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VOL. NO. 9.
PIERZ, riORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA, August 16, 1917.
No.   9
ABOUT THE STATE TheseDHave, 5? K
Rejected So Far
News of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
Happenings of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience of the
Busy Reader.
An anti-draft meeting on a street
corner at Melrose was broken up by
citizens.
Postal savings in Minneapolis have
touched the highest mark on record—
$500,400.
Mrs. Catherine Coffers, aged eighty-
seven, a resident of St. Paul since
1866, is dead.
Iver Tollefson, member of the Minneapolis police force for twenty-eight
years, is dead.
The Northern Rendering company's
plant at New Brighton has been destroyed by fire.
T. P. Guinney, for twenty-five, years
prominent in Democratic politics in
Minneapolis, is dead.
_£iss May Schnaith, a nurse at St.
John'§ hospital, St. Paul, was drowned
in Lake Phalen while bathing.
Erick Sundkvist, promihent St. Paul
furrier, is dead. He was sixty-four
years of age and a native of Sweden.
Burglars broke into the Daylight
store at New Prague and escaped
with $2,500 worth of silks, jewelry and
clothing.
Louis Yant, aged twenty-three, a fireman employed by the Northern Pacific
railroad, was run down and instantly
killed iu the company's yards at Minneapolis.
S. L. Hanson, manufacturer of barn
equipment of Albert Lea, was sentenced at St. Paul to ten days in the
workhouse after pleading guilty to a
charge of reckless driving.
George P. Schrieber of Mankato has
been elected president of the Minnesota Engineers' association, in convention at St. Paul. Duluth was chosen
for the convention of 1918.
Jbrgen Nelsen, fifty-eight years old,
a pioneer painter and decorator of St.
Paul, is dead. Mr. Nelsen was a member of the Builders' exchange and
prominent in Danish circles.
Cash premiums to be offered at the
Minnesota state fair, Sept. 3 to 8, will
aggregate $93,455, including the purses
offered the automobile drivers who
will compete in the auto races.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Swither were
found dead from gas poisoning in their
apartments at Minneapolis. Both were
fully dressed when discovered, the
husband sitting upright in a chair.
Minnesota Civil war veterans will
have their annual reunion at the state
fair grounds at 3 p. m., Sept. 6. All
Civil war veterans from other states
are honorary members of the association.
A- dispatch from Vienna announces
the engagement of Archduchess Hed-
wig of Tuscany to Count Bernhard zu
Stolberg-Stolberg, born in Mankato,
this state, where his father resided a
long time.
The Great Northern road Is putting
additional men at work on the addition to its yards at Fridley and when
the work is completed the Fridley terminal will be able to handle 2,000 additional cars.
There are 180,400 automobiles registered in Minnesota, according to Secretary of State Schmahl. Of the total
number registered, Mr. Schmahl said,
61 per xcent, or 110,044, are of the popular small variety.
John W. Bergenholz, whose father
died recently in Denmark, leaving him
a fortune of 50,000 kroner (about $13,-
400), committed suicide in his room
In Minneapolis. Relatives in the Mill
City could give no reason for his act.
Representative Harold Knutson of
St. Cloud has made application to the
bureau of Indian affairs for the transfer of the Cass Lake Indian school to
within a s.hort distance of Cass Lake.
The school now is some six miles distant.
An appeal to all patriots to join in
the suppression of anti-draf» action
and other expressions of seditious sentiment now infecting some parts of
Minnesota has gone out from the offices of the state public safety commission.
Rev. C. A. Cressy, seventy-four years
old, a Methodist minister for fifty
years, who had served in many cities
and towns of Minnesota, including Le
Sueur, Minneapolis, Stillwater and St.
P-jji- Park, is dead at his home in
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I. E. Burgan, prominent in state
en's Christian Temperance union
es and who inaugurated the first
sionary work among the logging
camps of Northern Minnesota in the
early eighties, is dead at her home in
Minneapolis.
Thf. state bureau of investments,
created by the-last legislature, has set
aside a revolving fund of $100,000 to
finance improvements on vacant state
land. Applications for loans for new
school buildings were received from
several localities.
Minnesota is a Northwest leader in
crop production this year, says a report compiled by John H. Rich, reserve agent of the Federal Reserve
hank, which deals with crop damage
in parts of North Dakota, South Da«
kota and Montana.
Following" is a list of those
wlio have been rejected by the
physicians who are examining-
drafted men up to the close of
the examination Tuesday and
who live in our neighborhood:
Albert R- Bayerl, Pierz.
