The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1917-05-10

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, MAY, 10, 1917.
No.47
ABOUT THE STATE Interesting
Correspondences
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers,
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
EASTERN GRANITE
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
Oscar Tankenoff, well known in St.
Paul political cricles, is dead, aged
fifty-seven.
Jarius D. Backus, seventy-three
years old, veteran of the Civil war, is
dead at Owatonna.
Dr. J. A. Crosby, who practised medicine in Minneapolis for more than
thirty years, is dead.
Mrs. Adele Papineau, a resident of
St. Paul for nearly sixty years, is
dead, aged sixty-seven.
George W. Sludley, aged ninety, is
dead at his home in St. Peter. He
served in the Civil war in the First
Minnesota infantry.
Charles J. Davidson, aged seventy-
two, was run down and killed hy an
auto at St. Paul. He was a pioneer
resident of Minnesota.
St. Paul is to be represented directly on the battle front in Prance
hy ten ambulances, contributed by patriotic citizens and manned by St.
Paul drivers.
More than 1,000 coal dock laborers
of Duluth and Superior received a 10
per cent increase in pay. The raise
increases the common laborers' pay
to $3.50 a day.
Only the sudden shifting of the
wind saved the greater part of the
village of Kelliher from destruction by
fire that caused property loss estimated at $30,000.
Figures given out by state oflScials
indicate that the last legislature cost
the state nearly $335,000, instead of
$310,00:0, as previously estimated. The
1915 session cost $308,000.
Dr. John S. Abbott, prominent St.
Paul surgeon, will be one of the first-
six doctors from Minnesota to see
service under the American Red
Cross on the Freuch front.
Eleanor C. Donnelly, author of more
than fifty volunmes of poems, and
sister of the late Ignatius Donnelly
of Minnesota, is dead at Westchester,
Pa., aged seventy-nine years.
After a search of seven months the
body of Selwyn P. Coffrain, Brainerd
business man who was drowned while
duck hunting last October, has been
recovered from Lake George.
John F. Scott, formerly in the office
of the attorney general, has been appointed a member of the legal corps
of the Federal Land bank of St. Paul.
Mr. Scott's home is in St. Cloud.
Mrs. Mary Casey, the oldest resident of Le Sueur Center, is dead, aged
100 years, two months and twenty
days. She was born in County Cork,
Ireland, and reached Minnesota in 1855.
Governor Burnquist has announced
the reappointments of W. M. Gebhart,
South St. Paul, and Louis Betz, St.
Paul, to the board of examiners in the
state department of labor and industries.
The Minnesota annual conference of
the Methodist church will be held.at
Pipestone Sept. 26. Bishop Charles
Bayard Mitchell will preside. The
conference will be in session for about
six days.
Minneapolis chamber of commerce
memberships are quoted at $7,000 bid.,
the highest price ever known. Several years ago, when memberships1
sold at $5,000 each, the price caused
much comment.
For the first time since 1876 tha.
State Firemen's association will not
hold a convention this summer. The
executive board, at a meeting in St.
Paul, decided to postpone it this year
because of the war.
Bryan Gilkinson of Carleton college,
the Minnesota representative in the
interstajp oratorical contest held at
North fieltrT won first place in a field
of s^Jentries from states of the Middle West and Northwest.
Fred J. Jeffrey, manager of the
building paper department of the Peyton Paper company of Duluth, was
killed when he fell from a window
while sleep walking on the third floor
of the Y. M. C. A. building.
Joseph M. Mailhiot, formerly of Minneapolis and a native of Minnesota,
has been killed in battle in France,
where he served with the Fifty-second
overseas battalion of Canada. He formerly was in the United States regular army.
Anton Gutgesell, twenty-live years
old, was thrown from his bicycle
against the railing of the Twentieth
avenue bridge at Minneapolis when
his wheel skidded in the mud. He
died a few minutes later while in an
ambulance.
W. L. Darling of St. Paul, • former
chief engineer of the Northern Pacific
railroad and an expert in railroad construction, will be vice president of the
special railroad commission appointed
to help reorganize transportation facilities in Russia.
Austin Mulford, a Minneapolis traveling man, is under arrest at Marshall
on the charge of bigamy and has been
held to the June term of the grand
jury. It is charged that while having
a wife and three children in Minneapolis he married Miss Clara Larson,
BVerk in a Marshall store.
