The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1917-12-06

              VOL. NO. 9.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, December 6, 1917.
No. 25
Stockholders of the Clay County
Creamery association have decided to
build a modern creamery building in
Moorhead to cost about $6,000.
Superintendent H. K. W. Scott of
St. Cloud reformatory and D. H.
Knickerbocker have returned from
New Orleans where they attended the
National Prison congress.
Thomas A. Donlin, manager of the
Thompson yards at St. Cloud, enlisted
in the forestry service for the engineers' corps and left for Port Snelling, where he has been ordered to re-
port.
A bowing well yielding 100 gallons
a minute has been located at Lincoln
by Harry W. Peterson, while drilling.
The flow was struck at a depth of
only 90 feet. Flowing wells are very
rare in that section of the country.
Nearly 200 Crookston people, in'clud-
cluding the Home Guard and the Citizens' band, went to Ada on a special
train to participate in the ceremonies
incident to the opening of the new
v        Great Northern depot at that place.
Miss Grace Andersen, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Andersen of Red
Wing, has been called for Red Cross
service and before long will be actively engaged at one of the American
base hospitals in Prance. She has
left for a cantonment.
An appropriation of $1,000,000 has
been made by the Minnesota public
±. safety commission ta be used in per
fecting the organizzation and supplying equipment for the Minnesota home
guard, this action being taken on
advice of Secretary Baker of the department of war.
Representative- A. C Welch of
of Glencoe, defendant in a suit for
$5,000 brought by Representative
Charles Kennig of Bird Island, for injuries received in a fight at the last
session of the Minnesota legislature,
won a verdict in district court at Glencoe. Kenning charged that he was assaulted by Welch.
About seventy-five beavers in the
large colonies in Itasca State Park
will be killed under a special permit
issued by Commissioner Carlos Avery
of the state game and fish department. The pelts will be turned over
to Commissioner Avery for sale at
auction and the proceeds will be credited  to the park fund.
George E. Rice of Foley has been
appointed judge of Burton county by
Governor Burnquist, Judge Rice will
fill the vacancy caused by the enforced resignation of Judge F. C. Lane
'who was drafted and is now at Camp
Dodge. Frank J. Conway of Waseca
T was appointed judge of the municipal
court in that city to succeed the late
Judge  Peter  McGovern.
Sheriff Kelly of Crookston has announced that if he enters any so-
called soft drink emporiums in East
Grand Forks under a search warrant,
that he will confiscate all intoxicating liquors and fixtures connected
with the sale of them in any way,
such fixtures being the bars, tables,
chairs and any other fixtures pertaining to the sale of the liquor.
Leech lake has been opened up as
another state fishery lake and fishermen may now operate with net in securing the rough fish that are so plen-
tiful in this lake and a menace to the
game fish. The netting is done by
permit from the State Public Safety
commission under the direction of
Carlos Avery as superintendent and
with S. A. Selvig of Redby as inspector.
Coal dealers of Minnesota are asked
to carefully distribute their supplies
of hard coal in a letter from Judge
McGee. Judge McGee calls attention
to the practice in some of the smaller
cities, where a few families buy the
^ whole supply of hard coal received by
**"•*+•>•• -fhe local dealers leaving many families with none. He suggests that some
coal be sold to everyone who can use
it as the supply of that variety is
more plentiful.
The entries at the chicken show
held at International Falls numbered
115.   Last year the number was 44.
Frank Luchnow, of Fairmont, convicted on a disloyalty charge, paid a
fine of $100 and was released from the
county jail.
Dr. G. M. Sewall of Deerwood has
made application for entering the U.
S. medical corps and will dispose of
all his personal property.
Abe Ginsbirg, Minneapolis attorney,
indicted on acharge of attempting to
bribe a witness must be ready for
trial on January 7, according to an
order by Judge Molyneaux in Hennepin county district court.
Stillwater has contributed $1,200 to
the Protective league for war aid.
Some 856 farmers of Washington
county contributed a quarter of an
acre to an acre of products to the
^ fund and market days are being held
n the counfy.
Rev. i-OVard Duea, pastor of the
Norwegian Lutheran church at Blue
Earth, who was injured in an auto
accident when, his wife and daughter
were killed, is reported making a
i:;ood recovery. His right leg was
broken in two places.
Dr. F. L. Durgiu, pioneer physician
of Winnebago, is threatened with
blindness and is forced to give up his
medical practice. It is Feared ii- vHl.
be totally blind within a few months.
Specialists Kay that the optical nerve
is becoming atrophied.
