The Pierz Journal (Pierz, Morrison County, Minnesota), 1917-08-09

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VOL. NO. 9.
P1ER2,. HORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, At:. ,  I9'17-
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
Fire at Fort Ripley-caused damage
of $22,000.
Roy Postier, twenty-six years old,
was killed in a collision of automobiles
at Minneapolis.
Isaac A.. Barnes, sixty-five years old,
for more than thirty years a practicing attorney of Minneapolis, is dead.
Abraham Hickey, twenty-six years
old, was drowned in the Mississippi
river at Minneapolis while swimming,
George Odium, real estate dealer in
Minneapolis for thirty-seven' years, is
dead. He was sixty-four years of age.
Conrad Hernlem, fifty-five years oi
age, a well known Goodhue county
.farmer, was struck by lightning and
killed.
Willis Baker, well known pioneer
real estate man and resident of Minneapolis for fifty-seven years, is dead,
aged eighty-six.
St. Louis county will hold an option
election on Sept. 10, petitions bearing
10,000 sworn signatures having been
Sled with the county auditor.
William Radies, twenty-three years
of age, a farmer residing near Fairmont, was killed when struck by lightning while working in a harvest field.
After his mother warned him to
stay away from the river. Clifford
Maness of St. Cloud, thirteen years
old, went in bathing and • was
drowned.
Richard M. Neely, forty-nine years
old, president of the R. M. Neely company of St. Paul, general agents of
the Employers' Liability Assurance
corporation, is dead.
Gilbert Stone, twenty-five years old,
a private iii L company, First Minnesota infantry, was fatally injured when
-Struck- by a train while guarding the
Westminster street bridge at St. 'Paul.
The state public safety commission
has recommended the summary removal of Sheriff J. J. Unless of Mahnomen county from office on charges
of abetting violation of the liquor
laws.
Secretary of War Baker has turned
down the request of Governor Burnquist that the state national guard
tiocps be trained at home instead of
in the extreme south at the height of
midsummer.
Mrs. Caroline M. King, widow of
Colonel Bill King, one of the early
real estate operators of Minneapolis
and one time representative in congress from the Mill City, is dead, aged
seventy-eight.
A baby monkey, weighing but one
and one-half pounds, that had traveled
all the way from Central America concealed in a bunch pf bananas, was
found by Carmen Brondi, Minneapolis
market gardener.
J. F. Nicholson, treasurer of tho
Standard and Model clothing houses
and long a prominent retail merchant
of Minneapolis, is dead. Mr. Nicholson was fifty-seven years of age and a
native of Sweden.
The old Northwestern Thresher
company plant at Stillwater will be
reopened for a tool and machinery
factory by the newly organized Twin
City Forge and Foundry company, capitalized at $500,000.
James Wood, teamster, forty-five
years old, .employed by the South St.
Paul Stock Yards company, was
thrown from his wagon and instantly
killed when his team became frightened and ran away.
The body of a young woman 'found
shot through the heart in a vacant lot
in Minneapolis has been identified as
that of Lucy Truppe, twenty-three
years old, daughter of Mrs. Alice
Truppa of Milwaukee.
Machinists, boilermakers and helpers employed at the Chicago Great
Western railroad shops at Red Wing
are on strike. The men demand an
increase of wages to equal that now
paid in the St, Paul shops.
The First Minnesota infantry will
be continued on property guard service in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth until Aug. 15, and possibly until
Aug. 31, depending on the organization
of the new Fourth infantry.
Establishment of public markets in
Minnesota cities and suspension of license regulations hindering food prod-
are  recommended  to   city
a Atgqlution  adopted  by
publie" safety commission.
E.    Erwin,    seventy-three
yf^|WM, a  pioneer  resident  of Wi-
noni-Peounty  and  retired  locomotive
engineer of the  Chicago  and  Northwestern   and   Green   Bay   railroads,
dropped dead at his home in Winona.
Minnesota   sheriffs,  one  from   each
of the eighty-six counties in the state,
have   been   sent   invitations   by   tho i
state public safety commission to at- '
tend a conference at St. Paul Aug. 15 j
on war time problems relating to law ;
enforcements.
R. F. Har , thirty-five years old, superintendent of the Hoak Elevator
company of Minneapolis, and C. H.
Showers, forty years old, also of Min- i
neapolis, were instantly' killed when
their auto was struck by a fast freight
train at Walford, Ia.
Good Crop 6
Ben Young, a farmer in Elm Dale
town, has just marketed the winter
wheat cut from a-ten-acre patch. The
wheat totalled 280 bushels and was
|-sold in Holdingford" for ?2.35 per
bushel, or a total of $648. Tho threshing bill was $14. A. Nelson of Elm
Dale, who was in the city Monday,
states that his section will harvest
some  excellent crops this season.
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Conservation School
The fodd conservation school for
Little Falls opened Monday afternoon in the high school gymnasium,
under the supervision of Miss Leora
Sherer of Minneapolis. The lessons
in canning, drying, making of war
breads, etc., will be given under what
is known as the Hoover plan. Miss
Sherer is an expert in the art of canning vegetables and fruits and local
ladies will receive some valuable
help.