Roy Benton called at J. Zel-
lers' Monday.
Mrs. A. Vetsch visited at H.
Johnson's Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Perkins are
the proud parents of a nine
pound boy, born Monday, May
7.
Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson and daughter were guests
at the G. E. King home Sunday.
Joy Probasco is on the sick
list.
Jess King and Frank Perkins left for Lake Park, la., Monday.
Most of the men in this vicinity have been trying their luck
at Sucker creek lately.
Henry Ferguson is plowing
and fencing his land which he
recently purchased.
Mrs. Jess King and children
are visiting at the home of her
mother, Mrs. E. Perkins.
Mrs. A. Vetch visited Mrs.
Lawrence Kramer Sunday evening.
What's the matter with Holstein Park?
R, F. D. No. 3.
It beingf last day of school in
district 66 Friday May 4th a
picnic was given there. Dinner
was served to about 40 people
and after the dinner a short
program was given. The afternoon was s pent in playing
games. All reported a very
good time.
Merrill Winzenburg returned
home from Little Falls Tuesday,
where he will spend his summer
vacation.
Mr. Smith visited all day Friday at his daughter's home Mrs.
F. J. Winzenburg. He returned
home at that evening accompanied by his grand son Howard Winzenburg, who will remain there a few weeks.
F. J. Winzenberg and Knute
Nelson are very interested in
farming this spring. They are
doing their best to help the country out in some way, in time of
war.
Marie Chapin spent the weekend at her home in Little Falls.
Bonnie Campton and nephew
Clarence Kuhl left Sunday' for
a visit with relatives in Swan-
river.
PLATTE NEWS.
_ The dance at the Hoheisel hall
Monday night was well attended and everybody had a good
time.
Winska Froncak and Marie
Brunett called at the Halickis
home Wednesday afternoon.
Flo Brezinski called at Fron-
cak's Thursday evening.
Thresa Maleska, WinskaFron-
cat, J. Maleski, and Marie Brunett called on Madge Hoppe last
Friday evening.
Marie Brunett spent Saturday
and Sunday with Johanna Ebertowski.
Callers at Frank Froncak's
place Sunday were Stella and
Ed. Applikowski, Judwiga,Henry, Helen, Gertrude and Frank
Bernice, Edward Malowski,
Madge Hoppe, Johanna Ebert,
Bill and Ed. Shiek, Walter Swa-
zer and John Ebertowski.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hoheisel
and children were callers at the
Robert Happe home Saturday
evening.
A. W Cook and daughter,
Mrs. Ole Christianson and Ka-
thryne Hoppe of Sullivan were
Platte callers Saturday.
Boy is Shot
By Playmate
Little Falls, May 8: Jesse
Gammon, the 9-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Gammon
of Green Prairie, was shot and
seriously wounded Sunday
afternoon by a companion,
the son of a neighbor.
The boy is in St.
Gabriel's hospital, where he
was taken immediately after
the accident.
The boy who had the gun
pointed it at the Gammon boy,
thinking it was not loaded. He
ordered young Gammon to
throw up his hands and then
pulled the trigger. The bullet
struck the Gammon boy in the
right shoulder and entered the
lung. He is much improved today, but his condition is still
serious.
Mnhibz-MtBttylmBBt,
Beileids-Beschluesse des St. Joseph's
K. U. Vereins von Pierz, Minn.
flier sein verstorbenes Mi.-
glied, John Donek.
Da es Gott demAllmachtigen,
inseinem unerforschlichenRath
schluss gefallen hat, unseren
Mitbruder, und in ihm eines un-
serer pfLichteifrichsteu Vereins-
mitglied in ein besseres Jenseits
abzuberufen, wiinscht der St.
Joseph's K. U. Verein von Pierz,
Minnesota,, durch sein miter-
zeichnetes Comite der trauern-
den Witwe und deren Kinder
sein tiefgefuhltes Beileid fur ih-
ren herben Verlust auszudriicken
und versichert dieselben,' seiner
im Gebet und beim Opfer nicht
vergessen zu wollen.
Als ferneren Beweis unserer
Werthschatzung fur unseren
treuen verstorbenen Mitbruder
sei hiermit
Beschlossen, dass die Ver-
eins-Fahns  fur  neun Tage im
Trauerrlor in der Kirche  aufge
stellt wird.
