The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1918-01-31

              :   -
VOL. NO. 9.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, January 31, 1918.
No. 33
Brief Items of:
State News
I
The community skating rink in
Brainerd is in service. It measures
150 by 250 feet in size and is located
opposite the Lowell  school.
Fire of unknown origin wiped out
a good portion of the business section of Ranier, three miles east of
Jnterhational Falls, where the Canadian Northern crosses the Rainy
river.
Superintendent F. JB. Lurton, who
has had charge of the public schools
at East Grand Forks for the past
three years, has been re-elected for
another term of three years, beginning Aug. 1, 1913.
Mrs. Royal Lards and her three
young children were burned to death
ln a fire that destroyed their home In
St. Paul Park. The bodies were
found hours after the house had burned, the heat of the ruins preventing
an eai.y search.
A, aymber of young ladies of the
Sa^PU Heart church at East Grand
Forks have organized for sewing and
knitting work in connection with the
Red Cross and are laying plans to enlarge the organization, which is opan
to all young ladies who desire to join
ln the work.
M. Thoralson, sent out of Glencoe,
Minn., where he said he was an organizer for the National Nonpartisan
league, and threatened with a coat of
tar and feathers if he returned, owns
a homestead near Thief River Falls
and became active in Nonpartisan
work there a year ago.
"You are working for the wrong
side. Germany Is right in this war."
This is the statement to Red Cross
workers charged to Charles H. Har-
tung, wealthy German resident of
Welcome, who was arrested and taken to Fairmont on a charge of disloyalty.   He was held to the grand jury.
Ka-be-na-we-wonce, a Chippewa Indian, better known as John Smith,
said to he 130 years old, who is in
Chicago from his home at Cass Lake
Minn., to attend the automobile show,
does not like the white man's bed.
Although he occupied a room with a
bath at a big hotel, he slept on the
floor. He said that beds in hotels
and bertha in sleeping cars gave one
>   a cramp.
The Co-operative Shipping association of Belgrade has completed a successful year. During 1917 57 carloads of stock were shipped, which
included 68 cattle^ 1,892 hogs, 392
calves and 137 sheep. The gross
amount received at the South St.
Paul market was ?96,630.37. Of this
amount the farmers received by check
tho amount of $92,427.08.
Harry Johnson was picked up at
Crookston half frozen and starving
and charged with vagrancy. He stated
that his home was at Warren, and
that he had enlisted in the army. He
was given an honorable discharge, owing to his being physically unfit for
service, and that he had spent all his
money while en route to his home at
Warren. His case was dismissed and
money provided by the county .ft.-
cials for his transportation home.
William J. Dugas of Bemidji received a telegram from Commander
Eide of the coast artillery at San
Francisco stating that Charles F.
Moore, a member of the coast artillery, had died in the Leeterman hospital and asking for the address of
relatives and an order for the shipment of the body. Moore worked for
a year and a half for Mr. Dugas in
the Grand Central hotel He wag
better known as "Slim." His home was
in Canada, bat little iff known of his
history.
The district oourt case of Northome
against the bonding company which
was on the bonds of Engleking, the
absconding village treasurer at International Falls, resulted in a verdict
for $350.41.
The jury in the district court In
the Lawrence Ravnikar case at Brainerd returned a verdict of not guilty.
Ravnikar was charged with grand larceny in the second degree, of taking
a cow from Joe Bibich of Ironton.
Instructions were issued to the
chief of police by Mayor Morrisey of
Crocks ton to apprehend all drivers of
automobiles who are driving their
cars on the city streets and have not
yet made application for 1918 automobile licenses.
By a deal consummated at Crookston A. Holmboe has sold out his Interest in the Cowley-Holmboe company and retires from business. The
business will be continued under the
tame corporation name as before.
— The   Climax    Co-operative   Mercan-
W tile company made a record qn new
business during 1917, showing a gain
Of 36 per cent The amount of business totaled $33,000 during the year
1916, and reached a total of $52,000
during the year just ended.
Ground glass was found in peanut
butter purchased by Mrs. J. W. Reader, who lives near Truman.    The jar
Interesting
Correspondences
Sullivan News.
Mr. Dorman was a visitor in
the city of Hillman last Thursday.
C. E. Look and Riley Haskins
were Saturday callers in Hillman.
John Smith spent Sunday a.\
the Riley Hoskins home.
T. S. Look and wife were
guests at the E. M. Thompson's
Sunday.
