The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1917-03-22

              VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, MARCH, 22, 1917.
No. 40
ABOUT THE STATE Interesting
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of tha
Busy Reader.
/ Frank Carpenter, eighty-nine year-
old, a pioneer of Cass Lake, is dead.
Mapleton voted dry by 55 majority.
Three saloons were put out of business.
H. L. Halborson, sixty-eight years
old, a pioneer Wadena county farmer,
is dead.
Lauren E. Trane, sixty-six years )f
age, artist and engraver, is dead at
Hastings.
William L. Abbott, forty-nine years
old, publisher of the St. Paul Enterprise, is dead.
Patrick Furlong, eighty-two years
old, a pioneer resident of Dakota
county, is dead.
Mat R. Cluss of Brownsville, this
state, was killed in a wreck on St.
Paul road near Preston.
The Farmers' Co-operative elevator
at Triumph was destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of $20,000.
Superintendent S. E. Hargis, for the
past seven years at the head of the
Litchfield schools, has resisned.
Smith B. Hall, veteran Minneapolis
newspaper man, is dead from pneumonia.    He was fifty-eight years old.
C. D. Sheldon, aged thirty, wealthy
lumberman, who held mar.y interests
in Minneapolis, is dead at Westwood,
Cal.
Henry Fruehling, twenty years old,
living with his parents near Ottawa,
Le Sueur county, committed suicide
by shooting.
Lycurgus R. Moyer, president of the
Montevideo city council, banker and
well known as a historian in Western
Minnesota, is dead.
Peter M. Dahlberg, seventy-six
years old, a pioneer settler of Goodhue county, is dead at his home in
Voss after a long illness.
Mrs. Catherine Sliney, seventy-eight
years old, a resident of Washington
county for fifty-five years, is dead at
her home in Oakdalo township.
. S. G. Downing of I-a Moure, N. D.,
sold eighteen head of Galloway steers
at South St. Paul for ?2,159.67, the
record for all time on that market.
fry a vote of 27 to 40 the state senate refused to impose a tonnage tax
on iron ore In Northern Minnesota.
The measure already had passed the
house.
J. J. Pehler, member of the lower
house of tho legislature in 1903 and
1905, is (lead of pneumonia at his
home in Winona. He was fifty years
of age.
Albert Coenroan, sixty years old,
section foreman of the Great Northern railroad at Freeport for thirty
years, was killed- during a storm when
struck by an engine.
Joseph Bowen, who killed his wife
at Minneapolis a few days ago, committed suicide in the Glenwood jail
with the same revolver he used in
the Mill City tragedy.
William H. Helper is dead at Morris
at the age of ninety-seven years. He
was a veteran of the Civil war, in
which he served as lieutenant In Company K, Third Minnesota.
Minnesota shipments of pine tree3
and currant and gooseberry plants
are excluded from Nevada under a
quarantine established by proclamation of Governor Boyle of that state.
Enraged because his nineteen-year-
old wife attended a dance with another man Roscoe It. Albright of St.
Paul shot and probably mortally
wounded her and then killed himself.
Roy Miller of Randolph, this state,
a Chicago Great Western brakeman,
was murdered by tramps, who threw
his body from a train near Mclntire,
la.    Three suspects are under arrest.
Voluntary contributions resulting
from the 1916 Red Cross seal campaign raised a fund for health work
amounting to $40,000, which places
Minnesota in line for a national pennant.
More than $500,000 of state revenue
from iron mines is at stake under a
question involved in a test suit which
Attorney General Smith has been requested to bring by State Auditor
Preus.
Fred B. Wood, adjutant general of
Minnesota, has been notified by the
war department to have the Minnesota national guard ready for any demand which may arise from the German crisis.
George H. Skeatc of Spring Lake,
Dakota county, shot a large eagle
while the bird was devouring a Plymouth Rock rooster in his hennery.
The eagle measured five feet from tip
to tip of wing.
Minnesota is now doing about $50,-
000,000 business annually. State Treasurer nines says the volume of financial transactions during the past year
was almost $4,000,000 greater than
that of the previous year.
Preston R. Jones, sixty-seven years
old, timber scaler for the Brooks
Bros." Lumber company of St. Paul,
was pinned under a great pile of lumber which had toppled over ou liua
and was dead when takeu out.
