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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-09-08
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Rev. Simpson spent Wednes-
day in Mora
Rev S. A. Blair of Duluth, was
i'm town Tuesday.
Miss Laura Laying spent the
week end in Sandstone.
Glenn Gault came home Sat-
urday to spend few days.
Miss Ida Fairchild left for her
school in Braham. last week.
Mrs. Geo. Ball and children
were in Duluth part of last
week.
Miss Josephine Douglas left
for her school in Berlin, N. d..
Friday.
A large number of people at
tended the Fair at kerrick. Sat
urday.
Miss Evalyn Plaisted Of Du-
buth, spent the week end at
home.
Miss Dorothy Kress left for
her home in Davenport, Iowa,
Saturday.
Bruce Gochneaur and Miss Al
thea Hoagland were in Brook
Park, Friday.
Chas. Sprague spent the. week
end with Mrs. Sprague. She
is gaining slowly.
Don't fail to attend the Pine
County Sunday School conven
ton at Bruno, Sunday.
Mrs. Plank, mother of Mrs
Darling, returned to her home
in West Concord. Thursday.
Bert Rose was called Il
Brookston to take charge of thu
station there for two weeks.
Mrs. Emmens and family o.
Chicago, spent last week herr
with her brother, Mr.. Abraham
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bowman ant
children of Duluth, spent Sun
day and Monday with her pa
rents. Mr.. and Mrs. Gault.
Arthur Frederickson. Mr.. Mel
son and Mr.. Falean and family
all of Minneapolis. spent tn
week end at the John N. Hanson
home.
There will be no services a
Kerrick and Pleasant Hill, Sun
day, on account of the Pin
County Sunday school conven
ton at Bruno on that day.
School opened Tuesday wit
C. A. Nash as superintendent
Miss Coris. high school; Mis-
Hoaglaid. 9Th grade and domes
tic science; Miss Thomas 9Th an
It'll: Miss Neeman. 4th and 5th
Miss Rich, End and 3rd; Mis-
Larson, LIST. The number of pr
pills enrolled is It's.
Lutheran services in the Gel
man language will be held a
Bruno September Is. at 2 P. N
Sunday school at l P. M. Con
munion will be- held after tn
services. Please attend an
bring your children with yoa
Rev. F. ]. Mack of Kroschel. Of
floating.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-09-08
Obituary..

Reynold Lingren, son of Mr..
and Mrs. ]. H. Lingren. was born
in Finlayson June s. 1910. died
at his home here in Bruno Aug
ust q, age IL years, 2 months
and Is days. When he was three
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-09-08

ubbGO VUW0NuSs
Following is a list of those
winning prizes with the name Of
first prize winner first. second
prize winner second. ETC.. unless
otherwise stated
Graham bread: Mrs. Murphy
second prize.
Devils food layer cake: Mrs
Murphy.
Filled cookies Mrs. Weber
Mrs. Murphy.
Best Butter: Mrs. Douglass
Mrs. Coulter.
Raspberries: Mrs. Walsh. Mrs
Murphy.
Peaches: Mrs. Douglass.
Pears: Mrs. Walsh. second.
Dill pickles. Mrs. Marihare.
Apple jelly: Mrs. Murphy
Mrs. >. stafford.
Apples: Mrs. Starch.
Beet pickles: Mrs. L. Peter
son.
Plum jelly: Mrs. Douglass.
Childrea's Prises.
Best darned stocking: Eleancl
Erickson.
Set Of three button holes: Ele
amor Erickson.
Bead chain: Eleanor Erickso =
Canned tomatoes: Fred MIR
ply.
Best ten ears corn: Um.i
Rupp.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-09-08


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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-09-08

If anyone still bas . ticket for
q premium they received, please
take it 70 Mr.. Markss and get
your money.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13
Face Famine in
Newfoundland

