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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
NUMBER Al.
VOLUNTEERS HONORED

Emil and Harald Christensen,
who enlisted in the army, were
given a good send-off by the
home folks as they left on the
noon train, Friday. The band
boys were out and played sever
al marches and played the Star
Spangled Banner and America
just as the train rolled away,
while all the men stood with un-
covered heads. If the grusome-
ness of war has not been felt
here before it was more fully
realized Friday. Upon examina-
tion at Duluth Emil Christensen
was rejected and returned home
the same night, much dissap-
pointed. But all honor to him;
he has shown his willingness to
fight for his country. Harald
was accepted.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
PINE COUNTY BEEKEEPERSg
ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED

A number of beekeepers met
in Askove last Friday at L. Mos-
backs place. L. v. France, pro-
fessor in bee culture and secre-
tary of the Minnesota Beekeep-
ers' Association. was present and
demonstrated in a practical way
how to handle bees to best ad-
vantage, and answered dozens Of
questions directed from an in
terested audience.
The meeting resulted in the
formation of a county organiza-
tion for the purpose of spread
ing practical knowledge of bee
keeping and to cooperate in dis
posing of the product--honey-
to best advantage, as well as
buying supplies Of the best
standard makes. L. Mosbek was
elected president and L. Mehr,
secretary and treasurer. The
annual dues are 81. out Of which
25c is retained in the local treas
ury for defraying such expenses
as postage, etc. The balance, 75c,
is sent to the state organization.
Each member will receive the
Horticulturist.
Local meetings will be held
now and then and as far as pos
sible some expert beekeepers
will attend and give advice and
demonstrations. An invitation
is extended to people from all
parts of the county to join this
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21

nese capital. Another Swedish
newspaperman Gustaf Holm
gren, in Worcester, Mass, will
leave shortly for the French
front in charge of some aviators
of Swedish descent who are will
ling to fight the battles of the
Allies under the flag of the Uni
ted States. Mr.. Holmgren for
merly broke aviation records by
making several hazardous stunts
in the air between Denmark and
Sweden, and on one occasion he
fell down in the Oresund, barely
escaping from a dreadful death.
In California several we'll
meaning people are contempla-
ting an address which is to be
signed by all Scandinavians in
America and then be presented
to the American government in
the form of a petition to the ef-
feet that President Wilson insist
on the restoration Of Schleswig-
Holstein to Denmark as one of
the inflexible conditions for a
peace negotiation between Ger
many and the Allies. 1t is not
thought that such an address
will be able to accomplish very
much as these questions are set
tied among the diplomats of
Europe and not by a fraction of
American citizens. Quite an
other thing is that such move
ment may be considered prema-
ture and indiscreet. 1t ought to
be added that so far the idea is
merely suggestion.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
MRS. BARNlCK LAID TO REST

Mrs. VIM. Barnick of Finlayson,
died last Friday from cancer Of
the stomach. Mrs. Barnick was
born in Germany and had reach
ed the age of 81 years. She leaves
her husband and six children,
three boys and three girls-who
all reside in Pine County-all
grown, to mourn her loss, be-
sides other relatives and large
circle Of friends.
The Barnicks are old residents
of Pine County. having resided
here about Is years. A little over
year ago the elder Barnicks
moved to Wells, their old home,
but returned to Finlayson in Feb
ruary when Mrs. Barnick's health
began to fail. She wanted to
spend her last days with her
children.
Interment was made at the
German Lutheran cemetery in
Finlayson.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21

The north Star Farmers Club
met at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. P. Jensen last Thursday even
ing and decided on the location
for their proposed club hall. An
drew J. Larsen and Ole Nissan
each offered to donate an acre
Of land. The latter's offer was
accepted as that location ID the
best and most accessible, being
four miles north 81 Alkov.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
INTEREST IN SHEEP AT THE
MINNESOTA STATE FAIR

