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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-01-08
Askov

| Fl. Petersen was a business
visitor at Pine City Tuesday and
Wednesday.
The Danish Continuation
school was commenced Monday.
in the basement of the church
with an enrolment of IL
students.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G.. Danielson
went to Duluth Sunday for a
visit with the latter's parents.
Mr.. Danielson returned Sunday
night while Mrs. D. is expected
home tomorrow.
Marius Hansen has gone to the
Twin Cities to take a course in
an automobile school, preparato-
ry to opening the garage in
Askov this spring.
Hansen and Sorensen. who will
open up their big garage here in
the spring have made arrange
ments with A. Henriksen to take
over his agency for the Chevro-
let car.
John Skow. a brother of Mrs.
A. p. Jensen. who has been work
ing at the Jensen home the past
four months left Friday for Cass
county. where he will do logging
on some of his land.
Hans p. Jorgensen, who re-
Gently came here from Denmark,
is now employed at the local
creamery. commencing upon his
new duties, Monday. Mr.. Jor-
gensen has q years creamery
experience from Denmark.
Miss Laura Juhl has been en-
ioying a 10 day vacation from
her duties as operator at Bruno,
during which time she has been
visiting friends at different
points in the state and at her
home here. She resumed her du-
ties last night.
Andrew J. Larsen returned
yesterday from a ten day visit
with relatives and friends at
Harlan. Audubon and other
points in Iowa. going down there
on account of the illness of his
father. who is SO years old. Mr..
Larsen relates several incidents
relative to farming in Iowa on
big scale. but not so big. al
ways. i'm the line of profit.
amongst which is the following:
A farmer rented a 300 acre farm
at $50 per acre: has two hired
men at $50 per month for Z
months. This makes a total out
lay of $7.l2O besides living ex-
penses. feeding stock. insurance
and numerous other items.
From this it can soon be seen it
is not the man that rents the
land and does the work that get
the money. nor is it the owner
who draws $4,000 in rent money.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-01-08
GOLDEN STAR
JENSEN. JENS II.

HONORABLY DISCHARGED
MOSBEK. Srgt. FINER
CHRISTENSEN. JENS
RASMUSSEN. HERLUr
BUCK. AxEL r.
MORTENSEN. HARRY n.
SORENSEN. Musician CARL u.
BRUS. AXEL
kRANTZ. JOHN
SORENSEN. HANS
FREDERTKSEN. CHR
JOHNSON. JOSEPH NJ
NIELSEN. PEDER
JENSEN. OI.Av
DIXEN. EINAR p.
KnSTOFTE. ERODE 3.
DlETZ. ANDREW
CHRISTENSEN. MARTIN
JORGENSEN. CARL G. p.
MOSBEK. BERNHARD
NIEl SEN. JENS PETER
CHRISTENSEN. EMF.
SJ.OrT. MARTIN c.
HANSEN. MARTIN G.
LAuRSEN. Regt. SGT. MAjoe n. G.
OI.ESk.N. OLLIE N.
RASMUSSEN. r.
ANDERSEN. MARTIN OTTO
JAKOBSEN. rHORvALD
DIETz. JENS
SIMONS0AARD. NIEI0 p
PETERSEN. srxt. v. 3.
JENSEN. JACOB
CHRISTENSEN. HARALD
HANSEN. JENS c. J.
NIELSEN. CHRISTOPHER
LARSEN. CHARLEY
JENSEN. THORvALD
JOHANSE:N. MARIUS r.
JOHNSON. GUST
NIELSEN. ANDERS b.
DAMN. HARRY p.
PETERSEN. CHR. n.
MEHR. LUDWIG
STOvRlNG. SIGuRD
JENSEN. AXEI. A.
INGEMANSEN. CHRISTIAN
KllSrOFTE. Lieut.. HEI.0B d.
JUL. ANDKEw ".
SLOT. JULIUS +.
CHRISTENSEN. kONRAD
SkOv. OTTO
cHR is;ri H CHRIS
HERMANSEN. PETER
JACOBSEN. ANTON c.
SORENSEN. JOHN
MILTERSEN. PETER
PAuiSEN. EJNER 4.
THOMSEN. WALTER
PEDERSEN. HOLGER
SERALD Sgt. ANTON
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-01-08
"WHY BOYS LEAVE
THE FARM

