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

WI1IOO III a lC1tCI W tu6 Am6El-
can about the dangers of tamper-
ing with insulators and light and
power wires, as follows.
The attached is copy of an ar
tfcle appearing in the Great Falls
(Montana) Tribune and believe is of
such vital interest at this time as to
merit reproduction in your paper for
the general benefit of the commune
ties which you serve "
Very frequently this company has
whole strings of insulators on our
high tension lines broken willfully
by stones and bullets. These break
ages are not all caused by boys. Not
infrequently have we encountered in
sulators which have been shot by men
of mature years. These are either
ignorant of the serious consequences
which might result from their action
or just plain foolish, and have no
thought of what might happen and
care less. AS in the case cited in
the newspaper article it is too often
the innocent who suffer. The hair
brain seems always to get away.
Recently in one stretch of line be-
tween the villages of Atkinson and
Mahtowa we had twenty-one insula-
tors shattered, all within the space
of few days. This is the worst ex-
ample we have had in years. This
piece of line parallels No. 1, High
way were there is paving gang at
work and aside from the enormous ex-
pense unnecessarily created, failure
of the wires supported by the insula-
tors would probably cause the death
or serious injury of some of the paw
ing workmen.
Shooting at InsulatOrs Results In
Death of Two.
In recent issue of the Great Falls
(Montana) Tribune is the story of the
deaths of man and a 12-year-old boy,
killed by coming in contact with a
wire fence that had been charged
from fallen high tension power
line. .-... r.. -.
This affair has interest for every
lHulNluudl, dS WSll DIS lOI IuOS0 COu-
cerned with the problems of high ten
sion power transmission. It is an
example of the result of unthinking
and irresponsible action on the part
of persons who do not see any fur
Their than the end of their noses.
Some one had shot at and shattered
the insulators on this power line with
the result that one of the wires had
fallen across the wire fence. u
Witnesses at the coroner's inquest
said that they did not see. a power
wire near the scene of the accident,
but that the actual contact was four
or five blocks away.
Evidence showed that the power
company had used standard equip
ment in the construction of the power
line and that at least Is insulators
had been shot away. The fallen wire
was from a pole which stood at an
angle with the other poles, the re-
lease of the power wire giving enough
slack to permit it to fall to the fence.
A piece of a bullet was found in enc
of the insulator pins.
The incident will probably be a les
son to the people of that locality who
might be inclined towards random
use of firearms. .. .'"''
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-07-29
BRUNO

Mr.. Englund spent the week end in
Minneapolis.
Miss Alice braves and friends left
for st. Paul Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Ball and daugh-
ter were in Sandstone Monday.
Mrs. Lawrence Churchill and Mrs.
Traver were in Sandstone Tuesday.
Miss Mary Murphy is helping Mrs.
Sprague, as she is not able to work
yet.
Mr.. Egge left Monday to go on the
road for the National Tobacco COM
pany.
Miss Helen Lingren entertained
friends from st. Paul part of the
week.
Mr.. Peterson of Hector, spent the
week end here with his brother, O..
F. Peterson.
Miss Emma Bryan of Bemidji spent
the week end with Mrs. C. Billman
and her mother, Mrs. Laying.
Mrs. Elmer Breiland and daugh-
ter Laverne, returned home Sunday
after spending a week in the Cities.
Rev. C. Ward Simpson of Duluth,
spent the first of the week at Mrs.
X. Stafford's and with other friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Hansen and
daughter Loretta, spent Sunday at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Buford Peterson and
daughter, after spending a couple of
weeks with his parents, left for their
home Thursday.
Mrs. Ada Shiels and Dorothy Hal
verson of Sandstone, spent from Mon
day till Wednesday here with her
daughter, Mrs. John White.
Mr. and Mrs. Peterson of Mime
apolis and Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Han
sen of Askov, spent Sunday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Johnson.
Albert Breiland and a friend were
driving in Minneapolis Friday, when
the car exploded. Both got burnt
badly and they are now in the hos
pital.
Patsy Murphy went to Duluth We'd
nesday to get instructions to take
over the Bridgeman-Russell cream
station which was run by Julius
Egge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Darling and
daughter of Fl. Dodge, Iowa, spent the
past week with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Darling. They returned home
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Baker and Mr.. and
Mrs. Markus of Waterloo, Iowa, are
guests at the Ed Rodenberger home
Mrs. Baker is sister of Mrs. Roden.
berger.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. ]. Kress, Johnnie
Harold and Robert of Davenport, 10
wa, are visiting her mother anG
brother, Mrs. C. Stafford and John
Staffords.
Mrs. Laura Stewart of Montreal
Canada, and Mrs. Fremont Booth Of
Kansas City, Mo-, spent Tuesday and
Wednesday with their sister, Grand.
ma Laying.
Walter Bartels of Superior, spent
Sunday at the John Babe home. Mr.
and Mrs. Bartels returned home with
him and Mrs. Bartels will spend &
week with her daughter, Alice.
A surprise birthday party was Civ
en- G. Gault Saturday evening at his
home. A very nice time was had by
all and quite a large number of his
children and grandchildren were pre-,
sent
The road crew and their cook, cars
and all equipment came from near
MarkVil1e and went tO near Stur-
geon Lake to work on a state aid
road. Mrs. l. o. Lund, assisted by
Fred Murphy, will cook for the crew
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Forsyth and
children, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Bow
man and children of Duluth, and
Betty and Louise Brown of Mime
apolis spent the past week with their
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-07-29
BENEFIT DANCE