Clarence Hoskins spent Sunday at Peter Adkins'.
Mrs. H. C. Smith and daughter, Mrs. Prank Sims, called at
the Chas. Sanborn and E. M.
Thompson homes.
South Agram.
Mr. and Mrs. Prank Kandel
and John Eidenshink called at
J- J. Brummer's home Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Casper Thommes, who
was staying with her son Peter
Thommes, had the misfortune
to fall out of the bed and break
an arm.
Miss Eva Brummer is employed by Lawrence Brummer.
Joseph Kippley was in Little
Palls on business last week.
Joe Duschner bought 4 cows
at the Wetzel auction last week
for $233.50.
Mrs. J. J. Brummer and her
daughter Eva visited at the John
Vorath home last week.
Jos. Janson will be the owner
of a new Pord car.
Those that called at the Joe
Gruber home last week Tuesday
were: Mr. and Mrs. Math.
Schnurrer and family, Prank
Kandel, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Theser.
The Agram Welfare Club played "Handy Andy" in Freedhem
last Friday and had quite a big
crowd.
was taken to  G-.
^frird Jones, county
clerk, at Fairmo__!Pfcv__- will have the
contents analyzed. The butter waa
— manufactured in New Yqrl?,
Edward Heedon, arrested at Brainerd on suspicion of being active in
the distribution of I. W. W. literature,
was discharged. Elmer Karjala, arrested for the same reason, failed to
appear and his bail of $20 was forfeited. Three other men believed to
be I. W. W. organizers were ordered
out of town.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stuntebeck of
Freeport are the proud parents of a
baby girl who came into the world
with two full-sized front teeth. She
wae named Agatha, and the parents
agree that she is the smartest child
in all the world.	
West Buh News.
A pleasant surprise was held
at Pred Schneiders last Sunday
evening- A crowd of 30 people
attended and a very enjoyable
evening was spent. Fred Cluis
enlisted in tee navy and will
soon leave for the Great Lakes
training station.
"Handy Andy" was played in
the Freedhem Club House by the
Agram Welfare Club. A large
crowd attended and a good time
was spent after the show at the
dance.
Bill Kohs spent Sunday after
noon at Pierz.
Mrs. H. Wieland spent the
week end with the Wieland
Bros, and Co.
Wieland Bros, sawed wood in
the neighborhood last week,
Measels are the latest in the
sickness line.
Arthur Wieland caught a large
wolf last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ethen, Mr.
and Mrs. M. P. Smith and family and Helen Davis spent Sunday evening at the Geo. Lescault home in Graville.
James Johnson also caught a
wolf last week.
German Alien to
Register Next Week
All German alien enemies of
the United States must register
their names and comply with
terms of the president's pro
clamation which sets aside the
dates from Feb. 4th to 9th inclusive for that purpose. Germans aliens in towns of less
than 5,000 population must register with their local postmaster and here in Pierz and vicinity they should apply to Postmaster C. E. Gravel, who will
supply them with the necessary
information and blank. It is
very important for any unnan-
turalized German to register
properly, as otherwise he is
liable to get into serious trouble
with the federal authorities, and
may be interned ior the period
of the war. Uncle Sam is trying to interfere as little as possible with foreigners who are
not citizens, but the safety of
the nation requires that the
whereabouts of all German aliens should be known.
Cooperative Creameries
Ot Morrison County
Morrison county has 15 Cooperative Creameries. Compared
with the rest of the   state Mor-   means so much   to  you  and   to
America First
The America First pledge is
one that might well be thought
about seriously. It has two
sections to which you subscribe
your name. First to "'support
the government in putting down
sedition and disloyalty," second
"in aiding the successful prosecution of the war for Democracy." What does it mean to
"support . the government in
putting down sedition and dis-
loyality?" It means just this—
that it is the duty of every signer of the pledge to report at
once speeches and acts that are
seditious or disloyal. That does
not mean that personal difficulties are to be reported but that
any remarks that arederogatory
tp our country or to its chief
should be reported. The name
of the offender and all the data
that you have concerning the
circumstances and the names of
witnesses if any, to N. N. Bergheim at Little Falls and he will
get the matter to the safety
commission at St. Paul, The
second section "in aiding the
successful prosecution of the
war for democracy." One man
was known to refuse to sign
this pledge because he said, "I
am a Republican and I won't do
anything for the democrats."
That man carried his party ideas
a trifle too far. We are fighting for the great principle of
democracy and in signing this
pledge you promise to fight this
war to the end, to sacrifice all
you have that the freedom that
me may come to all the peoples
of the world.
