Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-12-16
PI.ERZ

Do0' Ao'-OOAu 0ouleE JT.s OF BUCK"
man has rented Nick Sehr's farm in
Lastrup for three years.
Henry Hennen and family moved
into the FIeckenstein house in the
village last week.
! The supervisors of the town of Pierz
will meet at tae village hall on Tues
d"v. Dec. ooh at l o'clock p. m. to
receive bids and let the contract to
corduroy with rock the swamp on the
west line of Sec. %, and also the
swamp on tie south line of Sec. 25
The show, advertising the medi-
cines of the Modern Remedy 20. of
Cincinnati, O., sho ved in Hartman s
hall all of last week and left Monday
morning.
Mark Kobe Of Royalton was in the
village on, business Wednesday.
DR.. Burgess, chiropractic who has
been practicing his profession here the
past few weeks, returned to his home
in Minneapolis Tuesday. He will re-
turn here again In about two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Wermerskirchen
went to St. Paul Tuesday where they
will stay for short time.
M. J. Kosobuski the Platte saloon
keeper was in the village on business
Sunday.
The supervisors of Pierz will meet
at VIM. Meyers house on Monday
Dec 10th at O'Clock p. m. to lay
out road between Dec. II and 49,
A. J. Hunt of Swanville was in the
village last week and will start q
newspaper here. We are informed that
it will be named the Pierz Indepen-
dent and it's first publication will be
in January. The paper ought to be an
interesting one, as the two towns
furnish war news enough, without
going to Japan or Russia for it.
Henry Wanninger Will build new
barn on his farm in the town Of
Platte. The barn will be large enough
to hold hundred head of stock and
eighty tons Of hay. Mike Angermeier
and sons Of Pierz got the contract t !,
erect this Guiding and will begin the
work next week. This Will be the
largest structure of that kind in Platte
and in the entire vicinity. Mr.. Wan
ninger owns $50 acres Of land there,
which is m ,atly mealov: aud intends
to 60 heavily into stock raising.
Three petitions fur rural mail routes
are circulated here now. Getting mail
at the post office will soon be thing
OF the past here.
The mill question will come cut
alright About $4,000 has been raised
already. Many Of the farmers are now
hauling the rock for the basement
which they agreed to do. The mill
will be built between the two towns,
where the beer house is now located.
Barney Waibel of the southern part
of our town sold his farm to John
Schmolke for So, 800.
John Kueber and John Turk of Rice
were in the village Wednesday. Mr..
Kueber owns the flour mill at Rice
and has some mill intentions here.
The special election which was held
Saturday, the bond proposition was
badly defeated. Three propositions
were voted on as follows:
= $4,000 to take up the floating debt of
the village.
- $500 for necessary Improvements
and running expenses.
$4,000 for the esta blishment of gas
lighting plant.
Seventy ballots were cast. The vote
on the $4,000 proposition stood % for
! and 48 against. The $500 proposition
stood 81 for and ~ against. The gas
light proposition received only .16
votes and 53 against.
= The Hewitt Bridge Co. Of Mime
apolis has crew Of men at work
bQildingzthe steel bridge across Platte
river on the IL. F. road and will
have it completed soon.
PLATTE