The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1917-11-15

              VOL. NO. 9.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, November 15, 1917.
No. 22
Brief items of x
Stale Ne
*-t
Robbers entered R. L. Singleton's
store- at Nernadji and stole a typewriter and also took a 5.0-pound can
Of lard from the Soo station.
G. A. Penney was elected mayor of
Thief River Palls. He easily defeated
F. H. Gambel, candidate for re-elec-
-tion, Gambel carrying but one ward
in the city.
The Isanti starch factory has been
grinding steadily since it opened;-and
about forty tons of starch have .been
manufactured, but the receipts of'pota.
toes  are dwindling."
Fred Busch, former mayor of Hastings, 70 years old, died at Macon,
Ga., on a train while en route io
Florida, according to a telegram received   by   friends  at  Hastings.
James O'Donnell, of    Rochester. 35
"years   old,   was   fatally   injured,   two
horses .were lulled, and a Standard Oil
company wagon demolished near Haverhill   .'-'here a Northwestern locomo-
f'tive crashed into it.
i If he can  get  the men, James  B.
McGratli,   owner  of  the  White  Pine
mills, at Moose Lake,  plans to take
out 10,000,000 feet of white pine during   the   wipter,   employing   350   m.H
fin eighi-'camps.    He  also    plans  to
. work 100 men in the mill.
Moss such as grows in the woods
e.nd swamps of Northern Minnesota
.has come into use for surgical dressing in war hospitals. Moss has been
found -to be four times as absorbent
.'as cotton. It will hold sixteen or
twenty-two times its weight in water.
__ large quantity of moss has been,
gathered and placed in the rooms of
the'lled Cross in Duluth. The supply
is  inexhaustible.
Eight girls were injured and 112
others narrowly escaped when the
east wing of the Gilbert Technical
high school was wrecked - by a gas
-taint explosion. The explosion sent
a huge skylight crashing through the
gymnasium, many pieces of flying
glass be^ng thrown in the. swimming
pool where the injured were. Debris
has thus far prevented an investigation as to 'the cause of the blast.
S. H. Selvog, the agent of the state
fisheries on Red lake, >and Mr. Shoos-
ter of Kellilier had a narrow escape,
from drowning while on an automobile
trip from Kelliher. They took the
ice on the lake from Shotly to Hen-
fin, a distance of twenty-five miles,
but when within half a mile of Shotly
the car went under in about six feet
of water. The occupants were saved
by the homesteaders living along the
lake shore.
Michael Godfrey, superintendent Of
the Oliver Mining company at Hibbing, announces that a 40-acre tract
cf land, in the heart of Hibbing, will
be mined. According to the plan, a
dozen square blocks in the center of
the city in' "which are located the
leading hotels, the city hall and practically all the business houses will
be razed. It is planned to move the
business center of the city to Alice,
a suburb south of Hibbing.  ,
St. Peter girls believe they have
the latest shade in comforts for the
soldiers. They are writing to the
boys of the K company, One Hundred
and Thirty-sixth infantry, at Deming,
N. M., ho have no mothers, sisters
or sweethearts to write to them.
But they aren't signing their names.
They are merely writing them the
news, thatfs all, and stopping right
there,- without even telling the boys
the color of their eyes, or their hair,
or what th§ir names are,
Polk' county made a perfect score
■ with the first thirty-six men sent to
Camp Dodge for the. National army.
The- new St. Cloud State bank,'
now located in temporary quarters on
the East side, will move into its new
building  about Nov.  10.
The Security. State bank of. Milaca,.
recently incorporated,, has opened for
business in the W. J. Fredeen building. The bank is capitalized at $15,-
000.
Carl K Kittleson, operator for the
St>o railway at Bemidji, has eujjsted
In the signal corps of -the army as an
operator. He went to Duluth for his
assignment to camp.
Letters received from Herbert
Busterud, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. O.
Bus'terud of Crookston, state that he
.has arrived in. France with his company of the Eighteenth regiment of
railway engineers.
