The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1917-07-19

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VOL. NO. 9.
PIERZ, flORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, July 19,  1917.
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ABOUT THE STATE
News of Especial Interest lo
Minnesota Readers,
GATHERED FROM ALL SEGTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Tele!
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
Authority for the tri-state flood control agreement between Minnesota.
North and South Dakota is given in
the rivers and harbors bill.
Mrs. Rebecca Forder, seventy-one
years old, one of the early pioneers
of Thief River Falls, is dead. She
came to Minnesota .fifty years ago.
Henry A. Flint, for many years &
resident of Minneapolis, is dead. He
was seventy-flve years of age and had
been prominent in Masonic circles for
fifty years.
Mrs. D. Dario, fifty years old,
walked into the Mississippi river at
St. Paul, knelt in the water ant.
drowned herself. She is said to have
shown symptoms of mental derangement' for some time.
A resolution demanding that the bureau of Indian affairs be abolished and
charging that officials at the head of
the bureau are incompetent was
adopted at the council of Minnesota
Chippewas at Bemidji.
Norman Burleson was drowned whil 6
swimming in Channel lake near Albert
Lea. About six weeks ago a daughter was killed when struck by a train
as she was going to meet her father
returning from work.
One hundred and forty Moorhead
normal school girls are knitting socks
for soldiers. Daily knitting classes
are maintained and the girls are making rapid progress in the early stages
of their knitting lessons.
One hundred and thirteen indictments were returned by the federai
grand jury at Duluth against men who
failed to register June 5 and are now
held in the St. Louis county jail or
have been released on bond.
The Farmers State bank of Holt,
with. a capital stock of $10,000, has
been closed by order of F. E. Pearson,
state superintendent of banks. An
examiner has been placed in charge
and the assets will be liquidated.
Governor Burnquist has appointed
J. N. Searles of Stillwater as judge of
the Nineteenth judicial district. He
succeeds Judge J. C. Nethaway, who
died recently. Mr. iSearles is an attorney and a veteran of the Civil war.
Alfred Canfield's third attempt a.
suicide within a year was successful.
He shot himself through the heart at
his home in Ironton, using a double
barreled rifle. Attempts to kill himself by hanging and drowning were
frustrated.
Mayor Thomas Van Lear of Minneapolis startled the National Editorial
association when, in his address of
welcome, he attacked the press in
general terms for submitting to "the-
business men's thumbscrew in the editorial office."
Wholesale shipments of beer and
other liquors from Minneapolis, St.
Paul and Duluth to blind pigs in the
vicinity of Puposky and Nebish, Beltrami county, have been seized by authorities and are being held in the
jail at Bemidji.
J. J. Lomen, sixty-one years old, for
many years active in Minnesota politics, is dead at St. Paul after an illness of six years. He had been assistant secretary of state for three
terms and chief clerk in the secretary
of state's office for many years.
Two contracts for approximately
200,000 pairs of shoes have been
awarded by the war department tc
to Foote, Schulze & Co. and C. Got_ian
& Co., St. Paul. The two contracts
involve about $1,000,000. The shoes
are to be ready for delivery Feb. 15.
John Holmberg, sheriff of Hennepin
county from 1894, to 1898, known as
the hangman of Harry Hayward, is
dead at Denver. While -Mr. Holmberg did not pull the lever that sent
Hayward to his death he was sheriff
at the time. He removed to Denver
in 1900. .   ■
Seven persons are believed to have
lost their lives when the excursion
steamer Muskegon overturned on Big-
Stone lake, near Ortonville, during a
heavy storm. -Two of the nine persons
known to have been on the boat wore
rescued.
S. O. Simons of Albert Lea Wf_6
elected commander of the Minnesota
encampment of the Spanish-American
War Ve-Spins at the closing session
of their anjural encampment at Wa-
Brandt of St. Paul was
of the women's auxiliary,
plications for clemency of
Smith, former state treasurer, and Robert C. Pickit, former
state investment clerk, now serving
indeterminate sentences in state prison _5r misappropriation of state funds,
Jiave been denied, by the state pardon
board.