William Watts of Pingree, N. D., has
arrived at Roosevelt with a carload of
horses to use in the woods this winter.
Mrs. Ira W. French of Bemidji has
been appointed chairman of the Y. \V.
C A. of Beltrami county to raise a
fund of $500 to carry on this work,
receiving her apnointmenWfroni Mrs-
U..P.JBrown of Little Falls.
Letter From
J. C. Leidenfrost
Newport, R. I.,
Nov. 25, 1917.
Wish to inform you that I am
now at tlie Naval Training"
Station of Newport, R. I., and
would be pleased to have you
send the Pierz Journal out here-
Thedife in the U. S. Navy is
something worth talking" about;
it is like a big" college—you
learn something" new each day.
The routine is about as follows:
Roll out of your hammock at
o-.OO, take a cold shower after
which you have until 7:45 to
yourself; then breakfast is served; 8:00 is colors; after colors is
drill until 11:00, then they have
30 minutes to get their mail.
Dinner is served at 11:00. At
1:15 some more drill, which
lasts until 3:45, after that you
can go over to the gym. and indulge in all kinds of exercises
or you can go to the library.
Colors at 6; movies start at 7:00.
Wednesday nights we have
roller skating aud swimming.
Hammocks blow at 9:00 then
everybody rolls in after a very
exciting day. Besides drill, the
seamen also have gun instruction, rope splicing, knots, etc.,
all of which helns to make good
seamen out of the boys.
Us Yoemen do not get very
much of that stuff and we are
not     a   bit sorry   either.
One thing about those hammocks, they stand no fooling.
They are strung up about six
feet from the deck, and once
you get into it vou hav . to lie
still or you will take one grand
tumble to the floor, and you will
find your head about twice it's
normal size the next morning.
We passed thru thirteen states
and a part of Ontario, Can., on
our way out here; it took just
one week-
The weather is fine although
it is cold compared to sunny
California. On our way through
Nevada we ran into a snow
storm which left a layer of 5
inches. Farmers were using
sleighs.
As  this is  getting   long and
dreary. I will   close,   hoping  to
to have the pleasure   of   receiving the Journal soon, I  remain,
Very sincerely yours,
J. C. Leidenfrost,
Lds. Yoe. U. S. Navy, U. S.
Naval Training Station,. Newport, R. I.
To Protect Farmers.
There is a bill pending before
the committee on Interstate
Commerce of the House, introduced by representative Frank
P-, Woods of Iowa, that the
farmers of the country are looking to with interest. It provides for the appointment by
the secretary of agriculture of
licensed weighers of farm produce, including live stock, upon
the arrival of the same at the
stock yards, rlevators, or other
similar establishments. Books,
open to the public, are to be
kept by the weigher. The inspection of the scales used by
the licensed weighers is provided for by the appointment of
inspectors for that purpose.
The object of Mr. Wood's measure is to prevent fraud and deceit in the weighing ancl handling of farm products at the
great commercial centers. The
bill will come up automatically
without reintroduction, at the
next session, and the agricultural interests, of the country
are hoping that it will receive
the approval of congress.—
Litchfield Ledger.
Another OldSettler
Passes Away
A.J. Bergquist, one of the oldest settlers of the town of Buh,
died at his home Monday from
bronchitis.
Mr. Bergquist was born in
Sweden in 1842, came to this
country in December 1881, coming shortly afterward to Minnesota. He moved to Buh town
36 years ago. He was married
49 years ago to Annie Carrie
Nelson and leaves his wife and
three children: Mrs". C. A.Grand-
quist and Chas. Bergquist of
Little Falls aud Mrs. J. G. Jones
of Rockford, 111, There are four
grandchildren and five children
are dead.
.Mr. Bergquist lias lived on
his farm in Buh for the past 36
years- He was a member of the
Lutheran church at Freedhem.
Funeral services were held at
the home at 9:15 Wednesday
morning and from the freedhem
Lutheran church at 10 o'clock.
Letter From
Henry Wuellner
The grey, gaunt wolf of poverty never closes its jaws on
the man with money in the
hirst State Bank of Genola.
To Avoid Chain Letters
The Stillwater Gazette advices that whenever or where-
ever you receive one • of these
"chainless" letters put the same
quietly but safely in the waste
basket or in the stove or furnace. They are not only foolish
but in most cases fraudulent",
and should be treated as such by
all who receive them. Chain-
less letters are a humbug from
start to finish and the sooner
the chain is broken the bettor the community.
