The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-07-13

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, HORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JULY 13, 1916.
NO. 4.
Village Council
Proceedings
The Village Council met in
monthly session Saturday, July
1st at 8 o'clock p. m. All
members were present.
The proceedings of the last
monthly meeting were read and
accepted.
The following   bills  were  allowed :
Theo. Gross, 83 posts at
6 cents     $4 98
F. Rauch, dragging road     1 50
Joseph P. Meyer, 6 days
service as police, service wire, and 2 street
globes     21 40
Jac. Duscher, for getting
grader       1 25
Wm.Priemesberger, elec
trie line at Morrison Co.
Lumber Co., labor and
street lamps,     12 50
E. H. Kerkhoff,  bal.   on
bill, health officer, publications, job work....    18 00
Motion was made and carried
to pay §15.00 reward to any one
causing the  arrest  and conviction of parties hauling refuse or
debris on dump ground without
permission of  the village council or draymen, also for any one
caught tampering with locks or
gates on dump ground.
Motion was made and carried
to buy 6 sponges to be used on
hose carts.
Motion  made and  carried  to
pay each fireman §1.00  that attends the parade   on the 4th of
July.    No substitutes allowed.
Upon motion adjourned.
S. Priemesberger, Pres.
John N. Faust, Recorder.
Interesting
Correspondences
Genola News.
A Few Gold Ones.
"My tomatoes were slightly
frostbitten last night,'' said
Scoles Tuesday morning. "You
only imagine that," said A. L.
Mott of the Terminal Packing
Company. "I came through Royalton last night. I saw a dead
mule lying stark and stiff in a
iarmyard. I was told that the
mule was leaning and scratching
himself against the corncrib
when the corn began to pop
from the great heat, the old
mule gave a few kicks at the
first pops andturned his inquiring ears and looked. As the
poped corn began to burst forth
through the crevices of the crib,
he imagined it was a snowdrift
and froze to death. Such is
thepower of imagination."
Mr. Phillip Arendt of Maple
Lake, Minn., is here calling on
friends.
Miss SylviaFriedrich returned
home from Little Falls Tuesday
where she had been employed.
Mr. Tony Kobilka journeyed
down from Greenwald Saturday
for a short visit with his parents.
The Minstrel show, which was
in Genola, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday of last week, was well
attended and pleasing to the
audience. The wire walking
and frog acts proved to be clever and uncommon.
Mrs. Henry Stumpf had the
misfortune of being badly poisoned with ivy, while picking
strawberries.
Mrs. Herman Wilkes leftMon-
day for St. Joseph's Convent on
the west bound train to witness
the ordaining of the young ladies into sisterhood.
Wiii Re-cut
Building Stone
A stonecutter is now at work
refacing some of the stones for
the German State Bank building
which were damaged in transit.
The stones were rejected by the
architect. An agreement was
reached by all concerned that
the stones be refaced in a manner which will not in the least
detract from the original design
of the building.
Grain and Produce
riarket Report.
Wheat, No. 1, $1.06
Wheat, No. 2 /.    1.02
Whecit, No. 3....         96
Flax,  „       1.75
Barley _•  63
Rye       82
Oats.      45
Ear Corn       65
Hay _    7.00
Butter, Creamery       37
"       Dairy      27
Eggs      17
Flour,Royal     3.20
"   WhiteRose      8.10
Low grade flour 1.60
Bran ..1.25
Shorts  1.30
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.40
Ground Feed     1.40
Beans      4.00
Onions        60
Barbara Leidenfrost of Pierz
is in the city the guest of her
uncle Dr. J. C. Boebm. Miss
Leidenfrost will make her home
with her uncle in his new home
on Fourth avenue and Fifth
str. south, St. Cloud.—Journal-
Press.
Sullivan News
The Fourth was celebrated
very quietly at Sullivan this
year.
The Lynn, Smith and Van
Kueren families picniced at
"Fort Seibert."
Three innings of a ball game
were played between boys and
girls on the Platte lake diamond-
Merle Look and Sam Martin
took in the dance at Lastrup
in the evening.
