The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1917-06-21

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VOL. NO. 9.
PIERZ, HORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, June 21,   1917.
No. 1
ABOUT THE STATE Interesting
Correspondences
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
Si-iuvaii
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
The Misses Mabel and Mar-
ilia Dorman accompanied by
their sister, Mrs. Thompson of
Estherville, Iowa, called at C.E.
Look's last Tuesday.
Mr.  Wolfenden has  a    new
motor boat which he put on the
       lake last week.
The Great Northern railway has sub-       Mrs. C. E. Look    visited    at
scribed $5,000,000 to the Liberty loan. Christianson's and Cook's Fri-
Lieutenant    P.    A.    Brannan,    Elk   day.
River,  this   state,  with  the  Canadian _ T „
oversea forces, has been killed "some-        John   Boser   and   son   Joe   Ol
where in France." Buh town were fishing at the
Edward P. Wallace, thirty-five years lake Friday afternoon.
old. a brakeman on the Great North- ,          _,                 , _,,,   ••»_,
era railroad, was killed by a train at Andrew Theon and Wife, Mr
Hopkins Junction. Rice, wife    and    daughter    ot
J. c. Munroe, former grand com- Buckman called at T. S. Look's
mander of the state Masons,  is dead   Saturday.
at his  home in  St.  Cloud.    He was        .n   .■_ ,      ..       -  *J.
seventy-four years old. !      G.   Brown   and  Wife  Of  Mill-
James O'Brien, ninety-one years old,  neapolis are camping at D. W.
an Indian fighter and a veteran of the ! Sims' for the summer.
Civil war, is dead at Winona following
an illness of several months.
Mrs. Herman Oshman, residing near
Rosemount,  is  dead  from  burns  re- ,
ceived when she poured gasoline on a i ley, Colorado, arrived Saturday
wood fire in mistake for kerosene. | and visited  her  sister,  Mrs.   C.
Mrs. Frances Buell Olson of St. Paul . E.  Look  until Tuesday,
was elected president of the superior
Mr. and Mrs.   Lynn   visited
with the Van Kuerens' Sunday.
Mrs. Anna Buchert of Gree-
lodge,  Degree of Honor,  at the fourteenth annual meeting at Chicago.
Herman Mensing, a wealthy farmer
sixty years of age, was killed by a
stroke of lightning near his home in
Cherry Grove, near Spring Valley.
- Mistaking a bottle of poison for
medicine, Bernadette Gallagher of Winona, sixteen years old, drank its contents and died within a fev.   minutes.
J. F. Ebersole, for six years a member of the economics faculty at the
University of Minnesota, has left that,
institution to engage in the banking
business.
Sixteen autos were seen at
the lake Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Buckman
and children of Maple Plain
and D. V. Plant of Long Lake
arrived Monday and visited the
A. W. Look family until Wednesday.
A cook shanty   was   hauled
past here and up the line last
Thursday to be   in    readiness
when the crew begins work on
I the state road above here.
E.   A.   Bloomquist,    widely   known
ameng realty  men and  attorneys,  is I     D. V.  Plant    spent     Monday
dead at Minneapolis.   Mr. Bloomquist  night with the T. S. Look fam-
was fifty-nine  years  of age  and was   iJy_
born in Minnesota.
Callers in Hillman Tuesday
were C. E. Look and wife and
Former Representative Frederick C
Stevens of St. Paul has, been recom-     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
mended to the president, for appoint-   Mrs. VanKuer(3n.
ment as  a member of the interstate ■  ' —
- cocimerc .  commission. ,
Thirty-two    Indians    registered    in j W8§t   Bllil   N6W S
Carlton   county   under   the   selective > j
draft proclamation are all real Amer-. .' . .  lu     „
icans, not one having indicated a claim j      The  Ladies  Aid   Of  the   terror exemption from service. I man Lutheran church of Little
Rev. V. Arvid Hagstrom of St. Paul j Fallg mw't at the Henry Wullner
was elected pr.-i..eat of the  Minne-  , ./   . .   .„._„ „.nwj
sota state confe-ence of tl b   ^ome *P Agram.    A large crowd
Baptist church ft the annual meeting   from here  attended,
of the conference at Alexandria. I      n    /~ , .  . T ....    ■c,„11„
Minneapolis chapters of the Daugh- \ CoV- Droskl from Little Falls
ters of the American Revolution will tookj Sunday dinner at Wie-
join in a flag raising ceremony at | land/s'.