DR.. Grenfell came to New York few
days ago from Labrador whittier he
had gone after q conference here with
Mr.. Howard. director of the New
foundland relief work, and DR.. Fred
erick Lynch, treasurer of the fund.
Fisherfolk on Verge of Famine.
DR.. Grenfell reported finding de-
plorable conditions among the fam
lilies of the fishermen, and the indus
try Of the country in truly sad state.
He says: 81 have just received a
message from Mr.. Ed Grant of Blanc
Sablon, Labrador, asking if / can help
there. as great restitution prevails.
/ am afraid that 1t will be very seri-
Gus by winter. l sent him couple
Of hundred dollars to fit out some few
fishermen.
AT Twillingate only one-half of the
normal number of fishermen are being
fitted out. The savings are being
drawn steadily from most Of the
banks. both In the outports and In st.
of the bankers. We are starting the
new hospital building at Twillingate.
That is a help"
Mr.. Howard, discussing the discOur-
aging reports from Labrador. COM
mented:
''Twillingate is the largest and most
prosperous place In Newfoundland out
side of ST. Johns. If Twilingate can
fit out only half her fishermen for the
,, seasons fishing, it Is black outlook
for the rest of the island. Blanc Sab
lon is an important fishing port at
the entrance TO the straits of Belle
Isle.
If restitution prevails there now.
1 hesitate to think what Doctor Gren-
fell will find as he goes north.
much of the restitution could, be
relieved II one of my ships could leave
for the Labrador coast now filed to
the deck beams with flour. vegetables
molasses and fishery salt. A dollar
of help now would be worth $40 in
next winters inevitable famine.
The committee Is now engaged in a
program of relief which will aid the
starving Newfoundlanders and at the
same time provide food for families
made homeless and suffering in this
country on account of the COLORADO
flood. 1t is offering the fish for sale
for SO for 100-pound box, and pur
chasers who do not want fish for theil
own use may direct that it be sem
to the Colorado refugees. Thus foot
will go TO hungry Americans and the
money which pays for it will go to the
Newfoundland fishermen.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13
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GOOD ROADS SAVE MUCH GAS
Trucks Use Twice as Much Fuel On
Dirt Highfsys as on Ono
Built of Concrete.

That good roads cut the COST NJ
gasoline more than 30 per cent 10
stated by Freight Transportation Di.
geSt." A loaded two-ton truck WAC
used In a test and i'm running lO
miles on an earth road consumed ia
gallons of gasoline, making an aver.
age of 5.7S miles gallon. The COST
figured at - cents gallon was S43a.
The same truck was used on a con.
crete road and travelled the same dis.
lance on $40 gallons of gasoline, max.
ing Ills miles per gallon. The cost
in this case, figured on the same
basis, was S2.12. The net savings IN
cost Of gasoline on the improved high.
way was therefore S2.21, or more than
100 per cent.
Statisticians could step in here and
cOnjure a colossal sum to represent,
the savings in gasoline cost if all the
highways of the United States were
paved, remarks the Columbus 10Y
Dispatch. They could. for instance
assume that all of the one-half million
mOtortrucks in the country were two
ton trucks, and on this basis fgure
out saving in gasoline costs equal tn
a couple of Liberty loan issues.
This enormous reduction in gasoline
costs, coupled with the ability to
handle loads with less fractional ef-
fort, has become one of the strongest
arguments for good roads. The two
tests cited in this instance show con-
clusively that poor roads are expen-
sive to the farmer and merchant alike
The farmer who hauls with a motor.
truck is getting only One-eighth of the
profit he could get and the merchant
and inter-city freight truck operator
are paying out twice what they should
for gasoline and are getting only one
eighth of the profit they could get
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13
Man Who Befriended Beggar Is
Rewarded With Key to
Buried Treasure.
ROMANCE IS NOT YET DEAD
Locates After Search of More Than
Seven Years Gold Hidden Half Gen.
fury Ago-church DespoIed
by Four Sailors.

Papeete. Tahiti.-ROmance is not
yet dead. Tales of buccaneering, muir
der on the high seas, buried gold on
lonely, uninhabited islands and charts
and cryptograms of hidden treasure
trove are not all inventions of mag
NATIVE minds or legends of day
which is long past.
Such tale is that of the, treasure
Of the island of Pinaki, whose hiding
place, after a patient search of more
than seven years, has at last Deeh
discovered. And now schooner from
Tahiti has been dispatched to bring
away the gold.
Sailors DespoiI the Peruvian Church,
A half century ago four sailors, de-
serters from cOastwise vessel,
Joined revolutiOnists In Peru and
learned of a vast treasure of jewels,
plate and ingots, the property OF the
church, which had been hidden in Peru
TO prevent it from falling into the
hands of one of the warning factions
Secretly, the sailors searched for the
treasure, found 1t concealed la a
church and moved it to another hiding
place ON the coast.
Going TO Panama, the seafarers, al
night, boarded small schooner, muir.
dered the crew and. after putting the
treasure aboard, set sail across the
Pacific, intending to make some Eu
ropean port later to dispose Of theiI
wealth. Recalling that they had nc
clearance papers and probably could
not enter European port safely, they
decided to hide the gold on some un
Inhabited island and then get ii later
In a vessel they would charter at sgd
ney, n. S. W.. for trading purposes
Across their path lay the island OF
Pinaki. In the Paumotu archipelago OF
the south seas, and at this uninhabiteC
spot they stopped and hid their loot
One native, who observed them ron
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13

