The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1917-09-13

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VOL. NO. 9.
PI E*.Z, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, September 13, 1917.
No. 13
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Brfefty T&M
for tha Convenience of th-
Busy Reader.
AEH)UT THE 1STATE Gets $6,000 for Po=
■—• I tatoes from 25 acres
Hews of Especial Meres! to i Elt HlTer ,=^! As„ ln.
MinnOCnt-i   RdSriorC stance of what can ihe done    in   the
war of money making on Sherburne
county land by a progressive farmer,
local people are pointing to the record -which has been made this season
by H. B. Nickerson of Elk River,
who has produced and marketed a
crop of potatoes which has more
than paid the price of the land used
and left a nice profit after all the expenses were paid.
Four months ago Mr. Nickerson
seeded 25 acres of his land, within
half a mile of town, to early potatoes.
This was done on or about April 20,
and 'by the 14th of August, less than
four months after the seed was put
in, he dug and marketed 5,000 bushels
of potatoes from this . land, since
which time he has reseeded the acreage to winter rye.
Mr. Nickerson started marketing
his potatoes the first day the Elk
River market opened and has continued to bring in potatoes at the rate
of 10 to 12 loads per day until all his
crop was disposed of. He received
the top prioes for his potatoes, averaging $1.20 per bushel for the entire
crop, or a total of $6,000 for the use
of 35 acres of land for four months'
time, which is at the rate of $174 per
acre. At market prices his seed cost
$20 per acre, leaving over $150 per
acre.
The expense of seeding and cultivating the crop was not high. Not
once was it necessary to go over the
plants with paris green or other poisonous mixture, as the potato bugs
failed to show up until the potatoes
were nearly ready for marketing,
and the damage was very light. When
the local market was open, Mr. Nickerson found his crop was ready and
he immediately hired extra . teams,
men and boys and pushed his potatoes to the cars at once.
Mr. Nickerson gives several reasons for hurrying his potatoes to market. One of these is that it Is much
easier to dig them early, as later the
weeds grow so thick that it is difficult to run a digger. Another is that
the use of land for plowing and seeding to winter grain is obtained earlier.
Melvin Morrell Is dead at Minneapolis from injuries received when he
was crushed beneath an auto truck.
Andrew Messer, sixty-five years old,
who had served - forty-six years as
janitor in Minneapolis public schools,
Is dead.
At a. patriotic celebration at Heron
_&ke that village of 900 persons raised
$4,500 in forty-five minutes for Red
Cross work.
Mrs. Sophie Stuhr, ninety-four years
Old, Winona's oldest pioneer woman,
succumbed to the first sickness she
ever had known.
The Minnesota State • Woman's
Christian Temperance union will hold
its forty-first .annual convention at
Minneapolis Sept. 26-28. ->-•-._.
John McKinney, a pioneer resident
of Winnebago City, is dead. He was
born in New York in 1840 and was a
veteran of the Civil war.' .
Drafted men who leave Hibbing will
have individual backers whose duties
it will be to provide the soldiers with
tobacco and reading material.
Minnesota beekeepers, at a meeting
at the state fair grounds, fixed the
price of honey from 14 to 20 cents per
pound, according tto quality and quantity.
"Seven of the eight surviving members of G company, Eighth Minnesota
Infantry, met in annual banquet at the
home of Horace Voligney at Stillwater.
Two of the children of Charles Di-
mond of St. Paul are. dead from diphtheria and four other children„. and
the parents are seriously ill from the
disease.
President J. P. Foote of the Scandia'
American bank of Crookston is dead.
He was sixty-three years old. Mr.
Foote had recently undergone an operation.
The attendance at this year's state
fair was 382,205, breaking all previous
records. In 1912, the former high
mark, 374,128 persons passed through
the turnstiles.
Frank H. Carleton, Jr., of !_finneap-
olis, now in the Red Cross ambulance
service in France, has been awarded
the Cross of War for bravery in removing wounded under a heavy bombardment.