Christ A. Pauser, Pierz.
George Welle, Pierz.
Ernest R. Goblet Hillman.
Casper M. Meyer, Pierz.    „
Alfred Bernard Herold, Pierz.
Roy L. Talberg, Ramey.
Irwin J. Drews, Hillman.
Jos. J.'BQlligf, Pierz.
John W. Ortmann, Pierz.
George Block, Pierz.
The claim for exemption of
Carl Van Hercke of Randall was
not allowed and he has been
drafted.
MAN   WELL   KNOWN    TO    OLDER
SETTLERS  HERE VICTIM OF
APOPLEXY
Brainerd, Aug. 10: Gus H. Beau
lieu, age 65, ■who represented the
Chippewas for years at Washington,
D. C, heading many of their delegations and who was editor of "The
Tomahawk" published at White
Earth, died of apoplexy two miles
from the spot where 'he was foorri
near Crow Wing as he, his wife and
son Chester, were going to Bass lake
to _feh.
Mr. Beaulieu was widely known in
the northwest. For 19 years he was
■in the United States marshal's office
serving under Denny, Campbell and
Donahower. In 1893 'he- protected
Great Northern railway property at
St. Cloud and quieted the trouble
there.
. Twenty years ago he and Father
Aloysius quieted the uprising at Sugar Point near Walker which started
when Chieg Bug came home discontented from service at court at Duluth. The old Indian had not been
allowed his fare home and was compelled to walk the whole stretch of
trail and arrived at the reservation
nearly starved. In the trouble ensuing later Major Wilkinson and six
soldiers were shot.
Mr. Beaulieu worked unceasingly
for the benefit of the Chippewas. For
10 years he had edited "The Tomahawk" at White Earth. One of his
latest activities was the proposed establishment of a kinickinic cigaret
factory at Barrows, very near to
where his .childhood home had been,
which was to employ many   Indians.
Brothers of the deceased are Rev.
C. H. Beaulieu of LeSueur, Theodore
B. and R. G. Beaulieu of White Earth.
A sister, Julia, lives at White Earth.
His property interests include a
farm near Crow Wing, hotel at White
Earth and other interests. He was a
Democrat in politics. Of a whole-
souled, genial, hearty nature, he
made many friends who extend to the
bereaved family their deepest sympathy.
Mr. Beaulieu was well known
to many of our old 'settlers 25
years ago. He often stopped
here on his way to Mille Lacs
lake where he visited the Chip
pewa indian.
Made 2,000 Mile
Trip By Auto
Andrew H. and P. X. Paust
and R. M. Stoll returned Saturday morning from a 2,000 mile
auto trip, which included among
other places, visits at the Twin
cities, Cross Plains, Wis., Milwaukee and Chicago. The trip
from Milwaukee to Chicago was
made by. boat. At Cross Plains
they visited the multitude of
Faust's and they were royally
entertained. The hills in Wisconsin did not look good to them
—perhaps because*they are always on the level—but the stock
took their eye. Almost every
farmer has a herd of from 35 to
125 head, and all of one breed.
The Jerseys seem to take the
lead.
They found tlie best roads in
Minnesota.
Crops were good all along the
way* Iowa corn especially.
. They were glad to get back
to good old Minnesota, and more
so to Pierz, the best town in the
state.
But they found one little city,
Postville, Iowa, with its 2,500
inhabitants, a little livelier than
Pierz on Sunday afternoon when
there is a base ball game in progress and the saloons closed.
They struck Postville about
11 o'clock in the forenoon and
noted at once that there was
much bustle and activity which
extended even to the residence
portion of the city. Lemonade
and peanut stands on every corner and myriads of of kids flying toy baloons.
Said Reinard Stoll to Reinard
the Fox ''this is about the best
little town we've seen."'
"Betcherlife," said the Red,
"this beats Pierz."
"Yes, this is a busy- town,"
they were told by a policeman on
the beat, "but you see, Barnum
& Bailey's circus is in tpwn
today."
They slunk away and started
northward at a 40 mile rate and
no one spoke until they were
well into Minnesota.
Proceeding's Of
Co. Commissioners
Joseph J. Otremba Writes,
Joseph J. Otremba wrote his
father a letter last week" from
Carter, Montana, in which he
says that he is well and working
on a farm. Threshing began
there the 7th, and -wheat .runs
from 20 to 40 bushels per acre.
Threshing will be all done there
Little (Palls, Minn.
.   Aug. 7, 1917.