Ole Christianson and wife and
theWallmark boys enjoyed themselves at the Sigette dance in
Platte.
T. S. Look and wife, Mrs.
Ford and daughter spent the
day at C. E. Look's.
The Beggs family were county
seat visitors Wednesday.
Miss Mazie Look rode toDeer-
wood Thursday and returned
Friday.
Ross Adkins returned home
Friday.
Pierz goers Friday were Merle
and Rodney Look, A. W. Cook
and Ole Christianson.
Dr. and Mrs. Ferguson were
lake callers Saturday.
MerleLook attended the dance
at Jim King's in Granite Saturday evening.
Dr. and Mrs. Patterson, Robert Patterson, also R. N. and J.
B. Hubbel of St. Paul are visiting the J. J. Beggs family, who
are residents of the "Tumble
Inn': cottage at camp Linehan.
Miss Maggie Adkins returned
home from Lastrup Sunday.
Mrs.Wallmark and MarvHop-
pe were callers at A. W. Cook's
Sunday.
Dr. and Mrs,.Healy, Mr. and
Mrs. M. Wermerskirchen, J. N.
Faust and wife, Henry Gau and
wife, and F. J. Gilbride and
wife and children, spent Sunday
at the lake.
Stewart Oliver was a lake
caller Monday evening.
Mrs. Tom Smith and Little
daughter called at C. E. Look's
Monday afternoon.
Katherine Hunt, who has been
visiting with the J. J. Beggs
family, left for her home in St.
Paul Tuesduy with Dr. and Mrs.
Ferguson, who have been camping at Fort Seibert for several
days.
Holstein Park
Where did you spend the 4th?
Lawrence Kramer, Jess King
and G. King with their famlies
attended the celebration at
Lastrup.
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor visited
at the home of Cajacobs, and
the Martens, Sorum, Thompson
and Sandborn famlies had a
picnic dinner at  Holstein Park.
Everybody is picking wild
strawberries now.
Services were held at Christmas Lake school house last Sunday, Rev Teachout preaching.
Sunday school will be held
there next Sunday at 10:30 a.
m.   Everybody invited.
Ruby Thompson is in Little
Falls attending summer school.
Mr-and Mrs. E. M. Thompson
called eit the Martens and T. S.
Look homes Sunday afternoon,
Bert Sanborn and Alvah and
Sam Martens delivered cattle
in Pierz Friday.
Menno Mennen and wife called at the Thompson home one
day last week.
Mazie Look of Sulivan called
at the Chas. Thompson home
last Monday,
Little Howard Sorum had the
nail torn from his big toe, by
getting it under the edgs of a
barrel of water being carried on
the stone boat on which he was
riding. It was a very painful
accident but the toe is healing
nicely.
Sam Martens and Merle Look
attended the dance at J. King's
Saturday night.
Fred Sorum was a Sullivan
Lake caller Sunday forenoon.
John Tomala and wife, John
Banach and wife, John Wytasek
and Henry Vertin autoed to St.
Joseph to attend the ordaining
of Mary Tomala as a Sister in
the O. S. B. order.
The ground floor of the new
Herman block will be occupied
by a new firm known as the
Holdingford Mercantile Company with a large department
store. The company is an incorporation with a capital of
$30,000.—Holdingford Advertiser.
There may be nothing striking in the above item to Holdingford people, but there certainly is to Pierz people where
we have had a Herman Block
the past 20 years.
The Ruling Passion.
Among the well known figures of the
Paris salons mentioned in "An Eighteenth Century Marquise" was Bossut,
mathematician and abbe, who had
translated Maria Agnesi's work on the
infinitesimal calculus. "When, he was
dying Maupertius was by his bedside.
No one knew whether the agony was
ended. 'Twelve times twelve?' asked
Maupertius in a distinct voice. 'One
hundred and forty-four,' came the automatic answer as Bossut breathed his
last."
Adrian Grell
Died Sunday
Adrian Grell, 47, died with
Tetanus at six o'clock last Sunday morning. Funeral services
and burial took place Tuesday
morning. Adrian was born in
Cross Plains, Wis., and came to
Pierz with his parents when
only 3 months old. He leaves
a widow, three brothers, and
two sisters.