J.' P. Turner, St. Elizabeth, Wis.,
died of a brol^n neck following an automobile accident on the Stillwater
road three miles outside the St. Paul
city limits.
J. P. Whitwell of St. Paul was elected president of the Minnesota Spiritualists' association at the closing
meeting of its annual convention in
Minneapolis.
At the farm of W. H. Johnston In
South Long Lake township, Crow
Wing county, there is a crab apple
tree with fruit hanging from its limbs
and blossoms appearing a second time
this season.
Isaac R. Beery, Minneapolis contractor and apartment house pwner,
is dead. He was Bixty-six years old
and had been a resident of Minneapolis since 1877.
Minnesota corporations in the past
fiscal year paid $4,618,464.76 income
taxes to the government. The returns
by individuals in the Gopher state to-
taled $1,814,431.33.
Lillie Miller, sixteen years old, of
Benton county, won the oral spelling
contest at the state fair and Joseph
Voldahl, twelve years old, of Faribault
county, took" first honors in the written contest.
Oscar L. Buhr of Stewarfcs this state,
has been appointed to succeed Floyd
Lyle as secretary to President Marion
L. Burton of the University of Minnesota. Mr. Lyle resigned to enter military service.
Wadena county won first honors for
county agricultural" exhibits at the
state fair. Cass county captured first
honors for the northern section and
NicollW secured first place in the
**t  jMiitbf^A section.
Thej special employment bureau
openeA by the ..Minnesota public
safety j commission in Minnesota to
statewide war time service furnished jobs to 2,058 men and 961 women during Auguet.   ■
John P. Karpen of Hastings, superintendent of schools of-Dakota county,
|jas been certified for service, in the
national army. The board claims ho
Is the first county or state official in
Minnesota to be certified.
Archie Thomas of Sherban, wanted
by tihe police foY attempting to kill a
rivai, T_-_--.-y Harber of Mankato, who
was engaged V, his former sweetheart,
killed himself after being surrounded
by the sheriff ^nd a posse.
In reply tol^ recent anti-draft
meeting at NeM, Tjim loyal citizens of
that town and the surQrunding country, to the nun.ber of 2o',000, participated in a gre.t ^^^ and educational program n ^^ of tlie drafted
men of Brown cc;nty and volced ln
cheers their appr^.nl of Governor
Burnquist's   injunction ^     lye v ^a
Dr. Orville C. Trace, who practiced
medicine in Little Falls for 20 years,
and who had been making his home
there for more than a year, after an
absence of several years, died at his
home, 109 Seventh street northeast,
Thursday afternoon. Death was caused by arteriosclerosis, from which he
had been ill nearly two years.
Dr. 0. C. Trace Death
Lightning Loses Increasing.
Lightning caused a property loss
in Minnesota amounting to $115,591
from January 1 to August 1, according to statistics compiled by George
H. 'Nettleton, assistant state fire marshal. This is an increase over the
corresponding period In 1916 of $8,-
650.
Protection against lightning is usually advisable on country buildings,
on isolated structures, and on all
buildings wherever located having
elevated features such as tall chimneys, steeples, high peaked or gable
roofs and flag poles.
The National Board of Fire Underwriters and similar organizations
have for years made every effort to
warn property owners of the necessity of protection against lightning,
but the fact remains that this warning has been ignored in this and other states.
There is no law to compel the installation of any particular system
although the property loss due to
lightning each  year  is  growing.
The fire marshal's department is
ready to make detailed suggestions
for such improvement if called upon
but up to the present time any effort
to publicly urge the adoption of some
improved method has (been met with
indifference.
The department is making this
statement simply for the purpose of
reminding those owners of exposed
property that the risk from lightning is at all times too great to be
continually ignored.
•le. ser the war he wants.
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$100 Reward, $100
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there Is at least one
•dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages, and that Is
Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medica
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional
disease, requires a cinstitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it falls to cure. Sena
for list of testimonials.     .'__,.    rt
Address: F. J. CHENET & CO.. Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists. 76c.
Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation.
There is Money
In Quack Grass
•Figures showing the amount of
business done at the Kendall Quack
Grass factory during a period of
three days last week seem almost
unbelieveable.
Nineteen thousand, seven hundred
and fifty-six pounds of quack grass
roots were received by the company
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
of last week. For this amount $2,400
was paid to the parties collecting the
roots.
One hundred and seventy sacks full
were received in one shipment from
the southbound Rock Island passenger Thursday.
Owing to the fact that the company is now overstocked with the
roots they are asking the collectors
to hold them until after September
1, at wh ich time they expect to have
their present supply cured and disposed of. They have enough on hand
at the present time to keep their
drying kilns busy, day and night, until after the first of the month.
The Kendall company has been operating receiving stations in Rock,
Mobles, Murray and Pipestone counties for the past two months. An
automobile has been making a tour
of the counties collecting the, roots
every week.—Luverne Journal.
Heavy Killing Frost
Sunday Night
Damage estimated at many million
dollars was the result of the heavy
frost 'Sunday night in Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Iowa. The frost is the
earliest in 10 years.
Southern Minnesota suffered the
most.
The temperature In Pierz fell to
26 degrees which is six degrees below freezing. *
The damage is placed at $50,000,-
000, which is 50 per cent of the full
corn crop value of the state affected.
Local Happenings
Of the Week
JH. Herold Dead.
It was reported here this evening that Michael Herold had
died in the St. Cloud hospital.
Further particulars are not now
available-
COAL STOLEN
About four hundred pounds of coal
,v-ere stolen from the Pierz district
school basement Sunday night. Entrance was forced by breaking the
.ock and hinges. As no signs of wagon tracks could be found, it is
i.hought that the thief carried the
•oal away in sacks.
PARK REGION AUTO CO. QUIT
The Park Region Auto company
made the last trip between Little
Falls and Pierz last Saturday and P.
P. Farrow started a bus service Monday morning. Mr. Farrow intends to
keep it up all winter. Cars are running on the old schedule. Cars leave
here for Little Falls at 10 a. m. and
4 p. m.
The Potato Situation.
(Prepared by the Markets division
production and conservation.)
The potato situation has developed several new phases during the
past week owing to the dry weather
that has prevailed throughout many
parts of the state. Qome frost troubles have already been reported in
the northern sections. Paying prices
during the week have been lower
than last, due largely to the fact that
(he outlet has been materially narrowed by other shipping sections
coming into the field and offering to
sell at lower figures than northwestern potato dealers have been able to
make and still pay the prices demanded by growers in this territory.
The range to growers during the
week has run from 75 cents to 80
jents in regular shipping territories
vhile some lower values have __!._
it other points where growers have
been willing and anxious to realize
mmediately on their early stock.
There will be no speculation in potatoes on the part of regular dealers
.his year and the best judgment of
he growers will have to be depended on as to when goods should be
marketed. One danger should be
guarded against and that is that
here is likely to be a surplus car-
ied over into spring which will make
v lower market at that time than is
now ruling.
SULLIVAN
Rob Hoskins, wife and children,
;vho have been visiting the Riley Hoskins and Peter Adkins families, returned to their home jp Stearns
county last Tuesday.
Tony Grell of Pierz spent last week
with his sister, Miss Marie.
School started last Tuesday with
Miss Hausman of Little Falls as
.eacher. She will board with the Peter Adkins  family.
Mrs. Dorman and Mrs. T. S. Look
vere Hilman callers Thursday.
D. K. Harting, wife and son Lloyd
of Little Falls, who occupied "Tumble Inn" cottage last week, returned
home Sunday. They expect to return
in a couple of weeks.
Pierz callers at the lake Sunday
'Sunday were Lauretta and Gertie
Grell, Marie Brunette, Loretta Hartman, Clara Hesch, John Bauer, Vivian Netzinger, Alex Harman and Casper Thommes
D. K. Harting is getting in the material for his cottage on the lake.
Miss Jessie Smith spent the week
end with'Ruby Thompson.
