The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1917-05-31

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, MAY, 31, 1917.
No. 50
GREAT BATTLE
RAGING
A. P. and R. M Stoll spent
Italians Continue to fiaiii!DecorationdayinBrai,ierd-
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
ister
Over Austrians.
WITHIN SIGHT OF DUINO
Latins Fight Their Way to Outskirti
of Most Formidable Barrier Between
Them and Triest—Germans Deliver
Hard Blows on Western Front.
London, May 29.—The Italians havs
fought their way forward to within
two miles of Duino, the most formidable natural barrier between them and
Triest. The great battle now enters
its eighteenth day without any sign
of an abatement in the fury of the
struggle. Vienna stubbornly refuses
to concede the Italian victories, but
the map tells the story of General Ca-
dorna's steady advance.
Duino marks a point at which tha
Carso plateau almost touches the sea,
Protected by the ocean on the one
side, it is powerfully defended to the
north by Mount Querceto. At the foot
of Mount Querceto, facing west, lies
the little town of Medeazza and the
Italians have smashed their way to
within a few hundred yards of this
village.
A dispatch from Amsterdam to London reports that allied air squadrons,
including British, French and Belgian
machines, bombed German defenses at
Heyst, Blackenberghe and Zeebrugee,
all in Belgium. The dispatch adds
that many explosions were observed.
The Germans delivered three attacks in the Champagne, in the regions of the Casque, the Teton and
Mont Blond. All were repulsed, however, the French war office announces.
The Germans are now bombarding
heavily French positions in the region
of Dead Man hill and Hill 304 on th«
Verdun front.
Brazil on Verge of War.
Dispatches from Brazil indicate that
it is merely a question of days, if no!
■hours, before the Brazilian parliament
aligns Brazil with the eleven nations
now fighting the central powers.
At the same time a new crisis is
threatened between Spain and Ger
many through the sinking of a Spanish passenger ship with a heavy loss
of life. The disaster occurs on the
heels of an announcement from Madrid
that Germany had given satisfactory
assurances in reply to Spain's l.test
note regarding the destruction of. Sra )•
ish ships by German submarines. STo
details, however, have been receJvH
in regard to the sinking of the pa-
senger liner and it is possible that the
tragedy was not due to a U-boat.
The battle between the reaction
aries and Liberals in Austria-Hungary goes merrily forward, and there
are reports of further impending ministerial resignations in Vienna and
Budapest.
In Germany the violence of the attacks on Chancellor von Bethmann-
Hollweg indicates the acuteness of the
political crisis, but the recess of the
reichstag makes even -more meager
than usual the information that seeps
across the border.
P. J. Bollig made a trip to
the county seat Monday.
R. 0. Bethel of Hillman
autoed through the village
Tuesday.
Mrs. H. S. Degnan left
Monday for Staples to visit
her parents.
Andrew Thoen of Dixville
passed through here yesterday morning on his way to
Sullivan.
The street commissioner is
putting a rounding surface
on the village streets with a
road grader.
John H. Grell has opened
his bowling alley in the basement of his building in Upper Town.
Corn is said to be the nation's hope as a means of
offsetting the shortage of
wheat this year.
A twelve year old daughter of Frank Przybilla, broke
her collar bone one day last
week while skipping the rope
at school.
These are glad days for
the small boys. Schools are
closing, the water is getting
warm in the river and cir*
cuses are coming.
Jake Leidenfrost of Agram
has enlisted iu the navy, and
so has Jack Solingpr of Al*
bany, son of Peter Solinger
of Genola. !
Alvin  Mohler  of Crosby,.
N. I)., arrived here Tuesday
for a  few   weeks' stay.    He
reports  good   prospects   for
crop around Crosby.
Emily Altenhofen, twelve
years old, daughter of Math.
Altenhofen, died with blood
poisoning last Saturday. Funeral services and burial took
place Monday morning.
If you are
between 21
and 31 years
of age
do not fail
to
Register
Saturday
June
Sth
If you
live in
a village
Register
with the
Village
Recorder.
If you live
in the
country,
Register
with the
Town Clerk-
Two Postal Cards Addressed to
Wilfred Gallagher May Prove
Identity.
