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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-06-16
ASkOV VILLAGE COUNCIL.
PROCEEDINGS

The village council of the village
OF Askov met In said village on
June. .. 1921. All members present.
Minutes Of April were read and
approved. there being no meeting in
May. Minutes of April rs. which
was joint meeting between the
Town Board Of Partridge township
and the village council Of Askov viii
lage, were also read and approved
Motion was made and seconded
that clerk be instructed To notify
officers OF local creamery that the
village health officer has informed
the council In his annual report
that conditions Of waste at the
creamery are unsanitary. and that
something should be done as soon as
possible to improve these condi-
tons. Motion carried.
The Clerk was also ordered TO
write the Great Northern Ry. CO..
requesting installation OF bell sys-
tenn or some sort Of guard at the
railroad crossing near the depot.
II was moved and seconded to
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cooperative creameries as mem
bers of the association. They
will receive the full cooperation
of the farm bureau organization
from the state federation down
to township units, farm bureau
officials said. Capitalization of
dairy, grain and livestock mar
keting is the goal of the state
federation.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-06-16
Askov

Chris Eriksen was q business
caller in Duluth last Thursday.
Miss Agnes Frokjer left Fri
day for Nashua, where she will
keep house for her brothers.
Axel Berentsen accompanied
Carl Miller to West Denmark,
Wis, Wednesday and will visit
there for a short time.
Peter M. Felatmose of Indian
ola, Iowa, visited here from Fri
day until Tuesday at the home
of his brother, Knud Feldtmose,
north Ok town.
Abfait twenty members of the
d. y. S. lodge met Sunday fore
moon and leveled out their lot
around the hall. making very
noticeable improvement in both
front ana rear.
The four weeks Danish vaca-
ton school in the j. August
Nielsen school southwest of town
is now in full swing with Miss
Agnete Fenger as teacher. There
are Is pupils.
The d. B. s. anniversary cele-
bration will be held Sunday,
commencing at 1 o'clock, in the
park. Refreshments will be sold
ut the stand; coffee will be
served free. Entertainment
such as races of all kinds. tug
Of war. shooting gallery and also
speeches. Everybody welcome.
Ludwig Mehr who is a student
Of the theological department of
Grand View College, Des Moines,
Iowa, gave a good talk before
the Young Peoples Society Sun
day evening ON the school and
its activities. He urged those
who desire more schooling and
who are looking for a college
with good environments to go
there.
About fifty friends and neigh
bors gathered for a social even
ing. Monday, at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Jens Henriksen. the &C.
casion being Mr.. Henriksen's
55th birthday. Although a hard
worker and quite old, Mr.. H.
still enjoys the results Of good
athletic training in his Younger
days, as he can with ease scratch
the top Of his head with his hg
toe.
l.. c. Petersen and A. Grave
sen returned the first Of the
week from their trip to Clinton,
Iowa. where they attended the
annual conference Of "Dansk
Folkesamfund' and Dwight. Ill.,.
where they were in attendance
at the annual conference Of the
Danish Lutheran church. Mr.,
Petersen is an officer Of "Dansk
Folkesamfund" and Mr.. Grave
sen was a delegate from the To-
cal church to the church con-
ference. They report good. pro-
fitable meetings both places.
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Pine County
Farm News
Edited by Fred s. Idtse, Manager
Pine County Farm
Bureau.
New Cooperative Marketing As.
ISOLATION Seeks Better
Markets. Distinctive
Brand.