Geissel's Predicament
rison county is about the average.
For the year 1917 the best cooperative creameries in Minnesota paid the farmer an average
price, for the year, of 50 cents st. Cloud Journal-Press: A
a pound for butter fat. These clipping from a Los Angeles
creameries are now paying from papei- recieved in the city brings
55 to 58 cents a pound for but- j the surprising news that George
ter fat. Avery large class of I (Jeissel will be tried this week
cooperative cieameries in the |in that city for disloyal utter-
state paid over 45 cents a pound |ances. it is charged that he
for butter fat for 1916 and are'sai<i that the kaiser was a bet-
now paying 54 cents. Poor, ter man than President Wilson
half-starved cooperative cream-;an(j other remarks refiectiug
eries and cream buyers paid upon tue United States, and
around 40 cents a pound for but- showing that his sympathy was
ter fat for 1916. , the Prussian aristocracy   as   a-
Cooperative creameries hold g-ainst his own adopted country,
their annual meeting in January j. George Geissel was one of the
or February- It is important early settlers of Stearns county,
for every farmer to attend the ye was several times elected
annual meeting of his local sheriff and later removed to Little Falls, where he was equally
popular and was elected to the
senate in 1891, and twice reelected. He was one of the
leaders of the Democratic party
of the state, and was an exceedingly    well    liked    man.
creamery. Cooperative creameries succeed or fail, owing to
the interest and support of the
farmers.
At the annual meetinga report will be made on the business   of the   creamery for  1917.
Attend the meeting and com-. Whiie ne came here as a poor
pare the business of your cream- man ue improved the opp ortuni-
ery with the prices given above, ties of the country and when he
and see what you may do to removed to California a few
help, if the creamery needs your years ago was reputed to be
"elp. I worth something like  $100,000.
For the year 1916, the cooper- | There are reports that he has
ative creameries of the best dai- j lost mGst of his property since
ry county in Minnesota, paid leavingi 'indMs now a resident
the farmers an average price of of the soldiers' home in or near
$37.75 cents a pound for butter Los Angeles, ancl recieued a
fat. The average price paid by pension of $30 a month from
the 633 cooperative creameries the government,
of the state 34.51 cents. Thej Despite these favors on the
highest average price paid for' part of the government, he is
1916 was 39.28 cents. The co- charged with this disloyalty,
operative creameries of Morn- wl,ich will be sad news to his
sou county paid the farmers an many friends in St. Cloud and
average price of 33.44. The best Little Palls.
creamery in the county paid 35 |	
cents. The poorest paid 30.90! Our burglar proof safe and
cents. The best creamery re- efficient board of directors are
ceived 236,288 pounds of butter at your service. We want your
fat, the poorest 74,631 j name on our books. First State
A poor price is generally the Bank of Genola.
result of   too  small a business,       Come   to   Faust's    Hall
poor  cream,   or   poor  manage- .   ..r   ,_      . /-'
ment.   All these are factors that "ext   Wednesday   at two
Rev. Fr. Jeager to
Speak in Pierz
Pierz and community will
have an opportunity to hear
Rev. Fr. Francis Jaeger, sent
out by the Public Safety Commission, give an address in
Faust's Hall next Wednesday
afternoon, February 6th at
2 o'clock.
Fr. Jaeger is a very able
speaker, "who knows whereof
he speaks. He returned from
a Red Cross Mission in Servia
and other Balkan states only
a few months ago, and he intends to go back there in a
short time. Everybody should
turn out and give him a good
house. We know nothing
about european conditions,
except what we read in the
papers, and from tlie papers
we believe only what our
bias dictates us to. But here
from Fr. Jaeger we can rely
upon hearing the truth from
a man who has no object in
distorting the facts. Come
and hear what he has to say.
Report ot Pierz
Red Cross Chapter.
When Organized Nov. 1, 1917
we had 36 members, during
membership drive Dec. 23rd we
got 31 new members now having 67 iu all.
Chain parties started out with
Mrs. F. X. Virnig, Mrs.M. Wermerskirchen, Mrs. Frank Paust.
The Food Sale given at F. X.
Virnig's store brought splendid
results.
Articles made and sent.
Socks, made by the following
ladies:
Mrs. R. T. Healy 1 pair, Mrs.
P. A. Hartmann 2 pairs, Mrs.
M. Wermerskirchen 1 pr., Miss
Clara Hesch 1 pr., Miss Cres-
ence Faust 1 pr.
