The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1918-06-13

              fa)L. NO. 9.
PIERZ, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, JUNE 13,  1918.
No. 52
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NEWS OF STATE'
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.
Walker—A big loyalty meeting was
held here Friday, when Governor
Burnquist was present.
Sauk Rapids.—The farmers around
Sauk Rapids are planning a big picnic
June, 21 at the fair grounds.
Hibbing.—George F. Gandsey, the
first Hibbing boy to enter the Merchant Marine Is now in service, according to a letter received by T. C.
Congdon. ^
St. Cloud.—^ree Held brothers,
■who recently enlisted here, were said
by tbe recruiting officer to be the
finest physical specimens he ever examined. Their father will also get
Into the game as a shipbuilder.
St. Paul.—Mark Skinner, vice president of the First National Bank of
this city, has been appointed Twin
Cities representative of the wool division of the Federal war industries
board, under Director Lewis Penw.ll.
Mankato.—Steps have been taken
for a county option election In Blue
Earth county the coming summer. At
a meeting of 100 men at the armory
an organization was formed to get
the necessary petitions circulated and
to take charge of the campaign afterwards.
Minnesota Lake.—Governor J. A.
Biirnquist was the principal speaker
on the program at the three day state
firemen's tournament held here. Referring to the world war, the governor urged the necessity of all citizens
uniting to defeat the German military
machine.
Minneapolis.—All previous records
for collection of internal revenue in
Minnesota were broken in May, and
Minnesota is probably first in collections of Western and Northwestern
states. A total of $28,628,395.15 was
collected, $26,834,980.92 of which Is
Income and excess profit taxes.
Bemidji.—Walter Garrity, a transient, is serving a jail sentence of ninety days for Insulting a member of the
Bemidji detachment of the Fourth
Minnesota infantry. Garrity was arraigned in municipal court charged
with s'aying to the soldier, "I wish
you and your dirty uniform were in
h 1."
Mankato.—While under the influence of liquor a man, giving the name
of Johnnie Johnson, set fire to a mat-
ress and bed clothes in the Wilson
rooming house. The flames were extinguished without calling the fire department and Johnson was lo.cked up
for the night in the police station,
then released on condition he pay the
damage.
■St. Paul.—Senator Kellogg, has been
Informed by the War department that
the request of Governor Burnquist,
presented to Secretary Baker, that
Y onal guard troops be not used as
replacement units has been denied.
Military necesity has dictated that
this be dono mid the practice will be
continued so long as tlie military demands make it necessary.
Welcome.—Welcome Is dry for the
rst time in 25 years as the result
f a ruling by County Attorney, A.
R-. Allen. Mr. Allen held that legal
notices in the applications for renewal
of licenses were improperly worded
and ordered the three saloons closed
for three weeks. Two of the saloons
will not apply for renewal of licenses,
it is said. With Welcome's saloons
closed only one saloon is in operation
between La Crosse, Wis., and Sioux
Falls,  S.  D.
St. Paul.—Ruling that 1,600 acres
of pine land in Itasca park was taken
by selection under a railway grant before land for the park was given to
the state, the United States supreme
court dismissed proceedings brought
by the state to enjoin the secretary of
the interior from permitting the Immigration Land Co., St. Paul, from taking
the tract under the railway selection.
State officials say the piece is covered
with an unusually fine stand of virgin
pine and has been valued at $75,000.
St. Paul.—For the fifth successive
month the Minnesota recruiting district has bettered its record for the
previous month. Gradually climbing
from an obscure posiUon near the bottom of the list of sixty-four recruiting districts in the country in April,
the Minnesota district bettered San
Francisco district, which has been
leading the country for the last two
*3. In April, 1,103 recruits were
procured in the state, which is believed to be the highest record in the
country^ When the final cfltimV was
mad -$j(May, however, it waf found
that 1,240 recruits had entered the
service. A rush of men during the
last few days of the month netted 175
men May 31, which was. the banner
day for the month. The rush was
largely of men 21 years of age, who
would be compelled to register June
D.
Sand-tone.—With Governor Burnquist as the chief speaker the Red
Cross sale held here and attended by
People from many miles around proved
a splendid success. People cam.
from Hinckley, Pine City, Brook Park,
Finlayson, Groningen, Bruno and othei
points.     Over   $1,200   was   realized
Isle.—This little Mille Lacs count,
village of seventy-five population had
a brass band and ball team before
the war's drafts. Now it is without its
baseball team, its brass band—and its
young men—for the baseball team and
the hrass band—twenty of 'em—fcav.
enlUted ln the marine corps,
Interesting
Correspondences
Platte News
A large crowd attended tbe
picnic at Fish Lake Priday.