Be schlossen, dass vorliegen-
de Bescblu-seim" Vereinsbote"
sowie im "Pierz Journal" ver-
offentlicht und dem Vereins-Pro
tokolle einverleibt werde, und
ferner
Beschlossen, dass die Bei
leids- Beschlusse der hinterblie
benen Familie im Druck iiber
reicht werden.
Stangl Conrad,
Boehm Frank,
Boser John J.,
Renneberg Edward,
Das Comite.
Stoll Baby Dead
Gertrude Mary Stoll, the 9-
months- old daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. A. P. Stoll, died Sat-
urday morning at 9 o'clock at
the home of her grandmother,
Mrs. Gertrude Stoll, in Little
Falls. The child had been ill
for about rive weeks from bronchial pneumonia. Burial took
pluce Monday morning.
John H. Langer  is  building a new house.
Walter Swazer and Leo Ebertowski were Little Falls goers
Saturday,
Bertha Krycb, Tracv Maleski,
Mr. Shinko, Tony and Romaldy
Malonowski were callers at the
Froncek home last Sunday evening.
Mrs. John Hoppe of West
Sullivan was in this burg last
Tuesday.
Soldier From
Trenches Here
Little Falls, May 8: Sergeant
K. J. Evans, late of the Canadian forces, who are fighting
in France, was in Little Falls
Wednesday on his way to
Brainerd. He will return to
Little Falls next week to lee
ture on his experiences in the
trenches, where he spent 21
months. He was released for
disability after having a knee
smashed and still uses crutches.
Sergeant Evans was the
ninth man to enlist in Canada
after the outbreak of the war.
After training a short time in
Canada and for several months
in England, where he went
vith the first force from Canada, he went to th£ front with
his battalion. He jwas injured
last September in ithe Somme
.egion. He had bejen sent out
to blow, up barbed (wire entanglements and was returning to
his trench when a njaching gun
.hell smashed his knee-cap. He
iay where he was/struck for
;ix hours before heiwas picked
ip. He has been in hospitals
most of the time since and expects to go to Rochester for
treatment in about a month.
He says everyone is nervous
the first time he goes into the
irenches, but that the fear soon
,vears off. The men are given
.hree days in the trenches and
hen three in a "rest camp"
. ack of the lines. When they
ire in the trenches they want
■o get out, he says, and when
they are out they are anxious
to get back in. He says they
tppear happiest when in the
trenches fighting.
He told of one man who was
Iriven almost insane with fear
.".hen first put in a trench, so
Jiat it was necessary to tie him
to a stretcher and take him to
a field \ hospital. After two
veeks in the hospital he returned to the trenches and was one
3f the steadiest men in the
battalion.
Boy Blows
Off Fingers
Count) $2,600
Out on Bounties
The county will have to con-
;inue paying wolf bounties, if
they are paid at all for two
years longer, because of the
. eto by Governor Burnquist of
the legislature's appropriation
of $60,000 for each year to pay
counties until July 1, 1919.
The county already has $2,-
.00 coming from the state for
wolf bounties paid since the
state suspended payment for
lack of funds two years ago.
Grovernor Burnquist also vetoed
an appropriation, of -$9.0,000 to
reimburse the counties for
money paid out during those
two years, so the state has no
funds to pay its debts to the
counties.
The county will have to wait
it least until 1919 to get back
money paid out of the county
treasury for wolf bounties.
Hartmann-Meyer.
Anton V. Hartmann, the popular proprietor of the Columbia
Hotel, and Margareth Meyer,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. P.
Meyer, were united in marriage
Wednesday morning. Michael
Meyer, the bride's brother was
best man; Bertha Hartmann,
the groom's sister was bridesmaid. The wedding was cele-
bsated at the Columbia Hotel,
and the wedding dance was held
in Hartmann's hall in afternoon
and evening. A large number
out-of-town relatives of the
groom attended the wedding.
Joseph Banek, the young son
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Banek
of Pulaski had the first two fingers and the thumb of his right
hand blown off Saturday afternoon while playing with a
dynamite cap. The cap exploded in his hands. His left
hand is badly burned and his
face was blown full of powder.
The boys' parents were away
from home and one of his brothers bandaged his hands and
a doctor was not called until
Sunday, when he was taken to
Sa. Gabriel's hospital.
