The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1917-03-15

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, MARCH, 15,  1917.
No. 39
A600T THE STATE
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News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Result of Election in I Electrocuted By
Pierz and Vicinity
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
v Busy Reader.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hickey, aged eighty-
Ave, is dead at St. Paul.
Mrs. Sophie Zschau, seventy-six
years old, a pioneer resident of St.
Paul, is dead.
St. Paul national, state and savings
banks on March 5 had deposits of
$117,211,387.02.
Mrs. K. L. Anderson, seventy-one
years old, one of the early settlers of
Red Wing, is dead.
The shipping of turtles to Eastern
markets is a new industry being developed at St. Peter.
Mrs. Frances Hunt, aged sixty-seven
years, who reached St. Paul with her
parents in 1855, is dead.
Arthur Hebbern, nineteen years old,
committed suicide at Rochester by
hanging himself from a bridge.
Representative W. L. Bernard of Duluth slipped on the ice near the state
capitol at St. Paul and suffered a fractured leg.
Ernest B. Putnam of Eau Claire,
Wis., well known in St. Paul banking
and lumbering circles, is dead at Seabreeze, Fla.
Rev. Ivar Larson, aged sixty-eight,
who held pastorates in several places
in Minnesota and Wisconsin, is dead
at Minneapolis.
George Johnson of the Triumph
stock farm near Fairmont has just
sold twenty head of steers for $2,900,
an average of $1.5 a head.
The bill to repeal the Minnesota
boxing law passed by the legislature
two years ago was defeated in tire
state senate by a vote of 31 to 35.
Mrs. Amelia Hart, sixty-eight years
old, is dead at her home in Friberg.
Mrs.. Hart was the mother of twenty-
one children, sixteen of whom are
living.
James F. Wallace's election as alderman in the Second ward of Minneapolis has been declared illegal because
of violations of the laws governing
elections.
Willis A. James, deputy treasurer of
Hennepin county, is dead, aged sixty-
nine. Mr. James had been connected
with the treasurer's office for thirty-
five years.
The state association of the Brotherhood of American Yoemen will hold
its annual convention in St. Paul from
April 2 to 5. An attendance of 1,500
is expected.
Levi W. Shel ton, retired farmer and
resident of Newport for fjf ty-six years,
is dead. He was seventy-two years old
and came to Minnesota from Connecticut in 1861.
Falling steel girders weighing 3,000
pounds caused the death of Joseph L.
Gre.nwood, twenty-nine years old, an
employe of the Crown iron works at
Minneapolis.
The lower house of the legislature,
by unanimous vote, passed the senate
bill authorizing voters who may be
absent from their districts to cast
their ballots by mail.
Aron H. Edsten, member of the Minneapolis city council in the early days,
leader in Lutheran church work and
resident of Minneapolis for fifty years,
Is dead, aged eighty.
Mrs. O. D. T.eavey, formerly a Minneapolis school teacher, is dead at
Winona. She contributed many articles in later years to magazines under
the pen name of Adams Dunning.
Mrs. Sander Peterson and her two
young children were burned to death
in a lire which destroyed their farm
home near Fish Lake. The fire, it is
believed, resulted from a stove explosion.
Professor Fowler D. Brooks of the
University of Oklahoma 'has been
chosen to succeed Edward G. Quigley
as head of the teachers' training
school connected with the Mankato
normal school.   •
Henrik Strom, formerly a broker
and well known business man of St.
Paul, died recently in the state prison
at Stillwater. A report of his death
has just been made public by the
board of control.
Albert J. Potts, native of St. Peter
and one of the city's leading business
men, died suddenly in that city. Mr.
Potts, who was fifty-six years, of age,
was president of the city council at
the time of his death.
Andrew Stroman of l^ong Prairie,
an employe of the Little Falls Water
Power company, was killed instantly
-in"a substation at Little Falls when he
came in contact with a live wire carrying 33,000 volts of electricity.