Correspondences
Hillman News.
There,, was no train service
between Friday and Monday
morning, owing to the severe
storm last week.
Miss Olive Lewis returned to
Onamia Monday, after spending
a short vacation with her parents at Peavy lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wood and
children arrived Monday from
Washington. S. D. Wood and
son Lee of Granite were at the
station to meet them.
John Dorman of Rucker
went to Pierz Monday.
Miss Pearl Miller is on the
sick list.
Marie Drews visited at the
Irwin Drew's home on Monday.
A veterinarian arrived last
Saturday to inspect the horses
belonging to Starrs and Tall-
bergs before they are shipped
to Montana.
Quite a crowd of young people gathered at the Aug. Drews
home Sunday. The guests were
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Drews and
baby, Miss Mildred Wilmont
and Messrs. Oscar Sandbeck
and John Love.
Mr. Hoskins of Sullivan Lake
s employed on the section.
The Frank Ericson family of
Richardson are moving into
town. Mr. Ericson intends to
open a blacksmith shop soon.
Little Norman Drews celebrated his first birthday anniversary Sunday.
Miss Olive Lewis, who is attending school at Onamia,
came down on the 11 o'clock
train Monday.
Those going to Pierz Monday were E. L. Teachout and
John Brown of Rucker, Gabriel Oleson, Iver Israelson and
Martin Johnson of Mt. Morris
and Chas. Wood and Ben
Drews.
Lars Talberg's crew returned
Monday from the northern
woods. On account of the shortage of men they were unable to
hire enough to complete the
season there.
Town election was held
Tuesday. Results not known
at this writing.
Worst Storm
in Fifty Years.
Pierz had the worst snowstorm last Friday in fifty years.
The oldest settlers cannot recall a storm equal to it. The
drifts are 10 feet high in places and roads were impassible
for several days. Soo trains
were snowbound from Friday
morning until Monday morning. One train was reported
stuck between here and Hillman, and four trains were reported stuck between here and
Brooten.
The Little Falls-Pierz stage
left here Friday afternoon at
1:30 o'clock and reached Little Falls at half past nine that
evening. It took two hours to
make the last two miles—from
Metcalf's place to the city.
Paths had to be shoveled
through the snow and wire
fences had to be cut to clear
a way for the horses after they
had lost the old road.
The bus and all trains now
are again running on schedule
time.
Grain And Produce
Market Report
Sullivan News
was
Lawrence   Kramer
Pierz visitor Friday.
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Mrs. Wilson of Stearns county is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Eli Hoskins.
Miss Margaret Cook and her
scholars gave a basket social
at their school house Saturday
evening. Afterward they had
a merry time dancing at A. W.
Cook's.
Tom Smith, wife and children visited at C. E. Look's
Friday.
Rodney Look called at Martin's Friday evening.
Mjss Jessie Smith spent the
last few days with her sister,
Mrs  Frank Sims.
Word was received of the
birth of a boy at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Britton of Stearns
county.
Eli Hoskins was an Onamia
caller Saturday.
Fern Dorman left for Rock-
ford where he will stay with his
sister and attend school.
Not many from this vicinity
attended the dance    at   Matt
Pint's   Saturday   night.     Too
stormy.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Smith and
children spent Sunday afternoon at Eli Hoskins.'
Ross and James Adkins called at the Walmark home Sunday.
Mrs. Kramer called on Mrs.
Ford Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Look were
callers at Mrs. Ford's   Monday.
Rucker News.
G. E. Armour of Motley spent
several days of last week in
this vicinity, taking orders for
the Farmer and giving as a
premium a nice butchering set.
He made his headquarters at
Arba Waller's home.
Peter Anderson is on the
gain now, we are pleased to
hear.
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There was no mail Thursday
as Mr. Sell got stuck in the
snowdrifts north of here and
had to go back home.
Bert Sanborn of Holstein
Park ate dinner with Mr. and
Mrs. Arba Waller Friday.
Ray Bruber was a Pierz visitor last Thursday.
The dance at the Pint home
Saturday evening was not very
well attended, owing to the
storm and bad roads. Those
who were there, however, enjoyed themselves.