A window in the office of the clerk
of court at -the courthouse at Pine
City was fired through and tlie bullet,
evidently a stray one, flattened itself
ou the portion near the door leading
to the vault almost in a line of Mr.
Gunn's portion at his desk:
Wabasha suspended business to
lionor the memory' of Benjamin Hairl-
Eon Evans, one of its founders and
builders of a score of Southern Minnesota villages. Mr. Evans died in
bis eightieth year, and Masonic services were conducted. .He went to
Wabasha in 188. and helped erect the
town. He became a contracting builder and contracted for the construction
of Plainview, Elgin and many other
villages'  business' districts.
Philip Karls, 18 -years old, son of
Nick Karls, suffered a serious accident when his left . arm became
caught in a shafting ln the plant of
the Melrose Granite company at St.
Cloud. The arm was badly mangled
and the victim was taken to-St. Raphael's hospita.1 , where physicians
found it necessary to amputate the
eirm at the shoulder.
A- case : of smallpox is reported in
St. Cloud by Health Officer Paul Soberer,' and Miss Wieber, a'Minneapolis
[lurse, is under quarantine here. It
Is reported that she brought the dia-
Base here with Jier from Minneapolis.
Day Scheme
Held Mail Fraud
Minneapolis,Nov. 2.—A theatrical correspondence ..school, a
jewelerv by mail concern and
a national directory work are
the three enterprises that have
taken the time of Earl Hall, 20
years old, who was arrested in
Minneapolis today by'Postoffice
Inspector M. L. Ryanv on a
charge of using" the mails to defraud .in connection with the
directory enterprise started at
his home town, Little Falls.
Minn., and removed later to 214
Tribune annex,- Minneapolis.
Hall told the inspector-the directory work brought $20 a day.
A two weeks' accumulation of
more than 2,500 pieces of directory correspondence is at Little
Falls.
According to Inspectior Ryan,
Halt inserted advertisements in
daily papers to the effect that
the National Directory Works
would pay cash for names listed
for the directory. Applicants
for work were -asked for $1.00..
apiece. They were told to
charge farmers and others
whose names they procured 25
cents apiece, half of which was
to be sent to Little Falls for the
benefit of the   directory  works.
Just a dollar will start that
account at the First State Bank
of Genola.
Hilling Higli Places.
Forty or fifty years ago, if a
person wanted to make'an overland trio of 800 miles across a
section of country where there
were no railroads, he had to
rely upon horse-drawn conveyances. Atrip of 800 miles by
team would ordinarily take
from twenty to'twenty five days
if one traveled every day for 10
hours each day, which, under
most weather conditions he
would find it impossible to do,
and such a trip would have been
considered a hardship. Todav,
with our modern conveyance
the automobile, a jaant of 8C0
or 1,000 miles across the coun-
is but a pleasure trip. For in-"
stance a party of four young
men, viz:, Alfred Gongvin, Wm,
Taylnr, G. E. Longvin and
Adolph Jarrie, all former residents of Little .Falls, and
vicini-ty, last week made a trip
of 8oo miles, from Wesoy,
Mont., to Little Falls, where
they visited friends. They made
the trip in 35 .hours and without
any serious mishaps, although
obliged to make a few short
stops for minor causes. The
trip was made in an Overland
car.
Proceedings of Coun=
ty Commissioners
- Little Falls, Minn.
Nov. 6, 1917.
County board met in regular
monthly session, called to order
by the chairman at 10:30 a. m,,
all members' present; minutes
were read and app oved.
. County agrees to pay one-
half cost of bridge in -Buh I between sections 9 and. 16 over
Platte river.
Bids then opened for bridge
No. 2436, the bid of the Minneapolis Bridge company for $35,-
890.00 complete. Motion made
and carried that same be accepted, and*Minneapolis Bridge
company awarded the contract.
The following bills were then
allowed.
Matt Pilarski,  work  on
Another Pioneer
Passes Away
Ford Car Stolen
Last Night
Frank Weiss, one of our early
settlers died last Tuesday in
Brainerd, .where Mrs. Weiss and
he Were visiting their daughter,
Mrs. Ben Walerius. The cause
of death was heart disease.