aged beggar. Howe pave The man
few shillings and was surprised to
hear the man ask his name and adj
dress. Some time later Howe re-
ceived an urgent summons To n sgd
ney hospital. There he found the beg
gar, who told of how he and three
others had buried their treasure, had
sailed on TO Australia and had set out
overland for sydney. Blacks had at
tackled them and killed two Of the
sailors. The beggar and his surviving
companion, Brown, tried for years to
get ship TO 90 for the treasure. hut
never obta. ned money enough. Brown
finally disappeared. and he, Killrain,
had fallen into misfortune and knew
his end was near. He gave Howe a
map of the island, begged him to be-
lieve the story and to search for the
treasure. The following day the beg
gar died.
Since then Howe has been search
ing for the treasure, and lately an
nounced that he had found il in q
shallow lagoon on Pinaki. Lately he
chartered schooner ut Papeete to
go 10 lift the gold after making a
contract with the colonial government
as TO his rights in the matter. 1t Is
said the treasure is worth several MIL
lion dollars.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13
MATHEMATICS OF BAD ROADS
Farmer Solves Problem of Hours Lee
in Making Trip Over Road Thai
Is Deep in Mud.

IL IL takes farmer. making tf9
through the mud one hour and nah
longer than when the roads are on.
how many hours are lost In year
loo farmers make an average OF n
trips a month? What would De
monetary loss If each III hours -
be estimated at rs cents per hour io1
each man and his team? This t~o
in-one" proposition gave our oo ea'
considerable trouble, but ne nna"y
worked 1t out thus: One farmer mo.1
tiplied by 11s hours multiplied oy q
trips. multiplied by LOO farne
multiplied by IL mouths equals -.
100 hours lost, going step iurt
and multiplying 216.0oO by 70 cen
you have $l62.OOO per annum ios'
the farmers. Our old cat Is now ~
dering how many road bonds
annual loss would float at per g
interest.AUnion Times.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13

two hundred years of age. The two
greatest were Liberty tree and the
Great elm. The former was destroyed
In 1775 and its place is now marked
by memorial table. The Great elm
was the native king of the common
and was full-grown about 1922. 1t was
destroyed In a gale In 1876.
1t was only last May that the IA
nous Morse elm at the corner of Penn
sylvania avenue and Fourteenth street,
one of the Oldest landmarks in the ma
tional capital, was removed. after a
long, but losing fight for its life, which
began when Fourteenth street was
widened.
This tree had looked down upon ev-
cry inaugural parade held in Wash
ington. 1t was named for Samuel f.
Il. Morse. inventor of the telegraph.
Under the Lafayette elm at Kenne-
bunk, Me-. General Lafayette lunched
while touring the United States. The
tree is nominated by Miss Ellen OAR
rach of West Philadelphia.
Soldiers of five wars have been
drilled beneath the John PembertOn
oak, nominated by Mrs. III. f. Lewis,
secretary of Virginia for the d. A. r.
Under this tree Col John Pemberton
mustered his troops for the battle of
Kings mountain in 1871. A marker
has been placed on the tree by the
Sycamore Shoals chapter.
The DeSoto oak at Tampa was nom-
mated by J. E. Worthington of the
Tampa Times. 1t has a spread of 100
feet with a height of so feet In 1889
Ferdinand DeSoto was appointed gov
ernor of the provinces of Florida and
Cuba, and with about 1000 of SPANS
most wealthy and adventurous young
men set out for the conquest Of the
New World.
'The Corner oaks at the foot OF
Martins mountain at Marlinton, w
Va. are nominated by Andrew Price
These oaks were marked General An.
drew Lewis. October 6. 1751." Gen
Lewis was the hero of Point Pleasant
and was the military trainer and pa.
tron of George Washington. who tried
to get Lewis appointed commander in
chief In the Revolution.
Other candidates announced as hay.
Ing been given a place In the as.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13
DIAMOND 8 YEARS IN GARDEN
Ring Lost by New Jersey Woman
Found and Restored by Present
Tenant.