In an effort to interest farmers
in this territory in the raising of
more sheep, not only because of
the tremendous rise in the price
of mutton but because of the
pressing need for more wool to
be used in the manufacture of
blankets and clothing for our SOL
diers, the Minnesota State Fair,
which is to be held Sept. 3 to 8,
is offering liberal premiums to
owners of pure-bred sheep of the
leading breeds.
So much wool is to be required
in the making of uniforms, socks,
overcoats, blankets and other
parts of the army equipment,
despite the fact that the number
of sheep in this country has
steadily decreased since 1909,
that it is feared wool famine
will result. Sheep production in
many of the warning nations
which have been supplying this
country with wool, has fallen off
to such an extent that it is diff
ficult to buy wool abroad. 1t was
stated by a noted authority re-
Gently that sheep production in
France has decreased nearly for
ty per cent since the opening of
the war.
Although it is not generally
known, census figures show that
the average sheep has increased
in value over forty per cent in
the last year On January 1, 1916,
the average value of a sheep in
this country was $5.17. On JAN
uary l, 1917, the average value of
a sheep had scared to STA.
Sheep values are still on the
jump. and it is not known how
far they will 60. Live sheep are
bringing from twelve to thirteen
cents a pound, and wool of good
quality is selling for over fifty
cents a pound.
As a food training camp in the
voluntary service of the govern
ment, the Minnesota State Fair
is attempting to assist in over
coming this crisis by inducing
leading breeders of sheep to bring
their finest animals for private
sale to farmers in this territory.
A special appeal has been issued
to local breeders. Sheep special
lists believe that sheep can be
grown at a big profit in this part
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
When . ossd Whale sin,ss.

1t happens on rare occasions that Z
dying whale. sounding" deeply. fails
to rise again to the surface and re-
mains in the sea depths after death.
The "dsh' 10 not lost. however. From
some unexplained cause the gases set
free By decomposition inside the car
cass nnd their way to the whales
tongue. This organ becomes infiated,
resembling . huge balloon. and By it,
buoyancy brings the body Of the dead
whale to the surface. when Il II picked
up BY the crews The process Of inna.
don and notation commences within .
few hours Of death, and the lapse Of
two OF three days win generally suf.
dee 70 bring the body Of ''lost'' whale
~ Aun ~ - 1ooe.-ExchaneA
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
AsKOV NEWS

H. c.. Hansen of Sandstone,
was a business caller in Askov,
Tuesday.
Miss Gudrun Paulsen returned
to her work at Des Moines, Iowa,
Saturday.
S. D. Dye and family from
northeast of Bruno were in AS
kov Monday.
Gust Anderson left Tuesday
for Cloquet where he will work
in a saw mill.
Miss Dorothy Monson left yes
terday for Minneapolis where she
will be employed.
A baby boy was born at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Georg Jen-
sen, east of town, last week.
Theodor Jensen left Monday
for Jamestown, N. D., where he
will work at his trade as carpen-
ter this summer.
Mrs. P. H. Miller and children
of Chicago, are visiting at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. Mosb@k.
Christopher Nielsen had his
thumb quite badly cut while
working with the X. S. Sorensen
saw mill on Louis Elkjer's place
last week.
The Misses Gerda and Clara
Petersen of Ironwood, Mich, are
visiting here at the home of
their uncles, Peter and Henry
Petersen.
Mrs. Geo. Clegg returned to
her home near Des Moines, Iowa,
Tuesday, after a brief visit with
her boys, Ernest and Edward.
Mr.. Clegg will remain a while.
Wayne E. Jacobsen has sold his
residence to H: Petersen. Mr..
Jacobsen expects to move out
on a farm in November and pos
session of the residence will then
be taken by Mr.. Petersen.
Paul Nevermann, a we'll known
English lecturer from St. Paul,
will be in Askov some time in
July and lecture before the
Young Peoples Society. An
nouncement as to date will be
made later.
The First State Bank has sold
an eighty, the 81 of SW4. Sec.
1-41-20, to Anton J. Dietz of
Odessa. Mr.. Dietz expects to
clear part of it this fall and later
when he moves up here with his
family he may buy more land.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. p. Sorensen,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. P. Nielsen, Mr..
and Mrs. S. Chr. Dixen, Mrs. Fre-
derik Jorgensen, Mrs. Holden
Hansen and Elmer Dixen drove
over to West Denmark Wis, via
automobile Saturday. They visi-
ted there until Tuesday.
The first of the regular series
of band concerts by the Askov
Band from the new band stand
Saturday evening was quite
largely attended in spite of the
cold weather. The boys will
give a concert again Saturday
evening, June q.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
news AMONG
SCAND|NAV|ANS
Interesting Items From Far
and Near About People
From the North