Gateway park July 4.   Governor Burn
quist will be the principal speaker.
W. J. Bryan will speak in Minnesota
during the prohibition constituticiiii!
amendment campaign nevt year i!
plans he has transmitted to the prohibition state committee can be carried
out.
Dr. Burnside Foster, prominent physician and medical writer of St. Paul
for more than twenty-five years and
known as a leader in St. Paul medica'i
circles, is dead. He was fifty-six yean]
of age.
Nick Luona, twenty-eight years ol
an I. W. W., was shot' in the back
a policeman at Virginia while seeking
to escape arrest as a slacker.    Six'Jy- I
one arrest. have been made In tjnd
near Virginia. |^^^^
T. A. Champion, sixty years old, /was
drowned in a creek ri'&ar Ivanhoe /containing about two feet 0f water.] He
had gone to the creek t_ r,_h afad it
is thought that he fainted ,n^ fen.
into the water.
Frank O'Connor, a £armsfr living
near Mountain Lake, st£ft,beQ- and
killed his sister in a lit jfa despond-
FA-ances Plaster left for Little
Fa./ls Sunday evening for a few
days visit. From there she will
leJave for Minneapolis and will
e in the millinery wholesale
ouse in Chicago by July 1st.
The fall season she will trim at
Fargo North Dakota.
Eleanor Wieland has accepted a position in the Herbsts'
Millinery department at Fargo
as assistant trimmer and will
leave for the wholesale in Minneapolis by July 15.
Arthur, Walter and Eleanor
Wieland attended the Elks'
picnic in Little Falls Tuesday.
The Freedhem baseball team
passed through here on their
way to Pierz. A good game
was played, the score being 7 to
12 in favor of Pierz.
Sunday evening callers at
ency and later cut off ihe hand la Wielaud's were Mr. and Mrs.
which he held the knif*-/ w;th which Jac- Kl°.wel, Mr. and. Mrs. H.
his sister was killed.      , i Pantzke aud son Johnnie, Mrs.
John F. Calderwood. former vies Kummert a»cl daughter Char-
president and general Manager of the lotte, Mrs. Toia Hyson, Mr.
Brooklyn Rapid Transift company and and Mrs. Fritz Kiewel and
until seventeen yepjs^g0 controller of daughter Dorothy, Mr Mich-
the MinneapoHj«street Railway com- ales, Mrs. Louie Mahl'er and
(Minneapolis. MrS- L> signor.    The    Xondav
t_es   during   May -' -   — - J
pany, is^''
I '"tfedf	
Stotalrfd $67 ..'■j M pared with losses
"of $ - 58,523 ia^._.Brrespon_ing month
last  year.,   Mhere  were  438  fires, reported  in   -T_uy,   this   year,   compared
1   - with 257 for the same month last year.
The University of Minnesota awarded   diplomas   to   832   students   at  its
forty-fifth   annual   commencement   at
Minneapolis.   Fifty-one students, members   of   the   Fort   Snelling   training
camp, received their sheepskins at the
fort.
Donald Grant, one of the most prominent railroad builders in the Northwest, is dead at his home in Faribault
after a brief illness, aged seventy-
nino Mr. Grant began railroad construction work in 1863 and helped to-
build many of the Northwest's principal lines.
W. W. Bradley of Minneapolis has;
been elected executive officer of the
Minnesota Society for Prevention of
Cruelty. He will enter ou his new duties Aug. 1 in joint offices with the
St. Paul Humane society His main
endeavor v. ill be to promote child welfare work outside of Ramsey, Hennepin and St. Louis counties, all of
which .'iave effective agencies.
Liberty Bond
Sale is Closed
Morrison County contributed
as its share toward the Liberty
Loan the sum of $136,050. Of
this amount the sum of $125,-
55°) was raised by Little Falls,
leaving only $10,500 that was
raised outside of Little Falls.
Three villages in the county,
Fiensburg, Motley and Pierz,
wtose banks had charge of the
sa'e of Liberty bonds in their
territory, did not report any
applications.
E, J. Richie, county chairman
woufld up the campaign yesterday afternoon and sent in the
i-epor: to the headquarters at
Minneapolis last night. The
reports must all be in that office
by noon today.