Bill Drews brought our mail
Tuesday in the snow storm. We
were glad to get it, you bet.
Mrs. Arba Waller accompanied her father, John' Lewis,
home last Friday. She spent
several days visiting friends
and relatives in that vicinity
and returned home on Monday.
The men who are hauling the
school children in this neighborhood found it a tough job
Friday afternoon. There were
no roads to be seen and a blinding snowstorm and a gale so
it was impossible to see more
than a few feet ahead. Roy
Probasco uses four horses on
his trip a good share of the time
lately.
No mail Saturday owing to
the impassible state of the
roads.
We wouldn't wonder • a bit
if Joe Bollig is glad he is out
of the mail hauling business
these days.
Mrs. Dora Ferguson visited
Mrs. Archie Robison Sunday
afternoon.
John Dorman was a business
visitor in Pierz Monday.
Matt Pint Sundayed at home
returning to Sullivan on Tuesday.
Raymond Cates was re-elected treasurer of Leigh; he will
also be town assessor this year.
Mr. Hayes, one of our new
neighbors, was elected supervisor. Leigh Teachout was reelected clerk.
Mr. and Mrs. George Wood
and children arrived here from
Republic, Washington, on Monday. They are staying at the
S. D. Wood home at present.
They returned from the west
sooner than they otherwise
would have done, on account of
Mrs. Wood's poor health. They
report Hen. Ferguson as rather homesick for good old Minnesota.
Mr. and Mrs. Matt. Pint and
baby Florence and Miss Maggie
Adkins called on Mrs. V. Bruber
Monday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Johnson
and little daughter visited at
Hans Johnson's last Thursday
afternoon.
Wheat, No. 1, : $1.77
Wheat, No. 2     1.74
Wheat, No. 3       1.67
Flax,       2.65
Barley  __ 100-105
Rye    1.45
Oats      55
EarCorn .___     90
Hay ,    7.00
Butter, Creamery ..      40
Dairy       27
Eggs •_      25
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
SUCCESS.
Stabbing Fray
at Little Falls.
Little Falls, Minn.
After two attempts, it is said,
to stab a companion, Mike
Kozick of Crosby, a miner, was
arrested in a saloon here Thursday night by Patrolman Richard. He ripped the other man's
coat in two places, according
to Chief of Police Hang. The
man, also from Crosby, refused
to appear against him, however, and he' was charged with
being drunk and disorderly and
fined $2 and costs. The trouble
resulted from a quarrel in a
card room.
Nick Bobzik of Crosby, another of the party, was fined $2
and costs for being drunk and
disorderly.
Our own success should not be
based on the failure of others
but entirely upon our own individual conduct.
Recently  a  very   successful
man, when asked  how , well  he
plaved golf, replied: "Just well
enougfh to let my  partner  win;
then he will be  happy   and  I'm
sure that I will be also.    Pplay
for the fun of the game and  the
championship of my partner."
Here is a man whose life is a
real success, adored and respected by his family and friends, a
creator of a big" business, and
an extremely active factor in
local affairs'of the nation. Yet
he has made certain that his
success is not based, upon the'
failures of others. On the contrary, as he achieves success he
helps others to win success also.
At school, for instances, the
failure of some students is not
necessary in order that otheis
may succeed. In fact it would
not detract in the least from the
success of each individual student if all the students in a
class should make a perfect record; but rather it would add
materially to the possibilities
for continued and greater success of the individual by reason
of his association with other
successful students.
Today, America's leading industries are based upon principles of co-operation rather than
unfair competition. Manufacturers have learned that each
successful business creates a
larger demand for the product
of that particular industry, and
that it is bad business to try to
succeed by the destruction of
others.
School boys and girls—those
who intend to take their share
of the big responsibilities which
will come upon their shoulders
as thev grow older—should get
in early life a full appreciation
or the word success. Real success often has nothing to do
with money orevenfame. These
rewards merely incidentals.
Among the really successful
people'in the world are many
who are neither rich nor famous.
Yet they are successful because
every day they are doing those
things which are most important and worth while.—Selected.
We have once in a while a
fine day sandwiched in between
the blizzards to make us think
that perhaps spring may be
here after awhile.
The Wm. Johnson family
visited at Jake Girtz's home
Monday.
