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Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24
>4IETS FOR WOMEN
DRIVERS BY EXPERT
Miss Claire Rochester Tells the
Best Way to Prepare for
Long Touring Trip.
SHE ADVISES COLD CREAM

Miss Claire Rochester, Orpheum
star and champion woman transcon-
tinental auto driver, who recently es-
tablished a record run for women
from New York to San Francisco in
an Apperson Roadaplane, tells wom-
en- motorists things to observe IN
touring via the automobile.
Before YOU start on tours be sure
you are prepared. Preparedness is
the real watchword for the fnotorlst.
"Forget beauty in yourself and your
car. Wear mems pants as they are
made in aviation suits You will know
why later. .,,
"Know your motor and what it will
do; what is under the hood is the all
important factor.
"Shock absorbers are indispensable
and will keep you well and drive
away fatigue.
Get tires that are standard and
-.kave Accomplishment records.
"Cold cream is absolutely lndis-
pensable. -.
"Apply the cream lavishly. 1t will
aid a comfortable tan.
xs- Beware the gasoline bandit. Keep
your tank filled and on long tours
carry reserve cans on your running
boards,
watch your water tank ss you do
your gasoline tank. 1t is just as i'm
portant.
watch out for mudholes. Coast
into them with your engine racing
The minute you slip into one use all
your power in first to force you Out
Of them. Using power while going
into mudholes drives you into the
hole as a pile driver drives pile into
the bottom of the sea.
, Don't drive when too sleepy. Take
a fifteen-minute nap and try it again
EAT all the wholesome food you
can enjoy"
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24
Standard Motor Co.
Leases Big Block

Carl Changstrom of the Standard
Motor Car company announces that
he has closed lease for the build
ing formerly occupied by the Storz
Auto Supply company at 2O2O Farnam
street.
The building is to be entirely re-
modelled for the automobile business
and made as convenient as any
salesroom in the city. In speaking
of this move, Mr.. Changstrom said,
"We are not very much for putting
on shows, but it has come to a point
where we must have more room to
take care of our growing trade.
This new location will also give
US better facilities for service, to
which we are devoting a great deal
of attention. A competent force of
men will be in charge to look after
the different lines OF cars which we
handle"
This announcement comes partly
as a result Of the taking Of the JET
ferry and Empire line by the Stand
ard Motor Car company. The arrival
of a number of both models is expect
ed during the week
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24

registrations taper off somewhat to-
ward the close OF the year.
The average OF 40 per cent pre-
walls throughout all states"
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24

Just TO show what a handicap foot ball
rules are at times. Oae Of the greatest
punters the gridiron game has ever known
Is working with the Crimson squad and
yet Harvard is not allowed to play him.
His name is Brickley, first name Charles.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24

mileage was not made was due to the
amount of mileage through Baltimore
and Washington traffic.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24

Becker sluEginG Ball.
Beais Becker. the old Giant-Philly pas
timer now with Kansas City is ripping the
pellet seams with the aid Of his war club
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24

am but one of 1000 Chalmers Dealers. There
are only 10000 of the 340O E. p m. Chalmers
left. So If had to take my chance on an even
allotment, among the 1000, I'd probably get only
IA more of them.
The run on this car has been mastodonic.
I'm lucky to have one left. because the Chalmers
Company set out to build only S22.OOO.OOO
worth last fall a
These we're all built and delivered before tho
first day Of summer came.
Then we got the Chalmers executives to add
10000. These were pretty well cleared up before
the first day of September.
Now we have Just got them to build 10000 moro
making $4,000 Of the 34OO :. p. M Chalmers
all told just $56!OOO,OOO worth of one model
So You see it has been like regular run" on a
bank. Only instead of bank II has been car.
And truly magnificent car, too.
I attribute the run" to the wonderful quality in
the car.
I find men and women are buying better and
better cars every day. Just 90 down among your
acauaintances and note how many Of them are
driving better cars than they used to.
Probably IS per cent Of my sales have been to
people who have owned lower priced cars.
There's peculiar and interesting kind OF pride
in owning a regular car. man said to me the
other day.
RI bought price car year ago. II was one
wear car II looked fine and drove we'll for a
while | got 10000 miles ou, Of her. but she
couldn't stand the racket. I'm all done trying to
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24