Clarence Hoskins was a Sunday
caller at the -H. C. Smith home.
J. N. Carnes  of Royalton
was here Monday.
The Injunction
Holds Good
Brainerd: The restraining order issued against John Davis,
Steve Kovacevich and the Dykeman
Transportation company, ordering
them to cease carrying into the prem-
ses at Dykeman or keeping or maintaining intoxicating liquors there
came up "In the district court chambers Sept. 10 before Judge W. S. iMc-
Clenahan and the restraining order
..as continued in force to the first
day of the November term of   court.
County Attorney S. E. Alderman
nas Issued warrants against several
places on Mille Lacs lake believed to
have been engaged in the illegal sale
of liquor and raids were made Saturday night under the direction of
Sheriff Claus A. Theorin. The county attorney announced that a determined effort will be made to clean
DUt roadhouses and violations of the
law will be vigorously prosecuted.
AGRAM
Those that visited at the J. J.
Brummer home Sunday afternoon
were Mr. and Mrs. Peter Boser, Mr.
and Mrs. August Eichmiller and family of Onamia and Miss Alice Goldsmith.
The school started Monday in district 131.
Charlie Kippley was home for a few
days visiting his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Brummer, and
family visited at the George L. Boser
home Sunday evening.
Mrs. Joe Duschner visited alt the
McCoy  home  Thursday.
The school started Tuesday in district No. 46 with Clara Measure as
teacher.
. Mrsr. J. J. Brummer and Pfjli •£_
ward visited at the' Kippley home Friday afternoon.
EASTERN     GRANITE
A 12-pound baby girl came to make
her home with Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kramer Friday, Sept. 7.
J. Girtz is threshing in this - neighborhood.    Good yields are reported.
A. J. Lee and Jesse King were Pierz
goers Monday.
'Mr. and Mrs. Tony Vetsch were visiting relatives near Pierz Monday.
Mrs. Archie Robison and Mrs.
Tracy Waller and daughter Bernice
called on Mrs. Kramer Sunday.
The Misses Andrea called on Mrs.
Lee Sunday.
DIXVILLE
Mrs. Chas. Wischnewski and son
Walter from St. Cloud called at the
Wischnewski home for a short time.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kuschel, Sept. 7, a son.
Bill Adams called at the Wischnewski home Sunday.
Announcement has been made of
the coming marriage of Ottfo E. Kurt-
sahn to Miss Ida Holtz of Ft. Ripley.
A picnic was held in Langola Sunday and some from here were present.   .
Theo. Pohlkamp has his new barn
nearly completed.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Sauer and
son Joe and Math Braun autoed to
Little Falls Monday.
Ewald Roehm motored to Parkers
Prairie Sunday for a short visit
with his mother.
Miss Agnes Roache left for International Falls Sunday to start a term
of school.
Wm. Hodorff and John Anderlie
got their new Fords Monday.
Have your feed ground at the Oak
Lawn farm.
Ernest Schauble received
a new Ford car.
Ben Ellering of Greenwald
was here Saturday.
Robert (rruber Sr. bought
a new Ford car.
Hay is said to be worth
$30.00 a ton in Montana.
C. Borgerding of Belgrade
spent Sunday in Pierz.
It's nut picking time, and
they are plentiful,
TheFreedhem school began
Monday, with Lillian Schauble teacher.
Marriage license was issued
last week to Frank Hoheisel
and Anna Altrichter.
"The Hidden Children," a
5 reel Metro, at Faust',s Opera
House Sunday, Sep. 16.
John Hesch of Agram returned Tuesday from a visit
with his brother-in-law, at
Manohmen.
Threshing engines whistles sing a familiar tune every
morning about half past
four.
John Rassier and son and
Mrs. J. M. Blake spent Sunday afternoon visiting relatives here.
