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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
cloudburst hits Houston.

Houston.-A cloudburst passed over
In the period OF twenty minutes
enough water fell to swell small
stream In Looney valley out of its
banks. A score or more OF small
bridges were washed out.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
Martin County Plants Corn.

Fairmont. Better seed selection ard
testing and a more thorough prepare.
ton Of every acre of tillable land will
distinguish the Martin county farmers
efforts to produce the maximum of
food stuffs during the coming season.
Corn will be the main crop with an in.
creased acreage over previous years.
Odd corners on the farms will be
largely planted in potatoes.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
To Increase Corn Production.

To Increase Corn Production.
Madison-Spring work in Lac qui
Parle county has been delayed be-
cause Of soggy fields, but farmers in
this vicinity will increase their corn
acreage and seed less small grain
than before, with the possible excep-
ton of winter wheat The fact that
many farmers are raising more stock
and that farm labor threatens to be-
difficult to obtain are reasons cited
tor the increased corn production.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
MANY Gardens In Albert Lea.

Albert Lea.-Nearly every family IN
making some plans to put In a gar
den while in some instances two or
three families are cooperating. rent
ing large plots Of ground near the
city, and intend gardening on q broad
scale. believing that they can raise
enough vegetables for their entire
winter use. An increase in the wheat
and alfalfa acreage 10 reported.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
Guaranteed Harmless.

"What does this chap do for liv-
ing?" asked the secret service man.
"Writes musical comedies"
pass him along. He never had any
thing to do with a plot in his ilfe."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
Rock County Not Worried.

Luverne.-Rock county Is not con.
cerned over any threatened labor
shortage among farmers. as most Of
the farmers have plenty Of help of
their own for ordinary farm work and
require little outside aid. Oats will
be the dominating crop in this county,
and there will be an increased acreage
over last year
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
A Jarrtno Note.

''This movie is supposed to show
among other scenes fashionable din
ner party"
1--WE noticed that"
IF l were producing a photoplay Of
this sort l would show the star the
proper way to use his knife and fork"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
Moisture Delays Farm Work.

Moisture Delays Farm Work.
Thief River Falls.-Farmers In this
are unable to get any. Seeding in
this county has not much more than
started on account of the moisture In
the lowlands. The Woman's club and
Commercial club are at the head of q
general cleanup in the city and will
follow it up with an effort to use all
vacant lots within the city for garden.
ing purposes.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
J. J. Hin Estate $4,000, 900.

J. J. Hin Estate $5o.o0o.oo
The estate OF James J. Hill to be
disposed Of through the Ramsey county
probate court will total more than
$50. 900. 900. 1t Ia estimated that
$500. 900 Inheritance tax. the largest
ever paid In Minnesota, will be paid
by the Hill estate.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26

Levers outside new gas range move
broiler inside to any desired position
with relation to the heat.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
Firm Distributes Seed Potatoes.

Firm Distributes Seed Potatoes.
Red Wing.-With the view of en-.
couraging hundreds of employees in
Red Wings four large clay manufac.
turing institutions in home vegetable
gardening. the managers Of the Red
Wing Union Stoneware company and
the Red Wing Sewerpipe company has
distributed Early Ohio seed potatoes
to all heads of families and others.
who wished to raise a garden this
year.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
STATE HOSPITALS ORGANIZE

Form ASSOCIATION 70 Promote Ent-
cheney In Management.
Minneapolis. - G. w. Olson Of the
Swedish hospital, Minneapolis, has
been elected president of the Mime.
sofa Hospital association. organized
by 80 hospital superintendent of the
ton. according to the constitution
adopted. Is to provide greater eff
cheney and economy In hospital man.
agement and to study hospital legis-
lation.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26

Queer Things You Hear.
The Small One "a benedict)-You
should marry, old top. A bachelor 10
but half a man,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
Mixed Farming In oimstead.

Rochester.-No unusual steps are
being taken around Rochester to meet
o threatened labor shortage. Apathy
seems to be the predominant note.
Mixed farming Is carried ON in Ohm
stead county, dairying. raising Of beer
cattle and hogs. and raising of grains
being about equally divided. More
vegetables will be raised than in past
years.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26

Los Angeles county has the largest
olive grove in the world.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
Seeding Begun Near Mankato.