LEADERS  APPEAL TO  AR&.Y
Ray Bruber of Rucker was|S™ ^Twitl. his
in town Tuesday. He reports head badly crushed, an arm
that if they don't get a rain completely severed from his
. . , , ., .... body and one leg horribly man-
in his neighborhood withm gledj a stranger about 32 years
a short time, grain and grass of age, was found dead at six
will bn a tot .1 failm-f. o'clock this morning at the rail-
Will De a total taiiuie. road crossing   immediately   in
The county commissioners JSfvflla^e Cath°liC ChUrCh in
will hold their regular meet- it is evident that the man was
ing June 12, instead of June killed °y a passing train. Just
_   ,, , ,.        ,       at what time the accident occur-
5, the  regular  meeting day, ed is not known> although it is
because that day is registra- supposed that he had been rid-
tion day, a legal holiday. j?S onf of. ^he tr^ns th&\ P*?s
J'        ° ■"    \   through    the    village    shortly
Marriages    licenses    have afte/ midnight.   The body'was
° _.,,".       perfectly cold when found    at
been issued to the following six o'clock this morning.
Math. Stuck-      It  is  not  believed  that  the
man was walking    along    the
Russian Soldiers Urged to Renew Offensive Against Teutons.
Petrograd, May' 29.—Virtually all
the divergent political factions, all
class organizations, councils and even
the Socialist leaders, with the exception of the Extreme Letters, re-echo
the appeal of Minister of War Keren-
sky to the troops and applaud the new
order of the day, "advance."
Constant efforts have heen made
during the past two months by representatives, not only of the government
hut of the soldiers, to bring home to
the army that the abandonment of active warfare would not only mean
treachery to the allies, but the inevitable loss of all that has been gained in th© revolution.    It is confidently
believed that this last call, supported] -,     rj     u0-.r,    !?_,._-•  "-"»■"   *.»_.   v.<___-_x_&     €__..__£-     v___
by almost  every element of society,; mayer   and    tfaiDaia   _.dUS-,  track  and  had  been  struck by
will move the army to a realization of Peter  J. Gau  and Dominica the train because the train crew
the  situation.     All   the   commanders „ , ,-V      j ft would have     noticed     him.     It
h^ve added their appals to the order ;Spanfellnei and JOlm J. V_clOSS  ^   ^   ^   thought   that   he
young couples:
of Minister Kerensky.a
ITALY'S WAR NEEDS STATED
and Eleanor Wise.
Commission   Told   Demands   Will
Met as Far as Possible
Be
• might have been sleeping    on
-_,    ..      _„■..        „ „     the tracks, but in that   event he
Mrs. Pauline Viktor of C. e- would most likely have   been
dar  Rapids, Iowa,   and Mrs. seen by the train men.
A    F   Mn.hn   of   St    Olond       County Coroner Pinault was
    A-  ■*" Mactl°  ot   °l"   uloua' summoned from St. Joseph.   He
Washington, May 29.—Italy's urgent spent several days here and pronounced death as accidental
war needs of railway equipment, coal, j_. Little Falls visiting rela- and at 9:30 ordered the remains
iron and steel were laid formally be- . ) ° to be removed to the Ulldertak-
fore American officials hy the Italian tives   and   ii'ienas,   alter at* jn„ parlors of Wertin Brothers
commission.   Means of financing large teudi]Qg   the funeral of their where they are at present,
purchases     and    transporting     them ,._.■■-_. . I     The- victim nf the'aprident i<.
mrough the submarine blockade were mother at Pierz last week.      '    ine victim oi tne accident is
corallary subjects discussed.
Government  officials  indicated  that
Italy's demands would be met as far  LITTLE
as possible, but that they would have
to be considered in conjunction with
30
believed by Albany authorities
to be Wilfred Gallagher of Du-
YEARS luth.    Two postal cards found
von his person sent to that ad-
FALLS
AGO _i_____________________________
(Prom the Little Falls Trans- dress lead to this conclusion
the enormous war needs of America cript of May 25, 1887.) \Authorities sent telegrams to
herself and of the other allies. Log drivers in small streams Duluth in an effort to locate re
in this vicinity are making good laJJves of the stranger. The tel-
street Car strikes Auto. progress and will reach the Mis- egrams were sent to the address
Akron, o., May 29.—Two women and sissippi in good time.   In Platte given  on    the    postal    cards.
two children were killed and two other river the front drive of 10,000,- Another message was sent to
children mortally injured when tiieir qqo feet is now in Rice lake. Detroit, Mich., to the address
automobile was demolished by _\ part of the logs from Hillman from whence one of the cards
Akron-Canton limited  car two miles ^      k als0 in Rice lake_ ,was sent.
eaet of Akron. -
Interesting Study of
li. Ii Meyer
Dairy Herd
Meyers Grove. Minn.
(By P. J. Huntemeer.)