Richard Boehm of Little
Falls was here a few days
this week visiting with his
father.
Miss Lilian Schauble returned from a weeks' visit
with friends at St. Joe last
Saturday.
See "Charlie Chaplin" in
"Tlie Floor Walker," Faust's
Opera House, Sunday September 23rd.
Miss Frauds Berg returned
to her home in Cross Plains,
Wis., after a few weeks' visit with relatives.
Last Monday morning at
Z:ZZ -__cf   -heremometer went
down to 25 degrees.—SeV:
below freezing.
Miss Agnes Berg returne
home from St. Cloud Friday]
where she had been employe
during the summer.
Morrison county was award
ed the third place in the cen
tral addition of county exhi
bitious at the state fair,
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Kuy
pars of Wall Lake, Iowa, arrived here last week to visit
with his brother-in-law Arnold Seelen and wife for a
few days.
Shorthand, typewriting,
bookkeeping and banking at
the St. Cloud Business College. The school that secures positions for its graduates.    Enroll now.
St. Clond Business College
has more calls for bookkeepers and Stenographers than
it can fill. Especially strong
demand for girls. Write,
phone or call.    Enroll now.
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Klears
and Miss Marie Klears, sous-
ins to Lorenz Kreichels motored   from   Loretto,  Minn,,
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
Member's of the Young
Women's Safety Service are:
Lucy Philipsek, Katherine
Thommes, MargaretKreichels
and Rosa Rademacher. Meetings will be held every Wednesday at the Club Service
Rooms at St. Cloud, Minn.
Mrs. J. Sampers of Early,
Iowa,,and Mrs. Henry Pape,
of Carroll, Iowa, ^daughters
of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold See-
leen, who had been here visiting their parents, left for
their homes last week Wednesday.
There was a rush for binding twine Monday morning
after tlie heavy frost. Presumably, since the corn cannot mature, the idea is to cut
it as early as possible to preserve the feeding value of the
stalks.
It seems that the preliminary excitement over the war
is dying out and that things
are beginning to go the "even
tenor of their way." Not
many arguments are heard
now.
Mr. and Mrs. Math. Hesch
of Pierz returned last week
from a six weeks' trip visiting in St. Paul, Waumandee,
Buffalo Co., Wis., Rock-Island, 111., and Davenport, Ia.
On their way home they took
in the State fair. Crops, Mr.
Hesch says, are about the
same in the regions he visited. There is iack of rainfall.
Fred. Dahmen of Union-
town, Washington, is here
visiting his old home, which
he left over twelve years
ago. Fred took one of his
boys to the Rochester hospital, and his visit here is a
stop-over and timekiller. Fred
seems to be as strong and
young as ever. He reports
crops out west not as good as
they might be on account of
the late spring.
HEAVY FIGHTING
AROUNDVERDUN
Germans Are Trying to Recoup
Recent Losses,
FRENCH LINES ARE HOLDING
British Troops Deliver Small but Sue-,
cessful Attacks—Teuton Drive
in  Russia  Slackens.
London. — Once again the French!
and the Germans are engaged in ex-!
tremely heavy fighting in the Verdun!
sector, with the Germans trying to!
recoup their losses of the end of the!
past week on the right bank of the!
Mouse, but with General Petain's!
forces holding them back almost!
everywhere.
Over a front of nearly two miles the!
Germans, following unsuccessful at-!
tacks Saturday night in the sector of!
the Bois-des-Fosses and the Bois-des-l
Courieres, returned to the fray with!
renewed vigor, especially around Hill'
344.
At some points French trenches
were captured by the Germans, but
from these they were driven out later
and the French line was entirely reestablished. In the fighting around
the Bois-des-Fosses Saturday night
the Germans left nearly 1,000 dead on
the ground before the French positions. ;
At various points on the front held!
hy Field Marshal Haig the British!
troops have 'delivered successful at-j
tacks, especially northwest of St. |
Quentin, where German positions on!
a front of several hundred yards were;
captured.