Last week a Swedish farmer,
named Otto Olson, living ten
miles north of Faith, S. D., was
killed by lighting while working
in his field.
During the St. Paul convention
OF the Norwegian Lutheran
church of Aemrica, now con-
solldated organization, Banker
Harald Thorson of Drake, N. D.,
announced that he would give
$4,000 to the endowment fund
of the church.
H. P. Jensen, Danish con-
tractor in Ravenswood, ILL.,, has
sold his house which contained
Y apartments, and Immediately
afterward he purchased 5000
acres farm in Iron county in the
northern part of Wisconsin where
he will live.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sven Peterson,
we'll known Swedes in New Swe-
den, Penn, have celebrated their
fiftieth wedding anniversary.
They have been residing in New
Sweden ever since the day of
their marriage, so it was but ma
tural that an unusually great
number of friends took part in
the celebration.
Recently Miss Asia Rynning,
a young Norwegian New York
lady, married Capt. Bull, COM
mander of the steamer, "Dalma-
tia. She accompanied him on a
trip to Europe, the boat was tor
pedoed, and the bride had to
fight for life in an open boat for
72 hours before she was rescued.
Meanwhile, she has returned to
New York, and last week she
started on her second wedding
trip.
Danish organizations in Canada
do not appear to be in a very
thriving condition. Several have
been formed from time to time,
but all have succumbed sooner
or later foi reasons unknown.
The only one which seems to have
strength enough to survive is a
chess club in Ottawa, Can, and
apparently it can live on without
strife and dissesions as it has
only two members.
A new Swedish steamer, the
scandinavia, put to sea in the
harbor of New York the other
day. 1t carries 1900 tons. The
new boat will probably enter the
Scandinavian traffic under the
Stars and Stripes until the war
is over as the United States
government has indicated it's de-
sire to utilize all boats for the
good of the nation, even tho
they are being built for foreign
capital.
Ludwig Wage of Christianla,
is lust now touring this country
in an effort to gather subscrip-
tions for the projected old
people's home in Finmarken,
the northern part of Norway.
So far Mr.. Wage has solicited
$1,000 during visits to cities in
the East, the Pacific coast and
the northwestern states. High
officials of the Great Northern
and the Northern Pacific railways
have granted him free passes for
his travels thruout the territory
where their trains are running,
50 his expenses are being kept at
a minimum,
Professor William Hovgaard, a
well known Danish authority on
naval construction, who has for
manv wears been one Of the lead
;ne instructors Of the Boston In
st;tute of Technology, has re-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21

department of technical instruc-
tion at Washington, d. c. Some
of the students of Mr. Hovgaard's S
class at the Boston Tech have
also received appointments to
work under him for the govern
ment which just now feels the
need of securing cooperation
from every expert in the country
The supreme method of de-
stroying German submarines
has been found. At least, this
is what Wendell G. Carlson, a
young Swede in jamestown, N. Y,
thinks. He has invented con-
trivance which is said to be of
terrible efficiency. It is a bomb
eight feet long and it can be
fired in such peculiar and effec-
tive manner that no submarine
within shooting distance has any
chance of escaping. At the time
the projectile is being fired, it
also scatters a steal net around
the submarine, 50 that even if
the enemy is not hit, he cannot
possibly run away. Mr.. Carlson
has offered the secret of his
deadly device to the government.
The Lutheran Brethren of
America, a Norwegian church as
sociation not in any way affiliated
with any other organiza-
tions, decided at a convention
held in Grand Forks, N. D., last
week to send missionaries to Su-
dan in Africa. The Brethren
have for several years maintain
ed mission stations in China, and
their work is gradually expan-
ding. The church is gaining
ground rapidly thruout the north
west, but it may be that the new
consolidated Norwegian Lutheran
church will approach the Bre-
thren in an effort to effect har-
mony and cooperation between
all Norwegian Lutherans of the
country. Such an attempt would
hardly be welcomed by the Bre-
thren.
In the course of a few weeks
the United Steamship Company,
Ltd, of Copenhagen will esta-
blish regular steamship connec-
tion between Iceland and New
York, and all preparations neces-
sary for the Inauguration of such
an arrangement are said to have
been perfected. It is thought
that the new steamer connection
may revive the overseas trade of
the old Saga island whose busi-
ness interests have suffered in
calculably as consequence of the
war, and it is also hoped that
tourists from America will be en-
couraged to visit the island which
abounds in natural beauty as we'll
as in historic "reminiscences.
This week the national organi-
zation, Daughters of Norway,
will hold it's fourteenth conven-
tion. The chief topic which will
be discussed by the delegates is
that of consolidation with the lar
ger organization, Sons of Norway.
The plan has been discussed in
formally for several years, but
nothing definite has come of it.
The Daughters of Norway have
lodges in Minnesota, Washington,
Illinois, Wisconsin, North Dako-
ia andPennsylvania, and more
than 1900 members are to be
found in the 80 lodges which
the order embraces. The Sons of
Norway number $1,000 members
scattered all over the country.
Both organizations are mutual
aid associations and have national
tasks on their programs.
Gunnar Vickman, one of
the editors of the Swedish
Pacific coast paper, Vest
kusten", in San Francisco
has resigned his position having
received an offeIo go to Toxic,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21

