The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1916-07-27

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VOL. NO. 8.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JULY 27, 1916.
NO. 6.
HANLY SELECTED
TO HEAD TICKET
National Prohibition Convention
Ends Its Labors.
LANDRITH FOR SECOND PLACE
Plank for  the   Initlaitve,   Referendum
and   Recall   Added   to   Platform
by the Convention.
St. Paul, July 22.—For president, J.
Prank Hanly, Indiana,
For vice president, Ira C. Landrith,
Tennessee.
This is the Prohibition ticket for
president and vice president nominated at the convention at the Auditorium.
J. Prank Hanly informally accepted
the nomination over long distance telephone in conversation with O. W.
Stewart, his business partner, shortly
after the nomination was made.
"I will stand on that platform," said
Mr. Hanly when Mr. Stewart had outlined to him the platform adopted by
the convention and had informed him
that an initiative, referendum and recall plank had been added by the convention.
Ira C. Landrith was nominated by
acclamation when Miss Marie Brehm,
Chicago, the only other candidate for
vice president, who appeared to be
running close to Landrith, withdrew
and in a short speech from the platform moved the unanimous nomination of Landrith.
J. Frank Hanly was formerly governor of Indiana and is a convert from
the Republican party. He was nominated on the first ballot which, when
all corrections and changes of votes
were made, stood: Hanly, 440; Sulzer,
181; Rev. James Mason, 10; F. C. Hen-
drickson, 51; W. P. Ferguson, 4; S. W.
Haynes, 2; Henry Ford, 1; W. G. Cal-
derwood, 22.
An attempt to make the nomination
of Hanly unanimous failed. B. W.
Chafin, twice candidate for president,
and a dozen others objected.
Ira C. Landrith .Nashville, Tenn., is
a Presbyterian minister and convert
from the Democratic party. He formerly was president of the World Y.
M. C. A. He is six feet five inches In
height.
The platform was adopted as reported by the platform committee with the
addition of a plank urging the initiative, referendum and recall.
This plank was voted down in the
resolutions committee.
Paralysis Case
Injjttle Falls
The first infantile paralysis
case to be reported in Little
Palls has been discovered on
the West side. The 4-year-old
son of Albert Gunnon, Third
street southwest, hits been ill
since last week and the attending' physician has pronounced it
a case of the children's malady
which has been sweeping' various sections of the country. It
is the only case in the city, so
far as is known.
Genola News,
UNITED STATES WILL
FIGHT BLACKLISTING
Washington, July 20.—Information
gatlierec| in an investigation which
has been in progress several weeks
probably will be incorporated by the
state department in vigorous repre=
sentations to the London foreign office, objecting to the placing of individuals and firms living in the United
States on the blacklist promulgated
under the trading with the enemy act.
Although the British government in
its last communication to the United
States on the subject declared the act
was "purely domestic legislation to restrict the activities and trade of persons under British jurisdiction," the
investigation made by the state department is said to have convinced the
officials in reality it operates to restrain American commerce.
TWELVE   HUNDRED   INVITED
Moosers to Have Seats at Hughes Notification.
New York, July 20.—Three thousand
invitations to attend the meeting in
Carnegie hall here, on the evening of
July 31, to give Charles E. Hughes
formal notification of his nomination,
are being sent out by James B. Reynolds, secretary of the Republican national committee. Twelve hundred
seats will be turned over to George
W. Perkins for distribution among
prominent Progressives. Among those
who will receive invitations are Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft.
Sylvester Friedrich of Chicago, who left Europe just before the war, is here visiting- his
sister, Mrs. Frank Konen and
also a distant relative, Anton
Friedrich. He is very anxious
to get back to tight for his
country, but is not allowed to
go before the close of  the  war.
Mrs. Mary Meyer has received
her Buick car which she purchased some time ago.
A number of people of this
place drove as far as fifteen
miles to pick blueberries but
found there was more pickers
than berries.
The Misses Block of St. Joe's
convent, two daughters of Herman Block, are home for their
vacation. They leave in about
two weeks to be absent from
home another year.
Can Charley VanHercke Beat
These?