Why did you leave the farm.
my lad? Why did you roam and
quit your dad? Why did you
beat it off to town and turn your
poor old father down? Think
ers of platform. pulpit, press,
are wallowing in deep distress:
they seek to know the hidden
cause, why farmer boys desert
their paws. Some say they long
to get taste of faster life and
social waste; some say the silly
little chumps mistake the suit
cards for the trumps, in wager
ing fresh and germless air
against the smoky thoroughfare.
We're all agreed the. farms the
place so free your mind and
state your case!
We'll, stranger. since you have
been so frank, I'll roll aside my
hazy bank. the misty cloud of
theories and show you where the
trouble lies. left my dad, his
farm. his pillow. because my calf
became his cow. I left my dad,
twas wrong of course, because
my colt became his horse. left
my dad to sow and reap. because
my lamb became his sheep. l
dropped my hoe and stuck my
fork. because my pig became his
pork. The garden truck that I
made grow, twas his to sell but
mine to hoe. It's not the smoke
in the atmosphere, nor the taste
for life that brought me here.
Please tell the platform. pulpit.
press, no fear of toll or love of
dress is driving off the farmer
lads, but just the methods of
their dads. Selected.
Time is money. Save time by
usin0 the American Want Coi.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-01-08
Askov's Roll of Honor

BRUS, VALDEMAR
Med. Det. Co. A.
Fort Sheridan. III.
JACOBSEN. LIST G. Srgt. RICHARD p
609th Aero Squadron.
Field Hempsted. Long Island
New York.
MORTENSEN, Corp. A.
I Co. 10 Regt.. Marine Barracks.
Quantico. Va.
NlSSEN. OLE
Med. Dept. Field No. 2. Post Hosp
Hampstead. Long Island. N. 7.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-01-08

The day has come when the poultry-keeper whether
farmer townsman must either feed properly keep
his flock at loss No longer he look upon his flock
scavengers. whose keep costs him nothing and whose
product is all clear profit
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-01-08

Time is money. Save time by
using the American Want Col.
umn.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1920-01-08

American-For news,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-09

Public Resistance to High
Prices Becomes More Gen
uine Than Heretofore
Abnormal Circumstances
Cloud Seasonal Trend.

Public resistance to high prices is
more pronounced and genuine than
at any time since retail buying re-
sumed on a large scale during the
late winter of 1919. The overall
movement, while itself a fad and
necessarily transient, is taken as evil
dence OF 81 general conviction that
prices are unjustly high and must
come down. The traditional shoe is
pinChing, but unfortunately il does
not pinch most Of those who are TO
blame.
The policy of eastern department
stores in cutting prices is significant
and affords an example which manu-
facturerS as well as retailers might
follow 20 advantage. Judge Gary.
an apostle of price sanity, is refus-
ing 10 let the steel corporation ex-
plot the worlds need. Producers
and distributors generally must be
content with smaller profits. The
penalty is a sharp curtailment of
demand, threatening business de-
preston. Cancellations are increas-
ing in the clothing and textile INDUS
tries. and already certain mills have
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-09

suspended night operations or laid
off day employees.
The buying public is very clear in
it's attitude toward building. While
operations are substantial, they do
not begin to reach the volume which
present needs require.
The strength of spring demand
has not received a fair test, owing
10 the lateness of the season. Strikes
have crippled the delivery and dis
tributiOn o. merchandise. and threat
en- eventually to reduce purchasing
power. Imports are large and
growing A feeling of conservatism
has developed. especially in lines
where profiteering has seemed most
fragrant. Retailers are now consid-
ering the serious question as to how
materially reduced agricultural pro-
duction and high costs will affect
the farmers ability to purchase
goods next fall.
Collections are not quite so good
as formerly. Concessions are more
numerous AS Dun's remarks, at
tention is concentrated on the corn
pletion of old business. The future
is regarded with uncertainty.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-09
BUSINESS INDEXES