Little Falls Goes Wet.
At the annual election at Little Falls last Tuesday, the wets
won by a majority of 176 votes.
This is precisely 100 votes
more than the "Drys" polled a
year ago.
PLATTE NEWS.
A number of friends pleasent-
ly surprised Chas. Compton
Sunday afternoon. Fo)lowing
are those that attended': Frank
Winzenberg and family, Miss
Edna Bastian, LutherLorentzon
and family, Mr. Schneider and
family and Mr. Baxter and son
Dan.   A fine time was reported.
Mr. Morris and family arrived
from Pierz Sunday. They were
snow bound at Pierz since Thursday and had quite a bad trip
coming out.
Meloin Morris had dinner
with Mr and Mrs. Theo. Rychner Sunday.
Miss Bonnie Compton visited
with her sister Mrs. Lorentzon
a few days last week.
Paul Wolff was out lookiug
for seed oats Saturday.
The Voters turned out pretty
strong election in spite of the
storm and voted in their men.
Mrs. Lorentzon called at Win-
zenberg's Monday.
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
It was a great blizzard, wasnt
it.
Deerwood has aSerpent Lake.
It ought to change its name
since it belongs to dry territory.
Fred Herwis and daughter
were Pierz visitors Tuesday.
Rev. J. Plachta of Royalton read mass in Platte
church Tuesday morning.
A big line of over 150 new
spring coats now on display
at Hartmann's.
Many farmers are complaining about shortage of
straw. The winter has been
so long and severe that straw
is about used up as fodder
for cattle.
Henry Mueller of Little
Falls is now employed in the
Pierz Meat Market.
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Faust Bros, have sold their
EIGHT-HOUR
LAW UPHELD!
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Court Sustains Adamson Statute, i
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DECISION IS TOO LATE
Threatened Strike Settled Be-!
tore Ruling Is Made.
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MEANS   PAY   INCREASE   OF
MILLION  A  WEEK.
stock    of   groceries
Pierz Mercantile Co.
to  the
Joseph Przyilla and wife
celebrated St. Joseph day in
Pierz last Monday.
Only three more weeks till
Easter, (ret your new spring
coat at Hartmann's now.
John Feider of Duluth
was here a few days last
week, visiting with the Wer-
merskirchen family.
Holstein Park News.—
Mrs. E. M. Thompson returned home Tuesday from Esther-
ville, la., where she had been
Born—to Dr. Degnan and
wife, a young son.
J. Dillenbergof Buckmann
will open a barber shop in
Genola in the near future.
A young son arrived at
the home of Math Lochner
and wife last week.
Frank Hortsch of Morrill
was in town Monday. He
found bad roads to travel he
said.
Go to The Big Store for
your new harnesses. Prices
from $45.00 to $65.00
P. A. Hartmann Prop.
Anna Faust is home   from
Cross   Plains,   Wis.,  where
she has  been  studying   the
violin the last three months.
Joseph  Eich,   the    Little
Falls  implement dealer  was
"marooned" here Friday night
on account of the storm.
Joseph Wohlfeld of Len-
ore Lake, Canada, left for
his home last week, after
visiting with Mr. and Mrs.
John Donek and family and
friends all winter.
Aug. B.
Dehler of Buck-
man sold a hog to Nick
Meyer for $74.93' This hog
was a Poland China, which,
after raisi ng two litters of
pigs   for  her    owner,    also
visiting for some time. She was|raise(j a uice bunch of money
accompanied  by her  son    Ar-      , .,     ,
thur and daughter, Mrs. Philip   wlnle she was growing.
Anderson, and baby. | _ ,      ."
Miss    Mary  Berg  who is
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence King -        ,   .      T-.   ,   ,, +
and son have moved to   Huff-! employed m   Duluth,   spent
man, Minn., where they    will j several  days   of last    wee-k
farm this season. j with hfc,r  parente,   Mr.   and
Alvah Martens'   and   Arthur} Mrs. Frank Zuleger.
Taylor went to Pierz Saturday i
and came back Sunday    Alvah J       y th     i8.raoi_ths-old
bought a horse while there.
New York, March 20.—The
railway managers' agreement
with the brotherhoods to put
into operation the eight-hour
day on the ten-hour basis with
pro rata pay for overtime
means approximately i $1,000,-
000 a week added to the pay
rolls of the railways.