With $3,000, or half the money declared necessary for a war on flies
and mosquitoes in Minneapolis next
summer appropriated by .he city board
of health, the Minneapolis real estate
board has planned to raise the other
$3,000 itself.
By a majority of 95 St. Charles,
Winona county, voted to retain its six
saloons. The "wet" campaign was
made on the issue that the legislature
had determined to leave the statewide
prohibition question to a referendum
it the next general election.
TOWN OF PIERZ.
Pierz town elected Magnus
*Rauch and Frank Heigl for supervisors and P. J. Bollig for
assessor. Otherwise tbe ticket
remains the same. $2,100 was
voted for road and bridge fund,
and §400 for town revenue.
The town was divided into
four road districts and a road
boss elected for each district:
Frank Rauch was elected for
the northwest, Peter Girtz for
the northeast, Jos. Grittner for
the southeast and Jos. Hesch
for the southwest district.
33,000-VoIt Wire
Little Falls. —Andrew Stro-
man of Long Prairie, was instantly killed Saturday afternoon, when he came in contact
with a high tension wire, carry
ing  33-000  volts, in  the Water Rye.
Oats
Grain And Produce
Market Report
Wheat, No. 1, $1.70
Wheat, No. 2     1.67
Wheat, No. 3       1.60
Flax,       2.60
Barley      95-100
    1.42
VILLAGE OF PIERZ.
The village of Pierz elected
Steve Preimesberger, President;
F. X. Virnig, Peter Meyer and
John Gau, councilmen; Andrew
Faust, Treasurer; Barney Gross,
Assessor; John N. Faust, Recorder.
TOWN OF BUCKMAN.
The town of Buekman elected
Math. Zenner, chairman; Jos.
Hortsch. Treasurer; Joseph E.
Brandl, clerk; Jas. A. Dengel,
Assessor; Math. Hescli, constable.
§3,000 were raised for road and
bridge fund, and §1,000 to buy
road machinery. A special two
mill roadtax was voted.
VILLAGE OF BUCKMAN.
Buekman village ejected John
P. Mueller, president; Peter T.
Mueller, Ed. Kohler and Frank
Sitzman, councilman; P.P.Blake
Recorder: John Brandl, Treasurer; P. H. Mueller, constable;
John Naber, Justice.
TOWN .OF AGRAM.
Agram   elected Wm.   Leidenfrost  as   supervisor   for   three
years.
Power company's substation on
the West Side.
The accident occurred shortly
before 5 o'clock. Stroman had
climbed a step-ladder to oil a
transformer and Harry Halseth,
foreman for the company, who
was also working at the substation, had stepped outside,
when he heard a groan. Electricians know tbe meaning of
that groan and be rushed inside,
to find Stroman on the floor, unconscious.
Artificial respiration was tried
and the lungmotor was taken to
the substation on the firt- truck,
but neither could revive him.
He was taken to Hall's hospital
and worked over until nearly 7
o'clock, but he was dead before
the.hospital was reached.
He had two marks, one on bis
chest above the heart and another on the back of the hand. No
one saw the accident, however,
and no one knows exactly how
it happened, but it is supposed
that he touched his hand to tlie
hig tension wire, which carries
current to the transmission line.
Stroman bad a wife and three
children, who live at Long Prairie, John and Falk Stroman of
Swanville are brothers. Stroman has worked for the Water
Power company since the transmission line was started last
June.
The funeral was held Wednes
day from the Congregational
church at Swanville. Falk Stroman, bis brother, was in Little
Falls, and took tbe body to
Swanville.
52
90
7.00
40
27
25
Ear Corn	
Hay _.
Butter, Creamery	
Dairy	
Eggs	
Flour.Royal     5.30
"    WhiteRose      5.20
Low grade flour 2.25
Bran  _ ___1.90
Shorts  . ...1.96
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.80
Ground Feed...     1.80
Beans  __.     5.00
Onions       2.50
List of Unclaimed Letters
Letters addressed to the following named parties are at the
postoffice in Pierz and have not
been called for:
S. R. Severson, Pierz.
Elton Schlafer, Platte.
