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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-08-24

ty appointed by Governor Nestos
are to be announced soon and
campaigns for food and clothing
will be undertaken for the rellef
of the famine stricken areas
Money and checks should be sent
to the treasurer, Robt. W. Webb.
Minneapolis Trust Co., and
clothing to the headquarters,
3O7 Lincoln Bank Bldg, Minnear
polls.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-08-24
ROADS PROPOSE POLICIES


New York-Preliminary to the ses.
sion OF the Association Of Railway
Executives when members will vote
their attitude toward proposals. Of the
Big Four" brotherhoods for ending
the shop crafts strike, the Eastern
presidents' conference held . secret
meeting to formulate . policy for it,
IL members.
what action the Eastern group,
which includes several of the most
powerful lines. will pursue was not In.
dicated, those attending meeting ~.
sertinG they had been pledged TO
secrecy The only comemnt was made
by l.. #. Lorce. president OF the Della
ware 4 Hudson, chairman Of the con-
ference who issued q statement set.
ting forth that Atlantic coast roads
which normally employ l61.SSs shop
men, had brought their forces up to ~
per cent Of that hgure on August Is.
This represented an Increase OF Is
per cent over the week Of August IL.
Roads represented were those which
led the opposition when the national
body Of rail chiefs rejected Harding's
two proposals. for ending the strike by
submitting the seniority issue to the
Railroad Labor board.
Mr.. Loree saying that he spoke for
himself alone. made the following
statement:
"You can quote me a. saying stand
solidly against any surrender and It ID
. surrender on the part Of the roads
to give back the strikers seniority"
w. w. Atterbary. vice president OF
the Pennsylvania system. said: "Mr
Loree speaks for the bunch. and I will
back anything he says"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-08-24

Want Ads are a regular saliva
ton to anyone who wants to buy
or sell and has not the time to
chase all over the county to
make his wishes known. Only 1c
per word in the American.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-08-24

L0lCI ~ W00 leu w CIlllulCH. AAC
says that he saw enough to know
that anything was eaten. from
bread made from grass and hor-
SEES hoofs and harness leather
broth, to human flesh. Dead
bodies were seen on the streets
as late as the first of June, he
says. The action of the Russian
government in taking grain from
some of the more favored
regions. such as Ukraine. White
Russia and Siberia, to relieve the
famine, has resulted in such a
lack of food in those sections
that famine conditions now pre-
vail, and conservative estimates
places the starving in the
Ukraine at 4 to 5 million.
When l left Russia, says Mr..
Kenworthy. the combined eff
forts Of all relief organizations
were probably giving relief to
well up to ten million people.
But there were large untouched
territories begging assistance.
Over and over again we were
compelled to tell delegations
that we did not have food
enough to come to their aid.
"One of the most difficult
problems lay in selecting those
whom we should feed. Mr.. Ken
worthy goes on to say. I'VE did
our best to relieve the situation
in all its phases. The children
lin the homes) slept on board
platforms or the floor without
mattresses and often without
covering, and frequently wore
but one garment and that a
short shirt.
In speaking of the Transports
ton problem Of which so much
has been said and written, Mr..
Kenworthy points out that Rus
STA at her best never had an ade-
quate system, and that at one
time it was said that as many as
500 of the trainmen on the
Buzuluk section were down with
typhus. For a brief period when
the thaw came, both food and
passenger trains were side
tracked 50 that seed trains could
pass to allow spring seeding to
be pushed. Tractors were brot
in by the Quakers to help pillow
the ground.
The losses of food, it is stated,
amounted to less than ! of 1%,
a remarkably small loss. When
one considers the starving po-
pulation and the condition Of the
hungry, underpaid railroad men,
it is a marvel that whole car
loads Of food were not missing,
says Mr.. Kenworthy.
As to crop prospects, Mr.. Ken
worthy states that the yield of
winter wheat and rye, according
to all reports, will be small, the
prospect for all Russia being
only fair, for the acreage is low.
There was this year plenty of
moisture, but people were still
sowing the first of June, conse-
quently it would be some time
before accurate estimates could
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-08-24

Aurora. nl-0eorGe Elkins. IS Of
Buncomhe. ILL.,, was selected a. the
winner Of prize offered by local fair
TOR the Oldest man actually engaged
IN farming. He submitted affidavits
to show he was engaged In running his
farm for Is years.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-08-24