Scandal Club will give a dance
Saturday evening, July 81, at their
hall south of Bruno for the benefit
of the Boys and Girls Calf Club of
Bruno. All the income from the
dance will be given to them to pay
expenses in taking their calves to
Sandstone to the show, Aug. 27-2S.
All are welcome.
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If you know of a news item
call phone number 81 :1and tell.
the American about Il: The;
American wants all the.:news all
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-07-29
FLEMING

Louis Larson went to Minneapolis
Sunday night on a business trip, re-
turning Monday.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-07-29

Give your boy or girl type
writer-they are in stock atsthe
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-07-29

Printed stationery flor the
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American Want Ads-Only 1c a
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-07-29
SHOULD NOT TAMPER
WITH INSULATORS

! w. j. Wilkinson, manager Of &
the Cloquet division of the Min
nesota Power & Light Company,
writes in letter to the Ameri-
can about the dangers of tamper-
ing with insulators and light and
power wires, as follows:
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No Sub
"Ras, heah you is gone into bust
ness" said Miss Amy Brown. "Yas,
dasso," answered Rastus Pinkley.
Use raisin' chickens an sellin' 'em."
whats de matter7 Has you los
yo' appetizer"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-06
SAUERKRAUT
STATISTICS

CAUERKRAUT shipments COM
- ing within the jurisdiction
OF the Federal food and drug
acts will be watched by food in
spectors to determine II the
sauerkraut meets the Federal
standard announced last year,
say officials of the Bureau OF
Chemistry. United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. charged with
the enforcement OF that act. Pre-.
liminary examinations of few
shipments indicate that some OF
the sauerkraut now being placed
upon the market falls below the
standard.
The definition and standard for
sauerkraut as published last year
in Food Inspection Decision ls6
is as follows:
"Sauerkraut is the clean, sound
product, of characteristic acid
flavor, obtained by the full fer
mentation, chiefly Tactic, Of prop
erly prepared and shredded cab
bage in the presence Of not less
than 2 per cent nor more than
per cent OF salt.
at contains. upon completion
OF the fermentation, not less than
ia per cent of acid, expressed
as Tactic acid. Sauerkraut which
has been rebrined in the process
OF canning or repacklng contains
not less than / per cent Of acid
expressed as Tactic acid.
Appropriate action will be taken
in reference to any shipments
found to be in violation Of the
Federal food and drugs act, say
the officials.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-06
DANGERS OF
LIGHTNING