Whisper the News.
Managers of boxers being quiet and mild
hammered beings, 1t is only whispered soft
" that Georges Carpenter, the French
heavyweight champion. and Les Darcy, the
Australian battler, are to visit your Uncle
Samuel in the near future.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24
ONLY II CHALMERS CARS PER
DEALER ARE LEFT in THE
GREAT $56,OO0,0 900 "R u N"

buy price tags. ! used to say I'd never pay moro
than certain sum for a pair Of shoes
n ventured So beyond the price one day and.
thoroughly to my surprise. ! got such . better
fit, 60 much more comfort, so much more In looks.
and 60 much more in wear. that just figured I'd
been blame fool all these years.
tits the same way with cars. You get just about
wha, you pay for in a cheap car. lie like advice:
I'm paving $500 more for this Chalmers than
paid for my old car. But ! can see right away
TN really getting $500 more in car and quality.
Besides I'm driving a regular thoroughbred"
There are lots of men like my friend People
don't shop around much In buying meat for the
home. A rib roast is rib roast II one butcher
has rib roast at 2 cents pound less than the
other it's safe to venture that it's cents pound
inferior meat.
OuaIity-and the quality scale Of life--that is
what the American people seeking today as
never before, in my casual observation.
And great help is quality car like the 34OO
r. D. M Chalmers. Forget that the price is only
$1,000 Detroit The price is moi determined by
the President Of the Company, nor by the Chief
Engineer. The price is determined by cost ac.
countants. That accounts for the odd figure 1000.
The sum Of Sl.OOOOOO has been added to Chal.
mers factory equipment since the birth Of the
34OO r. D. m. Chalmers about year ago. Added
why? lust to make each car a little better than
the one that went out the factory door ahead fit.
P.S.-To remind you-the Chalmers Company
is building 10000 more Of them. rhis model
will h~ continued without change In design into
nexl season.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-24

You will find this so wher-
ever you go. All of Dodge
Brothers dealers may not
say the same thing about
the car, but it is obvious
that they think the same
thing.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-07-27
SCHOOL. BOARD MEETINGS
SCHOOL. DISTRICT NO. II

Askov, Mimi, June 20, 1916.
All members present. Minutes
from meeting of June 10 were
read and approved. Motioned
and carried that we investigate
the school sewerage system in
Bruno and Hinckley. Gravesen
and Frokjer We're chosen to do
the investigating. Motioned and
carried that we aim to get the
old school finished by Oct. 1st.
and the new by Oct. 15. Re.
solved that the clerk shall adver-
tise for bids on the erection oi
school building as soon as plans
are returned accepted from st
Paul. Bills from M. Sorenser
for $5.35, S. Chr. Dixen for S8.51
and L. P. Jakobsen for S14.10 fol
journeys to Duluth and st. Paul
were allowed. On motion meet
ing adjourned.
l.. P. Jakohsen, Clerk.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-07-27

track, satisfied to be sure rather
than sorry. Money is power, and
impotent is the man or business
that lacks it.
Be as honest as you expect the
other fellow to be. Get all the
ability you can acquire and all
you can afford to buy, but do not
overlook the important fact that
backbone is necessary in every
business just as it is in every
body, and without it in sufficient
measure success is impossible
and failure sure to come. He is
a wise man who knows his own
strength and doesn't hitch up to
more than he can pull.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-07-27
YOUR BUSINESS CAPITAL.

thirty per cent. of those who
fail in business do so because
they lack capital. No business
can succeed unless it has back
bone, and this backbone is the
invested capital of the proprietor.
Whether it is a million dollar
corporation or corner grocery,
there must be, as a foundation,
the investment of the proprietor.
The man who starts out in
business "on a shoestring" fails.
No matter what he may have in
the way of borrowing facilities,
there may come a time when he
finds the avenues of borrowing
closed against him. Then his
reserve capital comes into play.
To meet the weekly payroll,
stock up, tide over bad times, fit
the place up with machinery and
fixtures, requires money, and
this money should be the saved
money of the proprietor.
Just how much capital a con-
cern requires is a matter of indi-
vidual requirements. The larger
the business the larger the capi-
tai. If, for instance, a man were
to engage in a mercantile line,
he should have enough money
saved by thrift to buy his fix
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-07-27