Boy Drowned
In The Canal
Henry Ringwelski. 9 years
old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Ringwelski of Little Falls, was
drowned in the power canal on
the West side Friday morning.
Several men and boys saw him
drown, but were unable to help
him.    The boy could  rtot swim.
Died With Appendicitis.
Clara Boser, the 14-year-old
daughter of George L. Boser,
died with appendicitis in the
Little Falls hospital last Thursday evening. Burial took place
in the St. Joseph cemetery last
Monday morning.
BRITISH    SCIENTIST    DEAD
Blr William Ramsay Attained Eminence as a Chemist.
London, July 24.—Sir William Ramsay," eminent as a chemist, died at his
residence in Beechcroft, Hazelmere,
ucks.
Sir William Ramsay was born in
Glasgow, on Oct. 2, 1853, and was
made a knight in 1902. He was president of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science.
SHIP    BILL    IS    APPROVED
Senate Commerce Committee  Reports
Measure for Passage.
Washington, July 21. — A favorable
report on the administration shipping
bill was submitted by the senate commerce committee. It is expected to
have the undivided support of Democratic senators.
Read the Journal ads.
Although the crops in western
Massachusestts have turned out
better than was expected, there
has been nothing to equal the
pumpkin grown last year on a
Birkshire hillside field. This
pumpkin it will be remembered,
got started in some way and
rolled down the hill with such
momentum that it crashed
through a barn and brought up
against an oak tree where it
split with a report that occasioned not a little alarm throughout the countryside.
The middle west, however, the
great source of diverting agricultural phenomena, is not failing this year to furnish evidence of the remarkable fertility of its soil. From Leavenworth, Kansas, comes the report that one Daniel Monroe,
whose acres lie south of Lansing, was recently obliged to
cut two rows of his corn on each
side of a telephone line crossing
his farm in order to prevent the
stalks from thrusting the wires
together and thus causing short
circuits. It is to be hoped that
Mr. Monroe was able to obtain
sufficient helpers and cross-cut
saws for the harvesting of his
whole crop.
Holstein Park
Bert Sanborn was a Pierz vis-
stor Thursday.
Mrs. Martens and Alvah
called at the Thompson and
Sandborn homes Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Christoffer of
Lake Park, Iowa, visited at the
L. Kramer, Jess King and E.
M. Thompson homes last week.
Mrs. Christoffer is a sister of
Mrs. King and Kramer.
The annual school meeting
was held at Sucker Brook
school house July 15th.
School will be held in Christmas Lake school house, beginning the first Monday in September. Also in Sucker Brook
school house.
Mr. and Mrs. Sorum, Mrs.
Martens and Nellie, and Mrs.
Thompson and Ray, were at
Platte Lake picking blueberries
last week.
When the above clipping was
read toEwell, the nursery agent
staying at the  Pierz  Hotel,  he
smiled and said that it sounded
like a Kansas  story.    "Shortly
after the  Omaha  cyclone,"  he
continued, "while talking with
a Kansas landlord one evening,
the host gave a somewhat
lengthy discourse on the different varities of Kansas cyclones.
Among them he mentioned the
'Stationary Cyclone.' A stationary cyclone, he explained, is
one which dips down and remains in one place long enough
to bore deep, smooth holes in
the ground. The holes are
bored to various depths and are
generally used as silos."
South Agram News.
Those who called on Mr. and
Mrs.Fred Sporlein Sunday afternoon were Mr. and Mrs. Hansen and family, Mr. and Mrs.
John Schmidt and family, Miss
Catherine and Eva Brummer.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Brummer
attended the silver wedding
which was held at Karl Hohei-
sel's last week Thursday, July
13.
Mr. and Frank Kandel are the
owners of a new too buggy.
Mrs. Herman Terhaar and
family were in Buekman Sunday.
Farmers around here started
to cut their rye Saturday.
Math. Reding and Frances
Sporlein called at J. J. Brum-
mer's Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Theser
called at the Alfred Herold
home Sunday.
The Little Palls business College is a finishing college for
ambitious young people. You
get a good business education
and a good position. Write for
catalog.