Misunderstanding Is Just begin.
ming in this section. and will go on
as rapidly as the weather and ft.
ness OF the soil will permit. Winter
wheat and rye are looking we'll and
this springs acreage will be sown to
spring wheat. oats and barley in about
the usual proportion.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
To Entertain p. e. O. Sisters.

To Entertain p. e. O. Sisters.
Mortified. -Northneld's chapter Of
the p r. o. Sisterhood Is preparing
to entertain the fifth annual conven-
ton OF the Minnesota grand chapter
May 3. I. 5, to which the fourteen
chapters OF the p. X. o. in Minnesota
will send delegations.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26

Pimples, boils, carbuncles. dry up and
disappear with Doctor Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. In tablets or liquid.
ADV.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26

Willmar.-To meet tho threatened
labor shortage the farmers in the
neighborhood OF Willmar are planning
to perform much of their summer and
fall work on the cooperative plan.
As to the increasing crop productions.
nothing unusual Is being done, except
what is encouraged by the prevailing
high prices,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
Chanoinu Interests.

educational standards change In
wartime"
Eyes. In peace education Is devoted
to reading and writing. In war It's
feeding and fighting"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
Marital Graft.

MARITAL GraIt.
Nose Johnsing-What will be your
charge TO- marrying me and Melindy
tomorrow?
Parson Jackson-Two dollars.
Nose Johnsing-Well, say, just
charge her five and send me de differ
ence to Lake SQueedunk. whar we's
gwine on de honeymOOn.-Puck.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
GIANT PARADE At RED WING

ok Jnouoano MATCH through Streets
to Show Loyalty.
Red Wing. - More than 5000 Red
Wing citizens marched through streets
ablaze with the national colors to at
test their loyalty to the United States
All the schools, industrial plants and
business houses were closed in OBJ
servance of Wake Up America day.
The monster parade was two miles in
length. It preceded a mass meeting
at Central park. The meeting closed
with 10000 persons standing and sing
ing 1.-THE Star Spangled Banner" to
the accompaniment of four bands.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
Ask Somebody Who Knows.

He-What, another new dress! How
on earth am l going to pay for it these
war times?
She-Well. my dear, I'm your wife
not your financial adviser.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
PAlN7 NOT 4 BIT!
LIFT YOUR CORNS
OR CALLUSES OFF
No humbug! Apply few drops
then just lift them away
with fingers.

This new drug is an ether compound
discovered by a Cincinnati chemist. 1t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
hM CONFERENCE
n LAID CLEARING
oo3rMkRN MINNESOTA oENgL-
oRAaENr ASSOCIATION Ar
RANGES NETTING.
CREDITS 70 BE DISCUSSED
pvoninsnk Speakers Engaged for
Ftrsk oaY-Seeand 10 BE Devoted
q Demonstrations 81 Various
Land Clearing Methods.

Virginia - In line with the general
o6ort to increase farm production in
Minnesota. the Northern Minnesota
Development association has arranged
. land-clearing conference and dem.
onstration for its summer meeting
here June and 8.
The first day Of the meeting will
b given over to addresses and dis.
cussion on land-clearing methods and
means Of, financing land clearing op.
erations. The second day will be de-
voted to . land-clearing demonstra-
Zion under the direction of Prof. A. ].
Mcclure Of the University OF Mime
sofa. Various methods of land clear.
lng will be demonstrated on a tract
Of land near Virginia.
Experts on Program.
Prominent on the first days pro-
gram are b. F. Faast of Eau Claire,
Wis. vice president of the Federal
Land bank of st. Paul, who will talk
On rural credits with particular ref.
erence to the Federal farm loan act;
w. n. Webb Of Superior. who has
had tSirty years experience in max
ing farm loans in the cut.over terri
tory, and who will talk on credit con-
ditions; Mark j. Thompson. superin.
PENDENT Of the Northeast Experiment
station at Duluth: w. p. Dyer, super.
lntendent Of schools at Bemidji and
Charles T. Murphy of Aurora. a mem.
Der Of the Minnesota Legislature.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-04-26
state Tax Levy Higher.