capital the amount in excess Of
the debts. This means to say
that if the quick assets were all
turned into cash and the debts
paid, without disturbing the
other assets, such as real estate,
machinery, etc, there would be
a cash balance left over.
One of the great weaknesses
of American business life is the
starting of a business on too little
capital. Two carpenters and
builders who have saved up a
few hundred dollars decided to
be their own bosses and by some
scheming get a piece of land.
They persuade somebody or some
institution to agree to loan them
a certain amount on the property
when complete and lay their
plans carefully and figure closely.
Something goes wrong, the
weather is bad, the work is de-
layed, strikes, and liens not reck-
oned with, interfere, and the re-
sult-failure. They lack capital;
and lacking it, lose out. They
cannot carry their load.
Clerks with a little money and
colossal nerve begin business for
themselves, only to find bank
ruptcy stare them in the face in
a short time, due to lack of capi-
tai. A good year makes the pro-
prietor jubilant and willing to
gamble that the next will be bet
ter. He moves into larger quar-
ters, lives more expensively,
buys a car and hires his servants,
only to find depression setting in,
unsettled business conditions
competition, mishaps, and no way
of retrenching. Happy the mar
who can plod along on the safe
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-07-27

perhaps cost you twice or three
times as much per acre. There
is no question but that a capable
man with some experience can
earn from two to three dollars a
day at the aforementioned scale.
From the farmers standpoint, it
is cheap, amounting to 25 or 80
cents per ton if done in time and
done right. We should be able
to grow rutabagas for about S1.50
to So per ton for labor, seed, land
rent and interest on invested
capital.
Ludwig Mosbpk.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-07-27

lures, and part of his stock, and
a balance for working capital to
keep in the bank. He should not
put all his money in fixtures so
that he has none for stock, and
vice versa. Neither should he
forget that his best credential
with his banker is a good work
ing balance.
The reason why banks are so
particular that borrowers keep a
balance is not that the bank
wants excessive profits lending,
say a thousand and asking that
one-quarter of it be kept on de-
posit. but that the borrower may
have free working capital at his
command all the time.
The position that if | borrow a
thousand and am asked to keep
$3.50 on deposit, | might as well
borrow $3.50, is not we'll taken;
for even though the bank balance
is borrowed money, and costs the
interest, it is a cheap price tc
pay for the bankers good will
In fact a business man could wei
afford to pay six per cent. fol
money and leave it with his
banker, for the good it would dc
his credit.
In the granting of credit, bust
ness men as we'll as bankers, give
due heed to the ratio between
quick assets and quick liabilities
The banker likes to see two Il
one two dollars of quick assets
to one dollar Of quick debts. The
quick assets are: Cash, bill!
receivable, accounts receivable
and merchandise. Quick liabili
ties are: Debts due for borrowed
money and debts due for stock
The difference is the working
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-07-27
NUMBER AS.
LOCAL. AND
PERSONAL.

Peter Nielsen was q passenger
to Minneapolis Tuesday.
Martin Jensen Of Chicago, IS
a guest at the L. Mosbek home. .
Miss. Agnes Frokjer returned
last Friday from the University
| at st. Paul.
| Attend the English lecture by
Haiime Inadomi at the church
next Tuesday evening ut 8 o'clock.
Miss Karen Rasmussen Of GGe-
dar Falls. Iowa. is a guest at the
Andreas Jensen home, southwest
of town.
| Mrs. Arthur Schultz and child
of St. Paul, are visiting here at
the home of her parents, MIR.
and Mrs. Jens Jorgensen.
| N. B. Miller bought the resi-
dence lot north Of e. nj. Mailing
yesterday from Martin johnson.
Mr.. Miller expects to put up a
residence.
1 Haying is nearly all done and
attention Is now turned to blue
berries. It looks like q bumper
crop this year. The recent rains
were very beneficial.
1 Carl G. Nielsen, the blacksmith,
had his family moved up from
! Sandstone last week. They are
now occupying the j. r. Miller
place north of town.
Peter Vildsoe was up from
Racine, Wis. from Friday until
yesterday. He bought back his
former eighty, 5 miles northeast
of town and will move back to
Askov later on.
I Konrad Christensen, the baker,
had the misfortune of running q
, pitchfork into his knee last Fri
day, while helping in the hay
!, field. 1t caused severe pain and
J incapacitated him from work.
] There was almost a bread famine
] amongst the bachelors of the
J community.
} The ball game here Sunday
| between Willow River and Askoy
g was a wholesale slaughter. The
locals were missing six Of their
3 regular players which accounts
n for the poor showing. Askov
lsecured only one score while the
!. visitors secured 50 many in pro-
portion to Askov's one that it
would not look good In print.
. The Young Peoples Society
held their regular meeting Sum
day evening at the assembly hall.
Rev. Andersen gave an instruc-
tive lecture on missionary work
. in Korea. The dues were raised
from 35c to Soc per quarter and
0 it was decided to give $25 to
Ashland College in Michigan.
Q which was the greater portion Of
v the earnings from the 9TH of
d July picnic. The next meeting
% will be held out-of-doors at Ban.
ming, Sunday, August 9Th.
The contract for building the
q large addition to our school was
o not let last Friday as the board
considered all bids too high. Full
o details of the meeting and the
I, bids given in can be found in the
= ! school board minutes in another
. column. Three more bids were
: received the following day. two
I from Duluth for construction
: which were both over SIS, 900,
and one from Milaca which inclu-
ded everything but was over SIS, Z
1000. The present uncertainty of
the prices OF building material
and the lateness of the season
probably accounts for the high
bids. At any rate nothing will
be done in the building line until
nayt vaar
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-07-27
THE RUTABAGAS