Grain and Produce
flarket Report.
Wheat, No. 1,. $1.13
Wheat, No. 2,     1.09
Wheat, No. 3       1.02
Flax,   .    1.75
Barley  55
Rye        82
Oats      34
Ear Corn       75
Hay     7.00
Butter, Creamery ..       37
Dairy       27
Eggs       18
Flour.Royal      3.10
"   WhiteRose      3.30
Low grade flour 1.60
Bran   1.25
Shorts  1.30
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 1.45
Ground Feed     1.45
Beans      4.00
Onions        60
Board of Equalization Meet.
The board of county commissioners met as a board of equalization July 17.
Real Estate Including
structures
Agram raised 20 per cent.
Granite  raised 10  per  cent on
land, 40 per cent on structurees.
Leigh raised 20 per cent.
Hilman raised 10 per cent.
Mt. Morris raised 50  per  cent.
Morrill raised 60 per cent.
Platte raised 40 per cent.
Pulaski raised 30 per cent.
Richardson raised 40  per  cent.
Lots in Buh raised 60 per  cent.
Personal Proprty.
Agram raised 20 per cent.
Buh raised 20 per cent.
Pierz raised 20 per cent.
Horses Line B
Hilman reduced 10 per cent.
Pierz raised 20 per cent,
Platte reduced 10 per cent.
Richardson reduced 10 per cent.
Horses Line C
Pierz raissd 20 per cent.
Pulaski reduced 10 per cent.
Cattle Line B
Agram raised 50 per cent.
Buh raised 10 per cent.
Granite raised 50 per cent.
Leigh raised 25 per cent.
Mt. Morris reduced 10 per cent.
Pierz raised 25 per cent.
Pulaski raised 20 per cent.
Cattle Line C
Agram raised 50 per cent.
Buh raised 30 per cent.
Granite raised 40 per cent.
Hilman raised 10 per cent.
Leigh raised 10 per cent.
Morrill raised 10 per cent.
Pierz raised 20 per cent.
Platte reduced 10 per cent.
Richardson raised 10  per  cent.
Automobiles Line 36
Buekman raised 20 per cent.
Royalton raised 20 per cent.
Add John H. Grell to tax books
§218.00.
Line 45 Saloons
Village  of Pierz raised 20  per
cent.
Village of Buckmann raised  20
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
Gross Lost; Gross Found.
The U. S. auto tire lost by
Wm. Gross of Sauk Rapids and
advertised in the Journal last
week was found by Math. Gross.
Math and Henry Gau were on
their way home from St. Cloud
when they fonnd the tire. It
was left at the Gau Garage and
Henry sent it to the owner at
once after reading the ad. It
was a gross affair all around.
The tire was lost by a Gross
and was found by a Gross. Another remarkable thing is that
the lost article was advertised
in at least half a dozen papers
and that the Journal is the only
one which brought results.
Card ot Thanks,
We are sincerely thankful to
all those who were helpful and
expressed sympathy during the
trying hours of sickness and
following the death of our beloved daughter, Clara.
George L. Boser
and family.
Mrs. Jacob Fieder has [returned to Duluth.
Theo. Billmeyer received
a complete set of prospecting
outfit last Monday. It consists of a drill and other tools
with which to locate wealth
in the ground. He says that
now since he has the outfit
he will look for nothing
cheaper than gold.
The town board of Pierz
met Monday.
"Col." Seibert of Sullivan
lake was a visitor in town
Monday.
Local autoists call the road
from Pierz to Lastrup the best
in the county.
Christ Gerwing bought a
new Ford touring car from
Henry Gau, the local dealer.
Ign. Priemsberger of
Staples was visiting with his
friends and relatives Monday.
Mrs. Anna Wilkes and son
Alfons of Elizabeth, spent
the past two weeks, with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mike
N. Mayer.
Mrs. Mary Meyer received
her new Buick which she
bought from Henry Gau, the
local agent.
John Mayer ot St. Augusta
came up Sunday and spent
the day with the Mike N.
Mayer family.    .
John Sobiesk of Bowl us
visited with Agram Joseph
Otremba and picked blueberries in Platte several days
this week.