H. P. Peterson, Pierz.
Jos. Miller, Buekman.
W. B. Jones, Pierz.
Christ A. Jansen.
Henry Heuer, Pierz. (
Frank Enslberg, Pierz.'
TOWN OF GRANITE.
Granite elected Peter Weiden-
bacb supervisor for 3 yeaar.
TOWN OF PLATTE.
Christ Reese was elected supervisor for 3 years. A. Bairl,
Treasurer; L. Lorenzen, clerk;
Frank Schubert, constable; Justice of tlle peace, C Schmidt.
TOWN OF BUH. ,
Herman Wieland was elected
supervisor for 3years. E.Stuckmeyer elected supervisor for 2
years to till vacancy; John Boser, treasurer; Frank Konen,
clerk; Ed. Konen, assessor.
TOWN OP HILLMAN.
Clias.  Lust,   supervisor for 2
years;   Mat  J.   Juetten,  clerk;
JolinWaytosek, treasurer; Math.
Meyer, assessor.
Adopted Australian Ballot.
The town of Buekman and the
village of Buekman haye adopted the Australian ballot system.
This provides tbat all candidates are put on tbe same ticket
and must file application for
candidacy with the clerk 10 days
before election. Tickets are
called for at the booth and an
X must be marked opposite the
candidate the voter wishes to
vote for. Tickets must be printed on vellow paper and the
judges of election sign on the
back of each ticket. This eliminates horses of off color.
Letter From Joseph Kramer
Criterion, Ore.
March 3, 1917.
To the editor of the Pierz Journal:
A letter to all our relatives and
friends. Just a few words to let the
people know that we are all in the
best of health and hope that these
few lines will find all the people of
Pierz the same. We moved to eastern Oregon Nov. 1, 1916, on a 320-
acre homestead and now the 640-acre
law is passed so we will take 320
more. This country is mostly for
stock raising although they do lots
of farming too. They raise lots of
grain but it is mostly cut for hay and
also raise nice corn and potatoes.
The largest share of the people do
not cultivate their crops but get good
crops just the same. We had a very
nice winter, not much snow and not
very cold. For the last three weeks
we didn't have any snow. 'Some of
the people were plowing and others
were working on the farmers' telephone line. We just got our phone
in last week. It seems nice that you
can do your business over the telephone with your neighbors and don't
have to go out of the house. We got
a little snow yesterday, just enough
to take a sleigh ride. In certain
ways we like the winter out here better than in Vancouver, not so much
rain and more sunshine and the scenery is great. We are about one mile
from the Deschutes river, 23 miles
from a railroad station, 5 miles from
the postoffice and 16 miles from town
which is Marysin, Ore. The land is
not so hard to clear as it is in Washington and Minnesota. There are only a few sage brush    to
The Ides Of March,
On this day Caesar the rOman
imperator was assassinated by
Cassius, Brutus and other»con-
spirators, who thought him too
ambitious for the welfare of
the nation.
West Sullivan
Correspondence
The Basket Social held at the
West Sullivan School Dist. 124,
last Saturday evening was a
grand success. Despite the bad
weather, a crowd of seventeen
young people came from Dyke-
man and vicinity. The program went off without a hitch,
except that Mr. Jones swept
the mouse he was chasing off
into the audience and Nebuchadnezzar kicked the curtain down.
Tbe basket sold fairly high, the
highest being $5.50. Fourteen
baskets were sold, $23.60 taken
in. After the social the young
folks repaired to the home of A.
W. Cook, where the remainder
of tbe evening was spent dancing. At six a. m. the merrymakers returned to their respective homes tired but happy.
During the course of the program last Saturday night Mary
Hoppe made a "stump" speech.
Mary is unusually successful at
that.
A sled load of about thirty
young people had a. spill last
Saturday night. The neighbors
are still hunting the spot for
broken arms, legs, etc.
Clarence Hall intended to take
a load of young folks from here
to the Midland dance next Saturday night, but, unfortunately,
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
A new sign now adorns the
Hotel Pierz.