The war department has asked the
Dunwoody Industrial Institute at Minneapolis . co take on the huge task of
training 1,200 army wireless telegraph
operators and the institute has agreed
to do the work. With its present task
of instruction for the navy department
the Minneapolis institution shprti?
will be one of the most important
schools for technical military instruction in the United States.
seca.
made
The
.Walter
Proceedings of the
. Co. Commissioner.
July 9th, 1917.
The board of county commi sioners
met in regular July session, board
called to order by chairman at 10
o'clock a. m.. all members present.
Minutes of the June meeting were
read   and   duly   approved.
The levy for 1917 was then considered, and the following resolution
was   then  passed:
BE IT 1-1.S01.VJ_D, that the following' amounts tie levied upon all
real estate and personal property in
Morrison county to meet the various
expenses   of said county for  year  1917.
Sa_.ar.ie.      $116,-00.00
District   count   expenses       10,000.00
Probate   court         2,000.00
Mothers'    pension          3,000.00
Printing-   and   advertising   •■•     3,500.00
Miscellaneous        15,500 00
Interest   on   bonds          9,000.00
Sinking   fund       10,000.oo
Koau   and   bridge        50,000.00
And be it further resolved that one-
tenth of one per cent be levied upon
all real and personal property in said
county for the support of the schools,
known as the one mill tax, also one
mill drag tax as per chapter _35, Sec.
31,  ii. a.   1913.
The following is a list of names
from which tne grand and petit jurors   will   be  drawn:
Grand Jurors
Joe  Engler.h,  lloyalton.
Geo.  Doeken,  Buekman.
Henry Andermann,  lloyalton.
Win.  Miller,  Morrill.
G.   A.   Snider,   Two   Rivers.
.Napoleon   Gota,   city.
Peter  Thompson,   city.
1_.   S.   Tanner,   city.
S.  O. Berg,  city.
Christ   Anderson,   Kail   Prairie.
C.  K.  Seeley,  Motley.
Nels   Swanson,   Scandia   Valley.
Sam   Tedford,  Ciough.
Louis   Bergman,   Gushing.
Jos.   Stangl,   Pierz.
P.  1_.  Poster,  village  Pierz.
Jos.   Portner,   Granite.
Theo.   Theilen,  Buh.
Math  Meydr, Agram.
Jonn Kylander, Guldrum.
Gust   Maschke,   Pike   Greek.
Chas.   Beseman,   Swanyllle.
Chas.   Muske,    Swanville.
Karl Peterson, Elm Dale.
l*eti.   Jurors
William   Joseph,   Culdrum.
W.   Unger,   Culdrum.
Fred Rahn,  Swanville.
Ole Hedin, Elm Dale.
Otto   Nieman,   Pike   Creek.
W.   M.   P.affenspai'ger,   Swanville.
John Phillip, Village  of Pierz.
Jos.  P.   Bollig,  Pierz.
Christ   Gehring,   Bull.
Chas. Sternberg, Little Falls.
Roy  Bruber,  Leigh.
J. N. Faust, Pierz.
James   Bernstihl,   Rosing.
Peter   Jensen,   Rosing.
John  Wicklund,   Motley.
W.   F.  Siegel,   Clough.
Louis   Nelson,   Gushing.
C. J.   Hagberg,   Parker.
Vince   Zurowski,   city.
D. Wozak.  city.
John  Wiiersbach,   city.
John  Kolatz,  city.
John  Castle,   city.
Charles Tanner,  city.
Ralph  Bargabos,  Royalton.
 ,   Royalton.
L. J. Daissow, Royalton.
Jas. McLeod, Royalton.
Nick Miller, Jr., Buckman
August Sauer, Buckman.
