Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-06-23
.FINLAYSON TOWNSHIP
NOW FREE OF DEBT
Burning Of Bonds Was Celebrated
Saturday. Several Speeches,
Singing and a Good Time had.
by All.

The celebration held in Finlayson
township, at the school house, miles
east of Finlayson village, Saturday
afternoon when folks rejoiced in the
township having wiped out all debt
and the bond was burned, was attend
ed by good sized crowd. The wealth
FER was ideal for an outdoor event
such as this and folks enjoyed the day.
]. H. Hay of the State Agricultural
Department, st. Paul, was the princi--
pal speaker of the day and held the:
close attention of the crowd through
out his talk. Mr.. Hay who is for
mer Pine county man, county superln-
tendent of schools here way back in
1889 and at one time superintendent
of the Sandstone school, and as such
known to many of the old timers here,
calling them by their given name,
was very optimistic and enthusiastic
in his talk. He compared Pine coun-
tvs possibilities with those of other
counties, laying stress on the favor
able location here, three good rail-
roads traversing the county and good
highways. He said that drought is
almost unknown in Pine county and
the hay shortage last year was the
rare exception. ...
Mr.. Hay said that at one of the
first years of the Pine county fair in
Pine City, when it was very small,
Col. Grant of Sandstone, exhibited
some farm produce and folks there
were very much in doubt that it had
been raised in the Sandstone neigh
borhood as it had then been said that
north of the Snake river only hell
and halfbreeds was raised. The
speaker also complimented the citi-
zens of Finlayson township for hav-
ing the gimp to clean up indebtedness
and added that such a community
should command the attention of new
settlers. The burning of township
bond is an unusual event.
While Mr.. Hay lauded the efforts
of the pioneers he did not forget their
good wives and laid stress on the part
that they have played in the building
up of the country. The speaker in
his optimism said that we should
learn to look at the doughnut and not
the hole in the doughnut, appreciate
the values before us and grasp the
opportunities. He commented on the
Great Lakes-St,, Lawrence deep water
way and said there is a good thing
to work forward to and something
that when carried through will mean
much to the Northwest.
Mr.. Hay said that he was glad to-
have lived to see the foOlishness of
village people-business men-setting
themselves against the farmers and
farmers against business men wiped
out.
VIM. H. Barnick, the Sandstone
auctioneer, who was clerk of Finlay-
son township at one time and good
naturally admits that he helped Gre
ate the bond, also spoke and helped
materially in creating good feeling and
fellowship. "Bill', as he is called,
privileged fellows who can say al
most anything and get away with it.
Other speakers were Senator Adolph
S. Larson of Sandstone, Hjalmar
Petersen of the Askov American and
J. H. Frisendahl of Danforth town.
ship, real pioneer of northern Pine
county. The crowd was also enter
tanned with singing and speaking by
Negro trio consisting of Mrs. Lon
Terwilegar and Mrs. Lena Thorne of
Sandstone, and Miss Edith Anderson
of Chisholm, niece of Mrs. Terwile-
gar The "Darkies' had the brogue
down pat" and the audience enjoyed
the fun.
e. B. Greenwald, one of the super
visors of Finlayson township, was
chairman of the meeting. The other
supervisors are Fred Anderson and
Chr. Morgensen. e. N. Bengtson is
clerk. Fred Anderson, assessor, and
a pioneer of the township, made the
bond go up in smoke and in order to
make sure of good job had provided
plenty of excelsior. In a few words
he expressed the hope that bonds
would never be issued in Finlayson
township again.
Refreshments were served free of
charge to the entire crowd and good
day was enjoyed.