The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1917-05-24

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PIERZ, flOtfRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, MAY, 24, 1917.
No.49
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HARRY LANE.
Senator     From     Oregon
Who   Is   Dangerously   III.
Local Happenings     An Organization
Of the Week. I     In Every County
Pastures are beginning to j    The people of Minnesota are
organizing themselves for    the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ war,    an    organization    which
Frank Hortsch was a caller; will reach every corner of ' the
green
Tlie condition of United States Senator Harry Lane of Portland, Ore.,
who is gravely ill at a San Francisco
hospital, was reported as unchanged
by attending physicians.
His ailment has been diagnosed a.
a severe nervous, breakdown, complicated by high blood pressure.
ROOSEVELT DISBANDS
ALL HIS VOLUNTEERS
here Monday.
John Faser returned Friday from his trip to Earling,
Iowa.
Service will be held in the
Platte church Tuesday May
29th.
Paul Stadtherr returned
to his home in Melrose last
Monday.
The officers of the Farmers' creamery had a meeting
Monday.
Chas. Gravel of Onamia
visited here between trains
Saturday.
John Hesch and wife of
Agram are visiting relatives
in Wisconsin.
Walter A. Zuleger left Iast^uMr^organ1za?d_i.Wf6.
Saturday for Onamia to work
in Gravel's sawmill.
E. F. Shaw and F. W. Lyon
and E. W. Beard of Little
Falls wei'je callers here last
Tuesday.
Fire destroyed the farm
house and its contents of Guy
morning.
August
Eichmijfer,    the
Oyster Bay, N. Y., May 22.—Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt announced 4II
men who had volunteered to servo
with him under the American flag in
France  had   been  absolved   from   all
further connection with the movement , .
and the only course open to them is to Eckel, located OU6 mile north
enter the military service in some oth-|of Grdy ,j£ , last Monday
er way, if they are able to do so, it ■ rf ° ^^^^^^^™
not, to serve the country _n civil life.
"As good American citizens" Colonel Roosevelt said in a formal statement,  "we loyally obev  the decision. _. . -    ..        -i i_ 1 4.
of   the   commander-in-chief   of   the;Onamia  liveryman, brought
American army and navy.    The menj a la(Jy t0 Pierz   Sunday even-
who have volunteered will now con--. ....       ,, , *._    ins- nf trip farm  lahnr ni-__i_m
sider themselves absolved from ail ing, whieh the Saturday aft-.^S ot tne ™ labor Problem,
further connection with  this move-' ernoon s0o  passenger  train
ment. * j *•"•._
"The funds that have been promised : carried by.
will be treated as withdrawn and ap- j
MissCathryde Stumpf, who
visited in Little Jf alls a few
days returned home Tuesday.
state.
Some counties have already
formed organizations to carry
out this purpose. Everywhere
else the director appointed by
the State Commission of Public
Safety is calling the people together to form such an organization. It is the work of the
people themselves, though
wherever official conduct is required, the official action will
be through the Commission of
Public Safety and the county director. One of the first things
to be undertaken by this county
organization will be to systematize the placing of farm labor
within the county by a series of
exchanges.
'Where adequate county organizations already exists the
county director will as a matter
of course work in co-operation.
In many places patriotic
meetings are being held to sti-
war. In this connection the
All-Minnesota Development Association held a meeting Wednesday in St. Paul and adopted
resolutions by which the members hold themselves in readiness to furnish speakers in any
neighborhood where, upon local
initiative, they may be invited.
The Food Committee established by the governor to work
in conjunction with the Public
Safety Commission is planning,
at the request of the commission, the best methods of pursuing state-wide activities in several lines, especially the handl-
pii-d to other purposes. I therefore
direct that this statement be sent to
the, leaders in the various states w!n
have been raising troops."
the proposed agricultural census and the marketing problem.
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.Fred  Stangl   of St. Cloud
was a caller here this morn*
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TARS     TO     BUY     LIBERTY
BONDS FOR MOTHERS.
Great Lakes, 111., May 22.—
Sailors at the United States na-'
val training station here probably will buy 51,000,000 worth
of Liberty bonds.
Under the plan offered it will
be suggested to each recruit
that he purchase a ?100 bond
in favor of his mother or some
other member of his family.
