Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-12-20
Respected Citizen Of Pierz
Passes AWay-.Pierz
News

been sick for the past two years and
slowly getting weaker, SO mis- ceath
did not come unexpected. By the
death of Mr.. Grell. one of the old st
settlers has passed away. When the
town of Pierz was o'gauized in 1868
ha was elected supervisor and later he
held the Office of chairman of the
bosrd of supervisors for seventeen
years. until the division came, and
the towL of Buh was organized.
Since then he has held the oftica of
Justice of the Peace in said town,
until he died last Monday He also
held the Office of clerk of school
district No. IA for a number Of years,
and was appointed q jrror On tae
supreme court Of the state Of Mime.
sofa few times. He attended many
democratic county and state conven-
tions as delegate In Mr.. 0rell the
whole surrounding country 1ooses one
of it's most active and energetic
citizens. He leaves four sons and two
daughters to mourn his death. All
relatises in Cross Plai 8, Wis and
elsewhere were notified of his death.
Burial services was held at the st.
Josepb's g Catholic church yesterday at
9 o'clock .. m., Rev. J. q. stiegler
officiating, and interment was in the
st. Joseph's cemetery. May he rest
IN peace y
John Pnilippi received a letter from
John Sehr, his step. brother, from
Dawson City. in the Klondyke
country. AS stated during the
summer. j. Sehr intended to come to
Pierz this fall. and did start. but
when he came to Seattle he found
that he could not draw his money he
had deposited in a bank there, so h.
returned to Dawson City, and
postponed his visit to Pierz until next
year. 49,.
r. A. Jacobson. 500 contractor from
Rilman to Onamia, has completed his
work Of grading and moved ont
Tuesday. He has some blasting. to do
this side of Onamia which will finish
bis work. He as moved his oatfit to
Littls falls for the present as he
informs Us
Foley Bros. of st. Paul and Folby,
| who had the contract to grade the SEQ
railroad line from Brooten to Duluth.
have sold the goods in their supply
store, which they owned here last
spring, to p. A. Hartmann.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Wise of Pierz
went to Rochester, Mimi, last Mon.
day, where an operation will be
performed on Mrs. Wise for. the
removal of q gladstone.
John N. Rauch of Agram had the
misfortune to chop himself in the
, knee whilst hewing q piece OF
timber with broad AZ. The
wound is not serious, but more
troublesome ard painful. He is: now
able to be around again. Nepomuk,
Du bist doch schon vierzig Jahre als.
und machst noch so elnen YohWabon-
stretch.
Here Is q: bear story. It is q good
one and best of all, it is true. 1t
happened about l6 miles east of Pierz
last week in. the year ct our Lord
1907. Three of our great hunters
started out the former part of the
wetk for q rabbit hunt on a grand
scale. They were John Gross AM
John Virnig, bis brother in Law, ol
Grar ito. and Nels Wern erskirchen.
the general proprietor of tne e lumbia
hotel in the village OF Pierz. They
stayed four days camping in a tent
1 tU0y u0O 80A04 O4Up6 AO4 Vuot PUA ROOO'
All three had . shotgun and . rite
success. They killed one huudred and
one rabbits ths first three days. Thl
third day Mr.. 9roes took bis rite ou1
with him. as said he had tired o1
shooting rabbits. he wan: ed larger
Rsme Towards evening they separated
Vlrnig and Mel Wermerskircnen viii
the shot gurs were to 60 around 4
swamp one wy. and John Gross witt
his winchester the o her. They bad
net g,ns very far after separating
when VirDig and Mel encountered Z
bear. of enormous size as they
thought. They emptied their shot
guns on Mr.. Bruin, who 'evldentv did
not approve Of the reception gtvtn
him BY our two heroes They tickled
him too much with their Hne Yaboit
shot. He arose on his haunches and
st, FETCHED bimseHs foil helght of over
seven feet and gave one fearful howl
that m1ss have been heard miles
sroond Our teo heroes started to
run race, neither OF them Wanted
to bring up tho rear Of the speedy
retreat. At tois moment John l3resa
bAppesred upon the scene with his
winchester. He bsd hesrd the howl
OF tho bear aud knew that his comrades
wore 10 danger. He arrived N tiu q
tn sec tne tail end of their coat,
disappear in the brush on the other
sine He SPEEDILY dispatched Nj.
Broin and csll.d for our heross tell
ing them that the bear was dead aud
would do them no harm An spec
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