Since the issuing of the
March cream checks by the
Meire Grove creamery, when
H. H. Meyer received the highest monthly check ever drawn
by a patron in this neighborhood; several questions have
been asked in regard to the
size of his herd and his methods
of feeding. Anyone who is acquainted with Mr. Meyer knows
that he believes in good feeding and with the high prices of
mill feed that prevailed during
the past winter, many farmers
doubted if his method paid.
Monthly milk and feed records are kept on the Meyer's
farm so it is a comparatively
easy matter to figure the net
returns made by the herd every
month. In looking up the March
record of this herd thirty-seven
cows are entered on the milk
sheet. The milk produced by
every cow was weighed at eight
milkings during the month.
Weighings of milk are always
made mornings and evenings of
the same day and the total of
the two weighings multiplied
by seven to obtain the weekly
production. In a month of 31
days the fourth weighing is
multiplied by ten. Small samples from each cows milk taken
at different times during the
month are placed in composite
test bottles and every cow's
milk is tested for fat content
once a month. By this method
the milk record at the end of
each month shows the number
of pounds of milk, per cent of
fat and amount of fat produced
by every cow in the herd. < For
the month of March (Trixy)
cow number 14 on the milk
;-:heet was high producer, with
1208 pounds of milk to her
credit, with a 4 per cent fat
test, the butter fat production
of this cow for the month is
found to be 48.34 pounds. The
Meire Grove creamery paid 51
cents for butter fat in March,
so the selling value of fat produced by this cow during the
month would be $24.05. Figur-
.ng out the daily production of
ihis cow we find it amounts to
18.3 quarts of milk, containing
1.56 pounds of butter fat, worth
79 cents.
Among the thirty-seven cows
milked in March were nine two
year old heifers. Three cows
•went dry during the month and
two freshened. The butter fat
production for the herd was
<-48.4 pounds. This selling at
ol cents per pound would amount to $432.68. But this does
represent the total production
of the herd. Approximately 19,-
5 0 0 pounds s k 1 m m i 1 k
would be left on the
farm, this valued at 25
cents per hundred pounds would
be worth $48.75. About 24.7
tons of manure would be produced, this valued at $2.50 per
con, which is a very conservative value during a month when
ten and one-half ton of mill
feed are consumed would be
worth $61.75. Then adding the
..utter fat, skim milk and ma-
nurial values the herd of thirty-
_even cows would have to be
credited with a production of
$543.18.
Mr. Meyer's cream check for
March amounted to $398.09, the
difference between this amount
and $432.68, which he would
have received had he sold all
the fat produced, shows 34.59
as the value of whole milk used
in calf feeding on the farm and
cream used by the Meyer's
family.
Then turning to the feed cost
during the month of March.
The feed record shows that 105
sacks of bran were fed. This
would make 5*4 tons bran was
purchased at $34 per ton. So
the cost of bran feed would be
$178.50. The oil meal used cost
$2.20 per hundred at the time
of purchase and five hundred
pounds were consumed, making the oil meal used cost $11.
Allowing each cow ten pounds
of hay daily which is perhaps
more than is consumed where
silage forms part of the roughage fed, and charging $10 per
ton the hay consumed is charged at $57.35. Thirty pounds of
silage daily to each cow, with
silage valued at $4 per ton
would make the silage cost for
the herd $68.82. Adding the
cost of bran, oil meal, hay and
To All Whom it May Concern.
The day fixed by the President of the United States for
registration under the Act of
Congress approved May 18,
1917, is June 5, 1917, and the
registration hours are from 7
o'clock in the morning until 9
o'clock in the evening of said
day. All male persons between
the ages of 21 and 31 years,
that is to say, all persons having reached their 21st birthday,
but not reached their 31st birth-
day.on or before the day set for
registration must register. The
only exceptions are persons in
the military or naval service of
the United States, which includes all officers and enlisted
men of the regular army or
navy, the marine corps or the
national guard and national militia while in the service of the
United States, and the officers
in the Officers reserve corps and
enlisted men in the enlisted reserve corps while in active service. The registration place
is the usual poling place of each
voting precinct. The act provides that any person who wilfully fail or refuse to present
himself for registration or to
submit thereto as herein provided shall be guilty of misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction in the District Court of the
United States having juridic-
:ion thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not more than
one year and shall thereupon
je duly registered. All male
persons between the ages aforesaid must register whether
:hey claim exemption or not;
he exemption matter will be
letermined later by the proper
authority.
PAUL FELIX,
Sheriff of Morrison County, and
executory officer of the registration board in and for Morrison County, Minnesota.