OF the country are trying TO meet
the feed needs of their cows as a
result of ration work during the
last four years.
In two years, approximately
1900 farm hens have been cul-
led, with the result that nom
producers have been eliminated.
AS a result of poultry Standard
cation work at Askov. eggs have
been bringing a premium of 3 to
10 cents a dozen. Five other
communities are working out
similar projects this year.
Many Associations Formed.
Thus far, five cooperative
creameries, three potato market
ing associations and two wool
pools, handling $4,000 pounds of
wool have been perfecte d.
Ninety per cent of the cream
cries in the county have joined
the Minnesota Cooperative
Creameries association, a farmer
owned and controlled terminal
agency that saved $4,000 on the
first 100 cars of butter shipped
to the eastern markets.
Three live stock shipping asscci-
atoms have been formed and are
affiliated with the Central Co
operative Commission company,
a farmer concern at South St.
Paul that recently ended its
first year of operation with a net
saving to farmers of $123,94O.
Good Start This Year.
Thus far this year, a carload of
commercial fertilizer has been
obtained for the Askov COM
munity. A saving of $28 was
made on a shipment of % pounds
of corrosive sublimate alone
Two demonstrations for testing
the use of sulphur treatments to
control potato scab have been
started.
Added to this long record of
worthwhile accomplishments are
such minor. but nevertheless inn
portant details as % veterinary
calls cared for by the county
agent, scores of office calls and
hundreds of phone calls.
State Record Enviable.
Coupled with the excellent
local record is the work of the
state and national departments.
The Minnesota Farm Bureau
Federation has a long record of
worthwhile accomplishments.
outstanding features of which
are: fostered legislation that
opened markets to farmer-owned
sale agencies, made South St.
Paul an open market, and passed
the cooperative law. 1t assisted
in establishing the creamery and
livestock central agencies, and
fathered the statewide wool pool
that Melted producers 5 cents a
pound more than would have
been paid by local buyers. 1t has
stabilized farm labor wages and
obtained a reduction on state
farm machinery.
Nationally. the Farm Bureau
fostered the Agricultural Bloc
which obtained passage of the
packer control act, extended the
War Finance Corporations
powers, and is fighting for the
Great Lakes Deep Waterway
project. The national depart
ment has established itself as the
most reliable spokesman for
farmers the country has ever
known.
Local Farm Bureau men say
this record warrants every pro-
Queer in the county joining the
movement when solicitors call.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-08-24
epan,,h War vets Gather.

Los Angeles, Calif.--Campfre ser.
Vice marked the opening OF the TWEEN.
ty-eourth annual eacampment Of Unit
ted Spanish War Veterans and the Ma.
lion auxiliary Of Women.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-08-24
EXPRESS WRECK BRINGS RAID
Prosecutor Trlss 70 Connect Radleals
with Rail Disasters.

ChicaGo--Offices OF the Trades
Union Educational league were raided
and correspondence and private pa.
pers OF william z. Foster, head OF
the league and one Of the foremost
radical leaders Of America. were seised
by States Attorney Grove and detec-
tives following investigation into the
wrecking OF a Michigan Central train
at Gary. Ind, and the discovery Of
two sticks OF dynamite on the Penn
sylvania railroad tracks.
Examination Of Fosters papers,
barred a wide spread lone big union"
propaganda among railroad workers
and gave valuable Information con-
corning . systematic series OF radicals
meetings In railroad centers. No ar.
rests were made.
The states attorneys Investigation
began Immediately after the report OF
the Michigan Central wreck at Gary
was received here. along with the -
port by railroad officials TAT the
train had been deliberately ditched by
plot'sr' sn ...s ~ers removed from
'n .,es and rails loosened. railroad
officials said.
The train. engineer and hremen Of
which were killed, was running Ave
hours late and an hour ahead Of one
Of the fastest New York Chicago lin.
iteds. II was believed the plotters
planned to wreck the passenger train.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-08-24
FARM BUREAUS
RECORD BASIS
FOR NEW DRIVE
Local Organization Has More
Than Repaid Farmers for
Money Spent, Lead
ers Say.