Despite money stringency, stock
market liquidation. innumerabie
strikes, and hesitation in trade, far
seeing business men refuse to take
a pessimistic view and stOutly resist
panic propaganda. Admitting that
many factors in the present situa-
ton are gravely disturbing, no war
rant exists for believing that crash
impends The country is sure 10
work its way through the encircling
difficulties. contingent only upon
some degree Of cooperation from Ia
Dor. The greatest menace 10 pros
perit Wis class anita gOnism and the
tendency 10 exaggerate distinctions
between classes. This tendency all
thinking Americans will strive 70
overcome.
Partly due to psychological infiu-
ences Of the war, the public is
swayed by waves of sentiment and
cannot view conditions with bal
anced mind. There is reinsurance
in the imperfect equilibrium which
business has established even at alb
normal price levels and amid un-
precedented circumstances. Organic
charges In the Soclai structure are
sure TO come. but in all probability
they will be gradual. permitting re-
adjustment. The underlying sanity
OF the American people has been
demOnstratn many times, upon IL
the nation may rely.
Conditions warrant neither an eX-
cess of pessimism nor an excess of
optimism. II America stands at the
brink OF panic and disorder. the
plight of several European countries
must be absolutely hopeless. The
world has every chance to pull
itself together and build a nobleT
edifice upon the ruins of the old.
Patience, courage, wise leadership.
and spirit OF mutual helpfulness
between nations are required. Amer
ica's greatest danger lies in what
one financial institutio ncalls her
"prediSpOSition 20 opportuniSm. "A
crisis comes and we awake in a
panic; IL goes and we return TO
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-09
FOREIGN TRADE
Trade Convention

Developments this year put the
seventh national foreign trade con-
vention, TO be held in San Fran
cisco May 1915. in a somewhat en-
barrassing position. Months ago it
selected as the general theme of it's
discussion, The Effect Of Being a
Credit Nation" The feeling preva-
lent in banking and export circles is
that the United States has not met
its responsibilities as a creditor ma
tion. while European countries blame
American indifference TO their credit
needs and the position OF exchange
for delay in the work OF reconstruc-
ton.
American business interests must
privately be extending large
volume OF credit Otherwise march
exports would never have increased
over most previous months. These
new credits Will strengthen. Amer
ica's position as a creditor nation.
Yet so disiOinted are world trade
relations that the United States
presents the anomalous picture Of
a creditor nation. owed literally bill
lions, exporting gold I'm amounts
that affect the credit structure ma
terially.
America is not prOfiting by its
position as a creditor nation 20 the
extent that Britain has done in the
past and is doing now. II the trade
convention can awake the nation
not only 10 the need for further
judicious extension of credit. but TO
the desirability OF taking proper ad-
vantage OF credit already extended.
II will have more than justified
itself.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-09
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
The Boycott

with the public seemingly arrayed
against high prices, thoughtful men
are specializing as to what precise
effect a sharp reduction In demand
viii have. Normally Il would knock
the props out from under prices but
present conditions are abnormal.
Labor will endeavor to keep wages
at arbitrary levels, while manufaC-
turers may restrict production for
the sake OF keeping prices up. They
have learned 20 act IN concert and
know the advantages OF keeping
supply well below demand.
II demand Is cut one-haif or nine
tenthS say. IN particular lines. the
effect would be 20 paralyze the in
dustries concerned. produce unem-
plOyment. and even start a panic.
Production would suffer heavily.
Stocks would vanish. Later, when
demand resumed. 10 would find the
market bare. Prices would become
almost prohibitive The boycott
would merely have enhanced the
evil IL was designed 10 correct.
II the public will reduce its con-
sumption OF Injuries. % 20 so per
cent. and its consumption OF Ger
tain necessaTtes 10 10 20 or 80 per
cent. not by a brief squirt. but for
a period OF many months or a few
years the effect viii be salutary.
Proper economy will eliminate the
labor shortage by instituting i'm
portant readiustments in industry.
and will increase labor efficiency by
thinning out jobs and holding wages
within reason. Increased production
and lower prices will result.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-09