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
West Bull News.
Mr. and Mrs. Kohs and family, Mrs. H. Wieland and children, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Boe-
chers, Mrs. Chris Johnson and
family and James Johnson attended services at Little Falls
Sunday.
Quite a few from here attend-
the war pictures at Pierz Sunday evening.
The Freedhem hall is almost
completed. It has been named
"The Farmers' Club House."
Soon they will celebrate the
opening and a big time is in
view.
A dance will be given at Jean
Alloid's home Sunday, July   16.
Mr. and Mrs. Holmstrom of
Minneapolis are visiting the
O. R. Holmstrom family this
week.
Mrs. Ed. Ernest's father of
Iowa, who is here visiting the
Ernest family is reported quite
ill.
Wm. Goebeil hauled cream to
Pierz Monday and on his way
back called on some of the West
Buh people. Goebeil even donated toward the Freedhem
hall.
The Ladies' Aid of the St.
Johns German church of Little
Falls were entertained last
Thursday at the Wieland home.
A large crowd was present and
a nice lunch was served at 4
o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Wieland and
daughter, Eleanor, motored to
Buekman and Dixville Sunday.
Eleanor reported the roads in a
bad condition for motoring and
she was glad to get back to
Pierz where the ride could be
enjoyed with comfort.
Strawberries are very plentiful this year.
A game of ball was played at
Freedhem Sunday.
Albert Chounard spent Sunday afternoon at Freedhem.
Mrs. Charlie Johnson is visiting in Minneapolis and Wisconsin.
Temperature Monday 90,Tuesday 89 and Wednesday 88 in the
shade.
Dynamite.
The action of dynamite is comparatively precise. The firing point is 180
degrees C. At that temperature it either burns or explodes. If free from
all pressure, jar, vibration or force of
any kind it merely burns. That is how
it comes about that one can burn
dynamite safely in the hand if all conditions be wholly favorable. But any
least vibration from such requisites
will cause an explosion, which is an
excellent reason for avoiding too intimate ventures with the compound.
It's the high cost of wasting
that cuts out the profits.
Sharpen up, oil  up,   feed up
and then one can speed up.
A little paint goes a long
way toward satisfying the family with the conditions of farm
life.
Jos. Sagorski and Jos. James
of Platte left last Monday for
Wales, N. D., where they will
work this summer and fall.
It will soon be threshing time
Are   the   bridges  and  culverts
strong enough to carry the biggest   engine   in   the   neighbor;
hood?
Typewriters rented for your
home or office or sold at low
prices on monthly payments.
A typewriter secured from the
Little Falls Business College is
guaranteed to be completely
satisfactory.
Frank Schneppenkeim, who
has been section boss at New
Rockford, N. D., for the Great
Northern, is now at Sutton, N.
D. He is the oldest boss of the
company in that country.
The farmers shipped two cars
of stock Monday.
Mosquitos are beginning to
present their bills.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Schamel last Friday, a son.
"A lie will travel miles, while
Truth is putting on his boots."
Excavating for the basement
of the Stoll residence was begun this week.
Sister Kuniberta of Quincy,
111., visited relatives here a few
days this week.
Many people of Lastrup were
here Tuesday to attend the Adrian Grell funeral.
Mr. Ragan is on the sick list
this week. He is visiting at
his daughter's, Mrs. Ed.  Ernst.
Misses Marie and Anna Koll
left Saturday "morning on a trip
to Richmond and Cold Springs,
Minn,
The Gerhard Wilkes, Anton
Bednar and Karl Kapsner families motored to St. Joseph last
Tuesday.
A. W. Cook and his son-in-
law, Ole Christianson of West
Sullivan were Pierz business
visitors Friday.
Peter Virnig and wife of Little Falls were here visiting with
the P. J. Bollig family the first
part of the week.
Last Friday was the hottest
day we have had so far this
summer. The thermometer
went up to 92 in the shade.
Miss Alice Ragan left last
Thursday for her home at Dexter, Minn., after a short visit
with her sister, Mrs. Ed. Ernst.