Following is a statement of
the .sale of bonds in this
county:
Little Falls-
German Am. Nat. bank$ 91,500
First Natl, bank     26,000
commercial State bank     5,000
Merchants State bank..      3,050
Total for Little Falls$125,550
Bowlus    500
Buckman    1,600
Genola  .,  1,000
Randall  _.  1,000
Royalton   5,850
Swanville  -  500
Upsala   50
Total for county $136,050
Rucker News.
News has reached here of
the death of Mrs. A. J. Seaver
out in Montana. She, with her
husband and children, formerly
nved in this neighborhood
but moved west about ten years
ago. She leaves a son and three
daughters, her husband and
two brothers, Jay and Will McLean, to mourn the loss of a
devoted wife, mother and sister.
There was quite a heavy
irost here last Thursday night.
Mr. Wolfenden has recently
sold 160 acres of land south of
the Sell place to Mr. Stellar of
Excelsior, Minn.
The Schumacher family have
moved into the house recently
built on the Strauch land. Mr.
Albert Stranch will live with
them for the present.
Mrs. John Ferguson visited
Mrs. Victor Bruber Friday
afternoon.
callers were Ted Skrypek, ]ytr
and Mrs. Carnes, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas, Mr. Davis and family,
Mrs. M. F. Smith and daughter.
The wind storm blew H. Wie-
land's silo down, a total wreck.
Mr. E. A. Berg and wife and
Mr. Davis were callers at G. A.
Olson's Friday.
1     Arl
week,
Th:
sprin,
year,'
every
they
gettir
math.
A salesinaa re-
tq
Shot A Lynx,
Wahkon: Hearing his dog
make considerable disturbance
early last Sunday morning, H.
H. Lyback, who lives northeast
of here, made an investigation
and found a good sized lynx in a
tree near his house. He brought
the animal to earth with a shot
from his trusty rifle, and N. J
Oredson is having it stuffed and
mounted. This is the first time
we have heard of one of these
animals coming so close to human habitation in this section.
There are not many of them to
oe found in this portion of the
state now. It is thought that
timber fires had driven this
one away from its usual/ haunts,.
Arrest Slacker
_at Melrose.
Traveling Salesman Arrested
in Neighboring City by Village Officials-
Claimed he Was Thirty-One,
But Marriage License Said
Only Twenty-Seven.
St. Cloud, June 11: A traveling salesman, hailing from Mi-
not, N. D., was arrested yesterday at Melrose, on a charge of
carrying concealed weapons,
and after he was taken in custody, was asked to show his
registration receipt. This he
could not do, and claimed he
was thirty-one years of age. His
marriage license showed, however, that he was only twenty-
seven. Later it developed that
he had been registered in Minot
N. D., and the man was released. First reports said that the
man had not only said he was
not registered but repeatedly
refused to sign his name to a
blank.
W. H. Buckman and J. Sorenson of Maple Plain, and D.
V. Plants of Long Lake, passed through Pierz Sunday
evening on their way to Sullivan to visit with the A. W.
Cook family.
BIO ItEAL  ESTATE  TRANS-
Fte-tS MADE
Ask the Little Falls Business
College what it can do for you.
This old reliable business college trains common school and
high school graduates and
places them in $60 to $80 positions. It can do as well for
you. This is a high grade college with its promises fulfilled.
it is where you will have no
regrets.   Write for catalog.
iVhen the War is Going to End
Absolute    knowledge    have    I
none,
iiut my aunt's washerwoman's
son
Heard a policeman on his beat
rfay to a laborer on the street
That he had a letter just last
week
Written in the finest Greek
Froom a Chinese coolie in Tim-
bucktoo
Who said the niggers in Cuba
knew
Of a colored man in   a   Texas
town
Who got it straight    from    a
circus clown
That a man  in the Klondike
heard the news
From a gang of SouthAmerican
Jews
About somebody in Borneo
Who heard of a man who claimed to know
Of a swell society dame
Whose mother-in-law will undertake
To prove that her seventh husband's sister's niece
Has stated in a printed piece
That she has a son who has a
friend
Who knows when the war is going to end.
—Unidentified.