C. Burgraff, Buckman.
Christ  Faust,   work   state     road
No.   3       2SG.25
Joseph  Kurtz,  work  state    road
Xo.   3         75.00
Jos.  Otremba,   work  state     road
No.   3         9S.67
Jake   Girtz,     work     state     road
No.   3           5.00
Frank  Loidolt,  work  state  road
No.   3         30.00
Frank  Rauch,  work    state  road
>j0.   3         33.37
Herman  Bentfleld,     work    state
road No.  3         l.-l*
Mike   Leese,   work     state     road
j^o.   3         23.50
John   P.     Langer,     work     state
road No. .3         23.50
Peter  Langer,   work  state    road
No. -3     11-25
Leo Langer,     work     state     road
No.   3         23-D0
Mike  Tschida,  work state    road
No.   3          2-50
Henry   Otten,   work   state     road
No.   3         43-00
Nick   Staub,     work     state     road
No.   3           I-25
Roy   Benton,  work    state    road
No.  3           5-50
Wm.    Vetch,    work    state    road
No.   3           5.50
Glen   King,     work     state     road
No.   3   ....:      2..25
Jos.   Sterr,      work     state      road
No.   3      14.75
Michael Virnig,  work state  road
No.   3    •     20.75
Jos.  H.  Virnig,  work state  road
No.   3         63.G0
Frank demons, work state road
No.   3,        59.00
Henry Dehman, work state road
' Mo.  3         22.00
George  M.  Hoffman,  work  stale
road No. 3   159.25
Theo. Hoheisel,  work  state road
No.' 3      25.00
George  Virnig,  work  state  road
No.   3    ....•-      52.00
Adam Becker,  work state    road
No.   3      SS.50
Theo,   Girtz,   work     state     road
No.  3         45.00
Louis Brummer, work stale road
No.   3         86.00
Jos.   Zeller,     work     state     road
No.   3         S6.00
Paul  Dahmen,  work  state    road
No.   3       35.50
John  Janorski, work state  road
No.   3        13.00
George   Wood,   work   state   road
No.   3         83.00
Jacob   Girtz,   work     state     road
No.   3       25G.00
Willie Johnson, work state road
No.   3         40.50
Lawrence   Kramer,   work     state
road  No.   3      105.00
Robt. Buessler,  work  state  road
Boys Enfifl.
The Fanners' Creamery has
bought a boiler and engine from
Oelwein, Iowa, at a very reasonable figure. Though second
handed, they have had very little use and are practically as
good as new. The old engine
and boiler were too small to
drive the machinery.
Corres
PRISONERS,   SHACKLED   TOGETH-
•        ER,   JUMP   OUT   WINDOW
OF   PASSENGER
St. Cloud Times: A daring and
successful attempt to escape serving
In the state reformatory was made
by two young men, said to be twin
brothers, enroute from Minneapolis
to 'St. Cloud Saturday night.
The prisoners had been shackled
together and were in charge of. two
deputies from, the Hennepin county
sheriff's office. The prisoners sat in
tho smoker in a seat looking forward
and the officers sat on the one ahead,
Which was turned around, so that
they faced them.
The officers gave the prisoners a
paper to road. As their inside hands
and arms were held the only feasible
for them to read was to hold the
paper up in front of them, each holding an end with an outside hand. It
while their faces wore thus hid-
den from tho view of the officers that
they plotted  their desperate act.
The window next to them was
open. As there seemed only a remote possibility that the men would
attempt to get out that way the office-a did not bother about them. Suddenly, however, there was a jump
and both men went out the car window.
The train at tho time had just
pulled out of Albertville and a large
number of passengers saw them
make their leap for liberty. The officers ran up and down the train a
moment. Finally they ran across the
conductor and ho stopped the train.
The train was a mile beyond the
point where they had jumped off toy
this time.
One officer got off the train and the
other went on to Monticollo. A telegram was sent iback to Albertville to
organize a searching posse, and another was started from the other end,
but so far as has been learned neither party was successful.
It is stated that the men rolled
over two or three times after striking the ground, but then got up and
ran. How they escaped is a miracle,
as it is also puzzling, how the two of
them could get out through the window so quickly.
Boys Captured
At 11 o'clock yesterday the lads,
their clothes torn to shreds as a result of the leap from tire train and
tramp through brush, limped into
Robbinsdale. They were only slightly hurt. They were turned ,over to
Minneapolis  deputies.