Arrangement has been made
for installments of $2.85 a
month.
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GRAIN
Siie was accompanied by Miss
Clara  Labrie, who  will visit
j the Stumpf family for some
time.
Val, Meyer has moved out
to his father's place, 2 miles
east of the village. His father intends to build a house |
in the village this summer
and move into it.
ing.
August  Ernst   arrived  in
  Pierz    Saturday    afternoon
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STOCK    IN    BRITAIN'Wil* sPen(i  some time at the
  horrw of his  brother Edward
Supply Believed  Sufficient Until  New i p        ,
Crop Comes. i J-TIliSt.
London, May 22. — The grain supply now on hand in the United Kingdom is sufficient to last for twelve
weeks, according to estimates of Kennedy Jones, director of food economy,
who spoke at Edinburgh.
Mr. Jones declared that by the time
this stock is exhausted the new har-   morning OU a trip to Morgan,
vest win be available.       - 'Minn., for a short visit with
It was evident,; tk-jpfore, Mr. Jones '
declared, that ratting would be un- j relatives and friends.    They
necessary, if the people are econom- !        j    mar.*.   trm t.-in  fn John
leal, but he war_tb**that economy is  macte maae   tne U1P ln JOUU
essential because the supply on hand  S. Redjng's Ford Car.
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!    Sheriff Felix   and Auditor
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Reding and children, and Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Koll and
baby  Loretta  left Saturday
^fad that which will
the new harvest will cover only twen
ty-four  weeks   of  the   coming  year's
consumption.  __
HOUSTON   FLAYS   HOARDING
Asserts There Is No Need for People
to Get Panicky.
Washington, May 22.—Hoarding of
foodstuffs in private household . was
condemned by Secretary Houston as
contributing to high food prices.
"There is no need for people to get
hysterical or panicky," the secretary
said. "Doubtless many persons who
have laid in excessive amounts of foodstuffs may learn that they could have
purchased more favorably by following ordinary practice and that their
stocks may deteriorate in quality."
;McMairy were here Tuesday
; morning distributing' supplies to ragi-itrars. The
supplies consisted of a certificate to be given to every
person register.'d as evidence that he Ii.as complied
with the law.
Some   time   age.
came in and borrowed a step-
ladder.    After waiting for it
six  months,  the said   owner
called up "the  fellow on the
A young daughter arrived
at the home of Dr. R. T Healy Tuesday.
Frank and Jos. Macho of
St. Cloud visited friends here
Thursday.
Norbert Brummer intends
to move onto his farm within
the next week.
Herman J. Meyer and Wm.
J. Broker of  Royalton were
here this afternoon.
f
' John   Lukkemeier   of   St.
Cloud   was   here   today   on
business.      John    says    his
brother  Anton has  been in
ill health for several months.
The heavy frosts the last
two or three nights have damaged the transplanted flowers, but not the garden vegetables nor the plum and ap-
pletree blossoms.
Chas. Sylvester, Ralph
Nichols, Frank Gannon and
H. M. Venners, four alleged
crack whist players of the
county seat, were badly beaten by our champions Tuesday
evening.
The man who   went out to
a  fellow tnilk   and   sat   down   on   a
Illegal Fishers
Heavily Fined
St. Cloud Journal-Press
Game Warden Clark Eldred
caused the arrest of Fred
Schwanke, John Mohr, W. Kas-
in of Randall, Minn., on the
charge of illegal fishing' in
Lake 'Alexander, and each was
fined a\ total of $104.65 for illegal fishing. The charge made
was net fishing, which is prohibited by law. The game warden confiscated a fishing net,
/.Inch he found in place in the
take, 350 feet long. He also located a number of other smaller nets in the lake, but was un-
ible to locate the men who had
placed them.
Net fishing is reported in various lakes, about the state,
ome of them not far from St.
Cloud. The waste of fish and
die lack of sportsmanship in
this form of fishing has placed
it under a special legal ban and
'the limit" is usually imposed
upon net fishermen who are
.aught. The parties arrested
are prominent business men of
Randall.
nteresting
FREEDHEM NEWS
The Northend baseball nine
of Little Falls and the Freed-
_em nine crosed bats on the
freedhem diamond Sunday.
