The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1918-02-14

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VOL. NO. 9.
PIERZ, HORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, February  14, 1918.
No. 35
NTS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.
Tower.—Gilbert Ketcham was elected mayor over the present incumbent,
Andrew Bystrom, by a majority of 15
votes.
St. Cloud.—The following American
Is mentioned in a late Canadian casualty list: Wounded—J. H. Wilson, St.
Cloud,  Minn.
Virginia. — Edward C. A. Johnson
was elected mayor over Michael Boy-
Ian by a majority of 65 votes. J. W.
Trimble  was   elected  city   treasurer.
Red Lake Palls.—Red Lake county
will furnish 56 men for the draft call
February 23. The county's quota is
63 and of that number seven are ln
the training camps.
--~fjells.—Wells Is to have a Home
tiu_ird company under authority granted by Adjutant General Rhinow. A
group of members of the Knights of
Pythias lodge will enlist members.
Moose Lake.—The general merchandise store of Wilson & Marttila at Kettle River was burned to the ground,
the fire starting In the attic. Most
of the stock was removed from the
building.
Crookston.—Polk county's allotment
of the state road fund for construction is $20,752 for 1918 work, and as
Polk county is on a 50 per cent basis,
this will provide state aid on $41,504
ln construction.
Brainerd.—The case of a Crow Wing
county farmer charged with accumulating three tons of flour, or about 30
barrels, at his home has been reported
to the state food administration and
will be investigated.
St. Paul.—Wages are still tending
upward, according to the quarterly
wage study of the State Department
of Labor for the period ending De-
r"Tn. ei- 31. The average wage for
men in this quarter was, a week, ?13-
91, as compared with $18.19 the previous quarter.
Brainerd.—Fish clogged the intak.
pipe leading to the water tank of the
Northern Pacific Railway company at
Klondyke station and the caretaker
wired Superintendent W. H. Strachan
of Duluth to send an engine and 100
feet of hose to force the fish to the
surface with steam and thus clean
the well.
St. Paul.—Failure of the drivers to
flag their buses across the railroads,
as required by their contracts with
the school authorities, is blamed for
the killing of nine and injuring of 20
more children near Barnum and neat
Nelson, in a report filed by O. C. Swain,
state rural school inspector, who Investigated both accidents.
Staples.—The K. P. lodge has leased
the Sharkey hall for a term of five
years and will take possession about
February 15. Mr. Sharkey will have
several ante rooms partitioned off and
a lot of papering and decorating done.
The hall proper will be 30 by 60 feet
ln size, which is quite a little larger
the present quarters of the lodge.
Fisher. — Gathering her 16 living
children around her, Mrs. Peter Anderson, living near here, celebrated her
44th birthday, with the knowledge
that she had been awarded honors for
raising the largest family in Minnesota. Two other children are dead.
Mr. Anderson owns 237 acres of land,
and farms it without help outside of
his own family circle.
Carlton.—Arthur Collver, 10, son of
William Collver, village marshal, accidentally shot and Instanty killed
himself in front of a store here. He
had taken his father's big Colt's revolver and loaded it and gone down
town. In examining the weapon and
trying to put it into his breast pocket
It was discharged, the bullet entering
his breast. He was dead when picked
up a minute later.
j>t; Paul.—Taking no, chances on
furl shortages and desiring to aid in
reducing the demand for coal, 10 employes in the office of State Auditor
Preus formed a club to buy fuel wood
ln wholesale quantities. Subscriptions totalled 100 cords, or about sis:
car loads, but new members are to be
added to increase the total, according
to Otto Diercks, organizer. It is expected to get tamarack delivered In
cord wood lengths at $7 a cord.
Faribault.—August Ruther, a farmer
residing near Dundas, has been
brought to trial in district court
charged with the murder of his
brother-in-law, August Fiske. On September 13, 1917, young Fiske was
found dead near the barn «n the
farm of Ruther, where he made his
home. Investigation showed that apparently he came to his death by poisoning from paris green. The night
before Fiske died .he and Ruther
drank several botMB^of beer together.