Glen Ridge, N. J.-Exactly eight
years to the day after she had lost
a diamond ring In the garden of her
home the lost bit of Jewelry was re-
stored to the owner. Subsequent TO
losing the ring Mrs. Smith removed
from 81 Hillside place and her former
home was occupied by John Town
send.
For three years Mr. Townsend has
been planting the garden. and while
hoeing lima beans this week he saw
what he thought was a bit Of glass
shining on the ground. He picked ur
the object and 1t proved to be dia
mond ring. Meeting Mrs. Smith be
mentioned having found the ring. Its
loss was explained and the ring was
restored to its owner.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13
CHINESE sMUGGLED INTO U. S

Whalen. According to the state
ments we got from some of the snug
Cling parties that we have rounded
up, these Chinese remain in Cuba only
long enough to make arrangements
with the smugglers to be landed on
the Florida coast.
"The fact that all the Chinese who
have been arrested In this vicinity are
plentifully supplied with money and
are able to obtain unlimited funds to
defray court expenses indicates that
there is a well-organized smuggling
combine at work."
The latest arrests In the smuggling
war were In Charleston, s. c.. where
four Chinese were picked uH with
railroad tickets from Clearwater
Fla, a short distance from Tampa, to
Washington, d. c. Six more were ar
rested the same day at Dunedin. Fla,
also near Tampa. These six were taken
when they tried to buy railroad tick.
cts to Washington.
The coast of Florida Is an ideal
place for smuggling operations as
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13
Finds Peruvian
Gold on Island

neighbOring island and rOwed across
TO see what the men from the strange
schooners were doing, was killed and
his tribal brothers, who crossed later,
found only his empty canoe and
strange markings on the trees.
Sailing on TO Australia, the four
scuttled their vessel Il few miles from
shore and. rowing to land. told of a
storm at sea which opened the seams
of their ship. Not all believed them,
for some residents had seen the ship
approaching and had witnessed its
mysterious sinking. There were no
police, however, in that section. and
as the four looked desperate, they
were permitted to strike out overland
for Sydney unmOlested.
Beggar DivuIges Hiding Place.
In 1914. years later. Il Mr.. Howe
was accosted on a Sydney street by an
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13
Natives Of Isolated South Sea Isle
Found by Missionary Number
Only 500.

London. England.-People who still
live in the manner of the stone age
are found on Kennel island In the Solo
mon gro6p, Melanesia, according to DR..
Northcote Deck, a missionary who says
there are only about 500 inhabitants,
and because of their isolation even
their dialect there has never been
studied
The natives had implements and
weapons Of stone and wood only when
DIR. Deck first visited the island. They
showed great eagerness to barter
homemade articles for anything made
of iron.
"They seem to feel keenly the
monotony of their isolation, and
showed a settled melancholy, both In
their faces and the cadence of their
voices" says DR.. Deck.
The teeth Of flying foxas which
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13
Combine Slips Yellow Men Into
Florida by Way Of Cuba.
Few Places Where sehooners Cannot
Make Easy Landing on Coast
line of Southern State.

Tampa. Fla.-Chinese are being
struggled into the United States
on large scale by way of Cuba and
Florida, according to reports from the
South. Unless prompt action Is taken
by authorities at Washington, condi-
tons will soon be as bad In the SOUTH
ern states as they were on the Mexi-
can border. where 1t took five years
to stamp out the smuggling of the yell
low men, says immigration Inspector
Whalen of Tampa, Fla, In whose dis
trict much Of the smuggling has been
going on.
"We have learned that within the
past few months almost $4,000 Chinese
have been landed in Cuba" says
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13