_he Northend nine beat by a
.core, of 3 to 10. A large crowd
attended the game. The Freed-
aero nine intend to play the
. .orthends again in the near
.uture. They are not easily
-cared out'.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Schneider
..ere Sunday callers at the H.
-iuirn home in Belle Prairie.
Joseph   and   Clifton   James
..ere    in    Freedhem    Sunday.
..verybody was    glad    to    see
-hem. Joseph has been working
on the drive.
A small crowd attended the
uard time social at the Freed-
aem Farmers' club house
_ hursday evening.
A. Lnlund was a Sunday
_ailer at the J. Nelson home.
Services will be held in the
weedhem club house Sunday
at 3:30 p. m. by Rev. Gregory of
__ittle Falls.
Axel Carlson, who is working in Brainerd visited at home
a few days last week. He returned to Brainerd Monday.
Correspondences
SULLIVAN
Mrs. T. S. Look   visited    at
C. E. Look's last Wednesday.
' Mrs.     Peter  . Adkins     and
daughter Mary   were   Hillman
callers Thursday.
Mrs. C. E. Look called at
Widdowson's Thursday afternoon.
"Col." Siebert left the fort
long enough to make a business
trip to Pierz Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Britton
and children made a short call
at  Martin's  Friday  afternoon.
John and Laurel Hoskins
were Hillman goers Saturday.
Raymond Sims and wife were
Lake callers Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Adkins
and Mrs. Peter Adkins spent
last week with Mrs. Henry
Rieke who is very low (with
pneumonia.
Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Harting
and Mrs. Thompson of Little
Falls picknicked at the lake
Sunday.
Dr. Fortier accompanied by
two gentlemen from Little Falls
motored jap to Camp Linehan
Sunday.
The lake being too rough for
the Roosevelt ball team to _;ross
Sunday, our game of ball did
not materalize.
Business callers in the city of
Hillman Monday were C. E.
:_ook and the Widdowson
brothers.
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Look visited at Mrs. Ford's Sunday.
Jim Pint was a lake caller
Monday evening.
Long Blindness Ended
After Fifteen Years
St. Cloud, May 21: Ed.Vail-
lancourt of Oak Park has had
his vision restored after 15
years of blindness in one eye.
Mr. Vaillancourt awoke- one
morning recently to find that
the vision of the defective member had been completly restored
and /lie is now able to use the
eye as freely and well as he
could before the accident which
caused the blindness.
Twenty years ago Mr. Vaillancourt was struck in the side
s
of the head with a hammer.
His sight became impaired and
gradually become worse until
the vision in the eye was entirely lost. There was a slight
growth in the center of the eyeball which has now disappeared. This growth was evidently
the cause of the blindness as
its removal has restored the
vision.
HOLSTEIN PAEK
ARREST SPEED FIENDS
S
The village of Sartell proposes to have the speed limit
laws observed in that village.
A number of arrests have been
made recently and were fined
,,-5 and costs. Five special officers have been appointed to
take numbers and make arrests
nd hereafter each offender is
to get the limit, according to
reports. Sartell has been at
-onsiderable expense in building the road and the village is
determined to keep it in shape.
HILLMAN
Miss Mildred Wilmont of
Swanville and Oscar Sanbeck of
Hillman were married in Little
Falls Monday morning. The
young couple have many
friends in this vicinity who
wish them much joy and happiness. The bride was our
"school ma'am" last year and
the groom is manager, of the
Sandbeek Lumber Co, here.
They will reside in Hillman.
boulder in the  middle of the
pasture  and   waited for   the
cow to back up to him, is the
Note Doesn't Mean Break. caiiea. up tne  teilow on tne eldest  brother   to  the   man
Paris, May 22.—Premier Prieto of telephone  and  said tfeo Mm: who kept a store and did not
"You .have had the ladder six advertise, because he rea-
months, and we wii.h you soned that the purchasing
would bring it bacfe right public would back up to his
away, as we*ve got a chance. Plac« when  it  wanted some-
Spain, speaking of the note addressed
to the German government in connection with the submarine attack on the
Spanish steamship Patricio, declared
it was more energetic than has been
customary, according to a Havas dispatch from Madrid, but that it does
not mean a rupture of diplomatic relations.
.to lend it for a year."'—Ex
thing.—Ex.
