,
is dead.
Willmar citizens at a special election voted in favor of building a JlOO,-
000 junior high school.
The state convention of the United
Commercial Travelers will be held at
Owatonna June 7, 8 and 9.
B. Terrell Hoyt, well known St. Paul
landscape architect and nursery proprietor, is dead at St. Paul, aged
forty-one.
Richard  Knapton, sixteen years of
-age, is dead at St. Paul from injuries
received   on   a   toboggan   slide   two
weeks ago.
Minnesota Are losses during January totaled $969,113, compared with
$537,633 for the corresponding figure
a year ago.
Mrs.  Helen A.  Noyes, the founder
and   first   president   of  the   Colonial
Dames of Minnesota, is dead at her
• home in St. Paul.
The Minneapolis board of education
has decided to inaugurate a course in
loyalty and patriotism in the public
schools of that city.
Erling Overgaard, residing near
Luverne, has sold his farm for $300 an
acre, creating a new record for farm
values in that vicinity.
Several Minneapolis elevators have
been forced to close owing to the car
shortage. They are filled to capacity;
with no chance to ship.
Max J. LoBkiel, fifty-nine years old,
president of the German Typographical union of St. Paul and an old resident of that city, is dead.
A. E. Drew, well known in Minn o-
apolis fraternal circles, is dead in the
Modern Woodmen of America sanatorium at Colorado Springs.
A Lewis Dart, one of the oldest office men at South St. Paul and "or
twenty years a fn*"!!'*>. ire "' . 't
the exchange of7 res, is dead.
Albert McCabe, employed in an
Anoka barber shop, is dead from the
effects of drinking a bottle of hair
tonic consisting largely of bay rum.
Mrs. Heinen and Mrs. Turbis, inmates of the St. Alexander Home for
the Aged at New Dim, were overcome
by gas and were found dead in bed
by attendants.
The Owatonna board of education
has provided a wireless telegraph station for the high school of that city.
The new outfit" has a radius of from
300 to 400 miles.
Peter Hallenfceck, eighty-two years
old, formerly general superintendent
of the Minnesota and Dahota divisions
of the Northwestern railway, is dead
at Los Angeles, Cal.
State supervision of private schools
in Minnesota is recommended by the
state child welfare commission in its
final report prepared for submission
to Governor Burnquist.
"J. E. Crane, Dayton, O.," who committed suicide in a Chicago hotel, has
been identified as W. F. Pelletier, former traveling auditor for the Hamm
Brewing company of St. Paul.
William A. Conter, president of the
Shakopee Lime and Cement company,
died in the St. Paul police ambulance
following a fall on a slippery sidewalk.
He was forty-five years of age.
Lyman Marshall, fourteen years old,
is dead at Minneapolis from injuries
suffered when he fell fifty feet from
the top of the Washburn Park water
tower to the cement bottom of the
Shaft.
Victor Anderson, aged forty-six, is
dead at Duluth from injuries sustained
when he was caught bj- a broken machine belt and tossed to the ceiling in
the foundry of the National Iron
Works.
Approximately $62,000 of state timber sold at recent sales at St. Paul,
Duluth, Two Harbors, Grand Rapids,
Walker and International Falls brought
nearly $10,000 in excess of appraisal
figures.
Piatt W. Lyon, a director of Janney,
Semple, Hill & Co., who had lived
thirty years in the MJill City and for
all that time was identified with the
same firm, is dead. He was fifty-six
years of age.
Rev. James Trimble, ninety-four
years old, one of the oldest Episcopal
clergymen in the country, is dead at
Minneapolis. He retired from active
church work last Slay on account of
failing health.
Frank Cison, thirty-five years old, a
grinder in the plant of the Minneapolis Crucible Steel company was instantly killed when an emery wheel,
revolving at high speed, broke and
fractured his skull.
Compulsory manufacture in Minnesota of the iron ore mined in the state
as a condition for removing the ore
from the ground and thus decreasing
that much tho taxable wealth of the
state, without creating other taxable
property, is a plan now under consideration by- the real estate boards of
St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth.