(By Farm Bureau News ServIce)
The Pine County Farm Bureau
association has dollar-and-cents
savings record that justifies the
membership revival campaign.
which starts next week, accord
ing to local leaders in the move
ment.
On the single item of picric
acid supplied to farmers, through
the Bureau there has been saw
ing of $7,70O. disregarding
entirely the benefit to the COM
munity as a whole that the use
OF this explosive has had in put
ting new acres into use. A saw
ing of 10 cents a pound was made
on $4,000 pounds and of 3 cents
a pound on 10000 pounds. The
savings this year alone on $4,000
pounds was $500 over local
dynamite prices.
The local bureau has made an
excellent record in other market
ing projects. The Rock Creek
township unit was supplied with
cedar posts at a saving of so per
cent. A carload of alfalfa hay
was obtained and delivered for
only 81 a ton more than was
being charged for wild hay. A
saving of 1926 was made on 700
pounds of paris green.
But the Bureaus greatest ac-
Invites has been along crop inn
provement and increased yield
lines. The county's potato crop
has been SO standardized during
the last four years that at
present. more than 80 per cent
of all potatoes are of varieties
best suited for this section. Pine
county potatoes already have an
enviable reputation in the mar
ket places. Inasmuch as this is
one of the major crops, the
excellent beginning that has
been made must not be lost by
breaking off the work at this
time. Farm Bureau men say.
They compare the status Of the
potato crop at present with con-
ditions in 1918. when but one
community was growing stand
ardized varieties-and justify
their efforts to materially in
crease the Bureaus membership.
Potato disease demonstrations
have been carried on until more
than Is per cent Of all seed now
is being tested regularly. One
farmer has been induced to try
out high pressure sprayer and
indications are that "sprayer
groups will be commonplace
before long.
Results With Rosen Rye.
An example of how the Farm
Bureau has been responsible for
crop improvement. with direct
benefit to every farmer in the
county, is to be found in a
RENEWAL Of what was done to
introduce Rosen rye, a variety
that is practically in universal
use at present. After initial
| tests showed that Rosen rye was
better suited for Pine county
than any other varieties. yielding
5 to 10 bushels more an acre. s
campaign was put on to make i,
popular. Now. most rye grown
is Rosen.
In a similar manner. though
less extensively. Red Rock win
ter wheat was introduced
Through the Bureau and it.
agencies, field peas and oats have
been introduced as hay on low
lands and are giving excellent
results; producing as much a.
FIVE tons per acre on land thai
previously was practically use
less. Soy beans have been intro
duced and IL plots Of alfalfa have
been established in two years.
Live Stock Improved.
| In the livestock field n connt,
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-11-04
Hear Word of Bandit
Mills at He Escapes
(Contiued from Pare ~

a young man in a car, believed to
be Mills, stopped at a garage near
Lake Winnisquam, i. l., around
three or four in the morning Of
November 1St and got up the pro
pIietor and asked for IS gallons
Of gasoline.
After he had the Ras he said
that he needed about two quarts of
oil. The garage man went into
the building to secure the oil and
upon. his return the car was gone.
Thursday morning a report of
a like incident was reported from
New Bedford, Mass. New Bed
fora was given by young George
McGourty as the residence Of the
mar who was to furnish them with
money to finance the "booze run
ming" trip that later turned out
so unpleasantiy for the young ban
dts.
The report from Bedford eX-
pressed the belief that Mills was
on his way to Troy N. Y, and
the authorities in that vicinity have
been advised to be on the lookout.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-11-04
Crowd Enjoys Play "The
Time of Ris Life

Collllbteu lIolll dE'' ohe
above the amateur class. Ihe
Community League plays e2ch
winter, have come to be looked
forward to as the best OF the KIND
and FRIDAY evening $ was no eX-
ceptlon to the rule, IN TACT many
of those present considered it the
best one yet, everything consider
ed:
The list OF characters follows:
Mr.. Bob Grey, Warren Peck.
Mrs. Bob Grey MIS-. Harold
Abbott.
Tom Carter, Mrs. Grey's broth
er, Richard Levasseur.
Mrs. Peter Wycombe, per
sonage" Mrs. Robert French.
Mr.. Peter Wycombc "pessl-
mist with digestion, Leon BaN-
ter.
Dorothy Landon, secretly en-
gagged to Tom Garter, Miss Helen
Hyde.
Mr.. James Landon, ST., Doro-
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-11-04
The Eskimoes