We are evidently in for dry
spell and the problem is how to
preserve the moisture for the
growing crop, whether it be
bagas. cabbage corn or potatoes.
The only sure way is to prepare
and make dust mulch on top of
the soil by continued cultivation.
The ground was packed hard by
the excessive heavy rains last
spring. If there is a little crust
on top, unbroken from the last
rain, moisture pours up through
that crust like water through a
sieve. Funny, isn't it? But it
is a fact all the same.) At first
sight it might seem to you that
the more you stir the soil the
quicker it will dry out. We
know from experience that by
teding and turning the grass and
clover the day it is cut it can be
made dry enough to cock the
same day and hauled in the next,
but experience has also taught
us that if we can make and keep
a mulch, either of dust (the finer
the better), straw, sawmeal or
any other material, then there is
sufficient moisture to carry a
crop through for any length of
time in the very best condition.
A pulverizer attached behind the
cultivator, like those you can
get with the Planet Jr. tools, does
fine work in a dry season. Make
up your mind to keep the cultiva-
tor going until your crop can
keep the sun from striking the
ground then the moisture is rea-
sonably we'll protected, and you
will have the most valuable crop.
Because so many neglect to pre-
serve the moisture in time of
need crops run short and bring
high prices on the market.
The problem Of thinning and
wedding bagas, at first glance.
appears to be very complicated.
1t is a disagreeable job if you
don't tackle it in time as we'll as
to prepare the ground we'll be-
fore seeding. A thoroughly fine
pulverized soil is essential to
acquire success. Most of the
weed seed must be sprouted and
killed before seeding the bagas.
| Cultivation must commence as
Isoon as the seed is sprouted, and
when the plants have four or five
leaves it is time to cut the rows
with a hoe, leaving a little bunch
of plants ten or twelve inches
apart. After some experience
with the hoe you can cut them
out to one or two plants, which
makes the thinning, to be done
by hand, very much easier.
These two operations are about
equal and can be done for ap-
proximately 20c per 1000 feet OF
running row, each operation, or
40c for both, provided the land
has been we'll prepared and is in
good workable condition. With
the rows planted 36 inches apart,
this will cost about S6 per acre.
Boys and girls from ten years
and up can do this work, making
from one to two dollars per day
when they get used to it and will
find the work a pleasure.
If your soil is not we'll prepared
or the thinning delayed or the
weeds get ahead of you, it viii
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-07-27
TALKS ON
THRIFT

This article is a part of a series
prepared by the Savings Bank Sec
tlon OF the American Bankers Asso-
cation. No. 5 Nassau Street, New
York City, in connection with the
celebration in 1916 of the one hun
dreth anniversary of Savings Bank
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-07-27

that the clerks compensation be
$4,000. Resolved that the board
meet on Friday, July 2lst, at 2
p. m. in the school house to open
bids on new school building.
On motion meeting adjourned.
L. P. Jakobsen, clerk.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-07-27
Askov, Minn., July Fl, 1916