Sweaters made by the following:
Mrs. F. X. Virnig 1, Mrs.
Frank Faust 1, Miss Anna Hesch
1, Miss Cres^nce Paust 1.
Scarfs made by the following:
Miss Lill Hesch 1, Miss Ores-
ence Faust 1,
One "helmet made by Miss
Lill Hesch.    -
Pajamas made by the following:
Mrs. A. P. Stoll 1 pr., Mrs. J.
N. Faust 1 pr., Miss Clara Paust
1 pr.
We do not offer the biggest returns on a small investment,
but the safest depository for
your funds, and interest at a
consistent and sound banking.
First Stale bank of Genola.
Local Happenings
Of the Week
Mr. and Mrs. Christ Faust
returned Monday from Elk
River where they visited with
their son Nick. Margeret
and Frances Meyer, who
went down with them will
remain there for another
week.
can be improved.
o'clock   p.  m.  and   hear
A good first-class cooperative Father Jaeger's lecture
creamery  pays  the  farmers nf ■
the   community,   from  7   to   10 class cooperative creamery,
cents a pound  higher   price for;    Jonuary 1918.
butter fat, than farmers receive j
where  there is a poor  coopera-1
tive creamery, or no cooperative
creamery.
It  pays to work  for a  first-
A. J. McGUIRB,
Dairy Specialist, Agricultual
Extension Division, Univerity
Farm, St. Paul, Minn.
Approved:   Director of Agri-
ricultural Extension.
Grain And Produce
Market Report
Choice No. 1 Northern $2.04
Wheat, No. 1, $2.00
Wheat, No.  2     1.97
Wheat, No. 3       1.94
Wheat, No. 4 __    1.90
Flax,       3.25
Barley      1.38
liye    1.98
Oats      77
EarCorn  1.25
Hay     7.00
Butter, Creamery __..       45
Dairy       37
Eggs       40
Flour.Royal     5.30
"    White Rose      5.20
Low grade flour 4.00
Bran  2.10
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 2.75
Shorts 2.25
Ground Peed    2.-10
Beans      5.00
Onions     2.50
Potatoes        90
WHEATFRO!
_E
y.s,
Mrs. M. Smithbauer is seriously ill.
Thirty-six below zero yesterday morning.
Chas. A. Mast is now holding forth in Rice.
Oiaf Timboseck of Dyke-
mon called here Tuesday.
A northwestern telephone
crew   is   here  doing  repair
work.
Farm loans promptly closed
at lowest rates at the First
State Bank of Genola.
Joseph and Anton Stangl
of Java, S. D. were here to
attend their mother's funeral.
Come to Faust's Hall
next Wednesday at two
o'clock p. m. and hear
Father Jaeger's lecture.
John P. Langer says that
all who want ice this year
shoud report in a short time.
Jos. H. Virnig returned
yesterday from Benton county, where he has been busy
as an organizer of the Nonpartisan League.
A fire which started in the
basement of a pool room at
Brainerd early Thursday
morning entailed an approximate loss of over $60,000.
Two of Ryan's men stopped
in Pierz last night. They
were on their way home from
Platte, where they had installed a hot air furnace in
the new Platte church.
Make your bank account grow.
It is recording your hi-tory and
telling a truthful story of your
success. Open an account with
us today. First State Bank of
Genola.
Come to Faust's Hall
next Wednesday at two
o'clock p. m. and hear
Father Jaeger's lecture.
There is considerable sickness among horses in this
part of the country. John
Nagel has already lost two
head and another so sick that
he fears it will die.
Next to the wife beater is
a horse beater and it is to be
regretted we have one or two
in this community. A hor.e
is a faithful animal and one
abuses it should be looked
over.
One of our exchanges is
calling the people's attention
to the broken planks in the
sidewalks and and warning
not to step on there lest they
have their bones broken! No
need of such warning in
Pierz. (.-rood towns have cement walks and good electric
lights,
The Rev. Francis Jaeger,
priest and lecturer, who will
speak in Faust's hall next
Wednesday afternoon at two
o'clock, is widely known all
over the northwest; is sent
out by the Public Safety
Commission to deliver a number of lectures on conditions
in the war zone, before returning to Europe on a Red
Cross mission. Il frill be wtr!l
worth your w'i.'.v1 ! •■ ;;et fust*
hand informal: -a i;oin his
lecture.    Hear him.