The month OF May should see
heavy marketing OF wheat II rail-
road conditions permit The wheat
guarantee expires May 2L For this
reason. II no other. the farmers view
with disapproval sporadic switch
mems strikes and threats OF strike
by ali the brotherhoods. Due 20
the restrictions laid upon marketing.
the amount OF money loaned on
grain during the winter was eXcep-
tsonally large.
No provision has been made 20
protect the farmer who can not
get shipping accommodations prior
10 June Perhaps this omission
- immaterial since the price OF
wheat Is now above the guarantee
and gives every indication of stay
ing there The guarantee has ad-
mittedly been the keynote Of the
grain price structure during the past
year, but it's absence need not cause
anxiety. The grain markets adj
vance 20 new high levels comes in
response 10 more than purely local
factors The world needs grain.
Australia will have little II any.
wheat 20 export. And finally. the
grain. world IS beginning % admit
that the danger Of curtailed prOduc-
tion through labor shortage has sub
stance.
Defends Hedging.
Julius Barnes has offered a very
illuminating defense OF hegding in
the grain market as tending 20
minimize risk and stabilize prices
The farmer has been none too friend
-.
hensible operations Of grain traders.
Hedging has seemed merely a phase
Of market speculation. Barnes not
only defends Il. but is working to-
ward a resumption Of trading in
wheat futures. or what is known as
an open" market This does not
seem an immediate prospect owing
TO factors In the present abnormal
situation which make the wary
grain trader proceed cautiously.
Packer Case Again.
The packer football is about 10
receive another kick The house
committee on agriculture recently
disapproved licensing. the packing in
dustry and creation Of n new gov
eminent commission 20 deal solely
with the packers. The committee
authorized a special subcommittee
10 dratt legislation experimenting the
dissolution decree effected by Atty.
Gen. Palmer with the big five" The
time has come 10 make no bones
about putting the packers under
tudicious and effective control in the
interests OF the livestock producer
and consumer and giving the pack
ing industry a chance to reach it's
maximum efficiency. The present
interminable batting" must end.
Manufacturers OF Toledo are re-
puted 10 be supporting a movement
in favor OF n state cOnsta bulary law
a magazine VIII be published and
circulated chiefly among farmers and
labOrers explaining the advantages
10 be derived from a state constabu-
larry.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-09

sleep thinking we were needlessly
alarmed"
The Canadian government has
been considering a fat tax on sales
as a substitute for the excess profits
tax. which II hopes to abolish. In
this country the sales tax is gaining
much publicity and may receive
serious consideration in congress.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-09
sustaining factor.
LIVESTOCK.
fChiCagO MalkCt.)

Hog receipts Monday were excep-
tionally heavy judged by recent
standards, and heavyweights sold
off Lightweights were favored.
Hogs ranged lower the next day,
but recovered, only 10 lose ground
again. Cattle enjoyed cOnsidera BILE
activity and prices stiffened. Fri
days session was dull with prices
shading off. Calves. which had been
slow and weab, held steady. Sheep
and lambs met good demand, prices
ranging higher.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-09
ReUiew of the Week
De FfnanciaI Editoe.
STOCKS.

After starting the week bearishly.
stocks turned upward and sentiment
improved. Funds became more
plentiful and rates eased. Bullish
factor were the supreme courts re
fusal 20 reopen the steel corpora
ton case, relaxing tension In the
money market and the absence of
markedly unfavOrable developments.
Powerful interests arrayed them
selves against further bear activity.
II seemed. Late dealings Thursday
brought a reversal of the forward
movement. Fridays session was ex-
tremely dull with sentiment divided.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-09

KENOSHA. Wis.-Eight wait
resses who waited at a banquet
at the Elks club. waited two
hours longer-until 3 n. M
for an elevator 20 move them
from between floors. Several
tainted when mechanics got the
elevator in shape To elevate.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-09
COTTON

Crop and weather reports were
the topic Of absorbing interest in
the weeks vacillating cotton mart
Strength in the stock market, was
a reassuring factor. while labor
troubles an dthe prospect OF a re-
duced demand for cotton goods ex-
erted bearish pressure. Fridays
initial upturn, resulting from firm
cable news, was followed by a de-
cline in view of Improvement in the
Wea thor
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-09
GRAIN.
(ChipaUO Market \

Grains scared TO new high records
during the early week under the in
fiuence of factors hitherto prevailing.
Traders expressed uneasiness over
the late 1920 season and farm labor
shortage, Receipts continued light
Sentiment turned somewhat bear
ish about the midweek and prices
averaged a little lower in view Of
better weather and more cheering
crops advices The lightness OF re-
ceipts nevertheless continued a
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-09
AGRICULTURE

May Should See Heavy Mar
keting of Wheat-Packer
Football to r Give
Another Kick.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-10
June 10th July l5tt