Foley and Royalton voted
wet at the election last Tuesday.
P. N. Newman'has bought
the 80 acre farm o± Herman
Bentfeld.
John Zuleger, son of Jos.
Zuleger of Rice, is here visiting his uncle Frank.
P. L. Poster will soon start
his planer and will plane all
lumber brought in.
Mrs. Herman Bentfeld is
now employed as cook in the
Columbia Hotel.
Miss Cathryne Stumpf went
to Little Falls Tuesday to
visit friends and relatives.
G-ene Gravel and family of
Onamia visited at the Ed.
Lescault home over Sunday.
Joseph Dahmen sold a hog
to Nick Meyer Tuesday, receiving $48.80 for sale.
HASTEN NAVY TO
FULUTRENGTH
Officials Urge Complete Mo=
bilization.
NEUTRALS GIVEN NOTICE
Dressmaking at the Golden
Rule store. All work guar-
his new "jitney" was so badly anteed.
damaged in the tipover a few
evenings ago, that it will not be
Let a Child "Be Itself"
Parents Should  Not by    Any    Means
Make Everyone Conform to
'Same Pattern
Mothers and fathers must realize
that every human being is a distinct
individual, with his own peculiar
gifts, traits and qualities; with a
something distinctly his own which
should make him in some degree different from everybody else. To a
great extent the effect of school and
home training lias been to destroy
this best essence of the child; to
make children more or less alike,
Miriam Finn Scott writes in .the Delineator. Such a course fails to make
the most of our children; a child so
trained is a factory product—one of
thousands who have been turned out
on a standardized pattern. A child
whose personality has 'been allowed
well rounded development is an infinitely bigger and more useful embryonic adult than would the same
child be had he 'been turned out on
the factory plan. He has something
fresh (perhaps not 'big) to give to
life, and life has more to give him.
Of course when I speak • of you**
child's personality I do not refer to
manifestations of character which
may be merely overgrown faults-
such as egotism, smartness or a domineering spirit. We must he careful
not to mistake overdeveloped faults
for the child's great strengths.
Wink Does The Business.
A traveling salesman in "dry" Iowa
has been coining money lately by selling "vinegar" to the farmers for $3.00
per gallon says the Ceylon Herald. He
not only sold it, received his money in
advance, but delivered what he sold.
The way he worked the stunt was by
calling at a farm house and asking for
the man, upon seeing the man he asked him to- step around, the barn with
him and when they had gotten out of
sight proposed that they have a little
nip from the salesman's private bottle.
The victim, if not averse, was given a
cut   here. | taste of good  liquor    and    then the
There  is  quite a lot of    state    land salesman proceeded to tell the farmer
which sells for $1.2o per acre and improved land sells from $10 to $25 per
acre. The three brothers, Joe, Henry and Edward, have homesteads
which join one another. Will close
with  best  regard   from
—Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kramer.
A Jewish Cocktail,
how he was selling a high grade of
vinegar, made in Old Kentucky and
guaranteed to be strictly pure for
$3.00 per gallon. When mentioning
that it was vinegar the salesman
slyly winked at the victim and the
farmer jumped at the conclusion that
it was wet goods of another variety
which the agent was selling and also
thinking from the price asked that it
was something stronger than vinegar
which  was .being offered    closed the
"Give me a Jewish cocktail,'
said a stranger in   front of a lo
cal bar, when he was asked what transaction for as many gallons as he
, ., ,   , ,,_,     ,   .    ,,      . - thought would accomodate his thirst.
he would take.      Explain,   said He paid down the cash for M_ pur.
the   bartender,   "I am   no great chase and the agent left to work his
drink mixer,   "what is a Jewish *raft' some  more  elsewhere.    When
Mr. Farmer received his vinegar and
COClCtail . hastened home to sample it he found
"A Jewish cocktail," said  the that the agent had not lied.   He er-
, ...       ,.. , , ceived just what he purchased, vine-
strange Israelite,     is a glass of gar at ?3 0Q pe_ gall£m   ft geems
water with a nickel in it." there is one born every minute.
in condition to make the trip.
