Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-06-17
ASKOV

purchased Ford touring car from
the local dealer Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Treus Stistrup
and two children of Minneapolis,
spent from Saturday noon till
Sunday evening visiting at the
Mrs. A. Madsen home.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. Kyes of St.
Paul, were week end guests at the
F. H. Tomlinson home east of
town. Mrs. Kyes, who is a sister
of Mr.. Tomlinson, remained to ac-
company the Tomlinson family
Wednesday on their motor trip to
Hutchinson, where the parents of
Mr.. T. and Mrs. Kyes live on a
farm near town.
Last Sunday the Askov Boy
Scouts hiked to Low Landing and
spent the day in repairing the
road to their camp. They were
assisted by number of young
men of the community whose help
was greatly appreciated. The
mud hole near the camp was filled
up, some rocks were removed, and
the road is now passable way
down to the camp.
DR.. w. P. Greene, epidemiologist
of the State Board of Health, ST.
Paul, was called up here Tuesday
to see little Theodore Jacobsen at
the Axel Nissen home who has
been Ill with scarlet fever. Com
plication of a running ear had
set in and there was danger that
it might spread, hence the visit
of the specialist. The puss had
however ceased to flow when DR..
Greene came and the quarantine
has now been lifted.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Sorensen
of Minneapolis, former Askov res
idents, celebrated their twenty
fifth wedding anniversary amid
relatives and friends in their Mill
City home Wednesday of last
week. Their son, Folmer, who is
linotype operator on the Journal
at Milwaukee, was home for the
occasion as was also their three
daughters who stay at home. The
Sorensens were married at West
Denmark, Wis, Is years ago.
Askov friends join in extending
congratulations and best wishes.
Godfrey Larsen of Minneapolis,
better known as Curly" Larsen,
who had very narrow escape
from drowning last week is re-
covering nicely from his grim ex-
perience. He and three other
men were out in motor boat on
Lake Minnetonka for a little fish
ing. A storm came up and in
attempting to turn the boat and
pull for shore the boat became
filled with water and capsized.
John Nielsen, a friend and Mill
City gymnast teacher, was one
of the two who drowned. Mr.
Larsen and the other rescued man
chung to the, boat for a hours
before their cries were heard.
They were badly bruised and al
most exhausted when rescued.
Mr.. Larsen is brother-in-law of
Mrs. Carl Miller, Askov, and is
known to many here. Mr.. Nielsen
often visited the Danish Young
Peoples home in Minneapolis and
met some Askov folks there.
The 10th annual conference of
the Danish Lutheran church OF
America which was held last week
at Minneapolis was well attended
and it was good and fruitful
meeting. Rev. Hakon Jorgensen,
Newell, Iowa, was elected pres
ident to take the place of Rev. S.
D. Rodholm, Askov, who has held
/, that office for four years and who
is shortly to overtake the office
of president of the theological
school at Des Moines, Iowa
Grand View College. Rev. P. H.
Petersen, Withee, Wis, was elect
ed secretary, and O. c. Olsen,
Omaha, Nebr., was reelected
board member. w. N. Hostrup,
treasurer, Cedar Falls, Iowa, and
P. L. Lund, Hampton, Iowa, an
other board member, hold over.
Rev. N. C. Nielsen, haywood, ILL.,,
was chosen editor of the official
publication, 'Kirkelig Samler"
and Rev. E. M. Favrholdt, Man
istee, Mich, was reelected treas
urer of the publication which is
printed at Askov in the American
office.