Mr. Weiss 'was born in Austria, July 17th, 1838, and was
therefor 79 years old. He landed in America with his parents,
■at the age of 16, who settled near
Cross Plains5, vVis., where the
deceased made his home until
1873, when he came lo Pierz.
For the . past 13 years he lived
in the village.
He leaves a widow aud 14 living children. They are: Anto-
nia Ruraff of LaCrosse, Wis.;
John Weiss of Buh; Frank Weiss
of Helena,  Mont.;   Chas. Wek&s
state road No. 3 .  24.00 of liuh; Mary Lurkin of Fargo;
Simon Zak, work on state |Emilie   Flicker of   Buh;   Henry
road No. 3     12.00 . Weiss of Fort Selicomb, Wash.;
P. J. Wallmark, work on ! Annie Kraemer of Criterion Ore;
state road No. 3.     72.05 ' Theresia Kraemer of Vancouver
jWash.;   Katie   Rieke   of   Pierz;
6.00
12.05
Jacob    Brisk,    work   on
state road No.3	
Casper   Thommes,   work
on state road No. 3....
Joseph Fiman, work  on
state road No. 3	
John P. Langer, work on
state road No. 3 ,. .\ .
Peter   Virnig,    work   on
state road No. 3	
Adam  Sontag,   work   on
strte road No. 3     13.75
John A. Virnigfwork on
state'road No. 3     20.00
Margaret   Gagnon   of   Hibbing.
Minn.;    Elizebeth'  Walerius   of
Brainerd   and   Clara  Weiss   ol
70.47, Pierz.
Funeral will be held at St. Jo-
23.25  seph's church   next Saturday at
.ro'clock   a. m.,   under   the   au-
31-50 spices   of the   St. Joseph's   So-
_   ciety.
A Ford car owned by Roy
Tanner of Little Falls and driven out by Art. Schultz was stolen shortly after 10 o'clock last
nig-ht. Art. left the car a few
rods south of Barney Gross' sa-
loun. The sheriff was at once
notified, who-in turn is watching every port of escape. The
car bore license number 112,234.
Two men begrimed, with grease
and   oil came   into   Hotel  Pierz.'
Local Happenings   !
Of the Week
J. P. TUMULTY
Wilson's  secretary, may   attend
Twin   Citiefe    loyalty    meeting.
The Albany postmaster has
resigned.
' Frank Hall of  the N.   W,
Tel. Co., was  a  visitor  here
Tuesday.
Henry Nietfeld and son
of Greenwald visited here
last Saturday.
Fire destroyed   the   livery
shortly before ten  o'clock, say-! barn of Anton Steil at   Rich-
ing they had broken  the axle of mond last week.
their car between here and Buck-    '   v       ,   -rXr .'m'"™      -,
n   .,        -,        ,_._', I rank Weaver of bt. Cloud
man   and   that   they   had   tele-
phoned  for a new  axle,   which' 18 sported dying as a   result|
was  to come  on the  midnight: of a kick from a horse.
train.     These   two    men,   one      Charley  Erkens  and  wife
about 5 feet 10 inches tall, wore ■    ,.    -»->.  , , ...
....  of   Richmond   were  visitors
an overcoat, the   other aDout a ,
feet 7   incehs tall,    and   worejW Natives  m Pierz  Fri-
a rnackinaw  are thought  to  be, day.
the guilty ones. Frank   Starr  of    Alberta,
John    Otremba's    motorcycle  Benton CQUut      wag   a   bugi.
tools were stolen from   his tool-, . ^ •
u       u    .   +i „   , '„._. .;_._.    tt'ness caller in rierz  last bat-
box about  the  same time.    He
saw two men whose appearance j Ul'day.
agrees   whith  those   who called j     Many a man missed   opportu-
at the hhotel, looking at his mo-' ni:y by the thickness  of   a   dol-
torcycle,   but   thought of  it at lar bill—the dollar lie failed   to
the time.
Rural earner Examination
Sullivan News.
Henry Eckland of Litchfield
and Eugene Eckborn of Grove
City occupied the "BillieMarie"
cabin a few days last week.
bank at the First State Bank of
Genola.
