The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1917-07-05

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VOL. NO. 9.
PIERZ, riORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, July 5,     1917.
No. 3
MEANSSAVINGOF
MANYMILLIONS
Cut in Coal Prices Great Benefit to Consumers.
ACTION Oi. ANTHRACITE NEXT
Agreement Already  Made With Operators  Affects  Only the   Bituminous   Product.
Washington, D. C. — The sweeping reductions in the price of bitumi-
rous coal, agreed to by the 400 operators in conference with government
officials, means the coal men will get
?18,000,000 less annually for their
product and the saving to the government and the coal consuming public
will b© even greater.
In addition to placing prices on coal
at the mines it was announced jobbers, brokers, retailers and commission men will be permitted to charge
commission of not more than 25 cents
a ton and no more than one commission should be charged.
In other words, the consumer will
get his coal at the mine price plus
transportation charges and 25 cents
per ton.
The reduction on soft coal at the
mines ranges from $1 to $1.50 per ton,
With a further cut of 50 cents a ton
for the government. The new prices
become effective at once.
The. agreement does net affect anthracite and the coal production commission announced action on that
problem had been postponed for several days by agreement with the operators. The anthracite producers
have indicated willingness to meet
the government in the same spirit
manifested by the bituminous men.
In the final conferences trade 'secrets between competitors, cost prices
and other confidential information was
laid on the table and the governmsnt,
acting as judge, decided what would
interesting
► Correspondences
HOLSTEIN   PARK
Mrs. Chas. Sanborn, Nellie
Martin and H. H. Sanborn
were shopping in Pierz last
Wednesday.
Mr. Faucet of St. Paul visited at J. R. Taylor's last week.
He was looking after his land
in Crow Wing county.
Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Anderson
and daughter visited relatives
at Rucker last Sunday.
Mrs. Robt. Adkins called at
E. M. Thompson's last Thursday morning.
Sam Martin and Arthur
Christian visited at home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Taylor
visited at Thompson's Sunday
tation
At Geoola
Alva Martin and Fred Sorum went to Pierz Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sanborn
and Lucile were out auto riding Sunday and called at T. S.
Look's, G. P. Martin's and E.
M. Thompson's.
P. Lamott from Minneapolis visited at J. R. Taylor's a
few days recently.
Donald Taylor and Mr. Faucet visited Elroy Vaux last
Sunday.
Rodney Look and Edwin
Martin were    Lastrup    callers
Monday.
A gentleman from Minneapolis has rented the Christmas
Lake place for the season. His
wife came Saturday. We are
glad to welcome new neighbors.
A dance was given in Wood's
new barn Saturday night. All
report a good time.
Our assessor, H. H. Sanborn,
autoed to Little Falls one day
last week.
Sullivan is getting to be
quite a summer resort. So
many
The Standard Oil company
has a crew of men at work in
Genola installing a gasoline
.nd a kerosene tank just east
of the potato warehouse.
Langer Bros, will be the distributors for this district
which is composed of Pierz
Lastrup, Platte, Buckman.
Genola and Vawter.
Fanners Get Too
Much Advice
Develop Character in Solitude
Where would the poor farmer end up if he would follow
the advice given him. A couple
of weeks ago he was urged to
raise deer and moose, and now
comes the astounding information from the department
of agriculture that the hog is
probably the best animal to
raise for meat and money. Too
bad! The sage advice to raise
deer and moose has already
taken root in the* minds of the
majority of the .Pierz farmers
and they are now hauling 16-
foot fence posts;, 16-foot wire
netting will be here next week.
There will be a great demand for breeding stock and
then no little uneasiness felt
among the deerers and moos-
ers about the supply. That
there will be a rush for the
wilds of the north, there is little doubt. Elaborate wire entanglements and drives on    a
large scale will be made to democratize those antlered mon-
Local Happenings
Of the Week.
autos   pass    this    way
_.__•_.- • -, riailv and nearly all are bound
be the lushest prices  paid  at mines,   ?alIy g^^n     lake.        Several
are    going    up
prices to go into effect on July 1, to j for
stay in effect until investigations are ! new  cottages
made and other change.- ordered.
EER AND Wi. E
MAY ESCAPE BAN
there now.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Johnson
were HiUman callers Saturday.