County    board    irjet    in      regular
monthly  session.    Called to order by
the chairman at 10 o'clock a. m., . all
members  present.
Board reconvened' and a motion
was made and carried that the board
receive auction bids. for said $45,000
bonds.
Motion was made and carried that
the bid of Minnesota Loan & Trust
for $45,000 'bridge bonds at the interest rate of 5 per cent with accumulated-interest from August 1 to date
of delivery, together with additional
premium of $730.00 he accepted and
that all other bids submitted be and
are rejected.
Bids were then opened for bridge
No. 2264 in the town of Two Rivers.
The bid of P. I_. Poster to build
said bridge for $1,980.00 complete,
being the best and lowest bid, motion
was made and carried that said bid
be accepted and contract awarded to
said P. L. Poster. -
. The following bills were allowed:
H. Gassert, board of equalization   ....'    11.80
Otto "Krueger,   supplies 75
Jos.  H.  Grell,  supplies  119.65
W.   H.   Maurer,   supplies  •   2.04
Frank  Schraut,  repairing tools    17.15
Walerius & Langer, work    on
state' ro_4 No. 3   304.00
Christ  Langer, -work On state
road  No.   3     40.00
Roy  Probasco,  work on    state
road  No.  3        65.25
Willie Vetsch,  work on    state
road   No.  3   .'       8.75
John   Gease,   work    on '  state
road  No.   3        14.50
Frank  Eckson,   work  on  state
road   No.  3        45.75
M. Menns, work on state road
No.   3       26.25
Artie Waller, work    on    state
road No. 3       41.25
Louis Gau, work on state road
No.   3       23.75
Paul Dahmen, work on    state
road  No.  3        5.00
Ben Drews, work on state road
'No.   3        23.75
Geo.  M.    Hoffman,    work    on
state road No. 3    78.00
L.   Kramer,    work    on    state
road  No.  3   :    80.00
Tracy Waller, work on    state
road  No.  3      15.00
Geo.    Wood,    work    on    state
road   No.   3 '...:     65.25
Herbert Wood, work on   state
road  No.  3        26.25
J, Brown, work on state road
No.   3        37.50
Herman    Bentfeld,:   work    on
state road No. 3'...:...._,      5.00
Frank Loidolt, work . on   state
road  No.   3     42.75
Frank Rauch,  work    on  state   .
road   No.  3     64.25
Mike  Leeee,   work    on    state
..road   No.   3     23.00
Peter  Langer,  work    on  state   -
road  No.   3        30.63
Leo Ranch, work on state road
- No.   3    -24.88
Leo  Langer,    work    on    state
roadiNo.  3    52.75
Franz Rauch, work    on   state
road  No.  3    34.75
J. N; Rauch, ■work    on    state
road  No.  3    10.00
Frank Loidolt, work    on state
road  No.  3   ;      6.29
Jake Langer,  work    on    state
road No.  3   ;    62.75
Oliver Bennett, "work on state
road  No.  6    70.00
H. Gassert, mileage and   com-
8.60
Local Happenings
Of the Week
Grain And Produce
Market Rep
Wheat, No. 1, 	
Wheat, No. 2	
Wheat. No. 3 	
Flax,	
Barley	
Rye  ___
Oats. . .......
Ear Corn  	
Hay  .,
Butter, Creamery .
-Dairy	
Eggs._ __.	
Flour,Royal	
"    WhiteRose	
Low grade flour ...	
Bran	
Cracked Corn 80 pounds..
Shorts	
Ground Feed	
Beans .	
Onions	
Potatoes	
A child takses Dv. Miles l_u__tiv_ Tab
lets -without thinking of ".nedi. hie,'
Try them and sec.    ;;A__v .rtisement.]
C. E. Look has moved into his new
house.
ms of East Granite spent Saturday night at the Bruber home.
.Prices remain steady.
The   summer   is   already
waning.
The outlook.for a corn crop
is good,
E. J. Stoll of JDent, visited
his brothers here over Sunday.
Miss Margaret Freichel will
return to St. Cloud August
16th.
Two bank examiners are
making the rounds here this
week.
Anna Freichel of St. Cloud
is visiting with her parents
at Lastrup.
Mrs. M. K. Wermerskirchen
returned from a visit at Staples last week.
Editor P. J. Vasley of the
Herald 'passed through the
yillage yesterday.
Mrs. G-eo. Borley of Montana, visited relatives here a
few days this week.
Rose Rademakei' of War-
road, Minn., is visiting at the
home of Lorenz Freichel.