The state conten^nr that Ruther poisoned the liquor.
Staples. — They know what to do
with "heatless Mondays" In Staples.
No use staying in doors, wasting time.
No chance to sit around the stove or
the radiator in the corner store—it's
closed. So the whole population of
3,000 gets outdoors' and has a carnival
for the benefit of the Red Cross and
raises $1,243.
Pipestone. — Twenty-one thousand
dollars was awarded Mrs. Lena Bowers of Hartigan, Neb., in district court
here for the deatlr of her husband.
Mr. Bowers was rua down and killed
by a Milwaukee -railroad train at
Sioux City, Iowa, in August, 1914.
Interesting
Correspondences
Platte News.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wolff
and daughter Mary were Pierz
callers Thursday.
Miss Cecelia Valentine returned from Little Falls Thursday where she had been working- for a few weeks.
A dance was given at the
Froelich's home last Sunday
evening- and all reported a fine
time.
The wedding- bells will soon
be ringing- in this vicinity.
Mr. Frank Wolff and his boys
are busy hauling ice.
A little crowd gathered at the
Frank Wolff home Friday evening, all had a good time. The
evening was spent by playing
games.
Mr. Ernest Wolff returned
home Sunday evening from Pipestone, Minn, where lie underwent another examination which
he passed. His father met him
in Little Falls.
Mr. Reese and son Christ and
Milo Harmsen were busy hauling ice last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Debolt and son
Leslie visited at the Anton
Smith home Sunday.
Dixville News.
Those that transacted business in Royalton Saturday were
Geo. Kowitz, R. Kriefall and
Otto Kurtshan.
Mr. and Mrs. Chauncy Parkins were visitors at the Peter
Wischniwski home Sunday.
Ed. Gruber is busy hauling
lumber from Pierz for his new
barn, which he will build in the
spring.
People from in and around
this vicinity are busy hauling
Wood from their Back 40's.
C. W. Miller made a business
trip to Royalton Tuesday.
Miss Clara Hodorff, who has
been visiting with relatives here
for several ?.eeks, returned to
St. Paul Tuesday, where she is
employed.
The many friends of Mrs. Ida
Mowan, are well pleased to
hear that she is improving very
nicely.
Mrs. Aug. Sauer and son Otto
were business callers in St.Cloud
Saturday.
Miss Lizzie Sauer was a visitor at the Aug. Sauer home for
several days the past week.
Frank Kloss is employed by
Nick Kaiser for a few weeks.
Miss Julia Thoen visited her
friend Mrs. Mowan Tuesday.
The district school No. 18 has
been closed the past two weeks
on account of the teacher Miss
Emma Ellis' illness.
Miss Ida Sauer is employed at
the Peter Denzen home in Buch-
man for some time.
A large crowd attended the
party which was held at the
Henry Nagel home Thursday
evening and a most enjoyable
time was had by all that were
present.
County May
Purchase A
Stone Crusher
Morrison County Commissioners Delphise Rocheleau, N.
Cairnes, Henry Gassert, Herman Vanselow and John Berglund went to Minneapolis Wednesday morning to look up a
stone crusher and other machinery connected with work for
graveling of roads.
There is to be considerable
road work done in the county
this year and the commissioners
thought it advisable to buy the
machinery needed for this purpose. They wiil look over the
different types of machines for
crushing rock but may not buy
at this time.
The commissioners will inquire also into the matter of a
small railroad, used considerably now, which could be utilized
to haul gravel from a pit to the
road under construction. These
small railroads have proven a
money saver in counties where
they have been used.
When road work is done with
teams it requires a considerable
length of time to finish the work
and figuring the expense from
this standpoint alone it is quite
high. With the movable railway system the work could be
done in a short time and possibly three or four roads madedur
ing the year where one is made
by teaming.