They told the polico that they had
broken  the,   handcuffs,     which
■bound them together, with a ham
they had found in a barn a sh'ort
tance from  where they leaped    from
the  train.    They said they intonded
to   walk  to    Minneapolis,    get    into
their home unseen, take their    navy
uniforms and then go to Chicago and
rejoin the navy.    They    are    alleged
deserters.    Aside from bruises    they
were not injured.
The hoys wore sentenced to the reformatory for stealing an automobile
and participating in the robbery of a
grocery store.
No.   3         J 3.00
Ben   Drews,     work     state     road
No.  3   '.        7.50
Reney Alberts,  work   state  road
No.   3         10.00
August  (Jau,  work    state    road
No.   3           5.00
John  Ferguson,  work  state  road
No.   :;        3.75
Olson,   work   state     road
No.   3        2.50
ef  ,'     .Valerius,   work  state
road  No.   3    .•    100.00
Alvin   Kjonaas,   work  state   road
No.   3         50.00
ties      A!-mien,    work     state
road Xo.  3  	
I'liiiik   i_ckson,   work   state   road
Xo.   3    ... ,	
jap   Brown,   work     state     road
No.   3   	
Tracey Waller,  work  state  road
No.   3   	
Arbie  'Waller,   work   state    road
'. .o.   3   	
Christ  Langer,   work   state   road
Xo.   3   	
Louis   Gau,      work     state      road
No.   3   	
i.emer,   work   state     road
No.   3   	
John   Gross,   work     stale     rood
No.   3       .
Jos.   S.   G-OSS,   work   slate     road
No.   3    '	
J.   J.   Gross,     work     state     road
No.   3   	
Roy  Brobasco,  work   state   road
Xo.   3    '.
John   Tretter,   work   statu     road
Xo.   3   	
James Johnson, work state road
SULLIVAN
Word has just reached us that one
of our most prominent  citizens    left
the city of Hillman one day last
v, ith a motley array of tin cans tied
to the rear of hi. auto.    Owing to _he
high  cost  i.    "  "  the  most  of
a  were taken home to bo used on
the farm.
The Cook and Perry families of
St. Paul spent a week at Camp Linnehan.
-Air. Hoe and party canio by aut.
from Columbus, N. D., to spend a few
days at   .he camp.
We have been told    that   Leonard
Pint of Long Lake has one    of
bo., gardens in this part of the town.
Corn over two feet.   "Who can do better?
Harold Widdowson has gone to the
_'win cities for a few days.
Merle Look was a Lastrup    caller
Thursday.
"Col."  Siebept  cast  asido  his   mili-
dutiea  last Thursday aud   jo'ur-
-  Pierz   with    T.  S.    Look's
ty steed and invested in a brand
now  (?)  scythe.
Mr.   Widdy   caught   two     10-;;
pickerel in Sullivan lake    la
tas.   Sah'born   is   busy
car.
.  and  Mrs.   Clarence Hail spent
week end at A. VV. Coo:
everybody had a good time at .the
dance at  Walter Zak's Saturday evening.
Jan Pint spent Saturday ti
le Look.
elano
■    [tors  tho
oi the week.
The ' "Orphans"    have
tiership  and   returned'   to    their
.
Too mucii rain for  the  ball    g
yiumi. . aiay.
■   Lee   anu   party .:     alton
a-'^   i ■ their  vacation  at    the
chip.
augh-
IcGonagli
lloyalton
red. Saturday  and   will  spend    a
Itch  cottage.
it.  und   it.   T.   Hoskins   spoilt   Sun-
iniily.
Miss Nott,  who hi
nor  ".nation at 'Sullivan,  return;:
her  home   in   Howard   Lake
■    ■
his three pistors, who are nun.,    in a
rent,  .kited Lake Sulli-
-touday.
Ill
Tlie mill boiler sprung a bulge
about the size of a bowl Inst
ik', which ne ' . ed shutting down at one. Two boiler-
makers from the -factory are
now here cutting out the bulge
arid putting on a patch.
It was due to some delect in
the material. If Peter Gravel
had not ace j dent ly looked up
and discovered the bulge, there
would now be a different story
to tell.
[pfennigs
John Weiseni-ergsr Dead
HILLMAN
■  : and children of   _!,.
is went to Onamia last    Wed
day.