Grain Stacks are looming
up in every direction in the
neighborhood of the village.
P. W. Blake of Little Falls
and his brother Math, of Mc-
Henry, 111., visited here T-ues*
day.
A. C. Wolke came down
from Hibbing last week for
examination   by    the   draft
board.
***
Casper Maehren of the
Cold Spring Brewing Co.
called on the trade here yesterday.
Gene Gendreau spent several days here this week having, his ditching machine repaired.
Mrs. Jos.. Melhart and children of Little Falls visited
here with friends and relatives over Sunday.
Potatoes.are about $1.00 a
bushel; but the price of
spuds is never settled until
about the middle of September.
Mrs. Jacob Girtz recently
returned from Vancouver,
Wash., where she had gone
to visit her mother, Mrs. John
Kraemer.
! Mrs. Chas. Kraemer of Vancouver, Wash., is here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Weiss and other relatives and friends.
Marriage licenses were issued to the following couples
last week: Wm. Virnig and
Grace Hall and Jos. P. Brausen and Anna Gassert.
The Journal is in receipt of
a letter from Anthony Smith
now employed as""cook for
the Dincka Lumber Co. at
Fairbanks, Minn. Times are
good up there, he says.
The Little Falls Business College is one of the most reliable
and best equipped colleges in
the northwest. It is where you
get the most for your money.
You get a thorough education
and are placed in a good position. Inquire what it can do for
you.   Write for catalog,
County Valuation of
Personal Property
Morrison county's personal property has a real valuation of over seven
million dollars, according to figures
of County Auditor McNairy. The exact 'figures are $7,19 9.89S. The total
assessed valuation of personal property in the county is $2,355,719. The
assessed value of personal property
in this city is $785,270 and the full
valuation $2,378,894.
Class 2, the largest class, containing items such as horses, cattle and
other livestock, autos, wagons, lumber, logs, farm implements, furniture,
stocks, manufacturers' tools and. machinery, etc., is assessed at $1,780,412
in the county and its full valuation is
.5,341,318. In this city it is assessed
at 1456,744 and its full -valuation is
$1,370,322.
Class 4, which includes elevators
on ..railroad land, banks, bonds, stock,
rails poles, etc., of railroad, light,
heat, power and water companies,
etc., is assessed at $295,081 in the
county and its real valuation is $737,-
680.- In the city it is assessed at
$203,600 and the valuation at full and
true value is $508,988.
There are 5,3.6 personal, property
assessments in this county and 1,""2
in Little -'Falls. On the basis- of 5,336
in the county the valuation per capita
is about '$257.14, the- population of
the county being figured at 28,000.
TON
pt
Russians and Roumanians Giving Ground.
VALIANT RESISTHf-GE USELESS
Unfavorable  Weather Again   Is  Hampering Infantry Operations on
the Western  Front.
(Little Falls, August'15.)
Morrison county's quota of 171
men, -with the 10 per cent additional
which the hoards are asked to certify
to the district hoards, will not toe
obtained from the first 400 examined,
in the opinion.of members of the local board, and notices were sent.Friday night to 25 additional men to appear Monday for examinat:on. More
notices will he sent 'before the board
is sure of obtaining the quota.
'"One hundred and sixteen out of
nearly 400 examined passed the examiners and failed to claim exemption. ^Some of these will claim exemption before the, district board.
One hundred and sixty-seven claimed
exemption and 91- were discharged by
the physicians. Twenty-six have not
yet 'appeared for  examination.
(Little Falls, August 15.)
Attorney A. H. Vernon was notified
Saturday morning I to report at Ft.
Snelling on August 27 to go into
training for the next three months.
Mr. Vernon some time ago -made application for ,the officers' training
camp and in St. Cloud a few weeks
ago easily passed the rigid physical
examination. That he was accepted
is a compliment to the local man
when it is known that there were
over 2,500 applications for entrance
to the camp and only 461 to be chosen.
Mr. Vernon states that his appointment to the camp will make no difference in his place of residence, at
least for the present and his home
will still be maintained here.
Mrs. John Feider and her
young Son Leo and her sister
Tracey Wermerskirchen, who
have been visiting with their
mother, Mrs. M. K. Wermerskirchen, will return to their
Duluth home tomorrow.
P. J. ' Bollig and wife returned home last week from
a 230 mile auto trip through
the central part of the state.
Mr. Bollig says grain is good
and mostly all cut but not
shocked and. stacked. Harvest worker are scarce.