All members present. Bids for
the construction, heating, venti-
lating and plumbing were opened
and read. There were six bids
in all as follows:
J. j. Colburn, general plan. Sl4, 200. 90
Askov Construction Co, gem
eral plan .................. IA, TOO. 90
F. S. Spencer, heating and
ventilating ............... s,240.0O
Northern Service Co., plumb. 100000
4" % heat
ing and ventilating ....... 7,1s5.M
Stack Bros, Duluth, plumb'g 2,l4l 90
Stack Bros, Duluth, heating
and ventilating ........... s,1sa.oo
Stack Bros, Superior, heat
ing and ventilating ........ s,392.00
Stack Bros, Superior, plumb. 2,0a5.oo
Stack Bros, Superior, heat
ing, ventilating and plumb. 1e,32 90
The board considered all these
bids too high and by vote all
bids We're rejected. 1t was next
motioned and seconded that we
postpone building operations un-
til spring, 1917. This motion
was unanimously carried. Meet
ing adjourned.
l.. p. Jakobsen, clerk.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-07-27
Askov, Minn., July 13, 1916

N5hUF, HFTIIIsf July 10, IUIU.
All members present. The
books of the treasurer and clerk
were revised and found correct.
Money was levied for the ensuing
year for school purposes in the
sum of 100000, in the following
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-08-23
THEY SWIPED HIS

Redwood Daily Gazette: The
ladies having FRIDAY Aug. III
tonight's banquet in charge, or
dered two extra chickens when
they knew Harvey Harris was
to be amd ing those present.
They'll need 'em.
When Sister Wilson penned
the above, she evidently planned
to seat the writer between Joe
Tyson and Mayor Luscher, and
then have some of the ladies at
tract our attention so the mayor
and park commissioner could
"swipe" those chickens from our
plate. They did, and we can
prove it by Joe Reynolds and
Frank Day.-Vesta Censor.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-08-23
SEND GUNNAR BACK

Gunnar Bjornson, of Minneota,
has opposition in his candidacy
for reelection to the House OF
Representatives. Mr.. Bjornson
has served the people of his dis
trict and his state with marked
ability and has been true to the
interests of his constituents at
every turn. There is no reason
why he should be displaced by
a man of no legislative expert
ence and of no legislative rec
ord, and we don't believe the
people of Lyon county will so
displace him. The only incen-
tive there is for faithful service
is recognition at the polls and
personal con seriousness of hav-
ing played g mans part. Mr..
Bjornson has the latter; if the
people of his district are true
to their own interests he will
have the former. Sen
tinel.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-08-23
Car Upsets on Hill

What might easily have
proved a fatal auto accident Oc-
Cured Tuesday afternoon of last
week while Mr.. and Mr.. w. c..
Wyatt were autoing along the
Northumberland road, on re-
turn trip from a visit in Polk
and Becker counties to their
home at Bigelow, MINI.
It seems that the party was
travelling at a not unusual rate
of speed when the car skidded,
and the driver made two or
three short turns in an endeav-
or to right the car on the beat
en- track, resulting finally in the
car turning completely over and
alighting with the engine on the
edge Of the grade and with the
back seat resting on a fence post.
The car was Studebaker and
left the road at a point about
midway between the water tank
and the Tyson farm. Both occu-
pants were pinned under the car
and the accident would undoubt-
edly have proven fatal had it not
been for the fence post holding
up the rear end of the car so as
to give the occupants a chance
to escape, which they did after
quite struggle, as the top of
the fence post is a little higher
than the edge of the grade. AS
it was Mrs. Wyatt had quite a
task to free her husband after
she had freed herself.
A defective tire is thought to
have been the direct cause of
the accident. Mr.. and Mrs. Wyatt
were little injured, except as to
bruises. The only thing broken
about the car seemed to be the
windshield and Morton En-
terprise.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-08-23
UNEQUALED TRAIN SER
VICE TO CHICAGO VIA
CHICAGO & NORTH
WESTERN RY.

August and September are
ideal months to visit eastern
cities, seaside and mountain re-
sorts. Take advantage of the
low fares now in effect permit
ting stopover at Chicago.
Fast modernly equipped daily
trains to Chicago.
You arrive in the new passen-
ger terminal adjacent to the
hotels and business district of
the city.
Direct connections with fast
trains for the east.
For full particulars apply to
any ticket agent, Chicago and
North Western Ry. 4-3t