Grain And Produce
Market Report
'Vheat, No. 1, $2.31
Wheat,  No. 2     2.28
Wheat, No. 3.__      2.21
Flax,        3.00
Barley __ __        1.10
L.ye    2.00
Oats      65
EarCorn  1.25
Hay     7.00
Mutter, Creamery .        40
Dairy  _.      27
H-g-trs       3©
h11 our, Royal      8.00
"    White Rose     7.90
Low grade flour 3.30
Bran . 2.10
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 2.55
Shorts 2.20
Ground Feed    2.40
Beans      5.00
Onions    2.5 0
Potatoes    *?.15
County Seat Calling's.
A report reached the city Saturday that a big fire was raging'
in Pierz, A telephone message
brought back the answer thKt
the fire was confined to a rubbish pile.
Miss Agnes Lepinski returned
home Friday evening from Winona, where she was bridesmaid
at the wedding of a friend. The
automobile in which the bridal
party was riding after the ceremony turned over and was badly smashed, but no one was seriously injured. Miss Lepinski
and the others in the car were
slightly scratched and narrowly
escaped serious injury.
She Wouldn't  Make Trouble.
She was not one of these trouble
making women. In fact, she Had
the greatest contempt for people of
that kind.   She' said so herself.
"And she spoke of yon, too," she
>ai.d in telling a friend of a call.
'"What did she say?"
"Oh, I'd rather not tell you, dear.
There's no use making trouble, you
know."—Chicago Post.
Foolish to Close.
I "Why do you wish to close this
show?" demanded the beautiful actress.
"It's losing money," replied the
manager.
. "What of that? The critics all
say that I look lovely in my part."
.—Chicago Herald.
"What kind of leather makes the best
. shoes?"
! "Don't know, but banana peelings
make the best slippers."
I Larch is the commonest tree in Ireland.
An elephant's trunk contains 40,000
muscles.
Mrs. J. A. Sanborn and son
Bert motored to Minneapolis
last Saturday. Bert returned
Monday leaving his mother for
a visit with relatives.
E. M. Thompson and family
are enjoying a visit from his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Thompson, of Estherville, la.
G. E. King and wife, Mrs.
Jess King and children and
Mrs. Irving King and baby left
for Iowa with their auto' on
Monday last. We are very sorry
to lose these people from this
vicinity.
Miss Cora Bredfield spent
Friday evening at the Dorman
home and Sunday at J. R. Taylor's.
The woods have all been
burned over here. No blueberries this year.   •
We can almost imagine ourselves in the city by the sound
-of the autos now-a-days. Some
of them have hard wrork to
make the hills.
The latest device for getting
new tools is to put old ones in a
brush pile and then set it on
fire.
Mrs. E. Perkins and daughter
Alice of Rucker spent Saturday
and Sunday at E. M. Thompson's.
Arthur Christian was in Hillman Saturday.
Sam Martin and Arthur
Christian took dinner with E.
Vaux. They pronounced him a
good cook and not in need of a
housekeeper.
Donald Taylor called at
Thompson's  Monday  morning.
The May baskets this year
must have been war-time baskets as some of them contained eatables such as cabbages,
etc.
E. M. Thompson and J. R.
Taylor were Pierz visitors Saturday.
Fred Sorum was in Pierz
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sanborn
and Lucile, Mrs. Martin and
Edwin, autoed to Pierz last
week Tuesday.
Some of the neighbors were
out fighting fire Saturday night
at Christian lake. They had
hard work to save the buildings.
Miss Bredfield visited at
the Thompson home last Sunday.
CHEESE VS. CHOPS
■ Here is an economy hint.
Eat 12 cents' worth of cottage
cheese and you'll get more protein than is contained in a
pound and a'half of pork. That
is the claim made by the United States department of agriculture. A pound of cheese
daily will supply all the protien
required by an ordinary man
working indoors.
OUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FRBM ALL SECTIONS!
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told;
for the Convenience of thn
Busy Reader.
Casper Schulenberg, who had lived j
in Minneapolis fifty-one years, is dead,!
aged sixty.
Leo Keubler, a farmer, fifty-five!
years old, was killed when struck by]
a train near Anoka.
Mrs. Chris Veraguth, a pioneer resi-|
dent of Barnesville, is dead. She was'
seventy years of age.