r LIGHTNING causes great
IL many forest fires in the north.
ern Rocky Mountain region in
Montana, Idaho and a small por-
ton of washington. The Forest
Service maintains about ITO fire
lookouts in this district, which In
cidentaIly make observations on
lightning and other weather phe'
nomena,
The Weather Bureau of the
United States Department Of Agri-
culture has stations in this region,
but they are comparatively few
and at lower elevations. Report
from the Forest Service lookouts
are therefore extremely useful to
scientists OF the Weather Bureau
in connection with the observation
of lightning storms and the send
ing OF warnings of various kinds.
Charts prepared by III. I. Gis'
borne, OF the northern Rocky
Mountain forest experiment sta
ton, show to what extent the
danger of forest fires started by
lightning Is modified by the.
amount of rain accompanying the
storm. In general, the shorter
the rain. the greater the fire dan
ger from lighting. since the tim
Der or fuel has less chance to abb
serb moisture.
An interesting and practical
phase of the study that has been
made of lightning fires is the de.
termination of the number or
hours between first sighting each
lightning storm and the time OF
discovering each fire caused by it.
Frequently a considerable time
elapses before a fire actually gets
a good start.
The interval is often as much
as 4S hours. which gives the at
lacking forces time to get to the
fire before it Is out of bounds.
This delay Is probably due to the
forest fuels being too damp to
blaze for some time after the
storm has passed.
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66VOU don't mind II 20. then?"
4 I've got to get over to one or
the department stores to sketch a
dress before closing time. And
Mr.. Whitney will be back any
minute. ! gave him a key. Is
that all right?"
The slow color dyed Rosemary's
cheek. Ellen was looking so close.
ly into her eyes, searching them,
probing for her secret.
81 suppose So"
well" Ellen hesitated. well
so long"
At the door Ellen stopped. Gee
whiZ." she said who'd have
thought of you. and Sloan Whit
ney--I don't KNOW can't get
used to the idea---"
'fOf our being friends?" Rose
mary was sitting up. trying to
comb her tangled hair. She hard
ly listened. Ellen talked so much
Sure you'll be all right?"
oh. yes-and l could telephone
later If 1 wasn't. couldn't I.
Ellen?"
Eyes. you could telephone"
And Ellen went away with little,
half worried pucker between her
brows.
mot that it's any of my bust
ness" she told the janitor's black
cat as she stopped to pet it on
the way out. but it just goes to
show. kitty, that you never can
tellw
When Rosemary awoke again
Sloan was sitting beside her. She
smiled at him vaguely. I'm glad
you're here" she said.
"I'll always be here when you
want me-
Dear Sloan
He had dinner sent in and they
ate it together. laughingly, off
tray.
81 shouldn't be sitting up in
bed in Nina's silk nightgown
wonder where Ellen found it,
eating broiled chops with Sloan
If I'm well enough to do this--I
shouldn't"-
"Sloan." she murmured. isn't
this-isnt this terribly unconven-
'tional and everything?"
He grlnned at her over a chop
bone. You bet. Who cares?
And who's going to know? Rose
mary, my heart, if you aren't
going to eat that other baked
potato'--
She gave up. laughing. How
can you be self-conscious and en-
barrassed with a man who IS
only thinking about a second
baked potato?
II feel so much better-Im
going to get up tomorrow"
mo, you're not. Graham
doesn't expect you. Besides, I'm
going to tuck you In, in q Few
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Read About the Thrilling Adventures Of Serg David CARR
gan, of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police in
the Northern Wilds

then the name Of the Broken
Man.
At the Stream
And always he kept ahead.
until at last-a mile from the
ridge David came to the edge
OF a wide stream and saw what
it was that made the wedge Of
forest. For under his eyes the
stream split, and two arms of It
widened out. and along each
shore OF the two streams. was
wide fire.clearing MADE by the
axes Of Black Rogers people,
who had foreseen this day when
fire might sweep their world.
.Carrigan dashed water into his
eyes. and 1t was warm. Then he
looked across. The fire had
passed. the pail Of smoke was
clearing away, and Whist he saw
was the black corpse OF y world
that had been green. It was
smoldering; the deep mold was
afire. Little tongues Of flame
still licked at ten thousand stubs
EAAAII7oQ ~ by the I1ES-QE1lLA IvF-ts1tu
there was no wind here, and only
the whisper Of . distant mean
ing sweeping farther and farther
away.
And then. out Of that waste
across the river, David heard a
terrible cry. 1t was Black
Riger, still calling in that
place of hopeless death--for
Andre. the Broken Man!
Into the stream Carrigan
plunged and found It only waist.
deep In crossing. He saw where
Black Roger had come out of
the water and where his feet
had plowed deep in the ash and
char and smouldering embera
ahead. This trail he followed. The
air he breathed was hot and filled
with sitting clouds Of ash and
chaT.dust and smoke. His feet
struck red.hot embers under the
ash. and he snelled burning
leather.
A forest Of spruce and cedar
skeletons still cracked and
snapped and burst out into sud.
den tongues Of flame about him,
and the air he breathed grew
hotter. and HIS face burned,
and into his eyes came q smart.
ing pain--when ahead OF i'm
he saw Black Roger. He was
no longer calling out the Broken
Mans name. but was crashing
through the smoking chaos like
a great beast that had gone
both blind and mad.
Twce David turned aside where
Black Roger had rushed through
burning debris. and a third time,
following where Audemard had
gone, his feet felt the sudden
stab OF living Goals. In another
moment he would have shouted
Black Rogers name, but even
as the words were on his lips,
mingled with a gasp Of pain, the
giant riverman stopped where
the forest seemed suddenly to
end in q ghostIy, snoke.fiIled
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WATCH YOUR
MIRROR
6XKIoMEN q g I'm L.