Jack Goyfred of Royalton is
here looking at land—and other
things.
A party of young people:
Margaret Hoppe, Mr. and Mrs.
O. Christianson, Joe Hoppe, Iliff
Wallmark, Ben Popilek and
Jack Godfrey called  at Cook's
Anna Kemper.
It is estimated that more
snow fell last, Tuesday than
during all the other winter
months.
Wednesday mornings train
did not reach Genola until 8
o'clock in the evening.
Monday night. The evening was
passed in singing and other pastimes to the hearts of'the young
people.
Found—A pair of men's shoes.
Owner can have same by calling
at the place where tbey were
left.
One of tbe young men of this
vicinity is suffering from a badly damaged toe.    Cheer up!
Miss Margaret Hoppe, who
has been spending a few days
at her home here, returned to
Platte, where she is employed.
The  section  force  on the
. jSoo  has   been   increased  to
buck snow.
Michael Kerich of Little
Falls, visited with his daughter, Mrs. Peter Meyer, a few
days last week.
Raymond Faust, who last
week was reported seriously
ill with scarlet fever, died at
his home in Cross Plains, 4ast
Saturday.
W. L. Morton  and  family
left  yesterday  for  Barnum,
Minn., where they will make
I their future home.    Mr. Mor.
years have left their mark.
The weather  man is certainly
favoring us with snow this win-,
ter.    It is-three feet deep in the |t0111s   interested   in poultry
woods aud still snowing. | and  m&de  this  move to  be
-Ir ,,      ,,       , TT        ,   ,       i nearer the central markets.
Wallmark s and Hoppe's have
finished putting up ice.   Tbey|     After forging three checks
say they have enough to supply for $2m each Saturctay aft.
the whole township. ,       , . ,; ,,
noon and cashing two ot them
Smuda's mill is running every in   saloons   in   Little   Falls,
day,   and   turning   out  a good■ ^rm> Nortan5 address   indefi-
Quality   of lumber.     Timber   is , .        ,,. ,     ,-,
... , _.,,     nite, gave  himself up to Co.
getting   scarce,   however.    The ° z
depredations of tbe last twenty .Attorney Rosenmeier Monday morning. He was bound
over to the grand jury by
Municipal Judge Lyon and
has made application to Dis-
' trict Judge Roeser to  plead
A novel way  of breaking up  drifts        .,,     ,       ,. .       .,
along country roads and keeping the   guilty to   forgery ill    die SeC-
higluways open to    travel    has    been  mlfq rlprrrj-p
tried out in Martin county and found  uuu UC61CP-
to be successful.    The scheme was in-,
troduced by a farmer    who    recently, > • ' *   ■ --
moved to this county from New York j YTTXrTTfSSHVT?
state.   Tie an ordinary walking plow I      A *1KE ^IDbrll-MK
to the Tear runner of a   bob    sleigh. I     __ ,
The plow opens up the snow so that • H°™ many housewives know
the next team following has a good that ^eJ nave ln their kitchen
path through the drift. It is not ne- olle of .le best fire extinguishers available? Not many, we
venture. All housewives should
know the value of common bi-
1 carbonate of soda as a fire-kill-
Three dudes were    walking    down  ing agent.    At the rate of four
INGENIOUS   RURAL   DEVICE     FOR
BREAKING  SNOW   DRIFTS
6tate Department Informs Nations Not
at War That American Merchant
Ships Will Hereafter Carry Armed
Guard for Protection.
Washington, March 13.—Mobilization
of the complete fighting strength of
the navy has been recommended by
navl officials.
The approval of President Wilson
is required before orders can be sent
calling for reserves, assembling the
naval militia and releasing all active
officers now on shore duty for sea
service.
Immediate graduation of the first
class at Annapolis would b_ included
in the plan in order to make up as
far as possible the threatened shortage of officers.