Grain And Produce
Market Report
rVheat, No. 1,  $2.30
Wheat, No. 2.     2.27
Wheat, No. 3      2.17
Flax,        2.90
Barley  1.00-1.05
Rye *—    2.00
| Oats. -      70
| Ear Corn - -— *T26
Pierz Boys Beat
Freedhem Sunday
Pierz came right back strong
last Sunday after their defeat
by the Little Falls Elks the
week before and defeated the
Freedhem bunch to the tune of
12 to 8. This is not that the
Freedhem boys don't know the
game, but rather that the Pierz
bunch is coming back and getting their 2nd wind. Red says
that J. N. got his first hit of the
season last sunday. The lineup was as follows
Freedhem: Bloom 3rd. b.,
Aiiderson 1st b., Molsen ss.,
Wondelin e., C. Olson 2nd b.,
Smith *__.,' Hedbloom If., Johnson cf., Davis p.
Pierz: F. Faust 1st b., Mischke cf., Mage Morrill 3rd b.,
J. N. Faust 2nd b., Haas p.,
Pohlkamp c, Degnan ss.,
Stangl If., Walter rf.
Pierz 12 runs, 10 hits. Freedhem 8 runs, 6 hits. Haas struck
out 13, Davis struck out 8.
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
We Had Heavy Wind
Wednesday Afternoon
John Dahmen reported last
night that the afternoon storm
moved his granery several rods
aud blew down and demolisbed
a shed and corncrib.
J. L. Roos reports that tlie
wind picked up his buggy standing beside his chicken coop and
turned it over three or four
times. He says that he could
not sec more than three or four
rods because of the misty spray
of water driven by the twister.
Math. Schnurrer last a valuable four year old horse by lig-li t-
ning" during the storm. He had
just unhitched from the cultivator and turned the horse into
the barn, when it was killed,
Several calves standing close by
were not harmed.
Stucki-ieyer-Faust
Last Tuesday morning Math
Stuckmeyer, son of John Stuckmeyer, and Barbara Faust,
daughter of Christ Faust, were
married in St. Joseph's church.
Kate Stuckmeyer, the groom's
sister, was bridesmaid and
Math Faust, the bride's brother,
was best man. After a visit to
Elk River and Cross Plains,
Wisconsin, the young couple
will make their home on the
old John Stuckmeyer place in
Buh.
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mark
an honest l.vin
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Melrose, Minn: Several real
estate transactions involving
considerable  sums  have  bee/n
Ight
dinand Sch-j' ' icds ...
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to Michael P. Winter,
the ci
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Reports have come since
last week that the storm last
Thursday morning blew down
three silos: Ed. Kenner,s, H.
Wielaud's and another the
owner of which we cannot
now ascertain.
A marriage license has been
issued to Frank Sand and
Catherine Bednar.
CORN FOR FODDER CAN HE
SOWN IN JULY
Fodder corn planted as late
as July 1 will yield three tons
or more of dry forage an acre.
Millet ,as a late-sown    crop
""* i c<
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quality of hay,;
■q J millet must be cut j
Almost time to declare war
on the potato bug.
John Terhaar made a trip
to St. Cloud Tuesday.
J. E. Brand of Faribault is
here selling nursery stock.
E. L. Kaliher, our erstwhile druggist, visited here
Monday.
Mrs. Mathews of SaukRap-
ids visited at the Tony Fried,
rich home last week.
John Bauer, our assistant
buttermaker, visited relatives
in Elrosa over Sunday.
The Ford car raffled by the
Elks in Little Falls was won by
Mrs. John Hohns of Sauk Rapids. The number cost her two
cents.
Andy Fenn was here Monday and conferred with commissioner (..assert relative
to the state road.
At least thirty passengers
took the Soo line train Monday. Passengers traffic has
seemed to increase with the
general rise of prices.
Mise Schroeder, stenographer in the German State
Bank, has resigned and will
leave for her home in South
Dakota in a few days,
That frost Friday morning
injured the corn in the bud.
Already late, this frost may
set it so far back as to expose
it lo early fall frosts.
Pierz will celebrate this
year's Fourth of July with
the usual demonstration of
parade, guns and fireworks
etc. and dance in the afternoon.
J. H. Vanloon, the lightning rod man came out looking for business almost before the reverberations of
the thunderclaps died away
which did so much damage
here last week.
Wm. Faust came home
from Milbank, N. D. last
Monday, Charles Dunn, his
partner in the decorating
line is with him, and both
will remain here for an indefinite time.