The state tax levy for all purposes
for 1918 will be SIS mills, compared
with 81 mills for this year, according
to q statement prepared by the state
auditor. The increase is in the reve-
nue fund item, from mill to 80
mills. and there Is one small Offset.
as the levy for the educational build.
ing fund ends with this year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19

is clipping he disregardS the law the
movies have set down for injured nus
bands and does all he can 20 help. ne
inspects his wife's gowns and orders
better ones, reading her lecture on
the hurt dinginess does TO romance
Then he sends the clipping pair down
10 his own place in the country, follows
them 20 make them comfortable ana
keeps them there until they get SICK OF
each other and return TO their usual
senses. There is a pleasant minimum
OF the slapstick Of most farcical enter
tainment, and the playwright shows
his emancipation from antique meth
DDS by playing farce with ideas rather
than persons. What, You dare jill
my wife!" exclaims Hilary e. his con-
fused rival, who in turn upbraids the
young woman when he discovers her IN
her husbands arms, with the charge
that she has mo sense of honor
Good farce now appears 10 have
adopted the tempo Of comedy. and con-
secuently a higher order Of acting is
necessary. Charles Cherry IS Charles
Cherry, playing the wise husband.
Francis Byrne plays the silly ph.lan-
derer amusingly, although with sone-
what too much gusto for some OF the
subtleties involved. Violet Heming Is
a very pretty and properly naive young
wife, and Lucille Watson gives q de-
lightful Sharpness 70 the widow who
helps rescue the loyemakers from then
predicament
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
u. S. Steel Corporation EnIarges Plants
To Push Governments Ship Programme
By Theodore NJ. Knappen

construction Of wooden ships, but l
hear very favorable reports Of him.
ave are continuously adding to our
plants and equipment. not only 20 pro
note shipbulding, but 90 contribute IN
many ways TO the successful pTosecu-
ton of the war. The new Liberty plate
mill at Homestead was rushed TO com
pletion in six months, and Is now turn
ing out the plates for the ships the
Federal Shipbuilding Corporation IS
building. 1t mas a capacity OF 10000
tons a year.
"a short time ago Mr.. Baruch came to
me and said that the government was
greatly in need Of increased forging
capacity. This is a kind of work we
had not been doing. We began work on
forging plants the next day. We are
greatly increasing our electric steel ca
pacity. one plant being built at Gary
ard another at Carnegie.
ave are extending our structural
steel capacity at Birmingham and are
increasing our production at other
places. Our production Of coke is beng
greatly increased, not only for the coke,
cut also for such important py-products
Of great military value as benzo4 ana
tcluol To expedite the movement OF
our products we are building many
freight cars. Some are being built for
US, and we are erecting car shop at
Birmingham, where we are also putting
up a fine new structural steel plant. We
are doing things in every department.
81. may surprise the people TO know
that We are spending about $l2,OOO,OOO
q month for extensions, almost al for
war purposes"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
New Extensions
To Be Permanent

While the war is forcing enlarge
ment Of the capacity Of the United
States Steel Corporation, all OF the
extensions arc being planned and built
for permanency. The shipyards on
the Hackensack meadows and At Mo-
bile are not merely temporary affairs,
such as the government fabricated
shipyards may turn out TO be. bus are
complete establishments, which Will
build the boilers and engines for the
yhips, and are planned for competi-
tive ghipbuiiding with all corners after
the war emergency. Both will have
ten ways at first, but will be so laid
out as 10 be capable Of extension in
additional units Of ten ways each.
50 thoroughly and systematically
has the work been planned that, not
withdrawing remarkable rapidity OF
construction, the Shipping Board IS
making the 9.60O-ton snip one OF its
standards, and three other shipbuild-
ing companies have bought the right 70
use the plans.
The first work Of the Federal Com
pany Is the construction Of ten ships
Of this type for the Shipping Board,
With ten more IN sight as soon as the
company II willing 20 take them on.
These ships viii be launched at the
rate of one every two weeks after the
Grst launching, which will be in May.
ebIns are actually being built while
the yard r. building.
The preparatory achievements Of the
V.dcrsi are 20 amazing and are such
= ,rorniae Of success Tor all American
sbIpboilding IN the pANantic task that
noy eonfronts IL, that 10 will require
smother article 70 tell the story ade-
auately.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
Frau Ober to Test
Contract as Alien
Despite the War
German Singer Dismissed
to Sue Metropolitan for
$4,000 Damages