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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-23
MAKERS 0F,BUTTfR
ENJOY THE BANQUET
Stockholders Held Their Annual
Affair at Lake Crystal
Recently

The annual banquet of the Lily
Creamery association was held at
Lake Crystal at noon March Is, in
the A. O.. U. w. hall. Something over
three hundred patrons and their wives
were present, After partaking of a
most bountiful dinner the president
Mr.. F. A. Frederickson, gave short
talk on the growth of the association,
assuring that it had outgrown its
present quarters and 1t was neces-
sary to enlarge, that the board of
managers had plans and specifications
to erect--a plant 50xS4 feet on the
corner of Prince and Murphy streets,
of brick and concrete and to cost
about $4,000 This will be fully
equipped to handle dairy products of
all kinds, including sterilized, milk
cream and butter milk.
The business had increased some
thing over $4,000 in the past year,
doing business of about $4,000 in
1916. AS the vicinity of Lake Crystal
is especially well adapted tothe dairy
industry it is expected that the next
three years will triple the output. The
association has a great many patrons
who take $4,000 a year from their
milk sales. 1t is long proven fact
and the farmers at Lake Crystal know
it, that the only safe method for them
to follow is the dairy cattle and hogs,
fed on alfalfa and corn. Between one
hundred and fifty and two hundred
acres of alfalfa will be sown here this
year and the seed has been already
purchased. This, with the crop that
has been planted for several years
will greatly reduce the cost of produc-
ing milk and pork. Mr.. Farrell of the
State Dairy and Food commission
was introduced and gave most in
teresting talk on dairy legislation and
the ambition of the beef trust to
eliminate the revenue on ole
margarine, placing, it in competition
with butter. He explained that oleo-
margarine was not the pure whole
some product that the manufacturers
claimed it to be and urged the people
to make a personal study of dairy
products for food as compared with
other food stuffs.
Mr.. Barrett of Fort Atkinson, Wis,
representing "Ford's Dairyinan,' a
periodical devoted exclusively to the
Interests of dairymen, was present
and secured a number of subscrip--
lions. The farmers institute will open
the 10th of April and hold two days
at which time number of speakers
will be present and speak on alfalfa.
dairying, hog raising and diversified
farming.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-23

rived in the city last evening. They
were en- route about one month as
they spent some weeks visiting Mr.
Robel's parents in Selah, Wash.
and other relatives in st. Paul. They
expect to make Mankato their home
in the future. =
Whiteaker Ray, business manager
for D. w. Griffith's two million dol
lar production OF intolerance" was
in Mankato today. This spectacle
will be at the Mankato theatre on
March 20. 80 and 81. This attrac-
ton will be accompanied by an or
chestra and all the paraphernalia nee
essary to put on the production in a
satisfactory manner. Matinees will
be given Friday and Saturday after
Moons.
Mrs. e. M. Zuel returned home yes
terday from a visit with friends in
Kansas. She reports that the grain
in Kansas is now all up and grow
ing nicely, and that last week the
state had a heavy spring rain, the
first rain that had fallen there since
last June. Enroute home Mrs. Zuel
was greatly delayed by the trains,
which did not run on schedule time
on account of the snow dlocade. She
was detained for a day at Worth
ington and a day at Window.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Pass, Sr.
left today for Orange City, Iowa, to
attend the funeral of Mr.. Passs Sis
ter, Mrs. Anna Rynsberger. Mrs
Rynsberger was in Mankato a week
ago today. She was here with her
husband and daughter between trains
on her way back from Rochester,
where she had gone for medical
consultation. She was examined and
told that she had no organic trouble.
She had been nervous and had slight
heart trouble. The physicians did
not seem to think she was seriously
i'll, but advised her to go home and
get good rest. Mrs. Rynsberger
died yesterday. She was sixty six
years old. She was known to a
number of people in Mankato, through
visiting here with the Pass family.