sociation's records are as follows:
The Battle Ground oak. marking the
battle of Guildford IN. CO. courthouse
in the Revolutionary war.
The Sycamore tree, shading the
headquarters of Gen. Washington at
White Plains.
The Cornwallis-Aaron Burr oak at
Charlotte, n. c.
The Lewis Cass tree In the City
park of Elyria, o.
The McDonough oak at New Or
leans, named for the man whose for
tune helped to found the public school
systems In New Orleans and Balti-
more.
The Crosswicks oak I'm New Jersey,
marking the site of a Revolutionary
war hospital and headquarters Of the
Hessian troops.
The Live oak at Pomona, CAL, mark
ing the spot where in 1897 the first
white settlers camped In Pomona val
ley.
The White oak that marks the site
of the battles on Keith's hill in Kinc
Phillips wars and "Hassanimisco,'
now Grafton. Mass.
The Vaulting Pole cottonwood
Hosea Pierce returned from the War
of 1912 to his home, near Norris City
Ill. 1t was In the spring of 1915, and
on January 8 of that year he had
helped Gen. Jackson whip the British
in the battle of New Orleans. He left
a vaulting pole sticking in the soft
ground; 1t lived and grew.
The Gen. Johnston oak on the Shiloh
battlefield. Under this tree Gen. AL
bert Sidney Johnston was killed.
The Washington oak near Santee
s. C.
The San Diego mission palm. This
is the only one remaining of the four
planted In 1863.
The Blunston oak, just over the
Philadelphia line. This tree was men.
toned in deed In 1853 and from be
meath 1t In 1777 General Washington
watched his army march from Phila
delphia to Chadd's ford.
The Sassafras tree at Harrisburg
now POS years old. 1t was Is years
old when John Harris, Jr., son of the
man who founded the Pennsylvania
! capital, was born.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13
BLAZING CROW FIRES FIELD
Bird Killed by a Live Wire Falls Into
Hay Causing Loss of Several
Hundred Dollars.

Rochester, N. VA crow alighted on
heavily charged electric wire Of the
Niagara Power company and was in
stantly killed. falling blazing mass
into a field Of uncut hay belonging to
Hobart Stahl, near Spencerport, eight
miles from here.
The field caught fire. causing a loss
Of several hundred dollars. and for a
time threatened adjoining wheat fields
whose uncut crops are estimated to
be worth several thousands.
The Spencerport Chemical company
made the three-mile run to the Stahl
pIace and prevented furthar damaGA
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13

family Of giving the bride thirteen
pairs. one pair Of which was kept as
likely TO bring her good luck. This
pair Is always made Of pale, blue silk
(the maiden's COLOR. and has diamond
clasps Another pair was sent to the
museum Of Berlin-where there are
something like ninety most interest
ing specimens-and the remaining
pairs were given as keepsakes to the
young mobiles and others who attended
the bridegroom at the altar.
Judging from the modern specimens,
garters are even nowadays scarcely
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13
Witchcraft in Wales.

Superstitions of the country folk Of
Wales are discussed In the quarterly
report of DR.. Arthur Hughes. medical
health officer of the county of Car
marthenshire. Despite the fact that
fortune telling and witchcraft are pro-
hibited under the English law, large
numbers Of the Welsh peasants bring
their ailing children to the witch doc
tors rather than to medical practi-
toners. One fetish that appeals to
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13

these superstitious people is that q
witch doctor can cure a child of back
wardness by means of making slight
incision in the cartilage Of the child's
ear. The operation must be performed
during the waxing of the moon and
the art is handed down from genera
ton to generation. the doctor" usu-
ally being a woman. If cure does
not result the operation is repeated
until the child is cured. 1t is said that
many women practice this art and
that the people pay large sums to have
dull children so treated
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13
Pioneer Implements.

Some of the pioneer implements
originals Of which are In the Cieve-
land Western Reserve Historical so
clety-are bed warming pan and tin
lantern, a Dutch oven, foot warmer,
4 frying pan handle four feet long,
shaving horse and drawing knife,
sugar trough. pack saddle. fail, lard
lamp, candle moIds, tallow candle and
stick. suffers, flax Ratchet. hand wool
cards. splInt broom. big spinning wheel
used for wool. small spinning wheel
used for fax
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13
Quaint Garter Customs.

There are several quaint customs
n connection with garters. A descrip-
ton Of two. however. must suffice. The
one is that prevalent In several mid
European countries. of taking Off the
brides garter by the best man at the
breakfast. and cutting it up, and dis
tributing the pieces among the grooms-
men and guests.
The second is. or rather was. the
practice In the German imperial
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1921-08-13
GOOD GUIDE FOR TRAVELLERS
lowa's Highways and Point Out
Proper Direction.

All detours around roads closed to
traffic In Iowa are carefully marked
for the guidance and protection Of
travellers. Signs are erected at inter
walls so that the proper direction can
be taken with the slightest deviation
from the regular route. The signs, as
furnished by the state to the counties
at cost, have a yellow arrow printed
against a black ground. with the word
"detour" above and below the arrow.