The commissioners are down
to the cities to throughly investigate these matters but may
not purchase any outfit at this
time.
List of Unclaimed Letters
Letters addressed to the following named parties are at the
postoffice in Pierz and have not
been called for.
Theo.  Grell,   Pierz,
Albert Johnson    ,,
Geo. Flicker „
Earl Davis ,,
Carl Eckwall ,,
Wenzel Winzuber ,,
Elizabeth Smith ,,
H. P. Peterson     ,,
Draft Man Claims Exemption,
"A drafted Isanti man put in
a claim for exemption on account of 'being the head of a
family dependent on him for support. 'He was ordered to bring
a letter from his wife showing
the facts and this is what she
wrote: Dear U. S. Army:—My
husband ast me to rite you a
reckmend that he supports his
family. He can't read so don't
tell him, jest take him, he ain't
no good to me. He ain't done
nothing but drink cinmon essence and play the fiddle since
I married him eight years ago
and I gotta feed seven kids of
hisn. Maybe you kin git him
to carry a gun, he's good on
squirrels and eating, take him
and welcome. I need his grub
and bed for the kids."
C. A. Lindbergh
For Governor
Pioneer Press: — Charles A.
Lindbergh of Little Falls, formerly member of congress from
the Sixth district, may file for
governor on the Republican
ticket as a result of the dinner
given by the Nonpartisan league
and labor leaders of St. Paul
and Minneapolis at the Ryan
hotel Wednesday evening.
The dinner was given in honor
of James Manahan, Representative T. J. McGrath and Commissioner Oscar Keller to celebrate the dismissal of the charges of inciting riot filed agaiust
them in the Ramsey county district court.
Mr. Lindbergh delivered a
short address. Close friends of
his said yesterday that he was
much enthused by the meeting,
and predicted that he would tile
for the governorship, inaccord-
ance with the wishes of the
league leaders.
Lindbergh made a speach or
two for the league early in the
campaign in this state, although
he had not joined the organization.   	
Val.  Schraut  Jr.   was   a
county seat caller Saturday.
Frank Gaboury
A Survivor of
The Tuscania
Little Falls.— Local people
were enthusiastic over the good
news that came in Sunday to
the effect that Frank Gaboury
was one of the survivors of the
Tuscania. Some time elapsed
after the disaster before any
word received, but a message
finally came saying that he was
safe.
This is the first real instance
of actual warfare brought home
to Little Falls people and while
Mr. Gaboury's parents were vitally interested in the case, everyone in the city wasalso deeply interested in his welfare.
Frank has been in the service
only a short while, and the
news of his going across came
as a surprise to many, as there
are numerous local boys who
have been planning on leaving
for Prance for some time but
have not as yet sailed.
Opportunities are bound to
come to the man with money in
the bank. The front door of
this bank will put you on the
right path. First State Bank
of Genola.
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, _.        3.30
Barley      1.50
Rye    1.97
Oats      77
EarCorn  1.25
Hay     7.00
Butter, Creamery       45
"        Dairy       37
Eggs       40
Flour,          5.50
Bran 2.10
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 2.75
Shorts  2.25
Ground Feed     2.40
Beans ___•_       5.00
Onions       2.50
Potatoes        90
OH! WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF MORTAL BE
PROUD?
[The following poem, written by William Knox, a Scottish poet of
considerable talent, has been widely published. It was a great favorite with President Lincoln, by whom it was often recited.]
Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift, fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
He passeth from life to his rest in the grave.
The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade,
Be scattered around and together be laid;
And the young and the old, and the low and the high
Shall moider to dust, and together shall lie.
The infant a mother attended and loved;
The mother the infant's affection who proved;
The husband that mother and infant who blessed,
Each, all, are away to their dwellings of rest.