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Meyer
left Monday afternoon for
Elrosa by auto. Mrs. Meyer
visited relatives in Elrosa,
whila Nick left the same
evening for South St. Paul
to see to a car of stock he
shipped Monday morning.
Frank Faust celebrated the
opening of his new saloon
Saturday evening by giving
the boys a free lunch and
other refreshments. As an
old member, the band gave
him a serenade. Faust's new
place is tastily decorated and
is up-to-date in every way.
DELAY IN DRAFT
ARMY IS LIKELY
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Camps Will Not Be Ready!
to Receive Recruits.
DATE OF CALL INDEFINITE!
Jaeads begir left
until tally headed out the -
7.18i
B.30
anct  ti.f
i of sged reduces
■    aid.
•2.40
5.00
2.50
Eve
-rsterious game war-
.. Cloud, who  came
■ ','.  ago  and  made a
llivan to catch vio-
the game  and fish
ted   on   his  return
Tuesday morning
>u_d 'provide y laJtte ll01'^- ~ ^
-pected to   be back
or,less cover th-
ivan    country
September 1 Had Been Tentatively!
Fixed for Assembling of First Army,;
but Indications Now Are That Can-:
tonments Cannot Be Completed.       j
Washington, June 19.—Unless therej
are unforeseen developments to hurry!
construction of the sixteen cantonments for training the new national
army the first increment of 650,000
troops will not be training by Sept. 1,
as generally has been supposed, and
in fact may not get into training for
six weeks thereafter.
War department officials said that
no specific date ever had been set for
the opening of the training camps.
Secretary Baker, however, in a letter
to Senator Jones several weeks ago,
answering a suggestion that some of
the troops be used for harvesting,
spoke of Sept. 1 as the probable date
of opening the camps and pointed out
that most of the harvesting would be
over by that time.
War department officials generally
had fixed Sept 1 in their minds as the
time training would begin. The first
body of officers for the new army now
being trained in camps throughout
the country is being turned out in August to make room for the next body.
This was arranged on the plan of having the draft complete, exemptions
disposed of and troops ordered into
training camps by Sept. 1.
BIG FRENCH FREIGHTER SUNK
Steamer Mississippi Torpedoed by
German Submarine.
New York, June 19.—News of the
destruction of the French freight
steamship Mississippi by a German
submarine, with a loss of one of the
merchantman's crew, was brought
here by officers of a British freight
vessel that arrived from a French port.
The Mississippi, of 6,677 tons gross,
was torpedoed and sunk about 145,
miles out of Brest, France, June 2, ac-!
cording to officers of the British ship!
which rescued forty-seven officers and,'
seamen from open boats. They had!
been afloat only a short time.
The Mississippi was in regular trade!
between New Orleans and Havre.
IMMENSE LOSS OF    !
BRITISH TONNAGE!
Washington, June 19.—The German;
submarine toll of British merchant;
shipping since Feb. 17, as shown in of-|
flcial British figures compiled here, is;
322 vessels of more than 1,600 and'
135 of less Uian 1,600.
Loss statistics of British steam
fishing vessels are incomplete, but a
three weeks' total is seventy-eight.
The British figuros do not give the
tonnage of vessels sunk, but officials
here say 5,000 tons probably would be
a fair average for vessels of more
than 1,600 tons destroyed.
Computing the total at that average and putting the average of the
smaller ships at 1,000 tons, the total
loss during slightly less than four
months' submarine warfare would
reach 1,745,000 tons, or about 250,000
tons less than the entire world's shipping output during 1916.
MORE FOOD SHIPS ORDERED
Additional Contracts Made by Government  Board.
Washington, June 19.—Additional
contracts for ten complete steel cargo
carrying steamers and twenty-four
wooden hulls have been let by the
United States shipping board.
The total number of contracts to
date for the emergency-* fleet to cope
with the submarine\,.menace call for
twenty-eight complete v, steel ships,
thirty-two composite ships of wood and
steel,   thirty   complete  wooden   ships
and forty-eight wooddjprhulls.
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M'COOL   GIVEN   TH£   LIMIT!
Draws   Thirty   Years for   Mill   City!
Murder.
Minneapolis, Jane 19.—Prank J. Mc-!
Cool   was   aenteno'--'   (so  thirty  years';
imprisonmer*
v<V-n  convicted;'
in Hennepi
"ler in the!
third  deg
•*ii  the!
death of
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tlie ma
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1917.