Pierz on business 'iy.
rasa Hillman caller   on
Ineeday.
is Lizzie Waller of Don Lake arrived Friday    and    will    visit    with
1 •:< a-t Uucker.
Road jo'bs wore lot    in Leigh    town
Friday.
Re preached    Friday
Saturday evening at the school b
Hutchins went to   Onamia last Saturday, visiting a few day •,
with friends.
Robert Gordon, sales agent for Gow-
ennig-Brown,   -was    in    Hillman
Monday.
Wilier     went    to    Greei
.e ho will ]>o empii
O. L. Carlson cf Little  Falls,
Ids' salesman, was in Hillman Thursday.
Xo. :: 	
Olof    Olson,    work    state    road
Xo.   .   	
17.25
20.75
10.00
10.00
0.25 ■
!
7.50
10.00 j
71.75 J
10.00 j
7.50 !
7.50
72.55
45.50
10.00
y young men and young;
women in business who are now
earning a $100 to $200 a month
>ol graduates
and were trained in the Little
Fails Business College. What
others have done is accurate
proof of what you can do. Take
a course in this thoroughly
modern college and get started to success. Write for catalog.
Hay Stum page=S^4 se<>
tion 24=-4! -=29, about 70
acres good dry meadow.
All or any part.    On good
road.   See Gilbert, Pierz.
John Weisenberger, who lived
eight miles west of Pierz, near
tlie Pierz-Little Palls road, died
here Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock, after a two weeks' illness. Burial will take place in
Iiittle Palls cemetery.
AX  ORD per- '
"mission    and    authority    to    I
udard Oil cc:. :i    Indi-
an. doing    ir
sota, to CO
ruct and mi a period
of      twenty    years,    warehouses,
tanks and    other    buildings    and'
■
ad to store therein illum-
inating and other d_.ngi.-OU_ ma-
-cHals.
council of Genoia,
. ■ -■: i do on afn as
...
That pi ..  and
corpora-
ii-U organized under and by virtue of
. and
, on    the
following y,   to-wit:
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west   co
"i 1. he   right
s' of  the iolis,  St.
& tin . ane Railway company,
cs and other 'b
ary ior its
and fluids,
of petroleuitf, in ciuanii-
ties  lo _neet the requirements ot  its
.ess.       *
SECTION   2.    Aii    u:. and
aiices  in conflict
led.
ordinance :
-eiee ;uid c-iiect irom and .
its ij..c.o.iye and acceptance in writing
lard    Oi. company,    and
^s p.7 in Pierz Journal.
and approved.
February 14, 1917.
"F.  O.  BOLSTER,
ident.
(Seal.)
pted.
February 20,  1917.
OTTO J. BRICK,
Village  Clerk.
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Haying is in full swing.
The man who wants nothing gets it.
Mrs. Leo Winer oi' Duluth
is visiting in Pierz.
A. bolt in tiino saves nine
cuss words.
The town is again plastered up with circus ads.
"Nobody's  business" soon
becomes everybody's business.
C. Simon of Chicago is here
visiting with Math. Thommes.
Rutabagas are still   |
ble—and always a desirable
crop.
Quite a number of our people attended the circus at St,
Cloud last Friday.
The    Fountain    Medicine
and Vaudeville   Show  is   at!
Faust's jiail this week.
John Kap old a horse
to one of the numerous La-
fonds of Little Falls yesterday.
Wm. Konen, son of Walter
Konen  and bis motht
Joseph Hurm, are here .visiting relatives.
Tiie   annual   school   meetings in public school di'str:
will   be   held  next Satur-
evening, July 21st.
Theo.   Br-i
ployed, in 1\ i :, _• r s b n tell
er shop. "Teddy" recently
took unto himself a wife,   -
John \ i rt of Jersey
City, N. J., is here visiting
his brother-in-iawr, V. Schraut.
They had not seen each other
for 41 years.
Lyman Signor of Little
Falls, one of the oldest settlers there, underwent an operation in St. Gabriel hospital.
:iweiter of Holdingford and a few of his
e in Pierz Saturday. Mr.