E(VKTDMEN are fast eating them.
selves into sallow cheeks
and bad cOmplexions, states Miss
Elsie stark, q nutrition specialist
Of the National Dairy Council
Chicago.
ST women would watch the
mirrors ever their dining table
more closely instead 81 the mir
fors Of their dressing table they
would attain. better health and
with it better color and could o.
viate the use OF cosmetics In
their makeup"
As the American girls beauty
products Miss Stark recommends
creamy carrots, rolled oats and
uses in her many womeu's dem
constructions over the country q
miniature bed, bath tub, plenty 81
water, fruit, milk, bread and but
ter. creamy onions, celery and let.
tuce and insists that eaten in
proper rations daily, dairy prod
ucts, fruit and vsgeta bIes viii
work wonders as health producers.
The foods referred to. with eight
hours sleep each night. four
glasses Of water daily, along with
four glasses OF milk vanishing
cream) with the proper ration 81
bread--the natural complexion
powder extracted from whole
wheat-and q daily turn at the
bath tub win produce the wanted
makeup Nature's Own, accord
Ing to the nutrition specialist.
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SCARED with heat: his hair was
burned; his shirt was torn from
his shoulders.
When David spoke and Black
Roger turned at the sound-his
eyes glared wildly out Of q face
that was like & black mask. And
when be saw 1t was David who
had spoken. his great body
seemed to sag, and with an uu-
ineligible cry he pointed down.
David, staring, saw nothing
with his half.blind eyes. but uns
der his feet he felt a sudden
giving away, and the fireeaten
tangle OF earth and roots broke
of ike q rotten ledge. and with
Il both he and Black Roger went
crashing into the depths below,
smothered in an avalanche Of ash
and sizzling earth.
At the bottom David lay for
moment. partly stunned. Thea his
fingers clutched bit Of living
fire, and with q savage cry he
staggered to his feet and looked
to see Black Roger.
Fer q space his eyes were
blinded, and when at last ne could
see. he made out Black Roger 30
feet away, dragging himself on
his hands and knees through the
blistering muck Of the fire And
then, as he stared, the stricken
giant came to the charred rem
nant Of stump and crumpled
over It with great cry, moan.
ing again that name
Andre -Andre-
David hurried to him, and
as he put his hands under Black
Rogers arms to help hirn to hts
feet, he saw that the charred
stump was not a stump, but the
fiFe.shriveled cropse Of Andre, the
Broken Mani
Horror cl1oked back speech on
his own lips. Black Roger locked
up at him, and great breath
came I'm d sob out OF his body.
Then, suddenly, he seemed TO get
grip OF himself. and his burned
and bleeding fingers closed about
Dayid's hand at his shoulder.
Home to Die
II knew he was coming here,
said. the words forcing them
selves with an effort through his
swollen lips. '.T7e came home
TO die"
Home ?"
eyes. His mother and father
were buried here nearly 30 years
ago, and he worshipped them.
Look at him, Carrigan Look at
him closely. For he IL the nan
you have wanted all these years
the finest man God ever made
Roger Audemard! When he saw
the fire, he came TO shield their
graves from the flames. And
now he Is deadp
al moan, came to his lips, and
the weight of his body grew 50
heavy that David had to exert his
strength to keep him from TALL
Ing.
And YOUR he cried. For Gods
sake. Audemard- tell--fne
''I, m'sieu? Why. am only st.
Pierre Audemard, his brother:
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rigan. There was a note of terror
in 1t, wild entreaty that was al.
most drowned in the trembling
wind and the moaning that was in
the air. David was ready to turn
back. He had already approach.
ed too near to the red line OF death,
yet that cry Of Black Roger urged
him on like the lash of a whip.
He plunged ahead into the chaos
Of smoke, no longer able to dis
. tinguish trail under his feet.
Twice again IN as many minutes
he heard Black Rogers voice and
ran straight toward it. The blood
OF the hunter rushed over all other
things in his veins. The man he
wanted was ahead OF him and the
moment had passed when danger
or fear OF death could drive him
back. Where Black Roger lived,
he could live, and he gripped his
club and ran through the low
brush that whipped in singing
lashes against his face and hands.
He came to the foot Of q ridge,
and from the top OF this he knew
Black Roger had called. It was q
huge hogs back, rising q hundred