The hand of the king that the scepter hath born;
The brow of the prist that the miter hath worn;
The eye of the sage and the heart of the brave,
Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave.
The peasant v;hose lot was to sow and to reap;
The herdsman, who climbed with his goat up the steep;
The begger, who wandered in search of his bread,
Have faded away like the grass that we tread.
The maid on whose cheek, on whose brow, in whose eye
Shone beauty and pleasuse—her triumphs are by;
And the memory of those who loved her and praised,
Are alike from the minds of the living erased.
The saint who enjoyed the communion of heaven,
The sinner who dared to remain unforgiven,
The wise and the foolish, the guilty and just,
Have quietly mingled their bones in the dust.
So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed
That withers away to let others succeed;
So the multitude comes, even those we behold,
To repeat every tale that has often been told.
For we are the same our fathers have been;
We see the same sights our fathers have seen—
We drink the same stream and view the same sun—
And run the same course our fathers have run.
The thoughts we are thinking our fathers would think;
From the death we are shrinking our fathers would shrink;
To the life we are clinging they also would cling.
But it speeds for us all, like a bird on the wing.
They loved, but the story we can not unfold;
They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold;
They grieved, but no wail from their slumber will come;
They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.
They died, aye! they died; we things that are now,
That walk on the turf that lies over their brow,
And make in their dwellings a transient abode,
Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage road.
Yea! hope and despondency, pleasure and pain,
We mingle together in sunshine and rain;
And the smile and the tear, the song and the dirge,
Still follow each other, like surge upon surge.
'Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath;
From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,
From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud—
Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Local Happenings
Of the Week
J. Banach is hauling ice
for the creamery.
Elizabeth Newman of West
Union is home on a visit.
Don't go security for a
man who lets his gate swing
on one hinge.
Is the seed corn supply assured? If not, where is it
coming from.
(rive the boy a pig and see
him skin Dad at the game of
"build-a-porker."
Math Lochner and Frank
Hoheisel made a business
trip to Little Falls Tuesday.
The man who tries to make
money by skimping the stock
is not a farmer, he's an embezzler.
Men who start on bank accounts seldom start anything
else. Start an account now at
the First State Bank of Genola.
Joseph Zwach of Hillman
collected a wolf bounty at
tlie county auditor's office
Saturday.
Karl Kapsner left Saturday for Avon for an over
Sunday visit with N. J. Terhaar.
S. B. Bayer spent Wednesday and Thursday of last
week at Melrose attending
the Central Minnesota Dairymen and Buttermakers' convention.
Mrs. Louis Feucht received
word from their son Thomas
that he had enlisted and is
now attending a civil engineering school and expects
to go to France soon.
E. H. Hagen of Aitkin
called on old friends here
Friday. Mr. Hagen was
buttermaker for a few weeks
iu the Bridgeman Russel
creamery about 5 years ago.
A bank account will turn your
stumbling blocks into stepping
stones. First State Bank of
Genola.
Gerhard Block reports that
last summer's blackbirds are
still quartered along Skunk
river near his place. Another sign of an open winter
in spite of the indications of
the thermometer.
A   bushel    of
worth, for eating
four   bushels   of
This  means  that
wheat   is
purposes,
potatoes.
for  every
four carloads of potatoes allowed to go to waste because
of improper shelter or farmers to get them onto the
market the. Allied nations
are deprived of one carload
of flour.
Ed. Evans, who resides at
Ada, permitted his son to
take his automobile to a
dance in company witli three
other young people. On the
way the car skidded into a
ditch and a young lady lost
an eye. A damage suit was
brought against the father
and the jury brought in a
verdict against him for $3,-
(500. The owner of a car appears to be liable lor dam-
agp if anyone in 111? car ii.
injured while dawn with
his permission by am. ther.
STAFF FORMED
INTO 5 DIVISIONS
Secretary  Baker  Issues Order
Outlining New Organization
of War Department.