st. Paul, June 9.--.Delegates re-
presenting 320 cooperative Min
nesota creameries, meeting in
convention at the state capitol,
have launched a statewide asso-
citation designed to improve the
market for Minnesota dairy pro-
ducts and save money for the
producers. A board of Is direc-
tors. elected by the convention,
is drafting articles of incorpora-
ton for the Minnesota Coopera-
tive Creameries Association, Inc.
Every cooperative creamery in
the state will be given a chance
to join.
Officers of the association are:
Fl. B. Nickerson of Elk River,
president; William Harpel of
Glencoe. vice president; John
Brandt, of Litchfield, secretary
and Isaac Emerson of Skyberg,
treasurer. The other members
of the board of directors are
Herman Berg. Rush City, repre-
senting cooperative creameries
in Chisago. Pine, Mile Laos,
Isanti and Kanabec counties:
Frank Farley, Spring Grove, re-
presenting Houston, Winona,
Fillmore and Mower; Charles
Markytan, Owatonna represent
ing Freedom and Steele: w. r..
linville, Long Prairie, for
Stearns. Todd and Benton: A. l..
Vabgel. Mankato. for Waseca,
LeSueur and Blue Earth; c. J..
Rath. Easton. for Brown, Fari-
bault. Waterman and Martin: J..
o. Bjorklund. Henning. for OF
tertail, Wadena and Becker; G..
G. Baker. Slayton, for Lincoln,
Lyon. Redwood. Pipestone. Muir
ray, Cottonwood. Rock, Mobiles
and Jackson; c. T. Kirkvold.
Starbuck. for Douglas. Pope.
Grant, Chippewa, Yellow Medi-
cine. Lac qui Parle. Swift. Ste
vens, Traverse and Wilkin: f. O.
Melsness. Erskine. for Polk, Nor
man. Clearwater. Clay. Mahno-
men, Red Lake. Pennington, Mar
shall. Kittson and Rosseau; v.
Lockwood. Motley. for Morrison,
Aitkin, Crow Wing. Carlton,
Cas-, ltasca Beltrami, Hubbard
koochiching. st. Louis, Lake and
Cook.
Whole State Represented.
The counties were grouped
and representation accorded on
the basis of butter fat produc.
ton. Mr.. Nickerson represents
Carver. Dakota Hennepin, Wash
ington. Sherburne. Anoka, Ram.
sey and Scott; Mr.. Brandt repre-
sents Meeker. Wright and Kandi.
yohi; Mr., Harpel. Mcleod. Sib-
ley. Renville and Nicollet; and
Mr.. Emerson. Dodge. Olmsted,
Goodhue. Wabasha and Rice.
Governor ]. A. O. Preus. ad-
dressing the convention, declared
the creamery association viii be
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When Paper Really Was Scarce.
A hundred years ago paper was so
dear In this county that butchers used
to give their customers the meat
wrapped up In large vegetable leaf.
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". H. Barnick
Auctioneer

Sandstone. MINI.
Phone me at my expense.
Always ready to give
you the best services.
For dates, ETC., inquire
at the. bank or Ameri-
can office, Askov.
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Otherwise Occupied.
Nobody" said Mr.. Groucher, lis
generous enough to sympathize hon.
estly with other peoples troubles
when he has toOthache Of his own"
The New York herald., 1921-09-25

by the Goldings on an old William Wal
dorf Astor plot at cost of $1,200.000,
the fourteen story structure at the
northeast corner Of Park avenue and
Thirty-eighth street, planned by J. c.
Gnd NJ. G. Mayer, to cost 100000, and
the thirteen story house planned for
the old George ]. Gould property at
the southeast corner OF Fifth avenue
and Seventy-third street by Sylvester N.
Rice. 1t will cost 100000. These are
only few of the larger and more ex-
pensive buildings of their type that will
assist in overcoming the shortage of
apartments in New. York county.
The largest and most unique dwell
ing project Is the Pomander Walk
colony which Thomas Healy is COM
pleting between Ninety-fourth and
Ninety-fifth streets and Broadway and
West End avenue These arc artistic
two family houses with a setting in
harmony with the English colony made
famous In Theodore N. Parker's play
of that name. Col. Michael Friedsam,
president of B. Altman & Co., has filed
plans through Frederick G. Frost,
architect. for a handsome residence
and art gallery at A and as East Sixty
eighth street which he purchased last
June from Rose H. Newman. 1t will
cost more than 100000.
The quality of the new housing In
Manhattan. according to Chief Inspec-
tor Rollin C. Bastress of the Bureau
OF Buildings. Is satisfactory. Mr.. Bast-
ress finds no room for criticism of the
architecture such as was expressed by
Building Superintendent Kleinert in
Brooklyn.
"The design and finish is pretty fair
The New York herald., 1921-09-25

In the many years Of his golden
youth Chauncey NJ Depcw. who rates
himself 81 years young. mas had a num-
Der of strange and wonderful expert
ences which he has generously retailed
to the public in his after dinner
speeches. All Of which accounts to a
great extent for his reputation as a wit
and raconteur. 1t Is doubtful, however,
that he ever revealed a corner of his
life more unexpectedly appropriate than
the one disclosed in his speech before
the members OF the Westchester County
Real Estate Board at q luncheon In
Briarcliff Lodge. Briarclif Manor, last
Wednesday.
Mr.. Depew told his astonished hearers
that in the course Of his career. which
had led him through the maxes OF cor
poration law iLto the United States SEN
ate and various other jobs. such. for
instance as president of the New York
Central Railroad. he had once tried
the lot selling game. That he said
was In his younger days. when he got
possession OF the old family farm at
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
DepeW Once a Lot Seller