New York, Feb. 20th.—Three! St. Cloud, Feb. 16—An entire
hundred Women from the Yid- carload of parcel post mail was
The Tracv Waller family had disb tenement district swarmed burned on track at Clear Lake
a narrow escape from losing- up to the City hall steps this early this morning- while the car
their home by tire Tuesday morning-, saying- they were hun- was attached to Northern Pa-
morning-. About nine o'clock gry_ The women were all scan- cific train No. 3.
Mrs. Waller discovered the roof ^,        j ^
to be on fire,   evidently  having    . '
,,. r j.,,-  pinched  faced babies
caugnt in some manner from the *
heater stove.     Little Erma ran manded food and said the rising-
screaming- to Archie Robinson's prices  made   it  impossible  for
home for help and Mrs.   Robin-  them to feed their families,
who was at home alone ran over 	
carried   hunger
aii de-
Played to Large Houses.
'Falsely Accused" was
and the two worked   hard   with
snow and  some  water   was  on
hand.    Fortunately John Brown
and   Ernest  Goble  arrived    in
time to assist, and the fire   was
soon put  out  without  a   great flayed in  the Parochial school
deal of damage being  done   but hall  Friday  and   Sunday,   and
it was quite a scare for a time,    made a hit.    The play was well
Herbert Wood has bought the taken  and  appreciated by  the
Ferguson telephone.     He  says audience.     The   actors   played
he is not planning to  get  mar- their parts  weiland  seemed to
ried but he will   bear   watching: be well suited to the characters
a little  bit  we  believe.     It  is    .,  ...   ,   ., - T,
,    allotted  them   to   portray.     It
nearly spring and   the  old  ad-
age- "In the spring time a was the best amatuer play ever
a jquiigr m;in,s fancy etc." still staged in Pierz, and for the suc-
holds good. cess of it  much credit is due to
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Irwin  Drews jthe  ^tiring efforts of  the Sis-
and baby Drews came over from ters.
Hilman Sunday and spent   the	
afternoon with Mrs. Bruber.
This is a
coast train and the mail car was
filled with parcel post packages
consigned to Seattle. No one
was in the car at the time as
the car, being a through one,
was not being worked by mail
clerks. There was no stove
in the car and the origin of
the fire is a mystery.
The sad news came from
Washington that Mrs. George
Wood has tuberculosis and her
husband   expects  to  bring  her
Mrs. Kramer Writes.
Mrs. John Kramer of Vancouver has  written Mrs. Wermers-
back as soon as possible to the kircnen that sprino; had aiready
come aud that lawns and meadows were green.    "We planted
sanitarium -.t Walker to see   if
>•:!■<•   c   MMt   be   helped.     They
wj_nt west last summer and she
has not been very   well   any  of lettuce last Saturday," she con-
the time out there. tinues.    "I am  feeling well but
The dance at John Fergusons weigh only  138  pounds.    Char-
1.
Money in Trapping.
Brainerd, Feb. 17.—One of the
winter industries of Northern
Minnesota is trapping. One
trapper brought in 1000 rat
skins from Mille Lacs lake. Another purchased 3)500 skins in
one town on the Minnesota and
International railway north of
Brainerd. Muskrat skins are
selling for an average of. 35 cts.
Weasels bring from 50 cents to
$1.00. A trapper out at Long
lake caught nine skunks in a
den, the skins being worth from
$1.50 to $5.00 each.
Gopher Farmers
Get Dizzy Prices
Moorhead, Feb. 20.—Buyers
from St. Louis and Chicago today offered $2.50 a bushel for
potatoes, setting a new high
record for the Clay county variety. These buyers buy direct
from the farmers and ship to
their commission houses in the
cities. A sharp advance in potatoes in the east and middle
west was predicted. When tbe
freight and handling, with speculative gains, are added to this
new purchase price from farmers, it is expected the price will
reach new records on the retail
markets.
The following extracts from
the report of the Little Falls
Commercial Club meeting, are
of interest to us;
A. F. Kosloski  told the  club
iy evening: was well  ley has bought a Ford.    Febru-Jthat   parties in   outlying towns
i r£ »■' e.« ■<_■ pv i ale in se-
Price of Eggs Makes Theft
Grand Larceny.