H. Gassert", mileage and
committee work        41.20
Mike  Schomer,    witness
fees       3.64
There being   no further   busi-1
ness the board adjourned.
Miss Mazie Look   spent  the
George Virnig,   work  on
state road No.   3     63.50 |    The United States Civil   Ser
Adam   Virnig,   work   on j vice Commission has announced   wee'c encl at 'lome-
state road No. 3......    42.60  an examination for   the  County '    Pierz callers   Saturday   were,
Peter   Vihiig,   work   on ' of Morrison, Minn., to   be   held'Mrs     Widdowson     Mr
■0 J at Little   Falls, on Dec. 8, 1917, ' son and Bill Droger.
•to till the position of rural   car- ] mm-ni ...
The  D.   K.    Harting    family, morning.
spent the week end at their cot-      Martiu Buchele,  son   of  a
rural   routes  from   other  post-; tage.cn the lake. we)1   ]ulown farmer residing
offices in   the   above   mentioned;    Callers at T.   S. Losk's   Sun
county.    The examination   will  day were the John  Britton fam
Henry Dab lmeier of Sartell,
who is working in the Watab paper mill; was a village
visitor Saturday and Sunday.
J. N... Carnes  of   Royalton
passed through   here Friday
morning on*his way to  Hill-
Emer-! man to open the deer  season
bright   and   early   Saturday
rier at Pierz, Minn , and vacancies   that   may later  occur   on
Burglars Down the Soo Line.
The    safe    in   the   hardware1
store at Brooten was  blown   at'
be open  only   io   male  citizens  ny and Mrs. Martin
who are   actually dominciled in
the territory of  a   postoffice   in
the county   and   who   meet   the
other requirments set   forth   in
an early hour   Sunday" morning  Ponn No   ^77.    Tllis form  and
application blanks may   be  ob
in the vicinity of .Eden   Val-
iey, suffered the  loss of  his
left   hand   when, it    became
'Mrs. Van Kueren was  a lakejcal,gi1:t in a corn shredder,
caller Sunday.
Bill   Droger  left Sunday  for j     Quite a crowd of  Indians
the  twin  cities  and   points in1 of Mille  Lacs   lake   were   in
and $300 in cash taken   from   it. i
northern Wisconsin.
town   Friday   and   Saturday
1 Buy Land for
Indians,
A band of Mille Laca Indians,
some of whom have already
shown enough foresight and in-
dustryto acquire land aud bring
it under cultivation in Pine
county, Minn., are to be given
a tract .of 700 to 800 acres by
the government. At first the
Indians will use the land in
common and later it wilt be
allotted.
School Report."
Report of school district No.
39 for the mouth ending November 9.
Number of days taught 20.
""Number .of pupils enrolled 30.
Average daily attendance   15.
Those neither absent nor
tardy during the month are,
Leo, Ida and Edward Poser,
Emelia and Mary Gelhar and
Edward Jamma. Those absent
or tardy one day are, Michael,
Robert and Minnie Boser Lawrence and Joseph Sontag. ,
Angela Kippley,
Teacher.
A report has also reached the I tained from the offices mention. I    Alv;i and Edwin  Martin  and ! buying their winter stock of
!!-__."?_••! £Xl tft^°l?b,er*?t'led  above or  from   the  United  ,]oe   Sol-bra   called   at    C.    E. j clothing and eatables.   They
Looks Sunday evening. recently received money from
County seat visitor?  Monday ' Uncle Sam.
Anton Salzbrunn, a res>
jdent of liice, Benton county,
was arrested by Sheriff Dan
Craig; a Warrant having been
placed in the hands of the
sheriff because Salzbrunn had
tempted to break into   the   An-  gtates   Civil   By,ry-lce   Commis
derson store at  Belgrade.    Thel^ afc WashiQ ^   Q     Ap_
men were detected by the  town ! plic;itions should be  ^Warded
constable   aud     vl.en   be gaye j fo^Com mission. al_ '^Waslhha-
chase, they tired two' or three
shots at him, one of the shots
ente.ing the constable's foot
and passing through it.
ton at the earliest   practicable
date.