Attend the Summer School
luring June and July at the
-iittle Falls Business Collegs.
Jet a college education in business in acollege whose students
get good positions at salaries
•.rom fifty to eighty dollars a
month.    Get a catalogue now.
There is a great demand for
high school graduates who have
had a college training in business and stenography. The Little Falls Business College has
secured good positions this
spring for all of its students
who have attended high school.
Write for catalogue.
silage fed the feed bill of the
month amount to $315.67, this
deducted from the gross return
$5*3.18 leaves a profit of $227.-
51 for the month over and
above the feed cost. This gives
a nice margin of profit with
which to meet other overhead
charges such as interest on investment, labor, cost of shelter,
etc. -
These figures by no means
tell the whole value of good
feeding during the winter
months. The Meyer's herd
when put on pasture this spring
were in good condition and
ready for a profitable summer
season. Mr. Meyer says: "If a
herd is starved or poorly fed
during the winter months they
do not reach the highest point
in their milk production when
turned on pasture till near fly
time, then milk production is
sure to be again reduced due to
hot weather, drying up of pasture grasses and fly annoyance."
The nine two year old heifers
fed in this herd during the winter would be growing and increasing in value which would
more than offset depreciated
changes. During the summer
months the feed charges will be
greatly reduced. Mr. Meyer
plans on feeding root crops for
the first time during the coming
winter. He will seed two acres
to mangles and sugar beets,
which after harvest will be
stored in the feed room connected with his large dairy
barn.
The bull which at present
heads the Meyer herd was pur-
shased last fall from the W. S.
Shilling herd at Northfield,
Minnesota, and its direct ances-
tory on both sides traces back
to some of the highest producing cows in this country. A
registered heifer calf from Mr.
Shilling's highest producing
cow was secured at the same
time. With foundation such as
this the future success of Mr.
Meyer's herd is assured.
Be Careful what
You Say
" The law which Attorney
General Smith says the socialists have violated is Chapter
463 of the General Laws of 1917
approved April 20. It reads as
follows:
An act making it unlawful to
interfere with or discourage
the enlistment of men in the
military  or  naval  forces  of
the United States or of the
State of Minnesota, and providing punishment therefore.
Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Minnesota:
Section 1.   It shall be unlawful from and after the passage
of this act for any person to
print, publish or circulate    in
any manner   whatsoever,   any
book,  pamphlet  or written  or
printed matter  that advocates
or  attempts  to advocate  that
men  should  not  enlist  in  the
military or naval forces of the
United States  or the  state of
Minnesota.
Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful
for any person in any public
place, or at any meeting where
more than five persons are assembled, to advocate or teach
by word of mouth or otherwise
that men should not enlist in
the military or naval forces of
the United States or the State
of Minnesota.
Ses. 3. It shall be unlawful
for any person to teach or advocate by any written or printed matter whatsoever, or by
oral speech, that the citizens of
this state should not aid or assist the United States in prosecuting or carrying on war with
the public enemies of the United States.
Sec. 4. A citizen of this
state for the purpose of this
act is hereby defined to be any
person within the confines of
the State.
Sec. 5. Any person violating
any provisions of this act is
hereby declared to be guilty of
gross misdemeanor and shall be
punished therefore by a fine of
not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than
Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00)
or by imprisonment in the county jail for not 3 _ss than three
months nor more than one year,
or by both.
Sec. 6. Any police or peace
officer of this state, or any regularly commissioned officer in
the army or navy of the United
States or of the National Guard
or organized militia of the State
of Minnesota is hereby authorized to summarily arrest any
person violating any provisions of this act.
Sec. 7. This act shall take
effect and be in force from and
after its passage.
Bares-Stumpf
Hubert Bares, son of John Bares, andFrancesStumpf. daugh-
ter of Frank Stumpf, were married in St. Joseph's churchV
Tuesday morning^_J£erdi__and
Stumpf, brother to the bride
and John Bares, brother to the
groom were best men; Agnes
Stumpf, sister to the bride, ana
Agmes-LSares, sister to the groom
were bridesmaids. The wedding was celebrated at the home
of the bride. The young- couple
will make their home in St.
Cloud.
ABOUT TH
News of Especial Interest foj
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS!
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told!
for the Convenience of the
Busy  Reader.