Peekskill, which had descended to him
from his grandfather. The farm was
cut up into lots. he said, and every year
he sold Off few of these lots and with
the proceeds paid of the taxes on the
remainder.
Having established basis of profes-
sional fellowship Mr.. Depew then pro-
ceeded with MS speech, which he called
From Normally to Prosperity"
The Westchester board had intended
that the luncheon should be one of the
features of an outing in which athletic
games were to play a conspicuous part
Rain. however. made the baseball dia-
mond. the golf course and the tennis
courts unfit for anything but aquatic
sports. so few of the events were held
indoors. The potato race was won by
Thomas Burke OF Yonkers and the shoe
race by A T. jennings of Prince &
Ripley In the challenge relay race, in
which the gauntlet was thrown down by
the Prince & Ripley organization to Fish
& Marvin, c. Is. Griffen & Co. and George
Howe, premier honors were carried off
by Mr.. Howe's team.
The New York herald., 1921-09-25

areas alone offer the solution. TO the
problem. The ground Is rapidly becom-
Ing too valuable for single or two FAM
ily dwellings and must be developed
with walkup or elevator apartment
houses. When this Is accomplished and
Washington Heights and the Dycifman
section are fully developed Manhattan
viii have reached the Nth power OF its
residential development. "
During the last seven months the
statistics in the office of Rudolph p.
Miller. Superintendent OF Buildings.
show that sixty-three tenements and
apartment houses were planned, and but
seventy-eight dwellings were projected.
The multifamily houses were all large
ones. as is shown by the fact that they
will house 2,637 families. The dwellings
will house only 126 families. The esti-
mated cost of all the projects is s19,-
S52.500.
The majority OF the apartment
Heights. There are a few large struc-
lures going up on the upper West Side
and in the Park and Fifth avenue sec
tions. Most of the dwellings were
planned for the upper East Side. A
few new law tencments were allotted
to the East Side.
Among the largest apartment projects
for which plans were filed are the four
teen story structure at the southeast
corner of Riverside Drive and Cathedral
Parkway to be built by Faterno & Co.
luzzi at cost Of more than $1,000
900; the fourteen story house at Broad
way and Ninetieth street. to be built
The New York herald., 1921-09-25

khe outside world New York Is
ous as a city of spendthrifts. Vis-
with little or no knowledge of in
conditions. paint word pictures OF
light life-theatres late suppers.
hts and other forms of amusement
issipate fortunes.
stop TO think that the city's once
White Way owed much of it's pop
TO visitors. and that resident
Workers patronized 1t more often
ertain their country cousins than
eir personal amusement.
long ago a California real estate
remarked that the extravaganza
w Workers Is shown by their lack
erast In home ownership. Like 50
other uninformcd visitors he
upon Manhattan as representing
ty's population. When the writer
he'd him that the Greater City
bly, had as many home owners as
her two cities In the United States
med greatly surprised.
pine ownership Is the true sign OF
New York city, with its 10000
ng owners. holds a prominent
among the municipalities OF the
for this ndmirable form of in
ent alone. 1t Is not an exaggera-
0 say that the prosperity among
age earning classes from 1914 to
q not create as much of a stir or,
~ White Way as 1t did In sensible
of investment-particularly home
ship.
pe urban sections more money was
led In the purchase of residences
ply than In any similar period IN
TVS history. This was also true
iness properties. Merchants with
8 earnings destroyed expensive
and became the owners of build
hey occupied.
suburban area, so often over
by the visitor, received the great
nefits of this buying movement
this period of prosperity. Homes
bme sites we're sold In great num-
and houses were constructed de-
Ugh building costs. or course the
hd condition in Manhattan gave
= TO this movement. and hundreds
PiIies thet could nst find the quar-
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
Marshall Field Rents,
II. p. Dawson Home