Repulse   British   Attacks.
The Berlin war office reports that!
northeast of St. Julien the British!
delivered an attack Saturday night,!
but met with repulse. Likewise, Ber-j
lin says, strong British reconnais-l
sances south of La Bassee canal and;
along the Scarpe river were without!
success.
There has been a considerable!
slackening in the German advance inj
Northern Russia, due in large meas-j
ure to the Russians making stands!
at several points, particularly on the
front of the Pskoff railroad line leading eastward from Riga.
Here the vanguards of the Germans
and Russian cavalry are engaged in
fighting, the result being that the invaders were held back while the Russians are preparing defenses in which
to make a stand.
Although terrific storms have broken over the Austro-Italian front,
causing the rivers to overflow their
banks and turning the plains into
quagmires, the heavy battle for Monte
San Gabriele continues unabated, with
the Italians violently attacking, but
with the Austrians maintaining the
position.
SENATE IS AGAINST
-"" HIGHER TAXATION
last Thursday to visit at the
home of Lorenz Kreichels.      {Potatoes  75
SiiMO produce
Market Report
^heat, No. 1, —- $2.00
"Wheat, No. 2     1.95
'Wheat, No. 3—.      1.90
Plax,        2.90
Barley       1.05
Rye.—. -—    1-70
Oats.  ■—    55
Ear Corn   1-25
Hay—      7.00
Gutter, Creamery —..      40
Dairy        27
Eggs... —-       30
Flour, Royal-... 1—    6.30
"    WhiteRose      6.20
Low grade flour 4.00
._ran — 1-90
bracked Corn 80 pounds 2.75
Shorts 2.30
Ground Peed      2.40
fBeans      5-00
•Onions         2.50
Washington, D C —In the midst
if another bitter outburst over American unity in prosecuting the war the
senate tentatively disposed of the in-
|come tax provisions of the war tax
dll and again defeated all attempts at
[higher taxation.
Interest in virtual adoption of the
ncome tax section, designed to raise
i842,Q00,000  more  revenue  from  indi-
Idiial  and   corporate   incomes,  was
ivershadowed by a stormy three-hour
cene. in which Senator Hardwick of
eprgia  was   subjected   to   vigorous
iriticlsm by  Senator Nelson   (Republican)  and Senators Chamberlain and
jlliams  (Democrats).
jnator Nelson, veteran of the Civil
efended the ^patriotism of the
Americ_-fH_soldier—regular,' volunteer
and drafteBT-^men—and rlenor.-ced
pacifism in rebuking Senator Hardwick for introducing an amendment
to the war revenue "tiill to give soldiers who go overseas $50 a month
extra.
HIS    FEELINGS   ARE    HURT
Chicago Mayor Sues Papers and Indi-
. viduals for $1,600,000.
Chicago.—Mayor  W,.  B.   Thompson
has filed praecipes in som^ more libel
suits.      He    asks    $500,000    damages
from the   Chicago  Tribune,   $250,000 j
from the Chicago Daily News and Victor   Lawson,   its  publisher;    $200,00,0!
from Jacob M. Dickinson, former secretary of war, who has made vigor-
i ous comment on the mayor's anti-war
attitude, and $200,000 each from H. H.
Merrick   and Arnold Joerns,   respectively president and secretary of the^
local chapter of the National Security
league. Previously the mayor sued the
i Chicago   Herald   and   James   Keeley,
| publisher, for $250,000.    Thus the to-
! tal of damages claimed aggregates $1,-
600,000.	
Railroads ^r% Prepared.
Washington,   B.i C. — The   railroad
! war board has assured the war depart.
ment that the railroads are prepared
to  move   1,000,00.0  troops   to  camps
and the seaboard in thirty days.
wr__-^_-__.    iimi an iuntil ——m
id the DANCE JnFaust's Hall, Monday, September 17th.   fiusic by Cafarelli's Orchestra,