The Eskimoes are northern foxes
Who live in caves of ice
And watts is our bizniss how cold
it is
AS long as they think its nice?
They have snow and ice all sum
mer long
And also in spring and fall
But naturally in the winter time
They have the most of all.
The ice and snow keep each other
cold
And the days are munths long,
So naturally if you miss one day
1t must feel as if somthing was
Tong.
All Eskimoes dress in bear skins
In their efforts to keep warm,
And altho they may feel comfort
able
1t makes them thick GROUND the
form.
The air up theer is too cold foi
fruit
Or even smaller things sutch as
beens
SO one Of their favorite foods j,
wales,
The opposite of sardeens
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-11-04
Hardwick Creamery
Heads Butter Scoring

The Lamoille Valley creamery
at East HardWick was awarded
the highest score in butter scoring
test for October held at the dairy
laboratory of the University of
Vermont in Burlington, October p.
w. A. Nancour Of the East
Hardwick plant furnished a but
ter sample that produced final
score of 95.73. The average
was 1904
Others from this section that
registered among the best dozen
included Wells River creamery,
w. A. Lyster, 92.93 and Mountain
View farm, East Burke, b. +.
Warner, 91.20.
The butter scoring test for
November will be Morrill, hall,
Burlington, on Tuesday, Nov
ember 81.
be- 21.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-11-04
Sudden Death of
Mrs. A. f. Paine

Margaret Alice Tubman, wife Of
the late Frank A. Paine, died sud
denly on the afternoon of Novem
bel' /. She will be sadly missed by
a wide circle Of friends She was
the daughter of Henry and Mary
y (Walker) Tubman. They movec
to st Johnsbuly from Canada il
the early fifties and their children
were born here. Mrs. Paine's life
o. 81 years and six months was all
spent in our town save for brief
soiourns at the Maine beaches and
in Canada She was a woman OF
rare friendliness with a genius fol
making people happy. Her thought
always seemed to take shape II
doing something for somebody
with no suggestion of any return
Ore could not live in her neighbor-
hood without senseing the fact
that an unselfish sweets pilited
woman was doing everything pos
sible to make the place where she
lived happier and better
III her home she was the "cen-
ter and soul" of all its activities
So long as her husband lived she
was a devoted wife and for hel
children had high ideals. From
her girlhood days she was faith
ful member of the South Congrc-
gational church. Since the death
of Mr.. Paine five years ago she
has kept the home where they had
lived for more than 80 years. The
noighbors on Western avenue feel
chastened by her going. OF her
near relatives the record is as fol
lows: one brother, Henry Tubman,
and his family live in town, and
the family Of beloved only sister,
Mrs. Charles Drew, long deceased,
reside in California. Her two
sons, Albert and his wife and
daughter live in St. Johnsbury.
Ralph, now resident in Cleveland
Ohio, and Margaret, recently mar
riud to MI W. l.. Allen, also live
here. These two sons and this
daughter rise up and call hel
blessed
OF Mrs. Paine we may quote
from Lowell more appropriately
and truly than most women:
"She doeth little kindnesses
Which most leave undone OF
despise
Fer naught that sets ones heart at
ease
And giveth happiness and peace
Was low esteemed in her eyes.
She had no scorn of common
things
Nor had she even CHANGED to
know
That aught were easier than to
bless.
Il;
She was a woman; one IN whom
The springtime of her younger
years
Had never lost its fresh perfume
Though knowing well that life
hath room
For many blights and many tears.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-11-04