Schweiter is now- agent for a
poultry supply house. ■
' Ignatz Kuklinski of Platte
was  arrested on  Monday of
week for h crime, which
if convicted, is punishable by
life imprisonment.
. Laborers returning from
NorthJDakota claim that the
crop outlook is poor there.
Wheat, they say, is only 8 to
10 inch: . '.. and heading-
out. The trouble, they say,
will be in gathering the
crop.
Tlie Farmers' . ug as-
soeiatio > be
as dead as many thought it
was. The.officers had a meeting last Monday evening and
. to si:ip every week
hereafter. See their ,ad in
this issue of the Journal this
■
Sch- yer, |
Hug I :gh.'j
J; P. L
of Bellevue.
'Radicals' aiid'-Socialists. Oppose
-Annexation. •       !
J.1ALS helpless!
Von   Hindenburg and Von   Ludendorff!
Unable  to  Convince   Reich-tag
of Eventual Success.
Copenhagen. — Asserting   that   the]
reichstag    "labors     for    peace    and]
mutual    understanding
reconciliation among the nations'
"for.ced  acquisitions  ol' territory
i( al, economic violations are in-j
compatible with such a peace," a'
resolution agreed to by the. majority
block of the center Radicals .and Socialists Vv'ill b» introduced when the
reichstag reassembles, according to
Jhe Berliner Tageblatt.
The resolution was
the  presence in  Berlin'of Field Marshal von Hindenburg and General
Ludendor, re summoned   from
the front to sidetrack the proposal by
giving encouraging reports of the .military situation and to inspire the reichstag with a belief in the possibiii
btaining    that    "German    p<
worthy    of   the, sad to
i    Von    Hindenbur itted
■if   in  his ted   replies  to
memorials of Pan-German organizations.
The peace resolution cites that tho
ian people'stand en the 7
of the speech from the throne, Aug. 4,
1914,  which  said  Germany is  driven
by no lust of conquest
"It further declare:
of the seas must be assured and
only an economic  peace car.    i
the   ground   for  the  friendly  association of the peoples.
The re.7 Iso proposes to put
the reichstag on record for the creation of international jurisdiction or-|
ganizations.
The con Dntains a!
threat that, so long 1
ernments   refuse   t<
peace
Germany and her
as one mr
of the] and  allies to life and!
development are secured.
London. — With    somewhat   of   a]
slackening   of   the   Prussian   offensive
in   Galicia,,   owing   to   bad   weather,
the French and the Germans along
Cheir.in-des-Dames and in Champ:.
ether in mighty struggles, in which the advantage rested
mainly with the foamer fore
In Champagne, n'orth of Mont Haut
and northeast of the ■ Te torn, the
French, in a violenl '      captured
powerfully organise- Serman trench
elements on, a : ore than  .00
yards and to .a depth cf more than 300
yards, and consalidated. them, notwithstanding heavy eounter attacks,
in which the Germans suffered heavy
casualties and lost in addition 360
men made prisoner.
Along the Chemin-des-Dames the
Germans, west of Cerny, Saturday
night, after heavy artillery preparation, threw heavy forces against tho
French line.
ATTACK ON OO-ISTAN'T-i-OPLE
British Airmen Drop Bombs on Turkish Capital.
London — An    air    raid    on    the
iy iieet off Constantinople was
noun,
war office.    Bombs  were  droppc:
the Turkish  cruiser Ywuz  Sultan  Se.
11m, formerly the German cruiser Go'e-
ben.   The extent of the damage to thg
vessel is not given.
The war office at Constantinople
also way attacked and a direct hit
was attained by the British, who returned without casualties.
Decrease  in   U-Boat Victims.
London. — As  an  additional  proof!
of the effectiveness  of British meas-.l
ures against U- '.'ire is the re-j
port    of   the   admiralty here!
showing fourteen vessels of more I
1,G00  tons we" last  week  and;
three under that tonnage were vie-]
tims of mines or submai'ines. Seven!
fishing vessels were lost.
Secretary for India P.er'
announci
■
lain,
nit   of the:
and!
(ent.
to   depart-
mefit
the crew '.vera
missing.
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