Andrew Kainz bought a Ford
car Friday.
Miss Mary Wolff returned
home from Theo. Kychner Monday where she-has been employed.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pelowski and daughter Margaret were
visitors at the F. Klutsch borne
Sunday evening.
Tbe Reese family visited at
F. Wolff home Sunday evening.
Pete Froelich was in Platte
Sunday.
A crowd gathered at the Andrew Kainz home last Sunday
afternoon. Those present are:
Mr. and Mrs. C. Reese, and
son Christ, Mr. and Mrs. Theo.
Rychner, Mary Wolff, Mr. and
Mrs. Mike Veith and family
and Mr. and Mrs. Math Loco-
witch and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Konen
and son Ed. and daughter Law-
era were visitors at the Frank
Kluetsch home Tuesday.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDCES—
Holstein Park News.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Linehan and
little Johnnie of Sullivan lake,
called at E. M. Thompson's last
Tuesday, also Sam Perkins.
Arba Waller has been planting potatoes and beans on his
land near Rucker.
The J. A. Sanborn family was
invited to tbe Chas. Sanborn
home for ice cream Wednesday
evening. The occassion being
Mrs. J. A. Sanborn's birthday.
Ruby Christian visited Nellie
Martin TlmrscUiy.
Edwin Martin and Nellie were
Hillman callers Friday.
Sam Thompson, who bas been
staying with his children here
for the past year, left for Truman, Minn., last Friday. H. H.
Sanborn took him to Little Falls
by auto. E. M. Thompson accompanied them.
Elroy V^ax^called at Philip
Anderson's Tuesllay~evtMiij1g.
Everybody is planting cucumbers now.
Mr. and Mrs. Sanborn and
Mrs. Martin went to Little Falls
Saturday. Mrs. Sanborn bad
most of her teeth extracted,
Miss Olive Lewis and Robert
visited at Arba Waller's last
Sunday.
The E. M. Thompson and Ph.
Anderson families visited at the
J. King home at Rucker last
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Taylor
called at J. A. Sanborns Monday morning.
M. N. Cadwell returned to his
home at Windom.
Sam Martin spent Sunday at
home.
Miss Ethel Hausmann of Little Falls spent a few days at
the Martin home.
The assessor is finding out
what people are worth those
days.
E. M. Thompson and wife and
Raymond called at the A. Johnson home at Peayy lake Friday
afternoon.
AH Female Aliens
Must Register
All natives, citizens, denizens
of the German Empire, being
females of tbe age of 14 and upward, now within the United
States and not actually naturalized as American Citizens, are
requised to register as German
alien enemies, between Monday
June. 17th 1918 and Sunday June
23rd 1918, at tbe Postoffice of
Pierz. Each registrant is required to furnisli 4 unmounted
photographs 3x3 inches in size,
on thin paper with light background.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Casper Nohner of South
Dakota is here visiting his
parents. Casper just retrun-
ed from Camp Lewis where
he was rejected on account
of poor eyesight.
A number of Pierzites attended the Elks' picnic at
St. Cloud Friday.
Those who registered last
week will be called about
October, it is reported.
A Letter From
Joseph Nimsch
Ayer, Mass., June 2, 1918
Dear Cousin Jos:
Will take time to drop.you a
few lines. It is very hot here
during the chiy but it gets cooler nights. I am writing this in
the Y. M. C. A. with my shirt
unbuttoned wbich is against the
rules, but am taking a chance.
I hadn't drilled any since April
10th, just started again Friday.
Our packs weigh from 58 to
62 pounds and the packs carried
in France weigh 97 pounds, I
was told by a Canadian who had
been there and ca me back.
The Company I was in is in
France. About 25 of us were
left behind. I am getting my
full equipment now so I expect
to go soon. We are only 31
miles from Boston. We used to
have so many visitors that it
interfered with our work; so
now they are no longer allowed.