—
Minneapolis, February, 19.—
A heavy guard today accompanied James Brown and the
basket of eggs he is charged
with having stolen, to the municipal court for retrial. In the
first case in municipal court, he
beat the charge of petit larceny
on the ground-of the market
price of eggs. Today he was
charged with grand larceny.
Death Summons Old Settier.
p.
a s
Holstein Park News.
So nhi  is kiyed up with
Meil  .uikie   .
tiuu i fiat day taarked ih . completion of a new bridge across
the Columbia river and this was
deemed of sufficient importance
to commemorate it on an elaborate scale. Butter is 45c, eggs
35c, potatoes $3.00 a "hundred
pounds.   Farmers are plowing."
Ed. Martin 'visited at his sisters Mrs. Chas. Sanborn.
Ray Thompson  is on the sick
list. .'■    Last Tuesday evening Mr.
.-.'vw'js  Dorman  t1as a  sick and Mrs. Theo.  Nagel   were
ho.- surprised by a large number
,  ,,     ...    ,      ,      .       ,     ,   of friends.    The evening was
Arthur Taylor   has been haul- 6
ing has for the invalid. sPent by Paying cards,   mu-
,   , ,    sic and dancing.    At  a  late
We   trust that   the new  style , ., , ,   .      ,,    .
, . ,        .,.-    _:.     hour they departed to  their
ot wearing watches will not be-  . '_.
come general in Hillman, Irwin.
Will Filler is expected in these
parts in the near future.
homes well pleased with the
good time.
Sullivan News
Lila Haskins spent the past
week at Eli Haskins.
Mrs. H. C. Smith was an Onamia caller last Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Look were
lake callers Wednesday.
Lawrence Kramer and Al Bernard called at John Ryan's near
Hillman Wednesday.
Anna Smith spent Thursday
night with her sister Mrs. Frank
Sims.
Callers at the Frank Sims
home Sunday were Mrs. H. C.
Smith and D. W  Sims.
Augusta King of Granite visited with the Robt. Adkins family Saturday.
A large crowd of young folks
Miss    Addie    Dahmen    from
Lastrup was visiting with Maf
ie Brunette for a  few  days  re--
turning Saturday.
Miss Johanna Ebert. called on
Madge Hoppe Sunday afternoon.
A bunch of young people attended the dance at the Lastrup
hall Tuesday and report a good
time.
Miss Madge Hoppe was visiting at Sullivan the latter part
of the week.
Peter Froelich and sister
Minnie attended church at Pierz
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Young called at the Maleski home Sunday.
Herman Meyer, one of Stearns
County's earliest settlers and
one of its most highly respected
residents, died at his home at
MeireGrove one Monday afternoon, death resulting from com-
curing the wye between the .Soo jplicationsdue  to Ws  advanced
and the Northern Pacific at the
were v.,
intersection of the two roads a
few miles south of the city and
that some of them would probably attend the next session of
the club.
T. C. Gordon told the club
that his experience has taught
him that the city will never get
any factories with one railroad,
but that the moment a second
road strikes a town, it starts
things moving. When Little
Falls can advertise two railroads it will be the biggest day
in its history, especially if one
is the Soo.
N. N. Bergheim favored a
spur track to Vawter, to be built
by Little Falls and finally taken
over by the Soo line.
J. K. Martin reported that he
had an interview with the promoter of theLittle Falls-to Pierz
line recently and that he had
hopes that the line will soon be
built.
Grain And Produce
Market Report
Wheat, No. 1, $1.68
Wheat, No. 2      1.65
Wheat, No. 3„_.      1.55\
;Flax,        2.5a
Barley. 95--100 s°hl for §11.80  and  netted  the
Platte  callers  Sunday  were: 'j^ _"_'_"~:V^"_"_"™_"_   ^goloN^ifa- $11.37  ..-TfieslT"figures
age. He was on of two brothers for whom Meire Grove was
named and has been one of the
most prominent pioneers of this
part of Minnesota. He was over
80 years of age, and has been a
resident of Stearns county since
1858.
Herman Meyer was stepfather
to Theo Ortmann of Lastrup.