A live-day session ~ will he held
there, one day at. Vawter and several
days are planne.d now for Royalton.
Other towns in the county will also
oe visited by IMiss  Sherer.-
Following is an outline of the program to be followed:
Food Conservation Measures—Use
of local foodstuffs; use of perishables
to save staples; elimination of
waste; conservation of wheat; con-
servation of fats, sugars, meats;
■preservation of peri .liable foods; adequate feeding for health.
Wheat Conservation—Demonsra-
tion of war breads.
Conservation  of  rats and  Sugars—
Conservation of Meat—Deinoiioira-
tion of meat substitutes.
Fcod    Preservation—Denu
of  canning.
Food Preservation'—Demonstration
of canning and  drying.
Fundamentals of an Adequate Diet
—Illustrated by  charts and    exhibits.
The physicians  who are  examining |       .
drafted  men  of  Morrison  county aro
aearing the end of their work on the
lirst draft and  will finish    within      . .  it will
'ew days.    About 325 men have bee . .
examined, leaving about 75 who i: irging  ea
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been* called and not yet examined by
the doctors.
Out of  the 325  examined,, only    49 ; cent corn ration:
are so far  recorded  as  rejected    for j at the Nebr_
;U.GS
bushel
Con:
and   3    per
vlL'a    pasture
Profits and poverty go ha;
hi hand.
ha my Monday.
Born—To Mr. and Mrs. J<
Meyer lsst~ Sunday night,
son.
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jars ago.
physical disability.    One' hundred and ;
thirty-six  of them have  filed    claims
Lor exemption with the local board.
The board is  about ready to begin ; pound daily per pi
examining the affidavits  of men  who
.iaim exemption aud will be able    to
begin publishing a list of  the    cases
.md their disposition soon.
A. 0. Elliott^of.Bridgeinan-
heiied 701,1 for pach ibafjRussell Co. visited the local
** and a !fj branch Friday.
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All Crow Wing county slackers sent to Duluth federal court
the 1 per
pounds of
'.j   ofj
Tlio 3 per Genie, ate S3G pounds of'corn, per1 100
pound ined    1.08
laily per pig.    On the   basis
on tho 1 i lot, aiid 3 cents per
per pig on the 3 per cent lo;,
actual cost  for* 100  pounds  gain
-)  on a 1 per cent    corn    ration
6 on a 3 per cent ration.
At station last  .
ii    4    per
E corn v. ;.
Greorge Borgerding of Belgrade took in the dance here
Tuesday evening. ' •
Anton Bauer came up from
James last week.and will
visit here for a time.
.   Social peace cannot . _
so long as the class struggle
in industry continues.
Lucas Backes' and.fundi
■■ <i use
Monday fr
fore .'he dra I.
Fallsi   Jos
acquaints n<
Buckman   in
■ Gold  sh;.
than iron shakies. ^
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western fr
Th:
lure.    With corn at $1.-5 per   bushel
for trial   were.found guilty an
drew.from six months.-.-to a= year [cost of 100 pound's . ..11.28 on j lances hereTue_
jai!   sentences.    They hart   been .11.86   on| nesday.
offered every opportunity lo re-   ll!e 4 per c0'iL vaUol)'    °'1 ihl'
o-i -.o.     ,_,-._„    I-,, r. i
gister, even days after June _th
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and had refused to do so.
Ministers To
350 pounds per acr
pounds on tho _ pi ation.
In addition to the cost' of iked such
>t  on , the
and    bu:
be consic
ii i ■:.->_. iini-L   u_    .unsiuj
Sl_ijf.ll. 60 .'.ties.
W: B. -
was  here  ..
after his interests in t
livan country.
[bought   tin.
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
or   mere   of   German   ministers
will  have   to face a grand  jury
investigation on cGarges of disloyalty
A score
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ion.
15-year Old
BENTON    COUNTY     GIRL.     POURS
KEROSENE   oU   LIVE   COALS
AND  STOVE   EXPLODES
Anna Deppa, the 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Deppa of
Aiberta, Benton county, died yesterday afternoon as the result of burns
received in an accident which occurred Monday. The unfortunate girl
poured kerosene into the kitchen
stove to start the fire. Live coals
buried in the ashes caused an explosion which set her clothing aflre. The
flames reached tho oil can in her
hand and 'that also exploded, the
burning oil running upon her. Wrapped in flames she ran screaming from
■the house and leaped into the water
trough. Her body was a mass of
burns, the only portion escaping the
flames being her head. She was
rushed to St. Raphael's hospital and
every care given her, tout death came
rday as* a result of her injuries.
pain.was intense.
The funeral services will be held
Friday morning at, 10 o'clock from
the Catholic church at Gilnian.
Wheat, No. 1,	
Wheat, No.  2	
Wheat, No. 3___	
Flax,	
Barley    1,
Rye__.	
Chits	
Ear Corn __:	
Hay	
Butter, Creamery	
Dairy -..
Eggs	
Flour., Royal -	
"    WhiteRose	
Low grade flour _.	