I would come home for a yisit
but it would take too long. We
can't get away longer than 10
days, so you can see that I
would be on tbe road nearly all
the time. I intend to go to Boston Saturday and go on a tare
I have almost forgotton bow
that feels. How dry I am! And
now I'll have to beat it towards
home and oil my gun. I will go
our-x>___tJ|ei-ille range for the
first timeTir_s~w««k.__ We bave
to shoot 10 times per minute
and the gun holds only 5 slreilu.
The next practice is to shoot 30
shots in 3 minutes. That thing
you see banging on the belt in
the picture is called a bayonet.
It is 20 inches long and made of
steel. If you jab that through
a German he won't run very far
any more. Our bullets travel
2700 feet a second aud the inside
of our gun barrels look like an
auger. So I don't see bow the
Kaiser can get away.
Private Jos. Nimsch,
Camp Devens
Ayer, Mass.
Co. L. 302 Infantry.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Flivverful of Whisky is Seized.
Brainerd, Junh 10.—Special
Officer E.G. Boyed and deputies
of the Indian department today
arrested John Gravek, known
as "Little John," and several
compatriots, as they tried to
run the blockade into dry Indian territory with a "flivver," it
is alleged, loaded with 168
quarts of whisky and 30 piuts
of beer.
The car, brand new, was confiscated. The liquor, said the
officers, was probably obtained
in Morrison county and was
hauled by a circuitous route to
Pierz, Midland, Aitkin county,
to Ironton. The men were arrested near Cutler, in Maple
Grove township, Aitkin county.
Rev. Jaeger
In France.
Well, here we are, safe and
well in a French city, Dr. Storrs,
Prof. Bull, Capt. Meffett, my
brother and myself. We arrived
April 27th and will leave for
Serbian mission tomorrow, May
5. We may not write much on
account of censorship, but I may
be allowed to let you know that
the socalled bombardment of
Paris by the big German gun
about which you read in the
states is a miserable failure.
They are dropping shells this
way at times, some of which
fall in town, some on farms.
We inspected the damage done
and this is what we saw: Some
holes in the ground as if somebody had been blasting stumps.
The injuiry is practically nothing when they bit the ground,
as the explosion is up in the
air, and it hurts only some innocent people when the flying
dirt and gravel begins to fall to
tbe ground. There are hardly
any men in town, mostly women and children, and it is those
who get hurt. Very seldom a
person is killed. When they bit
a building it blows up part of
tbe roof and hurts some poor
washerwoman hanging up her
clothes in the attic. To be sure
they hit a church on Good Friday—the church of St. Gervais,
as you know from papers. The
church was filled with people,
women and children praying for
their dead and absent men. We
were there yesterday. The shell
entered under the cornice and
made a bole 8x8. It exploded
when it passed through in the
air inside and the flying pieces
of iron scattering in everj'direction killed and wounded over
one hundred of these innocents.
Just think of a shell striking
Boni every once in a while and
bitting your houses where your
children are playing or your
store where people are buying
things, or where you are now
sitting and talking to each
other, or your church when you
are at mass Sunday, and you
would call it cold blooded murder. So do we here. But still
the people of the town go a-
round their work as usual and
say nothing. You do not hear
them mention the shelling at
all. In fact, we were ourselves
in the hotel the other night sitting around the room and talking of the folks at home when
we heard two of these child
killers explode and it made on
us the impression of being a sil-
•lv attempt to strike terror into
people who in their hearts have
no room for fear (I mean the
people of Paris.) This city has
its usual look, business is going
on just like it is on Nicollet
avenue in Minneapolis, and it it
were not for bread cards and
the German Fourth of July fireworks we would hardly realize
that we are in the zone of war.
Opr boys are a fine looking bunch and they do feel
good and crack jokes everywhere. No homesickness or
any other sign of bad feeling
can be seen anywbere. But we
all realize that we are in a great
country and living in a great
age, and are proud to be able to
make it still greater.
Best regards,
REV. FRANCIS JAEGER.
—St. Bonifacius Star.
—MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Chas. Wicklander of Isle
came down Monday and purchased two quart bottles of
sour vineger. He said he
had often been threatened
with arrest for bringing
whiskey into dry territory.
It was his intention to display the bottle necks above
his pockets and lead the Isle
officers to belive they can
get him with the goods on
him.
$400,000 Wanted
From The County
M. H. Bayley spoke at a meeting of the majors and captains
in Hartmann's Hall last Friday
eveniug relative to the War
Savings Stamps drive in which
$400,000 must be raised in this
county.