Henry Gassert went to
Little Falls last Saturday to
attend the county commissioners meeting as board of
equalization.
Mrs. Chas. Hanes from
Brainerd, who was here visiting her aunt, Mrs. A. Stumpf
and other relatives, returned
home Saturday.
F. E. Hall was here on N.
W. Telephone business Monday. Many lines are out of
order, which he assured us,
will be repaired shortly.
Our baseball team went to
Ripley last Sunday to cross
bats with the team at that
place. The Pierz boys were
beaten  by a score of 11 to 4.
John Burkel, Stanley Scott,
Gertrude Stumpf and Mr.
and Mrs. A. M. Reiner from
Little Falls spent Sunday at
the home of Mrs. Adolf
Stumpf.
A complete course in bookkeeping, banking or stenography this year means you will
be holding a good position next
year. Get your catalog and the
special summer rates, of the
Little Falls Business College.
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Brown
of St. Cloud autoed to Pierz
Sunday and visited the
Henry Gau family. They
will stay a few days and
visit relatives.
Sunday was an unusually
quiet one in the village. Fish
Lake, Mille Lacs, Sullivan
and Fort Ripley almost
robbed the village of its entire population.
F. J. Thienes and wife
made another trip to the
blueberry fields near Sullivan Monday and gathered
about 50 quarts of the luscious fruit. Blueberries are
plentiful this season but
Pierz people wdio wish to
pick them must go to considerable distance. These
berries are selling in town
for 15c per quart, which is a
very reasonable price, all
things considered.
Bull Kills One Horse;
Injures Another
Phil Smith, on the old Math.
Thommes place had a horse
killed and another injured by a
mad bull Sunday eyening. When
"Fritz," the hired man, went to
get the cattle that evening he
noticed blood in several places
in the pasture, but could not
conjecture how it came there,
nor could he account for pieces
of bowel lying along the path
on his way home with the stock.
When he came near the home
cattle yard the bull made for
him. By dodging from one tree
to another he managed to keep
out of the way of the infuriated
animal's rushes, until within
reach of the yard fence. The
bull was a close second when he
reached the fence, which Fritz
easily cleared without touching
it.
An inspection of the stock
and horses later showed one
horse, a five-year-old gelding,
and the best horse on the farm,
missing, another injured. The
missing horse was found dead
the next morning, but the injured one is recovering.
The bull, a 1,400 Holstein,was
alwasy considered harmless and
was treated as a pet.
It is always the "harmless"
and pet bulls that do the deadly
work.
Lightning Strikes Two Buildings Tuesday.
During the storm early Tuesday morning, lightning struck
the chimney on Frank Boehm's
residence in the village and
clipped off the head. Half of the
detached part rolled off the
roof on the wrest side, and the
other half on the east side. No
damage was done in the bouse,
but the soot pan in the basement
was blown out and soot scattered all over the basement floor.
It was a "Lucky Strike," say-
Frank.
Lightning struck Jos.
Hortsch's barn, two miles east
of Buekman, and it was destroyed by fire the same morning. All the horses and stock
was saved but the hay all went
up in smoke.
Swanville. — Eight cows,
the whole herd, were killed
by lightning on the Albert
Zeimkowski farm just east
of the village, during the
electric storm Monday night.
The cows were lying along
the side of a wire fence.
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 fine 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
Jos. Terhaar of Agram had
an unusual experience with
fire last week, the cause of
which he would like to have
explained. He drove to the
meadow after dinner to get
a load of hay. When pitching on the second forkful, he
noticed the first forkful on
the rack on fire. He lost no
time in scratching it off the
rack to save ths wagon and
team. He claims he had no
matches about him and was
not smoking.
ABOUT THE STATE
News ot Especial Interest to(
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS!
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told;
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for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
Statisticians say the loss by the;
Iron range strike so far is approxi-;
mately $2,000,000.
The annual outing of the Minnesota!
Editorial association will take place!
Aug. 5 and 6 at Cass Lake.
I. M. Adams, seventy-five years old,!
a resident of Minnesota since he was!
a boy, is dead at Minneapolis.