Grain And Produce
Market Report
r¥heat, No. 1, $2.10
2.07
2.00
2.90
1.05
2.00
65
1.25
7.00
40
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Flour, Royal     7.30
"    White Rose     7.20
Low grade flour 3.30
Bran 2.00
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 2.55
Shorts 2.15
Ground Feed     2.40
i.e.ins      5.00
Onions     2.50
Potatoes    2.15
Wheat, No. 2	
Wheat, No. 3-___	
Flax,	
Barley	
Rye	
Oats	
Bar Corn	
Hay 	
Butter, Creamery	
Dairy 	
r--h?s.
Mrs. Mary E. Graham, who reached j
Anoka in 1854, is dead.
Thomas J. Fanning, secretary of the!
Minneapolis Plumbing company, is!
dead.
The Minneapolis city council has
authorized an investigation of tha
high prices of foodstuffs in that city.
Miss Oline Strand, sixteen-year-old
daughter of a farmer residing near
Mankato, is dead of infantile paralysis.
John A. Harris, for many years
prominent in Minneapolis wholesale
dry goods circles, is dead, aged seventy-one.
To permit students to work on farms
as long as they are needed Hamline
university's school year will not open
until Oct. 1.
William Heck, venerable riverman,
is, dead at Fountain City. He was
seventy-five years old and had been
retired for several years.
Edward M. Randall, president of the
Prouty Commission company of South
St. Paul, is dead at his home in St.
Paul at the age of sixty-four.
Seventeen buildings in the business
section of Gary have been destroyed
by fire, leaving only two business
buildings in the town standing.
Joseph Ludwig, aged nine, of St.
Nicholas, Stearns county, was killed
when he stepped in front of the automobile- of John Wolters, a neighbor.
Ole Gardner, an employe of the Min-
neapolis street department, fell six
feet from an oil tank and was dead
when fellow employes reached him.
Major A. L. McHugh, well knbwn in
the Twin Cities, was killed in action
in France May 19. He was a member
of the Canadian expeditionary force.
George L. Bradley, aged seventy-,
nine, prominent in the milling and;
commission business in Minneapolis!
until his retirement ten years ago, isj
dead.      ,
Dr. C. E. ;\Iaxham, dentist, died at!
Winona from an attack of pneumonia.!
He was a member of the G. A. R. andj
had been prominent in military affairsj
at Winona.
The University of Minnesota, it is;
announced, has given 1,036 students'
for military service or for work on!
farms to. help increase the nation's;
food supply.
Commissioner Carlos Avery has an-;
nounced the establishment of a game!
refuge in the prairie chicken country 1
south of Little Falls covering about;
twenty-five sections.
Mrs. A. R.  Hill, widow of the late;
Allen   Hill,   is  dead   at  Lake   Minne-j
tonka.     Mrs.  Hill  was  born  in   Car-'
thage, Ind., in 1832, and reached Minneapolis with her husband in 1865.
Thomas McMahon, eighty-four years
old, for many years connected with
the city of St. Paul in an official capacity, is dead. I'r. McMahon had
been a resident of St. Paul since 1853.
The epidemic of spinal meningitis
has caused 102 deaths in Minnesota
since the first of the year. There
have been 243 cases treated, according
to Dr. A. J. Chesley of the state board
of health.
Andreas M. Miller, seventy-five years
old, lumberman and a pioneer of Duluth and a man who played a large
part in the industrial development of
Northern Minnesota, is dead in New
York city.
The annual state G. A. R. encampment will take place June 5 and 6 at
the old capitol in St. Paul. Comrade
William J. Patterson, national commander of the G. A. R., is expected
from Pittsburg.
A silent Fourth of July has been decreed by Mayor W. A. Hodgins of
Winona. Notice has been served on
local dealers that the sale of fireworks
of any description on the nation's,
birthday this year will be barred.
Edwin Svenson, twelve years old.j
son of Ole Evenson, living four miles!
cast of Kiester, Freeborn county, wasj
struck by lightning and died instantly.;
His father, who was standing near;
him, suffered a badly burned foot.
Anton Gil tgesell, twenty-five 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 anj
ambulance.
A plot to murder Mrs. Alice M. Dunn!
of St. Paul when' she was iri Montana i
last fall was disclosed by William!
Hickey, yeggman and former convict, j
who is held by St. Paul police. Mike!
Moore, alleged go between in the plot1,
which resulted in Mrs. Dunn's death j
April 26, also was the "fixer" in the.!
former deal, according to Hickey's
confession.
The Great Northern railroad has
awarded to the Baldwin Locomotive
works of Philadelphia a contract for
100 locomotives, costing more than
,2,000,000. This is the first step in a
big program by which the Great Northern is to increase its equipment to
meet the increased demands on the
railroads by the war in handling crops,
.ocd, aad war supplier.
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