FOR SALF—A new Ford car
Inquire at telephone office.   22tf
Look Out For Grafters.
A report is current   that   par-
were Mr. and. (Mrs.. Lynn,   son
Fred    and   Merle   and   Rodney J
Look.
That Skim Milk—Save It.
Jury
indicted by Grand
Jacob Bolda of Morrill  town,
indicted  by the grand   jury   on
abandoned his family.
Henry A. Deutch and wife
and little son Anthony,   ar-
Save every drop of skim milk,
ties are going about this state It is a valuable food. Use it in
trying to sell farmers seed oats 'your kitchen and on your table,
at $3 per bushel, claiming them j It is'valuable as a beverage,
to be- non-lodging. Now' there J in cookery as cottage cheese-
is no such oats in existence, nor : too valuable to waste, whether ^rived from Jordan, Scott
any wheat, barley i>r other: it comes through your own sep,-; county, last week to visit
a charge of abandoning 'and grain tlifit" is proof against be-j arator. or the separator at tlie.TyIl,g J3eutch's father and
failing to support Ins-wile, was Ung laid dowil by wind and ,-ain. i creamery—too valuable to be : H ., T
arraigned     and    pleaded     not   With   oats  sellinkr  at   6)  cenis> thrown  away,   or
.ony and other rela-
uilty. He was   released   under
$500 bail
per bushel, any farmer should
[think twice before buying any
I seed from strangers at live tinies
the market price.
Market
Choice No. 1 Northern.
Wheat, No. 1, -■------._.
Wheat,  No-  2	
Wheat, No. 3___.	
Wheat, No. 4	
Flax,	
u
.$2.04
$2.00
1.97
1.94
. 1.90
3.10
A pass book and check book
Js rea-dy for you. Come in and
;start that account today. First
' State bank of Genola.
lives.
A clipping  from   the  Du-
How Falsehood Grows.
IIS
Ifo
Till they got it outside.
I'TJien the crowd came across it
And never once lost it,
But tossed it and tossed it,
Till it grew long and wide.
Barley..-      1.05   First somebody told it,
Uye -_   1.66, Then the room would't hold it
Oats       58  So tlie !>u-y tongues rolled it
BarCorn  1.25
Hay     7.00
Butter, Creamery        45
Dairy       37
Piggs       35
Flour, Royal      5.50
""    WhiteRose 5.40  This lie brought forth others,
Low grade flour 4.00  Dark sisters and brothers,
iiran . 1.90  Aud fathers and mothers,
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 2.75 :     A terrible crew.
Shorts .. 2.15  And headlong thev hurried
Ground Feed .____    2.40  The.people lhey flurried
Beans ■    5.00 And troubled and worried
Onions     2.50.    As lies always do.
Potatoes :._       90' —ANOBT,
fed   lo  farm I
animals, if it can be used as human food.
At creameries where whole«buque Daily sent to the
mille is handled, skim milk is; Journal makes favorable
often  thrown down the drains. !injnt.ou   Qf   &        int[ »A
Creameries ought to make their,
,,  . ,,        ^.i,00__, !February   Afternoon,   Lagle
skim milk into  cottage   cheese.  |^       * _    ' 5
Farmers ought to   make  cot-; Point    Park,"     painted     by
ta»e cheese at home.  Skim milk  Chas.  J.  Dunn,   who   visited
so   used   will   supplement    our  ,lt   |-j1H  Andrew  Faust   home
meat supply, for cottage cheese  lagt su4lunef;
one of   the   best  substitutes:
meat.   Use it in your  cook-;     Tony Smith an 1 family of
ing. j Fairbanks,   Minn.,   are  here
Make and eat cottage  cheese ^hjoying a short   visit   with
and encourage others to use   it    ^   ■£_    A      yimig    family.
Al-ike Ducklings and soups and .'.,.. 1      .
Maue pu-.uiu.ga ,jj       -s takuig a short  vaca-
bread with skim milk. : •> ° .