Whether a contract made with an
enemy alien is now valid, despite the
war. is the chief point which will be
tested in the $4,000 damage suit that
Frau Margarete ODER will bring in the
Supreme Court to-day against the Met
ropolitan Opera Company.
Benno Loewy, Frau Ober's attorney.
said last night that she will set forth
in her suit that the Metropolitan dis
charged her, despite contract which
guaranteed the mezzo soprano $4,000
for this seasons work. She was
dropped from the company when it was
decided to discontinue German opera.
MIR. Loewy expects that the Metropol-
itan will make its first defence on the
ground that an enemy alien cannot
bring suit. If the court decides against
the Metropolitan on this point, Mr..
Loewy said he would bring suits for
four other aliens who were discharged
with Frau ODER, ostensiby because of
the war. The four are Nine. Melanle
Kurt, Johannes Sembach. Carl Blaun
and Herman We'll.
Tho Ober contract, which is written
in German, was signed IN Berlin. to be
effective from 1913 TO the end Of this
season" said Mr.. Loewy. "By its slid
ing scale Of payment my client for this
season was guaranteed forty perform
ances az $500 r performance-s24, 900
for the season, and extra pay for extra
nights.
"On the afternoon Of November 2 the
Metropolitan sent Frau ODER a regis
tered letter discharging her. But they
permitted her 70 rehearse up until lO:3O
o'clock that night
While not listed in the suit, an in
Jury 10 artistic temperament Is one OF
the things Frau ODER wants peeuniary
balm for, Mr.. Loewy says.
Here are some of Frau Ober's other
grievances against the Metropolitan, as
enumerated by her attorney:
II the Metropolitan was going to dis
charge her, why wasn't IL done last
summer. so Frau ODER could have gone
70 Europe. where she might now be
earning many marks a night in Ber-
lin. instead Of nothing a year in New
York; She was permitted to believe
she would sing as per contract, There
fore she settled down in New York for
the Winter. She brought her baby ana
her husband, Herr Arndt, from the
country. She rented an apartment. She
bought gowns and gloves and things.
And now she can't sing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
BY Ralph Block

Miss Grace George once played
comedy in which a wise wife broke up
one OF her husbands affairs by invit-
ing the lovely lady 20 visit. Il was
pleasant and amusing comedy, but hr.
Fred Jackson has seized the idea and
turned it into a capital farce by re-
versing the game. Losing Eloise,'
which made its entry at the Harris
Theatre Saturday night, is another
farce in which pretty young wives ind
elsewhere a solace busy husbands for
get to give; another farce with lingerie,
bedrooms. midnight. highballs, jealousy
and forgiveness. But the familiar ma
terials are so transvalued by keen in
sight into what may be ridiculous that
Losing Eloise" must step at once far
ahead OF those farcicsl entertainments
that try 20 hide their paucity OF wit Dy
the abundance Of their noise.
What might be called the inner pat
tern Of farce Of this kind is the curve
Of every effort toward making the audi
ence believe that the conventions or wei
hammered people will be broken for
their pleasantly with loud and smash
ing sound. For this reason the seduc-
ton Of attention by lace and ribbons,
and a plan OF action centring about the
abode OF sleep. There is never any
breaking or smashing, of course, and III
this case the bed even doesn't once APP
pear on the stage. But the second act
discloses at least four bedroom doors,
and there is certainly a mild bending OF
the conventions. and even some sp.int-
erinr, and a threat to crack before the
act is over.
We have novelists s-pienty on the
stage, but Hilary, who is also the hus.
band. IS the first amusing novelist OF
the season. When he discovers his wife
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
Music
s Concerts Presented in City
Symphony Society Heard
in Aeolian Hall