SULLIVAN
The Peter Adkins family
motored to Deerwood last
Monday    and    visited      their
•A  determined  daughter,     Mrs.    Waffensmith.
food bill now j They   were    accompanied
by
Mon-
short
Washington,   D.   C.
effort   to   modify   the     .     	
before the  senate  so that it will  be | their SOU, Al. Lynn,     of
free from any  prohibition  provisions, ! tana,  who is here for a
or at least so as to grant the president • visit.
authority to permit the  use" of food- j    Mrs. Van Kueren    and    son
stuffs in the manufacture of beer and  and Mrs. Lynn left for Stearns
light wines, was begun by the admin- county Wednesday where they
istration when President Wilson con-  wjH spend the Fourth.
ferred  on  the  question  with  Senator j      John  Britton, wife  and chil-
Martin, the majority leader, and Sena- ' ^    n . were     ia'ke     callers     on
t0pSeynt Wilson, according to Sen-, Wednesday evening-
ator Phelan of California, with whom I    Merle Look arrived    Satm
he   conferred    regarding   prohibition j day   and  Will  Visit  his   parents
legislation,  desires   that  he  have  au- j a short time.
thority  to   stop  the    manufacture   of I      Harvey and    R.  T.    HOSKinS
malt and  vinous liquors   in case of spent the week end with their
emergency, but does not believe imme-   brother,  Riley Hoskins.
ciate prohibition of their manufacture j      Last week the lake was dot-
Little Fails Thirty Years Ago. day
is necessary or desirable. '
Administration   leaders    were   said
also to feel that such legislation would
be a disturbing factor in the economic  • ;— .   -,, Tx._-.--_i
life of the country and might lead to ed the dance    at   the    Woods
serious discontent among the workers, home  Saturday  evening
ted with fishermen.
Ross Adkins,    Sam    Martin
and Arthur Thompson attend-
whose whole hearted support is necessary to win the war.
SEPARATE PEACE REJECTED
Resolution Adopted by Russian Workers'  Congress.
Petrograd,   Russia. ■— A   resolution
Categorically  rejecting  any  move  for
Adkins    and
to    Deerwood
Mrs. Peter
daughter drove
Saturday.
Merle Look dined at the
"Orphans' Home" Sunday evening.
The John Britton family
were Lastrup callers    Monday.
Axel Johnson of Peary Lake
a   separate   peace   between   Germany j n      Monday.
and Russia has been aaopted by an I ™*t?   , T     Y.      01  ,     -Gviwin
overwhelming majority   by   the   Con-!      Rodney . Look     and     Edwin
gress   of   Workmen's    and    Soldiers'   Martin   rode     to     Lastrup     on
Deputies of ail Russia.   The resoiu- their wheels Monday.
>ion, at the same time, declares that       Sam Martin and Merle Look
re.^oration of peace at  the  earliest were Pierz goers Tuesday.
pes .'.Me   day   is  the  most  important
need   £>f   the
democracy.
Russian   revolutionary
iVER $1,000,000,000  fyARK
EASTERN  GRANITE
^J-Vtr-   »i,u-iu,uuu,uui>   igHnrt^   Mr   and Mrs   will johns0n
mm^r American Loans to the Allies and daughter went to St. Cloud
I m              Announced. Thursday to visit relatives.
W    hington,   D.  C.-United  States rt™.  Mike  Olson    and    son
W^     to the allies passed the $i,ooo,- Clarence  were  Pierz    visitors
i,    m.0    mark   when    the    treasury Monday, also A.  J.    .bee    anu
placed $15,000,000   to  the   credit of Theodore Hoeheisel.
Great   Britain    and    $10,000,000    to Mr. and Mrs.   Tony    Vetsch
France's account.   Credits to all the are the proud parents of a ba-
allies  to  meet their  expenditures  in j^y daughter, born July 2. Con-
-.this  country now  total  $1,008,000,000, gratula tioilS.
cof which Great Britain has received
'5550,000,000 and France $210,000,000.
FATE  OF  CREWS   UNKNOWN
Four Large British Merchant Vessels
Torpedoed.
Boston, Mass. — The torpedoing
and sinking of four large British cargo carrying steamers was announced
in advices to local insurance offices.
The steamers were the Ultonia of
the Cunard line, 6,593 tons; Haver-
ford of the American line, 7.493 tons;
Buffalo, Wilson liner, 2,583 tons, and
ithe Manistee, another Cunard vessel.
A traveling man from Minneapolis was through this vicinity Friday.
Mrs. Lawrence Kramer and
Alice Perkins were Friday afternoon visitors at the Girtz
home.
Pete Seelen has his rig
ready for the Fourth of July
parade. He was out trying it
Sunday.
Joe Zeller, Sam Perkins and
Hoary Voekel were Pierz goers Saturday.
Do you want to succeed?
Grow in solitude, work, develop in solitude,. with books and
thoughts and nature for
Mends. Then, if you want the
crowd to see how fine you are,
come back to it and boss it if
it will let you.