Andrew Skog, aged eighty-one, who!
reached Minneapolis from Sweden
nearly fifty years ago, is dead.
Henry W. Bright, eighty-six years
old, one of the first settlers of Winona county, is dead at Winona.
Hartman Yackel, sixty years old,
for the past thirty-five years a wagon
manufacturer at Lewiston, is dead.
Minnesota will receive $30,000 in
inheritance taxes from the estate of
Mrs. Beatrice Lowry, who died in Minneapolis recently.
The departure of the Second battalion of the First field artillery
brings Minnesota's contribution lor'
border service to about 4,500 men.      '
Iva Rist, sixteen-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. N. Rist of Mankato,
was drowned in Minneopa creek while
crossing the stream on an improvised
bridge.
Louis W. Beech, aged eighty-seven,
Civil war veteran and pioneer resident
of St. Paul, is dead as the result of
being struck by an automobile six
weeks ago.
Norman H. Carle, a former sheriff
of Chisago county, died from heart
failure at a St. Paul hotel. He was
forty-five years of age and was a resident of Rush City.
Samuel Redmond, a prominent
Washington county farmer and stock
man, is dead at his home in Langdon,
the result of blood poisoning contracted when treating a corn.
Albert Meier of Albert Lea, this
state, was elected secretary-treasurer
of the National Organization of State
Optometry Board Examiners at the
annual convention at Providence, R. I.
Mrs. Caroline Swindell, aged forty
years, was run down and killed at
Minneapolis by an auto driven by
Mrs. G. A. Miller. The accident occurred in a street filled with noonday
crowds.
Mrs. Harry Champ of St. Paul, aged
thirty-two, was killed in an automo-
bilt accident on the Dodd road two
miles south of the St. Paul city limits. The car went over a ten-foot embankment.
More than 120,000 automobiles and
10,000 motorcycles now are owned in
Minnesota, according to Secretary of
State Schmahl. Applications for licenses continue at the rate of more
than 100 daily.
Captain R. A. Torrey of St. Louis
died suddenly of apoplexy in New
York city. Althou-h not a resident
of the city Captain Torrey was one of
the best known men in Duluth and
had large investments there.
The state's Iron ore royalties will
amount to $250,000 for the quarter
ending June 30, according to State
Auditor Preus. Approximately 1,000,-
000 tons were mined, for which the
state receives 25 cents a ton.
Representative Schall of Minnesota
has accepted two speaking dates in
New York for the Republican campaign, Aug. 2S and 29. Prior to filling
these dates Mr. Schall expects to
spend a week in the Maine campaign.
Bernie Schaeffer, twenty-one years
old, member of Battery A, First Field
artillery, *.-hose home formerly was
at Davenport, la., was drowned in the
Minnesota river near Fort Snelling
while swimming with other members
of the battery.
A total of $1,076,000 is provided for
public buildings in Minnesota under |
the provisions of the public buildings!
•bill reported to the lower house ofj
congress. Of this the largest single j
appropriation is for Duluth, which re-!
ceives $300,Q00.
A new series of bad forest fires in j
the extreme northern section of the!
state have been reported to the state j
forestry service. The biggest fire is j
destroying timber holdings of the Vir-j
ginia and Rainy Lake company north j
and east of Orr.
John F. Murphy of Minneapolis,!
aged thirty-five, whose back was bro-!
ken while he was diving from a ten-1
foot spring board at Lake Independ-j
ence, died three days later. Mr. Mur-|
phy was secretary of the Flour City!
Ornamental company.
George S. Loftus, sales manager for j
the St. Paul Equity Co-operative Ex-!
change, is dead. After a most heroic!
fight against the encroachment of ab-(
dominal cancer, with which he was;
stricken Aug. 5, 1915, he succumbed;
at the home of his sister at St. Paul.'
Delegates to the thirty-fourth annual convention of the State Federation of Labor, in session at Hibbing,
went on record as supporting the
striking miners of the Mesaba range,
endorsing a minimum wage of $3 a
day and abolishment of the contract
system.
Journal ads bring results.
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