Little Falls— Victor Butler
of this city, who went to Africa
last summer as a mining engineer to prospect for diamonds in
the interior, and who has been
waiting at Kinshasa, in the Belgian Congo, for seVeral months
for the man who is to accompany him, has at last started
into the interior by way of a
Congo river boat.
Breaks All Records.
Jos. Dahmen shipped an eight
year old cow last week with the
Farmers' Shipping Association,
which netted him $103.93; Kipp-
ly Bros, shipped two steers of
moderate weight, which netted
them a little over S90.00 a head.
One ox, which had served his
master in the yoke for eight
years, brought $98.12. Five hogs,
which    averaged    160    pounds,
Mr. and Mrs.   Otto  Boser,   Mr.  (
and Mrs.   Robert  Hoppke  and gar corn
An enjoyed Hay	
Mrs. Peter Boser.
from this  vicinity attended the^6 was had playingr cards
dance a John Ferguson's Satur-
53
90
7.00
Butter, Creamery ..      40
27
30
5.00
4.90
Miss Minnie Froelich   visited Dairy	
day  night  and   report  a  good' with the Valentine family   Sun- E££s	
time. day. Flour.Royal	
| , "    WhiteRose	
j    A jolly bunch of young folks Low grade flour 2.25
called  at  the    John    Hoheisel _- ■     „ -„
  , o     , _, Bran . 1.80
home    Sunday  evening.      The H,     ,
Snow is plentiful around here time was spent dancing and all  °llorts """~" : }• _
now-a-days. had a good time. ?acke,d£°™ 80 P°™<ls—.1.80
I Ground Feed     1.80
Miss Brunette  called at  the Beans        5.00
PLATTE NEWS.
Mr.    John    Ebert.    returned
from the woods Friday.
■ Maleski home Sunday.
Onions...
.50
will be Interesting to those who
sold heavier hogs at the same
time for less money. At the recent annual meeting of the Association, the shipping rate was
fixed at 43 cents per hundred
pounds. This figure covers all
expenses and was the average
cost of shipping during the last
year.
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
Passenger rates are again
down to 2 cents.
N. J. Terhaar of Avon
spent Sunday here.
Irine Bentfeld is visiting
relatives in St. Cloud.
The town of Agram has
20 sections and 17 autos.
Wm. Leidenfrost went to
Little Falls Tuesday on business.
Dan Friedman of Cold
Springs died last Thursday
morning.
Henry Grau reports that of
the 467 autos in Morrison
County, 335 are Fords.
Louis Eller went to Lastrup Monday morning to take
..Jiarge of the harness shop.
John Trettle, son of Donat
Trettle was here Tuesday in
the interest of the Kiewel
Brewing Co.
Charley Grabbo, the well
known indian of Vineland
spent a few hours in Our village Monday.
Miss Gertrude Stumpf returned home from Little
Falls where she underwent
an operation at the^t^ Gabriel's hospital.
Peter Buesseler, Frank X.
Faust, Andrew H. Faust,
Frank Mischke and John B.
Faust were initiated iu the
Knights of Columbus last
Sunday afternoon.
With the Cafferelli orchestra and the Little German
Band in town last Thursday,
the air was surcharged with
music.
AMERICANS NOT
YET RELEASED
Prisoners Held by Germany
to Go Free "Shortly."
AUSTRIAN STAND IN DOUBT
■Birds may be attracted
about homes by planting
trees, herbs, and shrubs
which produce seeds or fruits
relished by the birds, and by
exposing food in artificial
devices.
A surprise party was held
at Adam Hohn's last Sunday evening. It was attended by H. H. Ross and wife,
Ed. Stockmeyer and wife,
Barney Faust and wife, Hubert Scmitt and wife, Jos.
and Mike Flicker, Mike Donek and George Virnig, Aug.
Sontag, Jos. Faust, Lena,
Theresia and Amelia Flicker,
Amelia Virnig and Kate
Donek.
A number of friends gathered at the 'Mrs. Andrew
Schmidthbauer home last
Sunday. Those that were
present are Mrs. John Tretter, Mrs. Carl Fuhrmaun
Misses Lizzie, Katie and Anna Peine, Christina, Lucy
and Emma Tretter, Thresa
Leeb, Mathilda Kapsner,
Christ Schlegel, Mike Kapsner, Chas. Peine, Frank Tretter, John Fuhrm'ann and Mr.
and Mrs. And. Schmidtbauer
and son. The evening was
spent bymusic, singing, playing cards, games and  tricks.