In addition to mobilization of forces
already enrolled in the militia or reserve an active recruiting campaign
would be necessary to supply all
ships of military value with full complements.
Officials believe they would have
little difficulty in obtaining the men
if mobilization were ordered.
Forman notice that American ships
traversing the German submarine
zone are to carry "armed guards for
the protection of the vessel and the
lives of the persons on board" was
sent by the state department to embassies and legations of all foreign
governments  in  Washington.
Text of Communication.
Following is tlie text of the communication as made public by the
state department:
"In view of the announcement of
the imperial German government on
Jan. 31, 1917, that all ships, those of
neutrals included, met within certain zones of the high seas, would be
sunk without any precaution being
taken for the safety of the persons on
board, and without the exercise of
visit and search, the government of
the United States has determined to
place on all American merchant vessels sailing through the barred areas
an armed guard for the protection of
the vessels and the lives of Uie persons on board."
The notification will, it is expected,
be sent to Germany by the Swiss legation here. No obstacle will be
placed in the way of such action.
Whether other neutral governments
will admit American armed ships to
their ports is a question for them to
decide, but it is not expected here
that objections will be made.
FALL OF BAGDAD
VERY IMPORTANT
cessary to hold  the
plow.
handles of   the
the street one morning, and met   an ounces to a gallon of water it
aged, decrepit   minister,   with   long forms a chemical extinguisher
white hair and    beard.    Desiring   to equal to the  uge of 80 ganons
poke fun at the old man,   the    first of plain  water.    The    mixture
called out,    "■Hello Father Abraham."
London, March 13.—While great political importance is attached to the
capture of Bagdad by the British, tbe
military results of the notable event
are of even greater immediate interest, pointing to the possibility of a
comparatively speedy linking of British and Russian movements against
the Turks in this faraway field of war.
On the Franco-Belgian front virtually each day now brings news of active operation of more importance
than»a mere patrol encounter or a
raid in force.
The day's report of intensive fight-,
ing comes from Paris, recording l'ur-j
ther French successes in the Cham-j
pagne.
GETS NEARLY  ENTIRE  V0TEJ
Carranza Elected President of Mexican;
Republic.
Mexico City, March 13.—Yenustianoi
Carranza was elected president by anj
enormous plurality.
He came into office through recogni-l
t.ion by the United States, and hasi
been de facto president until now.
Mr. Carranza got all the votes cast;
throughout the republic except'-.few!
scattering ballots here and there, oth-i
er candidates getting one or two;
apiece.
Under the constitution there is no!
vice president.
The election was peaceful, no troops'
being in evidence.
SUPPLY SAID  TO BE LARGE
Potato   Speculators   See   Great   Slump
in  Prices.
Seattle,   March   13.—Dealers   place
Uie visible supply of potatoes in the
state at or near 450 cars, 150 of which
The second said, "Hello, Father    Is- wil1  110t  haml  Varllish'     Paint'are west of   the   Cascades.    This  is
aac" and the third chimed in "Hello    or   clothing.      A   bucketful      of   twlce   the   estimate   given   when   the
aac,   anu tne tniru cinmea in   Meno, ° . market  was  high.    Predictions  were
Father Jacob."    The minister seeing bicarbonate of soda and a    tin ; made that   Yakima Gems   would  be
the   situation,    and     likewise    using cup may save life    and    home,   selling at $50 per ton before the 1916
scripture,   quietly    replied.     "I   am j And  what   is     bicarbonate     of! cr°P is cleaned UP-
neither Abraham, nor Isaac, nor Jac-       .   9    __., , . ,        |     The   feeling  among   operators   bor-
vme- ob, hut Saul, the son of   Kish,    who  S0Cla'     Wn> notmnS more tnan   ders on panic. They ascribe the slump
s that went forth to hunt his father's- asses;  what is generally known as sal-  to the public boycott, against which
.—Ex. and behold I have found them."       ! eratus or baking soda.—Ex.        *n abnormally light visible supply ip.
ideals in vain.
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