Frosted Corn Saved Willi Salt
Fairmont, Minn., Dec. 3.—
Farmers of Martin county are
using hundreds of pounds of
salt to preserve corn that was
struck by the frost. The corn
is placed in cribs aud salted at
the rate of a barrel of salt lo
each 1,000 bushels. The salt is
said to prevent the corn from
heating or turning black.
School Report.
School report of district 56
for month ending Nov. 30. 1917.
Number   of   days   taught,  19.
Number  of pupils enrolled.36.
Total attendance by all pupils 619.
Average daily attendance,
324.
; Those perfect in attendance
were: Louis, Helen and Max
Brooker, Naomia and Merle
Foss, Adeline, Cecilia and Phil-
omena Hortsch, Amy Carrie
and Esther Yackoske, Margaret
and   Andrew    Stumpf, Eleanor
andHildegarde Stuber, Eleanor
Begordis and John Klasen.
A program and shadow social were held at the school
house Wednesday evening. A
large croud attended.
Rose L. Hoerner,  teacher.
Chauffeur's Prayer.   •
f-ic-k Chauffeur (to chauffeur friend)
--•Say, bill, if I should die hire an auto
'arse.    And, Bill, I want you to drive
And, old pard, on the way run it
(0 a tree or something.   I'd like to
:> In a manner fitting my position in
"Selling Liquor to Indians
Stephen Batters of Little
Falls was arrested near Wahkon by Indian agents, on a
charge of selling liquor to Indians. He was brought to
Brainerd aud taken before U.
S. Commissioner W. A. Fleming
While thinking of friends in
Minnesota, decided te^write y6u
a letter. Myself and wife are
visiting at the Ewerts' in Unity,
Wm., Chas, and Christ Ewerts.
Mrs. Emma Helmke (EmmaZimmerman) and her husband, Otto
H., are both sick with typhoid
fever. Otto is improving some,
Emma is yet quite bad.
While here have visited many
small villages with uncles and
relatives. There are 18 little
villages in the county of C'ark,
of course' could not have seen
them all, but have seen some.
Also have been to two places in
Marathon county. At present I
am in Marshfleld. This is a very
nice place. It has the nicest,
widest streets of any city I have
been in, in Wisconsin. The Soo
crosses the Main street on the
noith end of it. The Northwestern R. R. at the north end of it
10 block apart. There are lanes
and flower beds in the middle of
Main street. I can not say when
we will be back, it all depends
on how fast the sick are getting
better- My wife stays with
them nights. You know I am
of a restless nature, and she
wiil not let me go home yet, and
the relatives are taking me from
one phice to another.
Truly your friend,
Henhy Wuellner.
Correspondences
Hoistein Park Hews.
Miss L. Zarnes spent Thanksgiving at her home near Swanville.    She came back Monday.
South Agram.
Mrs. Oscar Guenther of Ramey is here visiting her mother,
Mrs. Herman Terhaar.
Mrs. S. L. Brummer was at
Pierz last week Tuesday where
she had some dental work done.
While Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gruber where in Pierz Friday afternoon one of the little boys set
tire to the straw shed and burned it to the ground.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Duchner
visited at the Fred Sporlein
home Thursday.
The party which was held at
the home of August Meyer
Thursday was well attended.
Mr. and Mrs. Thommes and
sons Caspar and Math autoed
to Elm Dale Thursday forenoon,
Mr. J. J. Brummer and daughters Eva and Catherine autoed
to St. Cloud last week Friday.
Miss Louise Meyer of Buck-
man done a 2 weeks' sewing for
Mrs. Joseph Gruber.
J. J. Brumer and -Math
Schnurer bought some stumpage
from Joe Duchner aud are busy
cutting it down.
Mr. John Nagel and sons Edward aud Emil attended the Lo-
schider-Sitzman wedding last
■week Tuesday.
Those tha t called at the John
Eidenshenk home Sunday  evening   are   Joe    Duchner,   Frank
'Kandel     and      son   and   J.   J.
i 1'.rummer and son Adam .
Local Happenings    I Grain And Produce
Of the Week
Several  of the   youug  people
from this   way enjoyed   skating
on Chickadee lake last Tuesday I
night.
F.   C.   Somm   was a Hillman i
visitor Monday.
Suiiivan News
Clarence Hoskins,  Fred Lynn
and Perry VanKueren were Call.
I ers at C. E. Look's last Tuesday
!evening.
Mr. Vaux, who has been visiting his son Elroy, for a few days
returned   to   his  home at  Faribault Friday.
The Misses Nellie Martin and
Ruby   Christian   called on Mrs.  (
Taylor last Wednesday.