Constant craving for indiscriminate company is a sure
sign of mental weakness.
If you enter a village or
small town and want to find
the man or youth of ability, do
you look for him leaning over
die village pool table, sitting I
on the grocery boxes, lounging!
n the smelly tavern with other vacant minds?
Certainly not. You find him
at work, and you find him by
himself.
"Get away from the crowd
when you can. Keep yourself
to yourself, if only for a few
hours daily," says an exchange. Full individual
growth, especial developments, rounded mental operations—all these demand room,
reparation from others, soli-
aide, self-examination and
self-reliance which solitude
gives.
The finest tree stands off by
itself in the open plain. Its
branches spread wide. It is a
complete tree, better than the
cramped tree in the crowded
forest.
The animal to be admired
Is not that which runs in
herds, the gentle browsing
deer or sheep thinking only as
a fraction of the flock, incapable of personal independent
direction. It's the prowling
lion or the big leopard with
the whole world for his private
field that is worth looking at.
The man who grows up in a
herd, deer-like, thinking with
the herd, acting with the herd,
rarely amounts to anything.
Talent is developed in soli-
fcii'de, character in the rush of
the world.
You wonder why so much
ability comes from the country
—why a Lincoln comes from
the backwoods, while you,
aourishing in a city can barely keep your position.
The countryman has to be
by himself much of the time,
whether he wishes to or not.
If he has anything in him it
comes out.
Astronomy, man's grandest
study, grew up among the
shepherds. You, of the cities
never even see the stars, much
less study them.
Don't be a sheep or a deer.
Don't devote your hours to the
company and conversation of
those who know as little as
you do. Don't think hard on-
iy when you are trying to remember a popular song or
to decide on the color of your
•.vinter overcoat or necktie.
Remember that you  are    an
individual, not a grain of dust
or a blade of grass.   Be a man.
Get in the park    and    walk
and think.
Get up in    your    bed-room,
read, study,    write    what   you! Ear Corn  . 195
think.    Talk more to yourself j Hav „'
and less to others. Avoid cheap' "
John Weisenberger of Little Falls town is seriously ill.
Ig. Vonderhaar and family
of Albertsville spent (Sunday
in Pierz.
Theo. Brisk returned from
Frazee Tuesday, where he
worked on the driye.
Barney Burton was here
Monday, looking after his
business interests.
Miss Taggs Spanfellner
spent Sunday at Pelican Lake
with friends from Holdingford.
Martin Gelhar and wife
went to Stillwater Saturday,
to attend the wedding of a
relative. '"  .
Gottlieb Koeck, who is
working in a foundry in
Brainerd, spent the Fourth
at home.
Nick Konen and his wife
and sister Veronica, motored
R.C. Bethel's Brother
Is Now in France
R. C. Bethel, for several years
station agent at Genola, but
now postmaster and merchant
at Hillman, has a brother, who
is a member of General Pershing's staff, and is now in France.
He bears the title of "Col. Bethel, judge advocate."
The picture of General Pershing and his staff was in the Minneapolis Daily News last Friday.
There is a striking likeness
in the looks of R. C. arid his
brother.
ABOUT THE STA
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SEGTIONSl
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told!
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
archs of the woods. The ca-'down from Fargo to spend
j pacity of the scales at the j the Fourth.
stock yards in Genola will; j. N< Carnes, R. Richeleau,
have to be enormously in-; Henry Gassert and Andy
creased because of. the prodi-. jfenn inspected state roads
gious weight of a two-year-old in Richardson Monday,
deer.    And the poor   old    hog
,   , .,, ,        .    ,    ,   „ Mathias  Neisius   and son
and steer will have to look for
, ,,     Irank came down from Red-
greener   pastures    when      the,
i ,       ...       ii_       top Sunaay to spend the 4th
moose and deer displace them. I  T , J *
.  .   ...       ,     • at home.
But such is life under the com-1
petitive system. Jos- Gruber  and wife and
  I Mrs. Nick Lochner autoed to
Melrose Sunday to spend Jhe
with relatives.
Senator Buckman bas a busy j Thomas Theser aud wife
season's work planned, He is j and Mr. and Mrs. John Nagel
now working to get his drives | visited with the John Macho
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family at Phiibrook Sunday.
Miss Clara Faust and Miss
Taggs Spanfellner spent the
the last week at Minneapolis
and Buffalo. Mrs. Jake Pflepson returned with them.
down and will saw 3,000,000
feet of logs at his Sauk Rapids
mill.