British Official Says It Is Imperative To Assume Victory
For Allied Cause.
SUCGOH IS PROMISED:
Food     Administration     Cables    That;
America   Will   Not   Fail   to   Meet
Demands—Calls   On   Country
To   Co-operate.
Washington, Jan. 2S.—More wheat!
from the United States is the urgent;
appeal of Great Britain. Without it;
the Allies may not have food enoughj
to win the war, Lord Rhondda cables I
the  food  administration.
"Unless you are able to send the Al-j
lies at least 75,000,0.0 bushels of;
wheat over and above what you have I
exported up to January 1, and in addi-l
tion to the total exportable surplus
from Canada, I cannot take the responsibility of assuring our people
that there will be food enough to win
the war," he said.
Necessity Imperative.
"Imperative necessity," the message
continued, "compels me to cable you
in this blunt way. No one knows bet-,
ter than I that the American people
regardless Of national and individual
sacrifices have so far refused nothing
that is needed for the war, but it now
lies with America to decide whether
or not the Allies in Europe shall have
enough bread to hold out until the
United States is able to throw its
force into the field. I have not minced
words because I am convinced that
the American people, if they know the
truth, will not hesitate to. meet the
emergency."
America   Will   Not   Fail.
The food administration . cabled
that America would not fail to meet
the i emergency.
President Wilson will issue at once
a program for conservation and the
food administration calls upon the
whole country to co-operate, even to
the extent of making personal sacrifices lo get the food tn the soldiers.
President Wilson's program will be
voluntary in some measure, but in
others it will be enforcable under the
food law. The food administration
warns that the situation does not bear,
of delay, "and we propose to do the
best we can on a voluntary basis, plus
wha.t authority we do possess."
No   Privations  Asked.
No privations are asked. There
are plenty of substitute foods that
this country can use to advantage, it
was stated.
Explaining the vast work of feeding Europe done by this country, the
food administration says t.ie demands
are growing daily. On January 1, the
country had exported the 60,000,000
bushels of whaet, comprising the normal surplus from the last harvest.
In addition to the 75,000,000 bushels
now asked by Great Britain, the country must find 15,000,000 bushels for
the Belgian relief, to prevent starvation; 10,000,000 bushels for Cuba and
other neutrals upon whom we are
dependent for other foods in return.
"If we are to meet the increased
demands we must rigidly reduce our
wheat consumption to 30 per cent below normal until the next harvest,"
says  the  food  administration.
"We estimate that the American
people saved as much as 30,000,000
bushels out of last harvest.
"In addition to wheat we are shipping large quantities of corn and
other cereals to mix in their bread,
but Europe must have a wheat foundation for the loaf just as ourselves."
NO ADVANCE TOWARD PEACE;
Washington   Sees   Nothing   Favorable!
in  Teuton   Replies.
Washington, Jan. 28.—No advance j
toward peace is seen here in the I
speeches made in Berlin and Vienna!
by the German chancellor and Aus-j
trian foreign minister, upon the war!
aims of the Teutonic powers. Formal!
comment will be withheld until the;
text are put out by an authorized!
German agency but after reading press i
accounts of the speeches officials ex-j
pressed the opinion that they were j
framed largely for internal consump-!
tion with the incidental purposes to!
plant seeds of discord among the Al-j
lies, by suggestions of separate nego- j
tiation and appeal to the sympathies'
of the radical Socialist elements in
the enemy countries.
Regarding the design to affect the
internal conditions of Germany and
Austria one official suggested that
the striking differences of tone in the
two notes, the German being almn'-t
defiantly aggressive and the Austrian
compromising and Insinuating, v. -i .->
calculated precisely to meet the v. ry-
Ing conditions in the two empires.
Deputies to Guard Tim'rs. C_mp..'
Virginia, Minn., Jan. UV..- M is .renounced that a party of deputy .!;_:••
ilfs will leave at once for tlie .... :i
woods to prevent I. W. W. agitators
from causing camp destruction. The
party- will co-operate with a Fourth
Minnesota detachment in keeping . r-
; r. Fo-.t" V.imberjacxs are cl-iain.;
Ijilo :'./:, .ut no reports of a.tuat
woods trouble hare boon r_ - ::v. 1
here. A detachment of the Fourth
.Minnesota was sent to Cusson on
guard duty. Fifty more Fourth Minnesota  men arc expected at Eveleth.
*****
*r 'v
mm*j.*m
TT
"tT
n,i gi. *■ y .**. itjoym?"
*?T
w