Bran .
Cracked Corn 80 .pounds.
Shorts	
Ground Peed	
Beams	
Onions ._.
Potatoes	
10
-1.2.50
-    2.45
2.40
2.90
-1.20
1.70
70
1.25
7.00
40
27
'30
6.70
_3.poI
..:.>.( 10
.2.75
.2.45
2.40
5.00
2.50
2.12
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:;C      AT      FAIR OS-
PROMINENT       SPEAKERS—
SPORTS—BASEBALL
RE.:rRE31.i'V.E[-r; .3   FOR
THOSE   WI7HO-;
' 0    a
St.   Cloud—Eilen   McFaddeh,
a   Mi-yea-   old girl,   by a daring c-d'--' tiiC
1.1        i-_
act, saved the hie ol Harvey  - . .,
■> Dig. community   get-fog' oic—
Warwick, a locai architect, when   a picnic of the real old-fashioned kind
tlie latter   .vas thrown   into the :Uld    c0,l!
predominate'.    It  will be a eom-
Mississippi river  by the capsiz- ^ jor aaD
ing of -his canoe Tuesday.    The '" d for
- Hyp  and, is  about- hi.
ail cut aud oats is about r<
dy to cut."   There  will be a
•' ■       - 1 onto ms j
light crop ot 0:
J. L. Judge ot Minn,
is here estimat i
changing l,: ,. continue   tl
in the Buck man
i ing.
Tiie Pine
61' . Liti;
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owred   by in-:  . #►■_■  v-.
durance.
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girl oh shore saw him struggling, jumped into tlie river and
swam to him, bringing both the
man and the canue to safety.
I From
John Gassert ..ink- home from
Goldstbne, Montana, Monday.
He reports that crops are almost a total failure in that .
tion of Montana this year and
that fanners will do will if thev
are able to pay expenses. - He
also read the report in Montana
daily papers of Pierz being a
dutch town, and of the disloy-
lty of its citizens*
It was.the  flag  story   which
circulated all'over tlie U. S. several months ago, and which was
without foundation. v
He further says there is a
eral anti-draft sentiment among
all  the  people   with   whom he
came in contact.
75 Per. Geo! I       nip-ion,
Nation wide reports indicate
that 75 per cent of drafted men
are claiming exemptipri.
hr-      :igt
We  wi?S
threshing at :.k=
hoff's place in lower town
next   Tuesday   morning
and  will'stay  there for
one week.
8      Waierius &. Langer.
that  day.
A e    in
of the
v.   program  agreed
on.   A. D. Wilson of the state u
711 to
isbn county people, will«ho pres-
.     L.
.,  president  of tho    _iinn.-
Pederation    of Farmers'   .Clubs,
will also be on hand to make   a few
remarks.
The fun will 'begin at 10 o'clock.in
forenoon  and  a real picnic    dinner'will he had al 12 noon
tending
dy solemn thought"
—capital-Shi  is  digging  h
owii gra
Louis  Aii-ers  left' for
QibudiVioni lere he will
_ at  ins ti
not very nine:
ii'iand in.
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Buko;
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Tiie old gentleman, Fraiik
Prairie* arriVi
p.
Kapsner wiiii,. aud  ^ -  .
mouth.    He   vrari . _
iigeis.
chun iiehj
of about two wiles
f:>aclc- is emp
Irani. Zuleger L_. «r ioi' il (i
Tho;. days'vaca ud  withiAuil - A lar-
.,„..,   ual\'^raa ft0   ^ide #S-S011S Leo a no  Walter left! ^'F°   being built there by^rescue'
themselves  with a basket lunch  a
h:
Cloud
ir.    Good    dem
cata-'
;lv.
We can sav- . $100
eeping,    bank-
:)swriting.
Write. =_ot special offer   and    cal
Ahles.—Adv.
ill Term 0;
trot do so    refresh-
t'l   stands  will    b.e    thrown    open
for their benefit.
At 1:30 a short program of.  sports
win be held, followed   by   the   i a sort of a family re-union
. aftor which.- other sports
will be held. Among the sports will
be an elimination tug-of-war between
;it i'armer_' club teams, running races, jumping and potato races 1 SIV6
and hitching and unhitching contests.
11 game i» the late . 1 will
be played between Green Prairie and
er team. , Everyone iu the coun-
mvited to participate.   Will you
be in?
for Lisbon, 1.. D.; Ti-itirsda
i'rahk Jr. is fivihg in Lis.I
and ad the Sr. say,., there will
sort of ti fa
upon their arri.
:-ht.  ■-   v.  ■
to  reclaim
now is almost ui objects
t   of    I
active.
country isco\
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sive
taiism.
treorge   (i< formerly
ii Prairie in c-un-
ty, and at one time stale sen-
fro'm 1 hh; district,
ally married at Los An-
gf-des, Cal., where,he nov.
sides. Mr. l-feissel -moved
there from here about 18 or
20 ;. :o.
elation, wnicli xuts 10 De
tl'Oj iore it
tted.   .mt-    un
N not look
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who was commissioned
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come home.