Chester Barbau, six years old, of
Minneapolis was run over by a switch
engine and instantly killed.
Minnesota fire losses in April were
$455,156, compared with $192,065 in
the corresponding month last year.
Adolph Moody, son of Mr and Mrs.
A. D. Moody of Albert Lea. was
drowned while fishing 6n Fountain
lake.
James Tracy, ninety years old, pioneer of White Bear and for fifty
years a resident of that village, is
dead.
Fred Gerlich, a former sheriff of
Blue Earth county, is dead at Dickinson, N. D. He was buried at his
former home at Mapleton, this state.
C. H. Cleveland, for many years a
Minneapolis hardware dealer, is dead,
aged seventy-seven years. Mr. Cleveland was a veteran of the Civil war.
Mrs. David H. Clarke, prominent in
Methodist Episcopal church circles at
St. Paul, is dead. Mrs. Clarke was a
native of Ireland and was fifty years
of age.
Mrs. George P. Flannery, wife of the
president of the Northwestern Trust
company of St. Paul, is dead at her
former home in Minneapolis after a
short illness.
Floyd J. Seavers, fifteen years old,
vas drowned while clam fishing in
Lake Pepin, near Red Wing. The boy
was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Seavers of Red Wing.
Representative Thomas D. Schall of
Minneapolis has telegraphed to Colonel  Roosevelt   tendering  him  a  regi-;
ment  of 1,200- -men and  officers  from
St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Fred G. Neally, son of the
Charles Neally, proprietor of one of
the largest hotels in. Chisholm, was
found clubbed and shot to death near
the Sharon depot at Buhl.
Latirant La Doucer, eighty-six years
old, who came to the state in 1S53
and went through all the hardships of
a farmer of early Minnesota, is dead
at New Canada, Ramsey county.
Thousands of partridges and' much
ether game; including young deer, are
perishing in the forest fires in Northern Minnesota, according to Carlos
Avery, state game and fish commissioner.
Mrs. Lester Devereaux, a bride of a
week, is in a serious condition at her
home near Park Rapids as the result
oi a brutal attack by a rejected suitor.
Hubbard county authorities are seeking the man.
Shipments for '.'.ie week ending May
14 from the state owned mines on the
Mesaba range were 49,575 tons. It is
expected that close to 5,000,000 tons,
of ore will be shipped fi*mi the state
mines this year.
Tho Minnesota Music Teachers' association will hold its annual convention at Winona June 19, 20 and 21. A
number of artists of wide repute are
being obtained for the several programs and recitals.
Directors of the Minneapolis chamber of commerce have ordered suspend
sion of trading in all futures until further notice. Wheat and rye are the
grains affected, no other "futures being handled at this time.
Dr. H. M. Guilford, city health commissioner of Minneapolis, reported 1?1
new cases of tuberculosis and fifty-
five.deaths in Minneapolis in April and
118 deaths for every 100,000 of population in the year ending May 1.
Frederick J. Clark, sixty years old,
vice president and Northwestern editor of the Northwest Miller, published at Minneapolis, is«dead in the;
Mill City. He had been connected with j
tbat publication for forty-two years.
Trials of persons accused of violat-i
ing the liquor laws' have been simpli-j
tied by a supreme court decision de-j
claring that a person who, to get evi-j
dence, buys liquor that is sold unlaw-1
fully, does not become an accomplice, j
Though four men fought desper-!
ately, 'one nearly losing his life, to j
save him, Frank Batke, twenty-six- j
fear-old waiter of the White Bearj
yacht club, was drowned when Ills;
canoe capsized 100 feet from the club's j
float.
Minnesota state banks collectively I
held at the close of business May 1 a I
cash reserve of $39,5S4,070, which iai
$22,587,81.2jin excess of the amount;
the   law   requires,   according  -to   F. j
E. Pearson,   state   superintendent   ofj.
banks.
William Ryan, aged eighty-five, died
suddenly at his home at Coates Station. Dr. John Ryan of the Catholic
universiay of Washington and Rev. L.
F. Ryan, assistant pastor of the St.
Paul cathedral, are sons of the deceased.
Attend the Dance at (Faust's Hall, Penttoos* (Pftnjgtftontafl) Hay
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