An investigation is being
made regarding the person
or persons who opened the
switch at the Barrows sta-
tion Friday morning, causing
the wreck of an extrafreight
train, in which the fireman,
James Larkin, was seriously
injured.
Mrs. M. K. Wermerskirchen informs us that she has
received a letter from her
husband Mel, in which he
states that he is doing well
and has taken a claim of 320
acres near Great Falls, Montana, and will move unto it
soon. He is well pleased
; with the country there.
London.—Recurrence of unfavorable
weather again is hampering major operations in Flanders, but in Southern;
Moldavia the desperate fighting be-!
tween the Russo-Roumanians and thej
Teutons continues with increasing fe-j
rocity.
Field Marshal von Mackensen is |
using strong forces in an endeavor toj
break through the entente line toward j
the railroad junction of Tecutchiu.
The Russians and Roumanians arei
resisting valiantly, but have beenj
forced to give up, at least temporarily,j
their positions along, the railroad liriaj
north of JPokshani.
The Russo-Roumanian retirement toi
the villages of Marasechti and Fur-j
teeni, on the Sereth river, is reported!
by Petrograd. In counter attacks pre-!
ceding.their retreat the Russians and!
Roumanians took 1,2-00] German pris-l
oners.  •
Berlin says that von Mackensen's
troops withstood strong attacks and
captured more than 6,700 prisoners, as
well as eighteen cannon and sixty-one
machine guns.
Force  Roumanians to  Retire.
Around Ocna, northwest of Fok-
shani. and near-the Transylvanian
border, there has been intense fighting, with the Teutons forcing a Roumanian retirement northward pf Ocna.
As a counter-move to the Tepton offensive the Russians have assumed thq
initiative in- an attack at the confluence of the Buzeu and Sereth rivers.
Southeast of Fokshani and in the region of Galatz part of the Teuton positions were captured by the Russians,
who' also took some prisoners, four
cannon and eight machine guns. -
Elsewhere on the eastern front, inj
Northern Roumania, in Bukowina and!
on the Russo-Galician frontier there!
has been no marked activity.
The weather was wet and stormy inj
Flanders and there was little infantry!
activity, hut the artillery firing con-!
Unties to be most intense. In an iso-j
lated action north of Lens the British!
gained possession of a mine crater!
from the Germans.
TWENTY-THREE SHIPS SUNK;
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Slight Increase Noted in Week's Sub-!
marine Toll.
London. — There was a slight in-j
crease in the loss of British mer-i
chant vessels by submarines or mines!
in the past week, according to the of-j
ficial summary.
Twenty-one British vessels of more
than 1,600 tons and two vessels of less
than 1,600 tons were sunk last week.
Thirteen ships were attacked unsuccessfully.-   No fishing boats were lost.
Arrivals for th?. week numbered 2,-
673 and sailings 2,796.
FIRE WRECKS POWDER PLANT
Incendiaries   Blamed for  Half Million
Dollar Blaze.
Gary, Ind.—Fire which is believed
to have been of incendiary origin destroyed about half the. million-dollar
plant of the Aetna Explosives company near here. Two employes named
Holt and Choisse were arrested.
The'plant was working on government contracts, it is said. It had a
capacity of 46,000 pounds of powder, a
day.
BLAST   KILLS   FORTY-EIGHT
Munition   Plant   at    Cracow,   Galicia,
Destroyed.
Zurich. — In the explosion of two
storehouses    near    Cracow,   'Galicia,
forty-eight    artillerymen   were    killed!
and many injured, according to Vion-j
na newspapers.
The storehouses were part of a mu-j
Uition works and the explosion is at-|
tributed to spontaneous combustion.
Great damage was done in Cracow.!
FISHING   FLEET   IN   STORM!
Seven Vessels Sunk and Ninety Lives;
Are Lost.
London.—Seven Norwegian sailing!
vessels and about ninety men were!
lost in a heavy storm near Green-;
land, according to a dispatch to (jhe!
Central News from Chris,tiania. The!
vessels were part of a fleet of fifty,;
and were returning, from a fishing trip |
in the Arctic ocean.
NEW VESSELS ARE ORDERED
Contracts Let for Ships Aggregating
$100,000,000.
Washington, D. C. — Huge shipping contracts aggregating 775,000
tons and an outlay of $100,000,008
were approved by the shipping board.
The tonnage will include eighty-
eight wooden vessels. and sixty steel
ships.
Don't Forget to attend the DANCE in Faust's Hall Monday, August the 20thf 1917.