Sunday is ever q day Of plethora Of
concerts, and yesterday was no eXcep-
ton, there being no fewer than SIX
musical events. IN the afternoon
Aeolan Hall was filed at the regular
Sunday afternoon concert Of the SYM
phony Society, the programme, with the
exception of the symphony, being the
same as that OF Thursday afternoon.
Jaseha Heifetz WAS again the assisting
artist. and again displayed the ex-
traordinary qualities which have al
ready made him the talk Of the music
world. In the Bruch d minor concerto
tho young violinist showed the same
serenity Of manner, the same sweet
ness and purity of tone. the same GER
tainty of finish, the same breadth Of
style which distinguished his previous
appearance. Words are weak things to
express the feelings which such playing
evokes.
The symphony was the Beethoven
Fifth, which is a favorite of Mr.. Dam
rosch. and the concert closed with
Schumann's Variations and Double Flu
que on a Merry Theme. The gross re-
ceipts Of yesterdays concert are to be
devoted 70 the purchase OF musical in
struments for our soldiers. At the con-
clusion Of the symphony Mr.. Damrosch
made a short address, urging his hear
ers 70 support this much needed work.
At Carnegie Hall Mr.. Gabrilowitsch
PLAYED. in his reserved and finely modu-
lated manner, a programme of Russian
piano music; not, however, music OF
the romantic and colorful sort which
the Russian Ballet has made US expect.
The principal piece was ScriRbine's
Fifth Sonata, which his admirers call
his finest and most representative work
for the piano. when they are not call
ING i one cf the masterpieces Of mod
crn times.
The sonata is in enc movement con-
timing sprinklings of the moods of all
four of traditional movements Of the
sonata form. There IL in IL scarcely a
trace of conventional tonalsty, and its
form is by no means referable to the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
I'Pippa Passes" Given at the
Neighborhood Playhouse

Robert Browning wrote "Pippa Passes"
after he had quit the theatre in anger
from his quarrel with McCready over
the production Of STAFFORD" Perhaps
his departure from the conventional
theatre had nothing TO do with II, but
the little drama of the Italian mill girl,
being presented weekend evenings at
the Neighborhood Playhouse, has
glow, dramatic intensity and beauty
of conception aside from the poetry OF
its expression) that could have found
little encouragement in the contempt
rary stage OF it's nativity. The Neigh
borhood Players, who are giving their
performances of "Pippa Passes" as a
memorial to Mrs. LeMoyne, have re-
leased almost ali the beauty Browning
gave to the text for their stage, work
ing valiantly to give light to the OBJ
scurities that seem TO have accompanied
the birth pangs OF most of Browning's
poetry, and managing their production
with simplicity that is admirable IN
time when the intimate theatre IS SO
tempted TO become complex.
"Pippa Passes" is "The Passing of
the Third Floor Back" Of the poetic
drama. Ii submits its poetry to some
thing of the same scheme, and does
not allow the visitor TO pass out OF
the scene without some message OF
ethical good cheer for the audience, II
rot for the actors. But how much
more admirably Browning concocted his
scheme. how much more sensitlvely and
with what sense of delicate. values!
Pima is no unearthly and mysterious
traveller such as Mr.. Kennedy pre-
scented IN his use Of the same plan, but
p simple human being. whose own fate
is iuextricably a part Of the play, Ana
though Browning's springtlme opium SIN
NAV pall and survive only through the
beauty OF "Pippa's Song" there II moth
ing sickly about it, nor sentimental.
IL is quite the ecstasy OF youth ana the
greeuiES year .t,,
Playhouse - competent and spontane-
Gus. Miss Alice Lewisohn IS pippc,
and invests her with charm and dell
cacv. I should hesitate 20 find any
-auI. with so commendsble a produc.
zion, but I could not help feeling tnat
an information of the songs differing
from the delivery Of the Prologue
would give further distinction TO the
text. Others who distinguish them
selves in the playing are Bella Nodci
az Ottima and Rollo Peters IS Sebald;
Ulysses Goldberg as the chief plot n
against Jules, the sculptor; Robert
Preston Donaldson as Jules and Irene
Lewisohn as the young model, and
William Rothschild as the Bishop IN
the last Of these strange glimpses Of
life in Asolo. Indeed, the scene be-
tween the faithless Ultima and hel
lover is q little tragedy b. itself, and
is remarkably well acted by Miss No
del and Mr.. Peters.
The settings by Warren Dahler arc
interesting, especially in their effective
use Of the theatres lighting facilities
The blood red dawn after Lucas death
and the vista of infinite sky which
backs the panorama OF the publ c
square are the most interesting.
Performances will he given Saturday
and Sunday nights this week and next
Y r