County Seat Cullings.
Damages are denied Mrs. Cora
Smetzer and Mrs. Laura Pearson for the death of their husbands in an accident on tbe
Hoist farm in Ripley last summer, in a decision filed Friday
morning with clerk of Court A.
M. Stoll by District Judge William L. Parsons.
Edward Smetzer and Henry
Pearson were killed on June 27,
1916, while moving a house on a
farm in section 23, Ripley,
owned by Drs. J. B. and C. F.
Hoist. The house was being
moved on jacks and slipped off,
crushing the two men. Smetzer was instantly killed and
Pearson died a few hours later.
. Dr. J. G. Millspaugh, who has
been at Battle Creek, Mich., for
several weeks, is expected home
Sunday or Monday.
Eight bushels of clover seed,
valued at about $70, have disappeared from the garage building
at the C. B. Buekman residence,
112 Fourth street southeast.
The seed was owned by Mrs.
Alice Buekman. It was missed
Friday afternoon when arrangements were made to sell it. It
has been found, however, that
the seed has not been in the
garage for three weeks or more.
Ed. Herman of Vawter, who
has been at the hospital receiv
ing treatment for typhoid fever,
returned to his home Friday.
County Attorney Rosenmeier
left Friday for Motley, where
he will try a case against an alleged blindpigger. Theman is
said to have peddled liquor in
bottles at Motley.
The lock on the door of the
smokehouse at the rear of Wilczek's meat market, on the West
side, was picked Thursday night
and a ham worth $5 to $6 stolen.
Tramps are blamed for the
theft.
Mrs. George Wood of Pierz
was brought to St. Gabriels
hospital Thtrsday for medical
treatment. Later she will be
operated on for an internal goiter.
Grain And Produce
Market Report
Wheat, No. 1, _ $2.90
Wheat, No- 2      2.87
Wheat, No. 3„_-      2.80
Flax,       3.20
Barley         1.20
Rye    2.00
Oats      70
EarCorn  1.25
Hay     7.00
Butter, Creamery ..      40
Dairy       27
Eggs       30
Flour.Royal     8.00
"    WhiteRose....      7.90.
Low grade flour 3.30
Bran i_._2.10
Shorts  2.20
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 2.55
Ground Feed    2.40
Beans      5.00
Onions     2.50
Potatoes     1-25
Local Happenings
Ofjhe Week.
Paul Felix, the sheriff was
a caller here yesterday.
H. (-f. Morris of Platte was
a village caller Saturday.
Herman E. Tanner of Brainerd visited Pierz Tuesday.
J. L. Judge and "Tobey '
arrived in Pierz yesterday
morning.
H. A. Rider of Little Falls
renewed acquaintances here
Tuesday.
N. Borgerding of Melrose
visited the lumber yard here
yesterday.
John Schaefer is now
working in the saw mill in
Little Falls.
Mr. and Mrs. Beetch returned to their home in St.
Paul Monday.
Frank and Nick Thienes
attended a wedding at Royalton Tuesday.
J. W. Koop of Brainerd
was here to attend the Stoll
funeral Monday.
J. Eich, the Studebaker
man of St. Cloud was visitor
here on business Tuesday.
Mrs. Hoffman will soon
move to Wadena. She has
rented her house to Peter
Lohschider.
Norbert Brummer bought
80 acres of land nine miles
east on which he will begin
to make improvements at
once.
ALLIES IN NEED
OF MUCH MONEY
United States Must Supply
$400,000,000 Monthly.
SECOND LOAN TO BRITAIN
Old settlers say that the
pond in Karst's parture had
not been so high as it is now
in thirty years.
George (rordon and Harry
Halsted of the Little Falls
Water Power Co., were here
Friday looking over the village electric light system.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Blake
of Little Falls have received
word that their daughter,
Mrs. H. J. Vonderhaar of
Karlsruhe, N. D. had undergone an operation for appendicitis and for the removal of a tumor at a Fargo
hospital, Wednesday a week
ago.
Fred J. Jeffrey, quite well
known in Pierz as a traveling salesman for the Peyton
Paper Co., of Duluth fell out
of a third story window of
the Y. M. C. A. building,
Duluth, early last Saturday
morning while walking in
his sleep, and was instantly
killed.