The Dairy Division of the I ion because the crew he is
i United Slates Department of cooking for has been laid off
I Agriculture, Washington, D. C, j'0r two months. One day
i will tell you how to make   cot-   .vjlell    a   shipment   of   eggs
tage   cheese   in.  the    home    or
' creamery and in what  dishes it
. m.'.v be use.I. *
j       '  i ' <i*
UJHii) come from
Tiie lack of money is the root  r|
of more   evil  than   the   love   of
At.    Save your  inoney regularly
..lt    the     First State   Ban£   of
Genola.. . I.tl^ _lot.
cime in Mrs. Smith paid she
often wondered wheivnii the
ergs came from.
J. P. Tumulty, secretary to tha
President, state3 that he has not defl;
nltely deckled whether he can go t.
Minneapolis and St.- Paul November
16 and 17. "I still have it under cou-
side, afton." said Tumulty, "but am not
certain whether I can come or not.
Naturally I should like very much to
do so."
-.-iii  U--_-
DfAI-IU-
l\lill
Crowder Explains Draft Following Wilson's Foreword.
Plan of Such Significance As To Compel   Assistance   of   Every
American,   Is   Word.
Washington, Nov. 12.—Provost Marshal General Crowder has issued the
following statement, supplementing
the  president's   call  to  the  nation.
"The questionnaire, which is the
basis of the new system, is a collsc-
tion of questions bringing but the
essential facts upon which all classifications are.made. It is the only
printed form which any registrant
needs to use, either in making claims
or filing proof. At first sight, it may,
seem a little,formidable', but a read-]'
ing'of the questions "shows that thoyj
are simple;enough for any person!
who can read and write understanding!
to answer.
"The President's message lines upj
the whole legal profession of the!
United States as assistants of the . e-|
lective service system and as im-j
partial advisors to registrants in fill-!
ing out their questionnaires. Under!
the new regulations a place is to be|
provided convenient to every local!
board where registrants may go for!
free advice and assistance in making;
out this document. The eounty judge]
or other judicial officer of similar!
court is placed at the head of a com-!
mittee of lawyers in each vicinity;
and this committee is charged with]
the duty of SBeing fchat there are al«!
ways plenty of lawyers and other]
volunteers present to help registrants]
in filling1, out the c .".sstionnaire.
"Questionnaires are to be mailed
by the local board to 5 per cent of
the registrants each day. The principal work of . the legal advisory
beards will thus be over in 20 days,
by which time all the questionnaires
should be returned to the boards.
Every man has seven days in which
to return his questionnaire fully lir'a
out. The process of classification
will begin about December 15. Eight
days later the boards will begin Uie
great process of claBSification'which
becomes, in the words of the President, 'A national war undertaking of
such significance as to challenge the'
attention and compel the assistance
of evei'y American.'"
CHINA REPORTED RESENTFUL
Pierz''
ony.
; llere
Stiinno
And
was
ke   <fe
So 1 lie   of
raid
iry    c's.Mgh
irom
lake   among
Limits Flecognition of Treaty Between
Japan  and  America.
Tokiq, Nov. 12.—China has formally
announced that she will limit her
recognition of the special position
which territorial propinquity creates
according to the Japanese-American
''understanding" to interests alrealy
established iri treaties. The Chinese
foreign office announcement to this ef-,
feet has been received here.
The statement also declared that
China will not be bound by notes exchanged between other countries.
Formal announcement to this effect
is the official indication of dissatisfaction in China with the recent understanding reached betwe.en the United
States and Japan. China is resentful
because she was not consulted in the
matter. . j
Minneapolis Aviator Me.ts Death.
Minneapolis, Nov. 12.—Walter A.
Jones is the fourth Minneapolis man
to give his life in war service. He
was instantly killed at Hicks Fiekl,
Fort Worth, Texas, when "an airplane
he was driving fell 800 feet. Either
through loss of control'of the machine,
or through some mechanical trouble-,
the plane did a spinning nose dive,
killing Jones, but only slightly injuring a passenger he had with him.
Mr. Joaes was 21 years old and for
the last two years had been a student
it the University of Minnesota,