BLISS REMAINS CHIEF:
Executive  of  Each  of  New   Divisions;
To  Act   For   Secretary  of  War—
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March To Be Acting
Chief of Staff.
Washington, Feb. 11.—Stecretary!
Baker has issued a general order out-!
lining the new organization of the]
War department and giving full pow-j
ers in their respective fields to as-j
sistants to the chief of Btaff at the!
head of the five divisions into which!
the staff is formed.
Chiefs of all bureaus, corps and]
other agencies of the military estab-!
lishment are instructed to communicate directly with heads of staff divisions on matters as to which the latter have control, and division heads
are authorized to act for the secretary of war and chief of staff in such
matters.
Chief Authority Emphasized.
The order emphasizes the authority of the chief of staff, who, with the
War council, is the immediate adviser of the secretary on all questions relating to military establishment.
"The planning of the army program in its entirety," says the order,
"the constant development thereof in
its larger aspect and the relation of
this program to the general staff and
the entire army will be the duty of
the chief of staff and the War council."
The duties of the chief of staff
will be taken over soon by Major
General Peyton C. March, ordered
home from France, to succeed Major
General Blddle, assistant chief of
staff, who has been acting chief of
staff in the absence of General Bliss.
Bliss'to Continue as Chief.
For the present General Bliss will
continue to. hold the title of chief of
staff while representing the United
States in the Supreme War council
abroad, and General March will be
designated acting chief.
There are reports in army circles
that Edward R. Stettinius, recently
made surveyor general of supplies under the purchase and supply division
of the general staff, soon may be
made a general officer and chief of
that division. The office now is held
by Brigadier General Pierce.
EDITOR AND WIFE ARRESTED
Minnesota Couple Are Taken On Sedition Charge-
Alexandria, Minn., Feb. 11.—Carl A.
Wold, editor of the Park Region
Echo, and his wife, Eva Emerson
Wold, have been arrested here on a
warrant issued by the state attorney
general's office charging them with
making seditious and disloyal statements in their paper.
The Wolds went before a local justice and waived hearing and were
release on bonds to be tried at the
circuit court in February here. Last
year they were called before postoffice department officials to show
cause why their paper should not ba
barred from the mails because of alleged attacks made on the government and its prosecution of the war.
CHALLENGE TO  SUBMARINES
U. 8.
Vessel to Enter War Zone Without   Escort.
Washington, Feb. 11.—The first non-
sinkable ship, the Lucia, achievement!
of American genius, will load this!
week and leave for Europe.
She will be without convoy at any!
stage of the voyage.   She goes as an!
open  challenge  to  the  German  sub-i
marines  to disprove  that  she  is  in-j
vulnerable.
i
No other test has been made or!
will be made of the efficacy of her!
multiplicity of airtight and watertight;
cells. Her trial trip and maiden voy-j
age will be a defi to the U-boats or!
the most practical test possible—their i
marksmanship.
Slurred  U. S. Army;  Sent to  Prison.!
London,  Feb.   11.—The   Hon.   Bert-i
rand Arthur Russell, late lecturer andj
fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge,'
and  heir  presumptive  to  the  seeond
Earl Russell,  has been rentenced to
six months imprisonment by a    Bow
street magistrate for making certain
statements    slurring    the    American
army in a publication    called    "Tie
Tribunal."     It  was   held    that    t>-
statements were likely to    prejudi  .
Great Britain's   relations    with    the
United States.
Socialists Demand Immediate Pcr.ce,
Chicago, Feb. 11.—In a proclamation to America, the national executive committe- of the Socialist par'.y
declarde that two problems should
now engage the energy and ability
of the working class: "Forst—An immediate peace with full represent-
lien .->* te. -vorking classes at ihe
peace . o.._.-ence. Second—The rc-
coustmction which must imn.ndiately
follow upon the close of hostilities."
The declaration of President Wilson
in favor of open covenants of peace
was approved. ,
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