Andrew, Eel and Dan Thoen
and George Wilson of Buckman,
spent a few days at Camp Linehan last week.
an Onamia
The Chas. Sanborn and the
Martin families were entertained at F. C. Somm's Thanksgivings day.
Arba Waller and family ate
Thanksgiving dinner at the
Lewis home at Peavy lake.
Mrs. E. Gable and Mrs. Tomberlin and Bssil visited at Arba
Waller's Friday.
E. M. Thompson was a Pierz
goer Saturday.
J. Lsase wsa sawing wood for
J. R. Taylor Tuesday.
Miss Olive Lewis came home
from Onamia, where she is attending school to spend Thanksgiving with her folks. She was
accompanied by Miss Noami
Jackson. Thev visited Mrs. A.
Waller also.
A party was given at Arba
Waller's last Saturday evening.
All enjoyed a good time.
H. C.  Smith   wa
er Wednesday.
Walter Waffensmith and wife
of Deerwood are the happy parents of a brand new boy.
Dr. Rodeman of Onamia made
a short ca.ll at H. C. Smith's last
Tuesday.
T. H. Widdowson arrived last
Wednesday and spent a few days
with his family at the Camp.
Fern Day spent Thanksgiving
day with the Heter Pdkins family.
Harry Stadden and Ed Olds
motored up from Minneapolis
Wednesday afternoon and made
a short call at C. E. Look's.
Miss Jessie Smith spent the
week end at the Riley Hoskins
home.
Everybody had a big time at
the dance at Ole Christianson's
Thursday night.
Mrs. Alice Thompson, who
ha.-
John F. Smith of Back-
man sold a driving horse to
Leo Winer.
Ed Stoll of Dent, Minn.,
visited his brothers here
Saturday.
Nick Langer of Brainerd
visited his parents Thanksgiving week.
A crew of a dozen or more
men were here a few days
tins week repairing telephone
lines.
Ben Olson of Granite went
to Little Falls to take the
physical examination for the
U. S. "army.
The First State Bank of Genola solicits your banking, business on the merits of its solidity, strength and service.
J. Robard of Onamia came
down Monday to put the fin-
ii-liing touches on the post-
office-building.
Mike A tier has sold his
farm to E. B. Keenan ancl
B. A. Cashman of Blooming
Prairie for §10,000.
/"Jos. ChmarowsM says that
1 a picnic recently held,  at
'Jos. Pilarski's they made   60
cents less than expenses.
Tony Ziegler and wife of
Aberdeen, S. D., are here
visiting their parents. They
will remain until, after the
holidays.
"3osr*"---Qliinarov ski wishes
to announce th:;t tiie town
of Pulaski has stolen the
county road and tlie church
and that it will get the
creamery too. He says they
have 1,000 cows and 200
heifers coming fresh.
The man who is down and
out, is the one who, when he
was was up and in, never banked his money. First State Bank
of Genola.
Joseph and Adolph Stangl
of'Jaffa, S. D., visited with
the Conrad Stangl and Frank
Stumpf families last week.
They are cousins to Conrad
and Mrs. Stumpf and worked
here 30 years ago.
Market Report
Choice No. 1 Northern *_
Wheat, No. 1, $2
Wheat, No. 2    1
Wheat, No. 3 	
U. M. Bosseii Resigns.
U. M, Bussen of Genola has
resigned his position in the
First State Bank of Genola\ A*
-far&well'-reCE^tuDiTr^t^^nTTcli he
was the guest of honor, was
given by the Genola Fire Company and the Genola band last
Monday evening. Lunch was
served at fhe Altrichter restaurant.    During his stay of three
Wheat, No. 4     1
Flax,        3.
Barley      l,
Rye    i.
Oats	
Ear Corn  ].
Hay     7.
Butter, Creamery ..
Dairy	
Eggs	
Plour.Royal      5.
"    WhiteRo.se      5.
Low grade flour 4.
Bran . J,
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 2.
Shorts 2.
Ground Feed     2.
Beans      5.
Onions     2.
Potatoes	
.04
.0(1
.97
.94
.90
.00
.10
.67
68
.25
.00
45
37
35
.50
40
00
90
75
15
40
00
50
90
- - $mz$l}B SCrauknt
IntFrBtetfisngs-
xtiw*
Der St. Joseph's Kranken-Un-
terstutzungs-Manuer-Verein von
Pierz, Minn., hielt Sonntag, den
2ttn Dezember  1917, seine ja.hr-
liche   Beam ten-Wahl,   und  wur-
den seine alten Beamten wieder
erwahlt, mit ausnahme des Vice-
Prasidenten.     Folgende Beam-
ten wurden ewahlt:
President, Conrad Stangl,
Vice-Prasident, Wenzel.Medek,
Prot. Sekretar, John B. Bednar.
