Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1915-11-26
PIERZ

Pierz Journal (17): VIM. Leiden.
frost spent several days at st. Cloud
last week, visiting his mother, who il
at the Old Folks home.
Mike Brisk, Alex and Anton Johns,
and Math. Valentine, Jr., left for the
woods Wednesday morning. They will
work for the Pine I rec Lumber Co.
Joseph Nagel and VIM. Kelzenberg
returned this week from Minneapolis
to which place they accompanied
Frank Schubilla and Lizzy Kelzen-
berg, who were married last week.
Frank Brandt has moved his bar
Der chair into the Barney Gross build
ing under the N. w. central exchange.
The Misses Mons of st. Matthias,
Crow Wing county, are here visiting
with their grandmother, Mrs. Schmidt
bauer and other relatives.
Red Faust and Christ Morrill, start
ed out Tuesday morning and returned
at noon with a deer.
Johnsdale, small station on the
500 line between Hillman and Ona-
mia, will soon get postoffice.
Peter Wermerskirchen, a nephew to
Mel Wermerskirchen and Frank Mark
son of Jordan, are here visiting rela-
tives. Joseph Ethen took them out in
his auto to show them the country.
Arthur Schmidtbauer and Peter
Feucht of Leroy, Wis, are visiting
the Louis Feucht family: Louis took
them out into the woods last Saturday
and showed them how to shoot deer.
They brought home one.
NJ. j. Bockhorni, representative of
the firm of Welz-Mangler & Co., st.
Paul, came up on Nov. 10, to have a
few days. hunt in this vicinity. Mr..
Bockhorni returned to his home in St.
Paul Wednesday, having been excep-
tionally lucky in getting the limited
number of ducks and one deer weigh
ing 233 lbs. and also bagged nearly
whole family of bear, getting the old
bear and two cu!:s. This is some hunt
ing record, and it is y safe guess that
it will not be excelled by any of our
local nimrods.
REMARKS ABOUT JOHN HEACH
The Journal has been asked several
times why nothing was said about the
life of John Heach. There are sever
al reasons One is that nothing is
known about him; and another is that
giving much prominence to a man like
John, who had so small part in the
history of the making of the commun-
ity, might seem too much like putting
popularity upon debauchery and idol
airy upon thriftlessness. Why rave
about John Heach9 He is dead and
gone and almost forgotten. Yet there
seems to be a silent craving for the
knowledge of his nast. The reason is
that he had distinct personality-he
was a character. He was unlike any
body else and he had no counterpart.
John 8 nature was made up Of incon-
sistencies and opposites. He was neat
and orderly regarding his scanty be-
longings, yet careless of his peronal
appearance; a diligent collector of
trash and trinkets, he overlooked the
value Of dollar; the possessor of a
full set of carpenter tools, he yet know
not how to file saw nor how to push
a plane. After deciding upon GER
tain corner of a barn or shed for u
temporary home, he would invariably
nail upon the wall fragment Of a
mirror, and sardine box to serve as
a receptacle for a cake of soap. The
soap was generally missing. Flat thin
otOHeS, certain SNAPPED nails, DuTrS,
ETC., were always found among his
treasured collections. John never
sought charity. Rather than ask for
aid from his more fortunate neigh
bors, he would endure the extremes of
cold and hunger. More than once have
seen John crawl out of his blankets,
after a 4S hour nap, in late fall to
stand shivering by a stove for several
hours and then return to his haunts
for another 48 hours siege, without
uttering even murmur Of complaint.
The jokes and Dastimes in which he
was generally the chief actor and
which were by many thought to be
impositions because Of his age and Pc
culiarities, were largely of his own
making and as much enjoyed by him
as by any one else. 1T am looking
for a dogfght and old John Heach
will furnish it, was his favorite ex-
preston.
He came to Pierz from Little Falls
about "a years ago to help build the
house on the old Ludwig Otasek place.
There the curtain is rung down on his
past. He posed as veteran Of the
civil war, but there is no record on