house is to be constructed by the newly-
formed Active Development Company
Is. KatZ, L. Slutnik and NJ. Rothbart)
at the northeast corner Of Merriam ave-
nue. and Hist street, which property 1t
has just bought from the Dominant Re-
atty Corporation. The house will front
116 feet on the avenue and so feet on
the street, and the cost of the operation
is estimated at 100000. Samuel L.
Marcus. attorney, represented both the
buying and selling companies.
p. A. Edmiston sold to builder tho
plot 6ox145 on the east side of Mohegan
avenue, 11S feet south of 1s0th street.
The buyer contemplates erecting five
story apartment house.
]. ]. Pittman sold the vacant plot,
50x115. at 1424 Jessup avenue to a
buyer who will improve.
Suburban transactions.
Fish & Marvin sold for Herbert
Smith his residence on Young avenue,
Pelhamwood, to Harry Ruhl of this city:
and for John Templeton his new house
on Cliff avenue. Pelham Heights. to A.
III. Gehrs of this city.
Robert E. Farley Organization sold
for William B. Rice estate a plot in the
Bryn Mawr Park section of Yonkers.
to Harry c. Roberts of Mt. Vernon, N.
Y
L. N. Nicholson & Co. have sold the
following properties in Lyndhurst. n. j.:
To Philip Stork, a five room house at
Jay and Second avenues to Edward G.
Kellett. a six room house on Court
avenue; to Peter LAURA. a six room
house on Court avenue to Rudolph Hef-
frek. plot, 37.6x1o0. on Fir street :
TO Lawrence ]. Brett. an eight room
house on Riverside avenue, and to Rob-
ert e. Weiss. five room house on Jay
avenue.
Benziger Place I'm MontcIair Sold.
W. T. Teeter has purchased the resi-
dence of Louis G.. Benziger formerly OF
the firm of Benziger Brothers of this
city. The property. which comprises a
fifteen room residence. four baths and a
solarium, Is situated on the west side of
South Mountain avenue near Hillside
avenue. 1t has frontage of $50 feet and
depth of more than $50 feet. There Ia !.
three car garage on the premises. The
pace was held at $4,000. +. VI. Craw-
ley s. Brothers were theebrokers.
Van Ingen Estate Sells Parcel.
Joseph l.. Herschman has purchased
from the Van Ingen estate the four story
business property at 625-627 Sixth ave-
nue., north Of Thirty-sixth street. in
which he has conducted his furniture
business for the last eight years. The
Van Ingen estate had held the property
at $350,000. The land has a frontage OF
80 feet inches and q depth of 100 feet.
New Operator I'm Field.
Philip Dunn who has been quietly
buying several properties during the
last year, has opened an Office in the
Gotham National Bank building at
Broadway and Columbus Circle.
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
hnhattan, Parent Borough Of City, Falls Far Behind
Bronx Brooklyn and Queens in Building Figures Filed
So Far This YearOnly 78 Dwellings and 63
Tenements Planned Since Jan

along Broadway and Madison avenue In
the direction of Seventy-second street.
Since the city voted to exempt mod
crate priced houses and apartments from
taxation for a period of ten years, the
Building Bureaus in the various bor-
oughs have been almost buried in an
avalanche of building plans. In The
Bronx enough houses of all kinds have
bcen planned or erected to house about
5000 families. In Queens builders have
undertaken to put roofs over more than
5000 families, while Brooklyn has out
stripped them all with plans for nearly
$4,000.
While Manhattan was toiling to sup
Fly enough buildings to house the city's
commerce and trade, the apartment
builders and occasional dwelling house
producers in the same period of time. be-
tween February 26 and September 10 Of
this year, had provided living space be-
tween the Battery and the Harlem River
for only 2.763 families. These are
startling figures when they are applied
to the subject Of the drift Of population
In the Greater City. They are more
significant and interesting when this
fact is taken into consideration-that in
Manhattan, every year during the war.
more residence buildings of all kinds
were torn down to make room for busi-
ness than were erected. Even the build
ing officials in Manhattan admit that
the borough will probably never again
produce enough houses to maintain an
increase In population comparative with
the other boroughs.
This may sound trifle extravagant
when one calls to mind the density Of
population on the lower East Side. which
exceeds that of any other city in the
world. The mind also travels to Har-
lem, where row upon row Of small flats
and dwellings exist which might give
way to giant apartment houses. These
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
EVEN PROPERTY TO
GO UNDER HAMMER
162 Spuyten Duyvil Lots Will
BE Sold by B. L. Kennedy
October 19.