The speaker impressed upon
bis listeners the necessity of
raising as much inoney as possible through the sale of War
Savings Stamps for if it is not
raised in that way it must be
raised by taxation and the limit
is set at $5.00 per acre.
It should be born in mind the
purchase of the War Sayings
Stamps is not a gift, but an investment. They bear interest
and you have 5 months to pay
them in.
The amount to be raised is a-
bout equal to that raised by the
Third Liberty Loan.
-MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
A. C. Townley Spoke
To Large Crowd
That much talked of man A.
C. Townly, originator and president of the Non-partisan League talked to about 2,000 people
at Fish Lake last Friday afternoon. A large number of those
present were members of the
league, but many came there out
of curiosity, to see what Town-
ley really looked like. Unlike
most of the celebrities,
Townleys picture never appears
in any of the papers. By actual
count there were 176 automobiles, and a number of wagons
and buggies around the speakers stand.
The principal point of his
argument and the one wbich he
attempted most toimpres. upon
his listeners is that the farmer
must sell the product of his toil
at wholesale prices or the prices set by someone else than a
producer, and that he must buy
all his other necessities of life
at the retail price. The farmer,
he said, occupied in the most
important industry, without
whom the world would be without food, shelter and clothing,
has the least to say about his
own welfare and is the least
respresented in our law-making
bodies. Cut out the middle man,
he urged, who robs the producer
on one hand and the consumer
on the other.
-MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES—
Henry Wuellner, while
breaking in Little Falls
town, unearthed a few pieces
of indian pottery and also a
lump of composition out of
which the redskins bake pottery. It is of the consistency
and pliability of putty. This^t
is remarkable from the-ffact
that it must have been under
the ground where it was
found not less than 50 years.
-MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES-
Local Happenings
ONhe Week
A. P. Stoll made a trip to
St. Paul Monday.
Born—to Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Fritz Monday a son.
Frank Lyon of the county
seat was here Tuesday.
Joe Merril of Onamia was
in the village on business
Saturday.
Jos. Phol of Four Corners
was a caller here early Monday morning.
Small grain east and north
looks more promising than
that to the south.
Dr. O. P. Brick of St. Cloud
filled the Dr. Hoyt date here
Monday and Tuesday.
George Mandler and Susie
Schaefer of Adams, Minn.,
are visiting at Leo Buhr's.
Wm. Preimesberger went
to Holdingford Monday to
help install a few electric
plants.
Federal Agent U. B. Uye,
searched a number of houses
around here for flour hoarders and found a few.
Math. Thommes returned
Wednesday from Rochester.
He is looking and feeling
well.
Two Automobiles in good
mechanical condition for sale
cheap. Inquire of John
Harsch.   Grenola, Minn. 51tf
A fire in Staples Saturday
night is said to have caused
about $60,000 damage before
it was under control.
Andrew and Frank X.
Faust returned Monday evening from Camp Lewis. Owing, to physical defects they
were set back to class 5.
Vote for Richard Boehm
next Monday. He is a Pierz
product and besides is well
qualified to merit your support. The ladies are especially urged to turn out and
vote.
Herman Koering went to
Albany Monday morning to
meet his son Leonard at the
Great Northern station. Leonard returned from a Columbus, Ohio, school.
Mr. and Mrs. Reinhard
5tumpf and John Stumpf of
Superior, Wis., arrived here
last Saturday for a short visit with their mother. They
will soon leave for training
camps.
Grain And Produce
Market Report
Choice No. 1 Northern $2.04
Wheat, No. 1, $2.00
Wheat, No. 2     l.i
Wheat, No. 3-_.       1.94
Wheat, No. 4     1.90
Flax,       4.00
Barley  1.55
Rye    1.85
Oats      65
Ear Corn  1.40
Hay     10.00
Butter, Creamery ..      45
Dairy -      37
Eggs       28
Flour,          5-65
Bran 2.10;
Cracked Corn 80 pounds 2.751
Shorts 2.25!
Ground Feed     2.401
Beans      7.00
Onions       2.50
-• U. M. Bussen, formerly of
Genola, came up from Camp
Dodge, Ia. Tuesday to shake
hands with his many friends
here. Ulrich looks well, and
says that army life agrees
with him. He is in the
Quartermaster's service.