June 10th July 18th
The State of Wisconsin In Circuit Court
for Bayfield, County
L. o. Dart, Plaintiff.
T.. p. Raymond otherwise known as Edgar
r. Raymond, Elizabeth Raymond, G.
Monico Ralph and Twenty-SiAth Street
Hank.
Defendants.
Take notice that pursuant to the 1udg-
men entered in the above entitled action.
I, as sheriff of said Bayfield, County, Will
OH the s7th day of July. 1920, at 10 O'Clock in
the forenoon at the front door OF the Court
House in the City of Washburn. in said
Bayfield, County. offer for sale and sell at
public vendue. the mortgaged premises
directed by said judgment to be sold and
therein described as follows. to-wit: the
southwest quarter Is y ~ of section twenty
three (ss) and north half (NH1 of section
twenty-seyen (27), in township forty mine
(4s, north. of range six t6) west. in Bayfield,
County, Wisconsin, containing four hum
.dred eighty t4sO) acres, more or less, ac-
cording To government survey thereof.
Dated June 3rd. 1920.
JAMES NJ. LONG,
Sheriff of Bayfield,
County, Wisconsin.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-10
Notice of Special Election

Notice is hereby given that in ac-
cordance with the provisions of Sec
tion 925-11sa of Wisconsin Statutes
a resolution has been presented to
the undersigned City Clerk OF the
City OF Washburn, city OF the
fourth class, now operating its
schools under the provisions OF the
General Charter Law, signed by
thirty per cent and more of the
legal voters of said City OF Wash
burn School District, requesting
return to the ordinary district system
of school government, and an annul-
ment of that provision of the charter
under which the schools of said City
of Washburn are now administered;
and that the common council OF said
city has by resolution ordered that
said question be submitted to the
electors of said city school district at
a special election, to be held on the
18th day of June, 1890, and that in
pursuance thereof
Notice is hereby given that q
special election will be held ut the
regular polling place, at the Fire
Hall. on Second Avenue West, in
the City of Washburn, in Bayfield,
county, Wisconsin, on the 18th day
of June, 1890, for the purpose Of
voting upon said question whether
or not said City of Washburn shall
return to the ordinary district sys-
tenn of school government, and annul
that provision of the charter under
which the schools are now admins.
tered; and that the polls of sa,a
election will be open at nine O'Clock
in the forenoon, and will close AT
5 80 o'clock in the evening.
Dated this 3rd day of June, 1890.
L. N. CLAUSEN,
City Clerk.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-10
WHERE is ARMENIA, AND
WHY A MANDATE?

President Wilson asks the people
of the United States, through Con.
gress to accept a mandate for
Armenia under his already discredit-
ed theory regarding League of
Nations. This the people of the
United States will not do.
There are several yerv good rea,
sons why the American people have
no stomach for guaranteeing the
integrity of the far-away territory OF
Armenia. One reason is that the
military mission which investigated
the situation in the near east has re-
ported that the acceptance of such a
mandate by the United States would
mean the maintenance in Armenia OF
an army of some sixty thousand
American boys. We have better
use for our young men than keeping
them in the stenching pest-holes of
Turkey to do police work among q
disease-ridden population.
Another reason is that the es-
timated cost of maintaing this police
force is in the neighborhood OF
$1OO. 900, 900 year. America can
find better use for the money of
her tax payers than pouring it down
the rat hole in Europe dirty back
yard.
Still another reason for keeping
our fingers off of Armenia is that the
effort to entangle us in the whirlpool
of eastern Europe is nothing more
nor less than an attempt to shift the
burden of protecting the land that
Great Britain and France will ex
plot commercially, possibly to our
own commercial disadvantage.
And lastly the very best reason
why we will not comply with the re-
quest of President Wilson is that the
average American citizen, who will
be called upon to foot the bill of the
army of occupation has not the
slightest idea in the world where
Armenia is and why should we med
die in its affairs.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-10

TURNED INTO RADIUM
ouns, "Dsiisd Down." Produced Val.
liable Quantity 81 the Prlxee
Radioactive Material.

An important medical report, writes
q London Daily Chronicle correspond
ent. will be presented to the medical
research committee by specialists
who have been investigating the effect
Of autobiography.
Sir Walter Fletcher's department OBJ
tanned frsm the ministry Of munitions
large quantity Of radioactive mate
rial from guns used In the war. The
lot was2"boiled down" to produce Ave
grammes Of actual radium salt so
highly powerful 1t has been kept In
lead safe weighing one and one-half
tons. 1t is probably the largest amount
available In one place Tor research
work, and although only about q
heaped teaspoonful 1t is worth not far
short Of $5OO,OOO.
SO potent are these Ave grammes
that II q rat is imprisoned In the lead
safe In which the container Is placed
1t dies In day and half.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-10

Be live wire and advertise in the
Times. It pays.