lection in tangling up the plot.
I Henry Ellis was a colored Uncle
Tom that Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe would have delighted to
have immortalized, had she seen
him before she wrote Uncle Tom
Cabin and Richard Levasseur, the
young sport of the play, did a
difficult stunt very successfully
when he made himself over into
Uncle Sans double on the stage
before the audience, although it
got him into all sorts of laughable
difficulties with his sweetheart, the
part successfully taken by Miss
Helen Hyde. Miss Hyde is the lat
est addition to this collection of
local players and her handling Of
her lines in this play shows that
She ought to be heard from again
in the future. Collins Brodien can
always be depended upon to carry
off one of the heavier parts to per
lection, and he was never better
than in that of the peppery father
of the girl (Mill HYDE that the
frivolous younS sport Orchard
Levasseul) was dead in love with.
Bernard Daniels was a model
Irish police officer, and when he
could not round up his man he
showed his good sense and brought
Il shout from the audience by rush
ing to the telephone and calling
up "Sheriff Flint" Mrs. Robert
French as "a parsonage" certainly
had the sympathy of the audience
in her attempts to control the
vagalies Of her husband, Leon
Baker, the pessimist with a di-
gestion. Nj. Baxter has taken all
kinds of character parts in the
presentation of local plays from
time to time, but it is safe to say
that he never did better than on
his occasion. 1t was fine per-
Torrance and admirably present
ed A feature of the pay was the
serving OF a course dinner on the
stage, and it was real dinner, with
soup, roast lamb, vegetables, Gus
tards and all the fixln's and did
not come from "the restaurant
around the corner"
Several enjoyable selections
were given by trio consisting of
Mrs. Ida P. Brooks, Stanwood
Brooks and Miss Frances Taylor.
Mrs. Herbert W. Blodgett, presi-
dent of the Girls Community
League, gave an interesting re-
port of the achievements of the
League, what it stands for and
what it is accomplishing in actual
results for the benefit of the COM
munity.
Refreshments were served after
the play, to the members of the
cast by the ladies OF the League,
which, added to the meal actually
furnished and served on the stage
as a part of the play, ought to
have provided against that gone
feeling"
The sale of tickets amounted to
considerably over 500, and,
after all bills are paid, will leave
a substantial sum to be added to
the League treasury.
The presentation of "The Time
of His Life was such d signal
success, that demands for its re-
petition are numerous, but no ac-
ton has yet been taken, although
arrangements have been made to
repeat the comedy at Passumpsic
Thursday evening, Nov ., for the
benefit of the Grace Mason club of
that village.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-11-04
SATURDAY, NOV. q, 1922
EDITORIAL
DAY THOUGHTS

The first anniversary of the
! great peace of November II, 1918,
produced iubilation in every Am
.erican heart. But when the second
and third occurrences of the date
. came, many people were moved
with regrets because the recovery
/ from the war was so slow. They
had expected to see the world en-
joy a new development of ideals.
They were disappointed to see not
merely the same old sordid habits
anG purposes, but many new
troubles created by war condi-
I items.
BY this time the meaning of
the years that have passed can be
seen with clearer vision. The ac-
. complishment of our soldiers looks
Us big as it ever did, and will
never appear less. A matchless
display of personal courage, man
{ ly spirit, and alert faculties was
made on the fields of France and
! the country will always be
. proud of it.
There is no sense in regretting
our participation in the war. The
crowd that ruled the Teutonic
powers had to be thrown down or
! the world would never have been
at peace.
Some idealistic hopes have been
disappointed. Human nature is
just as selfish as it ever was as
any one might have foreseen. But
the forces of autocracy have been
put down and will not again try
to sway the world, Also a splendid
demonstration was given of the
power of organization to accom-
plish community ends.
The people will not soon forget
how money was raised in incred-
iblc sums and how vast forces of
social betterment were set to
work. A good deal of that spirit
is left from the war experience
and is working today. 1t is lead
ing people to unite as never be-
fore to promote higher standards
OF living. After the economic
Reorganization produced by the
wax upheaval has ceased to have
its effect the community will have
permanent increment of better
Social forces as the reward for its
sacrifices.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-11-04
Repertoire Company
Coming to Colonial

The Blake Repertoire Company
opens 3 days engagement at the
The Colonial, Monday evening,
Nov. 6. The opening play will be
"A girl of the Redwoods" by Gene
Rialto, Bert and Dot Blake will be
featured in the reading roles and
are ably supported by such well
known players as Tom Redway,
Joseph Putnam, Charles Mackle,
Frank Lane, Jane Snyder, Nina
Burns, Marie Colwell, Louise
Georgus and others. Specialtles
will be offered between the acts in
addition to the company's feature
orchestra, Jazz Hound Young and
The Dix Musical Kut Ups. Seats
on sale 9 A M. Monday at East
mans drug store.