Finanz Sekr. Nick Staub,
Schatzmeister, Ant. Tembruell.
Verwaltungsrathe:   Henry Gassert, John Leidolt und John
L. Boser.
Vereins-Arzt, R. T. Healy.
Der Verein zablt gegenwartig
103 gutstehende Mitglieder, ,und
ist einer der besten Vereine den
man sich wiinschen kann wegen
seiner grossen Vortheile.welche
erbietet; fur alle Angelegenhei-
ten ist Sorge gctroffen; wie Un- '
terstutzung Kranker, Beschafti-
guugsloser und in Noth sich be-
tindende Bruder, Lebens-Ver-
sicberung von $500 bis $2,000
beider Geschlechter; auch in
religioser Beziehung wird siren-
ge und wohlweisliche Sorge ge-
tragen mit dem Orts-Pfarrer als
guistlicher Fuhrer, so dass sich
jeder diesem achtbaren Vereine
anschliessen soil und kann, ohne
weiteres Bedenken. Wir heissen
alle rktd jeden guten Katoliken
willkommen.
I Conrad Stangl,
John B. Bednar,
Nick Staub,
G. P. Martin is having a sen
ous time with   rheumatism.    He  d
has   not been  able to   Walk for
some time,   and suffers  a great
deal.    We nope he will soon be
better.
years among us, Ullrich made a
beeh   visiting   her parents ^.   Qf  frjends w,]Q   wish   Mm
Mr. and   Mrs.  Dorman,   left for ^   whereever 1)e may cll00se
their home in in   Rockford, Fn-   l0 cast hid lot.
The 35 heifers were all sold
at the Morris cattle auction
-last Saturday.
John Bares is now employed as clerk in the First State
Bank of Genola.
John J. Collison of Wall-
pston is visiting friends here.
John Gassert left for Camp
Lewis, Washington, this
morning.
for a hearing,
was   bound
A bank cannot increase its
business unless it gives good
service. That's why the First
State Bank of Genola is growing.
over to the Federal court in
bonds of $500. Batters is an
enlisted man. —Brainerd Tribune.
Robbed Saloon at Freeport
Caught in the act of carting
away goods in the saloon of
Fred Buetner at Freeport at
about 2 o'clock Tuesday morning, Joe Woekenburg was apprehended and placed in the
village bastile.
Entrance was affected into
the building by   freaking down
f" His  intention is   to   enlist in
Frank   Sims  and   wife  were \ the Commissary department of
guests at the H. C. Smith home  the U. S. army
Thursday.
Tom   Smith   was  an  Onamia
caller Saturday.
J. J, Hilder   and  party of St
Cloud   stopped at Widdowson's
Saturday.
The children took advantage
of the good skating on tho take
Sunday.
Hillman callers Monday were
('. J'. Look- and hon l.odney and
Mrs. W iddowson.
All   accounts  due
\'k Barney   Burton    from
* j our Pierz store payable
I'at German State Bank.
These  accounts   m
bo paid within 30 d
either in cash, or i
2-25       Barney Bur lea
Migration of Birds.
Until the acquisition of Alaska b$
the United States it was a wonder
where certain wild fowl went when
they migrated from temperature cjluxe.
on the approach of summer, as well as
snowbirds and other small spec.es of
the feathered tribe. It was afterward
found that their habitat in summer
was the waters of Alaska—the Yukon
river and the lakes of that hyperborean region.
FOR SALE—A new Ford car.
Inquire at telephone office.   22tf
the   back  door.    It   is   claimed.
that he had  taken  some   goods;     E. W. Thompson and wife were
and    had    returned   for  callers at Mrs. Ford's lastMon-  to eome and sett
NOTICE
,\ll who owe mc v, r.
,'7'u:
ed
a w a y
more when he was arrested.
day
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About Envelopes.
!t  is  said  that  envelopes  were  hinted during tlie early days of 1
:!V of France.    In _0G0 M. De Val-
t   established   a  private  post  and
bi xes   at   Ui7'   corner   of
tters  Inclosed  iu  envel-
: ■' 7  that  were  sold  in  offices   <
r   that   purpose.     11.   .
however, that envelopes were in
| ti j before this period because cuvel-
! ;•.   • so used in France were special
:       ; >;; l 11   envelope..     Bui    precisely
j v.iiai year is marked by the ni'.l inveu-
| tion of envelopes Is unknown.
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