Thirteen million dollars extra back pay* dating from Jan.
1, when the Adamson law was
to have been effective, is to be
distributed among the 400,000
trainmen.
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Washington, March 20.—The United
States supreme court has held the Adamson eight-hour law constitutional.
The decision will have no effect on
the strike situation, as the walkout
was averted by the previous agreement reached by the railroads and
brotherhoods.
The decision has been eagerly
awaited because, until the strike was
called off, the walkout was regarded
as contingent upon the action of the
supreme court.
The law provides a basic eight-hour
day for railroad employes in interstate
commerce. It was passed to avert the
threatened . railroad strike last summer.
The case was taken to the supreme
court after Federal Judge Hook, at
Kansas City, had declared the act unconstitutional.
The court's decision was a 5 to 4
vote. Chief Justice White announced
the majority decision.
Justice McKenna concurred in the
majority opinion, but on slightly different grounds. Justice Day rear! his
own dissenting opinion, and Justice
Pitney delivered the other dissenting
opinion, in which Justice Van de Van-
ter joined.
Justice Day in his dissenting opinion said the legislation amounted to
"deprivation of the railroads' property
without due process of law."
Justices Pitney and Vandeventer
held that the law should be held unconstitutional and void "because congress, although confessedly not in
possession of information necessary
for intelligent and just treatment of
the controversy, arbitrarily imposed
upon the railroads the entire and
enormous cost of an experimental increase in wages."
Justice McReynolds delivered a
separate opinion, saying that congress
did not have power to pass the law,
but that he now bows to the majority's ruling.
RAILROADS ASREE
TO MEN'S DEMAND
{daughter  of  Mr.   and
Dubbels   of
Mrs.
Belle
is  now
Sorum   George
Prairie, was severely scalded
on the right hand, wrist and
forearm Sunday evening when
Miss Cora Bredfield
boarding at the F. C.
home.
Edwin Martens called at the
Thompson home Sunday.
J. W. Lease sawed wood for she tripped and fell into a
J. R. Taylor Monday. j pan of h()t water#
Visitors at J. E. King's Sun- I
day were Mr. and Mrs. Tho mp-      We here in Pierz will   not
son and family and   Mr.    and; b    greatly  effected  by   the
Mrs. G. King. I __   _° ., __
: R. R.  strike.     There  is an
Arthur Taylor has been , ,■ _„J* +■..-..._. ■ iff Q_fi
helping Chas. Sanborn the past, abundance of foodstuff and
few days. I fuel on  hand,   and  there  is
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Girtz vis- this consolation that if the
ited at the G. King home Sat- = Soo line will not now accept
urday- !live   stock  for  shipment,   it
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson call- wilI ffrow an(j fatten in the
ed at G. P. Martens' and P. C. .
Sorum's Thursday afternoon,    .meantime.
New York, March 20.—The threat-,
ened strike of the railroad trainmen;
has been definitely averted.
The railways have agreed to meet;
Uie fullest demands of the Adamson!
eight-hour law, regardless of the de-!
cision of the supreme court.
The following agreement was signed!
by the managers' committee and the.
brotherhood chiefs, finally settling!
questions over which they have been!
at odds:
"All railway service except passen-i
gers where scheduled now read: 100!
miles or less, nine or ten hours or!
less, overtime at ten or eleven miles;
per hour; insert eight hours or less!
for a basis day and twelve or less!
miles per hour for a speed basis for |
the purpose of computing overtime to j
be paid for at not less than one-!
eighth of a daily rate per hour. !
"In all yards, switching and hostling
service where schedules now read ten,
eleven or twelve hours or less shall
constitute a day's work, insert eight
hours or less sharll constitute a day'_
work at present ten hours' pay.
"Overtime to be paid for at not less
than one-eighth of the daily rate per
hour.
"in yards now working on a ten-
hour basis the daily rate shall be the
present ten hour standard rate with
overtime at one-eighth of the present
pay standard daily rate.
"In passenger service the present
mileage basis will be maintained. On
reads now having a flat ten-hour d;ry
in passeuger service the rule will be
amended to read eight with ten hours.
"For all classes of employes in short