Blake & Bentiield will build
ssveralltenement houses on their
lots near tlie German Catholic
church as soon as the bonds are
voted and work begins on the
dam. Houses will command a
good rent hereafter.
Bankers and other business
men in Minnesota, Dakotas and
Montana employ the stenographers and bookkeepers they can
get from the Little Falls Business College. If you have a
good common school education,
a college education will start
you in the business world. Send
for catalog.
Grain And Produce
Market Report
Wheat, No. 1,	
Wheat,  No.  2	
Wheat, No. 3	
Flax,	
Barley	
Rye	
Oats	
$1.90
1.85
1.70
2.70
.80-90
1.90
.     70
Butter, Creamery
Dairy ....
Eggs  	
Flour, Royal	
00
40
27
30
6.20
magazines;    avoid      excessive
newspaper reading.
There is not a man of average ability but could make a
striking career if he would but
will to do the best that is in
him.
Proofs of growth due to solitude are endless. Milton's
greatest work was done when
blindness, old age and the
death  of  the  Puritan  govern- j Ground Feed....
ment forced him    into    seclu- Beans      5.00
sion.    Beethoven  did his best Onions     2.50
the  solitude of deaf- potatoes. 2 15
"   WhiteRose     6.10
Low grade flour 3.30
Bran . 1.75
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 2.75
Shorts 2.10
     2.40
work in
ness 	
Drop    your    street    corner, F0R SALE-A Clover hul
your  gossipy boarding    house
table.    Drop your tumultuous ler and engine,
life and try being a man." Hubert Kelzenberg,
-Prison  Mirror.
Buckman.
Anton Hartmann, father
to Tony Hartmann, of New
Prague, has bought the Louis
Spanfellner building, east of
Frank Wise's place, and will
make Pierz his home.
W. Faucette of St. Paul
spent last week visiting with
the J. R. Taylor family. Mr,
Faucette owns land in tlie
Sullivan country.
P. T. LaMotte of Minneapolis came up the last days of
last week to see about getting his brothers place at
Christmas Lake seeded down.
J. B. Otremba, son of Buffalo Otremba, came home for
a visit Friday. He has been
working as blacksmith in the
Butte, Mont, mines the last
two years. Just now, he
says, there is a strike on for
higher wages.
A church social was held
at the Herman Vierk home
last Sunday for the benefit
of the Lutheran church at
Little Falls. A large crowd
attended.
The last few rods of cement sidewalk ouMain street,
opposite theParochial school,
was finished this week. Main
street has  cement sidewalks
on both  sides from  one end;  	
of the village to*the other, I Sontag, Mr. Jaeger returned
in all nearly three miles of i home. Two of his sons will
•waik. jspfind two weeks here.
Tlie John Simon
Saloon Closed
The John Simon saloon was closed
Saturday nighf' and Mr. Simon, who
has b'e'e'n in the liquor business in
Little 'Palls for 19 years, has retired.
The closing of the Simon saloon:
brings the number of saloons in the
city down to 16. Mr. Simon applied
for a license and the application was
granted, but -he license will not toe
taken out.
While the policy of the council the
past few years has toeen to decrease
the number of saloons, the city officials will be sorry that it is Mr. Simon's saloon which is closed ^as it
has always been one of the quietest
and most orderly places in the city
and never in the 19 years of its existence has it given the authorities
trouble.
Mr. Simon has been in his present
location, 107 Second street northeast,
for seven years and before moving there was located at the corner
of First street and First avenue
southeast, in the W. H. 'Ryan building.
Mrs. Wm. Schauble and
daughter Lillian, and Ernst
Schauble, spent the Fourth
with their friends atHolding-
ford.
Mrs. Henry Stumpf returned last Friday from a weeks'
visit with relatives at Wei-
mer, N. D., and from Morris,
Minn.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rieke
are the happy parents of a
young daughter who arrived
at their home Wednesday
last week,
Mrs. Grover Schmitt, of
Milwaukee, who was here visiting the past three week's
with her mother, Mrs. Adolf
Stumpf, returned home last
Saturday.
Reinhard Stumpf of Flax-
ton, N. D., who spent a 30
days vacation in Pierz and
Little Falls, returned to his
duties as a fireman on the
Soo line yesterday.
Mr. John Kingen of Little
Falls, Mr. John Bares, Miss
Marie Leiter, Miss Mochiner,
the Misses Annie and Cre-
sence Faust, Red and Fish-
paugh spent Sunday at camp
Linehan, Sullivan.
Miss Marie Leiter of Lew-
iston, Montana, Miss Tracy
Mochern of Delano, Minn.,
and the Misses Tracy and
Bertha Winkler of Holdingford have been the guests of
the Frank Faust family for
the past week.
