Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-07-29

ASKOV ENTERTAINED
A LARGE GATHERING

bers fom Wisconsin and Mime
sofa Had Enjoyable Meeting
at Askov Sunday.
The big D. B. S. picnic sche-
duled for Sunday, July Is, at
Askov was success from start
to finish. Already Friday visit
ors started to arrive here from
the more distant points, such as
Lake Benton, Tyler and Jackson.
By Saturday afternoon quite a
large delegation was present for
the annual meeting of the Cen
trail Committee at the D. B. S.
hall.
Another lodge meeting was
held Saturday evening and at
this there were representatives
from the following towns: Duluth,
Superior, Luck, St. Paul, Withee,
and Rice Lake, from the northern
circle of lodges; and from the
Central Committee, lodges from
the following towns had repre-
sentatives: Albert Lea, Jackson,
Hopkins, Austin, Lake Benton,
Tyler, Alden and Minneapolis.
The object of having the north
ern and southern divisions meet
at the same time was to have an
opportunity to jointly discuss the
matter of making one division of
the two and calling it the Mime
sofa division of D. B. S. lodges.
This was given much favorable
comment and will likely be the
result a little later.
After the lodge meeting, which
was held at the assembly hall,
the men folks went over to the
D. B. S. hall where the ladies
and children had gathered and
where tables were neatly ar
ranged and decorated for a So
cial cup of coffee. A little en-
tertainment accompanied the re-
freshment after which the 400
or so guests and local people en-
joyed an oldstime dance for about
an hour.
Sunday the weather was ideal
for picnic and cars came loaded
with visitors from various towns
to spend the day with friends in
Askov. The first number on the
program, at 9 a. M, was a %
mile automobile trip through
part of the Askov farm territory;
about so autos made part or all
of the trip, some taking short
| cuts.
Several extra tables and bench
es had been provided in the park
but at that many of the visitors
had to have their picnic dinner
on the ground, which as matter
of fact is the real way to enjoy
such a dinner.
Coffee was dispensed free of
charge by the local society and
lunches were on sale for those
who did not bring their dinner
basket. An additional large
stand was provided for selling
refreshments, and it may be
mentioned here that they did the
biggest business at picnic or
record in Askov. Sales at the
lunch stand amounted to S53 and
the refreshment stand went UP
to $188-some business for an
afternoon.
At one o'clock the Askov band
started the festivities and the
crowd of about a thousand people
gathered around the speakers
stand. Svend Petersen acted as
chairman of the day and intro.
duced the various speakers
Mayor A. Gravesen was first or
the program with an official vel.
come to the many guests on be.
half of the Askov D. B. S. lodge
and community in general, giving
to the visitors the community
key. His remarks were brief and
to the point and were we'll re.
ceived.
Claus Jensen, Chicago, supreme
trustee of the Danish Brother.
hood, spoke of what the D. B. S.
lodges stand for and how they
help in cases of sickness and
other needs. He suggested
sports within the lodges and re.
commended strongly bowling
Mr.. Jensen calls himself the
poor fisher boy and thanked
his brother members for the
manner in which they have hon
ored him.
Chr. Nielsen of Minneapolis
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