R. C. Scoles and family returned from Iowa Sunday after a two weeks' visit in the
Corn state. R. C. says he
made the trip down nearly
all the way on the Jefferson
Highway, a distance of 275
miles, on 17 gollons of gasoline—an average of 17 miles
per gall&u. The rui-ifall has
been much heavier in southern Minnesota an.' iyiva than
here, he says.
NEW OFFENSIVE
AIMS AT PARIS
Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bar-
aria Attacks French on 21-
Mile Front.
BIG BATTLE DEVELOPS;
Germans    Succeed   in    Advancing    a;
Bare Four Miles at One  Point Only   !
and   Their   Gains   Were   Made   at
an Appalling Cost.
Paris, June 10.—The feeling of
confidence evident when the first
announcement was made that the
Germans had resumed their of-
fnsive seemed justified by a statement that the enemy's attack on
the aproximate 21-mile front, had
succeeded in advancing a bare
four miles at one point only, and
then at an appalling cost. Everywhere else, the statement said, the
Germans were being held.
London, June 10.—The fourth great
offensive of the year" began with the
hurling into the fray of the armies of
Crown  Prince  Rupprecht of Bavaria.
Picked German troops surged
against the French on a 21-mile front
between M ontdidier and the Oise near
Noyon, along the southern leg of the
Picardy   wedge.
Thus the German attack was headed
down on Paris from the north. But
the French were waiting, and the advance had been slowed down, if not
absolutely checked. In the first few
hours It was a drive, though hard-
harrassed from the start. Soon it became a shove. It has developed into
a gigantic battle whicb may well prove
to be the supreme clash of Allied and
Teuton reserves.
Farthest Advance in Center.
Preceded, as usual, by a heavy bombardment with shells of all calibers
and with gases, the enemy's initial maneuver evidently has in view the bending back of the Allied front toward
the town of St. Just, on the left or
the French defense and toward the railroad junction of Compeigne on the
right of the French line, getting astride the Oise river and driving southwest toward the French capital.
The French troops are resisting the
Impact with their usual valor, but the
Germans on their right and in the center have been able to penetrate the
line for distances ranging from two-
thirds of a mile south of Montdidier,
to relatively two and a half miles at
Ressons — Sur-Matz in the center.
Thence to Noyon, however, the Allied
line is holding strongly.
It may be too early to say the new
drive is checked. But on the face of
the news from Paris—official and unofficial—there are the strongest Indications that Foch means to make his
stand here and now, and if the foe
persists in throwing division after
division into the slaughter he will •
have to see it through."
"The French left—quick to parry
the enemy's blow, yielded only its advanced positions, took up the defense
in Its covering zone—and there it did
not budge. That zone is strongly held,
the Paris war office announced. The
battle rages on the line of Rubegcourt,
Le  Fretoy and  Mortemer.
"The French center was pushed back
at a high toll of German blood, to the
villages of Ressons, Sur Matz and Mar.
euil.
"The Germans' progress on this section was due mainly to their taking
Gury height in the first sweep. This
hill lies just above, and dominates the
two   villages   penetrated.
"The French- right, probably was
most successful in stemming the tide.
Again and again the Germans threw
themselves in but they did not get
further than the line of Belval, Con-
nectancourt  and Ville."
GOMPERS   FLAYS   SOCIALISM
St. Paul, June 10.—On the eve of the
meeting of the American Federation
of Labor, Samuel Gompers, preside.it,
"grand old man of labor," one of President Wilson's closest advisors, made,
clear once more his position on So-;
cialism and Socialists.
"Both the Socialist party and So-j
cialism have outlived their useful-1
ness," said Samuel Gompers.
"Party and partisans demonstrated;
their unfitness and perfidy at St. Louis!
in adopting the anti-war plank of the!
Socialist platform.
"Socialism is German and part of|
the German propaganda. The German!
Socialists have taught international-!
ism—for all nations but Germany. Fori
Germany they have taught the m03t|
intense nationalism. .What more nc-3(ij
be said?"
New U-Boats Do Little Harm.
Paris, June 10,—The now ty)>. ol
German submarine cruisers accent!-
plishes little, according to an pfticl.l
note commenting on German undersea
boats. Kxael information relative to
the operations of two of these boats
which left Germany at the end of 1917,
crii-_ed as far as the equator and war <
absent for four months shows tint
they a..oomiited for only 29.000 tor,'?
of shipp'nr. This was equal to only
one day's total loss from submarine!
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