The Little Palls Business College is a business University
for young men and young
women of the northwest. Complete your course and get a
good position. Write today for
information.
Mrs- J. P. Ries, who has been
here about two weeks visiting
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Waninger of Platte, returned to
her North Dakota home in Cas-
selton Tuesday.
Why not do a little work on
the short stretch of road from
the cattle yard toBrauirs section
house? One dragging after a
rain would put it in fairly passable condition.
A social party was held at
the Math. Zierer home Sunday
afternoon, which was attended
by Herman Koering and family,
Herman Poser and family and
Aug. Sontag and sons
Korbinian Riedlichner received a letter from Germany-marked "Opened by Censor." The
letter contained no war news
whatever, only a list of men
from his home killed and wounded, and some family news.
Peter L. Poster has the contract to build a steel and concrete bridge across Skunk at
B. G. Terhaar's place. Work
will begin at once, and the bridge
will be completed by Septem-
ber first.
Fred Terhaar of Bengaugh,
Canada, is here visiting relatives. Fred reports that sentiment in Canada is strongly in
favor of enlistment, lest the
English lose. The idea seems
to prevail there, says Fred, that
Germany, if victorious, will invade Canada and claim it.
Large Crowd
v    Takes Outing
A large crowd of Pierz people, one that required seven
autos to transport, spent last
Sunday afternoon at camp
Weriiierskirchen at Sullivan
lake. The parties included
M. Wermerskirchen and family, R. M. Duncan and wife,
R. T. Healy and wife, F. J.
Grilbride and family, Steve
Priemesberger and wife, Herman Boser and wife, Henry
Grau and wife, Henry Lust
and wife, J. B. Hartmann
and daughter Loretta, Tony
V. Hartmann aud sister Bertha, J. J: Bofer, Joseph Ries,
Louis Spanfellner, J. C. I)o-
herty, Frank Albers and Fr.
Waninger. They returned
about nine o'clock.
ABOUT THE STAT
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS!
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told!
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
G-ood corn weather.
Blueberries will be plentiful this year.
The county commissioners
met last Tuesday.
Eight horses for sale on easy
terms.    Jos. H. Grell,Pierz
A large crowd attended the
films "On the German Firing
Line" Sunday evening.
Ben Herold, R. F. D. carrier at Swanville, is spending his vacation with relatives here.
Martin Lodermeyer, helper
in the creamery, was an
over Sunday visitor at New
Munich.
Jos. Gaida of Platte has as
visitors this week, his mother
and sister. They arrived
Tuesday morning.
A few indiaus were in the
village Tuesday. If they' had
heard the curses in town
shot at their race during the
last week, they would not
have ventured within the village limits.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reding,
who had been visiting here at
the John S. Reding and Herman
Koll homes last week, left for
their home at Morgan, Minn.,
last Saturday morning. They
reported that they got home
safe, but roads were poor in
some places.
. The Journal made an error
last week in reporting that
that old indian was on his
way to Vineland to attend
an "injune" dance. The old
indian lied. It now turns
out that he was on the way
to attend a feast at Duluth.
Jim Hoheisel, four years
old, broke his leg near the.
hip joint-last Sunday afternoon. The Hoheisel family
was at the Sigette place in
Platte, inspecting their newly acquired property. A motorcycle was left standing
in front of the store. Jim attempted to climb into the
machine as he had often seen
men do, when it upset and
fell across his leg, with the
above mentioned result.
WANT TO SELL—Three finely
improved farms all adjoining,
about 18' miles northwest of
Pierz. Will sell for cost of improvements. All handsome living places on line road. Fine
clay soil in high state of cultivation. If you want a fine farm
home, come and see them, and
you will want one of them.
Write Dawes Farm.-Land Co..
Brainerd, Minn. 2-8t
Nels Sandquist, car repairer, was!
crushed to death between freight cars!
in the Omaha yards at Mankato.
Mrs. Catherine C. Lofstdt, a pioneerj
of Minneapolis, is dead. She reached!
the Mill-City from Sweden in 1849.
F. A. Krch, aged seventy-five, Civil!
war veteran and once prominent 1-ij
Ramsey county politics, is dead at St.!