Relative to the High Cost
of Living, prices that pie-
vailed in Portland, Maine at
the time of the Civil War
are interesting. Flour was
$21.00a bbi. Butter at times
was as high as 65 cents a
pound. Brown Sugar then
sold for 22 cts a pound and
kerosene sold as high as 27
cts a quart. Hard coal was
$18.00 a ton and other things
sold proportionally high. Cotton sheets were six dollars a
pair and calico 40 cents a
yard. Mr. Baker who was a
skilled mechanic received $3
a day, which was high wages for those times.
Government Decides to Give England
$100,000,000 During May to Meet
Needs in This Country, Half of That
Sum   Being Already Transferred.
Washington, May 8.—The government has decided to lend Great Britain $100,000,000 to meet her needs in
this country during May.
A second installment of $25,000,000
has been transferred to the British
embassy, making, with ' the $25,000,-
000 loaned her Saturday, a total of one-
half of the May loan.
The decision to advance Great Britain $100,000,000 during May agrees
with estimates ttiat this government
would be called on to finance the allies up to at lealst ?400,000,000~a month.
Sums already pledged for the next
month or so are at the rate of $300,-
000,000 a month and cover only the
needs of Great Britain, France and
Italy.
Additional loans to Russia, Belgium
and possibly to Serbia will swell the
total, it is believed, to at least $400,-
000,000 and bring the total advanced
to the allies prior to July 1, when the
first proceeds of the liberty loan will
be available, up to approximately $1,-
000,000,000.
Subscriptions to the liberty loan
continues in large volume.
War Commissions Act Jointly.        |
i
Allied war commissions sitting con-j
tinuously—one in London and the oth-j
er here—appear as one of the first!
actual steps to co-ordinate the re-|
sources of the United States with!
those of the allies.
The commission in London, with!
representatives of all the allied na-j
tions, including the United States,;
would receive and decide upon thej
appointment of sea-borne traffic. Thei
commission would then charge itself;
with getting such supplies to the sea-j
board, either by direct purchase or]
through present agencies.
While the inroads of the subma-;
rine menace continue it is absolutely!
essential to conserve every ship fori
the most needed freight and the only I
way this can be done is to have thej
allies submit their needs to a central'
body in London which shall have power to give priority to the most pressing.
At the same time the commission in
this ecountry, knowing exactly how
much was wanted, would buy it judiciously and keep the railroad lines
open to the seaboard.
BREWERS  OBJECT   TO   BILL
Given Hearing by Senate Agricultural
Committee.
Washington, May 8.—Headed by
Gustave Pabst, a delegation representing the brewers of the United States
was heard by the senate agriculture
committee on Senator Gronna's bill
to forbid the manufacture of grain
into alcoholic liquors during the war.
Tlie delegation told the committee
that the brewing interests were ready
to co-operate with the government in
any way and to the fullest extent the
president might wish and did not ask
consideration from any standpoint
other than that of fair dealing and
public policy.
The actual amount of grain used in
brewing, principally barley, they told
the committee, represents less than
three-quarters of 1 per cent of all the
grain produced in the United States.
Moreover, they said, barley i* not a
staple human food here or abroad.
SHAM BATTLE BRINGS DEATH
Several Killed and Many Injured in;
Mexico City.
Mexico City, May 8.—Several per-1
sons have been killed and about 100;
injured in a sham battle in which 14,- j
000 school boys took part. The battle j
was the closing act of the week's fes-1
tivities in honor of the inauguration |
of President Carranza and the celebra- j
tion of the great national holiday in!
memory of the defeat of the French j
In 1862.
One of those killed was a Red Cross j
nurse.
The accidental mixing of ball cart- j
ridges with blanks is believed to have j
been responsible for the tragedy.
TURNED  OVER TO  ENGLAND;
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German  Vessels  Interned  in   Portugal!
Put Into Use. '■
Lisbon, May 8.—Sixty of the seventy-six German merchant steamers
which were in Portuguese ports when
Portugal entered the war and which
were promptly seized by the government have been turned over to Great
Britain on a rental basis. England
has rented the ships for $7,000,000 a
year to be paid after the war.
What will become of the ships after
the war, whether they will become
the permanent property of Portugal
or England, or go back to Germany,
is much in doubt.
Attend the Heinen-Brust Free Wedding Dance in Faust's hall, Tuesday May 15th, 1917,