Real Attitude of Dual Empire Perplexes Officials at Washington, but
Hope Is Expressed That Diplomatic
Break May Be Avoided.
Washington, Feb. 20.—With the
sinking of two steamers which recently left New York the government
is closely watching developments and
adhering to its plans for taking action
to protect American rights when the
moment arrives.
Through the Spanish embassy the
state department has been informed
that the American sailors taken as
prisoners to Germany on the. prize
steamer Yarrowdale "would he released shortly."
The state department, through the
Swiss minister, forwarded to Berlin
Saturday a request for their immediate release.
A previous message inquired as to
the reason for keeping the men prisoners and insisted upon their release.
Because of uncertain communication between Washington and Berlin
state department officials were unable to decide whether tlie dispatch
from Berlin was in answer to its last
request or the previous one.
State department officials are
watching the situation with some impatience.
Austria's real attitude perplexes officials here and there is hope that
Ambassador Penfleld will finds some
way to influence the Vienna government not to sanction formally the
extreme position taken by Germany.
Diver Activity May Increase.
The slackening of the ruthless
dampaign in the last three or four
days is regarded as reducing the
chance of an attack on an American
ship or loss of American lives, but
with the coming of warmer weather
it is expected to increase in intensity.
There is no further indication of the
president's plans for going before congress.
Opposing amendments by Senator
Cummins to temper stringent provisions of the espionage bill pending in
the senate, Senator Overman of North
Carolina declared he had been told
there were 100,000 spies in the United
States and that it was absolutely essential that drastic laws ,l>e enacted
to protect national defenses.
Panama canal zone authorities have
ceased the publication of information
concerning movements of traffic
throughout the canal.
The Iowa Lutheran conference, in
session in Des Moines, voted to send
President. Wilson a message endorsing
both his efforts to keep peace and his
determination to uphold the dignity
of the flag.
THREE BRlflsYsHIPS SUNK
Total Tonnage Lost a Trifle Over
Twelve Thousand.
London, Feb. 20.—Lloyd's shipping
agency announced that the British
steamship Worcestershire of 7,175
tons gross was reported sunk. The
Worcestershire was on a voyage from
Liverpool to Rangoon, India, and sailed  from Suez Jan. 7.
Lloyds announced also that the
British steamship Valdes of 2,285 tons;
gross had been torpedoed and sunk!
without warning. Two members of!
the vessel's crew were killed and nine!
are missing. The captain and others|
of the crew have been landed.
The sinking of the British steam-j
ship Romsdalen of 2,548 tone gross j
also was announced. This brings the!
total destroyed tonnage announced to!
12,008. !
VESSEL   HELD  AT   HALIFAX;
Examination of Von  Bernstorff's Ship;
Not Yet Completed.
Halifax, N. S., Feb. 20.—The liner;
Frederik VIII., carrying Count von j
Bernstorff and his party to Germany,!
lies in the river here. Conditions, so!
far as known, are unchanged aboard j
the ship.
Reports are Count Bernstorff andj
his party passed the examination and j
the officials are proceeding with oth-j
er passengers. The date of the liner's
departure has not been fixed. It depends wholly upon the completion of
her examination.
BRITISH   CLOSE   PLYMOUTH
Only Entente Ships Will Be Permitted
to Enter Port.
Washington, Feb. 20. — Hereafter
only British and entente allied ships
will be permitted to enter the port of
Plymouth,   Eng.,   according   to   notice
served upon the American consul gen-
Atmidnight a delicious lunch   eral- at London by the   British admi-
was served after which  they
ralty.
Well, lent is here now and no
more parties for a while.
all departed for their homes,
having    spent    an
which  wi]
forgotten.
Tc Lift Ban Upon Jews.
Petrograd,    Feb.    20.—Removal    St
evening   present  strictures pa entry  of Jews
,       into business and removal of all re>
which wil    not  so  soon  be strictions on jew£ who participated
in the present war is propoted by tlie
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