Paul.
Martin, fifteen-year-old son of Ole!
Johnson of Kasota, was fatally injured
by the explosion of gunpowder in his
pocket.
Teaching a friend how to swim cost
the life of Ben Arnold of Brainerd at
Clark lake. His companion struggled
to safety.
Mrs. Mariah A.: Bear is dead at
Eyota, aged eighty-eight years. She
had lived in that section since the
early fifties.
The Minnesota Baptist summer assembly will hold its eighteenth annual meeting at Mound, Lake Minnetonka, July 20 to 30.
Mrs. Margaret T. Keating is dead
on a farm near Kellogg taken up as a
homestead sixty years ago. She was
eighty-one years  of age.
Frank S. Williams, president of the
Central State bank of Minneapolis,
died suddenly at his home in that
city.    He was sixty-one years of age.
E. C. Stringer, prominent St. Paul
attorney and former United States
district attorney for Minnesota, is
dead.   He was sixty-four years of age.
Mrs. Elsie Warner, formerly a nurse
at the Minneapolis city hospital, died
at her home at Canby from burns received while cleaning clothes with
gasoline.
Rev. William F. Trussell and his
four-year-old daughter Marjorie were
drowned in Elm creek, a small stream
that flows past the Trussell home at
Champlin.
Albert E. Nelson, a member of Com
pany H, Second Minnesota cavalry,
during the Indian outbreak, is dead
at Mankato, where he had resided for
many years.
J. M. Davis, formerly division su
perintendent of the Great Northern at
Breckenridge, has been promoted to
vice president of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad.
John Grommissch was nearly killed
when his auto overturned near Barnes
ville. William Tully also was badly
hurt. The car hurtled into a ditch
and turned over.
Bank deposits of Minneapolis are
$33,195,246.08 greater than they were
a year ago. The total in all the Mill
City banks at the close of business
June 30 was $159,081,274.78.
Judge James H. Quinn has filed an
order at Fairmont denying a new trial
to Ole O. Solem, convicted recently of
having poisoned his mother-in-law and.
given a life sentence at Stillwater.
June proved to be the record ore
month of the Great Lakes, with total
shipments from the Lake Superior district of 9,507,570 tons. Shipments since
opening of navigation are 19,615,567
tons.
Michael Stolpa of Winona won a
wager by swimming across the Mississippi river at that place at a point
where it is more than a half mile
wide. He did' the trick in nineteen
minutes. ■
- Mrs. Paul Marcotte of St. Paul,
aged thirty-two, was killed by a Northern Pacific train at White Bear, where
she was visiting her parents. Her
two children who were with her escaped injury.
The national Prohibition parade at
St. Paul on July 20 will be led by Mrs.
Ann - T. Booze, a name given to a
camel lent to the convention parade
committee by the Longfellow Gardens
of Minneapolis.
Leaders in the recent dry move-|
ment at Duluth which resulted in the!
voting out of saloons have begun aj
campaign to gain employment for thej
men who will lose their jobs as a re-|
suit of the change.
Despondent because her only son!
was called out with the national guard j
for service on the Mexican border,]
Mrs. Eliza Schwartz jumped into thej
Mississippi river in Northeast Minne-I
apolis and was drowned.
D. D. Brunson of St. Paul was killed!
and the driver of an auto in which he;
was hurrying to catch a train wasj
badly injured when the machine failed!
to get across the tracks near Worland,!
Wyo., ahead of the train.
Frank B. Kellogg of St. Paul, Re-j
publican nominee for United States!
senator, expended $8,616,41 jn the re-j
cent primary campaign, according to j
his statement filed with the clerk of j
the senate at Washington.
At the conclusion of a three days' \
celebration at Bena the Mississippi]
River valley Chippewa Indians drafted
a petition to be presented to the next
congress calling for a government al-
I lotment of eighty acres more land for
j each member of the tribe. They ask
that the land be taken from the national forest reserve in Cass county.
Journal ads bring results.
Remember, there will be a DANCE held in Faust's Hah, on Monday July 17th, 1916,   Tickets 35c,