feet up out OF the forest. and when
he reached the top Of it, he Was
painting for breath. It was as IL
she had come suddenly within the
blast of a hot furnace. North and
east the forest lay under him. and
only the smoke INSTRUCTED his VIZ
sion.
But through this smoke he
could make out a thing that
made him rub his eyes in q
fierce desire to see more clearly.
Al mile away, perhaps two, the
conflagration seemed to be split.
ting itself against the tip OF
mighty wedge. He could hear
the roar of it to the right Of him
and to the left, but dead ahead
there was only moaning whirl-
pool Of fire-heated wind and
smoke. And out of this, as he
looked, came again the cry:
Observation-Disclosures
Again he started north and
south through the smoke-gIoom.
Mountains Of reEinous clouds,
black as ink, were swirling sky.
ward along the two sides OF the
giant wedge. Under that death.
pail The flames were sweeping
through the spruce and cedar
tops like race horses. hidden
from his eyes. II they closed in
there could be no escape; N Is
minutes they would inundate
him, and it would take him half
an hour to reach the safety If
the clearing.
His heart Lnumped against his
ribs as he hurried down the
ridge in the direction of Black
Rogers voice. The giant wedge
of the forest was not burning
yet. and Audemard was hurry.
ing like mad toward the tip Of
that wedge. crying out now and
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And with that his head dropped
heavily, and he was Ike dead
man IN David's arms.
How al last David came 70 the
edge of the stream again. witk the
weight OF st. Pierre Audemard On
his shoulders, was 3 torturing
nightmare which would never BE-
quite clear IN his brain. The DE-
tails were obliterated In the vast
agony of the thing. He knew that
ne fought as he had never fought
before: that he stumbled again and
again in the fire-muck; that - Vas
burned, and blinded, and hia brain
was sick.
But he held to st. Pierre, with
his twisted, broken leg, knowing
that he would die II he dropped
kim into the fIeah.l svouring heat
og the sTnoldering de19. . under lis
feet. Toward the end he was con-
scious Of st. Pierre's moaning and
tfen OF his voice speaking to him.
After that he came to the water
and fell down In the edge 81 y
with st. Pierre. and inside his head
everything went as black as ths
world over which the fire had
swept.
ne did not know hew terribly he
was hurt. He did not feel pain
after the darkness came. Yet he
sensed certain things. He knew
that ever him st. Pierre was shout
Ing. For days, It seemed, he could
hear nothing but that great voice
believing away IN the interminable
distance.
And then came other voices,
now near and now Ear, and after
that he seemed to rise up and
float among the clouds, and for .
long time he heard no other
sound and felt no movement, but
was like one dead
Something soft and gentle and
comforting reused him out OF
darkness. He did not move, he
did not open his eyes for q time,
while reason came to him, he
heard voice. and Il was q
woman's voice, speaking softly,
and another voice replied 90 1t.
Then he heard gentle movement,
and some one went away from
him, and he heard the almost
noiseless opening and closing Of
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THE
TURKEY

myURKTsH2 Not : BIT Of I'll
He's all American from the
top Of his flaming head to the
tip Of his shining tan!
The earliest voyagers found
large, handsome birds roaming =
new land which they had eagerly
hailed as Asia. All Asia, at that
time. was known az Tartary-
hence, when they took these birds
back to Europe, they bore that
name to indicate their supposed
origin.
When, later on, the European
explorers landed upon American
shores, they said, Why, here's
our old friend, the turkeyg Thus,
in the new world which gave his
foPefathers birth has our noble
bird worn an old name.
Long before the feet OF the
first Pilgrim trod Plymouth Rock,
specimens from the abundant
flocks of turkeys which roamed
Old England. There, with char
acteristic American versatility,
they quickly domesticated, were
Acknowledged cock of the walk
by all the feathered barnyard
folk, and were rapidly becoming
an established part of the Christ
nlastide festivities by 1541. pos
sibly earlier.
In the days Of the colonies,
and for generations after, from
Maine to Mexico wild turkeys
were to be had for the shooting.
Most fitting, then. that this evf.
dence. of the wealth of the land
should be made the piece de
resistance of the Thanksgiving
feast.