Jos. Jaeger and four of his
boys motored down from
Staples Tuesday morning.
After   a   visit ' to   Grand pa
C. M. Hadley, pioneer resident ofj
Minneapolis, is dead.
Sixty-nine Duluth saloons went of!
business at 10 p. m. June 30.
Frederich Heinlein, aged ninety-;
one, a pioneer resident of St.'Paul, is]
dead. !
Mrs. M. M. Wicks, aged eighty-
three, a resident of Minneapolis for
more than forty years, is dead.
.Mrs. Ellen Carroll, eighty-four years
old, a resident of Minnesota since;
1857, is dead at her hOme in St. Paul.!
Tetanus resulting from an automo-l
bile accident caused the death of Doris!
Greenberg of Minneapolis, four years;
old.
Joseph F. Estabrook, for thirty-five]
years an engineer in the Minneapolis!
schools and the friend of hundreds of;
children, is dead.
Almost 2,000 acres of grain was de-j
stroyed in Prior township, near Orton-j
ville, by a hail storm which swept!
over that Section.
Arthur Berglund is under arrest at!
St. Paul on the charge of robbing the;
Merriam  Park  State' bank,  where hej
was employed, of $1,066.
The   Minnesota   Transfer   Railway!
i
company handled 240 cars of immi-!
grant movables in May, of which Min-j
nesota received seventy-one.
Julius Weidner of. St. Paul, a foreman for L. W. Baumeister & Co., St.
Paul contractors, died of heart disease
at Red Lake Falls while swimming.
One man and two horses were electrocuted   in   Minneapolis   and   consid- ■
erable property damage was done in
the Twin Cities by a violent electrical
storm.
Former United States Senator -loses.
E. Clapp in the future will make his
home on an estate adjoining Mount,
Vernon, the home of George Wash-]
ington.
Alex Honigschmidt, sixty-six years!
j old, said to be the first man to estab-j
I lish a butcher shop in Minneapolis on!
the west side of the Mississippi river.j
is dead.
Dr. H. C. Holman of St. Paul, thirty-!
four years old, was electrocuted in a!
bathtub. WTrile bathing he grasped a!
wire leading to an electric flatironj
near the tub.
Minnesota has more slacker arrestsj
credited to it than any other threej
districts in the United States, accord-!
ing to reports from the departmentj
of justice at Washington.
The United States senate has passed]
the bill permitting Cass and Itasca!
counties to build a bridge over the!
Mississippi river on the Duluth-St.'
Vincent cross state highway.
A wife is not liable for the rent of
the family home leased to her husband, the state supreme court held
in a decision handed down in the appeal of a Jackson county landlord.
Knute Nelson, fifty-four years old,
a carpenter, is de"l at St. Paul from
injuries received when he fell fifteen
feet from a ladder while trimming a
tree in front of his home in St. Paul.
Martin Byland of Minneapolis was
killed when an automobile he was
driving overturned near Clear Springs,
the running board of the machine falling across his throat, strangling him.
F. H. Ellis, well known Minneapolis
business man, was killed when he fell
from a third story window in the West
hotel to the sidewalk. It is believed
he walked out of the window while
asleep.
Joseph Ruisinak, eleven years old,
was found dead with a bullet hole in
his chest on a vacant lot near his
home in Minneapolis. The police have
been unable to find out who did the
shooting.
There were 286,100 cows and steers
shipped to South St. Paul during the
first six months of 1917, a gain of 36,-
364. There was an increase of 4,400
calves. Sheep, hogs and horses showed
decreases,
Charles E. Ovenshire of Minneapolis
was elected imperial potentate ofj
the Ancient Arabic Order of the No-!
bles of the Mystic Shrine at the final!
session of the order's 1917 conclave;
at Minneapolis.
Planning to relieve overcrowd edj
conditions in state hospitals and asy-j
lums for tho insane the state board of!
control has decided to finish third j
"oor dormitory space in four cottages;
at the Hastings asylum.
Professional agitators of violence!
and disloyalty have been classed b, !
vagrants by the state public safe)1 ;
commission and will be punished a', j
such under an ordinance drawn an-.' j
approved by the commission.
Agnes and Lizzie St'erriker, sister- !
were drowned in Lake Charles, for: ;
miles north of Alexander, while bat) j
ing. They were carried into de.. '
water by the swift current and were
unable to make their way back.
Gripping a stick of dynamite between his teeth Adolph Peterson o?
Moorhead lighted tl:« fuse and blew
his head off. Injuries suffered by Peterson in a wreck several years ago
are believed to have made him insane.
.