Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-09-18

PIERZ

sold the first load Of wheat to the j.
lBorgerding Co. elevator last Wednes-.
day. He received 81 cents for new
wheat.
Louis Spanfellner has moved to the
old Westbrook farm, the place which
he recently bought of p. H. Berg.
School in the Peter Wiring district
did not commence last Monday as
stated in last weeks correspondence.
Miss Rose Arendt of Little Falls who
I is hired as teacher was granted an ex-
tension till Sept. 21st on account of
the continuation ceremonies held by
Bishop Tobec in Little Falls this
week. 81. .
Nick Staub has purchased lot No.
10 in block No Of" Bergerhausen's
addition to the village Of Pierz. of
Mrs F. Bergerhausen. Consideration
Baseball playing for this year is,
over in this part of the country The
boys are scattered all over Some
have gone to North Dakota to work
[during harvest and threshing. Others
are working on the new 500 line east
of Pierz. ;s::.s@
P. II. Berg Of Pierz is in receipt of
a letter from Ferdinand Dahmen who
lives near Quincy Wash Mr.. Dahmen
writes that he has had a very hard
summer. First his wife was ill for
several weeks then he took sick and
was compelled to go to the hospital in
Seattle about four weeks ago., where
an operation for gall stones was to be
made Sept. 18th. He also writes that
harvest in the neighb0rho0d Of Quincy
was very poor on account OF drought
He did not harvest much more than
seed wheat.
I We see in the ''Mille Lac Pioneer
that Onamia has been organized as
village. The election of officers was
held recently. Two of the officers
formerly lived in Plerz. They are
Jos. j. Drummer, who was elected
trustee, and Aug Elchmiller who was
elected constable in and for said VII
lage of .Onamia.
| DIR. s. II. FOrtier, dentist,
will be in PierZ Sunday,
Sept. ~, on a professional
visit.
Rain! Rain is what everybody is
crying for. This drought has now
lasted for about SIX weeks. We have
in the meantime had a few heavy
showers, but they did not hold on long
enough. After having SO long spell
of exceedingly hot wheather, the soil
is thoroughly dried out, and a shower,
even if it does pour down like for a
few minuets, does do not much good. 1t
is like pouring few drops of water
on a hot stone. Grain and garden
vegetables that were harvested three
and four weeks ago, suffered some,
but now is the time drought is doing
the most harm. Farmers cannot do
good blowing; they cannot keep the
pillow in the ground and are compelled
to come to the village early every day
to get their plows sharpened. Trees
and brush are whitening for want Of
moisture. Our small rivers, creeks
and rivulets are very low and some
are died out and one can walk across
their bed without getting a damp
foot. 60.
John Hennecke, our veterinary
surgeon, was called out to the west
branch of the Rum river the latter
part of last week. He found the brook
completely dried out. In places where
the brook was deeper, dead fish
would be seen by the hundreds, caus-
ing an offensive oder. Rain Rain,
we want soon and plenty OF it.
B. S. 1chwiter Of the Pitzl
Schweiter Brewing Co. of New
Munich, was in Pierz few days last
week.
O. T. Nelson, formerly of Erskin,
MINI, has located in Plerz. He will
open retail hardware store, and will
carry a full line of shelf and heavy
hardware, paints and oils, stoves and
ranges, etc. He intends to open in
about two weeks.
Last Sunday afternoon a band
practlsed in Faust's opera house. It
was nameless band. We have no
band at present. but any amount OF
musicians. Some of them had
formerly been members of the 'Pierz
Union Band and others had belonged
to the Little German Band. The
most appropriate name, as one Of the
musicians stated, would be ''COmbina-
ton Band This band has been hired
by the st. Joseph's society of Pierz,
the St. Michael s society of Buchanan
and the st. Johns society of Lastrup
to accompany them to st. Cloud Sept.
28th, when the Roman Catholic Life
and Benevolent association of Mime
sofa will hold their annual meeting
and other festivities.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tony Hilsmann of st.
Louis, Mo-, are here visiting with
| relatives. Mrs. Hilsmann is cousin
of P. A. Hartmann, J. B. Hartmann
! and Mrs. M. Wermerskirchen. The
! visitors came from Jordan where they
had been attending the golden we'd
ding of Mr. and Mrs. Valentine
Hartmann, who are uncle and aunt of
Mrs. Hilsmann. They returned to
their home in st. Louis, Mo-, last
Monday.
The primary, election was very
poorly attended. Out of 1873 voters
registered only AZ voted and nearly all
of them live, in the village. There
was no opposition on the democratic
! side and therefore no interest or ex-
citement was shown by the voters.
Many came to the poles and did not
vote, saying there was no use as there
was no opposition In some Of our
neighboring towns, the attendance
1 1ne.e, ~~1k