The heirs OF the late Gen. John Even
through former District Attorney Charles
A. Perkins and Arthur G. Train. attor-
neys. have ordered Bryan L. Kennedy to
dispose of 162 building lots on Spuyten
Duyvil Parkway, Riverdale, Netherland
and Tibbett avenues IN the Spuyten Duy-
vii section. The sale will be held on
Wednesday. October 10. The property
Is adjacent 10 land given TO the city by
Eliza NJ. owen. a sister of Gen.. Even.
Caroline G. Even. another sister, who
died In 1913 left large estate which
was bequeathed to various societies for
the prevention of cruelty to animals in
Eastern cities The will was contested
ly some OF her heirs. The proceeds OF
the sale will go to the support Of these
various humane organizations.
On Columbus Day, October IL, Mr..
Kennedy Will sell at auction 26o building
sites in sampawain Park. Babylon, L. I.
The property fronts on Deer Park ave.
nue., n woli paved thoroughfare with oity
improvements and within few minutes
walk Of the railroad station and within
short walk Of the Great South Bay. The
lots are suitable for development with
summer or all tho year houses.
About l&7 lots belonging to the Arrow
estate In tho westchcstcr square section
OF the Bronx will be offered for sale BY
Mr.. Kennedy next Saturday on the
premises regardless OF weather condi-
tions. On October 10 he will offer The
Oasis.' a noted westchester county es-
tate at Harrison and White Plains ave.
nue in Harrison. ". Y.
For tho benefit Of builders. speculstors
and investors. the auctioneer will inau-
gurate a special series OF night auctions
In tho Brooklyn Exchange. iSe Montague
4~~r
October 8, when he will offer seventy
three lots In the Bay Ridge, Fort HAM
ilton and East F'latbush sections OF
Hrcnklynr
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
TO SELL LOTS AND HOUSES.

Jere Johnson Jr. Company, auc-
tioneers, will sell on Thursday night.
September 20. at 8 o'clock in the Brook
lyn Real Estate Exchange, 1Ss Montague
street, the four dwellings at SO, SIS, ST
and 80 Hanson place. corner South
Portland avenue; the store property at
696 Fulton street, with two fronts,
through to South Portland avenue 90
and 80 Washington street and 81 and
~ Flint street, stores and flats, with
two street frontages; seventeen lots
near the Fourth avenue subway on i'm
proved streets In a built up section, In
ciuding the corners of Fifth avenue at
Thirty-second and Thirty-third streets,
and lots on Thirty-second, Thirty-third
and Thirty-fourth streets. between Third
and Fifth avenues. Only 20 per cent.
cash Is required to purchase the houses.
The lots may be paid for In monthly
instalments if desired.
The New York herald., 1921-09-25
lay White Way as a
/ Lure to oHOnne Buyers
BY THE ODD PARAGRAPHER.

ters they desired In apartments turned
their attention to Brooklyn, The Bronx,
Queens and the suburbs.
Few Of those who have gone to live In
their privately owned houses in the sub
urban area will ever return to busy.
noisy Manhattan. In fact, when eco
nomic conditions improve. many more
thousands will Join them.
With II all, however, Manhattan Is no
less crowded than before, because its
visitors OF to-day are home owners Of
tomorrow.
Americas ssoIdest. Residence.
Columns upon columns have been
written about Americas oldest" resi-
dence Improvement. No sooner do we
decide the argument settled than UP
bobs another Oldest house, and the
merry discussion starts all over again.
Easton. Nd, now claims 20 have the
Oldest frame building In the United
States. Its old Quaker meeting house
is said to stand where IL was built, an
as IL was built in 1883 without anv
change, addition or subtraction. An oc-
casional replacing of shingles on the
roof and of the weather boarding are all
the repairs 1t has had. Its frame. in
side woodwork and some of the
Notwithstanding are the same as when
built, which was about the time that
~ Illiam Penn. who visited the building.
was trading with the Indians and laying
out Philadelphia. The only preserva-
tive used In the wood has been white
wash. Seven of the original plank seats
and the inside woodwork have had no
paint whatever. White oak, white pine.
cypress and Southern pine from the
Maryland forests wero the woods used.
Turing the recpnt tercentenary celc-
bration OF the landing of the Pilgrims
held at Plymouth the opening to the
public Of the William Harlowe house.
reported built in 1877, received consid-
erabie prominence. This old residence
is said to have been framed with oak
timbers from an old fort which. as
wins1ow relates, ''was built IN 1922 on
the top of the hin under which the town
waa. }oaAkAdt